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Eric
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The arrival of some pleasant weather and with a full belly of petrol we headed out for a walk in our favourite woodland area near Sandringham. Thought I would share some of the photos..      [url=/gallery_comment.php?id=https://nikondslr.uk/gallery/65/50ef2edf-d5ae-4c02-930b-c1137f579be2.jpeg][/url] Witch's Broom.   |
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Robert
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Very nice Eric, not sure about the 'pleasant weather' We just had a really heavy hailstorm, coming down like bullets, well sideways like bullets! Ten minutes later it's lovely sunshine. It's been like that all morning. That said, your pictures do make me want to go to the nearby woods and try to capture the season. Thank you! As for petrol, (diesel) only one filling station in the area had fuel last night, all the supermarkets were dry. A couple of days ago someone posted on one of the 'social' media websites that our local village filling station had fuel... The morons soon changed that, so I had to resort to using some old and dirty diesel I had in a can, so I could go looking for some in order to take my neighbour shopping tomorrow.  |
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Eric
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Robert wrote:Very nice Eric, not sure about the 'pleasant weather' We just had a really heavy hailstorm, coming down like bullets, well sideways like bullets! Ten minutes later it's lovely sunshine. It's been like that all morning.Went past the local garage at 11am and there were 20 cars on forecourt and queued on the approaching road. When we returned at 2pm there was one car in each bay. I pulled in and realised they only had E5 petrol. I had E10 in the car so filling up with E5 means I am now somewhere between E7 and E8. Jan wanted to video a load of bugs walking along a fence .and did a good job I must say. The iPhone really excels at this. I tried to photograph them with my 90mm macro but they are just too small! Really needed extension tubes. As we were returning to the car we came across a couple of Carder bees .mating in the middle of the path. To avoid them being squished during their moment of bliss we scooped them up on a branch. The male was not at all put off and continued his 'activity' throughout the transfer to a safer spot. I was fully impressed with his stamina. But have just read he dies after this (the female hibernates and becomes a queen) so I guess if you have to go, that's probably the best way to go.  Click here to comment on this image. |
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Iain
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A nice set of photos Eric. |
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Eric
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Iain wrote:A nice set of photos Eric.Thx. I haven't picked up a camera in a long period! Not even been out and about much due to vehicle issues, incapacity ( me and then Jan in turn🤬) and then domestic overdue duties. It takes a bit of time getting warmed up again even forgetting where some of the settings were on the Sony. 🤠Hoping for more outing opportunities this month weather permitting |
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jk
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Eric wrote:Thx. I haven't picked up a camera in a long period! Not even been out and about much due to vehicle issues, incapacity ( me and then Jan in turn🤬) and then domestic overdue duties.I can let you borrow my D3S if you like.  |
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Eric
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jk wrote:I can let you borrow my D3S if you like.Let me think. Thanks but Nah |
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Graham Whistler
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Good to see you get the camera out again, an interesting set of pixs. |
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novicius
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Good set of photo`s,..reminds me of my youth, lived next to a forest that looks like it, and ,I too have to re-discover the settings on my camera`s...at least I still know how to operate the volume control on the Hi-Fi Amp. |
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Eric
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A different sort of woodland walk this time. A company called Luminate have this year flooded the Sandringham woods with a light show. Suspect it's Prince Charles hand in this one as he continues to have more control of the estate with the Queen at Windsor and semi retirement. At £16 a ticket, Charles is clearly wanting to make the Estate more profitable. In fairness it was an extensive set upmust have cost him a few bob. Not really expecting best photographyit was always going to be hard at iso12800 wandering round a wood at night.so, just a bit of fun. And it was b**** cold!  Click here to comment on this image.  Click here to comment on this image.  Click here to comment on this image.  Click here to comment on this image.  Click here to comment on this image.  Click here to comment on this image.  Click here to comment on this image.  Click here to comment on this image.  Click here to comment on this image. |
