Good set, Jamie! I'm surprised that you didn't include any shots of the Beeb building on Pacific Quay, or the Science Museum, or even the Squinty Bridge! Being a Weegie - born and bred, my mum and her family (pre-marriage) were all born and brought up in the "'Haugh", at the top of Teviot Street. My Uncle Tam was a docker when the Clyde was a major player in the Empire, and I remember spending many summers walking over to Regent Moray Street to visit my Auntie Nessie, who lived close by the Kelvin Hall and the Kelvingrove Art Gallery. I took a wee trip down there a couple of years ago to see the changes, and there were plenty, I can tell you! It would be great to see a gallery of "then and now" shots of the mighty (now not so mighty) Clyde.

John - I'll confess to being the saddo here... You have posted 2922 photos there!!

365 x 8 = 2920 (plus, factor in an extra day for each leap year) - Grand Total = 2,922!!

Eat your heart out, Carol Vordemort!!

OIC.. Sorry for misunderstanding.

Simple reason is: they are probably signed up to Google Adsense, whick generates revenue for the site you mentioned every time somebody clicks on a link that Adsense posts. Possibly, someone in the past has mentioned Google Plus in a topic and/or thread, so somebody else clicks a link to it to see what it's about, thus creating "global interest" in that particular topic. Adsense works by seeking "trigger words or phrases", and my guess is that Google Plus is one of those trigger phrases.

I did notice the Google Plus button, and the Facebook "like" button too. It's entirely possible that people are viewing a specific image to link it to their own Google plus profile (a bit like tagging), and slooooowly, these hits "establish" this site in the google search tools, thus G+ continually gets a mention.

Ken - maybe this set-up is most suited to portraiture? The "dreamy" effect is the sort of thing you'd expect to see of a young girl posing, or a bride wearing her veil off of her face (the veil, not the bride! ).

Not that it impresses me much, but at least I am used to working with Win8... The computer program we use at work is written for DOS, but with one or nine "tweaks", the computer bod's can just about get it to run in Win7 Pro, albeit temporarily!! As a fail-safe, all our office pc's are Win8-ready, but loaded with XP Pro!!

David - my main issue is that I don't want my taskbar cluttered up, as my missus also uses the pc. It may also just need a tweak of the registry, but I have found that if I set my wife up with administrator priveleges (same as me), computer says "NO!!..". Since I got my pc in January, I don't think unfamiliarity comes into it any more. I just don't like it - it's trying to be more clever than it needs to be. The biggest pain in the ass for me was the absence of the familiar start button. I now have HP's own version on the desktop, but by the time it takes to load, I could have made a cup of tea, had a shower, and probably a full night's kip before it's ready!!

Micros**t will be releasing an update in Sept/Oct (I think) that is intended to iron out any issues with 8. Personally, I think they should skip it, and just go straight to Windows 9!! I haven't tinkered with the guts of my Win8 rig, but it seems that every time I import photos from an sd card to the photos folder, the MMS (memory Management Console) tells me that something has tried to access my location!!

It's also a pain in the bum having to set up the defaults, since the pc wants to open up the installed apps, instead of Windows Media Player / Adobe Elements, etc.

The only thing Win8 is good for is downloading porn (allegedly!!!!)

I misunderstood the details of it then.

I was under the impression that you no longer had to store the actual software locally on your pc.

Like you said, John - BT have recently changed their "online storage" to another system entirely. Customers were pre-warned that they'd need to download what they'd stored in the old system, then re-upload it to their new system. That in itself was a pain in the neck. In the scenario you described, the best way to overcome that eventuality is by backing up your files locally to an external hard-drive and/or cd/dvd media, which basically raises another question, namely what is the point of cloud storage in the first place?

I suppose one perspective is that, by not having to download a large chunk of software to your pc's hard-drive, there's less chance of that software getting corrupted by conflicting programs and/or updates. It will also mean more space available on your hard-drive - having said that, HD's now go up to 3-4Tb (for an external drive), so who honestly would need that extra 100Mb-or so extra?

I think this is Adobe "testing the waters" for other manufacturers too. If theirs proves to be "successful" (however it is defined), then other manufacturers will follow.

By not having to purchase blank media to inscribe the software onto, that's less overheads for them, conversely meaning more profits.

One reservation I have about this is that if Elements is available by the same means, I can imagine Adobe charging for "add-ons" as my skill level progresses towards the CS5 end of the scale. This could mean that novices like myself end up progressively paying more for our "copy" of CS5.