I started taking pictures of birds with an old Canon S40 4mp Digital camera, pointed down a Nikon Spotting scope.

Joining a local birding forum, which I somehow ended up managing to help run, introduced me to the local bird/wildlife photographers. The bug well and truly took hold!

I was lucky enough to learn first hand, and through a PHPBB forum from some excellent Birders and Photographers, some of whom I rate as the best photographers around. But pointing a small handheld digital camera down a telepscope didn’t quite cut it. So came the Canon 400d

Entry level it may be, 10MP and 3fps weren’t a match for the pro’s out there, but paired with a Sigma 50-500mm, I started taking better pictures. Long gone was the digi-scoping, and praying for good light at the weekends became the norm.

Eventually an upgrade to a Canon 7dmkii, and a second body in the Canon 90d, and an upgrade to the Sigma 150-600mm with a couple of extra lenses for good measure. Still not pro quality, but ‘pound for pound’, that lens will give most combinations a run for it’s money, it’s certainly stopped me spending upwards of 5 or 6x (or lets face it, 10x) more on a prime lens.

As well as birds, other flight caught my attention, and after putting off a visit to the ‘Mach Loop’ off for years, because I didn’t think I’d be good enough to take pictures, the Low Level bug also took hold. As well as Air Shows, a trip to Oulton Park got me hooked on Motorpost. There must be something about trying to photograph fast moving things.

So this site is a place to publish what I manage to capture through the lens.

If I ever upgrade to a mirrorless prime combo, i’ll have to come up with a new theme!

Enjoy . . . .