the Photo thread

[clapton is god]

Unfortunately, my phone and I are shit at photo's, but anyway - up near Brinscall over the weekend and saw this fairly unusual drift hanging over a hedge.

Hardly seen so much as a snow flake in Manc but I was over in east Lancs on Saturday morning and the satnav took me the scenic route. It's all like this over there!

[Dujon]

I hope it meets your needs, Clapton. It certainly looks like a superb unit.

Mine won't arrive for a couple or three weeks yet but the saving is worth the wait. The bag's arrived but not the memory card or camera. I forgot to order a spare battery! As there's no hurry though I'll ask the good wife to pop into one of the camera shops in Penrith next time she's down there (which is so often I often wonder who is her boyfriend).

[Prufrock]

I keep meaning to stick up a few photos of what it was like up our end over the weekend. Mental. I've never seen anything like it!

[Dujon]

Well, Pru, get to it. It's only a quarter to one in the morning.

[clapton is god]

This is Hollie, our beautiful Easter bride from yesterday. This is one of the first images out of the new camera, which played a back-up role to my D700 yesterday just to give it a run out. No flash used and the lens is a simple 50mm 1.4. I think we're all going to get on okay together.

[thebish]

nice shot - the old "let me have a look down your cleavage from up this ladder" shot!

so you do weddings?? I've always thought that must take nerves of steel - i'd just be too scared of stuffing up what is basically a one-chance saloon! good on you!

[clapton is god]

nice shot - the old "let me have a look down your cleavage from up this ladder" shot!

so you do weddings?? I've always thought that must take nerves of steel - i'd just be too scared of stuffing up what is basically a one-chance saloon! good on you!

Don't need no ladder when you're 6'4"

Yes, we've been doing weddings for 8yrs now, me and a buddy. We love it, which is just as well as there's very little money in it. Easier with a two camera set-up such as we employ as we cover each others backs and have never missed anything important yet between us. It can be hard work though. No idea what your policy is but some of the ministers and registrars we have dealt with over the years. One in a church at Deane told us we could take one photo and one photo only during the ceremony. When he put his hands on the brides head and said '....let no man put asunder' that was our cue to press the shutter. Another, in a civil ceremony in a restaurant told us that we could take no photo's whatsoever and even barred us from the room just to make sure! Unbelievable Jeff! Yesterday though, the vicar was fantastic and said 'whatever you want,' I know you'll have some tales of ignorant photographers but we have always gone out of our way to be friendly and compliant in church.

I did commit a faux pas yesterday though. The groom was a rabid Bolton fan and as we walked back down the aisle after the ceremony I spoke to him and told him 'me too'. I actually heard myself saying to the groom 'We all have our cross to bear!' I then realised a) the vicar was stood next to me and b) it was Easter Sunday.

[thebish]

nice shot - the old "let me have a look down your cleavage from up this ladder" shot!

so you do weddings?? I've always thought that must take nerves of steel - i'd just be too scared of stuffing up what is basically a one-chance saloon! good on you!

Don't need no ladder when you're 6'4"

Yes, we've been doing weddings for 8yrs now, me and a buddy. We love it, which is just as well as there's very little money in it. Easier with a two camera set-up such as we employ as we cover each others backs and have never missed anything important yet between us. It can be hard work though. No idea what your policy is but some of the ministers and registrars we have dealt with over the years. One in a church at Deane told us we could take one photo and one photo only during the ceremony. When he put his hands on the brides head and said '....let no man put asunder' that was our cue to press the shutter. Another, in a civil ceremony in a restaurant told us that we could take no photo's whatsoever and even barred us from the room just to make sure! Unbelievable Jeff! Yesterday though, the vicar was fantastic and said 'whatever you want,' I know you'll have some tales of ignorant photographers but we have always gone out of our way to be friendly and compliant in church.

I did commit a faux pas yesterday though. The groom was a rabid Bolton fan and as we walked back down the aisle after the ceremony I spoke to him and told him 'me too'. I actually heard myself saying to the groom 'We all have our cross to bear!' I then realised a) the vicar was stood next to me and b) it was Easter Sunday.

I basically tell photographers (some of whom DO think the entire day is basically about them!!) that I don't care what they do as long as they remain unobtrusive and don't use flash... I've rarely had a problem with photographers - I usually know the best places for them to stand and am happy to move stuff around so that they can get the views they want... apart from the no flash during the ceremony the only real rule I have is the signing of the register - where i don;t allow them to photograph the actual signing - but there are obvious reasons for that - they can mock up poses immediately the signing is done...

