mikench
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A cloudy day near Hyeres.
Your holiday shots, must include a river, lake or sea....or fish!
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mikench
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I mentioned the Var river in the mozzie thread. It’s picturesque, 114k long and flows down from the Alps to the Med. A more ardent and proper angler would have fished it by now.
@Clive
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Last week we followed in the wheel tracks of our very own ancient mariner Steve Armold down to a little place on the Med' that he had recommended.
Steve Arnold
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Glad the weather was kind to you at Meze, Clive. I have seen your shots of the fire-fighting planes, I have a few I took myself from the beach bar. Were you on the water to get your shots?
Your shots were impressive!
@Clive
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Yes, Mèze is a lovely place. Thanks again for the recommendation. We couldn't get in initially, but June tried booking online from the Sunday and we were fortunate. The "Full" sign was displayed until the day before we left.
The planes were an enigma. We saw them when we were up at Lac du Sagalou, but the wind was too strong to be able to hold the camera steady. Then at Mèze they arrived when I didn't have my camera. The next day 6 arrived an hour earlier than previously so I missed them and on the penultimate day were even earlier. On the last evening I was ready for them from a seat near the petanges parc. The wind had dropped, but the 2 planes skimmed the water too far away for them to be distinguished from the horizon. After they had dumped the water they circled over the marina and old town, behind my position and back over the water. That is when I got the close ups using the full 400mm focal length on my bridge camera. It was easier to get the dumping shots as the planes were easily distinguished from the sky. Those photos are cropped by around a third.
It was a lucky encounter.
The planes were an enigma. We saw them when we were up at Lac du Sagalou, but the wind was too strong to be able to hold the camera steady. Then at Mèze they arrived when I didn't have my camera. The next day 6 arrived an hour earlier than previously so I missed them and on the penultimate day were even earlier. On the last evening I was ready for them from a seat near the petanges parc. The wind had dropped, but the 2 planes skimmed the water too far away for them to be distinguished from the horizon. After they had dumped the water they circled over the marina and old town, behind my position and back over the water. That is when I got the close ups using the full 400mm focal length on my bridge camera. It was easier to get the dumping shots as the planes were easily distinguished from the sky. Those photos are cropped by around a third.
It was a lucky encounter.
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Steve Arnold
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Sally and I were early to Meze market whilst our van had the alternator replaced. Lovely market with a good indoor market as well, I was told it was too early for a paella (never!).
Plenty of seafood here!
Plenty of seafood here!
The bad one
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Some great photos there guys.
@Clive
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We dropped on the market by accident on Sunday. It is certainly vibrant and authentic. If you like fish then La Maison des Pecheurs is the place to go. We ordered the €60 special for two. It would have fed six. Amongst the huge bowl of fish bisque was a whole squid, two fillets each of mackeral and whiting, a monkfish tail complete with medallions, three or four gambas and half a dozen 'St Jacque' scallops plus the same number of mussels. We couldn't finish it.
@Clive
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Going mad in Madeira. Having fun in Funchal.
@Clive
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A few more holiday shots. These were taken on my mobile phone....
@Clive
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Houghton Mill on the Gt Ouse where we used to go on camping trips and do a little fishing
Fishing trips to Whitby, Staithes and surounding area....
Fishing trips to Whitby, Staithes and surounding area....
Steve Arnold
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I have had many day-trip and short breaks in Scotland. Even when we lived in one of the old mining villages it was a short drive to get into the countryside, and many of the structures in Scotland are show pieces of the skills of Scottish engineers and builders.
Recently I found the Facebook group "Scotlands Scenery" and it prompted my mind to go dig out some old photos......
and an old photo of Loch Lomond taken when I was in my little boat pike fishing.....
Who needs so many mega-pixels, last photo with my first digital camera ,a Canon G1 3.1 mp,.Good enough for sharing here!
Recently I found the Facebook group "Scotlands Scenery" and it prompted my mind to go dig out some old photos......
and an old photo of Loch Lomond taken when I was in my little boat pike fishing.....
