Cows, a black and white and plants

 

 A few shots from this mornings walk.  Canon 6d2 and Tamron 28-300mm lens

 

 

Fun day, not! and sunset

 

 PITA day!  First my car decided it didn't want to start, I'm not using it much these days and the battery is getting low.  So I bung it on charge.  Wait an hour and find it still wont start.  Then I notice the charger is on trickle charge and takes a day to charge a battery.  

 Bung the charger up to full and an hour later the car starts.....  Then I get a bonnet open warning (bloody computers)  the bonnet is shut, the sensor is buggered.  Thats all well and good except if the bonnet is open the car wont lock and the alarm goes off every half hour.  Why!

 I really dont understand the logic of the car not locking if the bonnet is open.  You could be working on the engine and want to go and get a part, but now you cant leave the car with the bonnet open.  And why have the alarm go off?  What possible help is that?

 Seriously, give me an old car every time, a contina or an escort, something without all the rubbish computer shit that never bloody works.

 So how do you fix it?  Well it's easy.  First you dismantle half the front of the car to get to the bonnet catch, then with great difficulty you unbolt the whole bonnet catch, then replace it with a new one, then rebuild the car.

 Something that should be two small screws and unclip the wires, becomes half a days work for two people.  Bloody stupid design as usual.  Well done Ford you fuckwits.

 Anyway onto the sunset.  Took the dog for a walk and got these on the compact TZ80

 

 

Italian volcanos?

 

 I'm hearing rumours of Italian volcano troubles.  One story suggest an eruption may be likely to happen soon  The earth tremors have increased and ground movement suggests something is going to happen soon.

 The Phlegraean Fields is one area of concern, around 80.000 people live in the caldera, with over 400.000 expected to be seriously affected if theres an eruption.  The volcano is around 8 miles across, and believed to be the most violent eruption in prehistoric times.

 If this was to erupt it might be worse than the Pompeii in 79AD.

 That said volcanos are very unpredictable, something or nothing might happen.  Lets hope it's nothing.

Image size for blog?

 

 Most of the pics I post here are between 1024 and 1200 px in size.  This keeps the files smaller for the blog and my resizing action stops at 1200 (it's a long story)  Someone raised the question what size do you shoot on? Well does it make a difference?

 Being a courious chap I did a test.  I shot the same picture on small jpeg and large jpeg, one is 2.5mb, the other 8.2mb.  Obviously the bigger file has more data and more pixles, the thing is does it matter?  Well the answer is NO! not if all I do is post here and never need to crop.

 You see both pictures look more or less the same at 800px..  Can you see much difference?

 Does this mean Wayne is going to shoot small jpeg?  Errrr, no, I'll stick to large jpeg and Raw, and yes, raw is better if you know what your doing.

 

Flowers, sort of.

 

 Well maybe more weeds, but still flowers to me.

 

 

The met office (again!)

 

 Yes the jokers at the met office (the people who cant get the weather forcast right) have issued a SEVERE weather warning for friday!

 Yes close your door and windows, secure garden furiture to stop it being blown away.  Stay indoors! Nail the cat down to keep it safe. 70mph winds are going to kill you all they say,  Well thats more or less what they are saying.

 I wonder how we all survived all the planets human history without forecaster?  I mean stone age man got up in the morning and went out to club lunch to death with a branch.  He didnt close the windows on his cave because some spotty twat with a laptop told him it was dangerous to go outside.  He could tell by looking.

 Fast forward to the 1800s  Man with a shotgun goes outside his farm and blows a bunny rabbits head of for lunch,  He looked out the window first, then he got on with life.  He didnt have a spotty twat telling him what to do.

 Fast forward to now!  Now we're all afraid to leave the house to buy food because some spotty twat with a laptop looks at the radar picture of Ecuador and see's a spot of rain and panics.  " Oh my god rain, wind doom, the worlds ending"  Every house in Britain will be blown away   Fucking muppet!

 Why dont we scrap this bunch of vilage idiots who can never get the bloody FORECAST right?

 Churchill got a realible forecast for bloody D-day 70 years ago.  We've come a long way havent we, sadly backwards....

People and leaves

 

 A couple of people shots and some leaves.  Compact camera TZ80

 

 

Few sort of abstracts.

 

 

A few random shot from my last wander.

 

 

Skewen motor club show 2024 Margam park.

 

 The last of these pics.

 

 

Skewen motor club show Margam park 2024 (part three)

 The third batch of pics, think these were all on a Canon 5d4 and Canon 16-35mm L lens

Skewen motor club show Margam park 2024 (part two)

 

 The second batch of pictures from the Skewen motor clubs anual car show.

Canon 5d3 and 5d4 cameras. lens Sigma 24-105mm art and Canon 16-35mm L.

 

Skewen motor club show margam park 2024 (part one)

 

 Went to the Skewen motor club show at Margam park this morning.  Yet again despite the size of the park the cars were parked too close together for comfort from a photographers point of view.

Still heres a few shots for part one.  Canon 5d3 and 5d4 Sigma 24-105 art lens and mostly Canon 16-35L lens.