I suffered with Specsavers lenses for years. Literally. Constantly itchy, usually blurry and the damn things were worst when driving – they would just fall out of my eyes!! Tried all of them from the cheapest to the priciest, daily disposables to wear ’em all month types. Some were less awful, but none were comfy.

Then someone on this forum started a thread about daysoft lenses and I haven’t looked back.

Life-changing is not an exaggeration – I now take them out at the end of the day and bin them. I can drive all day, shoot whole weddings without going blind in the evenings and am just comfortable. What a relief! Still get a bi-annual eye checkup though.

Poor failed gundog 🙁

I’m packing for another week in Scotland getting paid to climb about in hills taking photos. It’ll be a lonely week though 🙁

Maybe after 17 pints…. 😳

Sorry can’t help really. My do involved hiring a house in Kinloch Rannoch and drinking the pub over the road dry.

There were plans afoot to throw me in the loch – the plans were downgraded to throwing me in the wee pool at the end of the village ‘cos it was closer, but even that genteel scheme was abandoned by 4 am, when I was the only one left standing… Pissheads.

As a teen, I worked for a few months in a double glazing call centre (just a cr@ppy room in a cr@ppy office full of (other) spotty teens and telephones).

As above, the highlight of the day was to find some poor fool who would become apoplyctically angry and lose it, shouting, swearing and threatening all kinds of (sometimes sexual) abuse.

We would then take it in turns to call the number and get the speakerphone on for the enjoyment and amusement of the whole room.

😳

What about that Rennie Macintosh house (Sauchiehall Street?). Went to a small, intimate wedding there a few years back. Nice, classy place and a good size for a smallish group.

I like it! Cycling in a dry, cosy, carbon fibre bubble? Bring it on 🙂

It’s also pretty good for the cash IMHO.

I’d like to be able to see behind me though 😐

I use Eclipse fluid and pec pads. My cameras get a battering at weddings and I change lenses a lot. The fluid and pads system was the first I tried. It worked and I’ve stuck with it ever since. It’s pretty cheap too, which helps.

Neds also have bionic throwing arms – they can chuck rocks twice as far, and as hard, as normal kids.

big_n_daft – Member

I’d be looking for a different photographer

And I think you’d find it hard to find one that doesn’t have a model release clause in their contract. As I said, it’s pretty standard practice. For all the reasons above ^^ And Doc-blues makes some excellent points.

I’ve never had anyone quibble over that part of the contract – on the odd occasion that I’ve wanted to use an image for magazine advertising, I’ve always contacted the bride, groom or portrait client and asked if they would mind. All have been absolutely delighted, and made a point of going out and buying the mag.

Just for use in my online / print portfolio, I don’t even ask – never had a complaint yet.

The only time I’d consider waving the clause is if I had a client who was an undercover cop / top brass intelligence agent. And that’s never happened.

I have a model release clause built into all my wedding and portrait contracts – by signing the contract, my clients are allowing me to use photos of them for advertising and competition purposes.

Pretty sure this is standard practice.

The drinking and smoking.

Loddrick – you blow your nose on your jammies?! That’s vile man!

Designing wedding album on laptop downstairs and processing raw files from last weekend’s weddings on the desktop upstairs.

The album is a nightmare as the bride has taken it upon herself to design the whole album for me on scraps of paper, with scant regard to the fact that the album is square, not rectangular 🙁

New clause in bloated contract coming up re album design…..

I pinched a blue sky, an ice cream and some sun tan lotion once. It was a summery offence.

Perhaps you could throw together a downloadable template? Even a T-shirt shaped outline at the correct size would be helpful – also means the designs won’t arrive at 72 dpi and the size of a postage stamp / range-rover 🙂

Been trying to find out for ages which female vocalist did a cover of the song, Don’t be cruel (to a heart that’s true).

It’s pretty similar to this cover;

But sung by a lass. It sounded quite contemporary and minimalist, and had the same dirge kind of thing going on in the background – any thoughts?

First time I read anything by Murakami was during a three week cycling tour of the west coast (of Scotland). About two weeks in, I had read (and afterwards used as firestarters) all my books. It was a solo tour and I was beginning to get a bit stir-crazy.

I was on a ferry – can’t remember which one – and noticed the sarin gas attack book sitting on an outside seat. I kept an eye on it and when I realised it wasn’t going to be claimed, I pocketed it, feeling slightly guilty….

It lasted me a few days and saved my sanity, at the same time almost buckling it!

Since read all the rest of his stuff and although it’s very different from that first odd book, I’ve enjoyed it all. Even the talking cat.

