Today in pictures

[davemac]

Today in Pictures, no time for anything today, so 30 minutes around the park was the best I could manage.

1. Nice day for a picnic.
2. Crocosmia Lucifer.
3. Day Lilly.
4. No idea, but it is a bit blousy.
5. A type of Agave.
6. I think of Disney for some reason, it's an ornamental Onion.
7. And another.
8. An anemone.

[Gremlin]

I went on one of the free trips The British Legion Hotel organises, they have their own small coach and about 15 of us went to Albert Dock and Liverpool Cathedral for the day.

The first three were taken through the coach window with a little Pansonic Lumix pocket camera.

The rest with my DSLR and they speak for them selves.

[maxthecollie]

We went to Skipton today and I took what I thought were loads of good pics. When I got home to download them on my pc ,to my horror I had forgot to put my SD card back in my camera last night. Another Senior Momemt

[maxthecollie]

Originally Posted by Gremlin

I went on one of the free trips The British Legion Hotel organises, they have their own small coach and about 15 of us went to Albert Dock and Liverpool Cathedral for the day.

The first three were taken through the coach window with a little Pansonic Lumix pocket camera.

The rest with my DSLR and they speak for them selves.

Great photos Russell.
Is that Billy Fury in No 4?

[Gremlin]

Yes Frank, the statue is Billy Fury.
There were lots of people having their photos taken stood next to it, I had to wait a while to get the photo myself.

You not the only one with Senior Moments. I took my camera out for the day once and left the battery on charge back home.
The new Nikon I have has an grip which attaches so you can hold the camera and use the buttons to take portraits instead of landscapes. The grip has a battery in it as well and also a cartridge which you can slip in and that holds 6 AA batteries. You usually get the AA's anywhere if the other runs out of power.

[DaveinGermany]

Originally Posted by Gremlin

There were lots of people having their photos taken stood next to it, I had to wait a while to get the photo myself.

Ain't that the truth! Whenever there's something worthwhile, you can guarantee there'll be hoards of bodies in the way. Oh & thanks for that Gremlin, nice to see my home town highlighted.

[cashman]

Originally Posted by maxthecollie

When I got home to download them on my pc ,to my horror I had forgot to put my SD card back in my camera last night. Another Senior Momemt

Originally Posted by Gremlin

You not the only one with Senior Moments. I took my camera out for the day once and left the battery on charge back home..

Great pics, but senior moments?? we only went to New York the once, took some great photos, came home, took camera in Garth Dawsons n said please develop em, They opened the camera n said NO film in sir. Beat that.

[maxthecollie]

Originally Posted by cashman

Great pics, but senior moments?? we only went to New York the once, took some great photos, came home, took camera in Garth Dawsons n said please develop em, They opened the camera n said NO film in sir. Beat that.

Boom Boom

[davemac]

Originally Posted by Gremlin

I went on one of the free trips The British Legion Hotel organises, they have their own small coach and about 15 of us went to Albert Dock and Liverpool Cathedral for the day.

The first three were taken through the coach window with a little Pansonic Lumix pocket camera.

The rest with my DSLR and they speak for them selves.

My Nan used to live in Liverpool, but haven't been there for perhaps 20 years, the place looks a lot different now. Great set of pictures.

[davemac]

Originally Posted by maxthecollie

We went to Skipton today and I took what I thought were loads of good pics. When I got home to download them on my pc ,to my horror I had forgot to put my SD card back in my camera last night. Another Senior Momemt

Is there no internal memory ?

[mobertol]

Originally Posted by cashman

Great pics, but senior moments?? we only went to New York the once, took some great photos, came home, took camera in Garth Dawsons n said please develop em, They opened the camera n said NO film in sir. Beat that.

Did exactly the same on a romantic break in Edinburgh over New Year with my other half -was 1998 -first time we'd left the boys with my mum and gone off on our own! They were brilliant photos too!

[maxthecollie]

Originally Posted by davemac

Is there no internal memory ?

No not on that camera

[davemac]

Originally Posted by maxthecollie

No not on that camera

Oh well a lesson learnt then. I've done a similar thing with a battery, but found out when I tried the first snap.

[Gremlin]

It was 16 years since I last went to Liverpool but didn't have much time to look around, we were catching the ferry boat that took us to Manchester on the Ship Canal, a good day out and one I am planning to do later this year. It was £28 then, now it is £38 and you have to make your own way to the boat, a coach takes you back to where you started from. The boat stays overnight in Manchester and does the return trip the day after.
Before that it was during the 70's when I used to go along side the ships in the docks with a tanker to put the oil on board. I hardly recognised the dock road now and all the new buildings which have sprung up around the City, Liverpool One for example.
Gone is the old Sally Ann where I stayed overnight a few times.
Anyway a few more from Albert Dock and then tomorrow it's off to Liverpool Cathedral.
One last ice cream before I go.
Enjoy them.

[maxthecollie]

No 6 is the old Granada TV Building isn't it?