08tiger, I suspect the "other set" you refer to is the one I posted, and you're right, these are much sharper. In fact we were talking about whether it's more likely to be my lens, or my relatively low-res body, or just me. Still haven't quite decided on that one.

A few shots from me at CPOP, as I was displaying the car on the club stands I had the whole three days to wander around yet still managed to miss some stuff.

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Any comments or criticism gratefully taken. All of these are on my Kx, the Vulcan with the Sigma 50-500 and the remainder with my used Sigma 18-200 for flexibility.

Some lovely shots there Simon, good to run into you again.

I've had internet issues so haven't really been able to get on, in any case I've got a few car shows on at the moment so wouldn't really be able to participate once again. Oh well, there's always 2016.

I'm also very jealous of your trip. Monaco is pretty much the only GP I make a point of watching these days, just because the setting is so nice. I'd imagine if you can rule out the thought of getting the kind of pro shots and build in the surroundings for the shot then there's probably some very good photos to be had.

That's not my experience. I find that IE11 will wait while the ads are downloaded - this might be in the form of drawing the whole page but stopping me scrolling until the ads are here, or sometimes it only shows some of the page. I also find this on Pistonheads forum, but their advert seems to load more quickly, maybe there are fewer on the page.

My original issue went away, as you suggested in the support ticket dialogue it was likely to be a specific advert that was slow. I haven't been watching this thread because I had some general internet performance issues that meant any site that wasn't tip-top performance wasn't worth even trying to open.

I take the point about Chrome, but I don't like it as much as I like IE11. Things are in different places, and some of it's features just annoy me. I don't see why any sane web site developer would ignore IE and just recommend that users switch over to something else, and that kind of comment (which I accept wasn't from PU staff or mods) just harks back to the browser wars of the nineties. For me, the most annoying thing out is when someone has a perfectly good web site, then announces that they've redesigned it and are now switching to a "responsive" site design. If any modern term is more of a misnomer than "responsive site", I can't think of it - usually this means "loading massive amounts of javascript, animations and moving everything around so you can't find it".

But I've descended into a general rant now, much of it isn't aimed at this specific site. It's still quite jumpy to load, but (even on my mobile broadband) it's usable. And as I think about it, I seem to recall having a similar issue with a slow advertisement causing issues on the old-style PU site as well.

It's very like the one Whizzo raced - he raced one of the production cars in the one-off "Thruxton Spring Cup" where twenty identical production cars were raced for launch publicity by popular drivers of the day. He won, nice chap, met him a couple of years ago and again last year. Sadly it's not very like the one Gerry M raced usually - although he was also in the Spring Cup he usually raced a highly-developed version (known as 'Old Nail'), then moved to a purpose-built spaceframe V8 version called 'Baby Bertha'. Both will (or should) be at Donington in September. I never met GM unfortunately.

I used Chrome when I was on my old XP machine, because I think it made it a little better. I didn't want to have to carry on using a different browser for certain sites now I'm on a newer Windows version - I got used to people telling me it was because I was on IE8, so I upgraded.

OK, not just me then. Maybe the ad supplier is the issue.

And yet now it's fine. It's almost as if it knows we've noticed....

OK, I've just done that. It does come and go - opening this just now to post this response was a few seconds, nothing out of the ordinary, but opening it to read your response involved a wait and a few seconds of IE saying "Not responding".

(Sorry if this is the wrong place, but I couldn't see a more obvious section of the forum to post. The 'announcements' board is the only one that mentions site issues, but I can't start a topic in there. Mods feel free to move this somewhere if appropriate.)

Is anyone else having problems with performance on this site? Specifically when it first opens up, while it's trying to download all the animated adverts that appear on top and to the side, it goes completely non-responsive. OK, I'm on a mobile broadband connection, but other sites don't seem to have the same issue, in that although they might take their time download graphic-heavy stuff, they don't lock up completely while doing so. I can't scroll down on the forum home page, sometimes for nearly a minute. It's a reasonably new PC with Win7 and IE11, I just wondered if it's only me.

Sometimes I just have to give up and try again later on. This morning (and yesterday) it was quite bad, this morning it started out badly but has got quicker as I moved from the main forum list, into 'announcements', out of there and into here.

So, anyone else see this?