A new year, a new photography thread! Thanks to everyone who's participated in these threads, whether as a photographic contributor, a commenter, or as someone who just pops in from time to time to admire the latest offerings. The Soul Source photography thread now enters its sixth year (well, technically it started life in April of 2013, but who cares?), which I think is amazing.

As I mentioned in the last post of the 2018 thread, its longevity is entirely down to you and your continued involvement, so thank you one and all for making this a real highlight for so long. Cheers, and here's to another photo-filled year!

 

 

The Vale Of Lune 

25 minutes ago, Tattoodave said:

I wouldn't know how to go about it myself, but best to copyright the image before you sell I would have thought.

Dave .  All my images are copyrighted mate.

I need to get in touch with Mike Dean a  old mate of mine who now lives in Bournemouth.  A photographer who's had pictures and books published 

6 hours ago, Winsford Soul said:

Had a few comments about this particular photograph on different social media platforms. The badger Trust would like to use it, crediting me of course and other comments about how easy this picture would sell.

What do people on here think ? 

Should I start selling my prints ?

Has anyone gone down a similar path ?

Steve

Absolutely you should. Your photography is outstanding. Beyond outstanding really. I look on this thread every day hoping you've put some more photos on!

1 minute ago, Flamingemeralds said:

Absolutely you should. Your photography is outstanding. Beyond outstanding really. I look on this thread every day hoping you've put some more photos on!

WOW.   I'm slightly embarrassed now.  Thank you. 

To be honest, I've downloaded most, if not all, of your photos and have them in an album in my phone. 

Whenever I feel a bit jaded, tired or blue, I have a look through them.  Nature is such a tonic and to see it up close, in the superbly exquisite way your photos are composed and presented, tends to put things into perspective for me. The world can often feel like a very ugly place with all the modern day issues we face.  Looking at your photos reminds me that there is far more beauty in the world than ugliness, if only we care to look. 

So my "Winsford" album is a bit like "therapy"! So, there you go!  And thank YOU for sharing them 🤗. They need to be shared and enjoyed. I don't think anyone would argue with that.

42 minutes ago, Flamingemeralds said:

To be honest, I've downloaded most, if not all, of your photos and have them in an album in my phone. 

Whenever I feel a bit jaded, tired or blue, I have a look through them.  Nature is such a tonic and to see it up close, in the superbly exquisite way your photos are composed and presented, tends to put things into perspective for me. The world can often feel like a very ugly place with all the modern day issues we face.  Looking at your photos reminds me that there is far more beauty in the world than ugliness, if only we care to look. 

So my "Winsford" album is a bit like "therapy"! So, there you go!  And thank YOU for sharing them 🤗. They need to be shared and enjoyed. I don't think anyone would argue with that.

WOW that's awesome and thank you very much.  

Just got back from a long weekend in Prague .

What a stunning city. A real pleasure to walk round and take in all the sights . A £12 travel card gets let’s you move around the city on all forms of transport for 3 days, even the funicular railway. 

Also managed to included a trip to the biggest record plant, which was once a dusty communist factory, GZ Media has tapped vinyl’s rebirth to become a £76m outfit pressing 25m records a year.

 

 aquilegia flower...

Edited June 18, 20195 yr by Pablorally

1 hour ago, Pablorally said:

Aqualegea flower...

I hate to be pedantic, but it's aquilegia, you also have aphids.

I've ordered some cream for it! 👍😆

5 minutes ago, Pablorally said:

I've ordered some cream for it! 👍😆

the fully open flower at the bottom middle, what colour is the flower?  Looks unusual

White. In edited version....

21 minutes ago, Pablorally said:

White. In edited version....

Not so unusual then, but still nice

On 06/06/2019 at 15:27, Winsford Soul said:

Tenby. North Beach.  Just spent the last five hours on this gorgeous beach in the glorious sunshine 

WTF Steve just spotted this post.

I was also in Tenby on 5th and 6th June with the wife for my birthday; stopped in Carmarthen on way home on the Friday and got soaked!

Can certainly vouch it was hot on 6th though; burned the top of my head as I hadn't thought to pack a hat for the trip.

By the way Tomangoes, I can offer another recommendation for evening meal at the Baytree Restaurant in centre of town.

Apologies to Mods for going off topic...... 

1 hour ago, Soulfusion said:

WTF Steve just spotted this post.

I was also in Tenby on 5th and 6th June with the wife for my birthday; stopped in Carmarthen on way home on the Friday and got soaked!

Can certainly vouch it was hot on 6th though; burned the top of my head as I hadn't thought to pack a hat for the trip.

By the way Tomangoes, I can offer another recommendation for evening meal at the Baytree Restaurant in centre of town.

