These are a selection of the Starling Murmuration videos and images that I have been taking recently at Blashford Lakes Nature Reserve, nr Ringwood during December 2013. Images I call this one, the A-Bomb The Bird… Videos The first two are highlights of the best video I took over the 2013 murmuration event. In all I had taken over 2.5 hours of footage over various days. All
Yesterday I went to Blashford Lakes with my brother on a bright sunny winters day. It does sort of sum up the trial and tribulations of an amateur bird photographer, as well as the final high. Went in the first hide – the birds were on the far bank -miles away….went to the what I call the Bittern hide (South Ivy Lake I think it is) – it was
Up until recently I would never normally shoot shots of wildlife above ISO 400. Preferring that ISO as a maximum that I would get away with. On my 50D I would occasionally go to 640 at a push, but found them fairly noisy, so kept 400 as my normal max. However with some recent posts on the forums and especially some on the Pixalo.com, I decided to try out higher
Garston Wood is a great place to go for blue bells, and this year was no exception. On one visit I tried a couple of new techniques, which my brother had attempted. I was not convinced on what he was doing at the time he took the shots, but on seeing the results I decided to give it a try with Fuji Sensia 100 slide film. First, is the use
