As I stood at my window drinking coffee, I noticed a wood pigeon in the trees, just sitting cooing, as they do. I tried to take a photo with my phone but it was rubbish, so I wondered if I could zoom in…nope.
So I grabbed some binoculars and put them up to the lens of the phone and peered at the screen. It took a bit of faffing, balancing, and making sure nothing fell in the sink (!) but this is the result. I’m quite pleased 
Next time I will use a proper camera of course 
Did you know you can buy a monocular lens for a smartphone?
I think I have one need to check.
Oooh!! This makes me happy…I was looking at this one via your link. It seems to be pretty good, what do you think?
To be honest @PixieKnuckles I think you would be wasting your money. Although I still use the monocular setting it up to use with the smart phone is such a faff and to be honest does not really work as when you attach the monocular holder to your smart phone there is little support for the monocular itself.
I bought mine to keep an eye on a bird feeder a bit of a distance away and was never going to be used with a phone.
Ok thank you. I do have an actual camera with a zoom, so I’ll just stick to using that 
I would use the monocular a few times likely, then shove it in a cupboard anyway!
That’s clever Pixie 
I really like that, Pixie. It’s such a change to see a picture in a circle instead of the usual old square box. 
Thanks Mags - all credit goes to the wood pigeon though, who sat patiently rolling his eyes, waiting for the mad woman at the window to get herself sorted! 
Thanks Mups…yes I could have edited into the usual square, but I really like the way the roundness frames the photo, too!
That worked really well, great photo. Congrats to the patient pigeon and the photographer 🦤
Thought I would play around came up with this which I did online as trying to crop an image in Windows was a faff.
Ahh now see, that is adorable! It makes his wee face stand out more I think…look at his eyes, are they really different colours or is it the light?
When did everything become so square? We look at square photos in a square screen, sitting in square rooms, in a square box…what on earth have we become?!
Bring on the circles!
Doing that is actually a thing. 
I have tried it but it is a lot of faffing about, just to take a circular photo.
Yes Tiff, it was very faffy…I’ll just be sticking to using a camera in future!
