Freezing

Posted on December 18, 2009 by Guthlac

Cold afternoon trying to capture birds in the garden. As I write this a small group of house sparrows have just flown into the garden – so must get back to the day job.

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The one that got away…

Posted on December 8, 2009 by Guthlac

Wild life photography is very much like fishing … it is always the one that got away. I was sitting just watching what might come by and out the corner of my eye I saw movement. I turned to see a kingfisher only 5 metres from where I was sitting. By the I realised what was happening it flew away. Such is life.

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Change of mind…

Posted on December 5, 2009 by Guthlac
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I’m having second thoughts about the subject of my ARPS submission.   At the moment I have a nominal title of ‘Birds of the British Coast’.  Now this is an achievable objective and if I am honest I probably have enough photographs already to submit a very strong series of prints.   However, this morning I was road testing my new lens and as I did this I realised that there was a significant area to study in recording the ordinary, the mundane and the everyday.  Perhaps this is something I should work on?   It certainly is a lot easier than spending hours on the road.  However, this ease posses another problem – just how do you record the mundane in such a way as to make it interesting?  This is an interesting problem to work at.

So what is the answer?   Well the truth of the matter is that I don’t have to come up with an answer any time soon.  I can work at both strands simultaneously and see which produces the strongest results.  So lets see how things develop and hopefully I will have a difficult decision to make later in next year.
 

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Wanlip

Posted on December 5, 2009 by Guthlac

The noise and furry of a large group of swans is a sight to see. It is made worse by the birds expectation to be feed. Pandamonium is let loose when some actually does feed them. Makes taking photos easier though!

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More iPhone tests

Posted on December 4, 2009 by Guthlac

Like any new systems there are few teething problems. Hopefully this is the last test. Anyway here goes.

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Another iPhone attempt

Posted on December 4, 2009 by Guthlac

Another posting from the iPhone. It really should only be used when I am out and about – typing is really difficult with th iPhone keyboard!

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Live from the iPhone…

Posted on December 4, 2009 by Guthlac

I would be lying if I said this was taken with me iPhone. This for two reasons: first the iphone camera is not very good and second this photo is nearly 30 years old.

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Sent from my iPhone

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Cutting down the time….

Posted on December 4, 2009 by Guthlac
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This is the first blog I will have created with posterous.  This is a free service that should allow me to post to my blog and Flickr account simultaneously.  I have no idea whether this will work but if it does it does open up a whole new world of instantaneous updates.  Perhaps I will start a feed on Twitter?  Well may be not.
 

Simon Marchini LRPS

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Test Blog

Posted on December 4, 2009 by Guthlac
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One of the problems with web 2.0 is that there are so many  different things to do in different applications.  There’s the blog to maintain – the Flickr account and so on.  Hopefully this will be the start of something new and should save me some time.   Lets see.

Simon Marchini LRPS

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