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This was shot in Manchester earlier today. Hundreds of people, never touching, never seeing each other....just ghosts.

Stopped down to f/8 it might be very difficult to tell most of them apart.

At open aperture, probably one of the macro lenses.

Next time don't miss out Chillingham Castle, which is superb.

Well it's hazy sun here at the moment, but in the spirit of scientific enquiry I took my Maximum-Minimum Mercury thermometer out to the car and left it in the boot for about 25 minutes. The ambient (shade) temperatures is 29C and the boot registered 47C. We could surmise that with direct sun it could get even hotter.

The boot of a car can get incredibly hot, so I never leave any equipment in. Apart from anything else, someone will be watching you and that kit could be gone when you return. I've known people who it's happened to.

Moral for the day: Don't try to test the white balance settings on a camera with HDR still switched on.

I shall now go and shoot that sequence again.....

It's digressing a bit, but I've been out and about with the K500 and K50 and they haven't so much as blinked in the heat yet.

Having said that, I tend to seek the shadows so we might be well suited...

You can't expect to use spot metering if you can't take some time. I'm pretty sure that could be the source of the problem. Switch to centre weighted and that should help.

We've had a few requests for a back to basics competition down at ADAPS and we're thinking now of how to pitch the rules. We can see where it's coming from - you shoot something and, just like film, you put what you have in a competition with no post processing.

So far so good, but what about Custom Image, Digital Filters, in-camera HDR....all these things we have, should they be allowed in?

Where would you draw the line, given that we understand this competition is for the purists and those who cannot come to terms with Photoshop? What would you allow in? Would you allow cropping and sharpening afterwards?

And so on...comments welcome!