Day 15: October 2010 PAD

[Colin Southern]

1/2 way there folks ...

[wilgk]

Cold - wet & windy so mucking about indoors with different reflectors and spotlight.

[mastamak]

Down to the Inlet again but this time first thing in the morning. Great cloud formations with some cloud layers almost down to water level, but by the time I got there they were burnt off by the morning sun, so I turned inland for this photo of a residential building "Harbour Lights". All grey steel and blue glass.



Grant

[timo2]

[Geoff F]

A small seaside town has recently been terrorised by a gang of mature fishermen and marine engineers riding vintage motorcycles.



A member of the vintage motorcycle gang leaves his workshop to rampage through the town centre.

A town spokesman said, 'In a vain attempt to relive their youth these bikers, who are known as Hell's Grandads, are riding their ancient bikes through the town looking for unattached grannies and racing against a rival gang who ride motability scooters.

'We have had a slight sailing problem for many years but we have never seen anything like this before.

'We know that some of these gang members take Glucosamine tablets and carry walking sticks, so we fear the worst'.

[Donald]

A member of the vintage motorcycle gang leaves his workshop to rampage through the town centre.

It's the wellies that really set it all off and confirm the total deviancy of the gang members.

[timo2]

LOL, very good

[Pete W]

3 shots from the tunnels under Waterloo Station. A ghost armada and a face hacked from a 3m tall wall...the debris was left on the floor. The mirror ball was made from hypodermic needles... It was dark, damp, noisy (trains above) and fantastic in the true sense of the word.
I might post a "nice" photo tomorrow ...

[carregwen]

My PAD album for October 2010

[Wirefox]

I really like these contrast images of yours. I loved the blck and white one you did a few weeks ago. And no its not the lingerie..far too near the A end of the scale for my comfort. Was the phallic symbolism of the 3 poles intentional? It certainly adds to the overall concept. Actually that red danimac and and those brown brothel creepers could be considered rather erotic to gentlemen of a certain age.....we the CiC jury must now decide which of these lovely ladies caught your eye first.

[Ollokot]

Under pressure today to find time to take a photo.



Pat

[carregwen]

....we the CiC jury must now decide which of these lovely ladies caught your eye first.

Now that you mention it... I think it was the bollards that caught my eye first.

[Wirefox]

That fine foil of wit is becoming more than a match in parrying my bludgeoning cutlass blows of lavatorial humour. Maybe I should pick on Donald instead.

[Donald]

Maybe I should pick on Donald instead.

You suggesting that I don't posses that razor-sharp ability to provide the flashing riposte so beloved and developed by those who run around the Welsh valleys? What do you think we did on those winter nights in the croft? Okay, there were the sheep!

[carregwen]

That fine foil of wit is becoming more than a match in parrying my bludgeoning cutlass blows of lavatorial humour. Maybe I should pick on Donald instead.

The colours are pretty lush too, don't you think? I'm actually very chuffed with this shot - it's a good example of juxtaposition (whatever that means) Note if you will the split-second timing as I just got the small cameo shot of the model behind Little Red Riding Hood's back.

[Donald]

I'm actually very chuffed with this shot

As you should be. How long did you wait around waiting for this shot? Did you see what could be achieved when you saw the display and then wait for the right person to walk past?

[melikarish]

It's the annual Frieze Art Fair in Regent's Park this weekend. I usually go to the free Sculpture Park at lunchtime because there's always something humerous to gawk at. Quite a lot of choice this year, but I saw this first so...

[carregwen]

As you should be. How long did you wait around waiting for this shot? Did you see what could be achieved when you saw the display and then wait for the right person to walk past?

Saw the poster. Developed an instant infatuation... and yes, I could see it would make a decent shot. I just had to put up with 500 shoppers gawking at me gawking at a model poster in the High Street...

[carregwen]

It's the annual Frieze Art Fair in Regent's Park this weekend. I usually go to the free Sculpture Park at lunchtime because there's always something humerous to gawk at. Quite a lot of choice this year, but I saw this first so...

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[Oldphotobuff]

My tree cutters worked all day today on cutting down our dying Locust tree. Rocket science it isn't, but it is an interesting team cooperative effort. Their machinery is simple: a lift bucket, several chain saws, several pulleys, nylon devices to attach the pulleys to the tree at various points, a long very flexible nylon rope, and a rope brake. The cutter rides up in the bucket and is responsible for placing the pulleys at various points to direct where the cut off portion will drop and for cutting off the small limbs and portions of the very large limbs. The ground man secures the rope to the brake and directs the tree limbs or portions to the landing spot. Their actions have to be very coordinated and I was impressed with their accuracy in dropping the cut off parts. This cordination is particularly important when the cut off is 300 to 400 pounds of a very large tree limb. So far the largest limb cut was about 16 inches in diameter!



In this shot you can see the rope and the brake which is fastened near the bottom of the tree. The pivot point pulley is out of the shot being located about 20 feet above the head of the cutter on the limb that disappears to the upper right of the picture. The landing point is where you see about 5 logs roughly 12 inches in diameter. That indicates the accuracy of landing that the team achieves over and over again. The ground man has the rope in front so that should something go horribly wrong he can step backwards out of the way. They make it look so easy that you can't imagine such ever happens. I've shot about 100 pictures of this operation so far, and they are about half done with the job.



I took all the shots with my Olympus E-620 and a Zuiko 18 to 180mm zoom. This was shot at 18mm @ f/8 and 1/640 sec.

OldPhotoBuff

My PAD album: https://www.cambridgeincolour.com/fo...hp?albumid=430
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