GrahamS – Member
That’d cost you a fortune in Cuprinol.

Already has. This is what she looked like before she did the fence.

rickmeister – Member
More to the point, would you date a Cowboy…

No… but I’d date a Cowboy’s girl

Mark – Resident Grumpy
Those who are getting the page takeover ads… like BBC and Lottery ads… where are you? ie. What country?

SE England

In addition to This yesterday

sands – Member
In the last few of days I’ve had a couple of full-screen adverts – Age UK and Volvo cars – only happens when I’ve been viewing STW.

This morning, I’ve just had full-screen BBC3 advertising Zombie Apocalypse and National lottery with a background of diamonds.

Today (just after midnight) had Volvo again and some Army click-the-video ad.

However, nothing else since.

HTH

Bump – On tonight (Wed 25 Feb)

jambalaya – Member

PSA – Citizenfour the Oscar winning documentary on Edward Snowden is on Channel 4 Wed night at 23:05

Thanks jambalaya

In the last few of days I’ve had a couple of full-screen adverts – Age UK and Volvo cars – only happens when I’ve been viewing STW.

This morning, I’ve just had full-screen BBC3 advertising Zombie Apocalypse and National lottery with a background of diamonds.

I use Firefox on a large-screen desktop PC and I never had a problem with the diver / banking ads.

nemesis – Member
First year net sales of £3.71m…

No – you haven’t researched the potential competition.

Facebook

Not too Pro to wave

MrNice – Member
…or imperceptible nod that you didn’t see

It’s yer Kill Bill innit – they were (obviously) Shaolin monks:

“As the monk and the priest crossed paths, Pai Mei, in a practically unfathomable display of generosity, gave the monk the slightest of nods. The nod was not returned.

Now, was it the intention of the Shaolin monk to insult Pai Mei? Or did he just fail to see the generous social gesture? The motives of the monk remain unknown.”

Do any STW photographers have any advice?

This is worth reading regarding lens choice. Although written for the 5200, it is a good general summary of lenses on non full-frame bodies.
Choose a Lens for Your Nikon D5200

I last went in 2012 when it was still ‘Focus on Imaging’, but coming up on March 21 – 24 2015 is
The Photography Show at NEC Birmingham

It is a good opportunity to get hands-on with a variety of kit – and usually some bargains / show only prices.

Good site for comparing prices: Camera Price Buster

Also worth considering / budgeting for:
A second battery.
A clear (UV) filter* to protect the lens from dirt / water / fingers etc.

*Purists hate this.

This might be helpful for general information and hotels.

Lonely Planet

you can rent a city bike easy too

Tel-o-Fun

Longest: Girlfriend getting ready “I’ll just be a minute…”

Shortest: Realising you need to edit your post when it’s been up for 14minutes.

jimoiseau – Member

…it’s just alt+e. It’s the è, à, ç and ù that get tricky,…

ç – hold ‘alt’ then type ‘0231’
è – hold ‘alt’ then type ‘0232’
é – hold ‘alt’ then type ‘0233’
ê – hold ‘alt’ then type ‘0234’
ù – hold ‘alt’ then type ‘0249’

Google: Extended Characters / Extended Character Codes

Rosé (adj) translates as ‘pinkish’ (possibly because there are different colours of rosé wine?)

Reverso Dictionary

Bit of fun:

MCN’s 2015 Fantasy Road Race

Simply select a team consisting of six riders – two from each classification (MotoGP, World Superbikes and British Superbikes) all from your budget of £10 million.

(Register before 04:00 GMT on Saturday, 21 February 2015)

DezB – Member

If I used body language to get my bike down a technical bit of singletrack I’d probably crash. Bikey’s nice, but it not understand the nuances.
:-)

munrobiker – Member

Body english is a colloquial term for muscling something around to get it to do what you want.

This^^^

It certainly used to be a common expression in motorcycle trials riding.

hora – Member

Looking back- remembering the pic of him sat at home under the 7 framed title jerseys of the Tour with the words ‘just chillin with my titles’ (or whatever) – it just shows his rank arrogance.

eddiebaby – Member

Do you realise this thread was posted twice?

My suggestions are on the other one:

Here

Mifsuds

Fixation

Camera World

Comparing new prices here is always worthwhile:

Camera Price Buster

I use SPDs (Shimano 540) but have flats on a ‘cheapy’ GT I’m prepared to risk parking in town.

With the flats:
1 Still subconsciously tend to pull-up with the back foot.
2 Feet don’t feel in exactly the right place first time, as they do with SPDs

MSP – Member
Oh FFS!

Four posts back – from the second link

“But MCN learned that representatives from Silverstone, including new boss Patrick Allen, flew to Barcelona on February 2 for talks with MotoGP rights owners Dorna about a rescue deal for the British MotoGP.”

From Here

“Ticket sales for the British MotoGP have temporarily been paused as we have received information that the event will not be taking place at Donington in 2015.
A new venue has been secured and further information about this is to be announced on Thursday.”

wwaswas – Member

…or just a basic failure of English?

^^^This

(Quote: Oscar Wilde)

British Grand Prix in jeopardy as Donington Park pulls out

Breaking news: 2015 British MotoGP back at Silverstone?

Part 1 repeated
7:00pm Channel 4 tonight (Sat 7 Feb)

Part 2
9:00pm Channel 4 tomorrow (Sun 8 Feb)

No personal recommendations in that area – but I’d try:

National Trust Cottages

Guardian Cottages

Or this (if you’ve got a sense of humour) at Wrabness North Essex.

Grayson Perry – Living Architecture

They’re already doing politicians for the forthcoming election.

