Load it up with something like Fuji Velvia and go out and use it! You'll enjoy it. Honest.

Thanks for the offer unlocker, but on this occasion I'll pass!

K.

Hey! Nothing wrong with the scenery south of the Tees-Exe line either! It is just a bit more of a challenge to get the best of it.

Herts Lad.

Lovely shot. Along with Gareth, I think the vignette in the first one was too harsh, but a subtler vignette would work? Maybe.

My landlord has lots of old tractors. Some working and used regularly, some slowly vanishing into the undergrowth in the top patch. The wheel in the "hand of man" contest was from one of them.

K.

Personally, I feel that technically I learnt most using film (but that is largely chronology, digital wasn't an option in the 80s) but artistically (if that is the right word?) I have learnt more from the digital era, largely because of the ease of (a) comparing multiple versions of a similar image and (b) getting you lot to make comments on them. Going through my old slides I am reminded that I was pretty good at getting the exposure and focus right most of the time, and the photos are good record shots of buildings, archaeology and places I have been but very few are images I would want to print large and put on my wall.

I have found that having "gone [largely] digital" has reinvigorated my interest in the subject and has made me push the boundaries of what I do quite considerably. Ironically, it has also made me enjoy shooting film again and to push at those boundaries too (e.g., by getting the Horseman, and wanting to take-up darkroom work again).

Thankfully, the old stale film v. digital argument has largely died and instead of arguing about which is "better" we can just get on with enjoying and playing with the differences.

Best wishes, Kris.

Brilliant Szymon, thank you very much.

Best wishes, Kris.

Interesting! What sort of images are they after?

Best wishes, Kris.

Does anyone have --- and be willing to let me use --- some nice shots of Oxford I could use to advertise a day trip in a newsletter? Something with historic interest preferably.

Many thanks, Kris.

Someone posted a link to this a while back. It is a great program, I often use it but rarely get out of bed early enough...

K.

Although I am very fond of monochrome, on this occasion I rather like the blue. I stood in freezing weather** with the polariser on my DA* 50-135mm waiting for the one and only break in the cloud to bluster by. I have several shots going from grey cloud to this.

As to straightening it out, I have done so once already. The problem is, which bit to get straight given it is largely curves? I went for getting the columns straight but perhaps I should have gone for something else?

Best wishes, Kris.

**More importantly, my ever patient lady waited in the freezing cold while I faffed around taking photos!