[WereBo]

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[WereBo]

Ohhh rats Marty! How can I pick a favourite when all 5 are superb? - I'm 'leaning' to #2, but that might just be a natural bias.... :grin:

 

[WereBo]

I reckon the chips off the piano keys just add character to the photo, a sort of 'Old & New' composition :wink: - I really like that plant in the tarmac shot too, excellently framed and exposed

 

[WereBo]

100F? I'm nearly getting officially envious.... :grin: - I can see your point though :grin:

 

[WereBo]

Those first 3 pics have caught the water/foam textures perfectly and fill the frame beautifully ray:

#4 looks like something some animal has left behind, after a lot of pain... :grin: - Is it seashells on a rock?

#5 A day at the beach, with the relatives..... :laugh:

 

[WereBo]

Mmmmm... Most strange... It's not one of those deadly life-forms that will try to kill anything within 2', that Australia is famous for is it? :grin:

 

[WereBo]

I gotta give him 10/10 for imagination :laugh:...... - The darkness of the room and slight underexposure adds to the mystery very well Zulu, even to the slight hand-blurring during his break, very nicely done

 

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I saw my new neighbours today, whilst looking out my kitchen window waiting for the kettle to boil, I grabbed my camera and snapped through the double-glazing.....

Where they live Neighbours

This at max optical-zoom (still hand-held)

Out feeding on the garages roof...

The most photogenic neighbours I've had in a long while :grin:

 

[WereBo]

Hi Fritos hi Spicey :wave:

A lovely couple of dogs there oscer1, very nicely framed and excellent detail

 

[WereBo]

Hi Suzie :wave:

Awww... She's just too sweet for words :laugh:

Beautiful portraits there Zulu #1 & #3 especially, It seems your lad and Suzie have bonded well in #4, not that I can blame him :grin:

 

[WereBo]

A really nice 'Golden-Hour' session Zulu, excellent work

 

[WereBo]

Sorry to read about the loss of your home Zulu, especially as your heading towards Winter down there :sigh: - I do look forward to seeing the photos from your walkabout though, any ideas as to where you'll be visiting?

 

[WereBo]

If you do find yourself in W Aussieland, it could be worth a trip to Pernalulu Park and 'The Bungle-Bungles' - They look totally awesome :wink:

 

[WereBo]

Mrs WereBo and I spent a lovely Bank-Holiday Monday at Whitstable, Kent yesterday, it's an ancient coastal-port that goes back to before the 'Domesday Book'.

Unfortunately it was absolutely packed with other tourists, which made photography near impossible, along with walking and looking around (you couldn't see in the shop-windows for heads bobbing along and walking was at a snail's pace 'cos of people idly ambling along..... :nonono:

Anyway, I managed to grab a few shots without too many grockles, or getting jogged as I was framing the shots..... :grin:

A pano from the top of the Coast-Guard's slipway, looking towards the North Sea....

Stranded..... I wonder what happened to the car... :grin:

I'm not sure whether the anchor is tied to the post to stop people stealing the post or the anchor.... :augh:

A sure sign of clean air, lichen on an old mooring-bollard.....

Looking out to sea a few miles off-shore, one of the largest wind-farms in the UK....

Taken from the 'Beer-Garden' of a very excellent pub, the local school's chimney.... Complete with tree and sea-gull's bum....

 

[WereBo]

By chance, the school's caretaker was sat at the next table along with some of his pals, as soon as he saw me pointing my camera, he knew what I was after and started mumbling under his breath about that bl**dy tree on the roof and how he should get rid of it, but the old coal-fired boiler had been replaced by electric. His pals immediately started ribbing him about sending one of the kids up the chimney to clear it, after all, it was common practice in olden days..... :grin:


Walking along the seafront I found this beautiful old place named 'Cushing's View', it's the home of a favourite old actor and 'villain-sinister' Peter Cushing, famed for his 'Hammer Horror' films during the 60's-80's......

On the left of the picture you can see some green boxes on the sea-wall, these were full of plants.....

The harbour, the shadow is thrown from the old 'fishing-net towers' behind me, they're used for drying the nets when the ships are at home....

Footprints in the sand...... - Taken at the far end of the harbour, the keel-prints from a couple of boats. It weren't until I got home that I started puzzling over this one - The tide must have been out for the boats to settle and leave the prints, how could the boats leave without the incoming/outgoing tide washing the prints away??? Anyway, I'll let you puzzle over it :grin:

Some of the residents enjoying the sun....

Shell and Stones.....

 

[WereBo]

Thanks Sandy, you can get an idea of the tidal-height by the water-marks on the harbour walls, according to the tidal charts it's about 10' (3m).


Seafront homes in a uniquely 'Kentish Style'....

One of the strange natural features there is a spit of shingle that's only visible at low tide. Known as 'The Street', it's about 1/2 mile long and used to be used for loading/unloading the 'Thames Barges', taking oysters and other sea-food up-river to London, years ago....

The tide lapping over The Street....

The land-mass that can be seen from the beach, the Isle of Sheppey approx 4 miles away, I was over there the day before, visiting a very close pal of mine but he lives on t'other side of the island to here :grin:

A sea-themed house....

Just back from the harbour area, the beautiful old 'Coach House', built from brick and flints.....

Walking back to the car-park, this 'Crab-Apple' tree suddenly leapt out and shouted 'photograph me!'.... :grin: - Sadly, it was too tall to get a macro-shot of the blossoms and I'd forgotted my step-ladder..... :whistling:

 

[WereBo]

Thanks Zulu, I really enjoy 'recording' bits of Britain, as I get to 'em :grin: - I've also uploaded them to 'Panoramio' on Google-Earth, so I'm now waiting to see which ones have been rejected.... :nonono:

The only thing that spoilt the day was when we got back to the car, only to find a parking-ticket on the windscreen, the rear-wheels where just over the parking-bay line thanks to a badly positioned 4x4 in the bay in front :sigh: - Still, Mrs WereBo pointed out that as most of the shops were shut for the holiday, we didn't spend as much as she intended, so we had the money to spare.... :laugh:

 

[WereBo]

Thanks guys, the fine weren't too bad, it's reduced 50% if paid within 14 days, and it's over half less than the fines here in London (£50 down there £120 up here, after 14 days) :grin:

Here's the Coach-House head-on, with a bit more detail showing in the stonework. I wish I'd discovered this place earlier in the day when my ankles and knees didn't ache so much, I was just starting to feel the aches turning to pains and I still had at least an hour's drive back (2.5 hours, including the 16 miles crawling along in 1st-2nd gear:nonono, so I didn't get any of the side-shots :sigh: - Next time though..... :laugh:

The final treat was as I was walking along the balcony to my front-door and, glancing across towards Canary Wharf (t'other side of the Thames), I saw dozens of seagulls circling around getting the last of the thermals. I had to zoom in a fair bit to actually see them in the camera, so I couldn't get them all en-masse but here's some of 'em....

 

[WereBo]

A lovely photo sinclair, though we don't celebrate it here :sad: - A happy National Train Day to you though :grin:

 

[WereBo]

Nicely framed photos sinclair, is that last photo inside the 'brake-van' (caboose?)?