Thanks for all the kind words and comments.
I apologise for not replying sooner, but my internet has been poorly. I've been trying everything, from uninstalling drivers, manually deleteing windows updates (one by one, and having to restart inbetween them), tinkering in the bios, everything.
I did also get one of the first squirrel taking a nut off Matt. I'll upload a quick proof of it later.
Then on the offchance rebooted the router (I dont forget about that, honest).
Suffice to say, it seems to be working now
Anyway, like I say, many thanks for all your kind comments. It may sound cheesy, but its nice when people say kind things about my photos.
They were all taken with my 350D and Sigma 70-300 APO DG Macro thingy, also using a Canon Speedlite 550, kindly lent by Matt. (Which made all the difference).
The bottom fox shot, I was trying my usual arty angle type thing, but it didnt' really work. Unfortunately it turned out the fox had its gob like it did....If i'd have known what it was going to do before I pressed the shutter, I would have straightened up and saved the "try something new" for another shot..lol
CT you're right, the framing on the other fox shot sucks
I will agree completely. I rattled a few off at that time, some had its ears backwards, but this was the more 'innocent / cute' of the poses.
It's always good at Formby because they do come really close, and it's even better when it's as quiet (visitors wise) as it was the other day, you have the place to yourself.
The problem I found when framing the squirrels were :
A : Waiting for them to stick their tail up in the air...
and
B : Have to decide whether to either include the tail and frame it looking off the right edge of the frame, or make the squirrel more central and cut the tail off.....Was quite hard to make such a conscious decision, all the while you're waiting for the buggers to sit still...lol
And yes, I really do want that 20D now.
What with my Sigma attached, and the 550, they both were almost bigger than the camera, I was holding the camera quite gingerly, it felt too small to have such big things attached to it...I kept thinking it felt too fragile..lol
