Monday, June 19, 2006

WOLFGANG

Don't know what happened, but the caption for this photo is further down the page.

PEACOCK

I took this photo in the grounds of Castle Howard. And he was the most un co-operative peacock. I followed him around begging him to open his tail, only to be rewarded with a quick flash, but too quick to focus my camera. It was just as I was giving up and walking away that he ran after me and opened up his tail for three seconds.

Sunday, June 18, 2006

SWANLINGS

This looks like a nice easy photo. It isn't. I had to take about thirty photos just to get this one shot, and I had to wait ages and ages. The little swanlings! just wouldn't co-operate.

St.Wolfgang

We spent a week on the shores of Wolfgangsee, a calm lake surrounded by snow topped mountains. While Britain was having a heatwave, we were walking in boots, and coats and carrying umbrellas. But if the weather was hot, we wouldn't have been able to walk all the miles round the lake and up the mountains.