ninja frog

the aquarium had a cool reptile exhibit

went to a little aquarium place too, which son on of nurglets liked

sadfish :(

some of the catfish and sturgeon were 5ft+

I want a kitchen table with built in sword holders

this door is inside the main castle walls, but still has a drawbridge over a spiked pit and a crossbow sentry box

looking down the castle walls at the birds doing their spiderman impressions

birds attacking the castle walls again

ye olde tagging

the view, and a Hitchmeep nightmare

went to another castle today at Beynac. It's the opposing castle to the one at castlenaud that i previously posted and was manned by the british. it's smaller but more robust and less fancy compared to the french one.

in the exterior shots, if you notice black specs, it's some of the thousands of small birds (sparrows?) that were flocking around and clinging to the castle walls

I decided to take out the father inlaw's mountain bike yesterday afternoon for a ride for the first time personally in years. it seemed a great idea, iit was bright sunshine, and when out in the car everything seemed pretty flat as we're near the dordogne river. I found out later that I'd cycled 32k, and that actually the local landscape isn't flat at all according to my sore muscles and meep. took a few photos too.

the caves at padirac. 44km of underground cave system. 2k open to the public. no photography allowed :( has great underground river you go on in a boat, and some huge stalagtite coloumns 40+ meters high

awesome clouds are awesome

Awesome shots man.

You run your thread your way and to meep with the impatient wankers.

dagwood: Alright man, how many meeping posts does it take to turn the page?

about 30 if i counted right, point kind of taken, maybe i'll limit pics per post, but content heavy threads are good, no? is there an option to reverse the thread direction like in the camphone thread, or is that an admin only thing?

anyway, we've had some pretty heavy storms rolling in from the pyrenees so clouds have been big.

this is the "lantern de mort", a huge monument type building that no one really knows what its for, with no records or depictions.

Dagwood, stop meeping up this thread.

Start your own.

Thank you Mundhra.

<span class="post_was_edited">On 2009-09-20 at 05:52:01, dragonstaff asked to smell your meep</span>

Alright man, how many meeping posts does it take to turn the page? Nice shots man, but I am seriously sick and meeping tired of waiting for heavy pages to load.

mundhra sez: this thread does not revolve around you, stop being such a meeping idiot meephead.

<span class="post_was_edited">On 2009-09-20 at 04:41:18, mundhra asked to smell your meep</span>

jealous. good stuff, man.

So i'm currently on a 2 week vacation in the south of france staying at the in-laws. local scenery is fairly impressive, lots of cliffs formed from volcanic activity, forests, wide rivers. lots of chateau's and castles left over from the hundred years war. also lots of prehistoric human sites.

the weather is good, really clear skies, being miles from any major population is good for looking at the stars

roque la gageac, a village built into the bottom of some cliffs that have some neolithic caves half way up them as well

half way up the cliff checking out the caves

bastide de domme, old fortified town, was also the place where the knights templar were kept locked up awaiting their trial after being screwed over by the french king. there's some old templar graffiti but didnt bother paying to see it, wouldnt have been able to take photos of it anyway.

town gate

ye olde toilet and church

the castle at castelnaud, pretty big thing, lots of old war machinery, catapaults, trebuchets etc..

some wicked looking guns and stuff

the view

huge cannon

big lizard back at the house.

more to come as holiday progresses

last few from the hike up to the mining pit, and a few from trip to plymouth, where all you american pig-dogs ancestors left from.

gorse bush, the bane of my meeping life when out walking, sharp and tough as meep, can seriously hurt and maim if you fall on it.

this meepy meeper sat watching me long enough to change lenses and settings and get closer to take a few shots. if i'd had a rifle it would have been food.

couple of stiched panoramic shots and thats the last hike shots.

wierd fish statue by the mayflower steps

where people can sit a dream about sailing off to america

where people can play and dream about swimming to america

where people can jump and dream about diving to america

where people can... also just up by the lighthouse is where sir francis drake famously dissed the spanish armada by finishing his game of bowling before he went and kicked their meep (wide angle lens distortion a go go)

the rest are just snapmeeps

some random nice building hurr

not sure what a plane would be doing underwater...

