Luxor4u

Bigken wrote:

Some snail that Horus, is that a beach ball its playin with

Don't go saying things like that Ken, the ladies are bad enough with big spiders

Actually it is a really large beef tomato that I gave him for his breakfast

Horus your kidding to tell us that critter its a whole beef tomato to himself

Lovely pics Big Ken, the 3 swans in B & W is a true classic

My two found a star fish on the beach and they where so lovely I had to take a picture



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Try again!!

‘Every picture tells a story’ or so it is said.

I DO often find when flicking through some of my digital albums that many pictures immediately take my memory back to that place and time and perhaps some little memorable recollection.



This picture was taken along the roadside from Bentota Beach to Mombasa in 1995. Mum was supporting the family with her ‘Shop’ of fresh fruit. What has stuck in my mind is the little girl with the note paper in her hand. We bought some fruit and the girl asked me to sponsor her school with a contribution.

The rather scruffy piece of note paper was duplicated with the handwritten name of a school at the top. They were a nice little family and I gave her a small donation and signed the paper with the amount donated, beneath several other names.

To this day I wonder if that money ever reached a school or if the girl even went to school.

Anyone else got a picture that recalls a memory?

Was trying to take some flower shots yest, most are deleted, the yellow 1 I used all the focus points & the pink using the middle focus point

Hi kiya

I love the pink flower it is really lovely :)

Thanks redsaffy I like it too but I'm waiting/ready for some critism from others, I was trying to focus on the centre creating the blur outwards.

Kiya, I know that you have said that you are not very happy with your flower pictures.
Doesn't look as if anything is in focus on the purple one. Single point focus should be crisp and sharp at the point you used to focus on.
The yellow flower is much better but still not quite there.
I have sent you a note with some suggestions on how to get back to sharp pictures.
Hope they help.
Grandad

PS. Just read your latest note.
Try manual focus through the viewfinder, you will then see if it's in focus....

Thanks Grandad I did get it & printed out, am going to do some more trying later once I've calmed down a bit everything I've touched today seems to be going wrong & I came on here for a break.

Sorry Grandad, I ment to follow on from your photo of memory (above)

This photo is not my own taken but I often look through photos of family passed & can recall so many happy family memories, but, this 1 always stops me in my track & I sit back & think of what my father & his mother must have felt on this fateful day the family fishing boat "Olive Branch" was lost with all hands Nov 1936.
Looking at the photo what must have been going through the minds of these fellow fisher men around what was washed ashore the wreck of the boat & also another tradegy to this my father's cousin (crew member) was such a strong swimmer swam ashore but the way the waves & high winds carried him he was further along the shore line by the time they found him hours later in daylight he had died of exhaustion, the only 1 of the crew to be found.

Kiya, I think sea fishing, even in todays modern trawlers, is just about the most hazardous of occupations.......


Returning to the flowers, one of the problems is, I believe, that flowers do not have very 'sharp' edges. They tend to be soft and having had another look at your yellow flower, I doubt if you could have done much better.

The flower pictures from your garden visit are all OOF. The Fuschia is very nearly there.

Kiya - there are several possible reasons why the pink flower is slightly unsharp:

- a gust of wind causing the flower to move

- too slow a shutter speed (camera shake)

- focus error, or being too close to obtain correct focus (every lens has a minimum focus distance)

- limited depth of field (range of sharpness) caused by too large a lens aperture and/or being too close - depth of field increases with distance from the subject.

Any combination of the above factors could apply. I have always found this kind of work difficult. A macro lens is probably best, and of course the best lighting conditions possible. Sometimes a controlled amount of flash is useful too.

Sorry I don't mean to overwhelm you with words/info, hope some of this might prove helpful.

Thank you Alistair, your info is as near as Grandad has advised me apart form "wind" the flowers were taken in doors.

Your help & everyones is much appreciated

I'll get back to it tomorrow for now I'm resting after everything else today has fallen apart

Went to Broadstairs on the East Kent coast yesterday.

Kent is not noted as surfers paradise, indeed the only tube we know is the one you ride in London.

Anyhow, a few kids were doing there best as high tide approached and managed to catch a few rideable waves.

This guy was quite good and is still riding his board (but that scarab has obscurred the tip of it)



Took quite a few shots and set at f6.3, ISO800 to force fast shutter, centre focus, continuous. This was 1/4000s

There are more here if anyone cares to have a look........

http://picasaweb.google.com/Raddang/Sur ... 9MDHl9aQaw#

nice shot GD, was you riding the wave in front of him when you took this

No, in a pedalo Ken

Love the shots Grandad! Way cool! Love the last one too the panorama. Superb!

This is my own offering re: water surfing.

Went to my first digital photography class. Was super interesting. Loved it. Super informative too.

The following sites of interest were passed out and I thought I'd share them here:

Sites of Interest:

Camera Reviews: http://www.photographyreview.com/defaultcrx.aspx http://www.kenrockwell.com

Digital equipment reviews and more: http://www.zdnet.com

Photos/Bios of Masters: http://www.masters-of-photography.com/

Night Photography: http://www.thenocturnes.com/index2.htm

Astronomy: http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/archivepix.html

Nature Photography: http://www.mountainlight.com/home.html http://www.artwolfe.com

Digital Photography: http://www.geocities.com/jgerecht/imaging/ http://www.photo.net http://www.fredmiranda.com