Firstly I have my new camera.
Wow.
Is how I describe it. It is a true monster. I am not one to name things but I really feel like she deserves a name.
It is actually a very hard thing to describe something that I have only known for a couple of months and have used its functions to only a mild degree. But there is one thing I am still unsure of and that is the Full frame. When I have the full quota of lenses it really should show its full potential. Right now its only being held back by me. I feel like all this filming that I have to do is really not helping me do what I want to be able to achieve or have in my head for my photography. Do not get me wrong this is an amazing camera it has such features that she should be able to get me to where I want to go. I have huge hopes for this camera and for me. Over the next year I should be able to get to grips with it and wrestle this camera to do what I want it to.
The starlings. Again, Wow.
I have never seen a natural event that I want to witness every day. I am really struggling to find words to describe what I saw. The pictures that you see in the newspapers or on the TV. We went 2 times in the same week, I intend to go back many times in the near future and over my life time. When we first went we had no idea where the murmuration was. We got off the train and wondered aimlessly around trying to find a good place to see them fly. Eventually after much debate and wondering, some locals walked pasted and said where they would be and let us follow them to where we needed to be. It was just a shame we were directly underneath them. It was like it was raining, their droppings falling all around of us. At first we were to mesmerized by the thousands of tiny dots above our heads. Then we started to take notice of their droppings spattering our bags, cloths and some times cameras.
Well That is about it for now. Soon I shall be making a film about how hard it is to film wildlife, I have already had a brief go. Man am I lucky that I prefer photography. I have always seen how hard it is to get good quality footage of animals. Now I have even more new found respect for those guys.
Monday, 10 December 2012
Tuesday, 20 November 2012
Comming up.
There are several exciting things coming up in my life.
These are all rather exciting and I am trying to save my creativeness for when these events breach themselves upon me. It is very difficult to keep ones excitement burred down deep with in them. Mine is very close to bursting. This is like the steam venting before a kettle stop boiling. I must tell this blog what these events will be so then my excitement is not being built up enough for me to burst like the proverbial balloon.
Event 1:
This event isn't actually that big, it is just the first one in the series. I am getting a new camera body, and depending on how much money I have left a new lens too. See how small that is compared to the other events coming. The reason for this purchase is that my old camera had developed some problems. Like when humans get older, their hearing goes, they start to ask many many questions and things start to leak. Well my camera has developed problems. So it seems like a perfect time for an upgrade, an upgrade to (this is where the light shines down from the sky and a choir sings) Full Frame.
Event 2:
I will soon be heading off with a couple of friends to go and see the starlings at Gretna green. Having never seen Starlings do their murmurations this will be a first time for me. It is one of the most exciting things this year that I have wanted to do.
Event 3:
The 3rd event is about filming kestrels. ( I will update as things progress on new blogs)
Event 4:
Expedition to Scotland. This is the big thing of 2013 in my life. Except for the next event. This trip to Scotland is going to be really really fun. I use the word 'fun' because it is the simplest way of putting what will be being had. I will be going to two people whom I want to go with, (whom don't want to change things for their own personal gain but for the gain of everybody), this makes the expedition much more enjoyable as we can all (3 of us) enjoy each other company and learn of each other and just have fun.
Event 5:
Trip to Gambia. This is a big one. After we return back from Scotland we will be jetting off to Gambia to do a field studies trip. Personally I am not too interested in the whole surveying and doing too much actual work. I'm more interested in going out and birding. Having got 2, yes 2, bird books for this trip. I feel smugly confident that I can identify a fair few birds. Having learned so much so quickly on my last birding trip, I am sure that I can pick up this kind of birding just as quick.
These are the events that will be going on over the next 6 months of so. Well up until Easter anyway.
These are all rather exciting and I am trying to save my creativeness for when these events breach themselves upon me. It is very difficult to keep ones excitement burred down deep with in them. Mine is very close to bursting. This is like the steam venting before a kettle stop boiling. I must tell this blog what these events will be so then my excitement is not being built up enough for me to burst like the proverbial balloon.
Event 1:
This event isn't actually that big, it is just the first one in the series. I am getting a new camera body, and depending on how much money I have left a new lens too. See how small that is compared to the other events coming. The reason for this purchase is that my old camera had developed some problems. Like when humans get older, their hearing goes, they start to ask many many questions and things start to leak. Well my camera has developed problems. So it seems like a perfect time for an upgrade, an upgrade to (this is where the light shines down from the sky and a choir sings) Full Frame.
Event 2:
I will soon be heading off with a couple of friends to go and see the starlings at Gretna green. Having never seen Starlings do their murmurations this will be a first time for me. It is one of the most exciting things this year that I have wanted to do.
Event 3:
The 3rd event is about filming kestrels. ( I will update as things progress on new blogs)
Event 4:
Expedition to Scotland. This is the big thing of 2013 in my life. Except for the next event. This trip to Scotland is going to be really really fun. I use the word 'fun' because it is the simplest way of putting what will be being had. I will be going to two people whom I want to go with, (whom don't want to change things for their own personal gain but for the gain of everybody), this makes the expedition much more enjoyable as we can all (3 of us) enjoy each other company and learn of each other and just have fun.
Event 5:
Trip to Gambia. This is a big one. After we return back from Scotland we will be jetting off to Gambia to do a field studies trip. Personally I am not too interested in the whole surveying and doing too much actual work. I'm more interested in going out and birding. Having got 2, yes 2, bird books for this trip. I feel smugly confident that I can identify a fair few birds. Having learned so much so quickly on my last birding trip, I am sure that I can pick up this kind of birding just as quick.
These are the events that will be going on over the next 6 months of so. Well up until Easter anyway.
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