The 8th UK South East "Will somebody please start a new thread" gossip thread

souporman wrote in post #9854666
My brother is over to visit for 2 weeks from the 17th, but I'm pretty free before that. What's in Rochester?

Rochester will be an ideal venue for a meet - I suggested it last year but everyone was too busy running round looney bins and the like to listen to me. Very historic and Dickens orientated - give it a go. I will be delighted to meet you all there. Don't worry too much about the Medway types in the daytime - it's at night when the pubs and clubs chuck out that you need to worry. Lots of foriegn tourists in the good weather. Also visit when one of the several festivals is on - very colourful.
Anyway - off to bed now - I'm doing my one day a week term time tomorrow.

Hi Guys

In common with a few of you I have not taken a camera out for ages but on the walk to get the Sunday paper I grabbed the F700 P&S with the intention of capturing some slow speed traffic images and here is the result(s). I class these as 'random jottings' togging wise but what do you think ~ for the record they were taken handheld at 1/40s in the late afternoon. Cropped a tad to improve the composition

TIA

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adrian5127 wrote in post #9856967
I found this rabbit forum which is quite good....does have a lot of waffle in it as well

Nice one coming from you Adrian. A case of the pot calling the kettle black? A guy on the rabbit is probably saying to his mates "I found this South East Canon camera forum but it does have a lot of waffle and is over saturated with bull sh*t though"

Box Brownie wrote in post #9857812
Hi Guys

In common with a few of you I have not taken a camera out for ages but on the walk to get the Sunday paper I grabbed the F700 P&S with the intention of capturing some slow speed traffic images and here is the result(s). I class these as 'random jottings' togging wise but what do you think ~ for the record they were taken handheld at 1/40s in the late afternoon. Cropped a tad to improve the composition

TIA

They look more like bad captures imho. A longer exposure to blur cars more could improve the look for me.

ies photos wrote in post #9856517
Had a prime spot at the weekends big race. Mens winner and womens winner. Both of them either blinked or looked away when hitting the tape!

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They look great to me.

Ray.Petri wrote in post #9856970
Rochester will be an ideal venue for a meet - I suggested it last year but everyone was too busy running round looney bins and the like to listen to me. Very historic and Dickens orientated - give it a go. I will be delighted to meet you all there. Don't worry too much about the Medway types in the daytime - it's at night when the pubs and clubs chuck out that you need to worry. Lots of foriegn tourists in the good weather. Also visit when one of the several festivals is on - very colourful.
Anyway - off to bed now - I'm doing my one day a week term time tomorrow.

Cool, I'm sure we'll all be fed up of shooting by the time darkness falls so all should be good.

Box Brownie wrote in post #9857812
Hi Guys

In common with a few of you I have not taken a camera out for ages but on the walk to get the Sunday paper I grabbed the F700 P&S with the intention of capturing some slow speed traffic images and here is the result(s). I class these as 'random jottings' togging wise but what do you think ~ for the record they were taken handheld at 1/40s in the late afternoon. Cropped a tad to improve the composition

TIA

SwitchBlade wrote in post #9859697
They look more like bad captures imho. A longer exposure to blur cars more could improve the look for me.

I think I agree, a really long exposure resting the camera on the railing would've been good Other than that it doesn't look like you shot them for any reason. Sorry mate

Rochester is a nice place for Photography. Aside from the Castle (and grounds), and Cathedral, there’s a lot of old buildings for architectural type photography and a general olde worlde feeling about the place. You’d struggle not to find something to get photos of

The dockyard is also good. I see mention of the HMS Ocelot. Next to that you also have the HMS Cavalier (C Class Destroyer) and the HMS Gannet (1878 Osprey Class Sloop). If you have 10 mins spare today you can clearly see them on Google Earth.

For liquid refreshment, a little down the road from the dockyards, towards the cinema and dockside outlet centre, the main road (Maritime Way) leads to St Marys Island (housing project). To the left before you cross the bridge to St Marys is a bar called the Ship and Trade (if I recall correctly, been a few years since I was there last, my friends and i used to frequent it on a Saturday evening in the summer as there’s ample outside seating).

