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Me and my stuff
I've always been interested in nature photography, and for years used a number of Canon and Minolta film cameras. I sold the lot in 2003 and bought a Nikon Coolpix 4500, but soon decided that a digital SLR was the way to go.
Since 2004 I've been through various Canon cameras and lenses including two EOS 20Ds, an EOS 30D, an EOS 40D, an EF 400mm f/5.6L, and an EF 300mm f/2.8L IS before finding myself with the following which I use at the moment:
EOS 7D
EF 500mm f/4L IS
EF 1.4x II extender
Kenko 1.4x DG extender
Sigma 150mm f/2.8 APO DG
Tamron 17-50mm f/2.8
Super-Takumar 50mm f/1.4
Speedlite 550EX
Macrolite MR-14EX
...plus sundry other gubbins.
I tart everything up using Canon DPP, Adobe CS2 and Helicon Focus (for the stacks).
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A-Z index
Click here for a list of links to all my photos by species/subject.
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Copyright and contact
All photographs and content are copyright Rich Andrews. Please don't copy, steal or hotlink any of the photos on this website. It's the height of rudeness.
If you have any enquiries about usage, please . Thanks!
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WEDNESDAY 20th OCTOBER 2010
Laps 2
I decided to have another go at the Clevedon Lapland Buntings with the light being so good today, and I dropped in at Cheddar Res on the way home in the hope of getting a few snaps of the Red-necked Grebe. It was right out in the middle when I arrived, but after a while it swam back into the shore along the western edge (which is where all the recent Red-necked Grebes have ended up) where it showed really well.
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MONDAY 18th OCTOBER 2010
Laps
Another one to catch up with after everyone else! There's been a big influx of Lapland Buntings in the UK this autumn, and finally a few have made their way to these parts. There had been two or three for a few days on the sea-wall at Clevedon, but I was lucky to find that there were four when I visited this afternoon.
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SUNDAY 10th OCTOBER 2010
Ground-pod
Made a ground-pod. Photographed some birds on the ground.
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SATURDAY 9th OCTOBER 2010
Cheddar
As usual I seem to have caught up with a well-photographed local bird about a week after everybody else - in this case the female Red-breasted Merganser at Cheddar. I think this must have been the bird I saw at Chew on 24th September.
A smart Black Swan was also there; it makes a change to see one free-roaming and with a full compliment of wings, so I made the most of the chance to take a few shots of one 'in the wild'.
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MONDAY 27th SEPTEMBER 2010
Bigger!
I've had a little tidy-up and you should now be able to view the most recent blog photos in glorious 640px.
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THURSDAY 23rd SEPTEMBER 2010
Mixta
There are still quite a few late insects about when the weather is warm enough; these two Migrant Hawkers were in a pretty sheltered spot so I was able to use a fairly slow shutter speed to get enough depth of field. Taken with the 500mm on a tripod.
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MONDAY 20th SEPTEMBER 2010
Avonmouth Ibis
Just a couple from a big selection of the approachable Glossy Ibis. It carries a Spanish colour ring, which was attached at the Coto Doņana. One of my shots was used on the cover of the November issue of British Birds.
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SATURDAY 18th SEPTEMBER 2010
Airbus Family Day
More wait-and-see photography at a private airshow (the Filton Friends and Family day) only this time I had a pretty good idea what I would be seeing. Gone are the days that I could waft in through the main gate with my BAe contractors pass, so I chose a suitable spot high on the periphery, armed with a very long lens...
That said, I reckon I had the best views of anyone of the A380 display, and I was the only person there to be at eye-level for some of the smaller jet passes.
I've only been visiting airshows for a couple of years, but even so, tradition already demands that the weather leading up to the event will be splendid, clouding over during the first displays, becoming positively grey half-way through and then brightening up on the way home.
More of this ilk on my Flickr page, where you can see them all at 900px.
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SATURDAY 11th SEPTEMBER 2010
Wait & see
Did a spot of 'wait-and-see' photography for an hour or two today in the hope of getting some Green Sandpiper photos. After a while there were five of them wandering about in front of me but although I managed a few decent shots, the water's edge was a little bit too far away to give me anything close; I suppose the pictures I got were the best I could hope for in the event.
If there's one species that demands good light for taking photos it's the Green Sand. For one thing they never keep still, they're usually in some dingy corner where there's never any sun, and even if you do get a co-operative bird in good light, the sun has to be in just the right direction. And then you end up spazzing up the metering - just look at those blown out whites.
A Lapwing and a few Teal were also close enough for a few shots.
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