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  1. grebeman

    GAS GAS: Please Share your Latest Acquisitions Big and Small

    Good luck with your Voigtlander, my first camera was a Voigtlander Bessa Mk 1 6x9 which I enjoyed very much. I also had a Mk2 at one time which had rangefinder coupled focussing although I never got on with that one for some reason, Barrie
  2. grebeman

    Birds Show Birds

    Lucien, Widespread breeder from south of the Great Lakes to well to the north on pebbly lakeshores, ponds and streams, and apparently your most widespread Sandpiper, mighty rare over here but if they turn up they usually winter (no spots then and very like our Common Sandpiper), only ever seen...
  3. grebeman

    Birds Show Birds

    Wow, that's one fantastic image of a Spotted Sandpiper, very rarely do they have their breeding plumage with spots showing when we get any vagrants of this species in the UK. Barrie
  4. grebeman

    Birds Show Birds

    Yet another Grey Heron, this one spent most of the morning in the field adjacent to my cottage and was photographed through the kitchen door. It's a juvenile bird and was eating invertebrates. The images are not cropped. Barrie
  5. grebeman

    Street 14th Kingsbridge Vintage Bus Running Day (Image Heavy)

    There was no 13th bus running day in 2020 for obvious reasons. It would have been the 60th anniversary of the introduction of the small Bristol SU single decker bus that was the mainstay of the rural bus services in this area during the 1960's and 1970's so that celebration was delayed until...
  6. grebeman

    Sports Tour of Britain cycle race

    They've just finished in Exeter about 3 hours after I took the shots above. An American called Robin Carpenter for team Raleigh won the stage by 22 seconds. Just 2 km from the finish he had a lead of 2 minutes so the sprinters were catching him up fast. Of course it might be team Rally (I'm...
  7. grebeman

    Sports Tour of Britain cycle race

    The Tour of Britain cycle race came through our village at around lunchtime today. This is the 2nd stage of 8 stages. A short walk across the fields from my cottage bought me to a field gateway where I was able to photograph the riders as they breasted a very modest hill between my village of...
  8. grebeman

    Documentary Clearing a fallen tree

    A couple of days ago I found out that Graham, my landlord, was about to tackle the fallen bough of an Ash tree that had rotted out where it joined the main tree and fallen across the farm track. So with tools, chainsaw and tractor he set to work. You'll have to turn a blind eye to the flouting...
  9. grebeman

    How's weather at your place?

    And for us cider drinkers!!! Barrie
  10. grebeman

    Birds Show Birds

    European Goldfinch Barrie
  11. grebeman

    Nature Show: Spring

    Last year this little crab apple, Evereste, was a mass of white blossom. In this years faltering spring some blossom has already shriveled, some is open and the rest is yet to open. The main reason for planting it in an orchard is to attract pollinating insects who then go on to pollinate the...
  12. grebeman

    Nature Show "Flowers"

    Martin, some of our early plants have suffered from the generally cold conditions throughout April, apparently it's been the worst April for frosts in the last 60 years so plants like Alexanders, a member of the carrot family and introduced here by the Romans (I'm not sure if they extend as far...
  13. grebeman

    Nature Show "Flowers"

    Dog-violet Greater Stitchwort Lesser Celandine Primrose Ramsons Barrie
  14. grebeman

    Linux Linuxed my Macbook again! (Linux image processing)

    This software looks as though it might have some potential. I'm still trying to get to grips with the image import function, I'm not a fan of software that imports images which in my hands seems to run wild and do its own thing, I much prefer something that picks up an image in my treed file...
  15. grebeman

    Challenge! March Symposium: The Small Sensor Look.

    Having not posted for some days I've posted four taken today. Evidence of problems with slight camera shake or focusing issues, rather too frequent a problem in my experience making the camera a little disappointing to use. With a Nikon 5T close up lens. From my back door. Barrie
  16. grebeman

    Challenge! March Symposium: The Small Sensor Look.

