Been a bit of a while since I blogged, though I continue to post regularly to flickr.
Since I last posted we've visited New York and Tenerife in the Canary Islands which provided some much needed inspiration photography wise. Lately I've been rekindling my interest in nature photography too.
My latest target is to get a half decent kingfisher shot - managed to get my first one recently. While I think it was a good effort, I'd like to get something well lit, without motion blur and a nicer composition. Shame they're so hard to come by!
There is of course plenty of other bird life to photograph, the swans are particularly easy to get close to at the moment.
The local park is quite good for squirrels at the moment, I caught this one peaking out from behind some leaves - it sat there for a while but legged it when I tried to go for a different composition.
There seem to be a lot of butterflies and moths around this year, perhaps due to a wilder winter/spring/summer? IN any case it's made getting pictures of them a little easier.
New York was wonderful for a number of reasons, also nice to get to a good number of famous sites. Can't wait to go back again, I just love it there.
Tenerife offers a wide variety of landscapes and it's nice to appreciate the different flora and fauna of the island. No idea what this plant is, but I think it was very attractive.
Having been to Tenerife a few times, one thing I'd never done is visit Teide - we tried, but failed. Faced with the prospect of a five hour wait to go up, we decided to appreciate looking at it as opposed to from it. Given there was a calima on the island at the time that was probably the better idea anyway since visibility was poor.
Hopefully keep this updated a bit better going forward. Buying a more wildlife focused lens (providing 400mm) has spurred me on to get out more with the camera.
