Mal C Posted May 24, 2017 Posted May 24, 2017 On 14/05/2017 at 12:46, Steve S 60 said: Here's one from 1983 in the Indian Ocean. I'm kneeling at the bottom right of the line up.... I wonder Steve, on a long voyage, does the captain just think, yep weather's good today, lets have a photo of everybody in their best uniforms... do you have like random things happen at sea while your out there...
Popular Post Mal C Posted May 24, 2017 Popular Post Posted May 24, 2017 (edited) Couple of old ones, Worcester 'Chuff Chuff' Boat trip 91/2 ish.. The guy in the foreground is a cousin of the Ryan Brothers who ran the Depot in Birmingham, and later Miss Moneypennies... if any of you know them... The other one is a portrait of Gordon Giltrap I did about the same time, lovely guy and brilliant guitarist... after we did the pictures I got stoned with his partner in the back seats of the hall before the concert began... good fun :-)) Edited May 24, 2017 by Mal C 7
Popular Post Mal C Posted May 24, 2017 Popular Post Posted May 24, 2017 Notting Hill Carnival, 1975, by Richard Braine, I used to Rep Richard hence the print... the other shot was a local Bristol Photographer, taken at Glastonbury, haven't had these prints out in years so thought Id share them... 10
Popular Post Mal C Posted May 24, 2017 Popular Post Posted May 24, 2017 (edited) Loz and Div, Brighton Mods in my back Garden... early Photography student stuff here, taken early 9ts... before you say its meant to be a graphic shot, no tones... Edited May 24, 2017 by Mal C 9
Popular Post Steve S 60 Posted May 24, 2017 Popular Post Posted May 24, 2017 5 minutes ago, Mal C said: I wonder Steve, on a long voyage, does the captain just think, yep weather's good today, lets have a photo of everybody in their best uniforms... do you have like random things happen at sea while your out there... They need to give us a bit of notice Mal. The old ice cream suits need to be dug out of the bottom of the kit locker, then washed and pressed. The shoes need blancoed. "Hands to bathe" is more impromptu, where the crew get the chance to swim in the ocean. Just after one such occasion, a shark turned up. A couple of the lads baited a big hook on the end of a chain and managed to catch it. It took four rounds in the head from a Self Loading Rifle until it stopped wriggling. Then it was shark steaks for supper. 7
Popular Post Mal C Posted May 24, 2017 Popular Post Posted May 24, 2017 Last year at Valley Fest, before the rains came... 8
Mal C Posted May 24, 2017 Posted May 24, 2017 1 minute ago, Steve S 60 said: They need to give us a bit of notice Mal. The old ice cream suits need to be dug out of the bottom of the kit locker, then washed and pressed. The shoes need blancoed. "Hands to bathe" is more impromptu, where the crew get the chance to swim in the ocean. Just after one such occasion, a shark turned up. A couple of the lads baited a big hook on the end of a chain and managed to catch it. It took four rounds in the head from a Self Loading Rifle until it stopped wriggling. Then it was shark steaks for supper. laughs... thats Brilliant... nasty looking bugger isn't he...
Steve S 60 Posted May 24, 2017 Posted May 24, 2017 9 minutes ago, Mal C said: laughs... thats Brilliant... nasty looking bugger isn't he... Seven feet long white tip shark, weighing in at 172lbs..... 3
Steve S 60 Posted May 24, 2017 Posted May 24, 2017 Another little incident during the same deployment..... 2
Popular Post Steve S 60 Posted May 24, 2017 Popular Post Posted May 24, 2017 14 minutes ago, Mal C said: Random i-Phone Pics... Taken from a Virgin balloon. Brougham Castle.... 11
Popular Post Steve S 60 Posted May 24, 2017 Popular Post Posted May 24, 2017 15 hours ago, TattooDave said: Gibraltar from La Linea after a quick shop last Friday. Top of the Rock, 1982. HMS Ambuscade down in the dockyard, just before heading to the South Atlantic.... 6
Popular Post Milliontearsoul Posted May 25, 2017 Popular Post Posted May 25, 2017 (edited) Italy Edited May 25, 2017 by milliontearsoul 8
Tattoodave Posted May 25, 2017 Posted May 25, 2017 8 hours ago, Steve S 60 said: Top of the Rock, 1982. HMS Ambuscade down in the dockyard, just before heading to the South Atlantic.... I was in Japan then, didn't hear about the Falklands until it was over and I'd reached Wellington. Met a chap in Morrison's last Friday morning with a very bright sleeve of tattoos and a strapped up chin and split lip, I asked him if he'd had a skateboard accident as he looked the type, he said he was taking a selfie at Gibraltar Point and fell over, he'd had 9 stitches in his chin that morning, it was only about 10ish when I was talking to him and he'd had the stitches put in 3 hours before. Nice way to start the day, with my fear of heights I'd never get up there. 1
Tattoodave Posted May 25, 2017 Posted May 25, 2017 1 hour ago, milliontearsoul said: Italy Looks remarkably like the Chillingham wild cattle!
