managed to take a short break of around 30 minutes to take some photos. Suddenly it started to rain... but I was happy despite everything.

The stone ruins which were once the impressive buildings of Kanyaka Station. Settled and owned by a young Englishman, Hugh Proby, the enterprise supported 70 families, required to manage the immense sheep and cattle run.

The property is NNE of Quorn in South Australia's Flinders Ranges. The harsh, arid land's traditional owners were the Barnggaria people.

I managed to escape the confines of pixel world over the weekend and indulged in the human festivities they call Pride.

"Now - everybody throw down your guns or I scrape off all her make up!" - Tank Girl

Whatever you're into... I hope you're having fun doing it.

;) <3 Flit

I managed some time to shoot for myself today. I have been wanting to visit the Burr Oak Woods Conservation Area for quite awhile now. When my friend and photographer, Michael Rosell, posted his image I knew that it was time to go. If you find your way out there, you will see this area is right at the main gate to the right. There is a very small parking area and a wooden fence. Make your way past the fence and up a very short trail to this grove. These trees feel like something out of Northern California.

These are actually Pine trees as well which is weird given the name of the park. I shot with my 24-105L, 85mm, and 50mm. There are quite a few different styles I chose to work with and I’m excited to hear which might be your favorite. I would encourage you to click on each one to get a further detailed look.

Managed to get a bit better background as well as one of the chicks with its head sticking out of the nest hole.

Managed to snap this image before heavy traffic returned to the Mall.

An HDR composition.

Whilst the amount of rain in Scotland can be tiresome at times, it always makes for great river and waterfall photos :)

White-bellied sea eagle collecting leaves for their nest. Kranji Coastal Nature Park, Singapore

Unfortunately I made a beginners mistake setting a wrong - too short - exposure but managed to somewhat recover from the resulting noise in post-processing.

She managed the pearls and the scarf, but Muriel thought she might need help clipping on the earrings. Personally, I'm just relieved she didn't find the red lipstick. :))

I bought these earrings for next to nothing in a local shop last year to use as a prop, but this is the first time they've seen the light of day. I was happy to see the theme this week!

For this week's Smile on Saturday! group theme, Earrings.

Prudence in her male form, on her nightly patrol.

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Managed to catch this guy early one morning at the front of my house. You really do have to go far to find beauty in the world, as long as you at least step out.

Managed another couple of Barn Owl shots this morning

Amazingly this was the first time I have seen potter wasps mating. These are notoriously difficult to identify from photos and I just managed to narrow it down to E. coarctatus/pedunculatus. In any case, both are uncommon species. HBBBT!

Managed to find this old jetty at Meiklejohns Bay, Lake Wakatipu. I have seen a couple of amazing shots from this location, so was looking forward to visiting it. The rustic old jetty certainly looked surreal surrounded by snow caped mountains.

Nikon D800

Nikon AF-S 24-70mm f/2.8G ED Lens

F18 | 8 sec| ISO 100 | 50mm

Lee Filters | 1.2 GND soft

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Managed to catch a gorgeous sunset over St Giles church at Sandiacre. Despite the saying of Red Sky at Night..It wasn’t a Shepherds Delight! Woke up to thick fog! 😳.

Somehow, I managed to arrive at Westward Ho! at exactly the right time. The tide was going out (I had planned that part) and thankfully most of the dog-walkers were still making their way towards the beach.

Imagine that, the gloriously soggy sands of Westward Ho! devoid of frantic paw prints, ball divots and start-stop welly-boot tracks. Not that I actually have anything against dog-walkers on beaches - it's a joy to see the excitement and the wagging tails - it's just extra-nice to find pristine sands when the weather is perfect for photography.

Epic clouds. Unending wet sands. Intermittent sunshine. Strong, but managable winds. Just what the Doctor ordered.

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I managed to catch another nice sunset at home and I nipped into the field at the side of our property to catch a silhouette of this old Tree.

I have taken shots of it before and it won't be long now until the farmer has to take it down before it falls. It has had a long life and it still has a nice shape to its structure.

A flock of birds flitted by very fast. But I managed to catch a shot. Not sure, but think these birds might be dunlins.

Happy Wing Wednesday!

Sketching shot for the Bronica. Managed the first shot one one film then waited 30 minutes for the light again

Managed to get out and take some pictures over the weekend, these two were having a right old ding dong at each other.

Gatotkaca confronts Karna, the owner of the Kontawijaya weapon. He created a thousand twins of himself, making Karna feel confused. On Batara Surya's instructions, Karna managed to find the real Gatotkaca. He then fired his Konta weapon at Gatotkaca. Gatotkaca tried to avoid it by flying as high as possible. However, Kalabendana's spirit suddenly appeared to catch Kontawijaya while delivering news from heaven that Gatotkaca's death had been determined that night. Gatotkaca, who resigned himself to his fate, advised that his corpse could be used to kill enemies. Kalabendana agreed, then stabbed Gatotkaca's navel using a Konta weapon. The heirloom merged with the scabbard, namely the mastaba wood which was still stored in Gatotkaca's stomach. After Gatotkaca died, Kalabendana's spirit threw his body at Karna. Because he managed to jump and escape death. However, the train was shattered into pieces by Gatotkaca's body. The fragments of the train shot in all directions and killed the Korawa soldiers around it.

Managed a little Street Photography recently.

managed to find some virgin snow at last

a rare hand held shot, and virtually no processing on this single exposure

Merry Chistmas to you all

Now also published in June's issue of Practical Photography Magazine.

