Denis

A belated 'ello from me too

An easy winner by far, well deserved in my book and waiting to see if Bill can pull a Hat trick out of the bag

Oh blimey, togging or dogging, too cold for either I should think!

Thanks so far everyone!

I find tripods cumbersome and awkward, Now, I really would like a monopod, and the one that seems as if it would suit me is the Benro MP-35EX as it has a built in tilt head. Who else uses monopods and what are your views and suggestions?

Sods law sounds just about right, hope your visitor turned up too!

Damn..thats pretty powerful stuff Leon.

You could try bookmarking the whole page in chrome or whatever browser you are using...

Well done,a deserving photo ! PS:When did the change take place from the regular panel choosing, and the last winner making the choice?

And welcome from me too I would love to have gone straight in with a full frame, But I'm still getting my head around learning to use Nikons (older) entry level! and dont get me started on processing software...thats harder for me to understand than the damn camera:)

So do we John...so do we!

Arrrggghhh...view wise you were thwarted again John:) bet it was a good walk though!

Works for me! well done charlie:)

And that link Richard is brilliant! thanks for finding that and posting!

I rarely rely on forecasts, nine times out of ten it will usually be OK. They forecast rain and the sun comes out, they forecast bright and dry, and it pees down!

Classic! thanks Fuji

That said we did have a nest of False Widows in the garden two years ago, we left the old sun parasol on the patio table furled up with the cover over it instead of bringing it in for the winter. When we opened it there were about ten of these spiders up inside the top of the parasol. All the markings were correct for type,So I folded the parasol carefully and put it in a skip a neighbour had!...... bye bye nest of man eating 'orrids

Caw well done Colin!

Hello Paul, welcome

I have been twice before Dennyboy, but my son and I did it this year together. We took our time and spent six days from 'Utah' beach to the Orne Canal & 'Pegasus'. There is so much else to see inland as well, that by my reckoning it would take a good eight days to see all you can. This trip we finally got to hill112, hill 262, the Falaise pocket, and the lonely Tiger Tank that sits on the roadside at Vimoutier where it ran out of fuel escaping the carnage of the Falaise gap. Places like those I depicted, the 'Azeville Batterie', the 101st airborne museum at St Mere Eglise, Brecourt Manor, Tilly, The Suffolks Regt objectives at 'Hillman' and 'Morris', plus the radar station at Douvres all go to tell a very compelling and sad story. Strangely 'Omaha', despite the terror and terrible losses leaves me...well...a little underawed. Apart from the memorial in the sea and the museum there is little to actually see. The Canadian beach 'Juno' and its excellent museum wins hands down for emotional experience for me, I actually came out of there with tears on my face. And i have no emotional connection with Canada or the landings on their beach, it was just so well presented.

Again, these are just snaps with no skill whatever in their making. But they are a pictorial tale of something that I found...well..fascinating and wanted to keep. The USS Nevada survived the attack on Pearl Harbour in 1941. On the morning of the sixth of June 1944 she was designated to fire on beach defences on Utah Beach, this was the western end of the series of beaches chosen to mount the invasion of France by the allied forces . She switched targets and fired on the German heavy gun battery at Azeville, three kilometres inland from the actual beach,at this point she was eight miles out to sea. Her first salvo from her fourteen inch diameter guns fell just behind the two western reinforced concrete casemates where the craters can still be seen today. Two shells from her second salvo struck the casemate, one blowing a hole right through the light machine gun 'Tobruk' mount, the second entered the firing room of the casemate itself at a very low trajectory. It drilled a hole through the rear wall of the firing room and entered the main command room of the huge bunker where it killed sixteen German soldiers. It had still not exploded. Their deaths caused by shock and the massive amount of concrete splinters that were hurled around inside the command room. It bounced off the floor and exited through the inch thick armour plate that held the MG34 machine gun that pointed out of the rear of the command room for defence. After creating its path through, it then glanced off the side of the metre thick inner blast wall that blew out at least half the width of the wall itself...it still didnt explode. It then bounced and hit the right side of the blast wall and exited through the rear doorway and steel door, removing it completely, then the shell itself embedded itself standing on its nose five feet outside the rear entrance. It laid there for 50 years until it was found when the gun battery was being cleaned up to open as a museum. It was finally detonated, and the remaining nose cone of the four foot long shell was placed back inside the casemate where it has first entered the room (pic 3). The plinth below shows when, and where it was found.

Aged 53 I suffered a a serious heart attack that resulted in stents being fitted in all three main arteries. Three months later I had a triple bypass. I have now taken up walking and cycling, have put on 2 stone and staring my 60th birthday in the face! You really dont know whats around the corner

Not joined a club although there are several in the area, As I said, I take pictures for meself and dont think they are good enough for publishing. Out of the six thousand or so taken on my D3000, about 20 are what I would call good

Ooops, sorry , missed this entry so hello and welcome

Winter? ..........lets get Autumn over first!