They are indeed the most engaging of creatures.................great that you managed to meet such a nice range of folks there
Did you get onto the DWT lagoon hides & walk as well?
PS might make it down there again next year ~ we love the whole area, though for various reasons we don't always make to Brownsea. If you go again have a look at Dean Mason's Window on Wildlife website. Harvest Mouse workshop and very nice bird hides including a reflection pool.
Laurence........ how ya doing mate? After we spoke on Mark's thread i posted again in the talk nature section,with a new thread. I sort of hoped to build the start of a little knowledge base that might serve the southern guys especially newer members who would like to see the reds there. Sadly no one came back no replies at all...........so
I actually took your words on Mark's thread to the letter mate...slung me hook and found some of me own to show
Well what can I say you are a clever guy I listen. So sadly I can't answer much of your post.
Buddy my photography is for me and my darling lady first, we sort of love hardship I guess,I dunno there are easier ways to get an image, than my road We fail alot, actually, a hell of a lot but that in it's self drives me personally. The journey both physically in this case and metaphorically of learning the species being with it, missing it up over and over, messing up the chances over and over.............. adding the brill light stacking it all on top of each other to finally nab a frame I'm sort of proud of, is really what I do,where I get my kick!!. But my subjects are wild always wild. I used to speak to a guy whom did catch and release with field mice,cor hell of a tog!! It's just not really for me. I have no feeling of anything negative about workshops paid for hides or bating ( beasties wellfare first I'm good). It's just fun for me to work it up from what ever I can. But the resultant image is mine as much as it can be. Does than make sense mate tis a bit long winded??
There is a degree of other folks work in this image Laurence,the nik guy, (ha I knew where I was going he gave me within yards
). Paul, the guy who feeds week in week out..... the guy that planted the woodland ,but I can't access wild reds like me hares as there are none left.
So when I read your tongue in cheek words it made me stop and muse a while,I sort of felt the risk of nowt and doing all I could homework wise might take the sting out of using a few nuts to slow a squiggle down at someone else's feed station
Mate,even though I'm pretty gregarious I'm such a bloody hermit I worried that so many folks would be on Brownsea I'd get freaked out,that was also part of my reasoning ,but yeah you made me stop and think a while
. So first up we went looking for a needle in a haystack mid country mainland reds then did an island pop which it's fair to say was a bit far from home to get back to in a day. I utterly misjugded that one oops
Buddy this one was a first me, first big trip in my old van, my first ever sighting and image of a tiny rodent i'm so gutted to not have right here in my back yard. It is the start of why I've been grafting meself stupid for so long : a chance at subjects I can't reach in a day .
But the really lovely bit is the grand daughter of the guy who planted the wood is a tog............... she wants to see a kingy and make a pic. A guy from somewhere else told me a spot very close to where she lives... Ha ha as they walked away I squeaked them back as they left so they got a squiggle pic too. I'm never going to be a tog bro I hadn't got a pic for me yet but hey........... so I got to give his words to the lovely lady as she tried to give me another spot for reds if she goes she will get her chance I did but no time
There is a tiny circle of kind folks here mate in this image and you started that with a few words.................. hence the bl**dy big waffle
The actual shoot was funny table chairs cups 'o' char on tap vast quantities of choccy biccies I could get used to this
,it's a far cry from buying paint ball arm protectors because I wanna pic of a hare huh??
Thanks mate, I had a ball because of you just tipping the balance, I might even be able to help them a bit with info gleened from images taken
mucho gracias or what ever it is
can't help much with Brownsea but maybe one day
stu