I hope she asked for him to be cremated - it's the only way the Aussies are going to get the Ashes.

Nice to see landscapes in which the colours haven't been mangled in PP. Good pics of beautiful area of England.

I've been following the 'Skins on TV in England since the days of John Riggins, Art Monk, the Hogs et al, and have watched every Superbowl since XVII. Only got really interested in NASCAR when I found out that "coach" (you'll know who I mean) has teams in Sprint Cup and Nationwide.

As the great UHH philosopher, Wabbit, reminds us on all of his posts, "I don't necessarily believe everything I say". Could the same apply to KR?

I know that Zeiss is one company now, however, Mogul referred to "obsolete" lenses, and picking them up at boot sales, hence my reference to the two separate companies.

Is it possible that the West German, expensive, Zeiss is being confused with the East German Carl Zeiss Jena?

You might find that some of our (UK) cathedrals charge for a permit to take photographs, and some the stately homes do not allow photography at all; people who take pics don't buy their souvenir postcards etc.

Thanks, malky,

I know how so many on UHH like their trains, just thought this was a little bit different. Hadn't thought of the eeeek though. We were blessed with the late afternoon sunshine for most of our ride, and there were lots of opportunities to take pics of the shadow train.

Just realized how pretentious the "good technique" bit might sound; I suppose I meant I like playing with all the dials, knobs etc we used to have on 35mm slrs, and I still have my Weston Master V and invercone.

As Bob said it's good glass. I suppose to that you can add good technique, which is what those of us who grew up with film and manual everything still enjoy.

Thanks, Bob,

The ghost train pic I sent was not the one intended. I was quite surprised to see all of that window appearing above the shadow train. Agree with you on the good glass, and I still think that some of the Praktica lenses were good.

There's been quite a bit of discussion recently on use of old film camera lenses on dslrs. Hope some of you will like the pictures I took in June on a visit to the North Yorkshire Moors Railway. The camera used was a Canon 500d (Rebel T1i) and the lens a Prakticar 50mm f1.8. First shot is of a Standard Class 4MT, introduced 1951, and I think the shot has a fifties feel to it. The second one is a "ghost train" that kept pace with our train on the return to Pickering. As this is my first posting I hope I have managed to attach pics.