Firstly some sad news, more or less a death within the family, while trying to get some shots of Bullfinches down in the village, my poor much used & valued Canon 700d camera & I had a falling out on the ice. The result of which the camera has died completely. Less than a month ago I had it repaired at great expense & it was working like a dream, the fall managed to crack the casing around the memory card & battery area, so now awaiting the insurance company to see when & if they are going to pay out. Though there were no images on the memory card the next day when I went to take the memory card out, it had melted to the frame work, So some heat must have been generated during the crash.
So for a while I am afraid you will have to put up with my shots coming out of my small “old” camera.
You know when you see faces in everyday objects, such as toast, trees & the like, well until the forum (that I show my photographs on ) set this months challenge to capture these, I was unaware that it actually has a name. It is called Facial Pareidolia, and the first photo below is of the Gorilla in the Oak tree, which I hope you can see, that I have submitted to the challenge. The challenge closes on Sunday so let us see how I get on, I am up against an arrangement of fridge magnets, an image of Elvis in Ivy an old pumping station complete with window eyes & mouth door & a snowman face formed on a bush.
The second shot today is of frost on the porch window, it looked like a forest in front of our view & was gone 10 minutes later with the sun shining through the window.
The last two are of one of my favourite little flowers, the Snowdrop. What a bulb, about the first plant to come up in the garden & up here gets such a lot of knocks in it’s progress to bloom. Covered by thick snow, temperatures like the last couple of days, going up to 9C during the daytime, with bright sun beaming down on it, followed by the opposite during last night, down to minus 6C. In fact when I took these shots this morning it was still minus 4C. There it is standing bold, upright & beautiful under such conditions, what other plant would do that, wonderful.
So if you look around you can always see the wonders of this strange natural world & we have not got around to the birds getting into their stunning breeding plumage yet.
Oh while on the subject of birds, I have (after 2 years of trying) got a young lady from the Tay Bird Ringers to come & net my birds sometime next month, so that I will be able to recognise my local birds from migrants. Watch this space.