I did have a photographer not that long ago who brought a video-photographer with him - who started to video the proceedings with what looked like a police search-and-rescue helicopter searchlight strapped to the camera - shining in my eyes... during the hymn i sidled to the back (tracked by the search & rescue spotlight) and rammed it down his throat so that it shone out the back of his trousers... *


* I may be exaggerating!

[Dujon]

I don't think I've ever seen an ugly bride. That's a right proper good photograph, clappers. Now I comprehend why you spent the quids you did on your equipment.

My new kit arrived this morning so there's a bit of reading for me to do over the next few days. The first challenge is to change the display to English and get rid of the pretty but incomprehensible oriental squiggles from the set up screens. The camera came without a manual, which is normal for the mob from which I purchased it (it claims it's being 'green' and helping the environment and instead put up the manual for downloading from it's web site). Now the concern is that it doesn't have the manual on it's web site. *sighs* I've managed to grab a copy from the USA Nikon web site to get me under way, but it's an absolute pain to read a screen whilst fiddling with the camera. I'd print it out if it there was not half a ream of paper and only the gods know how much ink at stake. Green indeed!

[thebish]

friend of mine just bought a new camera that has wifi and you can call it up on your phone!!

[bobo the clown]

I don't think I've ever seen an ugly bride.

Now .... THERE's a challenge !!


... & you've clearly never browsed through the Wexham local paper !!

[Bruce Rioja]

I don't think I've ever seen an ugly bride.

If all these brides are beautiful, where do ugly wives come from?

[Dujon]

From behind all the powder and rouge, Bruce. Make-up people are artistes of the top order.

[Montreal Wanderer]

I don't think I've ever seen an ugly bride.

Now .... THERE's a challenge !!


... & you've clearly never browsed through the Wexham local paper !!

or many other places.

[seanworth]

Or different tastes I guess. Balls in your court Dujon.

[Bruce Rioja]

I don't think I've ever seen an ugly bride.

Now .... THERE's a challenge !!


... & you've clearly never browsed through the Wexham local paper !!

or many other places.

Ah but hang on - I thought we were only talking about female brides here.

[thebish]

went out this morning with the dog to find that there had been another landslip in the ongoing saga of the disappearing house a few streets back from us...

the house is built on this crumbly red rock - and has been extensively covered in the press recently - the woman who owns it bought it without having a survey done!

anyway - the red rock falling into the sea made for a spectacular tri-coloured sea this morning...


oddicombe landslip by revnev, on Flickr


neapolitan sea by revnev, on Flickr

anyway - the red-sea backdrop made for an interesting background for this singing robin...


robin by the red sea by revnev, on Flickr

[Dujon]

Wow! That's awful, thebish. Poor owner.

The tricolour water is interesting. The sharp definition between colours is intriguing. That sort of view is often seen when rivers run into the sea but I'd always thought that came about to either fresh water meeting sea water or perhaps even a temperature difference. It seems that I was wrong. Perhaps it's some sort of non-mixing that occurs due to silt laden water and relatively clean water.

The robin. How on earth do you manage to get such lovely images? The birds around my place either flit from place to place with great rapidity, are hidden in the foliage or scamper around on the ground like headless chooks. I haven't tried anything as yet with my new gear but am thinking that unless I find a kookaburra sitting on my clothes line whilst it's surveying the ground for suitable prey then I have no chance of matching your efforts.

[thebish]

this was pure chance - I had the long lens on for the crumbling house and the robin popped up and sat on the twig in my line of fire...

Robins are pretty bold and will come very close - especially if you are digging the garden - they are one of the easiest birds to photograph - they have no fear!

I have no idea why the sea keeps those clean lines - you can often see the line between the two blues, though... the red just made it all the more striking...

[malcd1]

this was pure chance - I had the long lens on for the crumbling house and the robin popped up and sat on the twig in my line of fire...

Robins are pretty bold and will come very close - especially if you are digging the garden - they are one of the easiest birds to photograph - they have no fear!

I have no idea why the sea keeps those clean lines - you can often see the line between the two blues, though... the red just made it all the more striking...

I was reading a book a little while ago and it has a section on Robins. In the UK and only the UK, Robins are considered tame.

There are loads of You Tube clips of Robins eating seeds/nuts off peoples hands. I presume they have learnt this behaviour from parent birds.