nurrr nurr nurr nurr nurr

this guy was pretty cool, all swimming around in a tank of sharks and not giving a meep

thats pretty much it. got an air show to go to next week, so should get some nice shots of some helicopters and fighter planes new and old to show off. (although weather forecast is meeping dismal)

dent: Nurgs, those car shots with the ominous sky are meeping incredible. I am officially turning this thread into a Dent Blowing Nurglets thread. Seriously, beautiful work that just keeps getting better.

^This.

went back to the abandoned house but it had been burned out, so hiked up to the top of the mining tips. its late so only the first few are done being processed. went out too late so by the time i got there sun had pretty much set, but the light was kind of good for all of 10 minutes.

more to come later. it's late and I'm up early for a trip to the national aquarium, so more landscape stuff to come, and then, FISH

dent: I was going to ask you how the meep you were getting the HDR look to your photos. The creepy, rolling clouds you seem to constantly capture really works well with that effect. Have you set up some sort of Flickr account?

check your pm

nurglets:

mundhra: meeping sweet stuff, man. do you use any filters when shooting?

cheers. sometimes I use a graduated neutral density filter to balance out sky and foreground exposure values, but recently been playing with layering differently exposed shots and balancing the correctly exposed bits by erasing under/over exposed bits. using filters is easier, or actually using an hdr program to do it automatically which i do now and again, but its hard to get a decent result without it looking like an overcooked piece of meep with them.

I was going to ask you how the meep you were getting the HDR look to your photos. The creepy, rolling clouds you seem to constantly capture really works well with that effect.

Have you set up some sort of Flickr account?

mundhra: meeping sweet stuff, man. do you use any filters when shooting?

cheers. sometimes I use a graduated neutral density filter to balance out sky and foreground exposure values, but recently been playing with layering differently exposed shots and balancing the correctly exposed bits by erasing under/over exposed bits. using filters is easier, or actually using an hdr program to do it automatically which i do now and again, but its hard to get a decent result without it looking like an overcooked piece of meep with them.

meeping sweet stuff, man.

do you use any filters when shooting?

just got back from finding out i'll be making about 200 for an hours work with my camera from last week, and after getting a couple of shots published gratis in a photography mag last month for some self promotion, it seems I'll be going into business now with more work coming up this weekend, and some at the end of the month. if anyone has a camera you should seriously think about trying to make some money with it, lucrative is one word to describe it.

anyway, last lot of the abandoned farm, pretty much just exterior stuff.

this is why the farm's been left empty, you can't quite tell how close the tip is because i've used such a wide angle lens but it's only about 40 feet away

evil machinery left to rot

thats it, thanks for compliments, especially you dent (_*_)

You have a very good eye!

fuking excellent pics!

ok, so here's the rest of the abandoned farm and house. the house itself had been boarded up after an eviction of some homeless squatters, but someone had already got a window clear so I didnt have to use too much effort getting in. The house was officially vacated by some wierd old farmer called huggy bear who had an american wife and an english girlfriend. The clay mining company wanted to expand their waste tipping and the farm borders on the edge of their site, so they paid the guy an absolute fortune to move.

I forgot my torch, so I didnt go upstairs as it was pitch black and I pooped my pants a little. the wind kept making funny noises and i didnt want to get raped. I'll be going back again soon with a torch and a full size crowbar for more pics.

whats left of the outside toilet, yummy.

The first room that I gained access through, with wierd hippy painted graffiti that I'm guessing was the squatters.

upstairs. meep that meep without a torch

plenty of evidence of wierdo co-habitation

bags full of body parts

all that remains of previous victims. I found this pile of mens, ladies and childrens shoes just before I left, I think if i'd found it first, I would have been crapping myself just a little bit more in the dark house.

last few to come later.

Nurgs, those car shots with the ominous sky are meeping incredible. I am officially turning this thread into a Dent Blowing Nurglets thread.

