Amazing set 
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Fabulous photos! 
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Oh, Wow! They are truly stunning photographs!
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Hoping to come close to Barrie (Bettabuilda) with his garden lights - think I might still have some way to go…
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Just a thought if you intend to do a lot of long lens action photography, Some systems do an external “dot sight” that clips into the hot-shoe (a bit like a small reflector sight that BoB planes had), they’re generally easy to set-up and then all you do is keep the dot on the subject to make sure it’s in frame, no looking at screens or through viewfinders.
Do you not think that a lot of it comes down to the person taking the photo, knowing what they are doing? My shot was just lucky that the light was right from where I was standing, it was just taken to show my sister in law who had gone home what she was missing and that’s how a lot of my “good” pictures come about, s**t luck. I’m sure a lot of people still prefer a good 35mm SLR over a digital camera any day.
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Yes I do! I was always aware that a good “photographer” could take a better a much better picture (light, composition, positioning etc.) with a single lens, basic camera than someone who has just about every piece of kit, but not a clue how to “see” things. I read somewhere recently that a tutor on a photography course said that one of the best ways to get people to “look” and “see” a picture was to make them use an old manual, 35mm film SLR with only it’s 50mm standard lens. I still have mine!
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Additionally I would say that I much prefer it’s simplicity, you decided what and how to take the picture. Now with these digital cameras with more programmes than your average laptop and as much computing power I find that I’m forever trying to find ways to over-ride what the camera want to do. I mean there is the ability to plug into the makers customer back-up website to update the software in the lenses and well as the camera bodies! But I am a world renown techno-phobe! I do like to have a viewfinder, as well as the screen because in some lighting condition the screen is useless.
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I tell you what, that path and the lighting looks fabulous! My own garden is tiny so easy enough to fill with stuff 
your garden looks massive in comparison!
Barrie
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We still have our Olympus OM10 with numerous lenses.
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Some truly wonderful and beautiful pics here…! I need to take my old Olympus SP565UZ digital camera and point in towards something other than my MX-5 sometimes…!
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Bingo! Mine’s an OM1 (1973) and OM2 (1977) with numerous lenses!
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Just sat chilling! Lovely warm afternoon up here in Yorkshire! Snapped the terrible twosome in action whilst enjoying a pint from the bar. Perhaps more than one?
Barrie
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Now, was explaining to Mrs B, that not every thread/topic or discussion on here is about mx5’s and she thought that was really nice? Bringing folk together on different subjects, makes (IMO) this club a great place to be 
Almost ready for a refill now from the bar! 
Barrie
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It’s amazing who you bump into these days when out for a cycle! Spotted this afternoon not far from Norham in Northumberland.
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I agree, always think it’s nice to have the opportunity for ‘off topic’ threads
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Is that where Tintin lives now?