Llanberis

Well it's been a while.

I've been itching to get the camera out for a while now, but haven't really had the opportunity.

A weekend away staying near Llanberis in North Wales gave me a good chance to get the camera out and take some snaps, recent snowfall made for some great back drops.

Here are a few pics I got.

All photos taken with Nikon D70 with 28-100mm Nikkor lense

Hopefully now the weather is starting to warm up a bit I can get out more and post more.

Mike.

Tufted Duck

Today we popped along to Ainsdale beach in Southport.

I went originally in the hope to spot the odd wader, but even though the sun was out it was just too cold in the wind.

Next to Ainsdale beach is a small lake which gets really busy with ducks, geese and your usual gulls.

Having looked around I decided to concentrate on the Tufted ducks, which in my opinion are stunning to look at and as they generally come in close, they are great to photograph too.

Heres the shots I got, you can click an image and go through the lightbox to see them all large.

The first set of images are males.

and secondly females.

and finally the rest of the images I took, Please click to view larger.

And finally who can resist a Mute Swan looking really chilled out.

All photos taken with Nikon D70 + Sigma 170-500mm

I hope you liked the pics.

Until next time.

Mike.

First post for 2012

Well so far my plans to get out more and do some photography have gone down the pan, I could be being paranoid but there appears to be a link between me picking my camera up and the sun going in.

So for the first post it was a few snaps in the garden.

I have made the mistake of moving my feeding station and where it is now positioned is rubbish for getting close up shots, here are a couple of shots I got when the sun came out for half an hour this afternoon.

Its a goldfinch, we regularly have around 16 on the feeders and have recently brought a couple of Siskin along with them which I am very happy about.

Here are the pics, hope you like.

Until next time.

Mike.