I have to agree with Gareth about the lack of speed and Kris about the lack of a need for speed in how we both appear to approach our photography. Fussing about, getting it just so is half the fun.

I've seen similar shots with that type of rubber duck but these are by far the best of them. Simple, creative and amusing.

I had a flucard. I put it in my K3ii and stupidly connected it to my desktop computer. It took a lot of sweating and cursing to regain control of it. It's an abomination of a thing! The one with the K1 does use image synch and works reasonably well with my Samsung mobile. It's very crude however in comparison to simply using the camera conventionally. Set it up to ambush some poor bird or squirrel and you're away but trying to focus on a non centered area where the beast turns up unexpectedly .... ?

Hmm. I could not have had a more different experience. Just bought a Manfrotto 410Jnr. geared head off a guy on E Bay who couldn't have been more friendly or helpful. Not far off mint, boxed and £120. Wow. I really recommend these things. It makes for several orders of magnitude difference with heavy lenses!

Haircut ??? I haven't been to the barbers for over a year. Silver gold (as befits my venerability) almost onto my shoulders now. Whoopie - second teenage rebellion!

Yes. It IS slowly strangling our world! But this thread seems to be about backdrops - not economics or ecology.
Perhaps you could start a valid thread about photography, plastic and pollution?

We're going back to Port Quinn in September so I'll be speaking to you about local places to visit.

Sorry Steve. I no longer have the grain of salt ! Thank you for your comments and I'm pleased you like it.

Too wet today so I reversed a 28mm Takumar onto a 200mm Takumar and spilled a bit of salt to photograph. The light
is actually coming from the left and seems to be getting internally reflected on the far side of the crystal (?).
K1, ISO100, 2 seconds @ f22.

If it's the same lens then it has happened to the boat on the left of the Hoo Lake shot too. Also the fence on the left of the limekilns is bent over at a strange angle (although that might be for real). The colours on the Hoo Lake shot are lovely however.