Phoned the vet first thing and she said to bathe it in salt water solution – if he starts limping, take him in.

He's still licking his paw but now looks absolutely disgusted after every lick, so it's a lot less frequent! Perhaps I could buy some of that vile tasting stuff that worried parents give to nail-biting adolescent girls :-)

:(

That's bad sh1t.

It is split right up into the quick (just) and did bleed a bit when he did it. It's obviously bothering him as he's spent a large part of the evening licking it.

Think I'll do the vet thing tomorrow just in case. Cheers for opinions.

Hmm opposing views then…

Hope old style clamp on my bike since new. No problems whatsoever. It gets used at the bottom of every climb of more than a few minutes, and again before most descents, so no complaints from me.

I do wonder about the value of threads like these, because as we all know, people are far more likely to pipe up if they've got a complaint, than they are if they are just happy chappies….

Like it – nice idea – shame he's only got one arm though…

simonfbarnes – Member

Join ephotozine.

it's too complicated – there are loads of sections :cry:

It really isn't – start with forums – recent activity. You soon get used to the format :-)

Join ephotozine[/url].

It is, IMHO, the best (and certainly the most active) photosite on the web. I learnt more on there than I did during my photography degree (although I may not have been paying very much attention during my stude days…).

Regular meet ups (booze-ups) are a great way to learn from folk. Members range from amateurs to pros – it's quite similar to this place, but perhaps a little more, emm, genteel :-)

Free too!!

+1 on Simon and coffeeking.

I do scrape make my living out of photography and yes, there are times when I worry about the rise of talented amateurs / weekend warriors "muscling in" but as you say CK, the end results are what matters and my clients hopefully recognise the advantages of paying the going rate….

Anyhoo, not going to hijack as that's a whole 'nother debate :-)

I reckon there's been some good advice on this thread – Ti-29er has been as abrupt and outspoken as ever (perhaps you could word things a little less, erm, confrontationally?), but as I said earlier, he's got a fair point.

Hope my response didn't come accross like that – we all have to learn… Just that learning on company time, paid or unpaid is perhaps not the best time to be building your skillzzz, as I discovered to my cost.

Lots of excellent advice to which I would add, get yourself one of those reflecors-on-a-stick. They stick out about a foot to the right of your bike. Make you look a bit daft but really do work. When I had one on my commuter it made a massive difference to my perceived size – cars would skirt waaaaay round me and stopped overtaking dangerously.

No-one wants their paintwork scratched. I've had a quick google but can't find any for sale – Halfords maybe?

For the first time, I find myself agreeing with Ti29er….. Does…..Not…..Compute…..

If the company just want snapshots then yes, go for it. If they want properly exposed and balanced images, taken in tricky mixed light, then hire a pro who will likely turn up with a number of speedlights and give you decent results.

It's always difficult – as soon as your boss knows you have a digital camera you're put upon to assume the role of a pro tog for no extra cash – happened to me in my student job and put me in a horribly uncomfortable position as I just wasn't good enough to do what they wanted (tried anyway and I now look back at the results and cringe!!).

YOu mean public servants. Those that look after the poor the sick and the helpless.

And also the post beneath TJ's. Yes, valid points. However… My student job was an attendent at a local (council run) dry ski slope and I have to say, never in my life have I seen such utter wastefulness. We bought useless stuff daily in an effort to appease the H&S conscious middle management – trollies to carry tiny-wee generators over three metres of wet grass, in case we slipped and sued….

Every other day we received huge boxes of expensively printed literature telling us how amazing our local council was, how well it was performing, Oh! And look at this total non-entity employee of the month!! And these poorly taken photos of the Mayor's Ball (during which YOUR taxes fed a bunch of overweight, pissed up leeches).

You get the picture.

The centre was / is massively overstaffed – cuts would be welcomed by the few good staff who actually give a toss.

LOLed at the daily mash!

"What would you do with unlimited texts?"….

the hustler – Member
just comfort yourself with the thought it is a steep windy road, and one dat the chav will get it all wrong and Darwin will be proved correct again

Unfortunately, it's more likely that said chav will

just cut in on top of the cyclist

.

Which is why we can't and SHOULDN'T get used to sh1te driving like this….

On a side note, I reckon Sunderland is one of the worst places for tailgating I've ever driven in. I usually try to do 30 – 33 in a 30 limit, when it's safe to do so – maybe 34 on a long straight in good visibility. Invariably (literally) there'll be someone closing in on my rear bumper within seconds of hitting a 30 zone. I've been flashed at and gestured at heaps – my mate (who's from round here) thinks I drive like a grandad – I think I drive normally and safely :?

Henry Rollins

Agree with all the above, but I've had a set of £20 Halfords specials for the last ten or so years and they've seen me round Scotland twice, the full length of the Pyrenees for a month, round Cornwall, Wales and Ireland all for two – three week tours.

Still going strong. They are a bit fiddly compared to better panniers but once locked on, there's no movement. For waterproofing, I use a couple of cut down, heavy duty bin liners and replace them after each trip.

defaultslipper – Member
this thread from the summer might help:
Skye biking

Was just about to go find that and suggest a read :-)

EDIT: here's my ride report with pics HERE

An invite would be much appreciated please;

spotify@emersonphotography.co.uk

Cheers!

Don't worry won't win anything – prolly end up adding some infernal Nick Cave track…

I got a cheapish pair of Motorola ones for MTB photography. Got fed up of mates flying past whilst I was mid-lens change, or sitting waiting for 10 mins in the rain….

And yes, they are useful for big group rides – we had a slow group and a fast group in Glen Ogle and no phone reception, so they were handy then. Also, we stayed spread over two chalets, so we had fun saying things like, "Yikee-aye-ay m0therf*cker" to each other at three in the morning.

