Save stamps and save albatrosses

RSPB (The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds) raise used stamps post, and sell to get money to support urgent work to stop albatross deaths. You can help RSPB in this work by sending stamps. RSPB can raise money from ALL types of stamps – whether they are used or un-used, UK, foreign or even first day covers. Campain raise £1.50 per kg for UK stamps and £12.50 per kg for foreign stamps.

If possible, please separate UK and foreign stamps when you give them to us.

You do not have steam the stamp from the envelope, just tear off the corner with the stamp and send it in.

How to get stamps to us
1. Post your stamps to:

RSPB Stamps
PO Box 6198
Leighton Buzzard
Bedfordshire
LU7 9XT

http://www.rspb.org.uk/supporting/campaigns/albatross/support.asp--
www.savethealbatross.net
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Albatross-photos that can be found in Cartina:
Black-browed albatross
Northern royal albatross

Bird and nature sounds

Some samples of bird and nature sounds can be found in our photos stock database.

Se more here: cartinafinland.fi/en/naturesounds.html or if You want to read more from the producers pages, see here: www.kultasointu.com

ps. Hope You´ll remember that files are copyright protected.

A list of samples:


Arctic loon
Arctic Skua
Bar-tailed godwit
Barn swallow
Bean goose
Black grouse
Black-headed gull
Black redstart
Black woodpecker
Blackbird
Blackcap
Brambling
Bluethroat
Blyth's reed-warbler
Canada goose
Capercaillie
Chaffinch
Chiffchaff
Coal tit
Common buzzard
Common crane
Common crossbill
Common eider
Common goldeneye
Common greenshank
Common magpie
Common merganser
Common pheasant
Common raven
Common redpoll
Common ringed plover
Common rosefinch
Common sandpiper
Common shelduck
Common snipe
Common starling
Common Swift
Common tern
Common whitethroat
Corncrake
Crested tit
Cuckoo
Dipper
Dunnock
Eurasian coot
Eurasian curlew
Eurasian golden plover
Eurasian hobby
Eurasian oystercatcher
Eurasian siskin
Eurasian sky lark
Eurasian sparrowhawk
Eurasian teal
Eurasian woodcock
Eurasian wryneck
European nuthatch
European robin
European wigeon
Gadwall
Garden warbler
Goldcrest
Golden eagle
Grasshopper warbler
Great black-backed gull
Great cormorant
Great crested grebe
Great spotted woodpecker
Great tit
Greenfinch
Grey-headed woodpecker
Grey heron
Greylag goose
Hawfinch
Herring gull
Hooded crow

House martin
House sparrow
Icterine warbler
Kittiwake
Lesser black-backed gull
Lesser spotted woodpecker
Lesser whitethroat
Linnet
Little gull
Little plover
Little Tern
Long-tailed jaeger
Long-tailed Tit
Mallard
Marsh warbler
Meadow Pipit
Mew gull
Mistle thrush
Mute swan
Northern goshawk
Northern lapwing
Northern pintail
Northern wheatear
Nutcracker
Parrot Crossbill
Pied flycatcher
Pink-footed Goose
Pygmy owl
Reed bunting
Red-backed shrike
Red-breasted flycatcher
Red-necked grebe
Red-necked phalarope
Red squirrel
Red-throated diver
Redshank
Redstart
Redwing
Roe Deer
Rook
Rough-legged buzzard
Ruddy turnstone
Rustic bunting
Sand martin
sedge warbler
Siberian tit
Song-thrush
Spotted redshank
Tawny owl
Tengmalm's owl
Thrush nightingale
Tree creeper
Tree pipit
Tree sparrow
Water rail
Whimbrel
Western jackdaw
Whinchat
White-backed woodpecker
White-fronted goose
White-tailed eagle
White wagtail
White-winged crossbill
Whooper swan
Willow ptarmigan
Willow tit
Willow warbler
Winter wren
Wood lark
Wood pigeon
Wood sandpiper
Wood warbler
Yellow wagtail
Yellowhammer

Canon Eos 5 D mark II in test

I did get my 5DII just form some day a go. And I have tested it on a photographing assignment. I was shooting one event for Kohu-live, which is a event marketing company, which do event marketing for big brands in Finland. This time it was one promoting event of new taste of energy drink for Battery. It happend in restaurante Onnela in Helsinki on very low light.

This shot was taken with 24 mm f 1.4, 1/13 s and iso 4000! Did do my basic convertings with Lightroom 2.2 and only very soft noise reduction, about 1/4. So it was very close to a normal prosessing of my photos to clients. I was in deed positively suprised about the quality with iso 4000.


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edit:

Just noticed that 5DII can be found in DXO-test, where You can compare it with DIII and DsIII. But they are a lot more expencive cameras.