General Photography thread

[LamieRobertson]

Nice. Did you see any storks?

we go to Knepp Park off the a24 and there are loads of them that nest there but feed in Pulborough brooks

I didn’t c any yesterday

I’ve never been to Knepp Park…..but will be rectified sometime this year as my daughter bought me a voucher at Xmas to spend there….going to try one of their ‘dusk’ walks

 

[BrightonCottager]

Taken with my mobile phone about an hour ago.

 

[Green Cross Code Man]

A beautiful self-seeded Acer that I keep pollarded as it's close to my house.

 

[Bodian]

A beautiful self-seeded Acer that I keep pollarded as it's close to my house.

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Have you been in touch with @Harry Wilson's tackle ?

[Albion] - When should you pot on an Acer seedling?

I have two on the go. One I have potted up and it seems to have been transfixed into a stupor. One I potted up last year conked out in the late summer. The other is where it self seeded. I am inclined to leave it there, even though the pot has a golden rain tree seedling growing in it. Any...

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[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Going back to what CM said earlier regarding the Lightroom tools for photo enhancement, here's an example, again the pic was taken in Rio looking the other way (some might recognise it from The James Bond film). This is only for the less experienced photogs on this thread, I don't mean to tell the more experienced how to suck eggs.

Anyway, the first example is straight out of the camera and the 2nd is after 3 or 4 mins using Lightroom tools including the dehaze tool. But as CM says, the image file must be a 'raw' file as this file will have all the digital data to work with. Final words, if you're serious, subscribe to Lightroom Classic, its brilliantView attachment 180499View attachment 180500

I see you went up Jesus. I went up there once, but it was cloudy.

 

[Green Cross Code Man]

Have you been in touch with @Harry Wilson's tackle ?

[Albion] - When should you pot on an Acer seedling?

I have two on the go. One I have potted up and it seems to have been transfixed into a stupor. One I potted up last year conked out in the late summer. The other is where it self seeded. I am inclined to leave it there, even though the pot has a golden rain tree seedling growing in it. Any...

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Haha, thought of him and his Acer as I took the picture!

 

[Green Cross Code Man]

A morning walk in Friston forest.

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Acer update. Yes, next door built a lean-to to store logs right on the boundary 30 years ago. The owner who inherited it 15 years ago is 81, so I'm not going to be a dick about it. I can see a future own demolishing it just to get a better view of my acer

 

[Bodian]

A morning walk in Friston forest.
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Nice - I do love a good bluebell woodland picture.

 

[Green Cross Code Man]

Acer update. Yes, next door built a lean-to to store logs right on the boundary 30 years ago. The owner who inherited it 15 years ago is 81, so I'm not going to be a dick about it. I can see a future own demolishing it just to get a better view of my acer

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So beautiful.

 

[Bodian]

Acer update. Yes, next door built a lean-to to store logs right on the boundary 30 years ago. The owner who inherited it 15 years ago is 81, so I'm not going to be a dick about it. I can see a future own demolishing it just to get a better view of my acer

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Not bad growth for one you only potted on recently!

 

[Jack Straw]

First snaps of the year. I must get out more!

1) Green Hairstreak.

2) Early Spider Orchid.

 

[Taybha]

You'd need to have been a avid photographer to have taken this shot.

 

[Green Cross Code Man]

Nice - I do love a good bluebell woodland picture.

I like your Flickr! Great shots!

 

[Bodian]

I like your Flickr! Great shots!

Thank you kindly! Much appreciated.

 

[Wardy's twin]

Very pleased how this one came out

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Certainly not one of the better photos on this thread, but maybe one of the more surprising. Taken yesterday morning at Preston Rockery, it's a terrapin the size of a dinner plate!

Seeing as how its a non-native species, I'm thinking some disaffected pet owner may have chucked it in there. Or maybe it was deliberately introduced, like - presumably - the koi carp. Any ideas @Jack Straw? @jevs? Should I contact an animal rescue centre or something?

 

[Wardy's twin]

Certainly not one of the better photos on this thread, but maybe one of the more surprising. Taken yesterday morning at Preston Rockery, it's a terrapin the size of a dinner plate!

Seeing as how its a non-native species, I'm thinking some disaffected pet owner may have chucked it in there. Or maybe it was deliberately introduced, like - presumably - the koi carp. Any ideas @Jack Straw? @jevs? Should I contact an animal rescue centre or something?
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There are a number of these in various ponds around the place - personal view is they need to be taken out of the wild as they are non native and a threat to creatures such as newts. There is/was a pond in peacehaven that had crested newts in it but a mixture of terrapins/turtles and goldfish wiped them (and the common newt) out. Locals more happy to see goldfish and these rather than know there are native species in the water which are less visual.

 

[Green Cross Code Man]

There are a number of these in various ponds around the place - personal view is they need to be taken out of the wild as they are non native and a threat to creatures such as newts. There is/was a pond in peacehaven that had crested newts in it but a mixture of terrapins/turtles and goldfish wiped them (and the common newt) out. Locals more happy to see goldfish and these rather than know there are native species in the water which are less visual.

Yeah, I've seen them somewhere other than Brighton (can't recall and also at Hampden Park Eastbourne they are happy enough living here but I am unsure whether they reproduce as perhaps our summer is too cool?

 

[Jack Straw]

Certainly not one of the better photos on this thread, but maybe one of the more surprising. Taken yesterday morning at Preston Rockery, it's a terrapin the size of a dinner plate!

Seeing as how its a non-native species, I'm thinking some disaffected pet owner may have chucked it in there. Or maybe it was deliberately introduced, like - presumably - the koi carp. Any ideas @Jack Straw? @jevs? Should I contact an animal rescue centre or something?
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I'll let Jevs reply in more detail, but I'm sure he wouldn't want anybody to get them removed. They've been there for years, and people come specially to see them.