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Post by fusilier23 on Jul 27, 2006 23:34:09 GMT
If you had a wheel of Cheddar it would have been quackers and cheese!
Wocka! Wocka!
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Post by Oksana on Jul 31, 2006 1:11:17 GMT
Hi everyone!  Haven't been on the computer for a while. Great new photos here! Here are 2 photos of the orchids my dad and I got for my mom on Mothers Day:   There are only 3 left right now, the rest have wilted.  But hopefully they'll be back next year. Here's a picture of a sunset from a few weeks ago. This picture does it no justice at all. The actual colours were almost neon, and there were all sorsts of interesting textures in the sky which my camera couldn't capture.  Love, Oksy |
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Post by Stuart H on Jul 31, 2006 8:44:02 GMT
Hello Osky, Lovely photos of the orchids and that sunset. Here are a few photos I took on Saturday at Whitstable, Kent. The fireworks were the finale of the "Oyster Festival Week". The display was set off from a boat moored offshore. Stuart |
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Post by postscript on Jul 31, 2006 9:08:36 GMT
Hi Stuart.
That sounds like an interesting festival, the Oyster Week at Whitstable. Long time since I have been down that way. I am currently working out my time around Gawsworth hall and seeing if I can fit i n a performance or two at the Annual Gilbert and Sullivan Festival at Buxton.
Peter
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Post by postscript on Jul 31, 2006 16:28:49 GMT
Hi all. Being in the 'quiet' season, i.e. between Hayley concerts, bearing in mind Gawsworth is the end of this week, it seemed a good period to post a few miscellanies, certainly in the lull immediately prior to Cadogan Revisited, althoguh that thread seems to know no bounds whatever before anything starts!.  I think the journey I undertook from the earlier Cardiff concert--the one of 500 voices--and Llandudno has a rich diversity, so let me start with something I think will be of general interest to all, as well as the obvious special enthusiasts. First a picture of a canal, to which there are some at least who might very well respond with a 'so what?' Especially as it appears out of focus. This is due to it being the enlargement of the far distant aspect of a much larger frame. The 'so what?' answer being that between the foreground and the house in the distance is about one mile and all that stretch of water is 127feet in the air! This is why Telford's great aqueduct is sometimes called 'The Stream in the Sky'. This is not a part of the canal where you suddenly need to go astern! It is not unknown for passengers to hide inside the boat. My vertigo won't let me walk along the towpath! Between the boat and one side is 6 inches or so of water, a foot below the cill and then just 6 inches of cast iron cill followed by... a 127ft drop! Peter |
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Post by roger on Jul 31, 2006 17:19:16 GMT
Hi Peter, No problem; I could walk that path with my eyes shut. I'd have to because there is no way you'd get me to do it with them open!  I guess if my life depended upon it, I might attempt it provided I could firmly grasp the railing. But what if I met someone coming in the opposite direction equally determined to do likewise? Just wondering, how deep is the canal? Nice picture though. I take it there isn't one from the other side?  I feel the vertigo coming on just thinking about it!  Roger |
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Post by Steve H on Jul 31, 2006 20:07:10 GMT
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Post by postscript on Aug 1, 2006 9:00:16 GMT
Thank you Steve. As I said in my posts on the Llandudno site when I captured Hayley et al, my pics there (grain due to 800 film and old stock) showed by contrast just how superb is the product we gain from you, your brother, Dave and Roger. But, as Roger himself has commented in the past, lack of time has limited his regular use and that is what counts in the Hayley situation. You need to be well practiced and to really know your camera to be able to instinctively adapt focus and exposure manually to grab that split-second moment. In a more relaxed situation I can manage to frame but I need to make that decision about going digital and get in some practice that doesn't cost in film! May be soon. I am beginning to justify the need for me to make the plunge! Those pics (and I assume you were referring to the Pontycyllte aqueduct near Langollen) were taken with a very basic x12 optical zoom but even with that I always take them at 2560 fine, maximum pixels I can to leave more room for manipulating afterwards if necessary, hence my ability to still come in close with a large size of the detail. I'm beginning to get the photographic bug again! Thank you for your kind comments. Peter |
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Post by postscript on Aug 1, 2006 9:26:53 GMT
