The West Ring

…is that it is as complicated as it first seemed! Especially as I have thrown myself in at the deep-end trying to photograph a fast moving subject in our two hounds. Still, I’m making progress and that’s what counts.
Looking at my first attempts I could see that quite often it appeared that their bums [...]

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A bit slow in processing and posting these, sorry
No waffle this time, just a link to the pictures and a teaser (AKA nearly a classic)

I really wish I’d caught his face in focus.
Still, it makes me laugh

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Last of the Thursley pond pics from Saturday morning. We’ll be back to the hounds very soon This is probably my favourite because of the curving contrail*, and the snake-like reflection of it.
This is also my first proper attempt with doing some Photoshopping: I cloned out some grass that [...]

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A couple of more pictures for you, and a question. Is the wake of the duck an interesting detail, or a distraction? I know which I think but I’d be interested in your opinions.

And if you’re feeling really helpful you could take a look in the Gallery and compare the brightness of the [...]

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… but it was worth it Mind you, it was my own stupid fault for not believing the sunrise time on Metcheck I wanted to try out my new tripod on the sunrise so decided to go out without the hounds. I was on my way to [...]

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I was recently surfing the blogosphere looking for photography related ones and found this post by Brian Auer over at Epic Edits, and thought “Why not?” He’s hosting a writing project on “Social Photography”, and it’s part of a bigger project called “The Social Media Mega Project” hosted by InspirationBit. [...]

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Back to Hankley with the hounds but in daylight this time. They obliged me by running back and forth, jumping over the puddle. Amusingly, the very first photo is probably the best! We’re not talking perfect focus, but in the smaller sizes I think it works ok, especially with having [...]

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…has been set! I.E. this is how it was when I knew nothing
Took the DSLR out for its first walk this morning, and a dashed early one it was too. Unfortunately I missed shooting the best view of the sunrise by walking from the car park so you’ve only got this [...]

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The main benefit of having spent so little on the 350D is that I was able to buy an extra lens now rather than having to save up for it. However, that didn’t mean my budget was boundless so some research was needed.
The two obvious contenders (on price alone!) were from Tamron (55-200mm f4-5.6 and [...]

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But the memory cards aren’t Had ordered a couple of 2GB Sandisk Extreme III’s from Play on Sunday night and they’ve not arrived yet. Luckily we knew someone who had a spare going, so popped over to see the Outlaws to collect it. All 64Megs of picture storing [...]

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