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Posted: Fri Sep 09, 2005 10:12 am    Post subject:

Sorry Eileen

I think I need a new brain as well as joints

Posted: Sat Sep 10, 2005 11:54 am    Post subject:

here’s the first of a few photographs. they are hosted on tinypic.com and I’ve put the tag cissbury05 so anyone can search for them by tag.

Cissbury south east gate

SE gate looking NE

SE rampart looking to Worthing (sorry Eileen, they’re all rear view)

Cissbury central copse

West rampart looking to Findon Valley there’s a few to start… [i’ve done 560pixels width for the web, seems a reasonable compromise – what do you think?]_________________

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Posted: Sat Sep 10, 2005 12:27 pm    Post subject:

ok another batch, here we are working round to the northern rampart:

^NW rampart, a lonely looking Mark, and the Chactonbury copse on the far northern horizon.

^Neolithic flint mine pits pock mark the interior of the western side. During a discreet visit into the bushes, I’m pretty sure I saw a rare Adonis Blue butterfly. Unfortunately it didn’t open up it’s wings to fly, but I’ve seen one before up on the Hambledon Hill iron age hill fort so I’m reasonably certain it was.

^northern rampart

^northern ditch/bank, harvested field and Findon village

^vista Cissbury to Chanctonbury copse in distance [1]

another at http://tinypic.com/view/?pic=dm4fty

^vista Cissbury to Chanctonbury copse in distance [2] Chanctonbury next…_________________

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Posted: Sat Sep 10, 2005 2:37 pm    Post subject:

approaching Chanctonbury onwards:

^the foregraound of blackberries is more important in this shot than the view of Chanctonbury behind

^Chanctonbury

^Chanctonbury

^’cross dyke’ feature in foreground with Sussex Weald beyond

^resting under the Chanctonbury copse, telephoto shot back to Cissbury through the heat haze. [so tired from the walk, I forgot to try to get close ups of the ramparts here!]

^the air display flying past ~ a nice distraction on the return loop

^approaching Cissbury from the north, foreground harvest colours

^Cissbury from the north and then to the pub for a well earned drink!_________________

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Posted: Sat Sep 10, 2005 9:21 pm    Post subject:

Great pictures, Pete

560 pixel width is a good size for me, it means I don’t have to hit the ‘Fit to Window Width’ button every time I look at a thread with photos on it

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Posted: Sat Sep 10, 2005 10:18 pm    Post subject:

Super pictures. Makes me even more miffed we missed it.

A good excuse to go again, then! (Hint, hint….)_________________

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Posted: Sat Sep 10, 2005 10:20 pm    Post subject:

The what??? (Seriously, a brief answer in the geek section would be very welcome – sounds like a useful button to have in one’s repertoire!)_________________

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Posted: Sat Sep 10, 2005 10:41 pm    Post subject:

Remember, I’m talking Opera browser here, I can’t comment on IE

I’ll put a thread on the ‘geek’ if you want me to

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Posted: Sun Sep 11, 2005 12:59 am    Post subject:

No probblem, Fred! Pete’s photos are not that dissimilar to mine, so just a few to supplement his…

Part of the Southern ramparts at Cissbury

Harvesting emergency supplies

Air show

Slow worm

And so to the pub…_________________Eileen

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Posted: Sun Sep 11, 2005 12:47 pm    Post subject:

pics weren’t bad were they and I’ve not done any cropping they are ‘as is’? especially since it was so hazy and I nearly didn’t attempt the distance landscape shots at all. {re geeky matters: I can’t get firefox to refit large images to window, don’t know where that trick is hiding…} Eileen showed you our late lunch in the pub ~

then, as we drove back into London on the A2, it really deserved the name of the Big Smoke as there was a real photochemical smog hanging over the city. it made the setting sun look amazing and Eileen grabbed her camera so I did the same. I don’t know how much luck she had, some of mine were badly shaken but a couple of them were quite good and would improve further if well cropped. The best views came and went too quickly for the delayed action of the digital camera.

a final reminder, you can find all this set of pix by searching on tag ‘cissbury05’ on image host http://tinypic.com/

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Posted: Sun Sep 11, 2005 2:35 pm    Post subject:

Mine were very similar…

Not bad, considering the difference in the cameras & the fact that I was driving at the time!

_________________Eileen

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Posted: Wed Sep 14, 2005 2:50 pm    Post subject:

Great pics _________________Sir Mark

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Posted: Wed Sep 14, 2005 6:30 pm    Post subject:

Cor, didn’t you do well!_________________

Nish

Posted: Thu Sep 15, 2005 11:16 pm    Post subject:

Funny how the only ones that worked out were almost identical. Yours are a bit more zoomed in, mine need to be cropped to re-compose them. The time delay to focus calculate and shoot made the digital camera a failure on the brief opportunities to get a shot – it’s one case a conventional old slr camera would have been better._________________

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Posted: Fri Sep 16, 2005 12:29 pm    Post subject:

Durnovarian wrote:

Super pictures. Makes me even more miffed we missed it. durotrigian wrote: [so tired from the walk, I forgot to try to get close ups of the ramparts here!] A good excuse to go again, then! (Hint, hint….)

I’m up for it too…. I don’t want to miss out yet again. One for our list maybe?_________________

Nish

Posted: Fri Sep 16, 2005 12:42 pm    Post subject:

I’ve posted instructions on a new thread in the Geek area. Chris_________________Wanted: 1 signature. Must be witty or insightful (both would be beneficial) and willing to appear with URL below. Hours: 24/7, pay: none.

My photos.

Posted: Sun Sep 25, 2005 7:34 pm    Post subject:

I just thought I’d point out my new Tilley hat to be admired. claimed to be guaranteed indestructible especially if bunged in the machine to wash any sweat out of it. They’re from Canada but available in many sports goods shops.

www.tilley.com

the ‘owners manual’ is quite a hoot to read:

http://tilleyuk.com/owners_manual.asp

Eileen wrote:

No probblem, Fred! Pete’s photos are not that dissimilar to mine, so just a few to supplement his… image 1, not displayed Part of the Southern ramparts at Cissbury Harvesting emergency supplies image 3 Air show, not displayed image 4 Slow worm, not displayed image 5, not displayed And so to the pub…

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Posted: Mon Sep 26, 2005 5:05 pm    Post subject:

Thanks for the Tilley link, duro

I’ve just sent my address off for the 2005 catalogue

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Posted: Mon Sep 26, 2005 11:25 pm    Post subject:

melter wrote:

Thanks for the Tilley link, duro I’ve just sent my address off for the 2005 catalogue

mine’s the lightweight LT version. I’ve not got it quite as big as they say you should._________________

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