Getting these two to look at camera at the same time was a nightmare 
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Were they looking at your shiny tin foil hat? 
Mr and Mrs B Bird. Fab pic.
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No tin foil available unfortunately. All the idiots that went along with the vaccine salesmen stocked up early.
I like to think it was my gentle instructions and the science behind that is as good as Fergusonās idiotic numbers.
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Starling and a Sparrow, but iāve learned that getting any wildlife is a case of constant trying, hoping and generally failing, so appreciate that you like it almost as much as the fact i wasnāt too slow for once.
My gentle words and food bribes only go so far.
Basically, snap a couple of hundred shots and hope thereās a good one 
My daughter is much quicker on the response time.
Taken on the Broads last year and iām still jealous of the perfect timing.
Also stopped at @Saint-CDs house for a beer.
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was also down at Hamworthy Beach tonight
That jetty that you can see ia where the flying boats used to take off from, the first International airport in the UK
This one is a view out over Poole Harbour to Arne RSPB reserve. The barbed wire fence on the left is the limit of the SBS camp and also where the Flying Boat terminus used to be
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Why Red?
Asking for a foreign based friend
They mark the four corners of the known world according to the flat Earth society of Dorset.
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Urrr. If ee goes paaaast Bere Regis, ee faaaals off the edge loike.
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Read the link, no one really knows, they think it might be something to do with Hanging Judge Jefferies but maybe notā¦
I always thought it was where they secured prisoners bound for Australia.
The most famous Red Post stands at a cross roads on the A31 near Bloxworth and it is partly this post that gives rise to the theory that the practice was connected with the transporting of convicts. At the times of Judge Jeffreys and his Bloody Assizes, convicts would be taken from Dorchester and would turn off the road at that Red Post to reach Botany Bay Farm where they would be kept overnight, being shackled to the barn wall, before continuing their fateful journey the next day. Their guards would often be illiterate so that theory seems plausibleā¦ā¦but it still doesnāt explain the other three!
Other Red Posts are at Benville Bridge near Evershot, pictured above, at Poyntington north of Sherborne, and at Hewood Corner near Chard. Thus, there are two west of Dorchester, one north of the county town, and one to the east, so no real correlation in terms of any particular journey. There are a number of pubs which bear the name of Red Post Inn or White Post Inn, but none of these adds anything to the quest to understand why these Red Posts exist.
Just a pedantic historical note hereā¦ Judge Jefferies was not hung he died of a kidney disease.
Also when painting sign posts they ran out of white paint and only had red paint left to finish off the last few. True.
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I can resist turning this afternoonās high cirrus into black and whites. This one came out like a Victorian Gothic engravingā¦
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So Iāve mentioned before that my cycling takes me down the Castlemaine Trailway which follows thre old railway line between Ringwood and Poole, sadly a victim of Beechingā¦
However it seems that not all the platforms were destroyedā¦
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So been trying to mess a bit with this snap taken last autumn in an editing package that came with the Canon just to see what was possible, but cant seem to get those close your effectā¦ but thought like the saturated colours
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Itās quite a spectacular image with the heavy saturationā¦I like the colours a bit more muted.
If you still have the original unedited image, post it and Iāll see what I can make of it.
Well this isnāt altogether a successful reworking as the original picture is too low res.
The sky has more colour but because of the low res the tonal graduation isnāt thereā¦it shows up as banding.
The solution is to set the camera on the highest quality setting then you will get a smoother graduation of blues. The rest of the picture is acceptable, more detail in the shadow areas.
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