why is it

When you go out for a walk you see wonderful opportunities, That normally don't appear when you are carrying your camera.
This evening, a yellowhammer singing for me personally. out on a branch. totally oblivious to my presence .
I have never seen one before..beautiful bird.

i am going to go back out next time and make sure i have my camera.

is this only me or does this happen to everyone else too.

I am off to cornwall next week, does anyone know of any great places to photograph birds in this area. stopping near falmouth, i dont know if there are any puffins or gannets in that area ???




Mark

Hi Mark,

You are not alone!! Happens to me all the time, or even worse is what I have been waiting for appears when I have given up and put my kit in the bag!

Regard

Rob

Mark, I have a few yellowhammers visiting my garden for the first time. They sit on on open perch only a few yards from my window, but only apparently when it's gloomy and windy! I don't have a decent shot yet despite seeing them most days. Also, they delight in appearing 10 minutes before I have to leave for work! If they appear in the evening, they are silhouetted.

You are not alone Mark - three times today I've dumped my kit and gone spying for Dragons armed with nothing but a ski-pole to stop this crock of rubbish body from falling over only to walk smack bang into an adder - 3 bloomin' times, you think I'd learn wouldn't you!

We could start a whole new photographic society

Its the photographers version of the one that got away!
Rather than
"It was THIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIS big!"

Its more like
"It was sat soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo close!

I have for a few years tried to get a decent image of a Bullfinch. A couple of days ago I had my camera with me and had just put it into the car on passenger side and was walking around to drivers side and beautiful male bullfinch landed on fence post four yards from me. I froze and slowly made my way back and as I open door it b---ers off. So mark you are not alone!!

I think we can all relate to that Mark. I had just taken a grab shot of a flying swan, locked the camera on the tripod, picked it up over my shoulder, turned to walk along the path when a small log lying in the reeds on pool opposite suddenly hissed at me and turned out to be an otter not 15ft from me! Needless to say as soon as I made the slightest move to put the tripod and camera down the otter submerged and despite my desperate attempt to get my gear up and running the otter never surfaced within sight again. I spent a good ten minutes following its progress around the pond by watching the 'chain' of bubbles but it only ever surfaced under bankside cover out of sight.
Oh the joys of wildlife photography.

Glad to see Murphy's Law still applies equally well to photography - and not just to me either! .