In February 2010 I booked a photo tour with Steve West and Birding in Spain to photograph the enigmatic lammergeier. Was the trip all that it was billed to be? I think not, pretty disappointing really given the price we paid and after 12 months of haggling, Steve West has finally washed his hands of our complaints. You can read all about the tour and why I think it was poor value for money on the new review pages. Click here to get the full sp on where it all went wrong but to summarise, the main problem we had was shooting through glass from the hides which gave us many, many soft pictures due to its poor quality and also the fact that it rained, so the outside of the glass was covered in rain drops giving a nice soft focus effect. Fine if your shooting glamour but not what I want with my wildlife photos. To add to our woes was the fact that the ground is littered with bones and debris from the years of feeding and it looks unnatural and is impossible to clone from some shots. We got a few pictures that are keepers and sharpen up as JPEGs for the web, but high quality images were definitely sparse on this trip! Read all about it here
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