Photographs of Animals in France and Spain

I thought it was about time that I uploaded a photo hub to Hubpages, as it is Hubpages that paid for my much cherished Canon Rebel. It cost about 6 months of Amazon income, but it was totally worth it, and I have had so much fun with it. I have worked out probably about 10% of it so far, so there is still plenty of fun to be had with it.

I never pass up the opportunity to take a few animal photos, but capturing the perfect moment is something which I have struggled with, it takes an awful lot of patience! Most of my pictures are out of focus, off center, or badly framed, but every now and then I managed to get a few to make it worth the effort.

This is a selection of various animal photos that I have managed to snap while in France and Spain, together with a willing cow from Britain's green, wet, and decidedly muddy south west.

Hope you like them, its been fun taking them!

The perfect subject material for my new canon Rebel. Buy bread, sit by the water, and gulls happen. It is a fact of nature. Fortunately, due to a favorable cross wind, they were hanging fairly still.

Obviously not a morning monkey. Its a shame the picture doesn't record the quite extraordinary cacophony that comes out of one of these monkeys. I also used to think that monkeys were sweet things. They are not.

The noise from these crickets was deafening. Its amazing how much noise can be made by something so small. Interestingly, crickets make the noise by rubbing their wings together and not their legs; a common myth about these insects.

Two damsel flies making love and forming a near perfect heart. She thinks its romantic, but I saw him pull the same trick with loads of flies. The dirty little scoundrel!

Lavender country in the south of France. Fields upon fields of lavender, and a very relaxed and chilled out place to be a bee.

I have since given up on taking photographs of butterflies. Not the most willing of subjects it has to be said. It took me ages to get this one, and I'm really not sure it was worth it.

If you haven't got a great zoom, just get closer to your subject matter. Simple.

I counted 12 cats of all colors just outside the castle at Montjuic in Barcelona. Armed with some attract-a-kitty dried food, I set up the shot. Surprisingly, only the black cats took up the offer. I love the shadows that their tails make!

Had great fun with this function on the camera, which takes 16 rapid succession shots and combines them into one photo, in this case, of a rather inquisitive and obliging Devon Red cow.