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[Capt. Drunkey]

I have no idea if it is ok to post this... I made it myself (with the help of AI since I harbor no NI), and therefore it is NO photograph...
It is called "Laurin's Retreat".

 

[Don the Don]

I have no idea if it is ok to post this... I made it myself (with the help of AI since I harbor no NI), and therefore it is NO photograph...
It is called "Laurin's Retreat".
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it's alright with me, looks good, can't speak for the other lot you know what they are like

 

[Big Sandy]

I have no idea if it is ok to post this... I made it myself (with the help of AI since I harbor no NI), and therefore it is NO photograph...
It is called "Laurin's Retreat".
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What's the neighbours like?

 

[Sarky B’stard]

What's the neighbours like?

Rivendell Elves I'm guessing

 

[Big Sandy]

Rivendell Elves I'm guessing

As long as they ain't svartalfs or gremalkins, I'm okay with that.

And if one looks like



Score.

 

[Don the Don]

As long as they ain't svartalfs or gremalkins, I'm okay with that.

And if one looks like

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Score.

"SQUIRT"

 

[DD67]

Northern lights...

 

[Tallpaul]

Northern lights...

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Cracking view from your lounge.........................

 

[Big Sandy]

From Brora beach (Sutherland )on Saturday. Not my pic, taken by a friend.


Very well coloured in, I thought.

 

[MartytheMartian]

I saw the aurora from here but I knew what I was looking for and so wasn't surprised that, with the naked eye, I could barely make out a slight pink or green glow in faint patches and lines. Nothing like the spectacular light show that folks in my village were posting that their cameras were seeing on long exposure. The missus couldn't see them until I explained that it was very subtle and then she could make out the shapes and slight colours.

 

[Big Sandy]

I think a lot of photos get shown post editing. Cynical I guess, but that's what we live with nowadays.

 

[MartytheMartian]

The main thing with the aurora is that folks are shown pictures online and on the TV of these vivid colours across the sky and it may be like that up in Iceland etc. (I wouldn't know) but in this neck of the woods, unless you have a digital camera/phone that is really good at night time photography or take pictures on a pretty long exposure with a good stable tripod, all you will be able to see with the Mk.1 Eyeball is a faint hint of green, pink and purple against the dark blue of the sky. Basically false advertising. The iphone I've got just now was utter pish at trying to take any pics of it but, if I still had the Huawei I used to have I know that would have produced pictures like all the one's you could see online. The different coloured ionised gases were there but could only appear to really be bright with an overexposed image.

The dead giveaway in photos is if houses, trees etc. are very visible or appear to be pretty much lit up.

 

[Big Sandy]

I have actually seen the green ribbon variety, one mid winter night, very much like it looks in the photos. It's cool. But as @MartytheMartian says, in the UK it's a rare occurrence, it's usually a case of "is it, or isn't it".

 

[Don the Don]

A grand view of the MACH loop in Wales from a yank C130.................Hey I can see the pub from here

 

[MartytheMartian]

I saw a video of a flight of three going round there on Facebook and the Facebook 'experts' were all convinced that it was computer generated from a simulator. The guy who filmed it is a pro aviation photographer who is lucky enough to live nearby.

 

[Don the Don]

Seen it myself with my own eyes, those C130 pilot's can throw them things about almost like a bloated fighter, crossing Greenland once en-route to Canada and the pilot spots a polar bear below so takes in down so low the ruddy bear was running along side us.

 

[Big Sandy]

Damn. Not fast enough with the camera... Was sat in the living room reading, and saw a blur go past the window, there was a clonk like something hit the glass, and as I looked up I saw a buzzard take a blackbird right off the cill. Then he dropped down just at the front of the van to eat it. Could see him pulling feathers out, just the back half of the buzzard, but you could see it was arching it's back and ripping in to the blackbird, feathers going everywhere.

Tried to sneak out to get a pic, but he was off soon as I opened the door.

Funny thing, whilst I was watching through the window a rabbit just casually ambled past the buzzard, about 4 ft away. Kind of like they said "evening" and went on their way...

 

[Tricky Dicky]

A couple of my favourite pics that I have taken.

I managed to catch the Vulcan going over my house as i recognised the noise from my childhood living at the bottom of Biggin Hill runway,

A view from a friend's garden and I was playing with HDR images at the time, she has a print of this photo on her wall.

A pic of a big old garden spider that I managed to get in focus.

A nice one of my Koi in my old garden pond.

A Norfolk poppy field.

Me and the wife back in the 80s.

And finally a couple of pics from when we first moved to Norfolk.

 

[Don the Don]

Damn. Not fast enough with the camera... Was sat in the living room reading, and saw a blur go past the window, there was a clonk like something hit the glass, and as I looked up I saw a buzzard take a blackbird right off the cill. Then he dropped down just at the front of the van to eat it. Could see him pulling feathers out, just the back half of the buzzard, but you could see it was arching it's back and ripping in to the blackbird, feathers going everywhere.

Tried to sneak out to get a pic, but he was off soon as I opened the door.

Funny thing, whilst I was watching through the window a rabbit just casually ambled past the buzzard, about 4 ft away. Kind of like they said "evening" and went on their way...

I was fortunate to see a sparrowhawk wizz past my garden as I sat outside and snatch a dove in neaxt doors garden with an almighty smack and then start ripping it apart, Nature is red in tooth and claw as they say, if only these wimpy do gooders understood that

 

[Don the Don]

A couple of my favourite pics that I have taken.

I managed to catch the Vulcan going over my house as i recognised the noise from my childhood living at the bottom of Biggin Hill runway,

A view from a friend's garden and I was playing with HDR images at the time, she has a print of this photo on her wall.

A pic of a big old garden spider that I managed to get in focus.

A nice one of my Koi in my old garden pond.

A Norfolk poppy field.

Me and the wife back in the 80s.

And finally a couple of pics from when we first moved to Norfolk.

Awesome photos @Tricky Dicky thanks for sharing them