Peeter, I too send some messages to the list that got lost. I even got booted off the list but that's understandable. Just wanted to say I really enjoyed your shot. The mood and atmosphere is fantastic. Its one of those shots that really sucks me into it.
Greg
Thanks, Greg!
To have a large dog growing means constant (Jesuitical) compulsory going to the nature, no excuses, several km a day.
When there was still snow & ice, I (after several dumped years) went skiing again. The dog was really surprised how come I could get on so damned quickly.
And I was surprised again how I did not need any roads and how the numerous seas and bays around here transformed into the widest speedways for me.
I'm afraid the dog thinks now that all this surrounds belongs to us ;o)
Digital is a blessing for such everyday trips. I usually ended with the card full of images every day even if there was seemingly no weather. There were some keepers every day! Trying to vary the daily trips I came to motifs in the places I even didn't expect any more.
Now there's waterfowl migration time beginning and I cannot let the dog run around so freely, also I carry binoculars with me.
To live on the border of a nature reserve you have to run as a day-job may give opportunities, but also may make you blunt.
We have marvellous species-rich wooded meadows, like natural parks -- beautiful landscape, plenty of orchids, rare species -- but too often I find myself planning subconsciously where to cut some trees, where to cut the bush, what to do with the fireplaces and how to find people interested in contracts and carrying away the hay. You get really blunt. You even keep to forget, that in the spring you cannot sleep much as the locally nesting cranes and bitterns will wake you up rather early and taht from the small window of your lavatory you may occasionally see a white-tail sea-eagle gliding.
Regards,
Peeter
PS: But I really plan to change the op-system from M$ to something like Debian.
