Well with curves you can change the image quite daramtically, like so..
Your shots are great, and I didn't even realise it was a tree in the first one until you mentioned it - thought it was the shoreline with vegetation
Very nice pics Highsider - are up sure there's no PPing going on there? The colours look strangely atmospheric, or was it just due to some excellent light?
Thanks Tomba for the kind words about my messing around. Don't think it'll make it in advertising (far too natural - nothing in advertising is "real"!) especially since the dashboard isn't crisp at 100% on any of then. I blame the cars rather hard suspension.
Tried something new tonight. 
Going round a small roundabout on a deserted business park...
On the dual carriageway...
The camera overexposed this one but it still works...
Coming through a busy strip of posh bars, but unfrotunately the bloody taxis (I hate taxis) were lining the street, blocking the view...
Going round a small roundabout on a deserted business park...
On the dual carriageway...
The camera overexposed this one but it still works...
Coming through a busy strip of posh bars, but unfrotunately the bloody taxis (I hate taxis) were lining the street, blocking the view...
By that I presume you mean the locked diff and other setup sillies that make the FXO feel anything unlike a FWD?
Lol, that's one approach! To be fair, the Slingshot bag is fine for all of one day. But when it's heavily loaded and you're away somewhere, the issue is carrying it on the same shoulder all one day... then the day after... and the day after... and so on. At least with a holster, you can switch shoulders or shift the load as desired. Unfortunately, the holster I want is nearly as big as a backpack. Which kinda defeats the point of having a holster.
Did I ever mention what a bastard you are?
I think I've already previously posted the "view" out of my window, and there's no country lanes or neat front gardens or dry stone walls. Photographically you've got a very rich environment. Lucky bugger.Also, I see they've invented cars in Yorkshire now.
Would be faintly hilarious if it did, though. Or maybe not suddenly, but enough to make everyone "jump".
Cool - just wondered, since the only place I've seen a mirror lens is on a shop shelf - never in use.
Yeah a "full size" camera body is a bit of a brick, but the extra weight and size is usually worth it. I usually have the grip on mine, but that makes it difficult to carry. Currently wondering whether to pull the trigger on a massive holster that can take a gripped A700 + long lens in order to save my right shoulder from the Lowepro Slingshot that I currently use most often.
Yeah a "full size" camera body is a bit of a brick, but the extra weight and size is usually worth it. I usually have the grip on mine, but that makes it difficult to carry. Currently wondering whether to pull the trigger on a massive holster that can take a gripped A700 + long lens in order to save my right shoulder from the Lowepro Slingshot that I currently use most often.
Is that specifically yours (i.e. not a generic photo)? How's the mirror lens working for you?
I guess your opinion is wrong.
/me pats his camera with anti-shake sensor and anti-dust system that has never needed more than a blast of air from a rocket blower despite changing lenses in many windy, dusty locations. :smug:
@ Sam: I saw the 18-200 VR when I was in a camera shop this week. It's a lot bigger than I thought it would be, given the size of other lenses or similar range.
Great news - a new car. And a modern one!
Yeah yeah, we all know the problems with modern cars - overweight, handling for dummies, etc - but having a modern looking car can surely only be good for LFS.
I'm also assuming that it will be in it's own class, and create some excellent one-class racing inbetween STD and TBO classes.
Nice one devs. C'mon, give us a teaser screenshot.
Yeah yeah, we all know the problems with modern cars - overweight, handling for dummies, etc - but having a modern looking car can surely only be good for LFS.
I'm also assuming that it will be in it's own class, and create some excellent one-class racing inbetween STD and TBO classes.
Nice one devs. C'mon, give us a teaser screenshot.
It's a load of shit. Oversized, woeful handling, way too fast and too powerful for your first car, and it has stripes on it that send the cockometer off the scale.
Sorry, but you did ask.
Whilst Jakg's comments might come across as jealousy given his age and the cost of motoring in Britain, when I say something similar it's absolutely nothing to do with jealousy, given that I went through the "first car" rite of passage some (too many!) years ago. When I was 17 or 18, I took it upon myself to be the best driver possible. I was smooth, quick, safe, courteous, and didn't think it possible to get much better. But ten years later, I have the experience and caution to realise that when I was in my teens, no matter how much effort I put into being a good driver, I simply didn't have the anticipation and realisation of what's going to happen with the unseen twat doing something stupid around the next corner.
Good luck with your Camaro. Don't forget the chest wig and aviator shades. But most of all, try to age mentally by a decade or more before you unleash yourself in it.
Yeah!
I agree! Most players do prefer the XRT over the XRG. Fortunately, the game still contains the XRT and I don't think many players have left over anything to do with the XRT.
Plenty freeloaders have quit LFS, but who cares about them when they were never going to buy it anyway?
Plenty freeloaders have quit LFS, but who cares about them when they were never going to buy it anyway?
Do you walk into your supermarket, pick up a loaf of bread and ask the cashier, "hey, if nobody is using this, can I just take it?".
Or find an unused second hand car for sale in AutoTrader, contact the seller, and ask, "since this car isn't being used, will you just give it to me?"
Not to mention that trading or sharing LFS licences is against the EULA. F*ck off and stop being a freeloader. On occasion, some demoers have been gifted S2 licenses by generous members because they've contributed lots to the community. Others have won them in competitions or events. You've done sod all, yet expect the same.
Oh, and the only person writing jibberish in this thread is you and your half-assed "txt spk".
Oops, thanks for the correction!
Thanks (and to Speedy Pro also) for the comments.
Are you aware of where your mini comes from?DWB, those are some beautiful colours and very pleasing, relaxing photos. Wish I was in Santa Fe 
it looks lovely for just ambling about with the camera.
No ambling around for me, I was in Amsterdam last week. Here's some shots.
