some randon pics...

some random pics here - some taken with my canon g5 and some with my new camera!





these are quite close to where I live



view from front door!



Tunstall resovoir



a friendly duck!







Honister Pass





some of my kit... :grin:

 

Hi Mr Cat,

nice pics, like the Tunstall Res one! Very tranquil!

 

yeah, thanks - it's a beautiful location and hardly anyone goes there...its just beside Wolsingham - on a little country road, in fact you drive past one of the guys from the pet shop boys house..!

 

some more pics here, these are the swans and their signets from Lancaster canal -

 

more random pics here -






















enjoy...

 

and a few more...

 

Hi, the one in the middle of the last lot looks great, I cant imagine a more peaceful location.

 

yeah, it wasn't that bad - but it was in the middle of Lancaster (sorry to burst your bubble!) in some halls of residence...

brings back beautiful memories of my lady and I - we'd be standing out there (on the balcony) chatting with a glass of wine...it's also the same location of where I took the above pics of the swans...

 

The swan pics are SO cute, oh beautiful, I take it you do wildlife photography for a living, if not, you should!

 

thanks! sadly I don't do it for a living - but I just love animals and i'm lucky that where I live there happens to be loads of them (not the swans tho!) and I just about always take my camera when I'm out and about...

 

I agree, some decent pics in there; liked the swan head/body one.

 

As mentioned before; that middle one of the last set is a cracker. Beautiful lighting. Thank you for sharing.

 

some more pics here...











they were from Hamsterly Forest and these are from where i live...

 

one of the moon last night...after messing around with the settings...

 

respect due

 

Some nice work there, strong compositions and good results.

What's your "new camera"?

 

cheers - my new camera is a humble panasonic dmc-fz7 - I of course had to use a tripod when taking the pic of the moon...

 

Do you ever get fine horizontal lines on your pics with the FZ7? Occasionally (like maybe 1 in 40 pics) I get this odd effect which I can only guess is a fault with my particular camera. Can't really describe it, but when you view the pic 1:1 it's very obvious.

I'm finding my FZ7 quite fussy with regard to lighting conditions, but then I don't use a tripod and haven't really go the hang of full manual mode so feel obliged to let it automatically adjust the aperture and shutter speed. Low light pics can be really noisy/grainy, disappointingly so. With good lighting conditions the picture quality is just excellent...!

 

I haven't noticed any lines - tho I was out in a resturaunt and tried to take some pics with the flash - the results weren't that good - even with some noise removal software I wasn't too happy with the results...

I find that for darker shots its best to have a tripod!

 

Do you mean a hubble panasonic dmc-fz7? I swear that picture was on the front of my science book 6 years ago.