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Really like the 6th picture

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My partner's cousin has just bought a very nice new caravan near Prestatyn so we had a few days there. that's another free holiday lined up.

Maybe some of you who used the coast road to Prestatyn will remember a ship being run aground 40 odd years ago and made into a night club. Its been derelict for 30 years and inaccessible but its slowly being tarted up a bit.

1 and 2, Views from the van.
3 to 9 around the ship. It totally fenced in with security guards.
Finally we had a run into Rhyl.

Please forgive the watermark... I posted a few photos recently on a lorry site and they have since been copied and put up for sale on ebay so now every downloaded photo has my mark on it.

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Huncoat Colliery in bloom.

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A wet forage for fungi around Martholme lane railway line and a bit of the colliery site.

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Interesting images, Davemac, especially No.9!

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Always excellent good quality pictures

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I had to look twice when I found them, l there were 4 plants, and I did look over my shoulder when I found them.

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Todays walkies up a mostly bright & breezy Pendle Hill..

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Down through the pines and a bit of the reservoir.(Dean Clough)

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1)my sister stopping with us for a week and since she has been here Milly has been hiding under my bed. So I made her a little bed in a shoebox so she doesnt hide right at the back - she loves it :D

2) Milly goes electric circa '65

3) Milly goes camo

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Cats just love boxes and will try to get into even the smallest ones.
Love the pics Rob.

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Had the fright of my life when this spider appeared in front of my eyes whilst visiting the little boys room. Ugh. https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...f00870867d.jpgAttachment 55765Attachment 55766Attachment 55767

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Quick photo this morning whilst my dad uses the bank machine :)https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...ebf8f8d8aa.jpg

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Let Milly catch it and eat it.

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I love dogs, all these pictures, especially the first one are very very good

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The food nature provides not good enough for this cat :D

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Rob....I know that sentiment.
Pasha(my lovely late tuxedo cat) used to look at what we were giving her and give us the look that said 'if you don't eat it...then I don't eat it'

With the kittens...we have started how we mean to go on and they much prefer dry biscuits...although Rufus does like ice cream and cream....though he only gets to lick out a dish now and then as this stuff is not good for him.

This is him playing in a carrier bag...he has a fscination for them.

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Aww perhaps if Rufus comes through the hole in the fence one dinner time I might see him :)

Sad about Zeus I heard a while back he was killed on Burnley road :(

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Rob, they are strictly house cats.
They are not allowed out without one of us being there...and then only in the Yard.
We have a very large neutered male tabby and white cat who has taken up residence in our garage.
I feed him and Rufus goes out to see him...lies on his cushion and they groom each other.
Ruby is the escape artist and lurks at the back door waiting to dart through the tiniest crack...she has made it into the yard, but she doesn't go into the garage as she is not keen on Samson(the name I have given to the tabby).

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More Kitty pics.
I know you aren't supposed to let children play with plastic bags...but I was watching them :)
1) Ruby lying on our bed
2) Rufus in the plastic bag
3) Rufus in the bag and Ruby telling over him(can't you just see it in her face 'mama, Rufus is in the plastic bag!...OK I know I am nuts)
4) Rufus out of the bag


As for Zeus...yes he was knocked down on Blackburn road...his owner was looking all over for him. Himself found him and took him back to them...they were heartbroken...he was a lovely cat. Very gentle.

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yes very sad. He was such a friendly cat too. But then I did often share my dinner with him :D

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Yes Rob, he came to us for takeaways.
He would hoover up the stuff that Pasha thought was cat food...well, she didn't think she WAS a cat.

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A few pics from todays walk around Fewston Reservoir.

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Fricken hell the quality of your pics are always awesome

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Skill, a good eye and a good camera...Those are the ingredients.

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Oh, yes...you need a reasonable subject too.
But a good photographer can make a silk purse out of a pigs ear.

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I haven't put any pics on here for a while so here goes. A walk along the canal bank near Skipton
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Willows lane, down through the forestry school then up an old cart track.

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Not exactly today, but I only got the pic today.

Roy and I have been sorting the big bit of land behind his house due to which we took a fence down ready to move it a bit further down.

Well, what do you expect, no security so we get trespassers!



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Sorry about the quality, it's a pic of a printout a neighbour took, still, I thought it worth sharing.

