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I've recently opened an account with Flickr & don't know why I left it so long, it's brilliant. Among the albums I've made so far is a monochrome one, some shots are new some are older ones but all recently revamped using Silver Efex. Monochrome and Selective Colour

Been a while since I've visited here, over 12 months ago in fact according to my profile. Photography has taken a bit of a back seat for the past year as family stuff and restoring an old car sort of took over things. It's nice to see some of the old names still here though, and if you'll have...

I think you may have had a lucky escape with the F800ST KR. I bought one a few years back to replace my Harley. I only ever bought the Dyna Glide to see what they're like and wasn't that impressed to be honest, it was fun for what it was and I enjoyed tinkering and customising it but I grew...

If you count everything in terms of hard cash then yes I guess it is, but a BMW will depreciate far less over the years than most other bikes. At 6 years old I could still buy a decent car for what it's worth in the UK. But, that's not the point. Where biking is concerned I never count things in...

I like that, John. I've just taken the bib screen off the BMW, 'tis now a nekid bike and looks very mean 'n moody.

On Friday I took a run over to Silverstone to photograph the practice sessions for the British round of the Moto GP. Silverstone was it's usual bleak, cold place dispite the bright sunshine, it's always cold there no matter when you choose to go. Struggling with an ailing camera, the light meter...

Thanks for all the nice comments. I'll get these loaded up onto my website when I get time to do them, It's all just a bit chaotic here at the moment. A simple wiring job in my garage to provide a power point for the new electrically operated doors turned into a major rewire. Fortunately I was...

Been slowly working my way through more photos from my France trip of a few week ago amongst the myriad other things I've been doing here - major revamp of garage and collecting bits for the new (old) car that should be arriving within the next few weeks. Also been looking at new DSLR cameras...

Sorry, should have said, these were shot on my aging Canon 550D using a Canon 17-40 L Zoom. The metering on the camera packed in whilst on the French tour so most to the shots were pure guesswork. New camera body time I think, I only ever buy cheap bodies as I abuse them too much but this...

I've recently returned from a road trip over in France where I explored a lot of small medieval villages in the Lot and Dordogne areas. The shots I took this year were all done with a view to making them monochromes for my "Backroads of France" series of photos for my website. I did a similar...

I sold the BMW Z4 a month or so back, some of you may recall it, it was the yellow one I put a few pics of on here. Truth is I found it an incredibly boring car, great to drive but the only time it became even remotely entertaining was at highly illegal speeds - so I got rid. After 3 MX5s...

Just got back from a wee trip to Cornwall for a wedding, decided to stay down there and rented a cottage on the coast and did some walking on the coastal footpath. Not sorted all the photos yet as I'm planning a trip to France for a few weeks time but here are a few I rattled off near Newquay...

Nearest thing I came to creating an abstract was this, which I did for my City & Guilds photography coursework years ago. This took ages to set up over a period of a few days experimenting with different lighting set ups and is a scan of a cibachrome print done from Fuji slide film in my old...

I'm just putting the shots I took onto my website so I'll post th elink when it's done, but here's one to be going on with. Alesund from Mount Askla,

Been away a while, sorry about that but we did Norway, which was going to be another road trip but no ferries anymore to Stavanger from the good ol' UK - and now none to Denmark either - meant a mega long drive before we even got there. Expensive scandinaviian hotels also meant a change of...

I was invted to Crufts on Friday by a mate who's has two Newfoundland Dogs and is quite active in doggy circles, he had a press pass going spare so asked if I'd like to go with him. Stupid question, despite me being quite ill at the moment. I must admit it was a bit of a struggle spending all...

There's something quite theraputic about drawing that I'd forgotten about, it does take your mind off a lot day to day troubles etc. The daft thing is I can only really draw cars / buildings or mechanical stuff, I'm not too bad at landscapes but I can't draw people or faces ... or animals etc. I...