Just managed to capture the northern lights on a 50:50 cloudy night. Corona appears as a curtain from straight above, with rays coming down directly overhead.

The pinkish clouds are glowing from light pollution, produced from 2-3 lights that illuminate the junction of two major Alaska roadways, a couple of miles away.

Rokinon 12 mm 2.8 manual fisheye lens.

Wee night shot of the Loch Eck caravan park under a cloudy sky and full moon.

Just managed to catch this very pale imm bird as it flew through A small clearing in the trees directly overhead so A snatch shot !!

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Managed to pull in and grab a phoneshot of this hail shower over Blacksidend on Wednesday.

Manage to capture the dewdrops before they disappeared

Managed to get out this morning and pay the beach a visit - this time it was Newcastle Beach, NSW; Australia.

Here I've used the rusty posts that surround what's known locally as The Canoe (or World) Pool a children's saltwater pool that is located beside the Newcastle Ocean Baths.

The sun was pretty high in the sky so it was necessary for me to use my Lee Big Stopper and Lee .9 Hard Grad filters to create this long exposure image.

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Hope too that you have a wonderful week!!!

Managed to get a little closer to this juvenile Green Woodpecker foraging at Bradgate Park:)

Finally managed to get out and see a few sunrises. I spent quite a bit of time just watching the colour change, the previous morning I was watching a Pod of Dolphins swimming around this lighthouse

Managed to entice this pecker in front of the camera, lets hope he can get used to the camera.

I managed to get into the best hotel in all of Vietnam - Vinpearl Resort. This is truly huge and wonderful hotel I've ever seen. It's is located on a separate island. Also, from the mainland to the island stretched the longest cable car over the sea. This is a wonderful thing! After I arrived at the hotel and got the keys to the room, I took this photo from my balcony. I really like this incomparable landscape!

This was Esthwaite Water, on a warm September evening. I managed to capture the mists that had begun to roll in over the surface of the water. There were groups of bats skimming over the surface of the water feeding on unsuspecting insects.

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Managed to get out once while in Newcastle over Christmas (annoying 2 beautiful sunrises which I missed due to Christmas Day and a flight to Southampton!) and headed to my favourite local spot, St Mary's Lighthouse. For once got the tide height and sunrise pretty bang on for a nice level of water over the causeway.

St Mary's Lighthouse, Whitley Bay

Nikon D750 / Nikon 16-35 @ 20mm / f/8 5s / LEEfilters 0.6nd Hard Grad

Haven't managed many photos during the recent bad weather so here's one from my Spain backlog. For most of my bird-watching years I have known this species as Azure-winged Magpie (Cyanopicus cyanus). It was famous for having one of the most unusual distributions of any bird on the planet. They are found in far-eastern Asia (including China, Japan, Siberia) with a small population in Portugal and Spain, but occurring nowhere in the 9000 km gap between them. But in 2002 some genetic research was published that suggested they were different but near-identical species, and the European "species" became known as Iberian Magpie (Cyanopica cooki). The main difference is that the eastern species has about an inch of white at the tips of the blue central tail feathers. They are social birds, usually occurring in family groups that inhabit open woodland areas. I photographed this one mid-bounce in Spain's Coto Donana.

The eastern Azure-winged Magpie (C.cyanus) was first described by Peter Pallas in 1776, but the Iberian Magpie was first described as subspecies cooki by Charles Bonaparte (Napoleon's nephew) in 1850, and this name has subsequently been adopted for the new species. Iberian Magpie differs from Azure-winged mainly because it lacks the latter's white tips to the central tail feathers. But Iberian is also a bit smaller and browner-backed that eastern Azure-winged. The Cook after whom cooki was named was Captain Samuel Edward Cook (1787-1856) British geologist, naturalist and collector. Cook collected an Azure-winged Magpie in Spain in 1831, which was until then, only known from the Far East.

I managed to grab a few shots of a local woodland before work last week in the fog. A 2 shot Pano.

I managed to get out to the Pond [Lake] last week. It was a very dull day, but made a welcome change to the rain and high winds we've been getting lately.

There were plenty of ducks, gulls and geese around plus a pair of swans and this pair of white doves.

I've never seen any white doves over there before, so this was a nice surprise and they stayed put for me too.

When I got back home I decided to look doves up on line as I know nothing about them. Most results seemed a bit disparaging about them and called them pigeons. Well, I suppose they are of the pigeon family but to me they are so much more distinctive.

Anyway - I know pigeons can be seen as a nuisance, but I read somewhere that people's perception of them changes for the better when they find out how useful and stoic homing pigeons were during the war and they were even awarded medals - so there!

Managed to catch the sunrise while out walking the dogs....glad they got me up early to go out.

Having posted yesterday saying I hadn't managed a shoot this weekend, some interesting cloud and a hint of colour drew me down to Findhorn Bay for last night's sunset. It wasn't a fireball of reds and oranges but a beautiful palette of pinks and mauves, and with the added bonus of a light haar forming made it well worth my while.

I managed to get out today as the sun finally decided to shine.

I decided to do a 'stuck in the mud' exercise where I just stand in one spot for about 10 minutes to take the time to really look at what's there. This ivy winding its way up and around old fencing really caught my eye.

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I managed to get out and about to shoot at sunrise on most of the days and also almost every evening for sunsets. It wasn't always easy but there was always the thought that it could turn out better than those I had already seen

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Managed to catch a Blue Jay visiting the feeder earlier today.

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Twin Heart @ King Tuts, Glasgow - 26/08/16

Managed to see this stunning 14 point Imperial red stag

What a beast!