    Both grey and wet today, so this is from mid March 2014, given the mono treatment in post processing. near Golden Dagger Mine, Dartmoor Barrie
  17. grebeman

    Challenge! March Symposium: The Small Sensor Look.

    A grey day and rather cool and breezy, so my turn to delve into my archives, 2013 to be exact which was a good year for using this camera, here a couple of shots with it at full stretch in the telephoto sense. Plymouth pilot boat "Maker" Spoonbill Barrie
  18. grebeman

    Challenge! March Symposium: The Small Sensor Look.

    Hi Martin, an interesting take on the image. Perhaps I'm too much of a purist to go that far with an image. It certainly looks like an old image where the negative has been badly handled :). The crows banking in the wind certainly add to it and actually match the conditions, a brisk easterly...
  19. grebeman

    Challenge! March Symposium: The Small Sensor Look.

    I've often passed these beech trees on a secondary road that runs across country inland from Kingsbridge and thought these trees would make a good image. Today I had to drive that route to seek emergency dental treatment and stopped on the way home. The day was still rather dull but beginning to...
  20. grebeman

    Challenge! March Symposium: The Small Sensor Look.

    This sequence of images were taken two days ago (Saturday) on the outskirts of my village. I was fascinated to see what can only be described as multi tasking down on the farm, namely an addition to a reversible plough which allows both ploughing and disc harrowing at the same time. At the end...
  21. grebeman

    Small Sensor Symposium

    Hi Steve, I like the relaxed approach you have suggested for this challenge so I can see myself contributing using my FZ200 perhaps supplemented at times with a screw in close up lens giving me a wide choice of subjects that can be tackled as and when it suits me. Barrie
  22. grebeman

    Birds Show Birds

    A Barn Owl driven by hunger to hunt during the day, and successfully, it's caught a vole, probably a Field Vole based on my dissection of pellets from this individual during recent months. Covering the prey Barrie
  23. grebeman

    Birds Show Birds

    Another capture through the double glazed kitchen door, this time a Common Buzzard Buteo buteo which is also after rodents in the field used by the Barn Owl recently posted in this thread. It was little further away than the Barn Owl had been. Barrie
  24. grebeman

    Birds Show Birds

    My local Barn Owl sat on the fence around my cottage between 08:00 and 08:15 this morning scanning the ground for prey items. It was photographed through a double glazed door at distances varying from 7 to 15 metres (20-40 feet). Barrie
  25. grebeman

    B&W B&W: Words/No Words

    Leica M3 with 90mm f/4 Elmar (from the 1970's) Barrie
  26. grebeman

    Single In Single in January (SiJ) 2021: outtakes day 25-31

    Slightly different camera, but same lens. It's likely to live on this camera from now on. This view through my front door shows why tractors can feature large in my life 😀 Barrie
  27. grebeman

    Single In Single in January (SiJ) 2021 - day 31

    So ends what has been a rather unsatisfactory challenge as far as I'm concerned, thrown off my theme after day 4 (just as i was beginning to feel comfortable with it despite being out of my normal genre) due to government requests to restrict our activities for well known reasons which meant I...
  28. grebeman

    Single In Single in January (SiJ) 2021 - day 30

    The handbook states that Land Rover know they leak, they won't accept any claims for a leaking model and that there are sufficient air gaps around the floor pan for the water to run out again, love it :). Mine did have an electrically heated windscreen, much recommended.
  29. grebeman

    Single In Single in January (SiJ) 2021 - day 30

    I owned and drove a Land Rover Defender for several years, but it wasn't as well fitted out as that one. Barrie
  30. grebeman

    Single In Single in January (SiJ) 2021 - day 30

    Oh I think I do, and I probably wouldn't want to come back. Barrie
  31. grebeman

    Single In Single in January (SiJ) 2021 - day 30

    It's time to recognise that today is a complete washout, the rain started just after 09:00 and the latest weather radar shows it has hardly moved since then with a large arc of it across us. So having made certain that my nearest neighbour had gone to bed (I saw them outside at 07:35 hunting...
  32. grebeman

