Morning Gary,

Thanks, and if its inspired you, that's good as well, try it tonight if the sky is clear,

I also managed to get Jupiter in the same shot, but with such a massive crop its very noisy, and therefore not clear either but you can make out Jupiter's moons in a line around the planet.

As John says above, I do exactly the same and re-format after each shoot is cleared down and confirmed on to the computer.

Superb detail,

Had a go at shooting the moon last night, not tried this for ages,

K1 with the Pentax 150 - 450mm @ 450mm then 1600 ISO with 1/200 sec @ F7.1 ( Handheld )

The original straight from the camera




Cropped to max ( 333% )

Thanks Barrie,

Good suggestion, particularly Lymington and Mudeford.

Evening all,

Looking for things to shoot relatively anywhere between Southampton and Poole this coming Saturday morning, running a good friend back to Poole to catch the ferry to Jersey at lunchtime and looking for something to shoot on the way, starting out from Gloucester, happy for an early morning start, but need to be in Poole for Midday latest.

Don't know the area that well, so looking for suggestions please.

Ideal subjects would be a Weir, decent scenery, scenic lake with wildlife, Castle perhaps but not Corfe as to far east with the traffic to get back.

Wow, that lens is stunningly sharp !!

Superbly shot

Hi Neil

It's a 2.5hr trip for me, I do it 3 times a year, twice as a day trip, 300 miles round trip and once as an overnight so get 2 days up the hill somewhere.

Howard - you will see the aircraft from the car park, about 80ft above your head but you'll get less than 2 seconds warning and they'll be gone.

To get a proper view with a chance of shooting them the fence or cad west is the best, I.e from where I shot these, a steady climb of 500rt in about half a mile, stop as many times as you like, once up, you needent move.

To see a Tornado or Typhoon on a knife edge about 200ft away is superb, the noise is terrific and it's over in less than 10 seconds from when u first spot the jet, Hercs are obviously slower but much much larger.

These were shot at the short end of a 100mm -300mm zoom, apart from the head on shot which was at 300mm.

Thanks Karlo

The Cross Foxes is good, excellent food and service, downstairs is clean and modern, I'd stay there on another loop trip.