Look forward to seeing them all. By the way, who took this rogue's gallery photo?
David

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The mood of your sunset picture absolutly fits how you must feel at this this sad time.
Best wishes,
David.

Ken: Having once spent hours on Holy Island because I failed to understand the tide times properly I fully agree. There aint that much to do there once you've taken the usual pictures.
The Railway War weekend is in the autumn and the next Goths weekend is in the spring so I shall probably go to both.
Barrie: I'm sure there will be offers of a lift to Whitby in April when we sort out travel arrangements at DPS soon.
Another great photo opportuntiy is the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in August. I went last year and loved it.
Alan: Who've you been upsetting over the Whitby thread?
David

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Whitby Goths, Pickering Traction Engines and War Weekends, The North Yorks Moors railway, I'm up for all or any of these. Barrie and I can come along and be with TWO different groups of photographers at the same time: You Pentax guys and our own local Durham Photographic Society members. We mix it with the Canon, Nikon, Sony and Olympus users there quite easily without ever falling out with them.
David

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If you like architecture as well as history the walk down the Royal Mile from The Castle to Holyrood is a joy. There's lots of historic buildings including old tenements and narrow alleyways which reek of dark doings in days gone by.
At Holyrood there's the Royal Palace and the fascinatingly expensive Parliament Building. Worth photographing if you like modern architecture.
Over on the other side of the city, across Princes Street Gardens and Waverley Station there's the New Town. Its at least 200 years old and has fine Georgian terraces.
But the real fun would trying to find Edinburghs' elusive tramway system which is threatening to become as expensive as the Parliament Building.
Have fun in Auld Reekie.
David

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Its good to see these Barrie. That was a cold day but all the pictures that came out of it were worth it. Sorry you weren't able to be at the print viewing session from this assignment, we missed seeing your pictures that night.
My favoreuite of these three is #2, great detail.
Best wishes for your continued recovery, and pass my regards on to Maragret as well.
David

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A couple of those spellings are American English; millimeters, minimizing. It suggests the spell checker has been at work.

David

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A few of us from Durham Photographic Society were given permission to photograph the work of the four shortlisted finalists for the 2011 Turner Prize, held for only the second time ever outside The Tate Modern in London - at The Baltic Centre For Contemporary Art in Gateshead.
I made three visits between November 2011 and January 2012. I went with the mindset of a photographer, not an art crtic and discovered pictures within pictures within the huge room sized installations. The work of Karla Black and Hilary Lloyd inspired me most to work with my K5.

#1 The Open Door - art by Karla Black
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#2 The art critic - art by Karla Black
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#3 Abstract of an abstract - art by Karla Black
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#4 Is that it then? - video art by Hilary Lloyd
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#5 You can see the Byker Wall from here - video art by Hilary Lloyd
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Tripods and flash photography were not allowed so all the pictures were in tungsten light and fairly high ISOs.
I agreed not

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Ilike them all but #2 is exactly the sort thing I enjoy viewing and #6 is outstanding.
David

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Have you burned in the top of the boiler John? My shots of The Duke suffered from blown highlights on the shiny paintwork.
David

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