Winsford Soul

And to be able to tell the story of the adventure for year's to come is priceless mate.

Very nice mate. Regardless of what you used to take the picture

I hope you got your passport stamped when you come over the big hill to stay on the sunny side. 🤣. Weetabix for me today, couldn't be bothered with me cornflakes. . Love Sparrowhawks they have such evil looking yellow eyes . Steve

Not a ornitholigist, just a nature lover , spent all my life fishing escaping from the chemical industries where I've worked in engineering and everything else just fell into place. Fishing Northern soul, Records, Nighters, women, wildlife, cameras all a natural progression. Well it is in my 18 year old head 🤣 who's spent 10,s of thousands on all of the above. My current go to camera lens costs more than my first house did. See picture below. 🙄.you get some comments and looks when you carry a 3 ft lens about. I'm very lucky to be able too have afforded things especially when my kids got older because I did struggle like everyone has. I love chocolate especially when I worked at nestle in Halifax. (Yorkshire the dark side ) and it was free. 🤣. Steve

Very nice, have a fantastic trip. Thanks Andy, definitely need to practice more but until I move here permanent it's difficult as you know living in Manchester to see anything with the light pollution Steve

Me too. Every picture tells a story or is a moment frozen in time that will never be recaptured Your turn to make me blush now Louise, your photos are good, I stick to things I know a little bit about which helps you with the picture, composition, light etc all self taught and still only a novice, 9 years ago I didn't even have a camera Steve

Looks lovely Russell

Two very wet badgers

Milky Way from last nights clear Pembrokeshire skies

Thank you my friend. I really appreciate the kind comments Steve

Love the colour contrast

Thanks Sandra. Your making me blush. X

Cheers Ste. As you say a great photo but even I could have got one that good in a studio with perfect lighting, firing off countless shots until you got the exact one you wanted or had envisaged in your head.

Country file has just announced the winner and cover photograph for the 2020 calendar. So disappointed that it was set up in a studio when there was amazing wild pictures that where so much more difficult to obtain and undoubtedly one off events in extreme weather. What do you think? And it's not sour grapes before anyone says so because I didn't even enter the competition. Just think that it's a wildlife calendar and it should be wildlife, just the same as you can't enter domestic or zoo animals for the competition Steve

Very wet Badger

Bank Vole

House Sparrow

Here's two pictures of Carew Castle. Both taken at approximately 9.30 pm this evening .One in natural light and the second one has had a torch shone on the castle from approximately 200 yards away across a tidal mill pond . I was hoping to get the castle with the Milky Way above and behind it but it was too high in the sky I obviously need to practice this form of photography but I,m quite happy with my first attempt, would love to know if anyone on here has tried anything similar and how did you get on Steve

Greenfinch are so uncommon near me mate. Goldfinch are the dominant force in my garden up to 16 at a time.

Male Chaffinch Taken from the window of the Pembrokeshire cottage Steve

A stormy but sunny St Govans head. Pembrokeshire.

Thank you. Much appreciate it. Steve

Ditto to all the above. Greatest time of my life without a doubt. 1975 until Dec 81. So much of the music that was played there went on to become the sound track of my life. Many of those records are still amazing and still sound as good today as they did nearly 45 years ago. Made friendships that are still going strong today. Loved and lost. ......... I'm still going to nighters and soul nights across the UK now.at the age of 60 That's the effect that it has had on me. Steve

And one from the back garden Red Admiral on a buddleia

Here's a three from the weekend at Pennington Flash Dunnock. Grey Wagtail and Kingfisher Steve