A proper test of my new camera: London in the Winter sun. The lack of an image stabiliser coupled with the low light conditions made for some frustrations, but it wasn't as grainy as I thought when I first got it: I'd accidentally pressed the high speed button and got a high-ISO, very grainy pic. Also don't know how to use the rose properly - it's supposed to shield the lens from glare, but just ended up getting in the way of my wide-angled shots.

We weren't quite sure what the hell was going on when we started getting ushered down this covered roadway, until we ended up with a big crowd of people watching the Horse Guards doing their thing - so, a nice surprise in the end.

Random bits of nature photography from various places (Chichester and London certainly, some of it inside the office and my house!)

Miscellaneous bits and pieces snapped around Chichester; the latter half while I was playing around with my "new" camera, taking pics of the wildlife in Priory Park.

A folly-up to the previous squirrel pics, but with a supporting cast

Squirrels after the bird food in my patents' garden.  This is about the time that squirrels went from adorable little creatures that took food from my hand to tree-rats that destroy feeders while stealing all the bird food.

The first batch were taken in Priory Park, Chichester on Saturday 10th November. I went to the park for somewhere to eat my Saturday morning sausage sandwich treat; usually I sit outside the Cathedral but I fancied a change. As the weather was fine (but cold) I pulled the camera out to take pictures of the Priory and along comes this squirrel...

Looking at the time stamps of the images while they were still on the camera these images were taken over the course of 8 minutes; the squirrel was still hanging around the same spot when I left.