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!

 

 

36 minutes ago, Winsford Soul said:

I was at Willington soul club last Saturday night. Are Willington gravel pits close by ? 

Steve 

Here's where it is Steve. https://www.derbyshirewildlifetrust.org.uk/nature-reserves/willington-gravel-pits

First time I've been there today, brilliant site, loads of Cetti's, cuckoo,whitethroats, etc. spent 3 hours wandering around there. 

 I'll have to get to Willington soul club !

Mike

English Bluebell Woods. 

Steve

 

34 minutes ago, veedub said:

Here's where it is Steve. https://www.derbyshirewildlifetrust.org.uk/nature-reserves/willington-gravel-pits

First time I've been there today, brilliant site, loads of Cetti's, cuckoo,whitethroats, etc. spent 3 hours wandering around there. 

 I'll have to get to Willington soul club !

Mike

Thanks Mike. Will definitely have to go and have a look 

Steve

One of the weirder native Spanish orchids, Serapia lingua.

One of the most famous canyons of the Sierra de Guara Natural Park (Aragón), the Vero River canyon (next to the village of Alquézar). A beautiful excursion by 8 Km very easy, a mixture of trekking and swimming.

Views from the Westin Sarasota tonight. Stunning.

 

Ed

14 hours ago, tomangoes said:

Views from the Westin Sarasota tonight. Stunning.

 

Ed

You certainly get around Ed !!!

2 hours ago, Widnes63 said:

You certainly get around Ed !!!

Casey Key today...

Indeed..

Ed

Just back from first time out in Cyprus .. nice Island .. just chosen the wrong week as I think the weather was better here .

There worst winter ever so I was told .

Jumping in the Gorgas Negras Canyon (Alcanadre river, Sierra y Cañones de Guara Natural Park, Aragón):

 

Bluebells and Forget me nots in our local woods.

Stunning picture's mate. 

Today I cycled to the Amsterdam woods and I saw...

A fine male pheasant

Reed bunting

Warbler - possible sedge, sadly obscured behind a leaf

Ducklings

And I also saw...

Oystercatchers

Ducks in flight

Frogs - singing a full-on frog chorus!

And hares

One thing I didn't get a photo of was a little grebe. It could sense me as soon as I approached the pool it was in (no hides anywhere in the woods, unfortunately) and would dive and swim away to safety. Next time, maybe.

Edited April 24, 20196 yr by Amsterdam Russ

1 minute ago, Amsterdam Russ said:

And I also saw...

Oystercatchers

Ducks in flight

Frogs - singing a full-on frog chorus!

And hares

One thing I didn't get a photo of was a little grebe. It could sense me as soon as I approached the pool it was in (no hides anywhere in the woods, unfortunately) and would dive and swim away to safety. Next time, maybe.

What a day Russell !!!

Great series of pictures Russell.  Definitely looks like a Sedge Warbler mate. The wide  buff coloured stripe above the eye is very visible and distinctive 

Steve 

13 minutes ago, Widnes63 said:

What a day Russell !!!

Thanks! It started slowly and I wasn't very hopeful, but a bit of perseverance paid off in the end. Still miffed at not getting that little grebe, though.  

15 minutes ago, Winsford Soul said:

Great series of pictures Russell.  Definitely looks like a Sedge Warbler mate. The wide  buff coloured stripe above the eye is very visible and distinctive 

Steve 

Cheers, Steve. Warblers and waders - two groups of birds I've never been good at identifying, even in my days as a member of the Young Ornithologists Club! 

There we go Russell.  Just for you mate. Think it's a ten spined Stickleback in its beak , you can count them if you enlarge the picture 

Steve 

28 minutes ago, Winsford Soul said:

There we go Russell.  Just for you mate. Think it's a ten spined Stickleback in its beak , you can count them if you enlarge the picture 

Steve 

Haha - thank you. If only the ones here were so accommodating!

Hi Guys,

I'm no photographer (hence first time I've posted any on here) 

But I think these couple of snaps are pretty good...

This first one is of an Osprey (Sea Hawk) I think that is what the captain of the boat my family and I went on said anyway - It 'swooped' across the top of our boat, and I just pointed my phone camera and hoped for the best!

This second one is a 'memory' one for me - It's of a stunning sunset after a wonderful day on Clearwater Beach with my family just last week 

Keep them photos coming!

All the best,

Len 

Stunning picture's Len.  Taking pictures is as addictive as buying records my friend  and as expensive. 

Trust you are well and safe sir 

Steve 

All well 'n' good thanks Steve.

I'm still in 'cloud cuckoo' land having just returned home from a fabulous holiday - Disney was great fun but exhausting, so was glad to head to Clearwater for a few days. I say 'cloud cuckoo' land as to be able to have a holiday like that after 20 years of Whitby every year is amazing!

Ref photography, I have to admit, I never really saw the 'skill' in it. As far as I was concerned, you just point a camera and press the button  Yeh sorry about that folkz! I now know that there is more to it - Focus etc etc aside, the fun bit, well skill really, is what is behind the shot, the waiting, and of course capturing a 'moment'.

The sunset picture looks even better when seen straight from my phone camera than on this larger computer screen - Can anyone tell me why?

All the best,

Len 'David Bailey' Dopson  

 

Here's me as a "Cave Man (Troglodyte)" as the title track by Jimmy Castor Bunch… This is a kind of underground canyon, Santa Elena, the birth of the Ara River on Bujaruelo / Otal Valley in Aragón (we come for a hole in a valley, descend some fossilized levels and get the "active" level, the underground river, and come outdoor for another hole in another valley)

 

5 hours ago, LEN said:

All well 'n' good thanks Steve.