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A few from Great Orme. Especially for Margaret Pilkington.

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A stroll along the banks of the Ribble into Brungerley Park Clitheroe.
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Thank you Russell...they look pretty damn fine to me....and they made me drool.
Looks like it was a lovely day...wish I had been there getting the cobwebs blown off me and lungfuls of that lovely sea(and mountain )air.

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We had a super time with good sunny weather all week.
Got to resize the Portmeirion, Amlwch and Red Wharf bay photos yet so I'll be posting them for your perusal later.

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I will look forward to further armchair travels Russell...especially Portmeirion.
I would love to stay there for a few days...they can all have the Costa Del Sol...the airport shenanigans and such.
Give me a lovely view, some birdsong and a whiff of the sea and I am happy

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Portmeirion. Happy viewing Margaret, pity I cant post the other twenty.

We almost went into the hotel for a lunch time snack but there was no way I would pay over ten quids for a cheese butty. That's not including a cuo of tea.

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Pendle Hill this afternoon

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Number four is a cracker. Number two is well and truly overcooked.

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Thanks Gremlin, not an awful lot done to No. 2 other than add a graduated filter to the sky to bring out the clouds a little which I have to do to most pics.
I did forget to correct the white balance though :o, is this any better?

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I don't mind post production stuff.
You can see it has been done and it is just expressing a bit of artistic licence.
I like them all... but as Russell says number four is a cracker.

Russell loved your pics of Portmeirion.
It brought back some very happy memories of taking Ma down there...and going there with a work colleague.
We laughed a lot and Ma brought back the ugliest plant I have ever seen....a Gunnera(I hope I have spelled that right).
We nursed the thing all the way back from Wales...we were like the Clampetts on Tour!

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The conditions weren`t great for the sky, I try to get as close to realistic as possible (most of the time;)) but when the sun lights up the clouds like it does my camera needs a little help. Even bracketing didn`t work that well, so they are what they are, just a bit of fun for me while excercising the dogs.
4 pics here are the attempt at bracketing, skies still not great even on the photo exposed for the sky.
(no sliders were harmed in the making of these pics)

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I think it is good to have a 'play' with your pictures.
It doubles the fun.

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A new walk today, Darwen Moores, Holcomb Hill & Peel Monument with more of this Purple stuff (Heather?).

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Seems I took a wrong turn and ended up at Darwen Tower not Peel Monument :o

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A jaunty jaunt around Jackhouse

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Rotten quality but I thought it was a lucky shot of the kite with a cloud behind.
Looks like a vapour trail.

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I will admit the image of the cloud behind the kite wasn't planned.
It was a gusty day and the kite was whizzing everywhere and I was trying to track it with the camera. I had one or two very crisp shorts but that was just a lucky one which I didnt know I'd got until later, pity it's not as sharp as the others.

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Russell, you are really hard on yourself.
The image is what it is and the capture is imaginative.
I imagination is a valuable attribute for someone who takes pictures.
I love the shot.

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Fabulous picture of the Fly Agaric! Better than images in many guides to poisonous fungi.

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Thanks, the actual picture is deceptive, the other side was missing due to slugs eating it.

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Dave, that is what is called 'A queen Anne front and a Mary Ann behind'.
Something said of an article that looks good from only one angle.

Behinds never look very special...and I should know because I have seem my fair share :)

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Wonder if they're still alive?

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my daughters boy(who has a head full of strange facts- he will be good at pub quizzes when he gets older) tells me that they probably are...it seems that these pests can eat all kinds of muck that would see us off or definitely make us spew without it harming them very much...but they can't have salt on theor fish and chips :)

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A few moist moments through Castle Clough.

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Great pictures...like No5

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More of a week in pictures than today...
1. A drive over the moores.
2. Some old buses.
3. Haworth railway station.
4 & 5. A new pet.
6-8. On the canal tonight.

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Though I have to say I am not keen on your new pet...spiders and beetly bugs don't do it for me

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Don't worry Margaret, you won't see him as often as the others. [emoji3]


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Thank goodness for that...I would rather see the two four legged pets, than one small eight legger. :)

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Aw, poor boris, I wont tell him what you said, don't want him getting a complex.