The last week or so I've had a horrible virus thing going on so I've been laid a bit low and not doing much. Boredom slowly crept up on me but to be honest I couldn't reallly be bothered with anything that required too much effort. So in desperation and having got so fed with TV and reading...

We have a supercar club that meets once a month for breakfast at a hotel not too far from here - Sunday was the Feb meet. The day dawned bright and sunny so I unwrapped the Zed, fired it up and headed over there to meet up with some friends from a car club I belong to. Being a nice day there...

Makes me feel cold just looking at those

More Silver Efex - I'm addicted! :biggrin:

Nice! :2thumbs:

Got a selective colour thing going on, loving this Sliver Efex Pro

True ......... but it's still a window and it's a great shot :smile:

Now, that's a window shot! :smile:

Amsterdam

Same Loch same trip

Taken in August last year on a roadtrip to Scotland. Apologies for the border it was p/shopped for something else.

Love those shots, No 2 has atmosphere in spades. :thumbup:

Now, you see you've found my soft spot, I absolutely love old photos. To me it's why we take pictures - so that someone can look at them many years down the line and let their imagination run wild! Photos are more than just pretty pictures like the ones we tend to take today, they're an...

A neighbour asked me to take some shots of their daughter's little girl, Lucy - who is just 12 months old - so I did them yesterday. I've not done any kiddy portraits since I gave up pro photography a good few years back - the camera had film in it back then. We had a blast doing these shots...

Yes, after having had the Oly EPL-5 for getting on 12 months now I can vouch for it's reluctance of the A/F to "latch on" to a subject in low light. In every other respect we get along just fine, focus speed in good light is adequate and I'm genuinely very fond of it - it's got great character...

Gave the Zedfor it's first wash 'n shine since I bought it today, it's had a few "bed baths" in the garage but - to quote Eddard Stark, winter is coming - and our UK roads are now filthy so it needed a good scrub to get all the cag out from under the wheel arches. Not helped that I keep taking...

I'm loving this car. :biggrin:

Moody as Scotland gets, these were shot at the back end of summer this year on a roadtrip. Loch Garry and The road into Glen Coe

Nice shots, too long since I was in Majorca - must rectify that soon.

I sometimes earmark websites like this, they act as inspiration for when I can't be bothered getting out of bed early enough to go catch photos like these. He's good, and that is now top of my "list" of inspirational websites, thanks for posting, ReD :2thumbs:

Lovely shots, i particularly like the last one - it really does illuminate

It is pniev, yet people drive within a few miles of it on their motorway dashes to more commercialised places. My gain, their loss :smile:

Nice is that, Bill I always liked Saabs, never had one but often thought about it. It was a shame about their demise but weren't they rescued by an electrics company?

Hi, Bill. Yes the MX5 went after our Euro trip, the power roof started making expensive noises (getting to be a more common problem). I took it into Mazda as it stil had some warranty left on it but they didn't want to know, I was just fobbed me off with "They all make that noise sir" I off...

Some still shots from a day out shooting a video over Bowland in Lancashire on Wednesday. One of the nicest parts of Lancs, and just an hours drive from here. Shot on the Oly EPL-5 with the 14-42 kit lens

I remember "fixies" from my youth - lethal things :smile:

Some from Amsterdam

All superb shots, doncha just love Scotland? Nobody does skies better than the Highlands. A friend recently bought an RX100 for his wife, I don't think she's touched it yet - she's not been able to get it off him. :laugh1: He bought it for a road trip to France and the photos they brought back...

Thanks folks - glad you like the new girl. She fits in the garage well too. As a plus the weather here in Lancashire has been quite nice of late so we've managed to get out for some airy top down runs. Today I picked up a mate who's just had an op on his hand so can't drive and we took off for...

Hi folks, apologies for not being around here for a while - it must be a while, the forum name has changed! The last few months have been something of a mixed bag and I've just not had any time to devote to photo taking. After the summer road trips I had a couple of months of ill health which...

One of the nicest of the lakes is Derwent Water, not been up there for a long time - must rectify that soon