Snapping

SWT, as I've said before, is an interesting example of a certain type of a modern institution. My impression is that their managers get into work in the morning and sit down at a desk trying to work out how they can justify their own existence and push the 'image' of the outfit as a whole. It's now common knowledge that I in common with other regular users of Blacka think they should actually be out every day on Blacka rather than stuck in their HQ seven miles away. We find out what they've been dreaming up when a laminated A4 notice is stapled to a post in the car park.

The latest thing is an 'event', scheduled for today, in which people with cameras can learn from an expert photographer some tips on how to take better pictures. They may be very lucky today as five deer were on Blacka Hill, the first day for months that so many have been seen by me. One young stag was present (not in picture). These were hinds or calves, the one on the right almost certainly the one seen ealier and born this year on Blacka.

One or two very kind people have been generous enough to say some of my own pictures were not bad considering they were taken by a half blind senile incompetent who had yet to read the camera's instruction manual. So I'll mention some tips of my own:

1 Use a digital camera. It does everything for you.

2 Spend about 50 years just looking at things before buying a camera. An 'educated eye' helps.

3 Choose one subject and get to know it well in all conditions and seasons and at different times of day especially those times when other people are not around.

4 Break all the rules and see what happens.