Cupid Stunt

Nuthatch - Sitta europaea

What you lookin' at?

Robin - Erithacus rubecula

Blue Tit - Cyanistes caeruleus

Male House Sparrow - Passer domesticus

Dunnock - Prunella modularis

Common Buzzard - Buteo buteo

Wally the Walrus whilst he was killing a few weeks in Tenby

Like fuck are they getting any of my pictures for the price of a calendar and fucking T-Shirt, they're worth far more than that as are most good shots from anyone Hate these cheap ass competitions they're designed so the publishers get to pay fuck all for top quality images, being publishers they know better, they know what effort it takes to get good shots WANKERS That's my rant over

I very rarely go for the latest kit nowadays Pete, I wait anxiously for it to come out so the previous version drops like a brick in price Who on Earth needs 5.3k?, it's very rare that anyone watches videos in anything above HD and often just 720p as their watching on a phone/tablet For the latest kit you'll always pay what it's worth plus a premium for joining all the mugs who queue up waiting for it to come out

Thanks A Parrot Anafi

Racist Welsh bastards Can't believe they used to keep black people down the mines

You can add your own thoughts below Here's one that jumped into my head..... Do transgender folk cry whilst having a wank with a dick they wish they didn't have?

Llwyn On

James wasn't there, he was at the magazine at that time though I took James out for Supermoto magazine when he got hold of a BMW Megamoto before they were launched, took them up over the blacks, around Llyn Brianne, Devils staircase, up to Elan Valley, then back down via Devil's Bridge, Tregaron and the Sennybridge ranges, 180 miles of supermoto terrain

One of my oldest trail videos, this is the rat run from Resolven through to the playground, apologies for the crap quality, this was long before the days of HD helmet cams and was recorded on a camcorder, recorded by Mark and edited by me

Here's a blast from the past January 2010 out testing the latest mid range thumpers for Trail Bike Magazine for their suitability as all rounders My bike is the black, red and white Sherco 4.5i

I've had two VFRs, only thing faster off the line was my V-Max but that didn't stop and didn't go round bends, that's a whole nother story

Stealth Scoot

Well it was resurrect or stay in the grave Tym, can't let an icon die just because of emissions, looks OK to me, not sure how they managed to add 24lbs though thought they'd have made it lighter not heavier

Porthcawl storm

Moon

The Great Nebula in Orion and Running Man Nebula, very common targets

In this case I want pin sharp stars so used a more complicated method than is required All you need is any DSLR and a wide angle lens such as a Samyang 12mm f/2.8/Tokina 11-16mm etc a fast aperture is preferable as you need to gather as much light as you can in a fairly short period, the focal length determines the maximum exposure time you can get without having visible trailing stars, the 500 rule is most commonly used and that is that you divide 500 by the focal length of the lens (assuming it's a full frame camera) that will give the max duration the shutter should be open So for example on a Sony A7RII full frame camera with a 20mm lens the longest shutter speed would be 25 seconds, if you're using a crop sensor camera (APS-C/DX or Micro 4/3rds) you need to calculate the equivalent focal length first, i.e. a 20mm lens on an APS-C camera is actually 30mm equivalent as APS-C has a 1.5x crop factor, Micro 4/3rds has a 2x crop factor An ISO of 3200 is usually best but you can adjust this according to light gathering requirements, higher levels will introduce more noise and generally speaking smaller sensors are noisier than larger one's If noise is a major issue then you cane take multiple high ISO exposures and stack them in post production using a median blend mode (as the noise is random it will be smoothed out but leaving constants like the stars intact) But back to this shot It was taken with my Fujifilm X-T2 mounted on a Skywatcher Star Adventurer (star tracker) one 2 minute exposure for the stars and another of 8 minutes (with long exposure noise reduction switched on in camera) for the foreground, the two then composited together Typical settings for an APS-C camera would be ISO-3200, 25 sec, f/2.8 with a 12mm lens for a single shot