Blue Marlin

weyhey! make mine a freshly ground quarter pound BSE burger with fries please. wikid oh & some bbq sauce on the side.... ta

i meant 'she' i meant 'she', it was a typo honest! hehehe here's numbers 2 & 3 of the 4 cats.. dont ask me their names, i've forgotten.. gay & gayer lol

hehehe, wicked! he's having a good ol wash there!.. great that u managed to snap him whilst his tonge was out

thought this was quite funny.. one of our 4 cats here in MRU This one's called tiddles (i know i know totally unoriginal name... i didn't name him) tiddy sleeping in smallchop's (the dog's) basket...... notice the dribble lol tiddy realising i'm taking his pic.... not impressed

lol.. awe man, suppose thats one thing i aint missing much.. bloody traffic! saying that tho the traffic goin through port louis (the city - mauritius) is absolute murder and i avoid it at all costs.. it takes 30 mins to do a 2 minute stretch... & in the festering heat.. all that noise, everyone beeping.. it aint fun tellin ya.

hate is a strong word not to be used lightly but i can well and trully say i HATE religion.. it has more to be responsible for than many realise.. apart from war it breeds seperatism which leads to or creates racism. the big problem with the UK at the mo.. far to many concessions if u ask me.. to me religions are merely socially accepted cults which should all be bannished to the dark ages of history. the primative mind needs reasurance that someone will be there in times of desperation.. it's all in the head and fables & fairy stories passed from generation to generation. i come from a mixed background, mum a christian background, dad a hindu background.. i went to sunday school as a child and went to a convent school when older. I was taught by nuns before i went to secondry school but purely because the school had a good rep for education and many mixed backgrounds, i opted out of religious services but boy did it open my eyes to how the mind can be moulded into a narrower shape.. i really really thank my parents for not instilling religion in me.. thankfully for me and my sister the generation chain was broken.. i feel sorry for some of my cousins here in mauritius, they know no different and will sadly pass this crap onto their children (wether it's christian or hindu - to me all the same) like a cursed baton continuing on with the 'chain of narrow-mindedness'.. it's wasted energy that could be focused on something productive. life is short, why waste your time and energy on it.. bonkers... as man evoles it will thankfully irradicate these cave man fables and new doors will open re; PC, war and racism. ok jesus may have existed & probably did.. but to me he was just like a 'david blane' of his day and managed to work magic on people.. will there one day be a religion based on david blane's miraculous levitation trickery... i think not, the mind has evolved so that the masses know what's real and what's not... religion WAS a way of controlling the masses as back then people couldn't tell the diff... sadly it's still controlling people i'm not saying it's THE main reason PC and racism exists, just saying if u look back further and much much deeper u will see religion plays a huge roll... dang, think u might be able to tell religion is a pet hate of mine lol.. ahh well had me rant.. sorry if i've offended some people i dont mean to, i just see the same as 'UK-Fishing-Tackle.co.uk'... a sad sad link between religion & political correctness

yahh ur right, i'll keep my chin up & plough on.. u never know what's around the next corner...

thanks corydoras looks great but unfortunatly for me i'm far far away from the green green grass of home. i'm gonna have to wait till end of July b4 i can have a peek enjoy y'all

awe they're sweet sooz & ollie u must be proud. it makes me feel well broody seeing kids... i'm 29 in may and bloody single with it.. can't help feeling that time is slipping by.. is there a mrs right somewhere out there for me?i'm beginning to think not.. i'd love to have some horrors to take portraits of

hehehehe didn't notice that 1 :drunk: cheers guys coz I didn't even know how to straighten an image...... I do now btw Steve nice pic of Ashness bridge... top banana

yer & maybe some starker lighting, like a bright lamp near the top left (out of view obviously).. it may cast a nicer shadow offering both a sense of perspective plus a slight distraction to any fuzzy lines around the objects.

