I love my new camera!

I treated myself to a new camera recently and when the sun came out yesterday, I decided to try out the close-up setting in the garden. I'm delighted with the results! (All I've done with these four is to make them smaller and lower the highlights on the bear so he wasn't overexposed)

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One flower on our camelia bush.

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Tori, our Icelandic horse (she's a 1/9th scale, latex model)

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Our AAA African Elephant "Big Mistake", walking in the sun with Signy.

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Our AAA Polar Bear asking Nataraj where the snow has gone.

I think this camera was a good investment!

Sue
castlerigg

Beautiful photos! A good investment indeed!

Thanks for sharing. :)

-Kristie

:) :)

Spectacular photos, congratulations ,your new camera is very good.

Bear AAA ,Great photo ,seem real.

Thank you! It's a long time since I've had a camera which does so many different things - my compacts have been good, but this is like getting back my old film camera again. Lots to learn!

Sue
castlerigg

WOW!!!!!
CONGRATULATIONS with your fantastic camera

It takes fabulous photoes, - and it makes it even more wonderful that there are the right ones both behind the camera and in front of it

Ohhhh, your Camelia

And your Icey

And Signy...and Nataray, - what brand are they ?

Thankyou for the photoes, they are outstanding, lovely, full of sun and joy...and quality

Great photos!

It is always nice when a great camera finds a great photographer!
Pictures are so nice that I keep watching these AAA figures for a long time! Why is the elephant called Big Mistake?
Thanks sue for opening this topic with a Camelia, that's exactly the name of my 84 years old Aunt, my favourite Vintage human in the world.

Beautiful photos Sue! Congratulations for Your new camera! Also figures are wonderful, and very interesting, what brand are 2 human figures?

Thanks, everyone!

To answer Susanne, Ana and Roger ... Susanna and Ana first:

Most of the figures that we use in photostories on the Model Horse Forums are from two TV series, "Doctor Who" and "Primeval". They are 1/12th scale, beautifully jointed, able to sit, kneel, ride and turn their heads. And their hands turn at the wrists.

Signy is a "Primeval" figure,with hair repainted. Nataraj is a 1/9th scale figure from the "Heroes" TV series. He has no leg-joints but can tilt his head as well as turn it.

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1/12th scale. Nils and Roxanne, rescuing Sister Sobriety from an awkward situation.

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Some of our stable staff come from other series. Here is Koko, a very motherly monster, from Star Wars, assuring Harvey that the Dodo will not bite him. Harvey is afraid of rabbits, and horses ... and big, beaky birds!

Roger , we have three African Elephants, made from carved wood, Lineol composition, and AAA plastic.

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They are so different in style that none of them make a matching pair for our Ark.

When we saw an AAA male on eBay which looked like the perfect pair for our AAA she-elephant, we bought him ...

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.... but he so big, that he makes her look like a little calf!

So he is big, and he is a mistake!

Luckily, we can use him in photostories with the 1/12th scale horses and figures ... but we still don't have a matching pair for the Ark ...

Sue & Lesley
castlerigg

Wow! Fantastic figures Thank You for sharing Sue, great scenes from photo stories, so imaginative! Scene with Koko and Dodo is just amazing
Wonderful figures of elephants too

Congratulations Sue! Your new camera takes beautiful photographs, I love the one of the flower.