1 post tagged “birds”

Ouch, it's been ages since I last posted anything. It's not even that I haven't had anything to write about - it's probably more like that I have done more things that equate to "having a life", I went to Norfolk for a long weekend which was brilliant, and work has been insanely busy, so I have been too lazy to write blog postings. But now I'm back because the novelty of "having a life" has worn off (I'm not actually that sad, honest :-) and I have to have an outlet for my new hobby: my brand new camera.

Yes, I have taken the big step, raided my savings account and finally upgraded my camera to something a little more modern (although my old camera was only 4-5 years old, that would make it an antique in digital camera terms, and I've been looking with envy at what everyone else's cameras were able to do for quite a while). So I bought a brand new camera this week. Since the two things that most annoyed me about my old camera were the frustrating (lack of) zoom and (equally lack of) wideangle lens, I went all the way and bought one of those super-super-zoom hybrid cameras: the Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ18.

It is absolutely brilliant actually. On my daily walk through Hampstead Heath (I walk 5 miles to work everyday now, very healthy - and relaxing) I tried to take pictures of the local wildlife before, but what you could see was usually *random landscape* with black dot in the middle where you tried to zoom in on some animal. This time you actually could see the animal in the picture. A novelty! I was 20 mins late for work and got mistaken for a birdwatcher, but hey.

Anyway, here are some of the photos. I actually feel quite lucky that I get to walk past all this on the way to work everyday, despite living in the Big Smoke!