Recent content by dan_yell

Done!! Thank you @Box Brownie @Gav. @ancient_mariner for prompting me to engage my brain re the fact that it's a circular so I was doing it all wrong. Elastic band and effort and we're free. What a wally. And phew!

Yes it's a circular PL - I've never had this issue before so it's very annoying! But there may be some egg sucking on the logistics re: the turning that my brain has not computed!!

All the advice online is about filters being jammed on lens and not moving. This filter is turning but not screwing off - anyone have any tips?! Don't recall anything drastic happening that could have damaged the filter and warped it.

I reprinted a couple of the least liked photos from snappy snaps using photobox (I realise this is also not the optimity of quality) and they look better - the snappy prints are darker and to me looks like a colour photocopy because the darkness muddies the print. But the squishedness I noticed...

When i worked in a couple of high street developers back in the early/mid 2000s, and then in a photography job around 2007-2012, the labs we had were printing from digital using wet labs/chemicals - the last machine in the high street job i used processed the film and printed the photos, and had...

It's been a good few years since I got photos printed and it seems in that time that most of the usual suspects have moved into dry labs and away from traditional wet printing. I'm aware that quality of dry labs has improved hence the switch but visually I am just not that keen. Does anyone...

Plants taking over the architecture outside a government building in Sofia, Bulgaria on my visit last March. Taken on out of date agfa film on Canon A1. Thought it gave off vibes of something from a horror film..... Didn't edit what came back from the developing/scanning.

Dammit. Get rich scheme foiled. :p thanks for your input all

But always the same colour? Maybe they like just one sort of plant Seeing a super rare bird in the garden seems super unlikely but I also just don't sit with the pollen thing - I really thought I'd find more about it online

Maybe I'll send photo to them and charge for access to my garden :)

i think its just so similar to the photo on that link that i struggle with the pollen theory. i wish it had come back so i could try and take a better photo as i wasn't really looking at what i was doing.

it looks just like a sparrow, but with an orange head! the pollen theory, to me, it's seemed too uniform to be the result of that. this is one of the few photos/references I found and to me it looks just like this orange crested sparrow - but it seems it shouldn't be there really. Tourist...

Hmm, it doesnt look like either of those when i compare. this head is def orange, those are both more red. unless there are seasonal variation to the colour? it was amongst all normal (well to my eye) sparrows, and didn't see it again! (this was in reference to the Sky's reply)

I took this as a test shot back in June when there was a fox visiting the garden often and this sparrow has an orange head and I've never seen that before. I googled it and found very little information really - one web page saying its a orange crested sparrow and they're not normally found...

I'd forgotten about all this. Truth be told my film photography is all a bit experimental and blaggy and I'm using waaaay out of date stock anyway so I think I'll try to put it on my list of things not to think about. Just carrying a digital SLR bag seemed to get me a delay at Stansted last...