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April 10, 2010 at 5:14 am

Was it Brian Johnson who said, during a test match: The bowler’s Holding, the batsman’s Willey.

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March 16, 2010 at 8:57 pm

Grey = bad
red = good!

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February 26, 2010 at 8:02 pm

PI has always — for me — been a bit slower than other sites. I put it down to the servers.
I haven’t noticed any speed change for the better or worse recently — and in CH we have a
very fast connection.

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February 25, 2010 at 8:51 pm

MadeleineCalaidoWeber wrote:

Thank you all for your lovely comments…
Robert: yes yes my english…

Madeline, you must be aware by now that it is a peculiarly Irish trait to deliberately mis-understand
what someone is saying — and then turn it inside out — quite different from German! Think of
it as a bit of craic — there’s quite a lot of it around here.

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February 25, 2010 at 8:45 pm

Welcome return!

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February 25, 2010 at 2:48 pm

pallotron wrote:

Check this out, so boring, take thousands of pictures

Nothing to it; there is a small computer controlled robot for some P&S cameras; mount the camera and off it goes.
The gizmo costs a few hundred $

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February 25, 2010 at 6:38 am

Very impressive, as ever.

MadeleineCalaidoWeber wrote:

a strange creature in an awkward position. Legs had to be short to avoid movement

Sorry to hear about your legs :shock: :)

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February 24, 2010 at 5:41 pm

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

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February 24, 2010 at 11:18 am

justaguy wrote:

…and if you shoot against the sun it turn often out that you don’t see the sun but a big area of bright light. I dont know how to do this either. I guess you need a filter for that.

Singh-Ray make a reverse neutral grad filter for sunsets, clear in the lower half, then dark with a graduation to the top.
I don’t have one

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February 24, 2010 at 11:15 am

Is it me, or do you need a slight CCW rotation? — seems more obvious in the b+w

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February 21, 2010 at 8:50 pm

Legananny is very difficult to picture, because of the close walls, fences and road.
Good attempt; the undersurface of the capstone looks a bit light.

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February 21, 2010 at 8:43 pm

This should be on the disc; I’m not sure that you can download it directly.

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February 21, 2010 at 8:42 pm

Cokin neutral density filters have a reputation for producing a magenta cast. I don’t have them, so can’t confirm.
The Lee filters are much more expensive, but aren’t supposed to give a cast — I use these. Singh-Ray are
supposed to be even better, but they are more expensive still.
Like much of photographic equipment, buying cheap often seems to end up as buying twice.

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January 4, 2010 at 10:18 am

Autotrader?

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January 3, 2010 at 8:31 pm

It’s the polarizer; you are using a 24mm lens on a full frame camera. In these circumstances, the
sky at right angles to the sun will show the effect of a polarizer very obviously, whereas the sky nearer the
sun, and the sky at angles greater than 90 degrees shows the effect much less. Very wide angle
lenses and broad expanses of sky, as here, don’t go well together.