Nice one Jack. Talking about urban myths, is it true that we get New York's weather a month later? I think i know what the answer will be, but i have heard this from several sources and on a few occasions over the years.

Really nice crisp shots Guy. I've found that things crawling on the ground are really difficult to photograph. For the last two days, i've been trying to get a half decent shot of an Oil Beetle.

The last pic from this location,,,shooting distance too far for quality shots.... I paced it out this morning, and checked the exif data,,,,, over 11m, which is 3X my usual working distance for a bird this size. Well,,, it was a Jay stakeout originally. :roll: Moreton, South Dorset. https://lh4.goog...

Hya Firecrest. Very interesting, i have sent PM. I know little about bird movements myself. He's still with me, on a daily basis.

Gibster: "Stockists of Fudge"? Useless stuff, I had my hair dyed a deep vibrant blue (probably best not to ask why...) and Fudge ruined it within days. Stay clear of The Fudge! Ha, that sounds like the slogan to a cheap 1960s B-movie. LOL, you sound like a real fashion victim mate. I saw t...

Gosh,, praise indeed from you two. I shall probably have my butterfly kit up and running for the new season. (hopefully). May see you both around the prime spots.

Some photos of Brimstones, tatty Red Admirals, and Small Torts appearing on Flickr this week. My time has been taken up with a debut photographic subject. Common to some people's feeders, but i have to go out in the woods to find it. This week, i had my first crack at photographing Nuthatches in the...

MR JO BANGLES He's been a member of my wild bird community for some weeks now, and eating up my mealworms and oats. He carries on him a lot of research data, that i am not really interested in passing on, to whoever put these shackles on him. If anyone can ID his rings from this one pic, so be it. :...

Jack: So long-service medal next year or the year after? Might be as well to get that one right. It is actually 39 years this year. So next year is what 'ruby', or 'wax'? The fems on here will know. I've known her since she was 15, and i was 20. We do our own things, but come together daily, with th...

Really beautiful music. It looks as if you had a great ball.

Congratulations Zonda! Am I right in assuming your good lady will turn a blind eye to your recent fascination with my Sami's 'flying' Glanville Frit lol!!! :lol: :lol: :lol: PS - Sam's got a real thing for dungarees...remember your pic last year... :shock: Not sure of our exact itinerary this year,...

Anyway, well done to you Zonda (and of course your wife) for surviving that long

I think that she is the survivor, any woman that stands by a man that long, has to be.

Today is my Wedding Anniversary, not sure if its 38 or 39. She has made me a beef stew to warm up, and left for her work at a local hospital. Whatta woman!

Quite a few years ago I got into botanising. One fact I was keen to check out was that Common Gorse smells like coconut (try it!).

i found this out several years ago, nobody believed me. It's the flower that holds the aroma.

They look a bit like 'digiscoping' pics, but good anyway.

Keep it simple, and use your camera to its fullest capabilities.

I'm not very clever myself with PhotoShop so couldn't do anything quite so clever. Is it that difficult to do - and how do you do it? I have never possessed Photoshop, so cannot comment on anything photoshopish. it is simple in any program that supports 'Layers'. You make or choose a background, lo...

Just wondered what the photographers in the forum think about this practice. BEFORE https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/_wGSRUg9JC5Q/TVUh_1ob4eI/AAAAAAAAJFk/bW8q9yxZPBU/s640/before.JPG AFTER https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/_wGSRUg9JC5Q/TVUh_b42EuI/AAAAAAAAJFg/WODzRpD1VOQ/s640/Blackcap%20%28male%29%2...

The big 50 eh Neil? A milestone in anyones life, and a great age to be. Its the waking up on the lawn drenched in dew that's the best bit.