Pete

I think you've struck the nail on the head there. I've seen too many posts incorrectly accusing the BA of this, that, and another, that I now take everything I read from those posters with a pinch of salt - like you say, it's only damaging their own credibility.

It was a good race to watch as a spectator, not so sure about some of the racers... a lot of boats were reefing, many turned back, and several boats lost masts, booms, etc because of the wind. My photos from the race: http://www.flickr.com/photos/petelawren ... 887992042/

3 Rivers Race webcams can be found here: http://3rrcams.horningsc.co.uk:81/ The URL is slightly different to the one on the official site - but will handle more traffic.

So I had another attempt the other night at photographing some meteors following my disappointing attempt last time (viewtopic.php?f=80&t=7312&start=0) This time I headed out around 10:30pm on 12th August and almost immediately was seeing meteors shooting across the sky. I set my camera up on its tri-pod aimed towards the cassiopia constelattion (NNE). As it wasn't quite so dark as last time (August v's December) I set my camera to take 15 second exposures, in an attempt to reduce any light polution coming from Stalham washing out the photo. I managed to catch a couple of meteors on film (memory card), here is my favourite one...

how about a "yes, with caveats" option?

Took this a few weeks ago at Gays Staithe, but only got around to posting it here. He and his mate (I think it was a male) quite happily swam around the staithe hunting for fish for about 45 minutes, not minding my presence at all.

Took a trip down to Happisburgh last weekend to take some photos of the coastline. The results can be seen over at Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/petelawren ... 025315356/ (I've also attached a couple to the bottom of this post. I think the photos demonstrate really well the power of the sea that is causing the residents of Happisburgh so many problems; but also that the power of the sea has a real beauty about it.

As mentioned a few weeks ago I purchased a circular polarising filter for my camera. Here are some examples of photos taken with and without the filter, to give an indication of how the filter effects a photo.

Just added a link to open up the map in a new window

Open in Google Maps Like this? [googlemap]http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=52.739202,1.496544&spn=0.029984,0.077162&t=p&z=14[/googlemap]

Thanks for the advice everyone. I've just ordered a hood and a circular polarising filter. Once the sun makes an appearence I'll try to post some photos both with and without the hoods and filters to try and illustrate the results.

Hi all, Recently I've been looking into purchasing a polarising filter and lens hood for my Canon 500D in order to try to eliminate rogue light getting into the picture. Has anyone had any experience with using polarising filters and lens hoods? Do they make a noticable difference? Do any of you use any other sort of filters to enhance your photos? Thanks, Pete

It was a misty morning this morning, so went out to get some photos of the mist. I'm really happy with how the sunrise one turned out, the others were taken looking towards the sun, so they don't look amazing, but thought I'd post them as they may be of interest to some.

Hi, Yes, I too was very happy with the quality. I've attached a different photo of a swan that I took a few weeks back, with the same camera, lens and focal length; but in brighter conditions, so a lower ISO. The lens itself is the 70-300mm USM: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Canon-70-300mm- ... 587&sr=1-2

From that description: *Not suitable for monitors designed solely for computer use. (The screen must support a horizontal scan rate of 15.625KHz- MOST projectors, plasma and LCD panels do whereas CRT monitors dont)

I was hoping for a nice sunny day today, so that I could get some good photos, however it turned out to be overcast all day, but decided to head out to see what I could take anyway.

I use cyberduck

Have found one of them listed here. I guess they've been phased out, and replaced with the newer, smarter lullabys and melodys.

You should consider yourself lucky, many parents I see spend most of their holiday trying to prevent their kids from falling overboard! Is it just me, or is Brink of Day no longer available? I'm pretty sure I remember seeing one of them out on the rivers at the end of the season.

A definite improvement on the old site; but doesn't look like it got tested in Firefox.

Useful tip there! You can also try sitting closer to the side you're making the strokes on, so that the canoe is tipping over; this obviously makes the canoe a little less stable, but it'll cut through the water more easily. I don't recommend trying this on a kayak though - unless you can do an eskimo roll (which are actually surprisingly easy to learn).

I don't have a canoe, but do have a kayak. Paddling with a double bladed paddle can be a bit cumbersome if all you want it a quiet paddle in the evenings, so I bought myself a nice little wooden canoe paddle. It takes a little while to get used to paddling a kayak on your own with just a single blade, but once you've got the hang of the j-stroke(so you don't have to keep changing the side of the boat the paddle makes the stroke on) it's nice and relaxing, and is pretty easy to keep up with motor boats over quite a distance.

If you put your camera in a decently padded camera bag, and then put that in a decent waterproof bag, you shouldn't have any problem with it getting wet or bumped about. The issues appear when you want to take the camera out to take a photo though. Waterproof bags can be found in Norfolk marine, on the wall next to all the canoes/kayaks.