Going Ape In The Trees

Well what an experience,spent the evening swinging through the trees in Delamere Forest on a high rope bridge ,swing and zip wire course tonight.
Although you have a safety harness it still makes your stomach churn here or there.The whole course takes about 3 hours to complete including a safety talk.I t is quite a physical activity and I am feeling a bit tender in places today.The worst part was one of the Tarzan swings which had quite a drop off the platform.Apart from that it was a good night and I may even go again at some point.
Not sure whether I would take the camera with me though as even though I got some great pics it was a burden to carry around.

Tigger In The Sun

Tigger seems to be the focus for my lens more than anything else,he almost seems to know that I am taking his picture and starts to pose now.. He was a bit more laid back today compared to how he was at the beach and this enabled me to get a few candid shots with him lying down on the grass.
I picked up my new D200 today so I expect I will be posting some more action shots before long,I just need to figure out how it works.

Pictures From The Beach

I got a bit bored taking my dog tigger to the usual haunts so deicided to take him to the beach for a change.Managed to get a few good pictures whilst I was there using my D50 and nikkor 50mm f1.8.

Going up in Flames

For most people in the stock photography world reaching 100 downloads is not a massive achievement,for me however it is my first picture to get any flames ( as soon as you reach 100 downloads on istock you get a flame to show how hot your pic is).
I realise that if you are a really good photographer then getting flames on your pictures is likely to be a more regular occurrence.Hopefully as time goes by then more of my images will collect flames whilst at the same time earning money for me.
I must say however that this image was rejected by shutterstock for being badly cropped so was a bit of a surprise when it sold so well over on istock.


















If I had to choose which picture of mine I thought would sell more than any other then it would be this one which is doing quite well but not at 100 yet.

Latest Approved Photo

This is actually a photo would you believe of a real snakeskin which was lying on a table in the museum,as soon as I saw it I thought that it would make a good background.I have submitted it to all the various stock sites that I subscribe to and up to now it has been accepted at Shutterstock,I will have to wait and see whether it gets approved anywhere else.

Welcome to my Blog

This is my first post as I try to get the hang of this blogging thing.Not only am I trying to get the hang of all this html etc but I am at the same time trying to learn how to master my camera and create some pictures that I can be proud of.

I am not a complete novice with regard to photography as I have owned a Digital SLR for the last year,in which time I have started to submit some of my pictures to various stock photography sites in the hope of making enough money to fund the next piece of kit I purchase.

I currently submit my pictures to 6 different stock photography sites of which only 2 have actually earned me any money worth talking about.