Miscellaneous bits and pieces snapped around Chichester; the latter half while I was playing around with my "new" camera, taking pics of the wildlife in Priory Park.

Wanting to try out my new camera properly, I volunteered to travel from the south coast of England up to Dumfries in Scotland - a round trip of around 16 hours - just to install one computer. So, the plan was two days of travelling, an hour or so of installing, and the best part of a day photographing. However, as the server ended up taking from 10am to about 4:30pm due to network problems, the following were taken during an extended lunch break while I was trying to figure out what the hell was going wrong...

As the new camera has not only a 10x optical zoom (the same as a good pair of binoculars, and better than my 8x25 binoculars I carry in my backpack) but also lots of new settings for taking landscapes, portraits, action shots, night shots etc., it might look like there are a number of near-duplicate pictures as I play around with the settings. There are also a lot of photographs of birds on a river...

An RSPB local group Autumn Fair kind of thing

A trip to one of our favourite nature reserves

Another family trip to Newark to do the trip down the river we didn't get time for the first time we went!

Various pics taken of the peregrines nesting on Chichester Cathedral. The ones at the bottom are very poor, taken with a 3x zoom camera for identification purposes (okay, okay, to bait my Dad with). The others are only slightly less poor, taken with a 10x zoom.

Having tried digiscoping in my previous trip to the inlet, I thought I'd give it another shot - not great, but interesting to play around with.   I also took a few snaps of the flora of the area.

A short sequence of images from the beach at Pagham Harbour.

Visit to some lovely gardens near Haywards Heath

Family trip to Newark