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Letter of the Week<\/h1>\n

\"Letter<\/a><\/h3>\n

Letter of the Week – 30\u00a0July\u00a02016<\/h2>\n

Shooting Little Owls<\/h3>\n

My wife and I have been pursuing a project of sorts recently, making use of a hide we built a couple of years ago on a neighbour\u2019s farmland. This project can involve long periods of inactivity as we wait for the wildlife we know is there to get active and show up. Consequently, on the last weekend in June, I went prepared for a long session in the hide with my favourite crossword and that week\u2019s AP (2 July issue) to read.<\/p>\n\t\t

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Photo by Steve Thomas<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n

I\u2019ll confess to having opened it first, before we left home, so I knew what to expect. Nevertheless, I found myself reading Phil Hall\u2019s test of the Nikkor 200-500mm f\/5.6, which was illustrated with shots of owls, while I waited in a hide with my Nikon \u2013 for little owls! This picture is a sample of the outcome, taken on a 300mm with converter. Happily, the owls did turn up so we could experience the real thing.\u00a0Steve Thomas, Bedfordshire<\/strong><\/p>\n

Great photo, Steve. If you plan to be in the garden next weekend we have another feature you might like, on photographing garden birds \u2013 Nigel Atherton, Editor<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n

Submit your own letter<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Share your views and opinions with fellow AP readers every week on the AP Inbox<\/em><\/strong> pages of the magazine.<\/p>\n

If your letter is chosen as Letter of the Week* <\/strong>you’ll win a great shockproof, waterproof and dustproof 5-Proof Technology 32GB Samsung<\/a> Orange SDHC Plus memory card<\/strong> offering up to 48MB\/sec transfer speed.<\/p>\n

EVO 32MB SD card (Romantic Orange), Class 10, Grade 1 transfer speed with up to 48 MB\/s<\/p>\n

The EVO model boasts ultra-highspeed performance and is the preferred memory card for your smartphones, tablets, full HD (FHD) camcorders and digital single-lens reflex (DSLR) cameras. Its ultra-fast performance brings you improved data transfer of more photos and videos on your mobile devices and high-resolution photo and video capturing on your cameras and camcorders.<\/p>\n\"Samsung-32-EVO-memory-card\"\n

The SD EVO offers support for photographers and people who need to capture split-second action shots and quickly transfer them to their PCs or other devices.<\/p>\n

Write to ‘Inbox<\/strong>‘, Amateur Photographer, Pinehurst 2, Pinehurst Road, Farnborough, Hampshire GU14 7BF or email<\/a> with the subject heading ‘Letters’.<\/p>\n

Please include your full postal address and daytime telephone number with your submission.<\/p>\n

Viewpoint<\/em><\/h2>\n

You could also send us your views for our ‘Viewpoint’ section of the magazine. Do you have something you’d like to get off your chest? Send us your thoughts in around 500 words and you could win a year’s digital subscription to AP, worth \u00a379.99.
\n<\/em><\/p>\n

Write to ‘Viewpoint<\/strong>‘, Amateur Photographer, Pinehurst 2, Pinehurst Road, Farnborough, Hampshire GU14 7BF or email<\/a> with the subject heading ‘Viewpoint’.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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