Yes, the seagate drive is a USB plug’n’play affair. It comes with some very simple software – a few left clicks to install. When you want to backup, you just open the prog and it backs up any new files it finds. Does it quickly and won’t stop your computer in its tracks.

Please don’t buy some no-name drive from a shopping channel – it’ll all end in tears.

The advantage with an external drive (as opposed to an online solution) is that it’s very quick. If you go down the online backup road, be prepared to leave your computer on all night (IME).

Here’s the cheapy seagate drive – still on sale at maplins;

cheap 1TB drive

I have three now, along with a couple of Verbatim drives and some older seagate models – wedding photographers are all paranoid 😯

Seagate external drives work well and come with idiot-proof software (works for me 🙂 ) which only backs up the directories you specify and only copies new data after the initial backup.

Maplins often have 1TB version on sale price.

My muckynutz mudguard has freed me from mud-induced blindness.

ernie_lynch – Member
Never, never ever feed it after midnight tazzymtb.

Why? Aren’t baby wombles nocturnal?

🙂

That’s a nonsense. Previous dealings with Natwest lead me to think that if you give them a call (keep going up the chain of command if needs be) they will reduce the charges, if not remove them altogether – give them a chance before pulling out the threats.

This is even more likely to work if you are not a serial offender.

geetee1972 – Member

So how do we decide who gets the priviledge of spending their days at the tax payers expense, smacked out of their head on their sofa then?

Tell you what, I’ll agree to just spend my days doing whatever I want at the tax payers expense and i’ll just forgo the heroin, which will actually save money. How does that sound?

The current system involves addicts making themselves known to their GPs who then put them into pointless, unworkable and humiliating methadone programmes which have minimal success rates.

My mate (a high-functioning addict with a successful business and three well looked after kids) went through all this but dropped out. There was a three month wait to get onto the prog – some wait much longer than that – and that’s after they’ve admitted they have a problem and asked for help. Sadly, that help simply does not exist.

Must agree with TJ 100% If heroin is a harmful drug, it is mostly down to what addicts have to do to get it – rob, mug, theive, steal, wh0re themselves out, etc, etc.

I’d rather an addict was sitting on his / her sofa, being a small burden to the state (and my tax) than out on the streets, desperately looking for an opportunity to make £20 for the next hit.

Oh and Coyote, if you’d ever seen anyone ‘rattling’ (going through withdrawl) you’d know that they’re extremely unlikely to be anywhere in the public eye – more likely they’ll be moaning under a filthy blanket, hiding from everyone!

Classic indeed. Most of mine are like that – hold onto the bars to the bitter end – I CAN RIDE THIS OUT!!!

We had a small supply of stuff which went in the first few visits. Took the dog to the shop, spent £8 and no visits since 🙁

Also very unimpressed by the lack of effort – no jokes, songs or anything else – lazy wee f3ckers.

[in true stw style] if you landed on my dog whilst jumping off a lip without paying due care and attention to your surroundings, I would stick sausages up your ass and a starving dog down your throat [/ in true stw style]*

* Thanks also to Mo the bartender for the paraphrasing.

Had to make a similar choice a while back – insurance at the time only used Halfords.

I was all fired up about the Voodoo but when I actually physically picked up the bikes I performed a total U turn – the weight difference is astonishing and I went for the Boardman.

Only you know how you feel about the girl.

Oh and thread useless without pics 🙂

There’s no way I’m watching that – got to go shoot a wedding in two hours and don’t want to be emotionally overwrought…..

Also have a look at the Vintage V300 – sub £100, won all sorts of awards and widely available. I’ve had loads of acoustics and this one really is amazing value.

A little dinkier than some, so doesn’t have a massive, booming tone but plays beautifully.

No! Off for a stalk look. Also, after posting the link, I re-read the thread and noticed jahwomble’s contributions 🙁

No problem. Quid please 🙂

What about having a theme for each comp – that would stop folk submitting the same design every time?

Hmmm – wonder if it’s worth taking back to the shop – was M&S so they may take it back without too much fuss. Or they may ask if it was fitted by a competent electrician (no!). Cheers for the help.

Ok, so it says inside; 220 – 240V. There is also a built in transformer – could it be the transformer which went POP? Also, no sign of a fuse of any kind.

Yuk yuk yuk. Why coat tasty food with a vile sugar and vinegar mix? Molgrips – I don’t classify flour as tasty food, so yes of course I would add to it. But I wouldn’t add ketchup.

Why am I looking at colour digital photos on a thread about B&W film images?!