Tobie

You’ll never be able to stop manual spam Rob. As long as you have a place where someone can register and/or post something, you will get people abusing that.

I see that you’re recording the IP where someone is posting from. One thing you may do is install the free version of Wordfence and then block an IP every time after receiving SPAM from it.…[Read more]

Top notch Beaky! Not only the image but the size too – the page loaded immediately!

I love how the stilt’s pitch black colours splits him away from the other birds. It means that you did not have to crop them out of the frame and you’ve kept context. Well done!

Nice shot Renee!

Just a tip: ISO is an image quality destroyer so always use the lowest setting possible. In this case you could have opened up your aperture by 4 clicks (to f/6.3) and lowered your ISO by the same number of clicks (to 320).

The image appears to be a little under exposed so I fixed that in LR and used a crop of my preference…[Read more]

Shot Beaky!

Just a request – can you try to shrink your file sizes in terms of Mb’s before posting them? Your images in general are 5Mb+ in size and that slows down the load of the pages / your images in them (even on my fibre line with 100mbps line speed).

In general when I export images for forum use I limit them to 1600px in width and 300Kb…[Read more]

Interestring one – lovit!

A real cutie!

Wow what a beautiful bird David! TFS!

Beautiful close-up Dave!

Shot Robert – lovely spot!

Aaaah! Beautiful spot – and I love the results of the slow shutter speed!

Beautiful!

Well caught! 😀

Nice one!

Thanks Beaky – yes it does.

Thanks Dahlia!

Thanks Dahlia!

I vaguely remember having seen something from Rob about accidental deletions when trying to fix spam.

@admin

Grey-headed gull with brunch.

It looks like you got close to this one. Well done!

Both nice Beaky!