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Beasty · 01-11-2019 6:03pm

Mike Litoris wrote: »

What were Queen actually like? Did it seem like something special in the flesh?

They were only on for 25 mins or so at Live Aid. I saw them twice the following year, at Maine Road Manchester and Freddie's last appearance at Knebworth. I have seen many class acts over the years, including the Stones, Bowie, the Who, McCartney, Elton, Roger Waters, Fleetwood Mac and indeed all those others at Live Aid. I would put Queen at the very top of the tree. Bowie would also have been there based on his 83 tour, but I was a bit more disappointed when I saw him later in his career. I would also put the Who at the top in terms of "sustainability" and the ongoing quality of their performances - Roger Daltry still sounds as good as he did nearly 40 years ago

keps · 10-11-2019 8:12pm

Ah - that photo just made me happy:)

TomSweeney wrote: »

TomSweeney · 12-11-2019 3:35pm

Thanks Keps!
As ye probably know yourselves, it was shot at 100mm so he wasn't so close to the edge !

Beasty · 12-11-2019 3:56pm

There's an edge:eek::eek:

:pac:

fonecrusher1 · 14-11-2019 9:02pm

Very nice shot. Fair play.

Morrisseeee wrote: »

TomSweeney · 20-11-2019 10:53pm

Adrian.Sadlier wrote: »

https://flic.kr/p/2hMALPN[/img]
Coexistence by Adrian Sadlier, on Flickr

Namibia ? , Etosha ?

edit why can't I bloody embed an image here..

edit 2 now i see from flickr it's South Africa

keps · 02-12-2019 8:57pm

Adrian.Sadlier wrote: »

Waiting by Adrian Sadlier, on Flickr

Beautiual capture - I take it you are somewhere 'hot'.:)

Looks like a Black-Winged Kite - generally lives in Saharan Africa but strays into Spain and Portugal also

Adrian.Sadlier · 02-12-2019 11:17pm

Thanks Keps. I was in Pilanesberg National Park in South Africa on a short 5 day trip

magicbastarder · 02-12-2019 11:45pm

bernard0368 wrote: »

would love to know how this was taken. was the fox just extremely tame/relaxed, or was it taken remotely?

cnocbui · 03-12-2019 8:02pm

Do herons migrate - as in go away someplace else? He asks, somewhat hopefully.

keps · 03-12-2019 8:14pm

cnocbui wrote: »

Do herons migrate - as in go away someplace else? He asks, somewhat hopefully.

The Irish Grey Herons stay all year round here

cnocbui · 03-12-2019 8:16pm

keps wrote: »

The Irish Grey Herons stay all year round here

Thanks, how unfortunate.

Wailin · 04-12-2019 12:06am

Why Cnocbui? Have you fish in a pond?

Edit: Ah, I think I know why!

keps · 04-12-2019 12:56am

Buy a decoy Heron- they are very territorial and won't invade another's territory (move it around from day to day)

https://www.ebay.ie/itm/161098962917

bernard0368 · 04-12-2019 12:18pm

magicbastarder wrote: »

would love to know how this was taken. was the fox just extremely tame/relaxed, or was it taken remotely?

Hi Magicbastarder,

This is one of two foxes I have been trying to photograph at night for a while now.
Getting this shot has taken about a month sitting and watching,she routinely follows the same path every night checking the same gardens etc, so I just sat on the path, kerb opposite her route with out a camera for a few weeks on and off till she got used to me. (the Gardai have been called a couple of times)
Eventually she got used to me and has confidence that I wont hurt her, I am just part of the street to her now.
On occasion she has just sat beside me and she stinks.

This was taken on a 35mm F1.4 lens at ISO5000 using street lights.

The other fox is proving a little harder to shoot as it bolts every time I drive into the area. This one strangely knows the car and has on occasion come up to greet me.
I get the impression some people on the road may leave food for her which has helped, I on the other hand have never done so.

Patience has been the key.

This is the start of a project on urban nightlife if anyone has a heads up on other nocturnal animals around south Dublin i would be grateful.

CelticRambler · 16-12-2019 10:22pm

bernard0368 wrote: »

Couldn't help but be reminded of a remark in this short documentary

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcVRe9X5Prs

where David Yarrow talks about filling in "cause of damage" forms for the Nikon repair service (@8m46s) "kicked by elephant ... or eaten by lion ...!" :pac:

cnocbui · 16-12-2019 11:42pm

bernard0368 wrote: »

Hi Magicbastarder,

This is one of two foxes I have been trying to photograph at night for a while now.
Getting this shot has taken about a month sitting and watching,she routinely follows the same path every night checking the same gardens etc, so I just sat on the path, kerb opposite her route with out a camera for a few weeks on and off till she got used to me. (the Gardai have been called a couple of times)
Eventually she got used to me and has confidence that I wont hurt her, I am just part of the street to her now.
On occasion she has just sat beside me and she stinks.

