moules, moos, castle and the english channel

AndyAndy Registered Users Posts: 50,016 Major grins
edited July 23, 2005 in Landscapes
:wave hi everyone, i've been traveling a bit lately... 2x back and forth to london in the past week :uhoh.... i had the good fortune to meet up with our man gubbs again yesterday. of course, we started off with come some energizing food. mussels, and other delicacies. here are some proofs, i'm not done processing yet but wanted to share a few shots with everyone :D

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here's gubbsie looking up at those cows

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this is corfe castle, on the south coast of england

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good thing we ate, because there were a zillion steps to climb up to get some sweetlight castle views

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after a nice dinner, it was time for bed and then a 350am wakeup call so we could get down to the coast near a place called durdle door, where we saw this at 5am:

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and from the opposite side, the arch at durdle door:

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10 minutes later the fog rolled in and we were shut-out :uhoh

all in all, a great trip though, good times, good company, and of course, good food :food :lol3
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  • HiggmeisterHiggmeister Registered Users Posts: 909 Major grins
    edited July 14, 2005
    Hi Andy,
    Kinda nice to be able to see all these places and have time to shoot as well. 5am is a tad (6hrs) too early for me so I'll just have to look at your shots instead. I really like the orange sunset shot; just had to get the cow in there too (left side silhouette) I see.

    Nice proofs,
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  • KevinKalKevinKal Registered Users Posts: 246 Major grins
    edited July 14, 2005
    Longing to travel again...
    Great series of pictures Andy, and I'd love to see the ones you finish processinig. Awfully lucky that you get to travel so much - twice in 1 month to the UK is just downright making me jealous :cry . Do you travel for business or pleasure?

    Cheers,
    Kevin K.
  • AndyAndy Registered Users Posts: 50,016 Major grins
    edited July 14, 2005
    the corfe cemetary, where all the old corfes are resting.

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  • John MuellerJohn Mueller Registered Users Posts: 2,555 Major grins
    edited July 14, 2005
    Andy,your one lucky person to travel around the globe and capture wonderful imagesthumb.gif
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  • USAIRUSAIR Registered Users Posts: 2,646 Major grins
    edited July 14, 2005
    Andy
    Wow what great scenery just beatuful clap.gifclapclap.gifclapclap.gif
    Hope I can go there some day
    Great stuff thumb.gif


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  • SkippySkippy Registered Users Posts: 12,075 Major grins
    edited July 14, 2005
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    andy wrote:
    wave.gif hi everyone, i've been traveling a bit lately... 2x back and forth to london in the past week :uhoh.... i had the good fortune to meet up with our man gubbs again yesterday. of course, we started off with come some energizing food. mussels, and other delicacies. here are some proofs, i'm not done processing yet but wanted to share a few shots with everyone :D
    here's gubbsie looking up at those cows
    this is corfe castle, on the south coast of england
    good thing we ate, because there were a zillion steps to climb up to get some sweetlight castle views
    after a nice dinner, it was time for bed and then a 350am wakeup call so we could get down to the coast near a place called durdle door, where we saw this at 5am:
    10 minutes later the fog rolled in and we were shut-out :uhoh
    all in all, a great trip though, good times, good company, and of course, good food :food lol3.gif
    Well I picked it straight away..........anyone else rolleyes1.gif
    Notice the shot with the Muscles on the plate out in the open....
    .......and ....look carefully.......notice what's missing headscratch.gif
    NO FLIES rolleyes1.gif :lol4 :lol Andy over here you only gotta mention the words EAT OUTSIDE and the flies come from no where I tell you, they even bring their own knives and forks too rolleyes1.gif

    You sure do get around don't you.........the Castles spread throughout Europe are just amazing .....love those low light shots, your quite a master at that.
    Thanks for sharing, glad you had a great time with Gubbsy.....nice series.
    Skippy (Australia)
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  • MuskyDudeMuskyDude Registered Users Posts: 1,508 Major grins
    edited July 14, 2005
    Hi Andy!
    Did you get to pick out which cow would be joining you for supper? :D