Tattoodave Posted May 25, 2017 Posted May 25, 2017 9 hours ago, Steve S 60 said: Another little incident during the same deployment..... Whoops!
Popular Post Tattoodave Posted May 25, 2017 Popular Post Posted May 25, 2017 Somewhere I have several thousand images from circuses and fairs, this is one I took a few years ago. 7
Stateside Posted May 25, 2017 Posted May 25, 2017 3 hours ago, TattooDave said: Somewhere I have several thousand images from circuses and fairs, this is one I took a few years ago. Looks like the one they have in Nice, France Kev
Popular Post Bruv Posted May 25, 2017 Popular Post Posted May 25, 2017 4 hours ago, TattooDave said: Somewhere I have several thousand images from circuses and fairs, this is one I took a few years ago. Fantastic Dave thanks for posting, best I can do is this picture of my friends Classic Pontiac taken from a car show one year at Hayling Island, Portsmouth. 7
Tattoodave Posted May 25, 2017 Posted May 25, 2017 1 hour ago, stateside said: Looks like the one they have in Nice, France Kev I think there are still a few around Kev, saw a beauty in Oxford one year, and the Nottingham Goose Fair always yields good photos. There's a double decker carousel that was sold to the USA and was removed from the UK without an export license many years ago, I'd love to see it in person.
Peter99 Posted May 25, 2017 Posted May 25, 2017 3 hours ago, TattooDave said: I think there are still a few around Kev, saw a beauty in Oxford one year, and the Nottingham Goose Fair always yields good photos. There's a double decker carousel that was sold to the USA and was removed from the UK without an export license many years ago, I'd love to see it in person. As a kid I worked on a set of gallopers for about five consequetive summers - weekends and school holidays. Became great friends with the Showmen family who owned them - the Grays. They really looked after us - doing little but important things like making packed lunches for school trips when my mum was in hospital (which was often). My dad was dead and we were really hard up. I wasn't used to such posh snap! Pete 3
Tattoodave Posted May 25, 2017 Posted May 25, 2017 2 hours ago, Peter99 said: As a kid I worked on a set of gallopers for about five consequetive summers - weekends and school holidays. Became great friends with the Showmen family who owned them - the Grays. They really looked after us - doing little but important things like making packed lunches for school trips when my mum was in hospital (which was often). My dad was dead and we were really hard up. I wasn't used to such posh snap! Pete Mablethorpe?
Popular Post Peter99 Posted May 25, 2017 Popular Post Posted May 25, 2017 17 hours ago, TattooDave said: Mablethorpe? Yes Dave. Where I grew up. Albert Gray owned a really nice set of gallopers, the big wheel and a dodgem track. 4
Tattoodave Posted May 25, 2017 Posted May 25, 2017 16 hours ago, Peter99 said: Yes Dave. Where I grew up. Albert Gray owned a really nice set of gallopers, the big wheel and a dodgem track. I can remember Albert, an old rogue with a heart of gold.
Popular Post Winsford Soul Posted May 26, 2017 Popular Post Posted May 26, 2017 Here,s a few pictures of a male Marsh harrier Steve 16
Popular Post Winsford Soul Posted May 26, 2017 Popular Post Posted May 26, 2017 A Peregrine Falcon in full hunting flight. It was bloody hard trying to focus and track it against the cliff face and at the speed it was flying. Steve 17
Middleman Posted May 26, 2017 Posted May 26, 2017 29 minutes ago, Winsford Soul said: Here,s a few pictures of a male Marsh harrier Steve Excellent pics, love the background, really accentuates the bird. First one looks a bit owl like? 2
Middleman Posted May 26, 2017 Posted May 26, 2017 1 minute ago, middleman said: Excellent pics, love the background, really accentuates the bird. First one looks a bit owl like? Can I retract the owl thing, it's late. 1
Stateside Posted May 27, 2017 Posted May 27, 2017 On 25/05/2017 at 20:20, TattooDave said: Mablethorpe? I used to go to Mablethorpe for days out. I'm a Cleethorpes lad myself, Dave, so we used to go to my Nan's caravan in Humberston for the summer. Kev
Tattoodave Posted May 27, 2017 Posted May 27, 2017 1 hour ago, stateside said: I used to go to Mablethorpe for days out. I'm a Cleethorpes lad myself, Dave, so we used to go to my Nan's caravan in Humberston for the summer. Kev I have an uncle and auntie live there, used to visit now and then as a boy, but don't remember much about the place, I did know the Gray's who had the fairground rides there though. Dave
Popular Post Johnny Jones Posted May 27, 2017 Popular Post Posted May 27, 2017 A few from the dog walk this morning (and one of Rain, our Whippet). 12
Popular Post Winsford Soul Posted May 27, 2017 Popular Post Posted May 27, 2017 Male Marsh Harrier Steve 14