nice pics gillies.. love those panoramic shots! my Ma & I decided to wander over to the hotel next door for lunch today.. sat at the table I snapped this piccy whilst having a bevvie b4 our meal so here's my photo of the day.. didn't get much work done after that mind was fit for an afternoon nap. zzZZZZZZ

i see what your saying ian but most of these ARE scams only a tiny percentage are genuine.. it's happened to a friend of mine, he's a doesn't get out much and is a bit naive so unfortunatly got tricked.. he's since researched the issue in much detail. put it this way, it's not the girl u see in the photo it's some fat ulgy russian bloke sat at his computer sending these cute girly pics of him until the dialouge via email become so that eventually the question is posed..(by this time your sucked in) 'i have no money please send me some so i can get to the uk' once you've sent the money, that'll be the last time you'll hear of fat ugly russian bloke and his cute girly pics..

Joe Calzaghe - the guy's an absolute legend! & he's Welsh! well done Joe

kool pic there m8 kinda reminds me when i was a kid.. used to be a coal mine nearby with similar rusty old carts, we used to wrench open the lever on em and the coal spewed out blocking the line until the carrots came and shoveled it clear.. tutt tutt naughty kids eh the guys used to chase us on our bmx's, we were petrified of the 'carrots' as we called em.. coal workers in orange jump suits lol ahh memories

dunno about question 1 as i've never had any of my pics printed (yet) but i hear what your saying. i'm still in the colour balance / sharpen category at the mo so others here are probably much more qualified than me to comment, my opinion can only be based on personal faffing. tho i've today figued out how to put text on a photo, woohooooo!!! i'm trying to learn some more about photoshop at the mo so gimme a couple of weeks and i'll be able to confirm if monkies can produce a decent pic hehehe as for defining the word 'photograph' sorry had to... google it http://www.google.mu/search?hl=en&q=define%3A+photograph A photograph (often just called a photo) is an image (or a representation of that on e.g. paper) created by collecting and focusing reflected electromagnetic radiation. The most common photographs are those created of reflected visible wavelengths, producing permanent records of what the human eye can see. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photograph whaaa!?!?!?.... shocking edit: hehehe sorry u asked for that one CJ

ahhh i seeeeee, cheers last time i was in blackpool was about 8 years ago, not sure if it that shinny ball was there then.. it's probably me.. there's a similar thing at barry island south wales, it's all flooding back to me now hehehe if i can remember the one in barry's at ground level with a statue of a man, his hands aside his face staring into the ball.. kinda weird love the piccy tho fella & good luck to all the entries bo- selekta!

hey rabs where's the location of that pic? might just be me thinking of somewhere else but i'm sure i recognise that big shinny ball hmmmm ta

Spot on target Steve, it couldn't be said better... as bananarama profoundly once said - 'it aint what u do but the way that u do it.... that's what gets results!' hehehe m8, your words have inspired me

hehehe ur prolly right bout all this digi revolution fella i've been called a monkey... plus i aint got a clue edit: still aint produced an ulimate pic tho lol

Grand Baie - Mauritius Make = PENTAX Corporation Model = PENTAX Optio S Exposure Time = 1/1000" F Number = F4.3 Exposure Program = Landscape mode

wow den that dove pic is fantastic! u might wanna think of entering that for the comp m8.. & ollie that black & white shot is great too! i like B&W, can be well moody. & rabster thats rat is awesome, talk about being in the right place right time! they're difficult to photograph in the wild.. i'm same as den when it comes to rats, think they're well kool, in the right situation of course but even if not they've never freaked me out, it's just the germs thing.. hoorah for the rat!... great shot. oops had to edit, forgot to say well done to matt on his first 'photo of the day'! good to see your having fun with ya new toy, what camera u got then matey?

nice 1 Cameraman some wicked pics m8! i specially like the 1st one, all dem fields! all that snow! been following it on the weather reports here in MRU.. well from one extreme to another, here's one i took t'other day strolling along beach. photo of 'Round Island' one of the many off-shore islands near Mauritius. Make = PENTAX Corporation Model = PENTAX Optio S Exposure Time = 1/1000" F Number = F4.3 Exposure Program = Landscape mode

Good skills Steve that photo is amazing! love the sun's rays and also the reflection of clouds.. bravo!