will do drop me a PM with your email as I cant PM yet

Great pictures and a real right place right time moment

Cheers guys for the welcome, I do not plan 365 portraits just 365 days of pictures of living things as I already feel I have a feel for landscape pictures. I am in Crewe Cheshire

I would love to come along and meet some fellows, I may be a bit zombied as I work nights and finish 6 on Sat morning so will be coming up without sleep.

was with my Pentax ist Dl2 the lens was a 18-55mm with a macro extention tube. built in flash fired

I was playing with a bit of Macro work yesterday in my garden and snapped this picture. I love it, although I guess it was more luck than judgement

I was a keen photographer in my late teens and early twenty's, I did a fair bit of work for the School mag and used to sell prints of my work at local fairs to earn extra spends. I lost the love when the point and press as many times as you like era came along.
My last holiday to Scotland found me taking time to take photographs (on a cameraphone) to share with all my family and friends through social media, suddenly I was thinking as a photographer again. Now in my 40's I have just invested in my first DSLR camera a Pentax ist DL2 and I look forward to sharing my pictures as I relearn the skills of framing a great photo.
I love landscape and coastal pictures but as a way to push myself as I learn I am setting myself a 365 day challenge starting in June, to take a picture everyday of a living thing (be it human or animal).
I guess a few of these pictures may end up being of my Scottish Terriers Mackie and Toddy as they go most place's I do. I have a very understanding wife who likes that I am back to a hobby that has never (yet) caused me injury.
Peace James