Be Excellent To Each Other

Three more, chaps.

That centre one is superb. The lighting on that smooth stone is fantastic.

The other two are ok as well.

Done.

Nice twin row radial! Where, what etc?

Ooh, I love the picture of the stones, Pete. Wullie, that fourth pic is lovely - great textures there.

That 4th pic nearly never got stuck on here http://www.aircrashsites-scotland.co.uk ... -law01.htm

Nice one Wullie, and thanks!

That metal looks cold enough to strip the skin from yer fingers. Reminds me of the Suede Sci-Fi Lullabies cover too.

Incredible that anyone walked away from that.

The Truce

Just been taking some pictures for work in our emergency department. I don't think I like photographing people quite so much as other stuff, they're forever moving around and doing stupid things with their stupid faces. Still, it was nice to do something different. Challenging and that.

Did the sound from the 4 motors put them off?

People are remarkably stupid with their faces, markg. A councillor collared me asking for photos of them hob-nobbing with big-wigs at a library event, and then proceeded to scowl mirthlessly for every shot while everyone else looked cheery and shooting-the-shit. You work with what you can, eh?

More 'New Topography', which is a fancy photography movement phrase for saying, 'nowt-fancy pics of middle-of-nowhere places'.



Bradford, PA

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Place of Peace



Rea Spring, Shiloh National Military Park, early evening, March 2012

A quick couple of photies fae the North West Stages in Fleetwood & then I'm going to my pit... the mountains can wait until tomorrow

It's bloody hard to take a decent photo of fast buggers, particularly when you're standing at most of them's braking point.


Fortunately a couple of mums got lost on their way to buy messages so I managed to get some decent ones

Here are the photies of lakes & mountains & ting. (You can click the attached ones with pano in the title & receive scrolly goodness in return)


The dawn ones approaching Skiddaw were fine...

R0016855 by WullieOoster, on Flickr




... but later on near the summit the sun appeared with a vengeance & made photography a chilly nightmare.


R0016873 by WullieOoster, on Flickr


R0016870 by WullieOoster, on Flickr


R0016872 by WullieOoster, on Flickr


R0016876 by WullieOoster, on Flickr


R0016883 by WullieOoster, on Flickr


Inevitably once I'd arrived back in town it was all blue skies.

... & here are a couple more from before my camera died.

Cor! Some cracking pics, 4 and 6 are especially great. Bet it was fucking freezing up the top of there.

Really like the sunbeams and the last two B&W ones, Wullie.

How long did you spend in the Lakes then? A couple of nights?

Cheers

@Mark. Aye, the gale up there was whistling the heat off me amazingly fast despite throwing a belay jacket on top before the last gate. After freezing my hands off taking photos of the rime on that last gate I didn't bother to take a summit pic, I'd have been all snot icicles anyway

@Z. Aye, I spent a night in Grasmere & didnae sleep that well so I kipped in the car under the watchful eye of Grizedale Pike the second night. Bit chilly in the morning, but much nicer.

Since the days are stretching again I managed a wee pedal to one of the local parks after work. Made a schoolboy error & didnae throw on any extra clothes* for the five miles downhill to the van so ended up with slight hypothermia



*Went up in baggies with a base layer & windproof up top, but was carrying fleecy trousers & a belay jacket in case I had an accident or mechanical up there.

Went for a wee pedal again yesterday & put the mountains into mountain biking

Looking north up Loch Long.

Lunch stop next to the half froze lochan.

Looking back to it.

R0017033 by WullieOoster, on Flickr

& looking onwards.

R0017048 by WullieOoster, on Flickr

Gid views over Loch Goil.



Met a wee hairy pal at Lochgoilhead

R0017082 by WullieOoster, on Flickr

View south over Lochgoilhead + the forestry road back to the van.


... & some strange ice.

weird ice by WullieOoster, on Flickr

Brilliant set of photos, Wullie.

