Some pics I have taken with my new camera

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Some pics posted with my new digital camera, a Panasonic Lumix FZ7 with 12 x optical lens :)

For anybody that knows Manchester they will know this clock is a tiny spec of dust at ground level.

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Same building

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The Beetham Tower fully constructed

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The Holy Name church as mentioned in the Smith's Vicar is a Tutu.

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View looking to the east side of the city centre

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This is my motor init :p I still haven't had time to do any work to the body as I have spent all the time playing about with the engine so far.

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Finally, one of my cats

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That cat is 3.5 years old :) Still looks very young though :). I took that picture while stroking him, it just shows how good the image stabiliser on that camera is.
 
Still looks young? That is young! My cats are over 10 yrs now :(

Nice camera. Makes me want to trade in for one with a stabiliser!
 
Excellent pictures! Especially the close up of the cat.
New camera's worth every penny.
Pisses all over my 20 y/o Zenit E SLR:NADowner:
 
I doubt its that good :) I should point out that all the pics apart from my car were done in auto mode :). For £215 its a very very nice camera.

Considering it costs more than half of what I paid for my car it better had be good :)

I still have not had time to take some proper pics with it :(
 
Its funny that you put 'completed' next to Beetham Tower. Which asteemed architect do we have to blame for that? It actually makes me feel sick to look at it, it's upside down isn't it, probably got the drawings the wrong way up, that can happen with modern art you know!
 
Jesus, you did well to photo that cat so well.

I have have taken loads of our little ***** and everything looks crap.
 
Well, I've learnt something (no shock there). I didn't know the old Refuge Assurance building, now the Palace Hotel, had bees on the clock face.

Pretentiousness alert!
I remember reading Ayn Rand's Fountainhead and siding with the architect, Howard Roark, who designed modern buildings, but back in the real world, whatever it's technical achievements, the Beatham Tower is as f*cking ugly as the Refuge is beautiful.

PS. I remember going to a "milk round" interview at Refuge Assurance in Alderley Edge and when they asked me about the building, I answered that I thought it was a home for tramps and "ne'er do wells."
 
Yep the Beetham Tower is a bit disappointing, Ian Simpson has got a bit too cocky.

My camera has a mechanical lens stabiliser in it which is why I managed to get the cat looking so good even though the camera or the cat wasn't still.

It costs £215, often retails at £250, and its 6.1 mega pixel, so you should expect very quality lens at that price. The lens are actually made by Lieca.

My mates think I am mad but I always get them to appreciate buildings like the RA building. We go past buildings like that every day and don't look twice at them. I don't though, even now buildings like the town hall still amaze me, even though I have seen it 3 million times before.
 
If you appreciate architecture and craftsmanship then a magical read is Jonathan Ruskins' 'The Seven Lamps of Architecture' His writing is the most intense i have read, found it very difficult when I was young. I find it's the beauty for the sake of beauty that gets me about buildings like these.
 
ben556473 said:
Jonathan Ruskins' 'The Seven Lamps of Architecture'
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John Ruskin I think....? Maybe.

Either way perhaps I need to have another crack at that one, I only managed about 10 pages then gave up; I seem to remember some of his sentences were so long and with so many sets of commas in them that that by the time I reached the end of the sentence I'd forgotten what he was actually talking about!!

Nice pics btw AT.
 
ben556473 said:
Yeah man, it makes me wonder what his mind was like. (J. Ruskins')
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The well known story goes that sensitive soul Ruskin became permanently impotent from the shock of seeing his wife's luxuriant pubes for the first time on his wedding night - having been used to seeing smooth blank marble down under on statues and not expecting something like a grenadier guard's busby. :D
 

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