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Using a Gimbal Head for Wildlife Photography

Christine Widdall Posted on 13/06/2018 by Christine25/06/2018

Using a gimbal head to photograph sea birds at Bempton Cliffs, Yorkshire.

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Posted in Featured, Nature, Review | Tagged Bempton Cliffs, Benro, birds, coast, gannets, gimbal, Photography, review, sea birds, tripod head, wildlife, Yorkshire

Appleby Horse Fair 2018

Christine Widdall Posted on 12/06/2018 by Christine18/06/2018

Photographs from the Appleby Horse Fair.

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Posted in Featured, Portrait, Urban | Tagged Appleby, Cumbria, fair, Gypsy, horse, horse and trap, horse washing, rifing, River Eden, Romany, traveller, Westmorland

Broad Bodied Chasers

Christine Widdall Posted on 06/06/2018 by Christine28/06/2018

Male broad bodied chasers.

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Tagged broad bodied chaser, dragonflies, dragonfly, insect photography, Libellula depressa, macro lens, male

Photographing Robber Flies

Christine Widdall Posted on 05/06/2018 by Christine28/06/2018

Photographing robber flies in the field, including technical information.

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Tagged arthropods, asilidae, assasin flies, Canon 100m IS macro, Canon 70D, depth-of-field, diffraction blur, DOF calculator, insects, macro lens, mini beasts, robber flies, Sigma 180mm f3.5 EX DG HSM Macro

Colwyn Bay Pier – a last look

Christine Widdall Posted on 01/06/2018 by Christine01/06/2018

Looking at Colwyn Bay’s Victoria Pier prior to demolition.

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Posted in Featured, Urban | Tagged beauty in decay, coastal, Colwyn Bay, Colwyn Bay Trust, demolition, derelict, dereliction, North Wales, seaside, Storm Doris, Victoria Pier, Victorian

Damsels and Dragons, May 2018, Saddleworth

Christine Widdall Posted on 23/05/2018 by Christine28/06/2018

Large red damselflies and broad bodied chasers plus the first four spot chaser seen this season. Taken with the Sigma f/3.5 180mm macro lens.

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Tagged broad bodied chaser, damselflies, dragonflies, four-spotted chaser, large red damselfly, Libellula depressa, libellula quadrimaculata, odonata, Pyrrhosoma nymphula

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