Seagulls on the River Esk

I recently and lavishly spent a veritable fortune on a piece of very expensive and extreme piece of photographic technology. The sequence of events went like this: I received news of my yearly bonus! I went online and within ten minutes I was the proud owner (not yet delivered) of a Casio Exelim 40fps, 20 X Zoom, etc, ect, bla, bla and I must admit now that it is is superb. It does everything except whistle up the prints themselves.

The point of this story though is that I am rather proud of my seagull snaps as shown below. I went out one fine yet cold day with my mother and my son. We walked from her house to the banks of the River Esk and we fed the seagulls (the swans were sulking on the other side whilst the ducks couldn’t get a quack in edgewise) some three week old welsh scones. And I was rather proud of the snaps that I took.

Funny thing is though that I couldn’t even get my recently purchased camera out the case. It snagged on a removable section inside and once I managed to get it out and up I found out that the batteries were flat.

So I took the photographs with my mobile phone!

I’m very proud of them and it just goes to show that good pictures are not necessarily the result of what money can by but more to do with that darn good old fashioned photographic spirit and a wee bit of thought to light!