ohhhhhh. the Silver Brumby. novel by Elyne Mitchell.
He's the front cover model!!!!!!!!!!

OHHH I just loved those books when I was young, I read them over and over again The funny thing is that I've never really liked the grey horse colour (Love rich chestnuts) but have ended up with a white mare with silver mane and tail and my grey boy

I had a thing for Black horses. I rode my black hunter up the asile when I was married (under a tree), and had a succession of black horses for many many years.

You are just going to have to scrap that silver brumby now!!!


t

Wow Tiff riding up the aisle would have been awesome. My DH is not a horse lover and if I had rode up the aisle he probably would have ran away
Will definately scrap the picture

I have enjoyed looking at everyone's great shots!

Well I just had a lot of fun using my camera on manual and playing with the settings, to see what terrible results I could get! While leaning out the window I even managed to knock some of my scrap stuff out of the window and onto the ground oops...which made the dog next door start yapping..

Outside my window there is plastic attached to the chimney next door and it is blowing like crazy in the wind, so I wanted to freeze that movement; I also changed the colour for a surreal effect.

The tree in the background was also blowing around at the time and I think it has been frozen still in the photo.

ISO 1600, SHUTTER SPEED 1/1250 (the highest my camera will go) and f8 (the smallest aperture I can get on my camera).

Ceelicious. looks like father christmas got his red coat caught on the brickwork lol

***Tip 1*** for CANON DSLR uses, change your focus mode on your camera to on AIServo.

A=Artificial I=Intelligence
look in your manual for it.

while you have the shutter button half pressed, the camera auto focuses for you on moving objects. Imagine a child/horse/dog/sheep running to you and the closing distance between you and the subject is diminishing. Inside of refocusing every time you press your shutter, the camera does the focussing for you.

Nikon - I need help with this one.... anyone??


***Tip 2*** put your camera on multi-shot or motor drive. (again look in your manual). If you hold down the shutter button, the camera keeps on shooting shots until you release the button. Start just before the action and continue to just after the movement is finished. You greatly increase your chance of capturing something rewarding in one of the shots.

***Tip 3Delete the rest. Keep only the best.*** Otherwise you just clutter up your camera/computer with junk.

go get em guys!!!

tiff

Danni those black & white shots are beautiful!

I think for Nikon (well a D60 anyway) you are looking for AF-C continuous. Can't check ATM as bub is feeding.

Loving the pics girls.

This was taken a little while ago. Took me a few shots and a lot of blowing to get THE shot.



Manual setting. Hand held. no flash. on my tummy and elbows.
ISO 400.
f9 (arpeture)
1/640th (shutter)


was worth the green knees on my jeans.
tiff

Managed to grab this one... but its not crispy clear... bit hard when using my '2nd' camera cos my slr is being fixed. Saw the bird in the bath - thought by the time I grabbed the camera and turned it on and got focussed ( ) it would be gone.... but it was there for a micro second longer.... and this is the result (photographing through a window pane doesnt help either

It was flipping its wings backward to splash the water over its back...so cute!

LOL Tiff.. I have NO idea what the setting was cos there was no time to think!

not quite the clear pic either (this was just my little finepix point and shoot just over a week ago)
Hannah jumping over a row of iris', see the lighthouse in the background... my great great grandfather was the keeper - 1890-1895 so its more more of an emotional historical photo in a lot of ways too... with his great great great granddaughter skipping around the flower fields in the foreground. There's a massive big cliff drop on the other side of the lighthouse.
The sea is Bass Strait.
(ugh just realised typing this.... my horizon isnt straight (no pun intended!)

Great photos, Mandy. The bird one is just the cutest and WOW how about the history there with the lighthouse.....amazing. I've had a couple of birdies doing some tricks for me today but by the time I get my camera and think about what settings I need to use.....bye bye birdie. It is so dull and overcast today so not very inspiring either.

amazing as usual Tiff

they are great Mandy and nice you know the history of the ligthouse as well