Looks like the Robins are having their second brood in our neighbour’s garden this year. Because the Robin has been fetching a lot of food from our backyard back to his nest once again. The Robin is really not shy. Yesterday it landed on my foot while looking for food! We haven’t named this Robin [...]

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my photo that is included in the Schmap, but this time in their Vienna Edition (previously the Seville Edition). To their credit, they have certainly worked out a very good business model, and a win-win situation for photographers and themselves. On their wesbite, you can see that they do a very good job in acknowledging [...]

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I was told that a photo I uploaded onto Flickr is selected for inclusion in a Seville travel guide called “Schmap”. Initially I was ecstatic thinking that I’ve really taken a good shot, and that I’m being recognised as a decent photographer. But a closer look at their website tells me that they are not [...]

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Originally uploaded by arctanck

Photos taken during our trip to Switzerland are now available here on Flickr. I’ve finally taken the leapt to upgrade my Flickr account to Flickr Pro, as unknowingly I now have more than 200 photos (a limit I wasn’t aware of) on Flickr and I have to [...]

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Fieldfare

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We had a much closer look at Fiedlfare than the last, even though we were without a telescope this time. So far we have had quite good fortune birding around Thames Valley Park (we can’t believe the last time we were there [...]

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