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Lovely shot Denis, well done

Leamington and Warwick have some great photo opportunities, and of course are quite close together. Some of the groups around here (before lockdown2) have been organising small walks, so it's possible to do with 6 or less people ... or hopefully it will be again after lock down is over. I ran a Midland Photography Group where we sometimes has 20 - 30 people turn up for walks ... it's a nightmare keeping everyone together. The canals around are a great photo opportunity for city shots and reflections too. Not everyones cup of tea but I do spend a lot of time there

Nice to put faces to names .... shame another one cant be organised at the moment

Its a very simple photograph, but I can imagine that as a large framed print on the wall it would look brilliant

Well done, lovely tones and a really relaxing image, if you see what I mean ?

Thanks all, very kind It was worth the cold and the wind then ?

Thank you very much Polly, and thanks everyone for your comments

Thank you all, very kind It's a place I would truly love to get back to, but sadly with the current situation and the huge distances to travel it seems unlikely. It's easy to take a nice picture there

Denis and I have been messaging, as I hadn't seen the post here until now I usually use a 24-105 lens, 100 ISO around f11 in aperture priority on a tripod. I often use an ND grad as well when the contrasts are quite great - it might have helped with Johntwo's issue with the bright street lamp

Well done Geoff

Thanks

Thank you so much ... I enjoyed taking it too

Having sold nearly all of the 50 books I had printed, one of the local artist venues asked me to do a small exhibition and a book launch! It's not until September at the Gunmakers Arms in Birmingham City, so it will be a fairly retrospective book launch

Thanks Korky, they are available from me directly, I send them out 2nd class signed for in reinforced envelopes, paypal is the best method for payment

Admin Approved Many years ago back in the mid 70's I started taking photos of the streets of Birmingham, first with a Zenith EM and later a Pentax ME Super. I knew they might come in handy one day (NOT!). Finally after 5 or 6 months of planning my collection of images of Birmingham has just been published. I thought it appropriate that the profits go to Helping Hands of Birmingham, a charity which helps the genuine homeless of our city. It is A4 size with a 350 gsm gloss laminated cover and 40 high quality images on 170 gsm silk paper. Shots are of the city taken during day and night spanning from the Lucas Motorsports event in the mid 80’s right up to present day. The cost is £10 + £2.72 postage, all profits to Helping Hands (shameless spamming). I'm only sad that a lot that I took back in the 70's weren't good enough to print and the negatives have long gone. I spent time in 2016 replicating those 1970's shots to show how things had changed. They look almost acceptable on the scans, but printing was not possible to a good standard Anyway, if you know anyone who might be interested in one of the books, I would be grateful for your support in letting them know ... as the more I can sell, the more can be done for the genuine homeless of the city of Birmingham

Yes, well deserved

Well done

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Thank you so much, very honoured