On 13/07/2024 at 22:59, Graham Butcher said:

@pinkpanther were those taken at Duxford?

Yes - we'd noticed loads of vintage aircraft flying over Wimpole Hall, so headed to Duxford 👍

4 hours ago, pinkpanther said:

Yes - we'd noticed loads of vintage aircraft flying over Wimpole Hall, so headed to Duxford 👍

The owner/pilot of a Spitfire was putting on their own show over the airfield.

 

Fantastic to watch from the free car park 👍 

Edited 15 July, 20241 yr by pinkpanther

Spent most of the last three days tapping on the kitchen window 😁

Corn bunting

Sunset a few nights back.......... 

 

On Sunday I decided to go to Scarborough for the day, to have a wonder, not been for 30 odd years. On the way back I briefly stopped in Whitby by the Marina and took some pics. This was the last one I took on my mobile (Moto G8 Power). What do you think?

 

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Maybe would be better at low tide. Maybe try, with zoom lens stood away (with a proper camera). I want to get more of those bridges in the background.

Edited 25 July, 20241 yr by Jim H

5 minutes ago, Jim H said:

On Sunday I decided to go to Scarborough for the day, to have a wonder, not been for 30 odd years. On the way back I briefly stopped in Whitby by the Marina and took some pics. This was the last one I took on my mobile (Moto G8 Power). What do you think?

 

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Maybe would be better at low tide. Maybe try, with zoom lens stood away (with a proper camera). I want to get more of those bridges in the background.

Nice pics ,i like the black and white ,but for me ,just personal not knocking the pic ,but the white plastic boat pulls your eye away too much from the background.

1 hour ago, Jim H said:

On Sunday I decided to go to Scarborough for the day, to have a wonder, not been for 30 odd years. On the way back I briefly stopped in Whitby by the Marina and took some pics. This was the last one I took on my mobile (Moto G8 Power). What do you think?

 

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Maybe would be better at low tide. Maybe try, with zoom lens stood away (with a proper camera). I want to get more of those bridges in the background.

There you go, fixed that bridge view, temporarily for you without the white boat in the foreground taking the attention.

 

I went to RIAT 2024 at Fairford on Sunday and took quite a few photos, but sadly the weather was once again not playing ball, although it never rained, every time I went to take a nice photo, the sun seemed to nip behind a cloud and for a decent photo of a warplane, it needs to be in full sunlight. Grey planes against an overcast sky is not the best shot to take. However, here a few of the most memorable and impressive planes flying, not in full display mode as I was at the far right of the runway and the centre of the display axis was some 1,300 metres to my left, so only managed to get take off and landing shots mainly.

 

43 minutes ago, Graham Butcher said:

There you go, fixed that bridge view, temporarily for you without the white boat in the foreground taking the attention.

 

Bit more dramatic b&w

2 hours ago, Jim H said:

On Sunday I decided to go to Scarborough for the day, to have a wonder, not been for 30 odd years. On the way back I briefly stopped in Whitby by the Marina and took some pics. This was the last one I took on my mobile (Moto G8 Power). What do you think?

 

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Maybe would be better at low tide. Maybe try, with zoom lens stood away (with a proper camera). I want to get more of those bridges in the background.

 

 

I'm not much of a whizz when it comes to Photoshop, I much prefer Lightroom, which is more akin to a digital developing room. But Lightroom has a new feature which I've just discovered, so I put your photo into it and pressed a couple of buttons. It removed the bridge on the right (I assume you like the stone bridges?) and the rock on the left as well as increased the resolution, which is probably most noticeable in the wheelhouse of the main boat. Subtle effects, but very clever...it must be as I haven't a clue how it works and what it does, so I know it's not me doing it  

 

 

 

Edited 25 July, 20241 yr by Lady Elanore

Crikey, I had a bit more fiddle and asked the pooter to remove the white boat. Took a few goes and a bit of a fiddle and it did this. I doubt it would stand up with a hi-res photo, but it is a bit spooky, all this Ai stuff. Now where can I order a 'replicator' like they have in Star Trek? 

 

 

 

It just goes to show, that we can no longer believe what we can see with our eyes, unless you were there at the time. Anyone looking at your last edited photo would never know that the girder bridge, the rock or the white boat ever existed.

 

All I did was to crop the original and then enlarge it slightly, no AI was involved or any pixels harmed.

Edited 25 July, 20241 yr by Graham Butcher

Frightening isn't it. Apparently this is a beta type release, so it's only going to get better! Just watched a vid on it and they reckon that if you were to ask the Ai to remove a pair of sunglasses, it would add a set of eyes to the newly revealed face, as it knows humans have eyes (obviously it will have to guess at eye colour and shape, but even so! It's also running all this on my rather old pooter and not crunching those numbers on a remote web server/pooter thingie.

Edited 26 July, 20241 yr by Lady Elanore

Out snapping the local pond life and also trying out a new macro lens.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited 26 July, 20241 yr by B33fy

Currently sat in a car park watching the sunset😎

 

We were lucky enough to spot what we think were a couple of Eurasian Jays earlier (along with a Woodpecker) earlier............... 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I can't offer a piccy but I was delighted to spot my first sparrow in several years here yesterday.  Most of the small birds seems to have disappeared recently and the gardens are dominated by pigeons, seagulls and magpies.

Just flown over - the paraglider appeared to be pretty close 🤔

 

A few from last night - lovely to see the changing colours as the sun set.... 

 

 

 

Colourful end to the day (last night)......

 

On 28/07/2024 at 00:53, pinkpanther said:

We were lucky enough to spot what we think were a couple of Eurasian Jays earlier (along with a Woodpecker) earlier............... 

 

 

 

 

We've a few Jays come to our garden as well. Very very timid.

Also had a black redstart which was very shy as well so no pic 😞

Took a stroll round Cam Ideal (Snowdonia) this morning before driving to near Glasgow. This was the view at 8am...

 

Reed bunting

We were a bit late getting out tonight.................