I thought I would post this photo to wish all of my contacts a very merry christmas!

This is my baby son Michael sitting with a christmas hat on in front of the xmas tree. I decided to make a selective colour shot to make the hat stand out and added a vignette to emphasise him as the main subject. This was shot wide open with the Canon 'thrifty fifty' 50mm f/1.8 lens - probably Canon's cheapest lens but the quality is very good. I would recommend this lens for all Canon DSLR owners - now theres a christmas gift idea for people!

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This is the Queens View between Royal Deeside and Strathdon in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. The view looks towards the Grampian mountains and Lochnagar. This was taken with my new Canon 17-55mm f/2.8 IS lens in raw - I then created two exposures and blended them together in Photoshop to give a type of HDR

Click here to see the zoomed out version of this landscape.

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This is part of a series of photos I will be adding over the next few days. These gulls came and flocked beside us as we were having a picnic. They must have been after our leftovers!
This is another shot with my new Sigma 100-300mm f/4 lens. This is also my first photo that I have added a border to, any comments on this are very welcome!

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This has to be the scariest fish out there! It has a long spine out of the front of it which glows mildly to attract its prey. The angler sits in the dark and literally fishes for food, then goes into snap it up. Unfortunately the tank was circular so it was impossible to get a shot without any reflections but this was the best one ( you can see the rainbow-type reflection on the right hand side ).

This beast of a fish has made it to the flicker explore page :o) Got ranked 10 at its highest. Thanks to everyone who commented!

Over 10,000 views!! I would never have thought I would reach this for a photo :o) Thanks again everyone!

I recently went back and got another photo of this in black and white.

After visiting another aquarium I got this shot of a shark in a similar pose!

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Another test with my new camera at the Washington Wetlands. I love the colour of the bullfinch.

This little guy reached #8 in Explore - thanks to all who have commented/faved :o)

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