Awesome contrast and colours. Well photographed.

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Class images Bill and well deserved.

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Subtle colours and good contrast.

Enjoy using it.

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Great image Don, I have literally just mentioned macro in another thread and had not seen your post prior to doing so.

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Ingenuity coming through.

Well done.

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A fact of life Peter.

So as a forum, we can be drawn into the current situation and end up with this thread doing what the MSM is doing 24/7 or should we change direction and see who comes up with the good suggestions of how to shoot what's around our homes or gardens? For my two pence worth, I'll endeavour to see how bad I can get my macro skills laughed at.

I spy with my macro eye????

Basically, the only mask worth wearing needs to be a FFP3 mask: https://www.rdash.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Appendix-47-Surgical-Face-Ma...

Toolstation and Screwfix etc. soon sold out of these. I bought a single FFP3 mask from Toolstation a couple of weeks back before travelling south.

The only reason they had it in stock was price, it was way more expensive than the FFP3 paper versions but this does have replaceable filters.




Mrs K10D commented that I'll look the part at a Whitby Goth Fest.

It's the aerosol stopping capability as per the NHS link that makes it worth using.

By the way Barrie, this thread has suddenly left it's title.

Is two days the new guideline or can we reduce that to 30 minutes?

There has just been a live interview on the BBC with a director of a company in Milton Keynes explaining that they make surgical masks and gowns and contacted the UK Gov at the start of this and were told by the government that they didn't need any PPE from them as they had enough. They contacted the UK Gov again and were told the same. The company are sending huge quantities abroad to governments that do need them.

So do I assume that the video's and reports of doctors and nurses in the UK, requesting PPE that we are seeing are propaganda or alarmist or old news?

That particular interview should be taken quite seriously. No shortage of PPE equipment in the UK except where it's needed, on the front line.

With all respect Steve, repetitive, regurgitation of the same news by the media does not help people. There's a lot of obvious questions not being asked by the MSM.

Just seen the BBC News at Ten report from Rome. Never mentioned a shortage of masks or testing kits unlike the report from Spain that preceded it showing a female nurse or doctor in tears pleading for PPE and for people to stay indoors.

Oddly, not a single mention that Russia, China and Cuba have and continue to send testing kits, masks and medical specialists to Italy after the Italian government asked them for help.

I was abroad in the Gulf when the 2009 H1N1 pandemic was announced. Many millions did not catch or suffer from H1N1. To state that a pandemic means "pretty much everyone" is some what alarmist.

Look at the major pandemics