Happy Dude

is that your birthday bash then paul, me and liam thought it was the weekend after

aye a bit expensive if there is 4 of you, and in my home town as well, maybe if i was on my holidays....a BIG maybe... :drunk: canny hold a light to you though, oh great one :notworthy:

i think norm was paying you a huge compliment there norrie, whereas everyone else knows the truth, millimetre peter

sorry john used my spare arm and leg last weekend at drummore paying the bar bill on sunday night i've heard it's quite expensive and as i'm scottish..... you can guess the rest. last time i was in edinburgh castle it was free, it's about £12 each to get in now....

shhhhh, norrie, big secret.... heard you caught a flattie, any good??

cheers lads, i'm a bit disappointed i couldn't get a bit closer, i was pushed for time as i had to be home for my son's getting home from school. i'm not shy at trying to get in for a better shot, but there was a few of the yellow jacketed guys about and unusually i wasn't in the mood for an argument...lol maybe get a chance for a better shot before it leaves

when i was in ireland about 15 years ago there were some hire boats, orkney 19's with 15 horse diesel outboards on them, can't remember the brand. the guys who were using them complained that they were slow, noisy, a lot of vibration and everything on the boat was covered in a thin layer of diesel possibly from the exhaust. you could certainly hear them coming from quite a way away, took them over an hour sailing to get to where we got to on our planing hulled boats in 15 minutes

due to the stinking weather and wind, not much deckspace for fishing though http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/edinbu...ast/7005040.stm saw this boat on the local news this morning and as i was heading down in that general direction took my trusty canon with me. once i got there i couldn't get very close so i used my 55-200mm lens, but had to shoot through a wire fence and the holes in the fence were too close to poke the lens through, so the blurry bits are fence wire you can see the "brittannia" in the background as well by the time i worked out how to get closer albeit with the risk of being ejected by the dudes in the flouro coats i had run out of time and had to bolt.... crap pics, but the best i could do in the circumstances

hey H.A. going boat fishing not shore fishing, and the blueys are supplied, so you can go and boil yer heed!!!

is that ian got you on a commission now john??

guy, i'm just back from his house where we were swapping trailer winch posts and he never mentioned it once.... he mentioned it about 20 times.... mind you, thats about as many times as i mentioned that i was going to iceland a week on sunday well done norrie

HP is better than DADDIES......

hi JK, what setting was that then?? i'm going to have to hide my camera from my son as he mucks about with it and changes the setting, a right pain in the arse he is

took this fishing shot today. the colours seem a bit odd, i've checked all the settings on the camera and the white balance was set for flash. i did use fill in flash for this pic as it was very dull, could it be because it was outside?? a wee bit C+C would be appreciated les

great shots HB, like westie i like the No.4 shot too some of the others look like me today launching my boat with my big toyota at low tide into a muddy/rocky harbour on the east coast of scotland, nice clear shots les

i couldn't find time for this one either, i had a great idea but i had to be fishing to do it and the weather has been mince, got out today and and came in after 3 hours after a tsunami decided to try fill my boat. and i can't do the new one either, and i have a great idea for that one too. ho hum!!

thanks everyone i'd now like to announce my retirement from photographic competition to maintain my 100% record only kidding have 2 or 3 subjects in mind for next weeks comp, i'll give it a bit of thought over the next couple of days thanks again, the wee man is dead chuffed

i think it's just a common or garden black bream, female i think or an immature male

cheers john, the wee man is quite excited about his pic being on the net

andy, i'm happy for that on my pics, anything to help improve my shots

me and tony are down the weekend after to fish with ian for 2 days, sunday/monday. staying with bob and sally in the village i think ian has ordered some good weather for us....lol

can't believe i made it into the running on my first attempt. my boy sean is dead chuffed thanks

thanks for that rob, my oldest son would be very interested in going to a seminar like that but yorkshire is a bit far for an evening les

hi rob... do you know is alan bean is touring?? or if he's speaking anywhere in scotland??

nice pic of patrick the pirate there.... good one of me playing with ian burretts wifes knockers i'm back down to fish with ian on the week after you, tony's coming and another guy called alan. got 2 days on "onyer marks"