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HB, i just think she had run out of veet wax there was a whole bunch of them dressed in lingerie but i didn't want to be seen taking too many pics of them, might end up on "the register"...lol i got a couple of other pics of the buildings, when i get a min i'll put them up don't know how that one if so sharp anyway, i'd had about 6 pints of stella by the time i took it

hi jim, well for about a square mile surrounding the royal mile. i have a business about 2 miles away and we don't get a sniff, if you see an american on my street he's usually looking at a map scratching his head because he's stayed on the bus too long....lol

hi folks, had a day off work yesterday and as it was one of those rare hot summers days that have been lacking recently it would have been a shame to waste it doing housework. so i decided to have an afternoon on the "royal mile" in edinburgh and take some pics with my new camera. as usual the best laid plans and all that i get a call from the school that my youngest son (11) wasn't well so i went to pick him up. it's just a cold he has so i took him with me as the fresh air would do him good. the street was mobbed and everyone seemed to be enjoying themselves i mainly stuck to picture of interesting characters and some of the street acts who were very good one for the boys one for the ladies i stopped for a couple of beers and some coke for sean, it's hot thirsty work this photography...lol this is one of the buildings opposite the "deacon brodies" pub saw this interesting character, took this with my 200mm zoom he's a tall laddie.... got my wife to meet us after work and we went for a nice, albeit expensive festival inflated priced meal on the royal mile watching everything going past. what a nice day out, and the sun was shining what more could you want?? les

YOU AND WHO'S ARMY?? OOOPS!!!!! taken at the edinburgh fringe festival on the royal mile yesterday Camera Model Canon EOS 400D DIGITAL Shooting Date/Time 23/08/2007 13:16:34 Shooting Mode Shutter-Priority AE Tv( Shutter Speed ) 1/200 Av( Aperture Value ) 4.5 Metering Mode Center-Weighted Average Metering Exposure Compensation 0 ISO Speed 100 Lens EF-S18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 Focal Length 35.0 mm Image Size 3888x2592 Image Quality Fine Flash On Flash Type Built-In Flash

well done newt. i really liked that pic and i think it captured the spirit of contour les

hi folks, i posted my first competing pic in the "FRIENDS" comp did i do it properly?? cheers les

my first go at the competition PATRICK AND ERR... PATRICK title = PATRICK & ERR... PATRICK Make = CANON Model =400D Date = 14/08/2007 Exposure Time = 1/60" F Number = F5.6 Exposure Program = programme AE ISO Speed Ratings = 100 Focal Length = 55mm WBM flash

well i did a bit of fiddling with my new canon today. just mainly trying the various settings, but here's the first pic i took just on automatic though think my window needs cleaned though

cheers westie, and be assured, i'm not shy i still need to get a large flash card, i keep getting out bid on ebay for a 4 gig one but i will get one for under £30.00 inc post.....lol yes, i'm scottish.....

well bit the bullet and bought the canon 400D seems nice though as hellbelly mentioned i think i'll get the battery grip as well now as i have large hands and when i hold it i have a spare pinky hanging off the bottom of the camera. now, just need to get the manual out and study it carefully got it from jessops, tried to get the interest free credit but apparently the credit company don't like self employed people, because i never take things out on the drip i don't have a credit history. i lost my patience and stuck it on my visa i'll post a couple of my first pics when i get something worth posting thanks for the help les

hi, thanks for the replies. yes i saw the reviews and they do seem very much identical. i think i will go for the canon, my friend has a D5 and lots of lenses i could borrow if i speak nicely to him just need to find a deal. jessops are doing a 12 months interest free thingy on bundles. i think i'll take advantage of that as i don't have the readies at the moment, the wife has stuck it all on bingo and puggy machines thanks les

hi, i'm wanting to get away from my digital compact which i'm finding a bit limiting. which of these cameras is best, any opinions? thanks in advance les

yes norrie, you were too late, as usual got back yesterday and "goldie" (original eh??) is fine.... i swear that fish is immortal, i've managed to resuscitate it twice after my wife poisoned it with surface cleaner, but it does swim with a list after the last time. thanks for the help

looks like the feeder block thing is out anyway, i forgot to go for one.... i'll just have to trust the opinion on the board and hope for the best thanks , i'll let you know how it goes regards les

ok, a divided opinion, the problem is the water is badly needing changed and if i change it there will be nothing lying about for it. hmmmmmm!!! think i'll get a feeder block and put maybe 1/3 of it in. i'll speak to the fish shop (tropical not chippy) thanks for the replies les

hi folks, never been on this forum but need a wee bit help. we have a goldfish and have always had someone to look after it for us when we go on holiday. we've had him/her now for 12 years after my nephew won it at the shows. this year we are stuck as everyone is going away at the same time. is there a block feeder or something i can buy to do it for a fortnight, is there and down side to this?? thanks in advance les

:yawn: :yawn: :yawn: i was warned not to get involved in a discussion with you..... there is no cure for stupid, finished....