This was taken on a 35mm F1.4 lens at ISO5000 using street lights.

The other fox is proving a little harder to shoot as it bolts every time I drive into the area. This one strangely knows the car and has on occasion come up to greet me.
I get the impression some people on the road may leave food for her which has helped, I on the other hand have never done so.

Patience has been the key.

This is the start of a project on urban nightlife if anyone has a heads up on other nocturnal animals around south Dublin i would be grateful.

Wow, that's some effort. I just poke the camera out the back door and press the button. ;-)

bernard0368 · 17-12-2019 12:18am

@Celticrambler I Know was hoping she would not jump up especially as that tripod is a light travel one I just brought to keep the camera off the ground as I switched cameras.
@ Cnocboi I am jealous.

CelticRambler · 17-12-2019 12:38am

cnocbui wrote: »

Wow, that's some effort. I just poke the camera out the back door and press the button. ;-)

That is the happiest looking fox I've ever seen! Was he laughing at you or with you?

TomSweeney · 17-12-2019 1:13am

Wow, I never thought I'd see a fox happy alongside cats!

cnocbui · 17-12-2019 3:23pm

TomSweeney wrote: »

Wow, I never thought I'd see a fox happy alongside cats!

He's a very chill fox. We were a bit worried he'd make a snack of one of the kittens in that pic, when they were about a third that size, but he didn't. The mother cat gives him unwarranted grief while he gives no bother. Another ginger kitten, not in the pic, is fascinated by him and gets very close.

There's a pile of left-over pavers stacked near the kitchen window, to make it easier on the cats to get to the window ledge, because often we'll drop stuff out the window for them. I can tell you, it's a really odd sight to see a fox standing on your kitchen window ledge. :eek:

cnocbui · 17-12-2019 3:33pm

CelticRambler wrote: »

That is the happiest looking fox I've ever seen! Was he laughing at you or with you?

Check this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XDQpd6A45c&t=29s

This summer past, when he was a bit younger.

CelticRambler · 17-12-2019 3:41pm

My mother (living in D14) has a visiting fox with a shoe fetish. The last time I visited, there was a pile of odd shoes outside the back door and definitely not either my mother's or father's style. Mam explained that single shoes started appearing in the back garden during the spring, two or three a week. Eventually, early one morning she spotted the fox coming over the wall with a shoe in his mouth, playing with it for a bit, then scarpering.

She still has no idea where he's getting them from, but the supply has dwindled in recent months! :pac: If anyone spots someone walking around Rathfarnham with only one shoe, tell them to ask my mother if she the other one! :pac:

TomSweeney · 19-12-2019 4:17pm

Funny you should mention that, but a fox (well we think it was a fox) stole a shoe from my brother, he left his shoes in the porch and one was gone next morning - foxes are known to be in the neighbourhood at night, I see them quite often ...

Maybe it was a neighbour trying to mess with him, but doubt it ...

cnocbui · 02-01-2020 12:49pm

Anyone else think the size should be upped to 1000 pixels? Not many left on dial-up and 800 just doesn't work for skinny panoramas.

Loki98 · 20-01-2020 7:51pm

@ Keps
( where it was a great pleasure to meet northsider Adrian Sadlier for the first time)

does'nt look like Adrian, and who let him southside?

uck51js9zml2yt · 20-01-2020 9:19pm

Loki98 wrote: »

@ Keps
( where it was a great pleasure to meet northsider Adrian Sadlier for the first time)

does'nt look like Adrian, and who let him southside?

I think he got lost, though I have seen him hanging about Camden street on occasion.
Hangs around with a load of guys looking through "windows" and who make approving noises depending on what they see

fixXxer · 29-01-2020 10:17am

swingking wrote: »

Emmeline

Love the look of this. Is this from in camera settings or post processing? I'm constantly fiddling with the b&w options on my Fuji.

cnocbui · 03-02-2020 3:12pm

storker wrote: »

Architecture from different periods, New York City.

Is it just me and my monitor settings, or does they sky appear almost mauve to anyone else?

storker · 03-02-2020 4:37pm

cnocbui wrote: »

Is it just me and my monitor settings, or does they sky appear almost mauve to anyone else?

Hmmm...maybe, now that you mention it...hard to say. The image hasn't had any post-processing though, so maybe it's the pollution.

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