Dizzy Posted January 29, 2011 Report Share Posted January 29, 2011 Well I did try and they are better than the last ones I took (well I think so) Some were taken on auto with flash.. others I meddled about with the manual aperture setting (PJ keeps telling me to experiment) It was a nice sunset though but I must take more notice of trees and stumps if I'm stood near them PS If you stand near a road at dusk/near dark and use your camera on flash mode (away from the traffic of course) all the cars slow down .... Dizzy the speed camera Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
P J Posted January 29, 2011 Report Share Posted January 29, 2011 Some of those are really nice Dizzy but 4 is my favourite. Keep experimenting, you're doing great. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dizzy Posted January 29, 2011 Author Report Share Posted January 29, 2011 Thanks..... One things for sure I don't give up easily do I I'm suprised Gary hasn't banned me by now Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
algy Posted January 29, 2011 Report Share Posted January 29, 2011 I like No's.4 & 5 with lights of the columns at Solvay. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mary Posted January 29, 2011 Report Share Posted January 29, 2011 Beautiful Diz - nice work! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter T Posted January 30, 2011 Report Share Posted January 30, 2011 I prefer 2 and 3. The reflection on the MSC is great and you have Solvay as well as Fiddlers Ferry. Just think , 20 years ago the FF stuff coming out of the stacks wouldn't have been that colour. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
P J Posted February 2, 2011 Report Share Posted February 2, 2011 sunset from last night. Taken on my iphone which is a very poor camera Dizzy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucy Posted February 2, 2011 Report Share Posted February 2, 2011 All good pictures Dizzy and PJ. Now let's see you put your obvious talents to work in the early morning. There was a lovely sunrise over Lymm this morning - but I didn't have my camera. Unfortunately, if the old saying about red sky in the morning is true, we are in for some bad weather! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dizzy Posted February 2, 2011 Author Report Share Posted February 2, 2011 Taken at 7.45 am although I missed the best bit of the sunrise, I must not oversleep in future I was rushing to putting the bin out so grabbed the camera.. set to Auto...raised the flash and pressed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dizzy Posted February 2, 2011 Author Report Share Posted February 2, 2011 sunset from last night. Taken on my iphone which is a very poor camera Dizzy. Are you trying to prove a point to me there PJ Really good photo although it's a bit yellow. Was that how the sky really looked ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
P J Posted February 2, 2011 Report Share Posted February 2, 2011 Thats exactly as it was Dizzy " all yellow" sounds like a song. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dizzy Posted February 2, 2011 Author Report Share Posted February 2, 2011 Pretty good camera on the iphone then if it takes what you are actually seeing. Must try out my new phone sometime. I've had it from before xmas and not even put the sim card in it yet Did you take any pics with your beastie of a camera too Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Evil Sid Posted February 2, 2011 Report Share Posted February 2, 2011 Always amazes me at the colour the clouds turn at sunset and sunrise. It is such an unusual shade that pink. The saying that I know goes , "Red sky at night, something's alight. Red sky in morning, the something's still burning" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
algy Posted February 2, 2011 Report Share Posted February 2, 2011 Great photo PJ I would not have known you took it with your phone unless you had said. Sid, Red sky in the morning, sailors warning. Red sky at night, shepherds delight or as we said as kids, Red sky at night, shepherds huts on fire. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dizzy Posted February 2, 2011 Author Report Share Posted February 2, 2011 I always thought it was : Red sky at night; shepherds delight, Red sky in the morning; shepherds warning. I've never said it with sailors Anyway see if you can say the old way it used to be said.. Origin The saying is very old and quite likely to have been passed on by word of mouth for some time before it was ever written down. There is a written version in Matthew XVI in the Wyclif Bible, from as early as 1395: "The eeuenynge maad, ye seien, It shal be cleer, for the heuene is lijk to reed; and the morwe, To day tempest, for heuen shyneth heuy, or sorwful." The Authorised Version gives that in a more familiar form: "When it is evening, ye say, It will be fair weather: for the sky is red. And in the morning, It will be foul weather to day: for the sky is red and louring." There are many later citations of the saying in literature, including this from Shakespeare, in Venus & Adonis, 1593: "Like a red morn, that ever yet betoken'd wreck to the seaman - sorrow to shepherds." I think I'll start saying those in future just for a laugh Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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