Peter Brookes

In addition to what has already been posted:

If you search on flickr for ‘Lumix G6’ some photographers choose to show the EXIF data of their images.

E.g. Real NYC Pizza

Aperture F5.6
Focal length 14mm
Shutter speed 1/160 second
ISO 1600

Taking some time to study these can be useful to gain an understanding of the sort of settings to use for a particular type of image.

As you asked about ‘White Balance’, you will have pre-sets for (typically):
Auto
Daylight
Cloudy
Flash
Tungsten (Traditional light-bulbs)
Fluorescent (Fluorescent tubes)
Custom

White Balance is more accurately described in terms of degrees on the Kelvin (K) scale. So you may have settings for, or see references to:
6000K (On camera flash)
5500K (Average noon daylight)
2500K (Domestic tungsten bulbs)

…i do realise that the main issue I have is in framing the shots…

Assuming you are shooting in jpg/jpeg format, these can be edited very successfully (e.g. cropped / tilted / re-sized etc) in the free photo-editing software from ‘Irfanview’.

However, editing in jpeg, the image will reduce in quality each time it is saved.

If you try Irfanview, select:
File – Save as
In the small jpeg/gif save options box – set the slider to about 90

nealglover – Member

…when they finish it next year some time.

Is it your entry for Shed Of The Year 2015 ?

mcmoonter – Member

I’m really taken by his colour and composition.

Not heard of him before – googling shows he was originally a painter who became a photographer.
Saul Leiter

ski – Member

That 2nd from last picture, is the name a image a watermark or on the original?

Snowy atmosphere, in homage to Saul Leiter
by
Anne-Laure Jacquart

Kryton57 – Member

And you are probably right…

From an another forum regarding exact tyre size:

“You could have a good arguing point with your insurance company – but in the event of an accident it could be an insurance investigator from an injured third party’s insurance company who is looking for the loopholes.”

When I worked with motorcycles, just about the first thing insurance assessors looked at was tyre type/size/condition/tread depth.

If your Alfa is specified with 235/45 R18 – it looks like they would be:

235/45 R18 98W

98 = 750kg load per tyre = 3000kg total
W = up to (approx) 168 mph

To be honest, for a tyre rated to carry the car plus 4/5 people plus luggage up to 168 mph, £150 ish seems justifiable

Perhaps the driver Lost (their) Focus :wink:

Young miss sands knows about this black-art.

If you’re googling – split that number

4118 710/51

4118 model
710 frame colour
51 gradient lens tint

Ray Ban 4118

ebay search: “4118 ray ban” found this:

Women’s Ray Ban sunglasses

This listing ends 19:30 tonight – awful picture, but style looks close – might be worth an email re model number.

HTH poolman/poolgirl

I mostly ride in my birthday suit…

The only downside…

The Tweed Steed

deadlydarcy – Member

Just dropped one. I didn’t show up.

iz disappoint.

Tweeting with your location is disabled by default for everyone

Adding your location to a Tweet

I can’t check it as don’t do twitter.

Apologies if these have already been mentioned (I did search). Thought they might be of interest.

Mayor of Rotterdam Ahmed Aboutaleb (himself a Muslim) regarding potential jihadists in the Netherlands:
Breitbart (Oliver Lane)

“It is incomprehensible that you can turn against freedom… But if you don’t like freedom, for heaven’s sake pack your bags and leave.”

“There may be a place in the world where you can be yourself, be honest with yourself, and do not go and kill innocent journalists. And if you do not like it here because humorists you do not like make a newspaper, may I then say you can f*** off.”

“This is stupid, this so incomprehensible. Vanish from the Netherlands if you cannot find your place here. All those well-meaning Muslims here will now be stared at.”

Boris Johnson regarding Mayor Aboutaleb’s comments:
Telegraph (Boris Johnson)

“That is the voice of the Enlightenment, of Voltaire. We can and will protect this country (UK) against these jihadist thugs. We will bug them and monitor them and arrest them and prosecute them and jail them.

But if we are going to win the struggle for the minds of these young people, then that is the kind of voice we need to hear – and it needs, above all, to be a Muslim voice.”

World Leaders Photos(on page 35 of this thread)

jivehoneyjive – Member
Camera tricks eh…

Ultra-Orthodox Jewish Newspaper Edits Female World Leaders Out of Charlie Hebdo March

From the MEDIAite comments:
“This is censorship of something not considered to be socially acceptable: men touching women they are not married to.”

dazh – Member

…and that tory poster,

Peter Brookes

^^^ I like that
How about this to go with it?

Flintstones Swiss Army Knife

jimjam – Member
From your posts:

Durability would be key, but good ergonomics important too. Quality steel is a must, something that takes and holds an edge well.

Looks aside I’m after functionality, first and foremost.

However for beating up/ruining and hard use I think the construction of more modern knives would be better suited.

Any suggestions appreciated.

I use, and would certainly recommend, a Buck Alpha. One hand opening and closing is very useful.

Heinnie
BU279BK Rubber / Black Nylon Case £64.95
BU277 Rosewood / Leather Case £87.95

Locking 3 ½ inch blade so you need to be able to justify carrying it.

Which reminded me of this from the British Blades forum – Ask A Cop

Ross: “As I said before, if you are smartly dressed, polite, sober and can explain your possession of such a tool, you shouldn’t have a problem.”

Ggfh666: “Just one question. What is smartly dressed?”

Ross: “Not wearing a white shell suit and a Burberry baseball cap”

PS The SOG PowerDuo is known to have problems with the plastic scales cracking.