looks like you had a good year, the Black & White images are the Favourites for me , all equal number one

found the derelict Roundhouse , first ever play with a glass ball and other bits

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3. this house is taller than usual as it has an inverted roof that was used to hold water.




4. Coates Portal to the Sapperton Tunnel around 2miles long 15ft high and wide . no tow path so the boats were "legged" through by the men lying on their backs and pushing on the roof with their legs. 25 shafts were put down along its length to provide ventilation as it was dug, the longest being 244ft.




5. Tarlton Bridge over the canal




6. a shot through a gap in the bricked up front door with the Samyang 8mm Fisheye. the ground floor was normally where the animals were kept but this one was converted to living space ,hence the fireplace being there




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Life on the Edge, of a Fencepost

i,m asking about the actual software

does this work with a K3ii? very difficult to find a definitive answer on the net, reports of camera lock ups but not sure how old the info is.

good to meet you as well and will definitely give a call when having a photo day in Wales plus thanks for an excellent lens, Joe

i have seen an article that suggests over exposing by 2 stops at whatever iso you need to push to creates less noise, then pull back the highlights in post. might be worth a try

thanks once again. must admit David that we had no idea what to expect but were absolutely blown away by the scenery ,the sheer size of everything and the space that they have in this part of America but it is very agricultural and hence not the most wealthy of areas i feel, quite a few run down small towns doing their best to survive. there had been horrendous fires here which could not have helped . we could see all the destroyed fields as we flew in to Pasco. hoping to get out again in a couple of years.

thanks for comments, definitely enjoyed these subjects and the playing with them. Nigel , the vignette i usually use to emphasise the subject or hide clutter which was the case with those two, no time to move position with the logging lorry or i would have been a mascot on the hood ,as they say over there

2nd what the above have said. my son keeps saying we should go to Ireland as he has been many times and loves it.

a mix of bits and pieces some of which were things that were just "America" to me , mainly the scrap which i have never seen lying around here like it does there.

1. Battered and Bruised



2. End of the Line



3. Rest stop on the St Joe River on a drive around with my sister to places from her childhood



4. Was the Grain Store many years ago in Addy, WA



5. Galley of 1900,s Buffet car



6. The Carriage served by image 5 , through a hatch behind the counter at the back



7. A Real Surprise, an old fashioned English Tea Room in a little place called Hillyard which at one time was a major part of the rail network but a merger in 1982 saw the loss of the workshops and times have been hard ever since



8. a disused bar in Hillyard, my only venture into "urbex" ever



9. Empty Tracks at Hillyard, i believe a new road is to be built here.



10. The Old School House at Addy where my Sister went to school, now a general store and petrol station (2 pumps) but still has the original School Gym floor intact and in use.



11. Part of Post Falls, the starting point of the Spokane River where it leaves Couer d'Alene Lake via a dam, this and other dams on the river and the Columbia are used to control the level of the lake



12. A Dam down stream of Couer d'Alene



13. Turbine shed with wheel once powered by the Colville river via Meyer Falls at a town called Kettle Falls whose falls were lost on construction of the Grand Coulee Dam on the Columbia



14. Tree Trunk Texture in Riverside Park



15. Were to be used as Tourist attractions at Hillyard but just sit looking a bit out of place.



16. Stay out of their way, they get paid by the load



17. Seen His Last Winter, more scrap



18. Big Sky in Montana



19. Going aound and around at Spokane State Fair



20. The Old Ford, a family relic. awaiting renovation