Look like remote spots to be travelling to on your own. Do you ever see other folk up there?

Used to go up that wayish every other year as a kid (in the summer), we would park up and just go exploring, either along a path or just randomly. You'd normally see less than a dozen people over a 2-3 hour walk.

Malc

I went out on a dog walk a few weeks ago armed with my GF1 and a '70s Jupiter-8 lens I bought from eBay ages ago. It only works in fully manual mode, so it's quite fun. It's a 50 mm prime, so it becomes a 100 mm on the GF1 because of the crop factor. Nice sharp optics, and shallow DoF too (it's f/2-22). Got two I liked:


First daffodils by PenLlawen, on Flickr


Railings by PenLlawen, on Flickr

I don't know why, but the in-focus bits of railings make me dizzy

Despite a full car park at the visitor centre I only came across two groups on the paths, a family & a pair of rambling hikers, both within the first couple of miles. The next 23 were all peace & quiet*

Cutting about on your own in the arse end of nowhere is safe enough. Just carry the usual gear you might need to get you out of bother** and make sure someone knows your intended route, when you'll be back & then make sure you get in touch with them once you're done (or if you've changed your plans). Mostly you just need to take it easy & carry/lower/throw the bike down any bits you're not 100% certain you can ride***.
*Though I don't think I was much further than a mile or two from habitation at any one point.
**Map, compass, torch, whistle, extra clothes/food, etc.
***Riding in a group you've got friends there to push you & potentially get you out of there if you fuck up.

Photo I took last time I was in Caerphilly.
I like it. I attempted to use photoshop, but failed as I don't actually know what anything does.

You should use it Caerphilly.

Nice framing there, Cookie. Good use of a leading line!

Been a while since I've uploaded. Decided to take a two week break from photography, clear my mind. Here's a new one and an old one redone...



Bagpuss

Taken with Yashicamat 124G



Little Ruin on the Prairie

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Well, that last one is just perfect.

f0rgspwn!

So, am getting back into gig photography. Just got back from a music festival wot which I got free tickets for, due to photographing duties. Woo-hoo! Some nice girls were playing. Mm.



More photos to appear. But now sleep. With ringing in my ears.

Blog now updated with a selection of nine pics from the festival. Why not go take a gander?

http://petetakespictures.com/blog/

Meanwhile, here's a thumbnail pic of The Primitives' Tracy Tracy:



Yes, they did play Crash, by the way.

Great set, Pete.

Hope something wonderful comes your way from all this.

Bird and Crane

So we got the first bit of decent light in seemingly ages in Cardiff. This led to me getting a cricked neck as I hung around a construction site just trying to get what I thought might be the right moment. Now normally I go for washed out colours, not much in the way of vignetting, etc. But this time I went a little hog-wild and decided to go the polaroid route. I think I like it, but I'm not sure - maybe it is a bit TOO much!

Might be too much, but catching the bird like that is fantastic.

I've just caught up on seven or eight pages of this thread. Some of the shots that have been posted are brilliant, Mark I really liked your ones from Windermere and Pete there were loads of yours I loved but in particular the recent posting of the house on the prairie is just ridiculously good and the street scene with the rain, someone walking past and the reflected light is also incredibile. I really appreciated the description you included with that as well explaining the trials and tribulations you went through to get such a perfect shot!

I think I'll post some of my New York photos since I haven't posted much in rather a long time.
This is a beautiful shiny building we walked past on our way to Central Park, which was sort of curved round so as it was facing the park as much as possible. The architecture in New York is really striking, there are the classic 'Friends' style tenement apartment buildings then a block away there are skyscrapers or theatres or neon lights. even in a skyscraper area there are old brick and stone buildings next to shining glass and metal. It was an incredible place to just wander around in taking in the view. During our five days there we didn't use public transport once and instead just walked everywhere because we wanted to see as much as possible!


