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ellen h
Commander of the Wild Empire
Registered: May 2008
Location: in Essex
Posts: 2,347
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Well captured-they are not the easiest butterflies to photograph,tend to flitter all over the place
ellen
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You can't beat nature!
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turkeyneck
Commander of the Wild Empire
Registered: April 2007
Location: Carmarthenshire
Posts: 1,063
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That sounds like the voice of experience talking! You're right, behind and low for the approach, same with dragonflies. Everything else--combat crawl (my wife saw me doing this out of the cottage window the other day just as one of our ginger toms pounced out of the undergrowth on to my back, I wasn't going to lose the picture even with an unwanted passenger). Makes the photography more exciting, I stalk the insects, Stan and Ollie (the cats) stalk me.
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“those who stay long in privies forget how foul the smell is” (WND-1 p16)
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Ian Gray
Commander of the Wild Empire
Registered: December 2006
Location: coventry
Posts: 1,073
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very nice. as Ellen said, a difficult subject, and one I always struggle with. Good work.
Ian
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turkeyneck
Commander of the Wild Empire
Registered: April 2007
Location: Carmarthenshire
Posts: 1,063
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Many thanks Ian for the kind words, it means a lot and it gives me loads of encouragement.
Two years ago I had a serious dettached retina in my right eye and nearly lost my sight in that eye.
After over four hours of surgery and a few bits of plastic and stitches here and there in the eyeball, I'm able to use the same eye for taking these photos. They always look a bit 'iffy' to me when viewing through the viewfinder and just before pressing the shutter release, but they seem to come out alright, well at least some of the time!
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“those who stay long in privies forget how foul the smell is” (WND-1 p16)
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Martin Wilson
Officer of the Wild Empire
Registered: January 2007
Location: Shoeburyness, Essex
Posts: 879
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A well worked shot and very well composed Turkeyneck, great lighting.
Martin
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An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less.
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turkeyneck
Commander of the Wild Empire
Registered: April 2007
Location: Carmarthenshire
Posts: 1,063
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Thanks Martin :-)
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“those who stay long in privies forget how foul the smell is” (WND-1 p16)
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