Over the years my photo collection has grown and grown, especially since switching to digital photography circa 2007. A few years ago I decided to make a concerted effort to properly organise, backup and maintain my collection. Around the same time, I began to take an interest in manual photography...

I've often been frustrated when I spot some interesting wildlife but can't get a decent photo. I have a telescope and tried digiscoping a while back - for this you buy an adapter that allows you to take photographs through your telescope with a cameraphone or point-and-shoot camera. The results were...

I bought and an adapter to take photos through my telescope with my phone. Quite pleased with the results, but it's a bit of a faff getting the camera lined up. It has to be very precisely aligned with the scope eyepiece to get a good shot, which is tricky to do without moving the scope. It only occurred to me after quite a few shots to use digital zoom on the phone to remove the circular border.