In the days when I did a lot of bird photography, my 100-400 lens with 1.5 extender was my essential piece of equipment. After all, wild birds are elusive, hard to spot and even harder to photograph……. ………..except when they are too young to have learned any fear of humans Read more…
Feathers As a keen birdwatcher my word association with “feathers” has to be “birds”. And what a lot of gear I seem to have needed to enjoy then simple pleasure of watching our feathered friends. Over the years the equipment I carry around has evolved from (a) binoculars (b) binoculars Read more…
When I saw this WordPress Photo Challenge : Details, my train of thought was something like this Details – Macro – Do it NOW and DON’T Resort to Looking in the Archives – Flowers – Garden – Raindrops – Flowers in the Rain (the song by 60’s group THE MOVE) Read more…
A big thank you to Susan at Musin’ with Susan for her Macro Moments Challenge:Week 1 For my first post for this challenge I’ve chosen a shot of a Common Blue butterfly taking nectar from a Birdsfoot Trefoil flower. I hope to spend a lot of time again this summer Read more…
Throwback Thursday : A Puffin with his Family’s Dinner I don’t check the stats very often on my flickr account but when I looked this morning I saw that this picture had 5,959 views in one day (yesterday). I’m intrigued to know the reason for this , as it can’t Read more…