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The sexual life of a camel is stranger than anyone thinks. It accounts for the hump on the camel and the inscrutable smile on the sphynx.

Thenks Jenna, they're dhalias. The formal gardens behind Walton Hall are full of them.

In-flight meal:

There is something strange about this particular forum. Contributors, somehow, feel compelled to always quote a previous post. Why? 1) it disrupts the flow of the conversation making, at times. the...

Definitive work on old TTL flashes: http://kmp.bdimitrov.de/flashes/index.html Pentax cameras since the *istD series do NOT support TTL so you are stuck with using the flash's manual or basic auto...

Gallop Poll:

Sony have been making high speed sensors for years now: http://www.sony.net/Products/SC-HP/cmos/cmos3.html

From the Ricoh RDC-7 way back in 2000: http://www.imaging-resource.com/PRODS/RDC7/RD7A6.HTM One of the RDC-7's most interesting features is its "PRO" high-resolution exposure function. There are...

Kind of makes some sense of the 'AA filter implemented in software not hardware' claim too.

Another from today using manual focus at the end stop - that's 1:1 macro:

The bees made frequent visits to the lavender bush in the garden this summer but they are all gone now. The lavender has lost its charm but we noticed some little dark blobs have appeared amongst...

You say litchen and I say likhen - let's call the whole thing moss.

We could have bumped into each other ;) More details here: http://www.dpreview.com/forums/thread/3544080

Just awesome. Well done.

Thanks for the comments guys. I'm sorry there are so many images - I hadn't realised there were quite that number until I started counting down! Curiously, I might well have culled the ones that...

We recently returned from a very relaxing week on the shores of Lake Garda in Italy. A lovely place with lots of photo opportunities. Anyway, here are a few of my holiday snaps. I've recently...

I like it. For constructive criticism may I suggest: 1) The focus plane is on the tables somewhere and, sadly, just runs out before the girl. It could be hard work to do anything about that...

Start here: http://pttl.mattdm.org/

The shot was taken at 1/125 sec and F11. It was handheld and I had my eye over the viewfinder. The rear element appears convex but it's deep inside the body so it's difficult to be certain. Here's...

A fascinating book is "Meetings with Remarkable Trees". http://www.amazon.co.uk/Meetings-Remarkable-Cassell-Illustrated-Classics/dp/0297843508