Beautiful simplicity. Well spotted, taken and presented.

Steve

So you've been doing today what I was doing yesterday, including lots of missed focus shots! Your bug looks just like mine. Did it hover tantalisingly close until you'd just got it in focus then moved off just before the shutter fired?

Well done on getting these shots, I feel your frustration!!

Steve

China is so influential in the world because it was able to produce cheaply the things that the world wanted. Just like Britain did following the industrial revolution. British domination didn't last (in spite of being oblivious to outside sensitivities unless it impacted economically). Nor did that of the USA which followed. Nor will Chinese domination last - although with almost 20% of the world's population you'd expect it be pretty influential (the UK is less than 1%...).

Let's go back to pinhole cameras, folks, we can make them ourselves . Not sure where the film would come from though...

Steve

An impressive and imaginative set. Particularly if they are all from one walk.

Steve

Ebola and HIV both jumped from animals to humans but not in China. As for animal abuse, just ask the RSPCA and other animal charities how the UK is doing. And how about boycotting goods and services from the UK, Europe, USA and any other country that is pushing plastic and both noxious and climate changing gases into the environment? Or refusing to buy a lens or camera that is made of plastic rather than metal? Or not buying photographic equipment unless we're 100% sure that everyone involved in the supply chain is being paid a decent wage with sick pay and pension contributions?

There's a very long list of things that are causing problems for mankind and we're all guilty of contributing to them...

Anyway, it doesn't look like the Chinese government is any happier than we are about Covid-19.

Steve

Willow asserts her right to join Rio and Ted as a fully paid up member of the Bored and Sleepy Dog Club.




Steve

But at three times the quality, flavour and all the other things that really count, it's surely a bargain...

Steve

+1 for the colours.

And a special mention for the beech leaf. They're at that stage for such a short period of time and you've captured it very nicely.

Steve

And the same to you.

Steve

Of course it's OK to take a camera or binoculars with you on a walk. You just have to be honest with yourself about your purpose for going out. Exercise with a camera or binoculars round the neck is OK. Going out with the purpose of taking photographs or doing birdwatching and having a bit of a walk to get there is not. If it was, then it would have to be OK for other people to do whatever they wanted provided they walked a bit to get there (and that might mean only walking 100 metres or less). It's frustrating at times, but don't we all give up some of our freedom to do things when we get a job, or get married, or have children or start looking after an elderly relative? (Or is that just in my life...:wink

Steve