Who needs so many mega-pixels, last photo with my first digital camera ,a Canon G1 3.1 mp,.Good enough for sharing here!
@Clive
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Many web images aren't 0.5Mp so a 3Mb camera perfectly good for online photo sharing as long as there is enough light when taking the picture. Small sensors tend to give bad results in poor light conditions.
I got a scanner the other day and have been busy scanning slides and negatives that have remained unseen for over three decades. Some of them were too badly damaged, possibly as a result of being stored in a barn for the first 15 months that we were in France. But I have found a few from my sea fishing days around the North Yorkshire coast. If the fishing trip was called off due to bad weather we used to go anyway and while the others were in the pub I would wander round with an old camera.
I got a scanner the other day and have been busy scanning slides and negatives that have remained unseen for over three decades. Some of them were too badly damaged, possibly as a result of being stored in a barn for the first 15 months that we were in France. But I have found a few from my sea fishing days around the North Yorkshire coast. If the fishing trip was called off due to bad weather we used to go anyway and while the others were in the pub I would wander round with an old camera.
@Clive
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Another old negative put through the scanner. This one is from the early 1990's and taken on a very rainy day at Molly's Lough in Ireland.
@Clive
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Back in the early 90's I joined a small fishing club at work. It was supported by the Sports and Social Fund on a £ for £ basis. For every quid we put in the S&SC gave us another one. There were only 6 of us at maximum strength and usually only four fished, but we could take paying guests if we wanted. Most of the trips were out of Staithes, but after Harold the regular boatman died we went out of Whitby and Runswick Bay as well as annual trips to Ireland. The rules were that if the weather forecast suggested that we couldn't fish on a one day trip we postponed the trip. If the forecast was bad for a two day trip however we went anyway as the accommodation was already booked and paid for. That meant I had a lot of free time on the North Yorkshire coast to take pictures when we weren't fishing, boozing, playing cards or eating.
This is two film photos taken in 1995 and recently scanned and merged using Adobe which was the plan when I took them albeit using darkroom techniques. It mimics a famous photograph taken 100 years earlier by the local photographer Frank Meadow Sutcliffe. I took two shots; one using black and white film through the railway station doorway and a second photo in colour of a replica of the Endeavour, Captain James Cook's vessel. The ship and doorway didn't line up as they had in Sutcliffe's image and he didn't have parked cars, lamp posts and CCTV cameras to spoil his view.
Other cancelled fishing trips saw us visiting local towns including Saltburn where there is a funicular....
And Whitby harbour where we had to queue for ages to get the best fish & chips in the world (allegedly)
Or take a trip on the North Yorkshire Moors Railway....
There is an old story about Levisham railway station with is in the valley bottom about a mile and a half below the village and connected by a steep winding moorland track. The story goes that an American tourist button holed the Station Master and asked him why they didn't build the railway station nearer the town. "Well lad, we thought about that. But on reflection we thought it was better next to t'railway line."
This is two film photos taken in 1995 and recently scanned and merged using Adobe which was the plan when I took them albeit using darkroom techniques. It mimics a famous photograph taken 100 years earlier by the local photographer Frank Meadow Sutcliffe. I took two shots; one using black and white film through the railway station doorway and a second photo in colour of a replica of the Endeavour, Captain James Cook's vessel. The ship and doorway didn't line up as they had in Sutcliffe's image and he didn't have parked cars, lamp posts and CCTV cameras to spoil his view.
Other cancelled fishing trips saw us visiting local towns including Saltburn where there is a funicular....
And Whitby harbour where we had to queue for ages to get the best fish & chips in the world (allegedly)
Or take a trip on the North Yorkshire Moors Railway....
There is an old story about Levisham railway station with is in the valley bottom about a mile and a half below the village and connected by a steep winding moorland track. The story goes that an American tourist button holed the Station Master and asked him why they didn't build the railway station nearer the town. "Well lad, we thought about that. But on reflection we thought it was better next to t'railway line."
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