TAKE FIFTY (!)

Gosh.  Fifty days of photographic frippery!!  A BIG thank you to all visitors and especially to my already loyal followers.  It's early days yet, but things are going along nicely and I do hope you are finding things to like.

I am breaking the trend of keeping minimum words for this occasion as I have decided to make a new theme for the mid-week blog and wish to tell you about it.

Welcome to WINGS ON WEDNESDAYS!

Birds of course are critters too, but as a lifelong 'twitcher'/'birder'/amateur ornothologist/Wild YAM (no I'm no amateur at that last bit!) as well as a keen amateur photographer/piccie hound/YAMarazzi, I feel the need to give them a page all of their own.  Here in Mumbai there are the ubiquitous crows, koels and Black Kites as well as a variety of colourful and tuneful lovelies.  

Photographing them is proving to be challenging/frustrating/downright agitating/immensely rewarding.  ...You'll gather, by this multiple choice reporting style, there will be a lot of take your pick/leave it alone/sniggering going on for this particular post day!

You are going to find some wacky/wonderful/wow as well as just plain ridiculous.  It is important for me to let you see my process though.  This is a real and tiring project.  Any photographer with integrity knows that for every fantastic shot, 99 horrible ones came first.  The digital age has simply made this a whole lot easier and a good deal less expensive.  To start things off, though, let me use something reasonably worthwhile and rather uplifting.

...wait for it!....

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Taken with the 'Nik' on sports auto mode.  Still not quick enough...  Yes, there's going to be lots of sky.  K