This was a shot I was trying to take of a taxi rushing by but I didn't want to spend ages about it so I took a few and this was the best of them. If I had been able to stay there for a wee while I would have persevered until I managed to move smoothly enough to keep the backlights straight but never mind.


I really like this shot, looking straight down rather than across when up the top of the Empire State. I think some of why I like it so much is because the buildings are so dark and sombre and regimented but then the street is just these incredible colours.


This one is annoying, I wish I hadn't been shaking with the cold so much and could have gotten the building sharper! This was still up the top of the Empire State building, we went up there in the evening and although it was a nice January day on the ground, up there it was blowing a gale and freezing cold.


The Paris lovelock idea has travelled to New York and now padlocks with initials drawn on them can be found along Brooklyn Bridge.


New York City cops, New York City cops, New York City cops, they ain't too smart! Sorry, I'm just singing. This was a lovely and very friendly big police horsey we met when we were walking through Times Square.


Pete, you would love the opportunities in New York for street photography. I saw loads of interesting buildings, one in particular just on the Brooklyn side of the bridge that was all abandoned and dilapidated that you would have loved and the amount of runners and cyclists on the bridge was brilliant.

*Quietly foams at mouth*

Great stuff SDG! Love the glass curves of those skyscrapers. Man, they tower. Plus I actually prefer jittery light trails, bit more dynamic I think The one looking down at the rivers of light around the city blocks is neat too. Oh gosh, I'd completely love to photograph New York...

MOAR PICS!

So I went to Oxford on Saturday and shot a roll of Velvia. Twelve shots in all at 100 film speed. Most I took at the spiffing Ashmoleon Museum, but this one is of out doors. The photo lab miss-scanned most of the images so they're running them through again for me to pick up tomorrow, but here's one that worked out. Shot in bright overcast light following the old sunny 16 rule, which meant 1/125 at f/8. (I was working without a light meter all the while.)

There must be something about those flags Gilly... mine went weird too.

Viewing Platform - 86th Floor Empire State Building by MrDavPaz, on Flickr

It was a bit warmer when I went

Aaaand now I want to post all my NY pics again...


Capitalism by MrDavPaz, on Flickr

I visited New York years ago before I had a digital camera.. I never got those 2 films developed.

I'm not sure why I didn't? I bet there was some nice pictures amongst that lot.

I can't imagine standing up there in short sleeves, it was FREEZING!

Not in the middle of July. Sweltering it was.

I visited New York with a digital camera, and because it rained the entire time I was there it spent the entire time under an umbrella.

DavPaz, great angle on that giant blocko capitalism there. Suggestion though, for such abstract images strip 'em down to high contrast black and white and up the clarity, maybe some grain. Give 'em some punch.

That goes to all photos of meh colour but neat composition, black and white 'em.

Hey folks! Did you know that my website petetakespictures.com now has additional content and a regularish updated blog, with bonus images you don't get to see in this thread? Why not go there and subscribe to the blog? Yes, subscribe! Because Pete now knows how to do basic internet things like adding code. Wow!

(Er, he does if it works, that is. Let me know if you actually get my updates!)

I have a feeling I know where you took your leafy pic, Pete. On St Giles, near the Eagle and Child?

I'll have to take you on Kern's Cultural and Historic Pub Crawl some day - I love this city.

This thread reminded me to upload my photos to flickr and I saw Pete had commented on a photo I took ages ago. Sorry Pete, I don't check flickr very often! To belatedly answer your question, the photos were taken at Beachy Head.


Anyway photos of Paris:

P1030061 by Bobbyaro, on Flickr


P1030022 by Bobbyaro, on Flickr


P1020934 by Bobbyaro, on Flickr


P1030118 by Bobbyaro, on Flickr


P1030133 by Bobbyaro, on Flickr

Also Gilly's flag photo looks like something from Ghostbusters 2.

Junk store dummies

Just one of many exciting new photographs posted today on my blog at petetakespictures.com

*COUGH COUGH*