Here's a few of my aviation images, hope you like them as much as my wildlife images.

 

Its been a long learning curve to find the best settings and techniques for aircraft but i'm getting there.

 

 

 

 

 

 

A change of subject.

Having had several failed attempts at wildlife photography outings in our "wildlife rich" Northumberland caused mainly by ignorant people with dogs which are allowed to roam freely and charge at every bird on the Northumberland coast I have decided to no longer waste my life trying to record our wildlife.

Instead I have turned to motorsports and aviation, an area which arseholes with dogs cannot spoil for me.

The final straw for me was my recent visit to Low Newton where I stumbled upon the biggest flock of sanderling i've seen for many years. Once settled on the beach my pal and I got into position to photograph them only to have three seperate groups of arseholes come onto the beach and DELIBERATELY send their dogs at us into the water spooking every bird within 50m or so. Obviously its difficult for arseholes to realise that two guys with 400mm lenses on cameras which are pointing at birds are actually trying to photograph the birds. One female actually encouraged the dogs to go at the sanderling flock because she was upset when we asked her to keep her dogs away from the tiny corner of the beach we were using.

So from now I will not be wasting my time on birds and I will be mainly pointing my lens at aircraft and cars.

Tenerife 2012

We recently visited Puerto de la Cruz, Northern Tenerife and visited Loro Parque a couple of times due to its close location to our hotel, 4 euros away in a taxi.

I managed plenty of images and would like to share a few with you all. Some are from Loro Parque, some from our hotel gardens and others just from all over Puerto de la Cruz. The Northern Tenerife Lizard was everywhere, quite amazing just how common these stunning lizards are.

Called into the the local squirrel feeding station today for a few hours.

The light levels were terrible, having to use ISO1600 on my canon 50D giving me just 1/125th second on most shots at 400mm something I usually wouldn't even attempt handheld but I had no option. I normally don't go above ISO800 for noise but I think todays turned out ok-ish all things considering.

Had a quick trip out into Northumberland today. The weather was poor as is normal for my days out.

from a photography point today was terrible without any photos worth keeping but from a birding point today was canny. Plenty of swallows about today fighting the strong winds along with martins and the odd swift. We came across a fence with over a dozen moles hanging dead on the barbed wire, no idea why game keepers seem fit to do this especially on a public road?

Futher on and we stumbled across a buzzard resting out of the wind on a dirt road, several chiffchaff could be heard along with willow warblers. We had several cross bills and lots of redpoll too. A peacock butterfly was unexpected as was the number of young birds about today with several young song thrush in the trees.

The best surprise of the day was to find a breeding pair of red squirrels living in a nest box, see below pics.

Waxwings at last!

I'm still rather quiet on the photography front but I plan to change things very soon

I managed a few minutes with the waxwings at Asda Blyth yesterday, they were very tame allowing me to within a couple of meters at times.

A new Seo site for me at Cramlington

Over the past few weeks i've noticed a couple of SEO's in a field at Cramlington with very good vantage points from inside my car so I thought i'd have a go at photographing them. The day I headed across they just didn't want to come very close but I managed a couple of half decent record photos.

Hopefully my next trip across will produce better results.