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April 22, 2009 at 7:20 pm

Lovely work – each one excellent.

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March 28, 2009 at 10:44 am

Thanks all for the welcomes and encouragement; much appreciated.

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March 23, 2009 at 8:24 pm

All lovely pics – agree that No 2 is a bit more special.

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March 18, 2009 at 6:45 pm

Beautiful shot – nice to record one in the garden.

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February 25, 2009 at 1:35 am

Another thumbs-up for Warehouseexpress here, have used them a bit when sterling differential suited and found them fine to deal with. Got free postage too on an item from a multi-order that was out of stock and followed (order split by agreement) when back in a couple of weeks later.

Haven’t used Calumnet to date.

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February 22, 2009 at 5:29 pm

Worth waiting for – beautiful shots. And I drove by there twice in last couple of days!!!

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February 20, 2009 at 8:34 pm

PeteTheBloke wrote:

Lovely.

Thanks Pete – bit odd looking at that size though.

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February 19, 2009 at 7:36 pm

Female

Test

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February 18, 2009 at 10:29 pm

CianMcLiam wrote:

Thanks for all the input folks :) Pete, they check you at the boarding gate, not just check in!

Indeed they do as I found to my cost when I was refused boarding on a Ryanair flight in Madrid once. Invariably I have one checked bag and no one ever seemed too fussed about the camera bag on the back if you were paying for the checked bag.

On that occasion I had the Tamrac Expedition 7 (meant to be Airline compliant) with 500f/4, 4005.6, wide-angle, 1DII, a 40D and assorted chargers etc. and again there were no questions at check-in. When I got to boarding gate however one of the ground crew was asking people to place carry-ons in the basket and mine was about 2cm too broad. It weighed 13kg when I checked later but the refusal was on size grounds.

Surfers, cyclists and golfers all have a charge they can pay to have gear carried but photographers and musicians, who can’t really put gear into hold, seem to have no facility. Since then I’ve relied on distributing stuff around a variety of pockets and inner linings of fleece etc.; using a office-type shoulder bag that fits basket for the bigger stuff. This is limiting as I’ve no camera bag to use on arrival and it means using the hire car as a bag (if you know what I mean).

Thing is I’d gladly pay, say, €75 to get the bag on board in the first place. Anything but the stress and anxiety of the current approach!!

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February 14, 2009 at 7:10 pm

That’s a bit special!!