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My time in foreign parts gave me a healthy awareness of the damage one of Boris' cousins could do(if you were not careful, that is). :)
It gave the Oz phrase 'go bite your bum' (the paler version of go forth and reproduce)a whole new meaning.
If you got bit on the behind by a red back, lurking under the dunny seat...you would soon find out who your friends were...especially if you asked them to 'suck the poison out of this'.

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Arden Hall and beyond.

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I see your fungus detector has lost none of its power Dave.
Lovely pics as always.

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The season is upon us and new batteries in the detector., thanks.

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Great pictures, Davemac, of one of my boyhood playgrounds.

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The back end of the Coppice and just a tickle of Plantation Mill

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Always great pictures, More of you're dogs would be welcome for me

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aaaw...I would say 'I want one' but I already have three.
Tell us more...please...where are Daisy and Duke?
Is the kitty yours or are you just teasing?

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We are on holiday, the cat was strutting his stuff around the pool then came to share my burger.


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Thank you, my curiosity is now sated...and thank you for sharing your burger with him.
It is kind of you.
I used to feed the kitties regularly when we were on holiday.

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Lovely picture

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Well, I think I can add to this as I've been doing a One A Day Every Day challange for the past 621 day...

4th Sept 2017 - The Halo above Haslingden

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5th Sept 2017 - The Singing Ring Tree at Crown Point Height Burnley

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6th Sept A titchy waterfall at Castle Clough...

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7th Sept Waterfall on the River Roddlesworth

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8th Sept - Pink Flower at Gatty Park

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9th Sept - Rochdale Town Hall

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10th Sept - Accrington Pipe Band at Towneley Hall Burnley

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11th Sept - Old Cars Leed - Liverpool Canal near Claton-le-Moors

http://www.justcode.co.uk/images/lee...canal-6645.jpg

12th Sept - Bill and Ben - Kay St Oswaldtwistle

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All great pictures as usual,

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They could do with putting on as thumbnails though.
I do agree there are some stunning shot there

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Admittedly the quality is good, but to my mind they seem to be more of a professional effort than the happy snaps most folks put up here, added to that they appeared strewn over numerous threads first thing this morning when I booked in to catch up on the skinny!

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Can only post phone photos at the moment, a pirate ship at sunset. https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...58a80f8cb5.jpg


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Ooh...looks lovely.
Horrible and wet here....coming down like stair rods...not that I want to make you envious :)

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Sorry, I haven't quite worked out to do the thumbnail things yet - I will.

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To be honest, there's no great mystery or secret to producing 'professional' looking photographs and almost everyone can do it, to take your image from 'happy snaps' to 'professional looking'.

A good lens is useful the one I used for these was £800 3 1/2 years ago (Canon Zoom EF 24-105mm f4L).

Understanding how you camera works and moving beyond simiply setting it to Auto (stuff like depth of field, exposure compensation, Auto Focus Points etc etc).

A lot of practice - I've taken 70,000+ in the 3 years 8 months I've had my DSLR.

Post processing your image once you've taken it - this can included everything from changing from colour to mono, to framing the final image.

A good eye, though is probably the most important, seeing a potential in any subject - not just the most obvious.

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Todays image: 13th Sept 2017 - A Metal Gate further up than the Rhoden Inn...

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Have a look at the top of the page, there's a search box, have a look for uploading pictures & you'll be presented with numerous threads on how to get your pictures on site without distorting the parameters of the page. :)

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I think most of us have done something like this in the past.
I know I certainly have.
I posted instructions on how to put thumbnails on here not so very long ago.

As for getting professional results...yes what you say is true...but I think the beauty of this thread is...Everyone feels that they can post their pictures here.

I also think that to be a decent photographer you have to have a 'good eye'...the ability to pick a subject and capture it so that it makes people go 'wow'.
There are a few members on here with that ability in spades...and I often post of my envy of their shots.
It is also about having the opportunity, of being in the right place at the right time with your camera at the ready.

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Does your one a day have a set topic for each day? This is where it went pear shaped when I had a go.


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A few of the subjects photographed by Ryewolf90 are reminiscent of what another member used to post about, e.g. the con club, I think he was called Ewoodsambo3 though he did change his name several times, if it is the same lad his photography has improved with age, some of these pics are excellent.

