I think fans of Stuart Walton will also appreciate the work of Bob Barker.

[urlhttp://www.bobbarkerart.co.uk/home.html[/url

My favourite is "Chips and Gravy" from the 2011 collection - cos I was that boy.

Here's my attempt to recreate the Bob Barker look-and-feel on one of my own photographs …

I can see where you're coming from with that.
The contrast-y-ness, the sky and the wet paving.

Could any of you suggest a decent compact digital camera, not looking for anything too clever. Currently considering a SONY Cyber-shot DSC-WX80 camera. Looking to pay up to £150.
I have had Canon cameras since I was a kid but the compact versions don't seem to have as high a value on megapixels.
Thanks

The importance of megapixels in compact cameras is overrated because most don't have good enough lenses to make the most of the pixels. Equally think what you actually want to do with the images 12 megapixels can print very big if needed.

As for compact cameras - I always recommend people look at the Lumix range and pick what's closes to the price they are wanting to pay. Always good quality optics and good features. I still occasionally use my 2006 Lumix bridging camera when I don't want to carry my SLR around. The 6MP sensor easily produced A3 prints.

Fireworks over Collioure tonight:

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Sport shooting for all of them.

Love these two

Quote ="peggy"Could any of you suggest a decent compact digital camera, not looking for anything too clever. Currently considering a SONY Cyber-shot DSC-WX80 camera. Looking to pay up to £150. I have had Canon cameras since I was a kid but the compact versions don't seem to have as high a value on megapixels. Thanks'" I wouldn't bother about megapixels too much, lenses and sensor are often what limit resolution more these days. I have this Canon S100 which I use instead of my SLR, especially when hiking or any other time when I don't want to take a bagful of gear. www.kenrockwell.com/canon/s100.htm It may have "only" 12.1 Mp ... but it has a CMOS sensor and the resolution is marvellous.

Quote ="peggy"Could any of you suggest a decent compact digital camera, not looking for anything too clever. Currently considering a SONY Cyber-shot DSC-WX80 camera. Looking to pay up to £150. I have had Canon cameras since I was a kid but the compact versions don't seem to have as high a value on megapixels. Thanks'" I wouldn't bother about megapixels too much, lenses and sensor are often what limit resolution more these days. I have this Canon S100 which I use instead of my SLR, especially when hiking or any other time when I don't want to take a bagful of gear. www.kenrockwell.com/canon/s100.htm It may have "only" 12.1 Mp ... but it has a CMOS sensor and the resolution is marvellous.

Thanks to you both for the replies, I'm also considering the Canon power shot SX260. Lower pixels but good sensor and 20x optical zoom extending to 39x. For the money it seems to be good value and sufficient for what I need.

Not sure if this has been posted before but there is a hell of a lot of talent gone into these colourised photos here [urlhttp://twistedsifter.com/2013/08/historic-black-white-photos-colorized/[/url especially the Audrey Hepburn one

Thanks, what a great website, not just for the colourised ones.

I love the "Old Gold" image, so much detail. Wonder if the colours in the ads are accurate. Thanks for pointing these out, kinda what I've been into for a few years. Did some for Neil Fox's bio but the final colour repo wasn't quite up to scratch.

Changing fashion in street furniture:

I am intrigued that these two totally different examples are approximately 20 yards away from eachother …








As an academic friend of mine would say: "there's a paper there".

Anyone got a clue what this is?



I thought it was a Turnstone but the black head threw me a bit, it has orange legs too if you can't see them.

Great picture Graeme. Yes, it's a Turnstone.

A couple of Turnstone pics I took last week. Not as good as yours:

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...and I thought they were a bird that winters here.
This one was competing for the pasty crumbs with gulls and starlings on St Ives sea front on Monday.

Some more bird pics from the last week or two plus a butterfly:

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Winter migrants are arriving. Saw alot in Devon. Locally in Herts we're getting migrants passing through, as we are nationally.

The dark head you mentioned is part of the winter plumage.

What a great site, spent a few hours on there this evening

Lovely day to snap some amateur rugby league in Beverley yesterday

Heads up, Calumet open days are here (again)

Usually a free sensor clean on offer if you get there early enough.

Edinburgh** Weds 9th October 2013 10AM - 4PM
Glasgow Thurs 10th October 2013 10AM - 4PM
Birmingham** Thurs 17th October 2013 10AM - 4PM
Belfast Thurs 24th October 2013 10AM - 4PM
Manchester Thurs 31st October 2013 10AM - 4PM
London - Drummond Street Thurs 7th November 2013 10AM - 6PM

Been out and about with the camera recently, i use a Sony HX300, just started out in the world of photography.

Not sure if everyone will be able to see this but have a click anyway...

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Its a Facebook account for a person who collects old images of Leeds and as you can see from reading his text he has recently been handed a sequence of aerial photographs that were taken by the RAF from nose-mounted cameras on Canberra aircraft in 1951 during a project to photograph the whole of Britain in celebration of the Queens Coronation of that year.

The more you explore those photos (and he is posting more in weeks to come) the more amazed you'll be at the very fine detail, but despite their historical importance ONLY the photos of Leeds and Bradford survive, the rest of the country's images having been destroyed as "unwanted" when the RAF declassified them and couldn't find an institute who wanted them.

500px.com/photo/48006604 =#FF0000Edit - Sharing from 500px is a pain, it doesn't work on forums like this. BG

500px.com/photo/48006604 =#FF0000Edit - Sharing from 500px is a pain, it doesn't work on forums like this. BG