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I'll let you know how that goes! :oops: :$

Well personally I do most of the time. But there are always occasions when you don't have it, for instance I don't ski with a camera.

As others have said, for a bunch of photos I use the USB cable, although still find it a bit of a pain as it seems very slow to find all the files. For a few that I want quickly I WhatsApp to myself - I have WhatsApp for Windows on my laptop - although it doesn't keep the original names.

I've not seen any yet, but apparently two Large Red Damselflies were seen at Tice's Meadow Nature Reserve in Farnham at the end of last week.

Great pic :) Really looking forward to seeing some more this year.

Butterfly feeding on a purple bugle (ajuga) flower today at Farley Mount Country Park, Hampshire. Maybe a green-veined white or a small white? F11, ISO 400, 1/1000s, 200mm (oddish settings - I didn't want to mess about and have it fly away as usual!) And cropped.

Sailing on Frensham Great Pond, seen from the King's Ridge above. F11, 200mm, ISO 100, cropped.

As a society we don't accept as a valid choice excluding people simply because they have characteristics over which they have no control. It could be argued that some people live as hermits and could therefore say that they don't care about society, but I don't get the impression that this is...

Agreed, it would be useful to know the background.

Hopefully the school (and others) will vote with their feet and find a better company.

A postscript: Thanks to you all for your input and suggestions. I had another play with my image but I'm afraid I'm rather stubborn - tried most of the ideas but couldn't really find anything I liked much better than my original, other than brightening it a tiny bit and cropping off a (very)...

Serre Chevalier 19 Jan 2024 EOS M100 with EF-M 55-200mmm at 100mm, f16, 1/100s, ISO 100.

Will do, thanks.

I posted an image on one of the photo sharing forums, asked for critique and got lots of helpful replies. I added a general thank you post, but I wondered whether I should like all the replies or if that's overkill. Is there a general do/don't expectation? Thanks

Thanks everyone for taking the time to comment and play with the image. Here's a bit of info re what I did when processing the raw. Tiny rotation and a small crop, pulled more detail out of the highlights, a little out of the shadows and boosted the contrast slightly. I worry about boosting...