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jk
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Looks like you had a good outing to the Estate. Fine set of photos. |
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Eric
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Thanks As it's a moving light show it's much more interesting on video. Jan went well prepared to handle the videoingas can be seen from the last photo.IPhone, gimbal, mask, fold back mitts, scarf and Cossack hat. (It was cold!) Anyway we have cobbled together a video for a friend who is incapacitated and cannot go. No apologies we strung it together in an hour with no attempt to edit wildtrack sound and it obviously needs fine editing, adding some cutaway footage.and cutting down many of the clip lengths! In fairness Jan filled her iPhone memory halfway round. So couldn't finish it off. I grabbed a couple of bits for her on the Sony at the end. The 12minutes of (stick with it) footage are here . Sorry Graham.not up to your standards but a bit of Christmas (early) fun. Just thinkwe saved you all £16. Turn the sound up for best effect including the unedited Field banter. |
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Eric
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Just one other thought. The fifth photo in the series is of the 'make a wish' area. Visitors were encouraged to write a wish on a tag and hang it around the fencing. If you want to waste a few more minutes of your life you should count the number of tags in that image..and then add up the number of £16s Charlie boy raked in so far. Its been running 3 weeks and still has 3 more to go.  Here's another angle  Click here to comment on this image. |
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jk
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Haha got to appear in the video. Nice shot. Well done Jan. |
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Eric
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jk wrote:Haha got to appear in the video.Not by choice  |
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Graham Whistler
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Eric and Jan thanks for sharing that with us, I enjoyed watching it! |
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novicius
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That is Spectacular,..does it look that Impresive in reality ? That is the work of a genius, I wish that I could go there, and 16,-quid is not that bad, overhere a ticket to the pictures cost more than that . |
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Eric
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novicius wrote:That is Spectacular,..does it look that Impresive in reality ?Yes it does. In fact the photographs and video don't really catch the clarity of what the eye can see. Back in 2011 we went to a poor imitation of this sort of lighting done by the forestry commission. Apart from it pouring with rain that literally dampened the atmosphere and made photograph pointless, the effects were very amateur. In fairness it was 10 years ago so technology has moved on. The long flat flashing lights stretching down the 'ride' towards the funfair are probably 1/4mile long! Here's official site. https://luminate.live/sandringham-estate |
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novicius
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Thnx for the link Eric, that is breathtaking. |
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Eric
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Finally managed to get out for our first photographic outing of the year. A local country house opened its acres to the public and we seized the moment....despite it being an overcast day and not ideal for photography. It was also an anniversary (of sorts) for us ....57years since we first started dating. (yes we remember the actual day and the hour!!!!) Sigh What better way to celebrate together than a trundle through the outdoors with cameras? It was also the first full outing with the new Fuji XS20. Very impressed how it handles colour and exposure. Many of the exposures needed little or no adjustment at all. Ergonomics are a different matter. The shutter button presses too far down onto the the half press....it's too easy to take a photo by accident. Annoyingly the joystick for focus position adjustment is to close to the thumb. I repeatedly lost the focus point to one side of the frame or the other just holding the camera in the hand...so I missed subject focus a few times...and pressing the middle (unlike most other cameras) doesnt quickly recenter the focus point. You have to do 2 steps to recenter it. Anyway for first outing it wasn't too bad...stiull need to learn its idiosyncrasies. Here's some photos.....  Click here to comment on this image.  Click here to comment on this image.  Click here to comment on this image.  Click here to comment on this image.  Click here to comment on this image.  Click here to comment on this image. The Boss was also joining in with her iPhone and selfie stick!!!! |
