Thanks for a wonder tour of London, I enjoyed that and also your photos, I'm glad you had a nice day. I don't think this cold spell will last long it'll blow itself out. Christmas will be here soon, I like seeing the Christmas trees in everyone's house and the lovely displays with the outside lights...

This must be the daftest photo I've ever taken, kitten in the garden, took her photo it was almost dark but I turned the flash off incase it should frighten her, cunning plan, the cat is black

Never seen anything like that before. Fantastic
Regards Shirley

Hi Jerry,

You have some very nice photos yourself and we may get some photos at the weekend, the artic weather is 'coming'. Lucky you seeing a butterfly end of November, there's been no sighting of any butterflies here in North Wales.
Regards Shirley

Very nice photo of a Great Tit but I am a bit worried, have you got a passion for taking photos of Great Tits, I know somewhere in your box of tricks you have nice photos of ' Long Tail tits' or what it Padfield. You spend your money on what you like Eccles remember you can't take it with you :? Tha...

I remember seeing the Red Kites on that farm, isn't that the farm where the famer feeds the birds and there are dozens of Red Kites come in to feed.
The swan photos are really very good, you've captured them perfectly.
Shirley

I really like the photo borders Sylvia and the flower photos are extremly pretty in the borders. Can you say what the magazine was called.
Shirley

Snap Picture 005.jpg Picture 004.jpg Picture 001.jpg . I see Jack's back in more ways than one, what are all those line of dots. How to you quote something someone has written like Mr. Padfield refering to my ' ***** ' indeed. :roll: Although his sunsets are very good, I like the Eagle mountain and ...

Not if Jack Harrison is watching, he's not used to words like that and not with the web-site The Artist Web where I have my 'things' for sale, they called it an improper word. It cost me £6 to see those butterflies on Saturday.
Shirley

Yesterday in the Butterfly Farm on Anglesey, unfortunatly there were only about half a dozen butterflies there, this is one of them, I know its not a bird but this Dunnock is which I took the photo to-day and a couple of Blue Titmouse's.

I've just been on the web-site of the Butterfly Conservation Cheshire and Peak District Branch and they have a delightful short film of The life cycle of the Orange Tip Butterfly. Has anyone got the technology to do something similar on this web-site, if not, pop over and see their film- worth seein...

Thank you Eccles for taking the time to type all that out, I'm going to print it out and keep it, the best instuctions that I've seen, better than any photo magazine. Many thanks. Regards Shirley

Your not telling us Snowdrops in November What about Kaffir Lilies Shirley

I've done the updates but it looks a bit complicated, nothing is easy I suppose. Thanks for the advice Eccles. At least now I know what the silkypix developer is.
Shirley

I have found what I think I need for the development of Raw photos, under my nose all the time. An icon called Silverpix developer, having opened it, looks very complicated so I'll have a go at it one evening. That icon has been on my monitor for months a bit like an ornament.
Shirley

Thanks Tom, I'll have a look in the box it came with. Good bit of advice, thanks.

Shirley

Hello Professor Jack,

I bet you can't tell the difference between a Goldcrest and a Firecrest.

Shirley

Hi Eccles,

The camera I use is Panasonic DMC-FZ18 and the photoshop is Adobe. Shirley

This is turning into a very nice thread with lovely photos of birds, your photos Eccles are perfect and that Dartford Warbler has perfect camouflage, my Kodak battery charger has gone kaput. My field has the appearence like a few pigs have been ploughing it up, I had a word with the local game keepe...

Can anyone tell me why when I take a photo 'Raw'. When the photos are transfered onto the computor there is the photo and there is also a sort of icon that's only opened with photoshop but when I opened it it was just a square of grey, what is that about? Thanks Shirley