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Poppies

Although I like them, I have never planted a Poppy in my life and yet every year thanks to our local birds (I guess), I will always have batches of Poppies springing up. They don't last that long but are a delight whilst they do.

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Another Heron

I can make no apologies for posting another set of 'Heron pictures' I see them as quite magnificent birds especially in flight. Although not as dramatic as 'Raptors' and other birds of prey, they are large birds who seem to almost 'row' their way through the air with their huge wings.

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Wild Flowers

The weather has been rather changeable of late as these pictures show from yesterday when it started out well, a bright sunny morning for my regular morning bike ride but with a fairly stiff breeze.

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Being Fair

By this I do mean, “Being fair to oneself”. In my earlier post “Going Back” when writing about my original DSLR the Canon D30 that I bought at Christmas 2000, I said that I didn't know much about what I was doing with it and any good pictures I got were by chance. Now whilst this was broadly speaking true, I may have been a bit too harsh on myself.

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It’s Not…

Back in 2002 a musician called Sheryl Crow released an album called “C'mon, C'mon” and on it was a track called “Soak Up The Sun” which contained the following lyrics: “It's not getting what you want, it's wanting what you've got”. This seems a suitable starting point for this post.

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Because

I am not a great fan of writing or talking about photographic gear and what is the “latest, greatest” or current “king of the hill” because all that stuff gets in the way of creating pictures and I have just had proof of that in the oddest way. I have just been going through the digital pictures I have taken in the first 5 months of this year and frankly I am appalled by my lack of “keepers” from the whole collection, how did this come about ?

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Making a Start

It is I suppose the habit of a lifetime in that I always have several projects on the go at any one time and an insatiable thirst to explore others. Coming back to my 35mm black & white project which started towards the end of last year, I realised I hadn't posted any pictures from that here and ought to so here some with some observations to go with them on wetfilm generally.

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