There was a time when shooting a whole roll of film was a big thing. 36 exposures – wow in one session. Of course that was when Kodak would add a significant amount to return your roll of film as a box of slides. Sometimes I wonder if the people who complain about the cost of a photo plan with Adobe had any real idea what photography used to cost. Anyway enough of this old fart nonsense bnging on about ‘… it wasn’t like that in my day…’.

So the plan today was to try and bag some bird of prey images in the bright cold dawn light. I almost got the shot I was after until a couple of magpies took exception to a buzzard roosting in their tree. Such is life.

As the sun rose and the lighting conditions became more and more perfect other things intervened to mean I had to stop the session.

These views across the Welland Valley is all I managed to squeeze out of the 36 images I captured. Such is life.

The previous evening I also missed a great shot as a plane passed in front of the moon. Unfortunately, I didn’t have my camera with me. Call me old fashioned but a camera with a long lens isn’t the sort of thing I carry around whilst making a cup of tea in the kitchen.