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Edited January 12Jan 12 by Mike
tile and intro updated Jan 2025

This thread has produced some stunning contributions over many years now, so, whose gonna kick us off? 

Peter

🤔

Good to see this back up and running and hope Russ is OK and that he joins us soon 👍  Some fantastic photos over the years of all manner of things so hope this years will follow on.

My annual start to the new year up Snowdon turned out to be one of the best mountain days I've had. A full-on inversion where the weather above the clouds was warmer than summer, well nearly. The added bonus of a Broken Spectre finished of a most perfect start to 2024

 

 

Edited February 14, 20241 yr by Soulandy

9 minutes ago, Soulandy said:

Good to see this back up and running and hope Russ is OK and that he joins us soon 👍  Some fantastic photos over the years of all manner of things so hope this years will follow on.

My annual start to the new year up Snowdon turned out to be one of the best mountain days I've had. A full-on inversion where the weather above the clouds was warmer than summer, well nearly. The added bonus of a Broken Spectre finished of a most perfect start to 2024

 

 

Bloody hell Andy. 🙂 Absolutely stunning photographs; it must have been amazing being up there. What a start to our new thread, well done my friend, you've set the bar there.

Thanks for sharing.

Peter

57 minutes ago, Peter99 said:

Bloody hell Andy. 🙂 Absolutely stunning photographs; it must have been amazing being up there. What a start to our new thread, well done my friend, you've set the bar there.

Thanks for sharing.

Peter

Thanks Peter

Not sure about setting a bar but it was certainly a good way to kick off the new year 🌞

Well, this thread needs some photographs! 🤔

In the absence of any further brilliance, I will post a couple of extremely poor quality, hardly worthy of the thread, telephone pictures I took today. 🫣 The first is a new shrub that I planted in my garden this afternoon. It's a Cornus Sibirica, and it was a birthday gift from my friend Preacher Man. It's the first thing I've done in the garden this year. 

The second two are of Ace, my Doberman rescue dog. He's eight now, still a challenge, but very loving and good company for me. He has bad arthritis in both of his back legs, and is on medication for those. He's ok though, playing and walking. He is very overweight, and will be in boot camp soon, now the weather is improving. 

I hope they're ok anyway.

Peter

 

Fairly apt Peter with the photos the plant is also known as Dog Wood , and then the picture of Ace.

20 hours ago, Peter99 said:

Well, this thread needs some photographs! 🤔

In the absence of any further brilliance, I will post a couple of extremely poor quality, hardly worthy of the thread, telephone pictures I took today. 🫣 The first is a new shrub that I planted in my garden this afternoon. It's a Cornus Sibirica, and it was a birthday gift from my friend Preacher Man. It's the first thing I've done in the garden this year. 

The second two are of Ace, my Doberman rescue dog. He's eight now, still a challenge, but very loving and good company for me. He has bad arthritis in both of his back legs, and is on medication for those. He's ok though, playing and walking. He is very overweight, and will be in boot camp soon, now the weather is improving. 

I hope they're ok anyway.

Peter

 

Lovely looking dog Peter.

Not quite the weather for many photo's I reckon, all this wind & rain that seems to be knocking about most days. Hopefully will pick up once it starts to get a bit more settled and the "big camera" folk start to get out and about a bit more 🙂

Got back out in Snowdonia on Saturday, up on the high Carneddau. Another great mountain day. 

View of the snowy high ground from Carnedd Fach

A couple of the Carneddau Ponies with Tryfan in the background 

View from Carnedd Dafydd 

View of Ffynnon Llugwy Reservoir 

First week back under the Sun after a six month hiatus , had to capture the massive sunspot that's currently crossing the disc that's about nine Earth diameters across give or take ... 

Skywatcher Evostar 150 + Canon 6D + Baader ND3.8 Astrosolar Imaging film.

Stack of 60 frames.

 

And baby makes five ... 😍

My own personal herd has grown ...

After half an hour of playing hide and seek he/she eventually popped into a snapable position before mum came calling.

 

 

 

40 minutes ago, Woodbutcher said:

And baby makes five ... 😍

My own personal herd has grown ...

After half an hour of playing hide and seek he/she eventually popped into a snapable position before mum came calling.

 

 

 

I've run out of likes already! But, I like this very much, great pictures. 😍

Peter

In the absence of any new posts I will try and post this. The same health warning which comes with all of my photo's and posts on this thread; none of them can match the quality of our more skilful contributors.

Peter

Edited March 17, 20241 yr by Peter99

Had a few days in Brugges this week, first time and a really nice place and it was warm 👍

Stork on its nest (not the greatest phone photo)

Night time by the canal x2

Road Bridge up to let the big boats through 

 

 

 

Edited March 23, 20241 yr by Soulandy

Easter weekend in Wales.  Barmouth Bridge reopen after a major refurbishment

Looking towards the Aran Range from the very quiet campsite  

 

Great pictures again Andy, thank you for sharing.

The first one would grace any lovely collection or postcard for the area - fantastic shot.

I hope you're all well my friend. 

Peter

5 hours ago, Peter99 said:

Great pictures again Andy, thank you for sharing.

The first one would grace any lovely collection or postcard for the area - fantastic shot.

I hope you're all well my friend. 

