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Thanks for that, I particularly liked the weight lifting squirrel and the chimney swallows ones.

There's also Peregrine Webcams at Sheffield University, one at Norwich Cathedral and Bath St Johns (noth Hawk and Owl Trust) and a Barn Owl Webcam at Sommerset Wildlife Trust.

Thnaks Kobione

Ohhhh... well thanks, I'm left speechless. I haven't really got anything else to say, the idea for lighting it with a screensaver was just one of those weird ideas. Many thanks for all your comments.

23rd May 2015 24th May 2015 25th May 2015 There's steam trains, battle re-anactments, vintage vehicles, artists and performers on the stations. I guess lots of opportunities for photographs, very popular. (I'm assuming the prices are for train travel to and from Bury and all the stations). Quick Tip: The trains coming from Bury (arriving at Rawtentenstall) the engine is at the front, going from Rawtenstall the engine is in reverse.... http://www.eastlancsrailway.org.uk/events-activities/2015/5/1940s-weekend.aspx

Tomorrow I'm off out to watch a Yamaha Jetski Demo Day at a firends jetski lake near Southport, not sure what camera settings to use other than the 'Sports Mode' on my canon, weather is forecast for bright and sunny. Said I'd take some photo's for their website..

Lol, yes only slightly (if Australia is the correct location - which I'm assuming it is)... I'm appealing to all the weather gods - it is Yorkshire afterall and England - for no rain.... I know it's a bit an of an ask.. If not I may get to try out my Storm Sheild lens/camera cover....

Ummm, Ingleton Falls, I've walked it many, many times with my parents and grandparents and the dogs, and it's been quite some time since I last did it- maybe 15 years ago. It's also been on my to do list again. I'm glad you're not planning on fell running - I'm too old for that. Anyways I'm up for this, so I don't mind tagging along. I shall appeal to the weather gods to make it not rain.... anything else will be a bonus.

I've done that as well ,I have both the Canon 12mm and 25m tubes...that will be my next experiment using either or both on the 'Venus;...

Interestingly, I went the opposite, I statred out with a 100mm Canon Macro, which works fine in auto focus and does give very acceptable shots, but because I'd seen so much wonderful shots done on the 'Venus' lens, I thought I had to try it out. The 'Venus' is a f2.8 macro as it the Canon 100m macro, where they differ is the 'Venus' is a 2:1 macro and the Canon 100m is a 1:1. Paul (I hope) is the resident expert on the Venus (I think - unless there are others here using it)

Well, it's a lot smaller than I thought it woukd be and a lot heavier. It's all manual focus and the few test shots I did at 2x the lens was only a couple of centimeters from the subject - a flower in this case - and was all on a tripod. I don't think I've got steady enough hands to use it manually, but the colours are very vivid. It's now a matter of getting used to it... it could be some time...

After much umming and ahhing and being really tempted by the Venus Macro lens, I finally took the plunge - I promise I will return it soon - and bought one for a local stockist not far from my. Alas it didn't stop there I also got a carbon fibre tripod/monopod with ball head - which was fun trying to work out how to do it as all the destructions were in Chinese/Japanese, I also got a Sigma 150-600mm F5-6.3 DG OS HSM Contemporary Lens. I'll definitely have to burn the credit cards after today.......

I use PSP7, Photomatix and RawTherapee (which is free) for all my PPing, alas my ageing XP machine won't run Lightroom (at least not with XP on it) and it is just a matter of playing around and seeing what you can do - what things work and what doesn't.

Not being one for portraits, but even I liked those, they look like just personal snaps (I suppose the kinda ones you'd take), but (as someone said) without being twee or over sentimental

Well, if everyone has these days, I don't feel to bad, I only managed 31 images. It was one of those days when nothing seems right, the light, or anything else for that matter. The churchyard behind the Boronte Museum, which I'd taken before lacked ... well basically anything. Ahh, well. I did grab a nice image of a Piaggio PX Scooter...

As long as it's not just me I don't mind...

Today was one of those days, that despite the location (Haworth) nothing really caught my eye or worked... it's very rare that I come home from a place and haven't anything that really grabs me. I did have one that I liked but it could have been photographed anywhere..

Have to say I prefer the original version of Gone Daddy Gone by the Violent Femmes and the if 5,6,7,8's had done the Girls at our best - fun city teenagers, I'd a liked it better - I did listen to the whole song...

Nasty, I had that happened to me last year, worst thing was it was on my main work computer, lost about 3 months work and emails.

Thanks for the welcome NannyFerret and Karenp, I'm sure I will.

Thanks for the welcome Kate and Fuji, yes that's the fella, Jon Anderson.

I've was just thinking that myself, technically I'm from southport - whose boundaries moved about (was in Lancashire,then in Merseyside, I think now back in Lancashire)... Lots of inventors, creative people and great landscapes. Maybe birds of a feather flock together...and all the Lancs toggers have ened up on 1 forum?

Not so sure on my sports, but pretty sure one of the band members from Yes was born here... And it's not even my home town, I was born in Southport - and most of my family (on my fathers side) all the way back to 1570's came from and lived in that area working on various farms. Wasn't until the 1900's that they moved into the town and became domestic servantes. Mind you at the time Napoleon III lived there - I often wonder if my ancestors ever met him... Gosh revealed quite a bit there........

Alas, Accrington can't seem to shake that milk advert, made in 1989 - it wasn't Accrington Stanley (1891) that was a founder member but a forerunner (I was pointed out when I got it wrong) called Accrington Football Club (The Owd Reds). To make things confusing there's an Accrington Stanley that was formed in 1968. But as I hate sport I know nothing. Anway apart from the football, we;ve also got the biggest collection of Tiffany glass in Europe, plus bricks made here where used as the foundations of Blackpool Tower and the Empire State building, not forgetting the spinning jenny Many thanks for the wlecomes, Jon, PaulT, Martyn, Chris, Clicker

Thanks Richard, glad to be here.