Best grab shots

Same with this one in San Fran Deane.

Beano,

I suppose at that point you became aware that you'd left your son behind!

Isn't that last one from that Twilight Zone episode with Bill Shatner on a plane seeing demons outside?

I was sitting in the car, thawing my hands after doing some shooting of an abandoned farm in -18C, when I noticed the view from the side mirror.

Haim

Beano,

I hope the pilot didnt put the windscreen wipers on. Great photo.

Clearly an occupational hazard for your average commercial pilot these days but I reckons it serves those chav kids right for mucking about on the runway!

Had to rush this one as i was late for the last Lunar Landing Module and i didn't fancy walking back home...

I had exactly the same problem this time last week, rackkit - almost missed the X Factor as a result

Sorry Jon but i would rather play chicken with the No23 bus with the hope of losing than watch X Factor.

I'm afraid you just don't know what you're missing, guys - it's the final next week and I can't wait!

Here's my modest effort, I'm a poor photographer. Just a cheerful shot of two girls enjoying some live music.

perhaps not my best grab shots, but certainly grabbed, and entertaining.


Darwinian antics.

the rope wasn't wrapped around the left hand bar, and held on by a gloved hand. It was knotted around the bar and tripple-clamp! D'oh! by the time he went into a tank-slapper with legs akimbo, I couldn't drive and snap. TBH, I couldn't watch. I could only picture skin abraded on the tarmac.

grabbed out the open window before moving hard-right for the line into the twisties. after the 85-odd kph blast of air into my new digital camera, it was never quite the same again. truly inspiring early morning drive back from Queenstown Jan 2001.

the renta-racer was dubbed 'yellow peril', hammered for 35days AKL-Queenstown and back, including low-flying to cape coleville, and all over the Cormandel back before they sealed the peninsular roads so that the 4x4's from AKL wouldn't get muddy.

Wasn't even looking through the viewfinder!

Perhaps that's the secret?

few cameras these days even have a viewfinder!

Or, if they have a viewfinder, few people seem to use them - preferring to use the LCD screen while holding the camera in the most unstable position - two feet from their body - draining their batteries in the most effective way possible.

I cheated this time...

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few people seem to use them - preferring to use the LCD screen while holding the camera in the most unstable position - two feet from their body - draining their batteries in the most effective way possible.

and of course, running out of charge right at this moment creates a very real problem. imagine having to navigate folks stopped on the pavement, frozen with P&S cameras out in front of them at arms length!

Rico, wouldn't you agree that Jay's shot up there looks a hell of a lot like Oriental Bay in Wellington?

indeed Deane, it looks remarkably like the Costa Del Welly. definitely some barrel distortion there, unless that fault-line was jiving as Jay hit the shutter release...

looks good enough to make one wonder if it's a nice temperate place to live!

Here's one I took in Turkey:-




Make that 2

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Originally posted by Deane F:
Rico, wouldn't you agree that Jay's shot up there looks a hell of a lot like Oriental Bay in Wellington?

Hmmmm. Hadn't noticed myself.