    Awesome shots btw, you did durdle door divinely dude! clap.gif


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  • AndyAndy Registered Users Posts: 50,016 Major grins
    edited July 14, 2005
    one more, of the castle in the last light

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  • marlofmarlof Registered Users Posts: 1,833 Major grins
    edited July 15, 2005
    Nice series, I especially like the cows in front of the castle.
    enjoy being here while getting there
  • AndyAndy Registered Users Posts: 50,016 Major grins
    edited July 15, 2005
    Higgmeister wrote:
    Kinda nice to be able to see all these places and have time to shoot as well. 5am is a tad (6hrs) too early for me so I'll just have to look at your shots instead. I really like the orange sunset shot; just had to get the cow in there too (left side silhouette) I see.

    Nice proofs,
    Chris


    thanks chris - really appreciate your comments :D
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  • photocatphotocat Registered Users Posts: 1,334 Major grins
    edited July 15, 2005
    Your last one has to be my favorite. The flowers with the castle as backdrop.
    The mussels make me long for good old belgian mussels, with good belgian fries. (No fries like in Belgium here in UK... sorry brits!)
    Lots of curves in the photo's Andy, the stepping wood in the grass...
    You need to come to York one day, you will go photo crazy.
    Glad you and Gubbs had a good time.

    Thanks for sharing your experiences with us.
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  • Phil U.Phil U. Registered Users Posts: 1,330 Major grins
    edited July 15, 2005
    Cool stuff andy. I'm especially drawn to the curvy compositions of the Durdle Door shots. The fog was knocking on the door at that point wasn't it. The distance is just dropped into nothingness. Very clear water there. We can see into it in the arch shot. Lots to look at in these. thumb.gif
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  • rahmonsterrahmonster Registered Users Posts: 1,376 Major grins
    edited July 15, 2005
    Just beautiful Andy. I really love your compositions. As always your pictures are lovely. Oh, and those mussels look yummy!clap.gif
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  • AndyAndy Registered Users Posts: 50,016 Major grins
    edited July 15, 2005
    KevinKal wrote:
    Do you travel for business or pleasure?

    Cheers,
    Kevin K.

    wave.gif hiya kevin - thanks for stopping by and the kind words... i travel alot on business, often to europe, the uk and california... and i try to travel alot with the family, too- in fact we're heading to the beach for a week tomorrow thumb.gif

    cheers
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  • AndyAndy Registered Users Posts: 50,016 Major grins
    edited July 15, 2005
    John Mueller wrote:
    Andy,your one lucky person to travel around the globe and capture wonderful imagesthumb.gif

    i am, john, i am... thanks for looking and commenting thumb.gif
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  • NikolaiNikolai Registered Users Posts: 19,035 Major grins
    edited July 15, 2005
    Fantastic shots!
    Especially this dusk/dawn ruines one.. I'm green with envy:-)rolleyes1.gif
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  • jthomasjthomas Registered Users Posts: 454 Major grins
    edited July 16, 2005
    Skippy wrote:
    Well I picked it straight away..........anyone else rolleyes1.gif
    Notice the shot with the Muscles on the plate out in the open....
    Muscles? I don't see any muscles. Gubbsy looks pretty flabby to me.

    Maybe the mussels will give him some!rolleyes1.gif
  • gusgus Registered Users Posts: 16,209 Major grins
    edited July 16, 2005
    Great to see the pommie countryside....just finished watching the bill & am sick of housing developments.

    Mate if i may be so forward to ask...what is different here ?...the shots dont look like your style or camera headscratch.gifne_nau.gif
  • AndyAndy Registered Users Posts: 50,016 Major grins
    edited July 16, 2005
    Humungus wrote:
    Great to see the pommie countryside....just finished watching the bill & am sick of housing developments.

