Oops better late than never..

Forgot to post these Bristol Zoo pics!

Chameleon singing happy birthday to Angela (yeah really!)

red Panda - ahhh!
A Sand Cat! (kept in the dark). Using ISO 1600, some weird white balance and a fair amount of photoshop adjusting.
Captions on a postcard..

Sunshine and the big 10k

A long weekend with the Sun out, had to get out and about and get some photos snapped. Fairly happy with a couple of them... also rolled past my 10,000th photo taken on my 350D! (over about 16 months or so I guess)

Forest gate and sunflowers..



I vowed to photograph a sunset this weekend to atone for my miserable effort so far this year. These are from Weston, no Birnbeck pier this time though (for a change)!

Game and Country Show

Bowood staged the first Wiltshire Game and Country show last weekend, despite the foot and mouth outbreak it was a great event. My camera was apparently attracted to the birds (no shock there then) as they had several falconry centres attending.

No particularly fantastic photos vaguely pleased with the Peregrine shots - especially the in flight one, considering how fast it was flying!

.. and a swan photo to round things off...

More river wildlife..

Damselflies ..


..and a heron, fishing in the flood water of the riverside fields, at sunset.

Swanage take 3 ..

.. it turns out Swanage was just a little too soggy from all the heavy rain last weekend so the camping trip was abandoned. I did get out on a bike ride thursday though (which was also rained on), here are some of the creatures that also braved the rain..


.. cool sign, unfortunately a lot of the crops have been ruined by the flooding.