Apologies to Mods for going off topic...... 

Yeah Fri and the following Tue where the only bad days,  really bad. I've been lucky enough to have been going to Tenby for year's mate and the baytree is one of the very few that I've not eaten in. Will check it out in October. 

Your gonna tell me that you parked on north beach car park and said to your wife . Look at the soul  registration on that car. 

Unfortunately not, that would have been too Twilight World. Stayed in Penally and got the train in. Manorbier is a lovely little village we visited whilst there. Hadn't been to Tenby since I was a kid. 

Came on this thread to get some tips on camera purchases. Was considering a Panasonic Lumix FZ 1000 as its got good reviews but have any of our erstwhile David Bailey's had any experience of using it?

Edited June 18, 20195 yr by Soulfusion

18 minutes ago, Soulfusion said:

Unfortunately not, that would have been too Twilight World. Stayed in Penally and got the train in. Manorbier is a lovely little village we visited whilst there. Hadn't been to Tenby since I was a kid. 

Came on this thread to get some tips on camera purchases. Was considering a Panasonic Lumix FZ 1000 as its got good reviews but have any of our erstwhile David Bailey's had any experience of using it?

Last year in Manobier,  I returned to the car and there was a soul night flyer under wiper blades. For a night in Deeside,  North Wales with a old mates name as a resident dj. Whose ex wife is from the hamlet of Thomas Chapel where i was staying just outside Tenby.  You couldn't make it up.  

22 minutes ago, Soulfusion said:

Unfortunately not, that would have been too Twilight World. Stayed in Penally and got the train in. Manorbier is a lovely little village we visited whilst there. Hadn't been to Tenby since I was a kid. 

Came on this thread to get some tips on camera purchases. Was considering a Panasonic Lumix FZ 1000 as its got good reviews but have any of our erstwhile David Bailey's had any experience of using it?

Can't help you with the camera as i only have experience of Canon stuff. But I'm sure there's going to be people in the know on here because they're helpful and informative with everything else. 

Here`s one I did earlier.  How would you like this in your kitchen? 

I have the hallway to do in the next couple of days and that has no perimeter, the design is wall to wall.

Looking good Steve.  How's your eyes 

I can't contribute any photos to this thread, but I've just been looking on the BBC website and seen the article linked below which include some stunning photos of the extreme weather experienced on the south coast last night.  I thought some people on here might appreciate them also.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-48688194

 

I`ll just weird it up a little more using son number 2.  Now then.  Look at the 1st photo above, there`s an optical illusion effect. There are 3 separate shaped tiles that make up each block. And if you look at the blocks in the centre they are symmetrical but if you scan left or right they actually shorten and elongate🤔

Edited June 19, 20195 yr by Guest

2 hours ago, Steve Lane said:

I`ll just weird it up a little more using son number 2.  Now then.  Look at the 1st photo above, there`s an optical illusion effect. There are 3 separate shaped tiles that make up each block. And if you look at the blocks in the centre they are symmetrical but if you scan left or right they actually shorten and elongate🤔

Love it.❤ Lou,s daughter said she would fall over.  I told to her  stay of the gin. 🤣

I`m gonna have another play around tomorrow.🧗‍♀️

2 hours ago, Steve Lane said:

I`ll just weird it up a little more using son number 2.  Now then.  Look at the 1st photo above, there`s an optical illusion effect. There are 3 separate shaped tiles that make up each block. And if you look at the blocks in the centre they are symmetrical but if you scan left or right they actually shorten and elongate🤔

Very Escher-esque! 

The Vale Of Lune 

Screen shot of one of my badger pictures taken from the badger trust pages

14 hours ago, Winsford Soul said:

Screen shot of one of my badger pictures taken from the badger trust pages

Nice one Steve.  Joe has just managed to get back into his Getty account as it's changed ownership, and there was over £500 waiting for him.

The morning mist rising above La Gomera.

Ed

Edited June 22, 20195 yr by Tomangoes
Spello

17 minutes ago, Tomangoes said:

The morning mist rising above La Mera.

Ed

Awesome 

5 hours ago, Steve S 60 said:

Nice one Steve.  Joe has just managed to get back into his Getty account as it's changed ownership, and there was over £500 waiting for him.

Thanks Steve.  That's brilliant news for Joe. Nice little bonus 

Think Best in house is taking the biscuit. 

Nice view mind . Think must be a Deer Stalker .

Mind boggles .

Recent Lighting Strike .

Just been to Norfolk and was lucky enough to see a Swallowtail butterfly . The largest, and one of the rarest butterflies in the UK.  Only found on the Norfolk Broads.

 

 

26 minutes ago, veedub said:

Just been to Norfolk and was lucky enough to see a Swallowtail butterfly . The largest, and one of the rarest butterflies in the UK.  Only found on the Norfolk Broads.

