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Post by martindn on Oct 23, 2011 21:23:11 GMT
Surely an audience of Haliens.
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Post by scoobedoo on Oct 23, 2011 21:43:43 GMT
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Post by grant on Oct 23, 2011 23:15:41 GMT
Surely an audience of Haliens.
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Post by Dave on Oct 24, 2011 1:25:47 GMT
Many a true word has been spoken in jest! That's pretty well how I see it, now you mention it...  Alternatively, someone I know said it looks like a screenshot from The Godfather.  i.postimg.cc/9fYxy370/smilie-big-grin.gifCheers, Don err, Dave  |
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Post by Dave on Nov 7, 2011 14:32:40 GMT
It was Bonfire Night here in England on Saturday, we had a fireworks party with baked potatoes and things, in my daughters' garden. The kids loved it, us grown-up kids who could set off the fireworks loved it too!  Firework photos are hard to do from close-up but here is a photo I took of one of the catherine wheels spinning away.  Dave |
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Post by martindn on Nov 7, 2011 19:01:06 GMT
WOW! Great photo Dave. Yes, firework phtos are difficult, and that is superb!
Martin D
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Post by postscript on Nov 8, 2011 11:00:16 GMT
Hi Dave and everyone.
Yes, there is a distinct age gap in model trains and fireworks. The very young love both as do those in their second childhood. In the former it is things happening and in the latter it is the planning and setting up. You now need a pyrotechnic licence to handle the big stuff but years ago a friend and I had some fun in his garden (rather a large one) and we bought from Kimbolton. Doubt they are going now. I picked up the contact in a Sunday Times magazine article under the title 'Holy Smokes'. The school's vicar was a pyrotechnic and so was their head of science. They designed and made their own fireworks and sold them commercially as an adjunct to funding the school. The bunkers on the golf course were the tops of the arms dumps! Being involved with them and setting something up to which the village could be invited really was fun--but expensive! We shared the cost and provided mulled wine mince pies and a barbecue. Aah! The days of wild (older) youth.
Peter S.
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Post by Richard on Nov 8, 2011 14:16:17 GMT
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Post by postscript on Nov 8, 2011 19:17:25 GMT
Oh thank you for that Richard. I was rushing my morning for a luncheon appointment and did not have the time to check myself. It is nice to know a small enterprise has continued and made such a success. When my friend and I were buying fireworks from them the creators of those pyrotechnics told us what it was like being on the barges moored in the Thames as the big rockets took off. They said it was easy to imagine what a First World war trench was like! Their skill of course and their fun is in the the chemical mix and way of packing into the firework so they control the rate of successive burns and the manner of ejection. Maths comes into it to assess weight to take-off force to explode at a safe height etc. Making a safe firework is in fact a very complicated science. Even then forty years ago those big ones needed a certificate and licence to use them but the ones we bought were larger than normally available and still came trough the post but under special licence and the local post office almost rushed them to his house to get them off their premises! It was a period of youthful extravagance and it was fun to use his home for a short while in the way manor houses were meant to be treated, inviting the village in for mulled wine, and hot meats and share our exuberant fun. They are of course highly dangerous if they misfire. We had a misfire once and he and I looked at one another and decided that pouring water over it was not a good thing as we knew it contained large amounts of phosphorus. We decided to prod it with a stick and hit the deck fast. It took off... for 6 feet then blew up. Fortunately we had hit the deck in time! The thing wasn't supposed to blow up under thirty feet! Perhaps, if I can find it, I'll post on the poetry thread (I think we have one still/did we ever?) one of the several poems written in that part of the country and which appeared in my first volume of poetry Gone Fishing!. I think it catches the flavour of the occasion, if memory serves me correctly. Suddenly I'm reliving those days! Peter S. |
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Post by Ross on Dec 2, 2011 4:01:50 GMT
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Post by Richard on Dec 2, 2011 8:31:26 GMT
Hello Ross!  I hope you have a Hippie Christmas!  On second thoughts...  Richard |
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Post by mihizawi on Dec 3, 2011 21:14:13 GMT
Last wednesday I had a dream come true... My friends from the Sant Andreu Jazz Band (the young big band that I've become friends with and where Andrea Motis plays) made their own concert at the Palau de la Música, which is the most prestigeous venue in Barcelona (and a very beautiful one, within the early 20th century Catalan style known as modernism). And, besides being a memorable concert, with very special guests like Americans Jesse Davis, Terell Stafford and Wycliffe Gordon, well... I was allowed to take pics from the concert. I didn't expect getting the permission, as I am not a professional photographer and the venue doesn't usually allow photography unless you are an official photographer, so I was and still am truly overjoyed... They may not be the best concert pictures I have taken, but I am quite happy with the result. You can have a look here. Who knows, maybe someday I'll have the chance to take pictures on a Hayley concert, and if it was in this venue, wow, I don't have words how awesome it would be. Michal |
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Post by stevemacdonald on Dec 3, 2011 23:29:15 GMT
...They may not be the best concert pictures I have taken, but I am quite happy with the result. You can have a look here. Who knows, maybe someday I'll have the chance to take pictures on a Hayley concert, and if it was in this venue, wow, I don't have words how awesome it would be. These are excellent shots, Michal. Assuming you don't use flash, I think you would take some beautiful shots of Hayley in concert. |
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Post by mihizawi on Dec 4, 2011 1:59:01 GMT
Thanks... And never use flash on concerts... Even when others do, I think it may be distracting for the performers, so it's a matter of respect. Also, I like much better pictures without flash, usually the colours look much more natural... Plus the flash of my camera, a Canon Powershot SX210IS, would be quite useless at that distance (note that most of the close-ups were shot using the maximmum optical zoom of my camera, which is 12x).
Michal
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Post by Joe on Dec 4, 2011 3:57:26 GMT
Hello Michal, Just had a look at your concert photos and they are so wonderful! Thanks very much for sharing!  ~Joe |
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