Also it might be worth noting that the Docks is right next to Brompton which is a medway military town. There’s a Royal Engineers Museum there with various tanks outside. From memory there’s an old Churchil and a bridge layer outside, I’ve not actually been inside since I was knee high to a short thing.

RAGE!!!
cycling to work this morning and nearly got taken out by some bint in a Ranger Rover trying doing a u turn, parked on the wrong side of the road i might add. What the point of having a 4wd in Queens park anyway!!! If you really need the traction of all 4 wheels buy a wrx!!! rant over

How's everyone this morn?

Morning all.. Still posting from the phone! Grr..

The format utility for windows 7 has gone walking on set-up so now I need another format programme, anyone recommend a good one that is either free to download or have a copy of that can be sent over?! Ta..

A range rover isn't even a foot longer than an Impreza and a similar width. Mostly taller. People moan about 4x4s but they are the same size as people carrier give a few inches, and then people carriers tend to be smaller or similar to family cars. My Accord is longer than a Peugeot 807 for example. Anywho my point is more that these people can afford a Range Rover so if they didn't have that would likely have a larger Merc/BMW anyway, the 7 series is longer, the Merc E and S classes are both larger, etc.

Anyway my small rant there over, the blind bint should have seen you given the improved visibility of the Range Rover over a normal car. I wrote a bike off when a woman overtook me in an Orion as a teenager and she subsequently slammed on her anchors for some traffic lights. I yanked the breaks which tore off of their mounts (so I had no chance of stopping) before going into her boot head first. Good thing it was an Orion, were it an Escort I'd have been through the rear window. Anywho, the front forks were bent backwards, the frame was 4 inches shorter on the crossbar, the front wheel was bent, then brakes as mentioned were torn from their mounts and the only thing that survived unscathed were the pedals and gears lol. Bloody women drivers.

Ah no! That was one helluva cute bunny. Sorry to hear that she has passed on

adrian5127 wrote in post #9856867
That is cute, ours died five weeks ago.....it is amazing how attached you can get to them

Box Brownie wrote in post #9857812
Hi Guys

In common with a few of you I have not taken a camera out for ages but on the walk to get the Sunday paper I grabbed the F700 P&S with the intention of capturing some slow speed traffic images and here is the result(s). I class these as 'random jottings' togging wise but what do you think ~ for the record they were taken handheld at 1/40s in the late afternoon. Cropped a tad to improve the composition

TIA

I took a similar shot a few weeks back while in Brighton.. Lol

Matt Photog Peters wrote in post #9859829
=Matt 'Photog' Peters;9859829]Morning all.. Still posting from the phone! Grr..

The format utility for windows 7 has gone walking on set-up so now I need another format programme, anyone recommend a good one that is either free to download or have a copy of that can be sent over?! Ta..

What do you mean by "gone walking"? You can't see the option? If so, restart the install process and select "Custom" as your install option and not "Upgrade".

BTW - morning all Works been hell for the last week or so hence not being on much.

morning kids!

hope everyone is well 4x4s aside and PC failures?!

it isn't the downpour here that was threatened so maybe some photos will get taken at lunchtime after all!

I am liking the sound of the Rochester trip - seems Dave is group leader with all the inside knowledge!

anyone up to anything exciting?

SwitchBlade wrote in post #9859697
They look more like bad captures imho. A longer exposure to blur cars more could improve the look for me.

Anke wrote in post #9859703
I think I agree, a really long exposure resting the camera on the railing would've been good Other than that it doesn't look like you shot them for any reason. Sorry mate

Matt Photog Peters wrote in post #9859853
=Matt 'Photog' Peters;9859853]I took a similar shot a few weeks back while in Brighton.. Lol

Thanks guys for commenting

I was resting on the railing and I think that was the slowest the F700 allowed me to get down to and still keep the exposure sweet.........as I say sort of togging random jottings especially with too much on my plate as the past few weeks have been a bit rotten and SWMBO was urgently (not an ambulance but post assessment as a result of the GP sending her there) admitted to hospital on Monday, so this week shows no sign of improvement yet in the BB household