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Slight crop, taken with my 6 year old balancing on my shoulders! 20200509_094901 by alligator1975, on Flickr

Have a little bucket pond which has seen an increase in frogs over the years (up to 5 at a time now!), and we've had newts and toads also. Anyway, here was an unusual view with the frog closing one eye and being mostly submerged. 20200506_163333 by alligator1975, on Flickr Oly 60mm

The frog that wants to be a crocodile... 20200506_163333 by alligator1975, on Flickr Loving all the shots on his thread, some really inspirational stuff.

Rescued this little one who'd got stuck in the greenhouse, provided a little food and off it went. OI000943 by alligator1975, on Flickr

One from a week or so ago - Moorhen OI000768 by alligator1975, on Flickr Think I'm going to give Topaz a shot as well after all the comments above and see how it works for me.

I went to the EM1mkII from the EM5MKII. I still have a lot of affection for the EM5 it was perfect for me, AF apart. The EM1mkII AF is absolutely differently, but I also don't find it as big as I thought I would compared to the EM5, and obviously lenses are the same. I still find it a light...

Thanks - appreciate the comment. Will have a go and see how I get on.

Thanks! They were outskirts of Henley, seemed to be quite a few around saw some driving in and then on the walk. My brother said he sees them most days.

Went to visit my week old nephew for the first time at the weekend, took the EM1mkii and 12-40mm for some family shots, but snuck in the 100-400 as I know they often have Red Kites around, and we did indeed see some on a short walk. Really need to learn better technique for BIF and to process my...

Hi Alice - I completely agree with what Dave says above - practice is key! There is a lot to learn and it can be all a bit confusing at the start. So what you could do, is start by taking shots on aperture mode, and setting different apertures to see the difference to the in focus areas you...

I think some people on here use and like Topaz - there is a thread in the Talk Processing saying it's 25% over now, and someone has posted a code for an extra 15% off that. Topaz Link

Thanks Alf - really nice. I'm going to force myself to try out some of these over the next month.

Thanks @GreenNinja67 and @RedRobin I keep forgetting it's there. I also remembered the other night about live composite which I'd like to try again for light trails. Does anyone have any lesser used features they think are great?

Does anyone use the HighRes function on the Olympus compatible cameras? How do you find it?

Thanks Robin - now all the leaves are coming down hoping to get some Kingfisher shots as see them most times I head down, including today but no hides and too far away today.