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Well it isn't (it's a gull in action) but I hope you see why I have called this shot Bird of Prey.

This is the latest addition to my bird sequences of shots. This was taken in Fordingbridge when we were staying at Sandy Balls.  There were loads of gulls about and it was just a question of time before I got lucky,

Anyhow, I like this shot. It was taken on my a200 before it broke and has been cropped and touched up slightly by Photoshop but otherwise is clean. I hope you like it.

The demise of my Sony alpha a200 was a sad time. I loved that camera and it really inspired me to try and be more creative in my photography. It's demise offered up an opportunity to upgrade, and upgrade I did, to the fairly new Sony a550. What an upgrade! It's an amazing piece of kit and far too much time could be taken up on this blog taking about every feature but here are my main plus points:

1) FAST!. It is so fast. The first photo I took with it caught me so unawares.

2) Live View - The live view implementation is very impressive. There's a whole buch of reasons why but basically it allows instant taking of a photograph, even in liveview - something other cameras struggle with

3) In camera HDR. Genius! It takes 2 photos at the extremes of exposure and then masks them together to give you a beautiful HDR photograph,

4) 14.2 megapixels. Somewhat more than the 10 I had on the a200, but also supported by the Bionz CMOS sensor for beautifully detailed shots.

I'll be posting some shots from the new camera in the near future so keep an eye out.

This is a great review by What Digital Camera Magazine of the Sony A200 - my camera of choice.