    Single In Single in January (SiJ) 2021 - day 29

    Cleavehouse Barn This barn is a short distance from my cottage, it's not dissimilar in construction but is sadly falling into decay with a collapsing wall and roof. It's deprived a barn owl of a nesting site but all may not be lost, perhaps that can be explained before the month is out. Note...
  33. grebeman

    Single In Single in January (SiJ) 2021 - day 28

    Martin, my money was on Zebra and then you go and post something I've never heard off! Barrie
  34. grebeman

    Single In Single in January (SiJ) 2021 - day 27

    Tony, that looks very much like a grafting mark, so the young tree has been grafted to a different rootstock, very often done with fruit trees to improve the yield. Barrie
  35. grebeman

    Single In Single in January (SiJ) 2021: outtakes day 25-31

    Not so much an outtake, but an aftertake. This is the view from the 1st floor window of my cottage looking south at midday on day 27, so some three hours after my entry for day 27 and at a lower altitude. The mist has actually thickened up which would have added a little atmosphere to my entry...
  36. grebeman

    Single In Single in January (SiJ) 2021 - day 27

    I guess today's image is a homage to the work on rural life in Devon conducted by the photographer James Ravilious, although he would have wanted to portray someone at work in the vegetable patch. Allotment in the early morning rain Barrie
  37. grebeman

    Single In Single in January (SiJ) 2021 - day 26

    Another day, another weather system. Here the sky is various shades of grey with rain, mostly heavy with the odd lighter break. It has been raining since before dawn and is forecast to go on until after dusk. Whilst it's early in the day I don't foresee being able to get much else so I've just...
  38. grebeman

    Single In Single in January (SiJ) 2021 - day 25

    What a difference a day makes, barely a wisp of cirrus cloud in the sky today, although a cold night because of that. No point in making the sky dominant for a monochrome shot in these conditions. Stile Barrie
  39. grebeman

    Single In Single in January (SiJ) 2021: outtakes day 19-24

    Thank you Miguel. I hadn't noticed the Buzzard until I saw the rainbow shot on the computer, the elements were certainly with me this morning. The weather forecast says they're actually shaping up to be very challenging for this final week, mainly meaning lots of rain. Barrie
  40. grebeman

    Single In Single in January (SiJ) 2021: outtakes day 19-24

    I guess one had to be in colour, having captured a rain bow! Barrie
  41. grebeman

    Single In Single in January (SiJ) 2021 - day 24

    Sunrise - Approaching storm It was a hail storm, and yes it got me before I got back to the car, but only just. Barrie
  42. grebeman

    Single In Single in January (SiJ) 2021 - day 23

    End of the wall Barrie
  43. grebeman

    Single In Single in January (SiJ) 2021 - day 22

    You have the advantage of being able to measure them, not sure the leaves are right though, not to worry, they are a different species. Barrie
  44. grebeman

    Single In Single in January (SiJ) 2021 - day 22

    Martin, them looks like what us down 'ere would call Mangle Wurzels! Graham tells me before it was converted the first floor of my cottage where I'm now sitting was used to store them! Barrie
  45. grebeman

    Single In Single in January (SiJ) 2021: outtakes day 19-24

    With some torrential rain showers now affecting us and being bored I made what I thought would be a pointless colour version of the day 22 entry from the raw file only to find I needed to correct for vignetting which I hadn't detected on the jpeg monochrome from the camera. It doesn't occur on...
  46. grebeman

    Single In Single in January (SiJ) 2021 - day 22

    Sorry everyone, just a rather boring record shot today after a shopping trip for food, at least I can now eat for the next few days :) , locally made bread and pies amongst other things. Shower activity builds to the west This is the local farm shop between my village and the next village to...
  47. grebeman

    Single In Single in January (SiJ) 2021 - day 21

    Steve, when do we see some pictures from it?
  48. grebeman

    Single In Single in January (SiJ) 2021: outtakes day 19-24

    A last hurray from my previous partner in this SIJ, just to show how well the 12-32 lens integrates with the faux rangefinder style cameras such as the GX8, my new partner, made for each other. Barrie
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