Thursday, 8 July 2010

Farne Island Puffins

On 24th June a group of us from Stokesley Photographic Society travelled north to the Farne Islands.  We were blessed with great weather - some cloud cover so that it didn't get too hot and no rain.  We had to make a 6.45 am start but it was worth getting up early.

We visited 2 islands, Staple Island and Inner Farne, spending 2 hours on each one.

It will take ages to process all the pictures.  I've already deleted all the rubbish and unsharp pictures but that still leaves 265 from which to choose the best ones.




Friday, 18 June 2010

Back to Photography at Last

We spent a couple of weeks in France where I did take some photographs but mostly we had a relaxing time.  Those pictures have yet to be downloaded and catalogued.

However yesterday we had a trip to Rainton Meadows with our local U3A Group and I have managed to download those as there were only a few.  I'm no natural history photographer and don't have a long enough lens for photographing birds but I did enjoy photographing the things which I could get close enough to.  These are all hand-held shots as it's difficult to take a tripod along when out with a group of (mainly) non-photographers.