The JackRuss (or George Blair) collection

The Top Image will change every now and then and be added to the gallery at the bottom of this page, (I will try and use images that do not appear anywere else, on the links on this page). This top image was taken at Braywick Nature Park of a Stargazing evening with Maidenhead Astronomical Society. It was a 2039 second exposure of the night sky you can see the star trails the one stationary one is the north star. The viewing started out cloudy but then cleared up Jupiter was showing really good. Sorry no picture of it thou

An external gallery run by Pentax the camera manufacturer and regulated by them. New Images Accepted Now 98 Accepted. 12/12/11

Events with MCC (2009)

• Eton Wick walk
• Maidenhead Walk
• Nash Point
• Peak District Bolehill Quarry
• Peak District Higger Tor
• Peak District Stanage Edge
• Peak District Padley Gorge

A Mixed Bunch Collection

• Gallery by JackRuss
• A Sunday afternoon at Savill Gardens
• A day at Aston Hill Red Kites (near Stokenchurch)
• Red Kites at Cookham one lunch time (I do so like these birds)
• A Bank Holiday Monday at Marwell Zoo lots of glass and wire to shoot thou
• Inspired by some swan pictures in comps. These are 3 day old
• The Hawk Conservancey Trust (Andover)
• The Wildlife Heritage Foundation (Kent/ Big cats)
• A day at Santago Leopard collection (now closed down)
• A day at Woburn Wildlife Park
• A day trip to Mottisfont Abbey (one of the best rose collections I have seen)
• Just some nice looking flowers

An American Road trip in 2009

• Bryce Canyon
• Zion National Park
• Monument Valley
• Antelop Canyon
• Grand Canyon
• Las Vegas

2010 and the outings I have had.

Seeing my daughter is in to ponies and horses. I have been put forward to do some pictures of different horse and pony shows this year ( Thats my Saturdays and Sunday taken then! ). So here is some that I have done so far, all snap shots from around the rings. Maybe I'll get better the more I do ? fingers crossed lol

• Lea Barn show in Langley
• Help for Hero's show at Newbury show ground

The Isle of Skye 2010 After trying to get a picture of a "Sea" White Tailed Eagle for nearly all of my holiday.A picture happened a once in a life time shot! A Sea Eagle with a Golden Eagle in the same sky and together having a little set to with each other. The quality of the picture is not great but using a 500mm on full stretch and the birds being so high this picture is a tight crop. The best at the time and as a judge would say a record picture and maybe not the best lol ( I was there and it made me happy watching the Golden Eagle on and off for over an hour) A Link can be found below.

• Skye on a dslr camera
• Skye on a compact camera
• On the Isle of Skye a Goldern Eagle and a White tailed Eagle

Plymouth, British Firework Championships (done over two days and well worth the trip down there)

• The first night 3 displays
• The second night of 3 displays

A gallery of Otters Taken at the Butterflies and Otters @ Buckfast Thier web site

• Otters
• Butterflies

Ockwell Park Bird of Prey Display ( one day i'll get a bird in flight correct!)

• arranged by the braywick center shame about the rain thou

Holiday in Cuba

• A set of holiday snaps really, not a photography holiday, no tripod all hand held, even the lighting image!

Wings, Wheels , Speed and Steam at White Waltham Airfield actual web ad for show

• A very enjoyable day out for the whole family

An early morning walk in Windsor great park, before it got busy, not all the best of pictures and I want to go and retry this (maybe with a tripod!) Lots of deer and a parrot.

• Windsor great park

A local firework display at the Greyhound Pub, seeing I know the event I got there late, a mistake and a mental note made get there earlier next year!!

• taken on Oct 30 not the 5th

A day out in London

• The Lord mayors Parade show in London, some of the picture are not the sharpest but so many different settings to think about must try harder!!
• The Military Tournament in Earls court, low light, lots of movement and all with telephoto lens, hand held so not ideal at all

A small group took part in a picture a day exercise on a Flickr group these are the images that I took over the period on a month

• a months images

Events with MCC (2010)

• Hawk Conservancy Trust

Some of my images entered in the MCC comps during the year

• competition images some did well, some didn't do so well!

2011 Another year to look forward to

Can I introduce my new family member, Mouse she is a Parson Russell Terrier she was born on 4th Sept 2010. She is quite livey as some of the images will show Now you may guess why my nick name is JackRuss lol

• just after we got her
• Taken on Christmas Eve on an afternoon walk by Dorney rowing Lake
• Her first show at the Parson Terrier Club show ( I have been asked if I can do all thier show pictures now !!)
• Her 2nd "fun" show with two of her siblings ( she got placed in the dog the judge would like to take home lol )
• Mouse's first big show (Southern Counties Cannine Association) mostly record shots as there for the day not the photography she met up with two of her sisters and her Dad ( her dad done really well in the show)
• A friends dog at a show which ended up getting best in breed (record images just for her)
• Windsor championship show in home park
• The Parson Russell Terrier Club open show 7th Aug (near Tamworth)

A day in London doing some street photography

• The Old Compton rd and China Town

A day in Stokenchurch hunting Red Kites with a few friends ( at one stage there was over 30 of them above in the sky a one point ) I must go again!

• A collection of images, various lenses and settings more practice required I think

A short break family holiday in Somerset staying near Porlock

• Somerset

A day out at the Bristol Internation Balloon Fiesta

• Hot Air Balloons

Wingham Wildlife Park in Kent.

• A developing wild life park which now has two 6 month Tiger cubs

A day for the family at Swallowfield Show just a few snaps.

• show pictures

A day out with MCC to Richmond Park for the deer rut, sadly the early morning mist was quite mist and more like fog

• In the mist / fog!

A firework display and a massive bonfire at a local pub and all done for charity I got there a bit late and should have know better wind was blowing right to left.

• The Greyhound Pub fireworks 2011

I have been playing with some software and am thinking of paying for the full version here is the first test of the 1st night of fireworks at Plymouth.

Please feel free to comment on any of the pictures or any problems found with any of the links, some of them are not the best, but envoke a time past by and a wonderful holiday.

This really is a work in progress as some of the pictures do need some "work" on them, this will happen as time permits thou

06 Nov 2011 - 20:43 -- JoeHumm

George, Well done on the orchid picture it's not as easy as it looks. Even indoors with no wind. Joe Humm

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07 Nov 2011 - 20:12 -- JackRuss

Thank you, Joe Next time I see you I must tell you how I did it ( not the normal way lol )

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-- JackRuss - 15 Dec 2009

A full res copy of the panaramic picture of the dear can be found be Here. Warning thou it is a very large fie and will take a long time to load (even on broad band )

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