Seriously, beautiful work that just keeps getting better.

I went exploring and found an abandoned old farm with some boarded up freaky buildings, just as well I took my mini crowbar (thought a little staged "self portrait" might be interesting..)

This would be an old slaughter pit...

Its late, and I have a load of shots to go through and edit, so I'll post the rest in the morning, so this is just a little teaser.

might as well turn this thread into a continuing body of work type thing, rather than make a seperate thread each time i go out and shoot stuff.

went to the yokel vintage rally today.

Was an interesting mix of steam engines, tractors, bird shows and cars and a few bikes.

<span class="post_was_edited">On 2009-07-04 at 18:47:47, nurglets asked to smell your meep</span>

oh and forgot to add, awesome shots man. those locations are meeping sick. nice work :cool:

dent: Question for you - A: On the "cliche" waterfall shots - what shutter speed and aperture settings did you use? When you drop the shutter speed down to really low levels (I'm assuming around 1/25?) what do you do with your aperture to compensate for the explosion of light entering the shutter? Is there a rule of thumb, or is this just a guessing game? B: Suppose you want to grab that same shot but in the middle of the night - do the same rules apply, just on the slower end of the settings spectrum?

nurgs covered it but i figured i would add something, just fyi. for motion/waterfall shots, you can use a neutral density filter (or circular polarizer). they darken the scene by a few stops (or more depending on application), allowing you to keep the shutter open longer and not blow out the pic.

I use a circular polarizer all the time, mostly because i shoot cars and the polarizer gets rid of the reflections on glass/paint. it also allows me to shoot motion/rolling shots in bright sunlight because of it's darkening properties.

<span class="post_was_edited">On 2009-07-03 at 17:27:17, nexis asked to smell your meep</span>

Very quality

dent: Question for you - A: On the "cliche" waterfall shots - what shutter speed and aperture settings did you use? When you drop the shutter speed down to really low levels (I'm assuming around 1/25?) what do you do with your aperture to compensate for the explosion of light entering the shutter? Is there a rule of thumb, or is this just a guessing game? B: Suppose you want to grab that same shot but in the middle of the night - do the same rules apply, just on the slower end of the settings spectrum?

I'm probably going to sound really condescending but to explain it in simple terms..

Here's the exif data from the file detailing all the camera settings for the shot:

Exposure Time = 2 second

Lens F-Number/F-Stop = F13

ISO Speed Ratings = 400

Original Date/Time = 2009:06:28 18:12:14

Shutter Speed Value (APEX) = -65535/65536

Aperture Value (APEX) Aperture = F13

Flash = Flash did not fire, compulsory flash mode

Focal Length = 10 mm

So basically, to get the 2 second exposure time, I've stopped the aperture down to F13 from normally shooting around F5.6-F8. The larger the aperture number, the smaller the aperture hole and less light hitting the back of the camera requiring the shutter to be open longer to get the required light to create a properly exposed image.

The same does apply at night, but instead of artificially cutting the light entering the camera by stopping the aperture down, there's already naturally low light levels, so to get the same 2 second exposure you'd need an aperture of 1.8 or something nice and wide open, or by bumping the iso speed up to 1600 or higher, or if you kept the F stop at 13, the exposure time would have to be increased to something like 30 seconds or longer.

was that any help/clear enough?

Question for you -

A: On the "cliche" waterfall shots - what shutter speed and aperture settings did you use? When you drop the shutter speed down to really low levels (I'm assuming around 1/25?) what do you do with your aperture to compensate for the explosion of light entering the shutter? Is there a rule of thumb, or is this just a guessing game?

B: Suppose you want to grab that same shot but in the middle of the night - do the same rules apply, just on the slower end of the settings spectrum?

I'd be lying if i said i didnt help a few of the smaller runt ones make it...

meeping up the cycle of life by doing this.

Nice pics though.

~ Good work chief.

This looks like something from Myst, or Tomb Raider.

awesome work.