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No set subject, just what I happen to see each day. Obviously some days might dictate what I'd try and photograph. Today, was nice and sunny, though a little windy, so I was out bug hunting.

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Nope, definitely not me.

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Looking forward to seeing more of your photos, and welcome to what is usually the more welcoming part of accyweb.


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Yes, while I am not fond of bugs, but I like to see what other people find interesting to photograph....and your pictures are very good.

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A Hawker Dragonfly either Common or Southern

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So managed to get the thumbnail thingy working, so the other bugs from today

1 Hawker Dragonfly - just much closer
2 Ichneumon Wasp - most likely female extesorius
3 Speckled Wood
4 Shield Bug
5 Ladybirds - don't usually see them in groups like this
6 Lacewing larvae - fercious predators - the debris on it is the thinks it's eaten
7 Mystery - other than there's a Ladybird in there

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I love the ladybird picture.
The shield bug gives me the creeps....quite like the dragonfly picture too...so perhaps bugs could grow on me.(well, only the pictures of them, I mean)
Oh and well done for cracking the thumbnail thing.

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Managed a couple of camera pics tonight..
1. really happy to get this, firstly because its my first of the milky way, secondly its a 13 sec hand held exposure so pretty happy there isn`t a lot of shake.
2. Something that would eat Ryewolfs bugs for breakfast. :D

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Nice one on the lizard - speaking of which I saw my first ever Common Lizard this year, at the back of Pendle Hill of all places.

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Thanks, I saw a few lizards today, I think this one is a Gran Canaria giant lizard.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gran...a_giant_lizard


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Todays OADED - 15th Sept 2017

Troilus luridus - Bronze Shield Bug Final instar - with it's dinner. If you're a bit squeamish when it comes to bugs (or just about to eat), you might want to give this one a miss.

I've photographed Shield Bugs many times over the last 3 years, but never knew what they ate or how... I guess that is now answered... also another first for me..

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Whilst that is certainly true, you can also hone that 'eye', most professional photographers when they go out have a specific set of images they're looking for. However it's something all photographers can use, regardless of skill level..

For example there was a photographer on the BBC news website this week that liked photographing abandoned buildings (Urb-exing or Urban Exploring).

So you could set yourself a weekly challange and say 'This week I'll photograph things that are 'Red' (as an example). Run it from Monday to Sunday and give yourself 30-60 minutes each day. Make it a realistic challange, something you could achieve. (if you're stuck for a theme Google Photography Themes and you'll find plenty of ideas.)

The first one I did was a set of 5 square images with a white border of things I'd photographed around Accrington that were mostly Shades of Grey (including black and white) and posted on a photograhy forum and someone asked were the other 45 where.... Which did lead to a 50 Shades of Grey, 50 Shades More.. And Further More Shades of Grey..

If you do this every week, it's amazing how much your photography improves, because you're constantly honing the eye so you're always looking....

Plus the most important thing - always have your camera with you - I take it even if I'm just going into town to pay a bill. I'm not a professional photographer, so I don't make money from my images 99.9% is just done for sheer fun.

If you do see photographers out with camera's ask them what they've been photographing, almost all will tell you places to go, things they've seen.

Earlier this year, there was a Cormorant on Platts Lodge in Accrington, it got so used to people that you could get within 12ft of it..

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The mystery bug could possibly be an early moult female Earwig but only a guess.

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Yes, you can hone your skills.
Good photographers also have a keen eye for opportunities too....and sometimes they see things a little differently.
You can set out with an aim in mind and come back with something completely different to what you were looking for.
I have a camera in my bag all the time. You never know when an opportunity to get a good picture will present itself to you.

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That did occur to me also, it didn't look like the front end of a bug, to be honest it's why macro/bug hunting is so fascinating, you just never know what you might see.

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Exactly my point, but not just limited to professional photographers, almost anyone has that ability, good photographers aren't born - yes to some it comes naturally - just like being able to paint pictures or compose music or are great at science or math.

It really is a case of honing 'your eye', the opportunities just comes down to having your camera at the right time, and some times a hellava lot of luck...

Not sure if anyone has seen this but a photographer captured a stoat/weasel on a woodpeckers back as it was flying:

Woodpecker with weasel flying on its back photographed in Hornchurch Country Park | Daily Mail Online