    Mate if i may be so forward to ask...what is different here ?...the shots dont look like your style or camera headscratch.gifne_nau.gif

    hey 'gus ... no problem - i'll answer any question you've got ... can you be a bit more specific though, and please don't hold back ympb!
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  • SkippySkippy Registered Users Posts: 12,075 Major grins
    edited July 17, 2005
    Ohhhhhh Geezz
    jthomas wrote:
    Muscles? I don't see any muscles. Gubbsy looks pretty flabby to me.

    Maybe the mussels will give him some!rolleyes1.gif
    Muscles and work........on the brain......forgive me I work in the Medical Field hehehe Skippy (Australia)
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  • gubbsgubbs Registered Users Posts: 3,166 Major grins
    edited July 17, 2005
    jthomas wrote:
    Muscles? I don't see any muscles. Gubbsy looks pretty flabby to me.

    Maybe the mussels will give him some!rolleyes1.gif
    FLIPA.gif
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  • gubbsgubbs Registered Users Posts: 3,166 Major grins
    edited July 17, 2005
    andy,

    great shots and a great day... thanks thumb.gif
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  • BigAlBigAl Registered Users Posts: 2,294 Major grins
    edited July 18, 2005
    Nice series Andy thumb.gif I really like the one of the ruins with the sunset/rise.

    Tell me, is that a raw egg in the cup next to the mussels :eek1

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  • NirNir Registered Users Posts: 1,400 Major grins
    edited July 18, 2005
    Beautiful shots Andy!! as usual!
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  • StanStan Registered Users Posts: 1,077 Major grins
    edited July 18, 2005
    Skippy wrote:
    Well I picked it straight away..........anyone else rolleyes1.gif
    Notice the shot with the Muscles on the plate out in the open....
    .......and ....look carefully.......notice what's missing headscratch.gif
    NO FLIES rolleyes1.gif :lol4 :lol Andy over here you only gotta mention the words EAT OUTSIDE and the flies come from no where I tell you, they even bring their own knives and forks too rolleyes1.gif

    You sure do get around don't you.........the Castles spread throughout Europe are just amazing .....love those low light shots, your quite a master at that.
    Thanks for sharing, glad you had a great time with Gubbsy.....nice series.
    Skippy (Australia)

    I noticed it... NEVER EAT SHELL FISH WHEN THERE IS AN R IN THE MONTH. Obviously not in the southern hemisphere, but here, thats not good :sick . Beautiful shots of Durdle Door, it brings back memories of my mothers dog:splat it jumped
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  • AndyAndy Registered Users Posts: 50,016 Major grins
    edited July 21, 2005
    BigAl wrote:
    Nice series Andy thumb.gif I really like the one of the ruins with the sunset/rise.

    Tell me, is that a raw egg in the cup next to the mussels :eek1

    regards
    alan

    thanks for looking and commenting, alan :D that's a lemon lol3.gif
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  • ginger_55ginger_55 Registered Users Posts: 8,416 Major grins
    edited July 21, 2005
    Andy, that first stuff you posted, I think that is the best stuff I have seen you do.

    Of course, it may just be the cows. I love cows and goats: don't tell Lynne, but if she had put her goats in the challenge it would have been on my list.

    And that makes me think: where are the livestock around here....love them. Maybe I will go to Charlotte after all: it is in the middle of the Carolinas, more livestock.

    But there are other shots: the simple walkway w the flowers, then the grand shot down to the water.........love them.

    I would not have used IR on the cemetery, but then it is the artist's call. And, funny, but the selective DOF does not work for me either: can't stand blur rolleyes1.gif , in that shot alone, I guess.

    Hey, Andy, you are getting good!

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  • AndyAndy Registered Users Posts: 50,016 Major grins
    edited July 23, 2005
    Nir wrote:
    Beautiful shots Andy!! as usual!

    tx nir :D
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