Nice work Sir! But you need NOISE NINJA!![/url]

catfood – Member
A chap at Loxleys told me that a good rule of thumb is a meg an an inch as thats as high as thay can repro electronically,

By 'meg', do you mean megapixel? If so, I'd have to disagree with the Loxley's guy – my D300 has 12.1 megapixels and I frequently print 20×16" prints and larger with absolutely no loss of quality. And I'm a fussy beggar – I chose my printers by getting test prints at various sizes from several companies, getting my loupe (magnifier) out and being ridiculously picky.

Yup – for reasons I don't fully understand, canvas printers seem to print at a much lower resolution – most of my other printing is done at the benchmark 300 dpi.

Try these guys;

canvasprintsonline

They're the cheapest, decent quality printers I've found for canvases. I've used them several times for clients on a budget and been very impressed by the print quality (no relationship with them whatsoever – just a happy customer!). Cheaper than Photobox and IMO much better.

Mmmmm – Scotch Hogg.

High speed sync flash – this guy explains it better than I can.

I was forced to think about the whole car/bike thing whilst filling in that IAM survey yesterday, and the conclusion I came to was that the driving test needs to be a helluva lot tougher. A section including bike (engined and pedalled) awareness can only be a very good idea.

Not sure how the mechanics of it would work – I remember sitting in a simulator, but it was just like playing a computer game and in no way prepared me for real life driving….

Lack of education seems to be the main culprit – many people simply don't know how to overtake a bike – they just keep their speed up and hope they'll miss you.

All very sad.

Interesting mix of responses. The incident I alluded to in my 2nd post involved me going to get cash out of a supermarket cashpoint. There was already £200 sticking out of the slot and the previous user had gone. I took the money to the customer help desk (figured some poor old dear might starve if I kept the cash).

I handed it in and the woman behind the desk quickly stashed it under the desk, saying thanks very much.

After getting my shopping, I went back to the desk and asked if I didn't have to fill in a form or make some kind of record of the lost cash. The woman very reluctantly pulled a book out and wrote in my name and number – she said if no-one had claimed it in three months I'd get to keep it.

Three months later I phoned the supermarket and got totally fobbed off – apparently, there is no lost property book at the desk I'd been to – that woman must have just kept it. :evil:

Thus my current dilemma – obviously there's no excuse for behaving dishonestly and one person's cr@p behaviour doesn't justify my behaving in the same way, but…..

IF it goes back to them (probably will) I expect them to send a courier to pick it up, or pay me for the round trip to the PO (about 40 mins by car).

I think I'd probably notice, given the state of my bank balance………

TBH I could use it so would probably either keep it or return it explaining what's happened.

The last time something like this happened (found A LOT of cash sticking out of a cash machine and handed it in) I got properly burned.

You can get f64 on a compact?!!

Crumbs that was a bit close – nearly fell off the first page!

8O

+1 on Life in the Woods Sorts out the work / life balance. Failing that, try Big Sur by Kerouac (sp?!)

The ability to delegate is rare, especially when ones' business is ones' baby, as is obviously the case here. As others have said, give it time. Trust is a slow developer…

Hmmmm – not quite true – your eyes have a pretty small DOF. Look at the closest object on your coffe table from a distance of three inches – everything three inches or so away from that object is out of focus.

All that happens is that your eyes move around constantly, giving the (false) impression of f64 (unscientific guess, based upon the tiniest apperture of my large format camera lens).

Also, it's all about aesthetics, not reality!!

EDIT: coffee table test performed whilst wearing glasses and under the influence of beer goggles.

antennae – Member
Camera mode snobbery is bizarre. In Program or Shutter/Aperture Priority the fancy jiggery-pokery in your camera is designed to give you combinations of shutter speed&aperture that work well in the current light… this is a good thing… lets you concentrate on composition which surely is more important?

No – your statement is bizarre. Program mode is totally different from Apperture Priority or Shutter speed priority.

If I want a large apperture to isolate the subject from the background, I'll use apperture priority and set a large apperture.

If I want to photograph a rider flying down a mountain, I'll likely choose shutter priority and set it to a suitable speed.

If I want to walk around a war zone dodging bullets, I suppose I might think about program mode, but I doubt it…

Absolutely nothing to do with "snobbery" and everything to do with choosing the right mode for the right situation.

My local – The Stables in New Herrington – turned up a month ago covered (literally) in mud and the barmaid insisted we come in, sit down and warm up. We'd been planning to sit out in the snow and scoff a quick burger washed down with a pint…

Great food, proper ales and fantastic atmos.

simonfbarnes – Member

SFB, is the D300 miles ahead of the D200 you used to have?

it's better, but not hugely. I was happy with my purchase, but there are no "must have" improvements I could point to.

Have to disagree here – yes, it depends on how you're using the cameras, but when I made the same leap, I was astonished. Most especially in low light / high ISO situations, where the difference is huuuge.

A lot of my work is in dark wedding venues – the D300 simply blows the D200 out of the water in low light photography. The noise is almost non-existent (comparitively, and Noise Ninja deals very well with it in PP anyway – less so with the 200).

Hmmmm – so the general feeling is don't bother? I'm aware these things have to be used in a dark room, but hoped that might ramp up the atmos a notch or two!

I use all the modes, depending on the situation (apart from 'green' or 'P' for 'Professional' mode).

The feature I access most often is probably the flash menu – handy when you're controlling two or three flashes from an onboard one.

I agree that the wireless flash (CLS) is the best thing about Nikons – pity it's so unreliable…. And yes, I use Nikons!

!?? WTF??! Why not just light a fire and take a grilling rack?

EDIT: sorry – wrong forum and totally OT…