Garth Peacock
First trip of the New Year

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Friday 4th October - North Norfolk

Monday 7th October 2024

Tanzania Day 8 - The Serengeti

Saturday 5th October 2024

Two trips out with little to show.

Wednesday 25th September 2024

Tanzania Day 7 - The Serengeti

Monday 23rd September 2024

Abberton Reservoir - again

Thursday 19th September 2024

Abberton Essex

Wednesday 11th September 2024

A morning at Grafham Water

Thursday 29th August 2024

After holiday blues

Thursday 22nd August 2024

Trying out a new lens

Monday 5th August 2024

Tanzania Day 5 - Ngorogoro Crater

Saturday 27th July 2024

Kevin Robson's Tawny Owl hide

Thursday 25th July 2024

Local stuff

Saturday 20th July 2024

More local stuff

Saturday 29th June 2024

Catching up with a local rarity

Friday 14th June 2024

Tanzania - Day 1 - Arusha

Monday 13th May 2024

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Saturday 7th January 2023

It has been three weeks since my last blog which was of birds in my garden and nearly a month since my last trip out. Christmas away, New Year, plus a bout of the coughing virus that has affected loads of others but even yesteday, it was only a local trip for a couple of hours to my local reserve, Fen Drayton Lakes.

But before I get to that, an apology to anyone that has tried to contact me through this website. I have just found out that the 'Contact' page does not connect to my e-mails so I never receive them. To complicate matters, the website designer that set this up appears to have disappeared and I have no access to the progamming section, so, for the time being, please contact me direct at

Garth.peacock@btinternet.com

Now, back to business. As some of you know, later on last year, I changed my gear to the Canon R5 mirrorless camera and the Canon RF100-500 lens - easier portability - although I still have my trusty Canon 500 f4 lens. I also use this combo with a 1.4 converter but have not had great success with the 2x converter.

Having read up on the experience of others, with nothing of any real interest to photograph, I decided to try out the 2x converter on some rather distant Redwings at Fen Drayton Lakes, hand held and with the incamera 1.6 crop, effectively shooting at 1600mm and at F14. Here are a couple of the results.

Light was quite good.

I find these quite acceptable for posting on the web so I intend to try this again in suitable circumstances.