Update;

Retried about 2-3 mins after my posting and COULD access the SRS site from my favourites folder but still NOT from Pentax User site.

Velly strange.

Have just tried to access SRS site from ad on Pentax User and got the following warning:




Tried again via my favourites folder as I have SRS stored on that...same result.

I do have my security slider on max...have done for years, i'm using Bullguard, anyone else getting this or is it just my combination of anti-virus, setting and machine?

Those red and black beetles...sort of Darth Vader does Red Riding Hood.

Great shots

Very nice Nigel. That lens is one of my favourites...so easy to work with, lovely colour rendition and a nice range for flowers.

Regards

Karlo

Very nice...last one looks like a Bee-Hedgehog hybrid.

Karlo

Hi Gareth,

i'm just to the west of Northwich, Cheshire...quite a way from you. Would you like me to enquire further to see what I can find out about it...its on a private lane so i'm assuming someone must claim ownership of it
but its not in anyones garden as far as I can tell.

Thanks Mike for those other images...No.2 is a great shot of it.

regards Karlo

Yeah, you would have thought so wouldn't you.

I can well understand that reaction Gwyn...and I don't have the ability to restore it.

I agree. As to why its still there I can't really say. Apparently its 'been there for donkey's years' according to a guy I met who was visiting a nearby property in the 2 minutes I was there taking the images.

Its down a single track lane which is a dead end with a farm and other property at the end...probably most locals don't even know its there. I only discovered it by chance when i was doing some temporary work for the council last October/November.

If anybody might be seriously interested in trying to acquire it i'm happy to approach owners of the two nearest properties to find out if they own it and prepared to see it go to a good home! I could always take pair of hedge cutters and see if i could open the door to take more detailed pics of the condition.

Karlo

Sounds like you've got a natural talent Peter artistically speaking and even better potentially if the digital 'photography' dovetails nicely with that.

I can understand the concerns about not wanting to get stressed out or to feel pressured in any way but maybe work you have already done could be offered for sale on a 'suck it and see' basis...as is. The acid test is whether other people like your creations enough to be prepared to pay for them...sounds like they probably do from what you have said.

Personally if I were in your shoes i'd be tempted to 'dip my toes' just to test the market and see if I could make a few hundred pounds a year (for minimal ongoing effort) as a means of subsidising the cost of the equipment which lets face it can be quite expensive if funded entirely on no expectation of recouping some of the cost.

Financial considerations aside, I think I would like the feeling of knowing that other people valued what I had created from a purely artistic viewpoint as well.

If you feel unhappy or under any pressure then you could always stop...you don't owe anybody.

Wacky enough for me!

Further to Mike's posting of the derelict Jags yesterday I nipped out earlier to where I remember seeing this Landrover 'parked' in a quiet lane nearby.