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I've learnt to take everything life throws at me!!
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Excellent work - and remember that the subject was carmera-shy - it hid it's head so that it wouldn't be recognised . . . . 
Just out of curiosity (alright, noseyness!) do you know the speed it was taken at?
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After many attempts to photograph a bird in flight, I either got half a wing or a tail feather, neither in focus, I settled for this picture.
Feather colours very good Dave and the bird is well focused...you will have to return and catch him flying back so we can see what he looks like 
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Just out of curiosity (alright, noseyness!) do you know the speed it was taken at?
It was taken on 'Automatic' Trigger, I didn't set the camera up myself. However looking at the photo's 'Properties' it was taken at 1/500 sec and the F-stop was f/8.
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Colour tweaking and focus sharpening all good tools to make a good picture Dave. Certainly don't need to put this picture in 'Photo Tweaks' ...not tweaked enough to go in there...it is in it's proper place where it is 
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It was taken on 'Automatic' Trigger, I didn't set the camera up myself. However looking at the photo's 'Properties' it was taken at 1/500 sec and the F-stop was f/8.
On automatic? Shame on you . . I, of course, would never do that (said imperiously!). Ahem - I find it so imuch easier to leave it on automatic. 
The attached was amongst the first shots taken on my "new" camera (had enough trouble trying to switch it on and off!). this was taken at 1/2000th @ f4.5. And it was tweaked - well, not really - just cropped and "lightened" slightly.
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A three in one shot...managed to get a swan a cow and a heron all in the same shot, although as you can see the heron wasn't to impressed with my arrival Picture taken on Carlton Marshes...
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Were you really brave enough to get that close to the swan or did use a long range lens?
This is the original picture - I just cropped it. The zoom lens would have been used - but only “slightly”! It was at OB - I was probably only about 6ft from it - as close as I want to get to a swan! The only other tech details: ISO 125 and Focal length 30mm (whatever that means!).
I’ve got that 3-rubbish shots as well - trouble is trying to decide which is the least rubbish one! Also got a panoramic mode - did get a very good shot near EPP - but haven’t used it since!
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All that technical stuff and you didn't have a hanky for the poor bird, shame on you. 
It's not what you think - it had just dunked it's head underwater (it saw me approaching!) - it came up for air - and the water was dribbling off it's head.
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Roses in Everitts park at night.
We went to take photo's of sunset but got held up at line gates and were too late as the best had disappeared by the time we arrived .
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This photo was the only one I kept of several photo's of swans think I used the wrong setting.It was almost dark and did n't want to use the flash in case I upset them .
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Think they were probably just camera shy Kerch...
I must walk around with my eyes shut. Saw this plant a few weeks ago and thought I never seen a hydrangea looking quite like that. Looked it up and it is a Lacecap Hydrangea...since my first sighting I have seen loads, must have passed them and not even noticed
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This “wall” planting is on the side of the new extension of Marks & Spencer, Norwich. It’s on the end wall where it meets the footpath next to St Stephen’s Church (in Rampant Horse Street).
Can’t quite make out what it’s meant to be/represent. Perhaps we’ll know when the plants grow up.
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nikkai: Thanks so much for posting that link - very interesting & have printed a copy off.
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It was a French man who started the Idea of living walls the first one is in Paris and several more have been added since ,I think I heard some where he made the first trials on the wall of a small courtyard where he lives .His name is Patrick Blanc....
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“The creator of a large green walls concept (vertical gardens) is the French botanist Patrick Blanc” source: Wikipedia
The company installing these “living walls” for Marks & Spencer: Link
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Butterflies ,the first one according to my butterfly book is a Comma but as I took the photo in Norfolk and the book said Sth England & Wales I not sure ,the second was taken here by the canal .Looks like a speckled wood thats seen better days.
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Two youngsters trying to blend into the background at Colchester Zoo...
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What a great shot Mel - love it! 
Well spotted - and caught!
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Kerch both the Comma and speckled wood had spread quite well over the years either the book you have maybe older or just a bit vague. the UK butterflies website is a good source of up to date information
http://www.ukbutterflies.co.uk/index.php
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Well spotted - and caught!
.....but the Zebra has STRIPES. not spots!
Yes, excellent picture, Mel.
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Thanks for that James 82 very interesting site ,my butterfly book was printed 1996 Collins wild guide .
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Mel
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Thanks Trigger and Boatbuilder for the kind comments...here is another one from the zoo
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That lion looks quite old, Mel. Very proud though!
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Black-headed gull - however, according to the RSPB: "Not really a black-headed bird, more chocolate-brown - in fact, for much of the year, it has a white head."
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A very tatty swallowtail.
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Not the usual animals to find grazing in a Suffolk field, spotted these at Mettingham today...
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And in the next field were some of these...
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Great pictures, Mel.
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Cheers Boatbuilder, I even spotted in the distance (had to enlarge the picture) what I thought was a wallaby but I didn't want to trespass any further onto the property just in case the farmer had any other larger exotic animals wandering about...like lions or tigers
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Mel: That Llama looks a right poser! (At least, I think it's a Llama!)
Eagle Owl at Thrigby Wildlife Centre
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Beautiful bird .
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Fulvous Whistling Duck
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