Looking back

Did a quick look through some of my "reject/too many to count" shots from Africa last night. Very early morning along the S100 in Kruger NP we returned to a pride of a dozen lions we had seen the evening before. They had been lounging in the shade then, but in the early sun they were more active and we watched for nearly an hour or so as they lay, played, groomed and drank. All too vivid are the memories, I do hope to see something similar again. Of course the 300mm and 2xTC met their match, the bokeh when using the converter can be atrocious if the background is not suitably distant.

This young male kept taunting his sister, eventually it ended with claws out. I will post more as I sort through them.

GoDaddy go.

A friend of mine recently posted this video on his blog. GoDaddy is a web hosting service and their CEO is known for pulling stunts to gain publicity. This time he has gone too far? I felt so strongly after seeing it I felt it deserved a space in my blog, to pass on the message to others.

Edit: Mr Parsons has now removed his video since losing 14% of his customers (and counting). ;)

So here is another copy of that famous vid!

See the original blog here: http://www.bill.lockharts.com/blog/goodbye-godaddy/

I can see that helping out villagers is something someone would do anyway, what I find outrageous is the way in which it is used to advertise, with pride and a gun slinging all American attitude. It is sickening.

Earth shots

"Earth Shots is a photo of the day contest celebrating the beauty and diversity of our planet. Each day we chose one fantastic photograph to feature on our homepage. Anyone can submit their photographs to Earth Shots for a chance to win the coveted photo of the day title."

I was pointed to this website by a friend, Douglas, who is forever on a search for beautiful images. Having looked at the fantastic shots for a few weeks I figured I would submit one or two myself. So I did. Yesterday.

Today my friend said I absolutely had to look at Earthshots today. ;) Picture of the day

For those who cannot wait, here was the "fantastic" shot.

Spare a thought

http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/World-News/Fukushima-Nuclear-Plant-Workers-Are-Heroes-After-Risking-Own-Lives-To-Avert-Meltdown-In-Japan/Article/201103315954904?lpos=World_News_First_Home_Article_Teaser_Region_1&lid=ARTICLE_15954904_Fukushima_Nuclear_Plant_Workers_Are_Heroes_After_Risking_Own_Lives_To_Avert_Meltdown_In_Japan_

For the 180 people who are, right now, sacrificing all or most of their lives that Japan and the world can live on. Can you imagine?

Le weekend II

Early doors we did come across mother and her offspring, it was a bit dark but pushing the 1DIII to 2000 ISO does yeild almost usable shots.

The fallow deer, despite knowing I was there, hung around long enough that I could grab two shots to make this stitch up.

Le weekend

A friend of mine came over to the wonderful world of pork and beer at the weekend and we managed to get out into the vastness of the forests. We did manage to locate some wild boar but the deer were being very unco-operative. We also managed to fit in a few hours at my tit spot.

I also got to test out the Betterbeamer at last. Really quite a nice bit of kit for bird togs and I would recommend it.

Free weekend

The family are away, you know what that means :) Hit the forest!


Saturday the sunshine did hit a little hard but early doors the mist and frost made for some nice light. This young male gave me a few minutes, looked to be following a female around and left.

500f4, 1DIII, ISO400