 

 

Stunning picture.  On my wishlist to go down to Norfolk to see these stunning creatures. 

Derelict Pontins Hemsby.

Had a nosey round this place on  a recent trip to Norfolk. Closed down about 9 years ago and it's virtualy intact, just left to nature .

 

 

40 minutes ago, veedub said:

Derelict Pontins Hemsby.

Had a nosey round this place on  a recent trip to Norfolk. Closed down about 9 years ago and it's virtualy intact, just left to nature .

 

 

How weird that it's just been abandoned like that, especially with all the building going on?  You'd think a developer would have snapped it up? Maybe there's some sort of legal covenant on the land?  All it needs is a huge room, with a high ceiling, stage and sprung wooden dance floor and it'd make a cracking Retirement Home for the Soulful.   I'd have loved to have a nosey round myself. There's something spookily beautiful and mystical about abandoned buildings. 👻

1 minute ago, Flamingemeralds said:

How weird that it's just been abandoned like that, especially with all the building going on?  You'd think a developer would have snapped it up? Maybe there's some sort of legal covenant on the land?  All it needs is a huge room, with a high ceiling, stage and sprung wooden dance floor and it'd make a cracking Retirement Home for the Soulful.   I'd have loved to have a nosey round myself. There's something spookily beautiful and mystical about abandoned buildings. 👻

https://www.greatyarmouthmercury.co.uk/news/new-vision-for-hemsby-pontins-site-as-veterans-rehab-centre-1-5933888

Well, there you go! 

53 minutes ago, Flamingemeralds said:

How weird that it's just been abandoned like that, especially with all the building going on?  You'd think a developer would have snapped it up? Maybe there's some sort of legal covenant on the land?  All it needs is a huge room, with a high ceiling, stage and sprung wooden dance floor and it'd make a cracking Retirement Home for the Soulful.   I'd have loved to have a nosey round myself. There's something spookily beautiful and mystical about abandoned buildings. 👻

Tyson Fury Donated 9M for The Homeless. 

Look how many homes could offer shelter too . 

9 minutes ago, Soulfulmerlin said:

Tyson Fury Donated 9M for The Homeless. 

Look how many homes could offer shelter too . 

My sentiments exactly.  It could help  solve the homeless people problem in part which unfortunately includes many ex service people.  Caring Tory party 

Steve 

2 hours ago, veedub said:

Derelict Pontins Hemsby.

Had a nosey round this place on  a recent trip to Norfolk. Closed down about 9 years ago and it's virtualy intact, just left to nature .

 

 

Book early.

Sarah was over the moon with her £9 SUN holiday.

 

13 minutes ago, veedub said:

Sarah was over the moon with her £9 SUN holiday.

 

Looks just like Prestatyn soul weekender venue only £600 cheaper 

Steve 

19 hours ago, Winsford Soul said:

Looks just like Prestatyn soul weekender venue only £600 cheaper 

Steve 

😂  

On 23/06/2019 at 12:39, veedub said:

Derelict Pontins Hemsby.

Had a nosey round this place on  a recent trip to Norfolk. Closed down about 9 years ago and it's virtualy intact, just left to nature .

 

 

 

On 23/06/2019 at 13:26, Flamingemeralds said:

How weird that it's just been abandoned like that, especially with all the building going on?  You'd think a developer would have snapped it up? Maybe there's some sort of legal covenant on the land?  All it needs is a huge room, with a high ceiling, stage and sprung wooden dance floor and it'd make a cracking Retirement Home for the Soulful.   I'd have loved to have a nosey round myself. There's something spookily beautiful and mystical about abandoned buildings. 👻

I live about 2 miles from their and was born about 3 miles from their.

 

Sad to leave....

But back to Rife in September.

Ed

Not posted on here for a bit but some cracking photos of all sorts of stuff.

A couple from the Isle of Mull back in May, the beach near to us, some Dolphins we saw and the Puffins of Staffa

 

A few from the Summer Solstice in Snowdonia. A view down the Dyffryn Mymbyr from Y Pincin above Capel Curig. A couple from the sunset on Snowdon Summit. One of Snowdon reflections across Llynarau Mymbry from Plas y Brenin

Edited June 25, 20195 yr by soulandy

10 hours ago, soulandy said:

A few from the Summer Solstice in Snowdonia. A view down the Dyffryn Mymbyr from Y Pincin above Capel Curig. A couple from the sunset on Snowdon Summit. One of Snowdon reflections across Llynarau Mymbry from Plas y Brenin

Stunning photographs Andy 

Took dogs over Beacon Fell.  Pond has now been repaired . So bit of swimming