I'm still in 'cloud cuckoo' land having just returned home from a fabulous holiday - Disney was great fun but exhausting, so was glad to head to Clearwater for a few days. I say 'cloud cuckoo' land as to be able to have a holiday like that after 20 years of Whitby every year is amazing!

Ref photography, I have to admit, I never really saw the 'skill' in it. As far as I was concerned, you just point a camera and press the button  Yeh sorry about that folkz! I now know that there is more to it - Focus etc etc aside, the fun bit, well skill really, is what is behind the shot, the waiting, and of course capturing a 'moment'.

The sunset picture looks even better when seen straight from my phone camera than on this larger computer screen - Can anyone tell me why?

All the best,

Len 'David Bailey' Dopson  

 

Len ' David Bailey ' Dopson.  It's called pixelation.  Your phone screen is small and  made up of so many pixels , where as your computer screen is much larger with many more pixels.  Basically your spreading and stretching the pixels which causes the blurd picture on the pc screen.  

Take the picture on the computer and it will look stunning on the phone 🤣🤣🤣

Steve 

Thought i`d try the panorama mode on my S10+ 

Edited April 25, 20196 yr by Guest

Hanging out with old friends!

1 hour ago, flamingemeralds said:

Hanging out with old friends!

Poppy, Jemima, Humpty, Big Ted and Little Ted, choose your window

 

You don't have to put on the red light ........

 

 

Sorry ... 😄

14 minutes ago, martyn pitt said:

 

You don't have to put on the red light ........

 

 

Sorry ... 😄

It's that wolves accent you have acquired mate. 🤣🤣🤣

The view from our balcony about 20 minutes ago. Photo courtesy of my elderly iPhone5.

2 hours ago, TattooDave said:

Poppy, Jemima, Humpty, Big Ted and Little Ted, choose your window

It's Hamble 🙄

9 minutes ago, flamingemeralds said:

It's Hamble 🙄

What's Hamble ?

27 minutes ago, Widnes63 said:

What's Hamble ?

Courtesy of Wikipedia...

Quote

Hamble was a little doll and one of the original five toys but dropped from the show during the 1980s to be replaced by Poppy. According to Joy Whitby, creator of Play School, Hamble was chosen as representative of a more "downtrodden", humble background than the “middle-class” associations that the teddy bears had. She was disliked by presenters as she could not be cuddled.

According to the BBC website Chloe Ashcroft "did a terrible thing to Hamble. She just would not sit up...so one day I got a very big knitting needle, a big wooden one, and I stuck it right up her bum, as far as her head. So she was completely rigid, and she was much much better after that." (This was mentioned in a BBC Radio 4 programme called Trumpton Riots, available on YouTube.) In the edition called Through The Arched Window (in which the Radio Times said that Chloe Ashcroft would be interviewed and wasn't) the knitting needle incident was mentioned, however the person admitting to it was Julie Stevens.

Poppy, a black doll who replaced Hamble in November 1986, in response to changing attitudes in society (the Hamble doll was also getting rather fragile at this point.)

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Play_School_(UK_TV_series)

Best pic I could find... Hamble is on the right...

 

Edited April 25, 20196 yr by Amsterdam Russ
Image added

29 minutes ago, Amsterdam Russ said:

Courtesy of Wikipedia...

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Play_School_(UK_TV_series)

Best pic I could find... Hamble is on the right...

 

Thanks for clearing that up Russ, can't believe we are having this conversation 🤣

I stand corrected! I had no idea that there was a Poppy.  You just never know when I might need that information.  Your knowledge of Play School characters leaves me humbled, or Hambled in this case 🤔😉😊

11 hours ago, flamingemeralds said:

It's Hamble 🙄

Don't you think I did research first? I knew it wasn't Hamble, but couldn't ever remember another doll.  The "choose your window" bit came from a night in Osnabruck where I was seeing the pre Midge (Man)Ure Ultravox perform and was asked by some obnoxious paratrooper to do just that, and his intention was to throw me out of it.  Needless to say I saw the performance end, and he didn't.

Very wet Male Sparrow hawk  in the back garden. Taken through the kitchen window

Forgot to add that the bottom picture was taken from the upstairs bedroom window hence the difference in the background 

 

Edited April 28, 20196 yr by Winsford Soul

A lucky squirrel found one of last year's apple crop and sat on the fence just outside the shed window. 

 

A very short and little canyon subsidiary of Perles river (next to Coll de Nargó, prepyrenaican mountains in catalonia):

 

Sunday afternoon in the sun watching the mighty clarets take on the nodding donkeys.

A walk in the park with the family.

And the wild garlic in full bloom. I often pick some to accompany whatever i`m planning on for dinner. 

Accrington Town Hall Saturday night.

You have got to love this weather!

 

 

 

 

Sun is out . Going Beacon Fell with the dogs .

Unwind time after massive night at Accrington Town Hall on Saturday.  Planning for May 25th at Town Hall starts tonight . Promoter's meeting .

Making improvements for May 25th .

 

 

12 minutes ago, Soulfulmerlin said:

Winding Down after Epic opening night at Accrington Town Hall 

And the connection to photography is? 🤔😉

Look at the photos 

1 hour ago, Amsterdam Russ said:

And the connection to photography is? 🤔😉

Embedded in the video .

Very good they are . Just adding music to them .

50 minutes ago, Soulfulmerlin said:

Look at the photos 

 

48 minutes ago, Soulfulmerlin said:

Embedded in the video .

Very good they are . Just adding music to them .

Seems to be no more than shameless plugging of an event. 🤨

Where photos were took .

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Been out with the dogs .

Few nice snaps from Beacon Fell .

 

Sharkeys Pier Venice Fl earlier today.

Ed