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Took this the other evening of the full moon

Taken this morning looking towards Stansted Airport. The rising sun catches the vapour trails.

I'm a very beginner watercolour painter and would love to have a go at this picture. Would that be OK?

Forgive me if I'm teaching you to suck eggs, but most flowers, particularly light coloured ones benefit from being photographed out of full sunshine. The sun tends to over blow the colour and bleach out the detail. Here's a picture of a similar white flower taken on a dull wet day.

Two of my favourite hobbies in the sunshine. :)

Because the moon moves, you should use a fast shutter speed. Here is a rule of thumb "With a 300mm zoom you will need a shutter speed of at least 1/350 for a clear image."

Thanks Shingle - makes the rest of us look quite amateurish:). Some people recommend putting pictures on those open access sites. Are the chances of getting a buyer pretty slim?

Out of interest, where do you display your photos for sale, or are you professional?

Cant remember which London station this is?

Love this composition. Some interest artefacts like the dark 'halo' around the birds head and the light area under its body - did you Photoshop it a little?

New puppy

Mystery girl on ferry

I have the D5100 and most of my pictures on here were taken with it. It's a great camera even with the off-the-shelf lens. If you have more money you should spend it on lenses.

Beach huts at Bournemouth. aka first team changing rooms.

End of the pier at Bournemouth (spit). Its one end of a zip wire to the shore.

Nicely lit. By the look in her eyes she obviously has a thing going on with the photographer :)

Street musicians in Saffron Walden

There's lots of good articles on Google about photographing the moon. The main challenges are that its very bright which bleaches out the definition and also its a moving target. To get mine I used a tripod and eliminated all vibration by using remote shutter trigger and starting with the...