Tony

I know what you mean Try reminding her that these toys have a habit of going on strike if not regularly used

Remember you are speaking to the one who has killed no less than 3 cameras in a very short space of time - and all of them died with different problems. I have ignored the one that died because it was run over by a tractor !!

'scuse me

just why are you playing with Mrs Tozza's camera ?

You have your own - use them


I dunno - these folk who belong to the School of 'what's yours is mine and what's mine is mine '

decided since we had a break in the rain to take a few pics of the buddleia [ sp ? ] which is cheekily poking through from next door. Even more bravely decided to do it in manual

1)
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Which was clearly a disaster so swapped to AV and got

2)
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AHA - realised what the problem was - I'm not understanding shutter speed So back to manual

3)
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played around a bit more - frightened a bee off with the shutter click and took one more

4)
[IMG]http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a41/Anhelyna/IMGP1316.jpg[/IMG]

OK none of these are world shattering - they are intended to teach me and give me practice BUT I clearly have a problem in identifying how fast a shutter speed is

Any quick tips on this ?

< goes away shaking head and looking for whisky >

Gwyn has summed up my feelings too . It's a commanding picture

Congratulations to the official Grandpa

Remember your rȏle is to spoil the little munchkin something rotten and return to parents when the howls rend the air

I love #1 - there's some humour in it - the wee puffin looks as if he's walking , staggering off with a contribution for the nest But when I look at his feet he's in danger of tripping himself up

Lovely photos Thanks

I see we are back on our favourite pointless thread topic

Thanks HG - yes the 40 is certainly going I love it. When this darn weather sorts itself out I intend to go for a walk with the 40mm Nice and discreet

Snag is that I really can only manage one other lens with me - and I'm dithering as to which I'll take . I like the thought of the wider angle with the 18-55 - but can I do without the 55-200 part ?

You wouldn't care to lend me your 18- 250 would you ?

Today it's fine though the sky is not great - but I can't get out - waiting for folk to come between 10am and 3pm

ARGH

hush - I'm not looking that far ahead