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It's been a tough ol year on the toggin front for me. Mainly my own doing trying to throw everything I have at building a camper has left me with so so so few outings.
i'm incredibly lucky. i'm allowed access to this little quiet spot, where the care and custodianship of an incredible game keeper backed by the same with the landowner mean hares and roe abound and I get more than my chance of photo ops ,naturally if I do my bit.
Nowt is given with wild thangs one has to earn the piccies with a bit of graft sure, but the chances have to be there to take in the first place.
so my couple of week hols came and went we both grafted at the bus dawn till dusk bla de bla with one single shoot it was cool lovely an all ..............., but one hankers for the fairy dust days and it wasn't that.
I can't acces me quiet place in the shooting season so a weekend or two back got up helllish early not for togging but do own the fact that I'd done enough graft to be able to go out toggin later in the day
. Yeah I know after kicking myself senseless on a building site pulling obscene hours I still needed to earn an outing at the weekend ...bloody madness but we are who we are.
After making myself feel good........... I reset the camera stuffed the DOii on double checked all was clean and set off for a late afternoon and eve hare shoot with my darling . Ha and that right there is where it all went pear shaped.
I missed one tiny step to reset to RAW from small Jpeg...................
Fast forward to the shoot I bumble ( as always it's always a bumble ) into a leveret
Leveret is like a puppy that complete and utter wonderful madness of a tiny thing that comes running up to one almost wanting to play and as ya reach out to stroke the sod is off bouncing around all ways, in case it gets caught
Puppy was also coupled with a few other bigger hares also being cool.
We got home glowing... both of us grinning like cheshire cats what a magical day ........ya know that feeling after a day sprinkeled with fairy dust,.......................one just knows one can't have stuffed the whole lot up... in all those frames there just has to be one that's ok.
there just has to be one that isn't compromised
Hmm not so much
I am the guy that stuffed the whole bleeding lot up,:banghead:................... it is still very raw and hurts like hell the pit in my stomach as it dawned on me that I didn't have huge RAW files to play with will lurk a while
The truth is the man or woman that never made a mistake never did nuffin. We all know that.....................one can make excuses never show the cock ups , but we all know they are there in wildlife toggin there is nowhere to hide
I kind of revel in the fact I screw up so often because it makes me want to go back and be better, I know it's a bonkers mindset, but hey a dollop of madness is no bad thing if one wants to make wildlife images, wihout that insanity I don't think one can really push one's self hard enough to really be the best one can be
but this one .......................... OMG this one ................................. completely floored me
funny I picked my self up from the gutter next morn up early completely knackered worked like a sod created a new hole to go and play in, but nature don't work that way ...................ya get one chance that's it!!
Hey ho ha here's a piccy one of oh so so many........... no crop no post no nuffin, SOOC........................ if it's crap then so be it. you can tell me I can cope................... if it's not and there is potential , and you try to make wildlife images you'll have half a hunch of my feelings
_S2I0459 by Stuart Philpott, on Flickr
ha
bring it on (next year)
stu
i'm incredibly lucky. i'm allowed access to this little quiet spot, where the care and custodianship of an incredible game keeper backed by the same with the landowner mean hares and roe abound and I get more than my chance of photo ops ,naturally if I do my bit.
Nowt is given with wild thangs one has to earn the piccies with a bit of graft sure, but the chances have to be there to take in the first place.
so my couple of week hols came and went we both grafted at the bus dawn till dusk bla de bla with one single shoot it was cool lovely an all ..............., but one hankers for the fairy dust days and it wasn't that.
I can't acces me quiet place in the shooting season so a weekend or two back got up helllish early not for togging but do own the fact that I'd done enough graft to be able to go out toggin later in the day
. Yeah I know after kicking myself senseless on a building site pulling obscene hours I still needed to earn an outing at the weekend ...bloody madness but we are who we are.
After making myself feel good........... I reset the camera stuffed the DOii on double checked all was clean and set off for a late afternoon and eve hare shoot with my darling . Ha and that right there is where it all went pear shaped.
I missed one tiny step to reset to RAW from small Jpeg...................
Fast forward to the shoot I bumble ( as always it's always a bumble ) into a leveret
Leveret is like a puppy that complete and utter wonderful madness of a tiny thing that comes running up to one almost wanting to play and as ya reach out to stroke the sod is off bouncing around all ways, in case it gets caught
Puppy was also coupled with a few other bigger hares also being cool.
We got home glowing... both of us grinning like cheshire cats what a magical day ........ya know that feeling after a day sprinkeled with fairy dust,.......................one just knows one can't have stuffed the whole lot up... in all those frames there just has to be one that's ok.
there just has to be one that isn't compromised
Hmm not so much
I am the guy that stuffed the whole bleeding lot up,:banghead:................... it is still very raw and hurts like hell the pit in my stomach as it dawned on me that I didn't have huge RAW files to play with will lurk a while
The truth is the man or woman that never made a mistake never did nuffin. We all know that.....................one can make excuses never show the cock ups , but we all know they are there in wildlife toggin there is nowhere to hide
I kind of revel in the fact I screw up so often because it makes me want to go back and be better, I know it's a bonkers mindset, but hey a dollop of madness is no bad thing if one wants to make wildlife images, wihout that insanity I don't think one can really push one's self hard enough to really be the best one can be
but this one .......................... OMG this one ................................. completely floored me
funny I picked my self up from the gutter next morn up early completely knackered worked like a sod created a new hole to go and play in, but nature don't work that way ...................ya get one chance that's it!!
Hey ho ha here's a piccy one of oh so so many........... no crop no post no nuffin, SOOC........................ if it's crap then so be it. you can tell me I can cope................... if it's not and there is potential , and you try to make wildlife images you'll have half a hunch of my feelings
_S2I0459 by Stuart Philpott, on Flickr
ha
bring it on (next year)
stu
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