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The longer the focal length of a lens, the narrower the depth of field (that's the part of the image that's in focus). Telephoto lenses have really narrow depth of field - you can see that in the robin picture. The eyes and the beak are in focus but the tail and wingtips are blurred. Robins are...

The problems of animals (or people...) moving can be massively reduced by taking loads of shots. In the days of film that was ludicrously expensive, and only really practical for professional photographers. With digital, one picture costs the same as a hundred. I took twelve shots of the robin...

And since this is all about MG EVs, I took this shot from the driving seat of my MG5 just before setting off for home. You can see the top of the door mirror...

The light in Glen Torridon yesterday was excellent. Turning round and looking in the opposite direction to Liathac (the picture above), it was like this:-

Meanwhile, in the Highlands of Scotland...

Well, the New York Times has printed the original, headed notepaper and her signature, and it's unlikely they would've done so if they weren't sure of it. The problem is that you need an account to access their website. But it's also here, all 3 pages of it. Click here.

Pam Bondi (current US Attorney General and Trump loyalist) has today written to the Governor of Minnesota, Tim Walz, saying that ICE will be withdrawn from the state. But only in exchange for the state handing over all of its voter rolls - names, addresses, political affiliations, etc. - as well...

"Had to Google that one, very home spun humour T1 Terry" ************************************************************************ Perhaps this would explain it more clearly to those folk outside GB...

The internet must be down in Moscow.

Any comment on this yet from Nigel Quisling?

So, to get back to the original question of whether we're seeing an empire collapse in real time. Let's consider the evidence. These are Trump's achievements:- Cover up of his involvement in notorious sex trafficking ring Unprecedented corruption, self enrichment Tariffs - an historic...

No, they sent him home because it wasn't safe to leave him around so many kids.

Nonsense. No country can outclass the USA when it comes to gun care and health control.

I think it's been tough, but we're over the worst of it here. Now it's just a case of waiting out the meltwater flooding before the midges arrive...

Loch Droma, in the middle distance here, is a mile long. It's been frozen for a while, then snowed on, then refrozen. The post, by the way, is just a temporary marker; once the snow's melted, a permanent gravestone will be erected....

Final trip of the year out into The Great Wilderness yesterday. Sunny but cold - passing Loch Glascarnoch the car recorded -8°C (outside!). HYN to all...

Thanks. The first million photographs were the hardest...

Er, no - an Olympus digital SLR.

Loch Insh yesterday...