The lone tree gets me - just look at the angle of it - presumably from the prevalent wind. Argh < shiver , shiver >

Agreed as above - I'd love to see it more of a silhouette against the sky

Russ - now now - be nice about the Waverley - last sea going paddle steamer I believe

I've the same problem my glasses are not just varifocal they are light sensitive as well and the combination makes me really careful .

I find that keeping my head still while looking in the viewfinder and then just letting my eye look down slightly so-to-speak usually brings the wee row of icons into view.

Make sure you do not turn the bleep confirming focus off . If I'm in bright light I frequestly can't see the green hexagon confirming focus but I can hear the bleep

You are talking to someone - born in Yorkshire moved to Essex in 1947 !! Left there in 1964 for Birmingham , then Glasgow the following year hence I have curious memories of varying areas in my long forgotten youth .

I was never given a trip on the Steamers from the pier though - weren't they the Royal Daffodil and the Albert [ both names just jumped out of my memory - may not be accurate ] but they did cruises from the end of the Pier I think.

I've never had a scrap of bother with batteries - the K-x comes with Lithiums and they last me for simply ages [ roughly 1000 pics when I was shooting JPEG ] I'm now on my second set of them and for the last few months haven't been able to get out and actually do much so these ones will last a while yet.

The Eneloops seem to show up well and there are many folk using them without problems

I have a pile of Hybrios in the house - some have never been opened/used so I reckon I'm OK for batteries for years to come. I've an intelligent charger for my Hybrios so that should be OK.

Now you are wondering why on earth I use Lithiums instead of my Hybrios - the answer is simple - For the last 2 years I seem to have done a lot of travelling - Lithiums are available worldwide - you can buy them anywhere more or less - so they save the hassle of carrying a charger

I know the feeling and I don't have as many photos as you folk

Some years back I had a hard drive die on me . A friend managed to save my bacon that time and gave me a rocket about backing up . Then after we had transplanted a new hard drive into that machine, the motherboard died

Now I back up in more than one way - but everything is backed up each time.

Both MacBook Pros have their own external Drive , which has 2 partitions on it - one for Time Machine and one for SuperDuper [ which is a bootable back up ] , I also have a portable external for the MBP I take away with me, and it also has both TM and SuperDuper in use.

Aperture has its own library on an External Drive too - so that should be safe [ famous last words ]

I'm still cogitating on the back up system - I'm not sure I'm yet totally safe

Never mind getting out to take piccies

Congratulations to the new father and his son

yes the proud mother had something to do with the event as well

now forget external piccies - your job is to get a record every day of your wonderful little son

Oh dear - more memories of my childhood

A trip down the pier every school holiday - walk down and the train back .

The shingle beach

It's the post Christmas collapse

Ye gods - I'd forgotten that one till you dragged it up again Mike - now that was a real dooozy