First, some standard touristy snapshots...
#1 The Rijksmuseum at the far end of the Museumplein
#2 Some leaning houses by a canal. No that's not lens distortion, they really do lean outwards like that.
#3 "De Oude Kerk" - as you'll never guess such a difficult translation, this is "The Old Church".
#4 *cough*... *wheeze*...
#5 The very well-kept bandstand in the Vondelpark
#6 In the butterfly house at Hortus Botanicus (the botanical gardens)
#7 And of course, the obligatory Amsterdam "no originality" shot.
And a couple of more heavily processed shots. My personal preference is to not do too much PP to my photos, keeping them as (hopefully!) pleasing but realistic representations of how things really looked. But I couldn't resist playing with some of these photos a bit more.
#8
#9
On the final full day there, I was tired from walking around so much and spent a good couple of hours chilling at Leidseplein in a pavement cafe with a couple of cold beers, people watching. So I figured I'd have a go at candid street photography. Jeez, it's hard! Here's a couple of better results from my first attempt.
#10 Big guys on little bikes
#11 Heavy metal
it looks lovely for just ambling about with the camera.No ambling around for me, I was in Amsterdam last week. Here's some shots.
First, some standard touristy snapshots...
#1 The Rijksmuseum at the far end of the Museumplein
#2 Some leaning houses by a canal. No that's not lens distortion, they really do lean outwards like that.
#3 "De Oude Kerk" - as you'll never guess such a difficult translation, this is "The Old Church".
#4 *cough*... *wheeze*...
#5 The very well-kept bandstand in the Vondelpark
#6 In the butterfly house at Hortus Botanicus (the botanical gardens)
#7 And of course, the obligatory Amsterdam "no originality" shot.
And a couple of more heavily processed shots. My personal preference is to not do too much PP to my photos, keeping them as (hopefully!) pleasing but realistic representations of how things really looked. But I couldn't resist playing with some of these photos a bit more.
#8
#9
On the final full day there, I was tired from walking around so much and spent a good couple of hours chilling at Leidseplein in a pavement cafe with a couple of cold beers, people watching. So I figured I'd have a go at candid street photography. Jeez, it's hard! Here's a couple of better results from my first attempt.
#10 Big guys on little bikes
#11 Heavy metal
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You have got to be joking. £25 for a usb cable?
/me wishes he had founded PC World if people really are that stupid.
Based on your posts last night, I think you should get drunk more often.
Range Rover Sport? UK built, of course. So it should be cheaper in the UK as there's no shipping expenses.
Range Rover Sport Supercharged:
In the US... 72,450 USD = ~36,225 GBP
In the UK... 58,500 GPB = ~117,000 USD
(if we take the before tax UK price of 49,235 GBP, that's still ~98,500 USD)
In the US, the car costs 62% of what it does in the UK.
That's the absolute definition of a bad driver. Age has nothing to do with knowing you can't stop in two car lengths, and in the UK you'd never have got your licence if you tailgated anyone like that. Yes we all get better with experience, but if the starting point is sufficiently bad that you don't know what a safe distance is, then it's simply a case of being a bad driver.
lmao, if only. When it comes to consumer goods, the exchange rate suddenly becomes 1 USD = 1 GBP.
As Bladerunner said, average wage is nothing like £35k, outside of London. And in London, the higer wages are negated by the frightening cost of living.
Don't forget the high taxes we pay which is needed to spend ~£13bn a year on benefit payments so people don't have to go to work if they don't fancy it much.
The main difference between North America and the rest of the world is the attitude and culture towards cars and using energy. Like the woman Scatter mentioned who will leave her car running for over half an hour for no genuine reason. Or the much lauded "summer driving season" that gets referenced every year - wtf is a "driving season"? Going for a drive isn't a sport. It can be fun, but if everyone does it, it just becomes an epic waste of fuel.
Of course, wasting fuel didn't matter in the past with it being so cheap. But now it does matter, and I bet there's a hell of a lot of people and families, mainly in the states, who for generations have taken cheap fuel for granted and wouldn't even know where to start with saving energy.
That's an interesting take on things. Not sure what you were taught in your history lessons, but the rest of the world is taught that Japan attacked the US, the US declared war on Japan, and as a result Germany and Italy declared war on the US.
You think the US has some sort of halo over it's head. It doesn't.
What?
What??
Yeah. Obviously, a few fighter crews in Kuwait, Turkey and Saudi Arabia is a much more expensive and labour-intensive commitment than having half the US Army stationed in Iraq for a decade or more.
And I think that sums up your blind faith in the US pretty neatly.
You're really pissing me off now. You think that the US invasion of Iraq was lucky for the Iraqi population? The population that got massacred in the anarchy following the US invasion? The population whose bodycount is far higher under US rule than it was under the entirety of Saddam's rule? The population who can now not go to the market without fear of being blown up by a car bomb?
If you want to eliminate leaders on the basis of being brutally despotic, why did the US cosy up to Islam Karimov, offering Uzbekistan (like all members of the Coalition of the "Willing") financial aid in return for his token of support? Why doesn't the US take on half of Africa? Simple answer: because there's no money to be made in Africa. Or Uzbekistan.
Well, maybe your selective memory is having an effect again. In case you need a reminder of the only thing the Bush administration was talking about in 2003, here's a reminder. Go on, go and say that we actually only invaded to rescue the poor Iraqi people. I dare you.
(EDIT) Or for more fun, watch that lying little war cr ... hit Rumsfeld squirm on tv.
I wasn't. I was referring to Bliar's cabinet.
No. Based on David's logic, the US would have already invaded some of the countries that joined the "coalition of the willing". There were some tiny central Asian states that joined the coalition who have leaders that make Saddam Hussein look like Mary Poppins. One in particular had a reputation for boiling his opponents alive.
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