The Pet Corner

[Stillhomewardbound]

Ok, no here's another start-up image for the latest compartment in the Photo Booth ... Pet Corner. Does entirely what it says on the tin. So, pets, strays, wildebeast, jaguars, cougars, moggies or woody woodpeckers ... You've come to right place.

Now, speaking of woodpeckers ...


"Mum was always dropping hints about my real dad being a woodpecker. [TAP TAP TAP]. Well, I was having none of it. [TAP TAP TAP]. I mean, look at me? [TAP TAP TAP] Do, I look anything like a woodpecker??!! [TAP TAP TAP]. Oh, I ain't 'alf got an 'eadache!"





* Taken just yesterday evening (23/09/2013).

[mercia]

* Taken just yesterday evening (23/09/2013).

fantastic pic (you must be used to people saying that)

but what sort of woodpecker ? - not a colour I recognise. are you in the UK ?

[Richard Tarleton]

fantastic pic (you must be used to people saying that)

but what sort of woodpecker ? - not a colour I recognise. are you in the UK ?

shb's little joke - it's a lesser black backed gull, behaving for all the world like a woodpecker....looks as if it might be attacking the guttering on steve's house - great pic

[BBMmk2]

I must load up some photos of our cat(if I only knew how?

[mercia]

shb's little joke - it's a lesser black backed gull, behaving for all the world like a woodpecker

<doh> I obviously ain't no ornithologist

[Richard Tarleton]

I must load up some photos of our cat(if I only knew how?

Can you take pics with a digital camera or phone, bbm? then once they're loaded onto your computer, just a question of uploading them to imgur or similar - this an ancient message from Cali, I think....

imgur for example generates a complete code - just copy it as is into the message box here and Hey Presto!


you have to create a link by uploading the pic from your hard-drive to a hosting site.

The easiest I know is this: http://imgur.com/

You have to register with an email address. Once done, you click the "From your computer" button.... find the image on your system... click on it and it will upload

Once you see the image on the imgur page, click on it and it will enlarge from the thumbnail. You will see a series of codes, bottom left will be "BBCode (message boards)" - copy that code, paste it into the box here on FOR3.

If you then click 'preview' message in the 'advanced' screen, you should see your image in place of the link.

[Stillhomewardbound]

fantastic pic (you must be used to people saying that)

Alas, there are too many good photographers out there for one to become blase, but thanks very much all the same; and thanks to Richard Tarleton for the twitcher's input. I wouldn't have had a clue.

The picture's a bit of a cheat as actually being a horizontal shot put on its side.

This chap, or chappess, I caught on top of one of the nice arches that can be found atop Southwark Bridge.

[Nick Armstrong]

It struck me that this post ought to be copied here now:

Forumites will recall HS's glad tidings about

my daughter, who is a professional artist, has just been announced as the prizewinner in the annual BBC Wildlife Artist of the Year competition. www.animalspiritart.co.uk
HS

He has asked me to post these two pictures testifying to the talented artist's very early close association with the animal kingdom! (In an interview for the BBC Wildlife magazine, she stated "I developed my love of animals at a very early age")

First, aged 2 months! having a snooze on HS's Pyrenean Mountain dog Susan in 1961:




("Taken with a rough old 127 Perma Special camera, cleaned up by a friend")



Second, aged 10 months with one of Susan's pups, Isolde:




Look at Isolde's face

As HS comments: "a touching reminder that the largest dogs are very often the most gentle"

[BBMmk2]

What a lovely picture!

[Richard Tarleton]

Alas, there are too many good photographers out there for one to become blase, but thanks very much all the same; and thanks to Richard Tarleton for the twitcher's input. I wouldn't have had a clue.

In this pic the mantle (back) looks a bit blacker than in the other pic. It may be down to the light. Very dark greyish black back and yellow legs - Lesser black backed gull. Black back and pink legs - Greater black backed gull. Lesser b-b- is the same size as a herring gull, Greater b-b distinctly larger. The red spot on the bill is the spot the nestlings are programmed to tap to encourage the parent to regurgitate food. This has been demonstrated by animal behaviourists by showing nestlings a card with a red spot on it - they peck at it.

[Stillhomewardbound]

This is an education, to say the list. Red spots and mandibles (??). Information gratefully received!

When I am home later I'll look at the two pictures side by side and see if I adjusted the exposure. Probably not. I shoot in what is called the RAW format. That is to say, rather than have the camera's automatic processes render the picture, I process and convert the shots to my own recipe and individually rather than by batch process. Hence, there may be some variations in the final product.

[EdgeleyRob]

2 new additions to the ER household.
Both chocolate Labradors,5 year old Alfie on the left and 9 year old Meg on the right.
From the Labrador rescue centre in Lancashire.

[amateur51]

Glossy doggies, ER

I hope everyone will be very happy together. Are Alfie and Meg related?

[Nick Armstrong]

Wonderful, Rob! Happy, healthy long lives and walks to all concerned!

[Anna]

That's wonderful news Rob! And explains why you've taken the week off work - to settle them in? They look very content in the photo