Photos by Galatas : on the map, in Google Earth (KML)

Theolfa , did you see my latest heron pics on page 2 of my gallery ?

Thankyou Nick

All the best to you and yours.

A lovely series ~ I like this one very much too ~ Ciao nick

I can tell you with certainty that the snow is making everyone here feel blue :)

Driving conditions have been horrendous.

No , I still haven't found a way to obtain consistent results. This latest batch was taken under cloudy conditions; snow was still falling as you can see in most of the shots. I set my camera to cloudy and although the results looked reasonable on the LCD screen , at home on the monitor I found I still needed to adjust white balance further. Even then I wasn't 100% satisfied with results. I found that boosting brightness helped somewhat even though I had exposed using +1 or +2 EV as is recommended. Under blue skies I find the correct white balance even more difficult to obtain even when taking a custom reading.

Reminder to self. Retake early one summer's morning when there are no vehicles parked ;)

Food must be getting hard to come by. This buzzard landed on a garden hedge to look for a meal.

You are very welcome!

Thankyou very much Joe. We don't get much snow in my part of the world either , so I try to make the best of it when we do have some.

Page 44