Peter

Thanks Peter, appreciated. All well here

Andy 👍

Here are a couple from me - just with my phone at home; I still don't leave the house very much due to my mentalist issues. As always, they're not fantastic. Someone bought me a Amaryllis plant for Christmas - I've never seen or grown one before. Anyway, it's quite a magnificent flower when in bloom.  

Tuesday 2nd April. The Long Mynd, Shropshire.

I knew there were ponies up here, but I'd never actually seen them for myself before.

Oxford over the wkd. 'Morse' country!

A very wet Oggmore beach car park today

 

 

Misty morning over the 18th green at Orsett GC

Porto Morgan, Gran Canaria 10am today

A very well cared for AA box near Aysgarth North Yorkshire ,just had to stop and take a photo

Finally got a patch of blue to play in after an age of grey ...

Awful seeing but found 26 frames to stack from 400 shot.

Canon 6D + Evostar 150 + 2x Barlow + Baader ND3.8 +Oiii.

 

 

Finally caught a break and a chance to see the enormous active region that's on show right now on the Sun.

It's actually bigger now than the famous 1859 "Carrington Event" sunspot , and still growing ... 

 

 

 

 

Day out at local Wetland centre. First chance to try new lens & pretty happy with these. Last one just because it's cute. 

5 hours ago, Woodbutcher said:

Finally caught a break and a chance to see the enormous active region that's on show right now on the Sun.

It's actually bigger now than the famous 1859 "Carrington Event" sunspot , and still growing ... 

 

 

 

 

Both active regions look like newt type creatures - or one a dragon. Perhaps because the newts in my garden have become active and I've seen quite a few today. I'll try and get a few photo's.

Peter

🙂

Crawled out of bed to catch the early blue ... cool.gif

Even got to play up close for a change.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited May 10, 20241 yr by Woodbutcher

Greenbooth reservoirs Naden Valley Norden, 

Thought I was going to get lucky and catch the three Spitfires together from Imperial War Museum Duxford that had been on a jolly to Dover and back , but they split up just before they got to mine so I only got to grab a few frames of the two-seater "Elizabeth" as she shot past .

Here's the best three frames.

Canon EOS 90D + Sigma 150-600C.

 

 

 

 

 

Just got back from Lakes phone only photo’s

 

In Scotland at the moment,  Ardnamuchan,

Just had a few days on Mull where the weather was exceptional

A couple more from my recent Scotland trip

Start of a wasp nest, the Queen is just visible. This was on the ceiling of the campsite Washing area  it was going to be removed.

Loch Sunart where I managed to watch the FA Cup final on my phone. Great view and great result 👍 

A great bench 😁

 

Blue Mosque Istanbul

Basilica Cistern Istanbul

Seeing Andy's photo of the bench reminded me of these I took last month, even in death you get the couple must have enjoyed a sense of humour, pics aren't the best as camera on my phone isn't the great, you might have to enlarge to read. 

A nice visit from one of my favourites on her way home to the IWM Duxford ... 

 

 

 

Happy Solstice everyone , glorious cloudless blue here first thing and seeing decent enough to let me in close ... 😎

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited June 20, 2024Jun 20 by Woodbutcher

A week in the life of a very active Sun , 16th to 20th June 2024.

On 16/06/2024 at 21:31, Woodbutcher said:

A nice visit from one of my favourites on her way home to the IWM Duxford ... 

 

 

 

The Catalina.....nice...👍

Thats a great shot, here is my wife Liza nipping off in a Tiger Moth a few years ago...

Then as the afternoon entertainment we all got attacked by a swarm of em...

Such was the clear blue sky and very good seeing this morning I decided to try an animation of the active region that's grown so much this week .

I captured 45 short 2100 frame videos between 08:30 and 10:30 and stacked the best 200 frames from each video to get 45 frames that I then cropped down and made into a .gif.

Very happy to see a lot of motion in the penumbra between the two main spots in the region.

 

 

Had a day at Port Sunlight - Liverpool south side - highly recommend it, people who live there are really friendly, one resident even showed us around there cottage - great history deffo worth a view.

A year on almost to the hour my Scissor Bee cloud has returned to the myriad of holes in the oak porch bathed in evening sunshine ... 😍

Grabbed a short video clip with the EOS 2000D and the Laowa 100mm f/2.8 2x Ultra Macro APO Lens .

The still frame is for scale ... 😉

 

 

 

Waterfalls.

Dolgoch Falls next to the Talyllyn railway near Tywyn Wales

Minffordd Gorge Waterfalls and foxglove on the Minffordd Path upto Cader Idris

 

 

Reflections on Lake Vyrnwy and the dam

A few of 1200+ snaps from our recent Detroit / NYC vacation

Clouds reflecting off One World Trade Center.

Golden World Clock !!

Motown Studio A

Empire State Building in the distance through the Brooklyn Bridge lower Arch 

Joe Louis Fist

Fully restored Rosa Parks bus 

"Joker Steps" come the film JOKER @ The Brox

 

 

 

 

Edited July 14, 2024Jul 14 by Spook

5 tall men exhibition Lowestoft Suffolk. 

Yes i got wet taking photo. 

A fleeting glimpse of one of the noisy buggers that passed fast and low over mine this lunchtime. Only managed to catch the trailing F-15 and he tracked directly across the Sun as I pressed the shutter , made for a different and quite pleasing sequence when stitched together ... 

The (Northern) 'Soul Nebula', taken from the back of the house 🎶🎵