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28-09-2007, 07:51 AM
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| | | What disapointments have you had?
This photo is not very good in it self, but is the only Common Blue I have ever managed to photograph. It was taken at South Walney nature reserve in Cumbria in July. Imagine my disapointment when I got home and saw my photo's on the computer - who put that fly there? I certainly never saw it at the time and it didn't show up on the camera review  .
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28-09-2007, 08:22 AM
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| | | Re: What disapointments have you had?
Bad luck. I have to admit that it's usually the other way around with me - I take pictures of plants (for instance) and when I examine them later there's an interesting insect in the picture!
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Originally Posted by goosey  This photo is not very good in it self, but is the only Common Blue I have ever managed to photograph. It was taken at South Walney nature reserve in Cumbria in July. Imagine my disapointment when I got home and saw my photo's on the computer - who put that fly there? I certainly never saw it at the time and it didn't show up on the camera review .
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28-09-2007, 10:22 AM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Boroughbridge near York - isn't the same as the Dales, but close enough!
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| | | Re: What disapointments have you had?
Oh what a shame Goosey
Still, at least you have a record of your sighting 
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28-09-2007, 02:17 PM
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| | | Re: What disapointments have you had?
I regularly have dissapointments of a slightly different kind
You know when your in forums...and at the top you get a random selection of Gallery pics?....so often, i see something that stands out as excellent...be it a butterfly pic ( as happened to me just now) or whatever....the large stamp/negative sized pic looks like its going to be a calender quality shot...then you click on it to get it screen size and its a dissapointing out of focus, over cropped, pixelated blur .....and becomes what i call " One of those" that personally would have been resigned to the recycle bin as its not what i considering a "goer" in photography terms (unless its a snapshot/record shot) but its amazing how when reduced the worst photos can look like they have show winning potential!
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28-09-2007, 02:36 PM
| | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Boroughbridge near York - isn't the same as the Dales, but close enough!
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| | | Re: What disapointments have you had?
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Originally Posted by Dan Salter I regularly have dissapointments of a slightly different kind
You know when your in forums...and at the top you get a random selection of Gallery pics?....so often, i see something that stands out as excellent...be it a butterfly pic ( as happened to me just now) or whatever....the large stamp/negative sized pic looks like its going to be a calender quality shot...then you click on it to get it screen size and its a dissapointing out of focus, over cropped, pixelated blur .....and becomes what i call " One of those" that personally would have been resigned to the recycle bin as its not what i considering a "goer" in photography terms (unless its a snapshot/record shot) but its amazing how when reduced the worst photos can look like they have show winning potential! |
Speaking of which I've been meaning to ask... your rather stunning nuthatch - is that purely your photographic skills or has it been enhanced afterwards?
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28-09-2007, 03:08 PM
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Non, je ne regrette rien. As the Little Sparrow would sing.  |
28-09-2007, 03:40 PM
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| | | Re: What disapointments have you had?
Unlucky Goosey! What a nightmare! And I agree Cazzie, Dan's Nuthatch is a little cracker! |
28-09-2007, 04:18 PM
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| | | Re: What disapointments have you had?
Goosey,I could fill the Gallery up with disappointments! Some of them are dire believe me. 
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28-09-2007, 04:34 PM
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| | | Re: What disapointments have you had?
The worse thing that's happened to me was down to camera problems rather than annoying flies! but it was a huge disappointment.
In July I spent the day at Badbury Rings, a good chalk grassland site, and I took over 400 photos only to come home and find them looking like this! 
So I effectively lost the only shots I've managed of a Ringlet, as well as shots of Chalkhill Blues, Common Blues, Brown Argus, Dark Green Fritillaries, Essex Skippers and many others. I was so annoyed with myself for not checking through my shots while I was there, because then I might've been able to do something about it. I decided to return the day after to try and get a few more shots, but of course nothing posed as nicely as it had done the day before
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28-09-2007, 06:14 PM
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| | | Re: What disapointments have you had?
Guy, thats not disapointing - that must have been devastating, what a sickener . I bet you always check now . | | | |
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