Popular Post Philippe Posted May 27, 2017 Popular Post Posted May 27, 2017 Bravo Steve you're a real pro ! Going outside to enjoy the heat of the night (we had more than 30° in the day) I met this fatty little toad. I think it's a lady going to lay her eggs, usually toads are not that plump. Any toads specialists to confirm ? 8
Popular Post Steve S 60 Posted May 28, 2017 Popular Post Posted May 28, 2017 Here my deer. Beside Lake Ullswater this afternoon...... 12
Popular Post Winsford Soul Posted May 30, 2017 Popular Post Posted May 30, 2017 Male Reed Bunting Steve 8
Popular Post Winsford Soul Posted May 30, 2017 Popular Post Posted May 30, 2017 Splish. Splash. I was taking a bath 10
Popular Post Steve S 60 Posted May 30, 2017 Popular Post Posted May 30, 2017 Another from beside Ullswater.... 10
Popular Post Ncfc Posted May 30, 2017 Popular Post Posted May 30, 2017 A shot from a weekend in Constable Country. Robbie cooling off in the Stour. 8
Popular Post Winsford Soul Posted May 30, 2017 Popular Post Posted May 30, 2017 Peregrine Falcon Steve 9
Popular Post Winsford Soul Posted May 30, 2017 Popular Post Posted May 30, 2017 (edited) Female Peregrine Falcon and chick. This picture is heavily cropped because the nest was well over one hundred metres from me and it was probably fifty metres up the cliff face Steve Edited May 30, 2017 by Winsford Soul 9
Ncfc Posted May 31, 2017 Posted May 31, 2017 No pics but at 6.15am today I saw and heard a Cuckoo😀 Behind Haven holiday camp Caister on Sea, Not sure if it's one of those with a tracker. 1
Popular Post Amsterdam Russ Posted June 1, 2017 Author Popular Post Posted June 1, 2017 (edited) Something different, photographically, for this thread... At 04:15 this morning, I heard three gun shots outside. I dashed to the windows, but didn't see anything. This follows on from an identical incident one month ago in which three shots were fired into the windows of the hotel/restaurant opposite - a place us local expat soulies meet in for a beer ever now and again. In fact, we were there just the other day. This was the scene at 06:00 this morning as seen from our front balcony. Using my zoom lens at maximum range and then cropping the pic quite closely, you can see the bullet holes in the windows. As the same business has now been shot at twice in the space of a month, I can only think it possible some sort of local protection racket is going on and the owners of the business aren't giving in to the wannabe gangsta's demands. Of course, it could be another reason entirely, but it seems logical. Where we live – a very small town close to Schiphol – is a sleepy sort of place, so this type of activity is by no means the norm. Such is life, today! Edited June 1, 2017 by Russell Gilbert Clarity 7
Winsford Soul Posted June 1, 2017 Posted June 1, 2017 Russell. Sounds like your living near me my friend. Keep safe Steve
Amsterdam Russ Posted June 1, 2017 Author Posted June 1, 2017 53 minutes ago, Winsford Soul said: Russell. Sounds like your living near me my friend. Keep safe Steve Cheers, Steve. It's all very remarkable for our little corner of the Netherlands, that's for sure. Obviously some criminal element has moved in with interests beyond the usual illicit growing and harvesting of weed, which is all too common by virtue of the fact we're in the heartland of the country's horticultural industry. The huge and world-famous flower market – FloraHolland – is just up the road from us. Usually the crime reports in the local newspaper consist of a couple of burglaries, a bike theft or two, pickpocketing and failed shoplifters. These shooting incidents have taken things to a whole new level! 1
Popular Post Winsford Soul Posted June 2, 2017 Popular Post Posted June 2, 2017 (edited) Here's a couple more from me before I make my yearly pilgrimage to Pembrokeshire. Chiffchaff in dappled woodland light and a Reed Warbler just chilling in the sun Steve Edited June 2, 2017 by Winsford Soul 14
Widnes63 Posted June 2, 2017 Posted June 2, 2017 6 hours ago, Winsford Soul said: Here's a couple more from me before a make my yearly pilgrimage to Pembrokeshire. Chiffchaff in dappled woodland light and a Reed Warbler just chilling in the sun Steve Ste your photographs are getting better all the time, these two are brilliant mate. 3
Winsford Soul Posted June 2, 2017 Posted June 2, 2017 2 minutes ago, Widnes63 said: Ste your photographs are getting better all the time, these two are brilliant mate. Thanks Ste. Glad you think so mate. The lens was definitely worth the months of should I or shouldn't I. I personally can see the difference with the pictures so I'm chuffed to think other people can too. Especially people like yourself. Won't be posting on here for a few weeks but hopefully will get some Puffin. Badger. Dolphin pictures amongst other things to share Steve 2
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