Female Stonechat taken with just a few minutes of daylight remaining.

Just a reminder to check my new feature……. "Charlie Fleming's  Photo of the Day" …. please click on the link to visit, bookmark and check there daily, I am selecting my best pictures from my Galleries of 6000 species from all 5 continents.

I am between cameras at the moment having "written-off" my Pentax K511s the other day when the tripod fell over. I had used the camera daily for a year so I suppose that I did get some use out of it and  in fact, it has cost me less than £15 a week, not too bad I don't suppose, but it was desperately disappointing to smash it like that. However, there is always a silver lining and I have ordered the newly released  K3 camera from Pentax  which is their new "flagship".  The K3 has many new advances, the mega-pixels have been almost doubled,  it has an improved sensor as well as shooting at  8.5 frames a second. I have seen comparative images of the K5, Canon 50D and Nikon. In image quality, the Pentax out performs them all so again, I will be able to improve my photography which for me, is what it's all about.  One of the fantastic new features of the camera is the use of a wifi enabled SD Flu-card.  In short this 16gb card not only stores the images as a normal card but once connected wirelessly to your iPad you can then see the images in real time on your iPad.  Even more amazingly, you can view what the camera is seeing but on your iPad and then adjust settings, focus and finally take the shot from the iPad remotely from the camera. This is going to be a fantastic feature and I can't wait to use it. 

But now there is a disappointment. I am waiting for Parcel Force to deliver the camera but have just found out that in stead of sending the parcel to the South West for distribution, the good people at Parcel Force has sent it to the North West, surely everyone knows Exeter is in the South West ?  So having wasted the best part of the day sat in waiting, it still won't get here until Monday now.  Of course, I will have to sit in and wait yet again on Monday.  A simple mistake on their part of course but pathetic service really and probably explains why they are struggling to survive as a carrier. So I can't recommend Parcel Force to you at all!!!