Hi Kc 

Welcome aboard 

Ive used reverse 50mm lens on my 100 macro fun isnt it There are a few on here into macro 
If you are ever stuck with any aspect of imagery just ask we have a wealth of experts / harmless loons on here just willing to help

You will soon give up that habit of eating and start on the essentials of life like lens and filters and all manor of gadgets that cost the earth and are rarely used

Happy shooting  

Hi Mike 

from the right side of the hill

Hi DJ 

From the right side of the hill 

A image of Lord Korkington dressed as either Ivy Boulton (that was), Nora Batty or Pearl Sibshaw singing hey sexy lady would take weeks of therapy to reach acceptance 

If anyone has an image of this occasion dont post burn 

And you didnt have your camera with you SHAME on you 

Hi there 30 posts needed before edit available, your well on the way 

Shooting people down is something we are not very good at on here, we tend to point out other ways rather than be rude, unlike some forums with experts on them 

Dont worry too much about spelling we have some great translators on here (although if it makes the sentence humorous expect a friendly jibe)  

Hi Kenny 
looking forward to more interactions with the cos play society 

7 hours ago, Kobione said:

Enjoyed looking at something quite different from what we get to see Fuzzy - that is one impressive wall in the last one. Thanks for the extra info on the pictures, interesting!

After a bit more research the wall was the original boundary wall of the docks, at least most of it. In 1982 they added some more to it from another wall from somewhere else. Why??????

32 minutes ago, Denis said:

Pictures make a story, and I do like reading about the things that many of us dont get to see !

Great stuff, doubt if the old ferry will ever be restored, such plans were mooted for HMS Illustrious... and she ended up being sold for scrap.

It has been on the register for historic ships since march 2015 and the word was they were sending down divers to ascertain the condition of the hull before attempting to pump out the tees but as they say good intentions cost a lot of money  

30 minutes ago, JHFoto said:

All very interesting but what is a Smoggie ?

People from middlesbrough

Watching Rogue One was the object of traveling to Middlesbrough this Crimmy It was a mid day showing so we were stuck with something to do after Obviously a walk over the  transporter bridge was in order

I am always fascinated with the question why
The image below shows a passenger ship low in the water moored up to wasteland , why does it look out of place

The answer is 
It was originally a roll on roll off ferry built in the 60's the Tss Dover later renamed the Earl Siward then Sol Express and finally Tuxedo Royale a posh floating night club moored where it is now Unfortunatly the owners went broke in 2006 and the unruly section of the smoggies moved in, stole all the brass fittings and scuppered the ship by opening all the bilge valves 
There is a move afoot to refloat and use it as a training center for engineers, once the £14 million is found to fund it

My attention then turned to the desolate waste land that had been flattened what was it. There was a weird clock tower on it and nowt much else 

In the background is the football stadium.The two black rings I will come to later 

The answer 
This was the third and last entrance to the huge docklands east of the transporter Every time the docks grew the clock tower was demolished and rebuilt further out
In 1829 a Quaker bought land to build a coal port, the population was 40
In 1830 the railway made it to Middlesbrough and by 1851 the population had reached 7,600
Iron ore was found in the clevlands and the town swelled by 1860 to 20,000 and the turn of the century it had reached 90,000 on the back of coal and steel 

Such was the speed of progress its easy to see why the docks kept expanding. The weird shaped clock tower is a Victorian function and design building. The lower square section being a hydraulic accumulator used to open and close the lock gates The clock was an obvious thing to stick on the top to let the workers know if they were going to be late or not
here is another image showing a victorian part of a building left standing why I dont know but it just adds to the dereliction of the area, maybe it can be incorporated in some development in the future (the population of Middlebrough today is 150,000)

Now for the black rings that look like ears behind the clock tower 
They are a modern art work by Anish Kapoor called Temenus a huge butterfly net

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2010/jun/10/anish-kapoor-sculpture-net-butterfly

The cost of the water accumulator was around £850 and the clock tower a further £180 the Temenus was £2.5  million 

Its to be hoped they do something with the land because at the moment it is very bleak
Interesting clip from the opening of the transporter Watch the man at 0.13 sec
He is believed to be Erasmus Darwin great grandson of Charles  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjsMgjueumU

And why are they called smoggies its a corruption of an insult by opposing football teams, that has seemingly changed to a collective endearment 

It is a corruption of stink monsters, referring to the smell from the iron furnaces  

10 hours ago, Black Pearl said:

1. It is not possible to zoom with your feet - you can get your subject (roughly) the same size in the frame but everything else changes.

2. When photographers tended to shoot mostly with a 50mm it was on a 35mm system - Kev shoots with a 1.5 crop camera so his field of view will be dramatically different.

This is a confusing subject 

Here is a snippet from an article, which should leave you confused 

• You can not “zoom with your feet”, because if you change your position, your perspective changes.
  With a zoom, the perspective does not change – you are merely enlarging the image. This distinction becomes an important point. If you put a 100mm lens on a full-frame body, and a 100mm lens on a crop body, and you want the same size for your subject in the frame, then you are going to have to move much further back to get the same image size with the crop sensor camera. And then your perspective has changed. And yes, then it will give you the same perspective as a 150mm / 160mm lens on a full-frame body when shooting at that new further distance.
• Full article

http://neilvn.com/tangents/full-frame-vs-crop-sensor-cameras-comparison-depth-of-field/

I used to wander with an 85mm lens only it meant a lot of zooming with the feet 

I now tend to shoot around the 23 mark on the 16-55 zoom lens To be honest the zoom is wasted on me 
You soon get to find the limits and adapt 

There is certainly a variation of styles on toy of the ones ive heard 

Malia tracks  great this and cold flame 
Boris Blank is a bit, nay a lot heavy 

Have flag somewhere with the iconic the race on it 

more than I thought made

Total production of cbx’s came to 38,079 built in Japan with three thousand one hundred and fifty1980 A models built in the USA at their Ohio factory.

Still not a lot over here 

There wasnt that many about when they came out 

I think Dick Emery had one 

know nothing about search engine optimization only click and take a pic
Is this the correct site for you ? 

Good to see you are okay 

Is your widowed friend better or does she still see nocturnal animals?

Sounds an interesting place look forward to your grunge shots 

Welcome aboard 

Is medway the one near chatham I arnt very good with places once you go down south past doncaster 

On 10/27/2016 at 07:38, David995031 said:

We could just build a wall and get Yorkshire to pay for it,

Now there is a challenge 
Not building a wall but getting us to pay for it 

Welcome aboard 995031 I did notice you entered gods land to take images Just saying you know 

hyperfocal man 

Zenith B first camera lead me into this game manual and solid probably learnt 90% of what little I know now from this camera and its excellent book that came with it 

This is probably why I like my Fuji x-t10 for all the reasons BP gives and rue the fact I went for the 16-55 lens (although I love the 16 end) as it has no aperture ring so I have to rely on the screen 

Might even be a flying 12 with the curled over top radiator grills 

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