Amazing what you can do with a mobial phone now. I have been trying to make an effort to get out and take some photos, if nothing else for a walk. This was the comet that past though a few months back, neowise
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#1645260 16/10/202021:5116/10/202021:51
This amused me, on holiday in Madeira Mrs Ed was taking a picture of a reconstructed galleon and didn't realise till the evening she'd been photo-bombed
BumbleBee carer
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#1645265 16/10/202023:0516/10/202023:05
Hehe, the only one not taken locally. That one was taken from the ferry leaving Harwich for the Hook of Holland. Or possibly from the ferry leaving Newcastle for Ijmuiden. Done each one so many times I can't remember now.
<edit> Actually Harwich to Hook left in the morning and arrived late afternoon whereas Newcastle to Ijmuiden left in the evening and arrived the next morning, so the pic is almost certainly leaving Newcastle.
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#1645268 17/10/202000:1717/10/202000:17
A mate from work gave me an old telescope a few months ago. I took this shot with my iphone up against the eye piece. A pita trying to keep the phone lined up, everything focused and track the movement of the moon to keep it in view.
2000 grigio moon 20VT Plus.
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#1645273 17/10/202009:0717/10/202009:07
Just because I'm a luddite: taken with a seventy year old camera on 4x5 film. Had to shrink this like mad to get it onto the uploader; the original scan is around 12,000 by 9,000 and these days I can scan at much higher resolutions: about 40,000 by 50,000 for an equivalent of 8 gigapixels
@JKD - the large format camera has its uses for car photography but generally you need longer lenses than I have so you can shoot from further away and reduce the distortion - probably a 1000-2000mm range. Which makes the camera just a bit unwieldy...
Also, the lenses I do have show every speck of dust, every dent, every ripple
actually maybe not showcase if not where was it ? who's was the GTV in the picture ?
You were correct the first time... it was the showcase and believe it or not it was 2002. My 16vt looked like it had a shine that just came off the production line of course it later turned pink. Going by the dress code it was winter.
the Gtv was Francos if you remember he also owned a coupe.
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#1645419 22/10/202008:0522/10/202008:05
bloody hell 2002 ...Wow.......Franco ? ,that wouldn't be Franco Fort would it ?(from Airdrie )
I've just been sent pictures of Franco Forts 2000 Bertone which he is turning into a Full GTAm replica ....looks immense
and Graham they guy who sent them to me was Stephen Scot !!! said you grew up together and his folks face your house (mother is Italian)
he said I should join the Fccuk and try and meet up with a guy called Graham Laing........ I said err probably 18/19 yers too late ...he couldn't believe it
was Paul S,now just paul...Member since Oct 2000,Coupe may be FATALLY injured - :(oh no it's not
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#1645421 22/10/202009:5022/10/202009:50
It's to be commended you've owned the same coupé so long.
It is indeed Forti. That GTA rep really is a credit to Franco's great work and attention to detail.
A good friend of mine Mark (aka 'Cake' from the old forum) who also owned a red 16vt and then yellow 20vt coupes at the time and is also in those photos is close friends of Franco. So I get an update of it every now and then but yes as you say it's immense.
Interesting so you grew up with Franco then?
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#1645430 22/10/202013:5622/10/202013:56
Hi Rosso , No never grew up with him sorry , I think I have only met him that once, it was another friend on mine Stephen Scot who is an Alfa enthusiast who sent me photos of the GTA rep he is doing , and saying he was doing a Scalino next, and I kept thinking I know the name Franco Forti your photo of the meeting back in 2002 and ....when you said Franco's GTV ,my brain finally clicked
was Paul S,now just paul...Member since Oct 2000,Coupe may be FATALLY injured - :(oh no it's not
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#1645433 22/10/202015:4622/10/202015:46