Hi Guys,

Some shots taken from outside of the airshow on the A15.
As those who were there know the Sun played a huge part. We Brits not used to the heat or a badly placed Sun.

Hope you like

Thanks for Looking.

Red Arrows into a Break


Belgian F-16 FIGHTING FALCON


Patrouille De France, Salon De Provence

Hi Esther,
Thanks for the remarks, I don't usually take people, It was the aircraft I was following, then thought what idiots. Usually I morph their features out, more so if there are kids about, have been challenged in the past.
Regards

John

Hello Guys

A couple of Gannets from Bempton on Saturday and One Crazy shot at RAF Waddington 2010,
Thanks for Looking
John

Gannet about to land


Courting Gannets


How Close is too Close

Hi Guys,
We in the UK have had the most amazing year for a special family of birds. Bohemian Waxwing (Bombycilla garrulus). Everybody wants to see them, sitting high on the trees flying down to the feed then back on high again. Soon they will leave us as they go to their breeding ground, Come Back Soon, Missing you Already

Thanks for Looking
John

All Loved up, Look shes wearing my Heart


Berry Splitting, as she shows of the Heart


Birds on a Wire

A very cold Bank Holiday Saturday at the NYMR

Thanks for Looking

75029 leaving Gromont


Leaving Gromont


75029 waiting for Signal

Hi Guys

Taken through Glass from "Erics" new Bird Hide, at Leighton Moss

Thanks for Looking

John

Sunset 13th Jan 2013 - 01


Sunset 13th Jan 2013 - 02


Sunset or UFO 13th Jan-2013 -03

I think they came out OK, they were taken at an angle through a double glazed window. Your always learning been a photographer for 40 plus years. The bird would have not been an image in my camera had I checked everything first.
Thanks for your comments.
I do not use auto focus or software, wheres the fun in that

Hi Guys,
Ever had one of those days, I looked out my window and caught a huge flock of birds flying over the garden, wondered what had scared them, it was a Sparrowhawk. Looked away for a moment, corner of my eye caught the hawk it had landed on my fence. Grabbed the camera and stated to shoot some shots, looked to see what I'd got.
AAGGHHH no Card in camera, dashed around found a card popped it in, hoping the bird had not flown. Managed to get a few before it saw me and took off. Heart pumping stuff.
Hope you like the results.
John
Thanks for Looking

Sparrowhawk on fence - 01


Sparrowhawk sees me -02


Sparrowhawk time to Go -03

Great end to a wonderful holiday in North Norfolk, watching the Sunset at Brancaster on Harbour Road
Regards

John

Brancaster Norfolk-12


Brancaster, Norfolk-12


Brancaster, Norfolk-12

Hi Brandy,

No Need to buy any books, if hes as set in his ways a book that costs money will not work he will stand his ground, not worth the argument.

Here are a couple of free websites that will be of interest
http://www.digital-photo-secrets.com
This guy is very good sign up for his free tips ( I have been getting his tips for two years, most I know some I dont) and its up to you if you want to buy his book.

http://www.cambridgeincolour.com
This is one of the best I have ever seen, sign up for the newsletters and you get tutorials and shed loads of information ( all Free)

Good Luck

Regards

John

If you look at the grey metal strips beneath the door that's the level of the floor, No walk ways inside. The trains are powered by the over head cables the Cogs control the climb and decent, very smoothly. Because of the angle, the people in the next section are above you. What I found was to sit in the second train going down and in that Car by sitting facing the drivers back you had a clear view. Going up was BAD, everyone seeing for the first time, you got body parts. The seating is tight two rows facing each other, the carriages look big, but they're not. We had to go up and down the same way as the winds were too strong for the return on the gondolas. If you ever get the chance to go, Do not take the first trains up. Madness, like animals ( but that's giving animals a bad name) people pushing you out of the way, no concern for old or young. Its the same for the return trip down, everyone heads for the first train, that's why I got in the second.

waddoJohn

Look at the Rails to the right and the steps angle


View through the clouds


If only the Sun came out, but still , what a view

Its a beautiful place to go and visit, some more of the same.
Lots of little railways about most were cogs.

Pilatus Mountain Railway 002


Pilatus Mountain Railway 003


Pilatus Mountain Railway 001


Pilatus Mountain Railway 004


Pilatus Mountain Railway 005


Pilatus Mountain Railway 006


Two Rails, and they Slide the next Train into Place


Thats a Station

In 2010 August, went on a coach trip to Switzerland for our 25th anniversary. Met some of your fellow countrymen on the Pilatus Mountain Railway Luzern. Swapped emails, as they just couldn't get the images they wanted, I volunteered to send. As promised I did, Never got a reply, could be that they never got them and may think low of me.
One of this set may jog their/your memory if their are on this site, send me a PM and I will send you the images I took up and down the mountain. On that Holiday I took 17,000 images ( I know its a lot, but you just cannot pop back to capture something that you got wrong). and have used 5500 for slideshows.

Regards

John

Pilatus Mountain Railway Luzern p1


Pilatus Mountain Railway Luzern p2


Pilatus Mountain Railway Luzern p3

Vulcan XH558
Just a few from this Crowd Pleaser

Hope you Like

John

Vulcan XH558 - 01


Vulcan XH558 - 02


Vulcan XH558 - 03


Vulcan XH558 - 04


Vulcan XH558 - 05


Vulcan XH558 - 06

I needed both hands to hold the camera, didnt notice the eye "Spot" till after I took the images all 109, it was worth it.
John