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You might say you went "ladybirding"? 

What a great image. I love it.

Fascinating to see the sun like this. Makes you really want to sit and study the images.

#2 of the revisit set is fantastic. The texture of the wet sand with the reflection from the sky is magical.

I love the first one. The grey skies really give you a foreboding feeling that they're flying into the storm both literally and figuratively.

It's a interesting idea, but I'm afraid it looks a bit superimposed to me. You might get a better effect with tighter boundary between colour and mono.

The light coming through the wing is wonderful.

6 hours ago, MattGrey said:

If the forum is to actively seek new members, the pages up time does need looking at.  It isn't uncommon for the page to go down for an hr here, an hr there. Doesn't bother me so never complained, but I can see this putting off many new people....unless it's only me that has this issue? 

 

On the topic of outages. I noticed it was unavailable for a few minutes about an hour ago. For the Admins, it looked DNS related.

$ ping tipf.co.uk
ping: tipf.co.uk: Temporary failure in name resolution

$ dig tipf.co.uk

; <<>> DiG 9.16.1-Ubuntu <<>> tipf.co.uk
;; global options: +cmd
;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached

I think the cat makes it. He/She is an unexpected element that adds a little extra piece of interest.

I'm on the look out for a Canon EF 28-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM lens for somewhere around the £100 mark.

If you have one to sell then please get in touch.

Cheers, Tim

Poor uptime can affect your standings with search engines such as Google and the like. A site that is often unavailable will be deemed of low quality and its ranking adjusted accordingly.

Thanks. I don't have a macro lens so used a 50mm prime and cropped the image. I'm sure a macro lens would have produced a better image.

I like this forum, and my participation is roughly in line with my enthusiasm for having a "proper" camera in hand (rather than just a phone). I'm not one for sharing photos on Instagram and the like because it feels a bit self promotional and I'm not in it for self promotion, but I'm comfortable sharing here because I feel like the members have a genuine interest in seeing other people's work and having honest discussion about the parts they do and don't like. I think that process benefits everybody, author, participant, and observer.

The future of a forum such as this, or any online community, is steady influx of new active users so it'd be worth thinking about ideas that might attract new users. People need to know that TIPF exists, and need to have a reason to join in.

Simply "more members" isn't enough, you need more actively participating members who share the motivations and values of the community. We all like the vibe of the forum but would like more of it.

I really like the idea from MattGrey about submitting what the community consider their "best" images to Amateur Photographer Magazine. It'd be a great hook to get people aware and interested in the forum and would add an element of credibility to the forum. If not Amateur Photographer then something else. The pattern could be to start publishing our best work outside of the forum for more eyes to see and start putting out the word that there's this super friendly forum who are producing some really top notch imagery and everyone is welcome to join in.

If you're to engage with new young members then perhaps some technical things can be done to make the forum more accessible to them. For example the ability to post photos directly from their Google Photos, Instagram, iCloud, etc etc.

In a departure from everyone else's post processing weapon of choice: I'm a Linux and Mac user and like to use GIMP - GNU Image Manipulation Program to tinker with my photos. It does pretty much everything PhotoShop does, and maybe more, and it's completely free! It works a little different to PhotoShop and all the widgets are in a different place, and there is a variant called Gimpshop which is GIMP with all the controls moved around to look like PhotoShop. Useful for people with PhotoShop muscle memory.

I love this one too. A worthy winner

That's a good one. I like it. Certainly calls out the prejudices that unfortunately exist.

That's very cool. The captured images would make a really great time lapse video, which is probably what they're going for anyway.

That's proper Belfast that.

Ha I see what you mean now. The first 'o' is more like an 'a' right? If you fancy a chuckle at the local dialect search youtube for "m50 trolls situation". Created as a joke by a Dublin radio show about 10 years ago the M50 Trolls are "M" and "50" who live under a toll bridge on the M50 motorway (think M25 for Dublin) and like to poke fun at the "Up North" accent.

I'll fess up too: I'm not a "Norn Iron" native. I grew up in Buckinghamshire and ended up here by marrying a girl from County Down.

49 minutes ago, ChrisLumix said:

Tim's from Northern Ireland.

I don't get it.

Ah well that would explain why I can't find any trace of my old account or posts. It makes me feel a little better than I didn't dream the whole thing. A new start for all of us then.

Thanks for the welcome all.

Thanks Korky,

Thinking a little more about my previous life here, I remember sharing a particular image that I just found on flickr dated Jan 2009. So it really was a long time ago I was here last. How time flies.

Evening all,

This is Tim here. I had an account at TIPF some years ago but have since forgotten all details of my login. Likely lost to history forever now. No matter, a new start and all that.

See you all around the forums!

Cheers, Tim