Very nice pictures of Durham Simon, I'm glad your trip to the North East was photographically rewarding. It's not that rare to get good reflections in this location but I say this as a Durham resident who can down to that spot any time. perhaps its the luck of the draw if you are a visitor and restricted in the time you can spend there.
I like to wander around with my camera in the nooks and crannies of Durham Phil refers to. It's only a small city but there is always something new to capture.
Would have been great to get a shot of Womble struggling to prevent his boat going over the weir.
david
PS I know quite a bit about the history of Durham Cathedral but I've learned something new from Womble. I never knew there was once a plan to demolish the Galilee chapel. It has some of the finest Norman architecture in the world.

That's an easy one. Its in Washington which used to be in Co. Durham, England, but after boundary changes its now in the Borough of Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, England. Less than ten miles from where I live.
david

Don't get me wrong, I was just doing a bit of journalistic research, totally impartial of course.
I just checked to see which were the most viewed images in the PU Gallery. And surprise surprise. The top 11 were all scantily clad girls -so scanty in many cases the girls were totally starkers.
These views ran into the 100s not just the few dozen that most of us lesser photographers aspire to with our ordinary shots.
Peter Elgar heads the league with all top four placings - the most viewed picture of all being one his nudes with 305 views.
Strangely the best placed non-glamour shot is a picture of a sheep and a lamb by Peter Bargh at No. 12 and then Yve's bird picture (yes the other kind) at 13th. Next comes Lily's mono shot inside a Cornwall gallery at 14th. But that's got a bird in it too, a fully clothed barmaid. Then after some more glamour shots we moved onto landscapes, more birds, trains and planes. And more glamour.
Oh check the rest out yourselves. Life's too short.
david

I was a memeber of the old Pentax Club in the mid to late 1980s and had one or two pictures published in the magazine. It was edited by Peter Cox.
There was a regular contributor in those days called Peter Elgar. I recall that name from somehwere!!!

Since he won the weekly competition with a superb bird picture early in January we haven't heard from Uffes. He is listed as last logging in on January 20.
This was just after he'd judged the competition 'Togetherness' and we had a large amount of debate, some of it quite critical, on why he hadn't done comments on each picture.
It would be a terrible shame if he's been angered or scared off because it's obvious from the quality of his winning picture that he has a lot to contribute to PU.

I still can't promise this far ahead to be there but I will try. Of the two days Sunday 10th would be better for me.
david

We've had a similar discussion to this in another thread. Here goes with my fav. cameras. A Kodak Box Brownie my dad bought for when I was still at school; later a folding Kodak, I don't know what it was called. Then after years with no photography in my life I came back into it with - yes you've guessed - a Zenit E. I always thought it had a wonderfully sharp lens.
I was influenced with Pentax by the photographers I worked with who at that time used Spotmatics. I stayed with Pentax when they moved onto Nikon and later Canon.
My two all time favourite cameras - the wonderful Pentax MX and my current love, the K10d.
david

Years ago, in the late 1960s, early 1970s after they moved from medium format twin lens reflex cameras such as the Rollies, many press photographers, certainly on the papers I worked for, used Pentax Spotmatics. In the 1980s they were mostly using Nikons because Pentax didn't keep up their lead in the field with a greater range of lenses and more pro bodies. At that time TV coverage of any news event or major sports such as the Olympics showed most of the world's photographers using Nikons. By the 1990s it was predominantly Canon - and it still is.
* Oh and I nearly forgot. I should have complimented Mike on his football pictures, the quality is superb.
david

Where do I get a photobucket, SRS or a local hardware store like Homebase?
Thanks for the advice though, I'll give it a try but I still think the Gallery is best.
david

I've been here since last July and still haven't worked out how to post pictures in the Forum.
david