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Eric
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a few more.... Click here to comment on this image.  Click here to comment on this image.  Click here to comment on this image.  Click here to comment on this image.  Click here to comment on this image.  Click here to comment on this image. This was our own silly private joke! Morton's Syndrome is when the second toe is longer than the big toe. My lovely lady has this 'problem'....which occasions her to buy thousands of pairs of shoes to get the protruding toe to fit without the shoes being too big....thats her excuse anyway!!!!!! I saw the roots of this tree and couldn't resist labelling it. FOOTNOTE for the spelling sensitive: I know I missed the R out...but couldn't be bothered redoing it.  |
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chrisbet
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Lol - I didn't even notice that on first sight ..... |
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Graham Whistler
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Good set of woodland images, thanks Eric. One from an evening walk just down our local Fishers Hill  Click here to comment on this image. |
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Iain
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Nice shots both of you. |
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Eric
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Eric
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Reposting some of the woodland walk images to see if they are better resolution. Click here to comment on this image. Nope! Still over compressing |
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chrisbet
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That last 2 meg image looks good to me! Try clearing your cache in case you are just reloading the old image. this is the EXIF in the image FILE FileName _dsf0145_copy.jpg FileDateTime 1742939547 FileSize 2243351 FileType 2 MimeType image/jpeg SectionsFound ANY_TAG, IFD0, THUMBNAIL, EXIF COMPUTED html width="2126" height="1582" Height 1582 Width 2126 IsColor 1 ByteOrderMotorola 0 CCDWidth 8mm ApertureFNumber f/6.4 Thumbnail.FileType 2 Thumbnail.MimeType image/jpeg IFD0 Make FUJIFILM Model X-S20 Orientation 1 XResolution 3000000/10000 YResolution 3000000/10000 ResolutionUnit 2 Software Adobe Photoshop 26.4 (Macintosh) DateTime 2025:03:22 22:31:46 Exif_IFD_Pointer 208 THUMBNAIL Compression 6 XResolution 72/1 YResolution 72/1 ResolutionUnit 2 JPEGInterchangeFormat 1054 JPEGInterchangeFormatLength 8825 EXIF ExposureTime 1/450 FNumber 64/10 ExposureProgram 3 ISOSpeedRatings 800 UndefinedTag:0x8830 1 ExifVersion 0232 DateTimeOriginal 2025:03:22 13:00:17 DateTimeDigitized 2025:03:22 13:00:17 UndefinedTag:0x9010 +00:00 UndefinedTag:0x9011 +00:00 UndefinedTag:0x9012 +00:00 ShutterSpeedValue 8813781/1000000 ApertureValue 5356144/1000000 BrightnessValue 621/100 ExposureBiasValue 0/100 MaxApertureValue 300/100 MeteringMode 5 LightSource 0 Flash 0 FocalLength 3430/100 UndefinedTag:0x9405 -26/10 ColorSpace 65535 ExifImageWidth 2126 ExifImageLength 1582 FocalPlaneXResolution 87010286/32768 FocalPlaneYResolution 87010286/32768 FocalPlaneResolutionUnit 3 SensingMethod 2 FileSource SceneType CustomRendered 0 ExposureMode 0 WhiteBalance 0 FocalLengthIn35mmFilm 51 SceneCaptureType 0 Sharpness 0 SubjectDistanceRange 0 UndefinedTag:0xA431 4WA01028 UndefinedTag:0xA432 1600/100 5000/100 280/100 480/100 UndefinedTag:0xA433 FUJIFILM UndefinedTag:0xA434 XF16-50mmF2.8-4.8 R LM WR UndefinedTag:0xA435 4DA05519 |
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Eric
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Thx. Just reloading sorted it. |
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jk
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Eric I was told it was something that Greek and Roman patrician families had! Actually it stems from this..... The ancient Greeks venerated a long second toe as the ideal of physical perfection. You can still see these long toes on ancient Greek and Roman statues. The Vikings believed that a long second toe meant you’d have a long life. Better not tell Jan that she is perfect. |
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Eric
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jk wrote:I was told it was something that Greek and Roman patrician families had!Does the fact it is one of several arthritic toes have any impact on the perfection and long life standings? |
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jk
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I would not know but the arthritis makes for a less pleasurable life! |
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