Enjoy Gwyn!

The first two owl shots are great!

The last image is a good portrait shot - what a pity the bird was not cooperating enough to turn his head a little, to get sun on the side of his face and on his eye. Can't always have everything! It's nicely focused too.

Is the second BIF a little less sharp?

I prefer the tiger in mono, over the colour version.

That was a visit well worth your while.

No offence taken Puma - we're all human

I had a look at Puma's gallery earlier, and I thought I saw a comment there against his image of the moon that may have caused this reaction?

Nass - aviation forecasts do exactly that. Doing-the-Bobs is on the right track. Not sure if they are publicly accessible in the UK as in Oz, although I would assume they are.

They are generally of two broad sorts - area forecasts, and met reports and short-term forecasts for specific places. Both tell you about temperature, cloud (amount of cover, type, level/s), wind, other weather phenomena of significance etc. The beauty of aviation forecasts is that they abide by ICAO conventions, meaning they are globally consistent. There is a fair bit of abbreviation and acronym use in them, but once you get that sorted, you're away.

Hope this helps in your quest.

I see that the record for PU is: -

"The highest number of members online was 322 and it was achieved on the 26th June 2009"

How about we attempt to better that number of PU forum members online, on World Pentax Day? Locally, the Melbourne Pentax crew hope to take some pictures to commemorate the passing of another year as well.

If we were to aim to be online at say, 1000Z (GMT, UTC, all the same thing), would that be doable? Any better alternatives?

If the mods could please attach a sticky to this until then, it might be useful - alternatively, I'm happy to bump it.

THAT slow accident!

I thought you meant what the medical people did thereafter!

That sounds way too deliberate to be classified as an accident!

Be worth going back there if you can Colin - there'd be more treasures to convert to images...

Hi Oggy,

Morphine isn't usually linked to anything else pleasant, so hopefully all is OK!