Hi Peter, No problem; I could walk that path with my eyes shut. I'd have to because there is no way you'd get me to do it with them open! I guess if my life depended upon it, I might attempt it provided I could firmly grasp the railing. But what if I met someone coming in the opposite direction equally determined to do likewise? Just wondering, how deep is the canal? Nice picture though. I take it there isn't one from the other side? I feel the vertigo coming on just thinking about it! Roger Yes, there is a pic of the other side but I didn't post it just to repeat the view. I suspect what lies behind your question is, did i actually walk it? The clue is the view from ground (near ground) level of the boat in the air! I used the car and the valley floor to get to the other side! Delighted to have your response , Roger. I felt so inadequate going up i in 3's when going over the Pennines/Lake District following Huddersfield! Perhaps its an age thing, although I have always had a slight awareness of vertigo. But it can be overcome because when ever I was handling stage lights, especially front of house spots, my first time after so long was nerve-wracking. By the time we got close to the performances I was reasonably happy being sixty feet above the auditorium floor on just a ladder and swinging quite weighty lights. That was in the days when any thought of more elaborate scaffolding or expanding platforms were beyond consideration due to rarity and enormous expense. The canal depth is the average about six feet. The width allows about 2 to 3 feet of clear water between canal boat and sides. I have been there when water has trickled down the supports and I thought it was leaking. I now realise it must have been a boat going too fast and creating a bow wave the spilled over the cill. When originally built of course horses walked the towpath but I assume they wore blinkers if not normally. Thanks for your post. I thought it was a good way to start my journey as it would be of a wide general interest. Addendum. By the way, your enquiry about the depth of the canal! That has no bearing on how low in the water the boat floats! As the second picture shows, you can imagine why many do NOT, as you see them normally, sit on the roof as they go across. From their view point there is six inches of water, six inches of cill and 127 feet of drop--and nothing between them and the valley floor! Peter |
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Post by roger on Aug 1, 2006 11:26:48 GMT
Hi Peter,
My enquiry as to the depth of the canal was an attempt to determine my preference should I meet someone coming in the opposite direction - right, and over the railings into the valley below, or left and into the drink. I think I'll avoid the area completely and stick to terra firma with the emphasis on "firmer" rather than "terror"!
Roger
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Post by postscript on Aug 1, 2006 16:59:59 GMT
ALMOST anything, perhaps short of death itself, is preferable to swimming in the canal. I won't upset sensibilities here as to why but simply say that if you should ever fall into the canal get the hospital to stomach-pump you fast! Unless you really did avoid swallowing anything.
Regardless, at least take a full bath or shower fast!
It had occurred to me afterwards that perhaps your thoughts were in the direction of how high did the boat float in relation to the edge? The answer is there is barely a foot between water surface and the top of the cill, so from the boatman's view I should imagine it is rather like the experience I had going round corners down a 1:3. Logic tells you the road is still there on the passenger's side but from the driver's view you can't see the road at all!
Peter
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Post by Caitlin on Aug 8, 2006 22:04:53 GMT
Hi everyone! These photos are absolutely fantastic! I really enjoyed the fireworks by Stuart. I have a "Firework" setting on my camera but haven't had the chance to use it yet. I've had my camera for nearly three years too! Oksy your flowers are really neat. And, as usual your sky photo is brilliant. Don't you hate it when the camera does the actual thing no justice? It frustrates me so much! Hopefully I'll get some of my recent photos on here soon. In the meantime keep taking and posting more! I really enjoying seeing everyone's artistic eye! (or would it be eyes?) <3 Caite |
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Post by graemek on Aug 10, 2006 12:19:23 GMT
On a different theme: This shot shows an aircraft landing
at Princess Juliana airport, St. Maartens in the Dutch Antilles.
The airport apron is right next to a busy beach & one of the favourite occupations of the holidaymakers is to watch the
incoming planes skim overhead immediately before touching down.
On take off in the same direction the departing planes have
to execute a hard right roll to miss colliding with a mountain!! This photo is linked to Jetphotos.net & is here by kind permission of it's owner dale coleman (pic taken on 29-6-06) Presentation size on this site has been adjusted down but download will give correct size. Graemek
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Post by graemek on Aug 15, 2006 11:14:38 GMT
These little birds are very noticeable on the Australian East Coast.
Gerrit would appreciate the name: New Holland honey eater.
Attention Peter (postscript): taken yesterday with my new camera at roughly 25 ft. from subject.
He was watching me & twittering as I pointed the camera at him. Australia has many different types of honeyeater. 
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Post by Andrew on Aug 15, 2006 17:40:15 GMT
Hi Graeme, Your honey-eater photographs are excellent!  Many thanks for sharing them with us all!  The honey-eater looks remarkably like another bird called the bee-eater. It's probably in the same family. You might be interested in reading some information about bee-eaters at the links below (there are some pictures too! i.postimg.cc/9fYxy370/smilie-big-grin.gif ): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bee-eaterwww.galleryofbirds.com/beeeater/beeeater.htmlHmm... I Guess if it was left to the bee-eaters, there wouldn't be any honey-eaters at all, since you can't have honey without bees!!!  Regards, Andrew |
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Haven't been on the computer for a while. Great new photos here! 
But hopefully they'll be back next year.
Many thanks for sharing them with us all! 