General Chat

I mostly use my camera phone to take number plate of cars closely parked next to mine, in case of damage from door opening and a swift exit while I am still shopping. Otherwise I forget I have it.

Foxy didn't appear last evening.

Lizx

I still prefer a phone for communicating and a camera for taking photos, but then my hobby has always been photography. My phone has an excellent camera but I tend to forget it has. :-D

The great advantage of mobile phones is that a camera is often just a few seconds away ... the quality of pictures from the likes of HTC One Sony Z3/4, Samsung S4 etc is fairly good and you can always photoshop the image. They are good enough that the market for "bridge" cameras has more or less collapsed.

Even the most basic smart phone has some picture taking ability as social networks make painfully obvious.

I still use an Olympus OM2n system but not for snapshots.

the other day going to Alconbury, in a rainstorm, afterward there were two complete rainbows.

by the time I was able to stop, all that was left was one small part

I did have my camera handy the other evening when our new visitor arrived, it's a lovely fox, and for the first time he/she stayed still, looking at me. I clicked the camera only to find the damned battery was no good. Charged it up and put out food last evening and wouldn't you know, no fox! Hope it is ok and not been run over. It had been turning up for about a week.

Lizx

On the odd occasion my cats look cute.

Oh - and a few times when walking through the New Forest.
I saw what looked like a leafy branch in a tree, right next to me. It moved - it was an owl :-(

Another time, walking across heathland, I saw, in the not too far a distance, a deer, framed by 2 trees that formed an arch. I took a picture, but wished I'd had a video camera. As we stood there, the deer moved off, only for another to perfectly frame itself in the arch.
We counted 12 deer - each one posed in the arch before moving off.

Another time, we came across over 100 deer in a clearing - I didn't have a camera. As we walked off into the woods, we came across a white deer too!!

Today!

Just before I turned into our drive, returning home in the car.

A magnificent buzzard sat on the top of the hedge, yards from me.

For once, I had decided to put my handbag containing my phone in the car boot…

I hear the buzzards screeching all day as I walk the fields during the summer, but rarely catch a close view.

Everytime I look out of my utility room window when doing the dishes and this robin appears. Stays ages but as soon as i get my camera..woosh and it's gone. Im sure it knows where im going as it looks at me as if to say"ha cant catch me!"

guarantee if i had my camera beside me, it wouldn't appear.

Florence
in the hebrides

No worries Ann, it escaped when I was spotted!

no way would I take a photograph of a little sparrow being killed :-(

Walking the dog the other afternoon, there was a tree with at least 50 Magpies sitting in it.

The noise!

Used my phone, but it was not as sharp as my camera.

When putting on the bathroom light in the early hours to see a beautiful Barn Owl perched on the window sill & it turning it's head round to see who had woken him/her up!
I was so close to it I could have touched it,with just the glass (not frosted) between us, not sure who was the most surprised,it sat looking at me for a few moments before moving on to the steading roof just across from the bathroom!

Joan.

When the sparrowhawk was looking in the window.

When we had an Albino Squirrel in the garden ,by the time I,d got the camera it had gone, not seen it since. :-(

….when a magnificent bird of prey had a little sparrow pinned flat on its back against the french doors

….me inches away standing behind the glass