Cupid Stunt

The Leo Triplet, only got about 45 minutes exposure time on it though, so not the most detailed result, fucking South Wales, wettest place in Britain

And the Flame Nebula too

Fed up with chores and work and to do lists, fuckit, I'm off to Cenarth Waterfall, just 50 miles away but all tight twisties, well nearly
Over Betws Mountain to start, fuck they've ruined that with these shithouse wind farms, was just a tiny bit chilly on my finger at 7-8c getting there, warmer days on the horizon now.

No more stops til Cenarth, not much in the way of photogenic scenery and roads kept me occupied

Pulled up right in front of the falls then spent some time trying to get nice pics, annoyingly I had left my ND filters at home, still I did what I could with what I had

This one shows the old Flour Mill too (no not the Yamaha you wankers):

Headed into the little bistro/gift shop before setting off, had a cup of tea and a couple of Welsh Cakes

A brisk ride back home just over an hour away a balmy 11c all the way
Lucky Pete didn't notice my scoot is covered in saw dust from my woodworking in the garage LOL

All pics taken on my tiny little Sony RX100 V, a very capable camera

Nice pics Yamahead
It amazes me how many North Americans come over to Wales and remark how wonderful the scenery is, the USA has far better and more dramatic, you could spend 10 lifetimes finding great places there

On 02/02/2024 at 21:29, Buckster said:

LOL, twat, corrected now

On 02/02/2024 at 20:54, Specs said:

Which scope?

James Webb Space Telescope as in the description (JWST)

Well that was a long trip mostly wasted but salvaged this panorama of Aberystwyth

Started out driving up to Llyn Brianne at 3pm (45 miles) in the vain hopes of getting a Sunset there, no luck as it just clouded over, so then drove across to Aberystwyth (32 very dodgy miles and a hill climb in the dark), got bigger panorama than below but cocked up with focus, still managed to salvage this one, wasn't entirely happy so then drove to Ynys (across the estuary from Port Meirion 58 miles), but couldn't get the angle I wanted as it was too late to be driving down private roads and there was no damned snow on the mountains behind "The Village", b*ll*cks, not having much luck so headed on to Caernarfon Castle (24 miles) to get a classic reflection shot, but oh dear, the lights weren't on and the tide was out pffft, bloody tired now as it's early hours, thought I'd head back via Machynlleth and stop, wait for morning to see if any fighter jets were low flying, fell asleep in a layby, woke up at about 4am and decided to head for home (138 miles) arrived at 08:10am.

273 miles of dodgy, slow Welsh mountain roads in the pouring rain

So remember when you see a great picture online from a photographer, give it a like as it's extremely unlikely they they simply happened to be in the right place at the right time, I guarantee they've done all this crap too and more, tried dozens of times before getting that one shot, the one below isn't a great shot, just what I could salvage from one of many failed trips.

The Tough One 2009 David Knight vs Taddy Blazusiak shoot it out at Nantmawr Quarry, Wales, those were the days and it gives some insight into what it's like trail riding on the terrain in Wales

If you've got access to the Roku channel it's on there

20 hours ago, zzzak said:

Still haven't answered on the lack of tyre marks and how come the astronaut got in front of the cross, it should have been in front of him surely, by the way I like that you support Trump, any mention of him is support because it brings his name to the fore and I'm not talking about golf, there's another oddity, when the astronaut hit the golf ball someone at Houston commented on its slice, you can't slice a ball where there is no atmosphere, same with flags, no air means no flutter.

You should check your sources zzzak, always check the information you've been fed

20 hours ago, zzzak said:

Still haven't answered on the lack of tyre marks and how come the astronaut got in front of the cross, it should have been in front of him surely, by the way I like that you support Trump, any mention of him is support because it brings his name to the fore and I'm not talking about golf, there's another oddity, when the astronaut hit the golf ball someone at Houston commented on its slice, you can't slice a ball where there is no atmosphere, same with flags, no air means no flutter.

You should always double check the information you've been presented with zzzak, a simple Google image search and you'd have found untampered images

"The Pillars of Creation"

3 JWST Infrared images taken in infrared at 187n, 335n and 444n, black and whites, aligned, stretched in Siril, imported into Affinity Photo, colour layered et voila

Tutorial by Nico Carver on Youtube

Sunset over Pennard Castle and Three Cliffs Bay

7 hours ago, Nute said:

Evidently reading isn’t your strong point. I didn’t respond to any of your “facts” , just your comment to zzzzack, I suggest you go back and read what I posted, preferably with help from an adult. 

Wank stain
I'm well aware what a retard you was being.
You been gargling Buckster's Jiz again

2 hours ago, Nute said:

No, some people are oblivious to the fact that their argument is incorrect. 

That's so ironic it's funny
I list some facts and you say "no", twat

It's very true zzak, people seem to be oblivious to the facts in front of them
Animal and plant life grew faster than at any other time in Earth's history when CO2 in the atmosphere was 400 times what it is now
We are still technically in an ice age (determined by there being ice on the polar caps), we are in fact on the exit side of the curve right now and the Earth is going to get warmer, no question and now way to stop it, Human's influence will count for absolutely nothing.

The people I worked with at the Woodland Trust came up with a dumb climate change saying "Trees eat carbon for breakfast" to which I responded "so why exactly is it you wish to get rid of carbon?"

I bet Pete spent many hours under here picking up coins that had been dropped through the walkway slats

On 15/01/2024 at 17:54, Sir Fallsalot said:

Last time i bumped into Phil he said him and Cabbage had given up the trail bikes and both got Harleys LOL 
 

Holy crap, now I can imagine Phil on one but Martin?, that's a stretch

2 minutes ago, Pedro said:

Ghost Rider!

That's the one

Very pleased with this attempt

The Great Nebula in Orion M42

100 x 30 sec, ISO-500, f/5.6, 300mm Tamron, Fujifilm X-H2

10 x flats, 20 x darks, Sky-Watcher Star Adventurer, no guiding, Processed completely in Affinity Photo

Crickey, you kept hold of that video
How things moved on.
That was an old Canon camcorder with A/V input sockets, I ran a CCTV bullet cam on my helmet with a power supply for it in the bum bag with the camcorder, a whopping 640 x 480 resolution LOL
I got the idea from watching that nutcase in Sweden winding up the police (forgot his title now?)

On 11/01/2024 at 21:25, XTreme said:

Was that JasonDRZ?

No, a different Jase

On 11/01/2024 at 18:30, Sir Fallsalot said:

I think i recognise Phil the fireman on the XR in there he was usually with cabbage.  i think Bob might be referring to Jason  lol

Ah yes, Phil and Martin came out with me a properly mental ride once, fortunately I had my Tricker which was like cheating cos the huge boulder strewn gulley that we went down was nuts, with a couple of 6ft drop-offs onto sloped ground, haven't seen Martin for years
There was another ride I took Martin (Cabbage) on that was great fun, he went head first off his bike into a boggy mini pond, ever since then I called it "Cabbage Soup Lane", it's the lane that ran from Edwinsford to Abergorlech

Bloody Hell Fred it's looking wet and muddy out there

I reckon I used to make some good videos

...before multirotors/quadcopters were called drones and before we had stabilisation systems I was lobbing RC quads and planes into the skies with air to ground transmitters so I could fly FPV