well i think i have definitely credited you with too many brains. i asked in a jocular fashion if you got your blinkers on ebay, hardly constitutes a rant..... i work 6 days a week and don't have time to go looking for fish, i want them to be in the approximate area i last got them in last time i went fishing. my "loch" is part of the firth of clyde system which was once the top fishing area in the UK for inshore cod fishing. after they scrapped the 3 mile limit it became a free for all and within a year there was nothing left, only dogfish and the odd flattie. the loch had a wee comeback with haddock for a couple of years, now there is none again. the shop we got our rolls from in the morning from has lost our regular business, the chippy we went to on the way home has lost our trade, the pub we had a pint in also, for what, so some greedy git of a "fisherman" can have creel bait instead of paying £10 for a box of salt herring?? and only in the short term. what you need to realise is that overfishing of stocks doesn't mean just the north sea cod stocks, its loads of different species in loads of different areas, rays in luce bay (if you know where that is) for example. the pollack which are being gill netted on the reefs off arran, the bass and smoothhounds in wigtown bay. when was the last time anyone got a halibut off the north or west coast of scotland, did the anglers who caught maybe 6 in a year catch them all?? in fact heres a great set, these should blot almost everything for you http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/VINTAGE-LEATHER-BRID...1QQcmdZViewItem you are obviously the kind of man who has to have the last word, so this could go on for a while....

sorry if i appear stupid barry, what is gill tagging??

sorry challenge, i seem to have credited you with too many brains and yes you are boring me the blinkers reference is to the fact that you believe that there is no overfishing and that there is no greedy crooked commercial fishermen out there exploiting a finite resource and that the fishing is as good as it ever was. maybe i should start drinking yorkshire ale and become deluded too

tell me challenge, where can i get a pair of those blinkers you are wearing?? are they on ebay?? does the commercial fishing world begin and end on the yorkshire coast?? or have you just never been anywhere else??

i live and fish in scotland so i really don't give a hoot about the fishing in whitby or yorkshire. there is more to sea angling than killing cod all day. when i was young no-one fished our patch for cod during the summer, it was all haddock on the soft ground, now although they say haddock are at a 30 year high there is still no haddock on the inshore (3 miles off) ground, none, not even undersized ones. Only a year or so ago on here (from this part of the world) people where saying that the commercial industry had destroyed there hobby of sea angling because they could not catch what they wanted or thought they where entitled to catch. this part gets me, i don't think it's too much to expect to get the same from my hobby today exactly what i got from it 30 years ago when i was a boy, ie, good catches of fish for my time, money and effort. now those days are gone, is it the anglers who caught all the fish?? for a short time there was a worthwhile population of sized haddock in loch fyne on the west coast, it costs us about £50.00 in fuel to tow the boat there and about £15.00 in petrol for the boat. we would get maybe 30 in size haddock for our day plus dozens of undersize fish all returned alive. a couple of boats from further down the loch swept it and took everything for creel bait for the more lucrative langoustine creel fishing, now no-one goes there, not worth the fuel to catch pin whiting and dogs. a mark i used to fish at st.abbs on the east coast for plaice, here we would anchor on the sand and get maybe 1 plaice for every 20 or so dabs, dabs to 1.5lb as well, now there is only dabs and very small, why?? because on their way back from the prawn grounds if they didn't get enough prawns the boats drop their nets in this bay and get a few boxes of flatties to sell for creel bait, i haven't seen a plaice from here for 8 years and the average size of the dabs in now undersized 20 years ago in luce bay on the west coast there used to be an annual influx of spurdog during the summer, big gravid females in to drop their pups, longliners moved in to target the large heavily pregnant females because there is more money in them as the fish was sold ungutted, each fish proabably 3-4lb heavier than than a normal spur, now there is none, they haven't been seen for 20 years. my 2 sons fish with me now aged 16 and 11 and they think they have a good day out with me these days but they are only getting a mere shadow of what the fishing was like when i was their age pull your head out your arse and see that it's not all about cod

i'm not going to sit here and bandy words with an apologist like you. i know what i know and assumption like opinions are like arseholes.... everyone has one.... i read the papers and look on the internet and see some of what is going on, and i mean some, what gets reported is only the tip of the iceberg much much more goes either unreported or unnoticed. if a boat is caught with X amount of black fish or out of quota fish, it's a fair assumption (your favourite word apparently) that there is several other boats who didn't get caught. i've tasted the fruits of trawler fishermens labour, thats the reason why i can't catch a cod in the firth of clyde on the marks i could get get plenty from 25 years ago. and now the spurs in the west coast sea lochs we fish for in the winter are almost gone due to a millionaire boat owners greed. don't for one minute think i don't know what i'm talking about end of....

challenge, no i don't have any proof and no i haven't fished commercially. but there is plenty proof out there that commercial fishermen consistently break the rules by overfishing and landing black fish, i've seen it done up here. fish landed in the dark at a dockage miles from any harbour, tons of prawns in boxes loaded onto a truck at a power station of all places until the road was closed for security purposes to me they represent the worst in business men, greedy money grubbers with no regard for the finite resources they are exploiting. their philosophy is "if i don't catch it someone else will and when there is nothing left, try something else" the old adage about the hard done to fishermen risking their lives for a few fish for the british housewives to put on the table is totally out of date. it's not just the fishermen, it's the middlemen paying the cash with no receipts and fiddling the quotes as well as was seen recently at newlyn. the business is rotten to the core as far as i'm concerned...

clem... it doesn't have to be the middle of the night. i was on holiday at scarborough about 4 years ago and a trawler was in the harbour unloading box upon box of tiny very small, possibly undersized codling, none of which i would dream of keeping. they went into the back of a truck and gone, this was about 8pm on a nice july evening