The FCCUK Forum Photography Thread

I know there are lots of talented photographers on here.

Please post your best photographs. It can be any subject. Any style. Taken on film camera, digital camera or smartphone camera, whatever.

And if there's loads of participation, maybe we could have subject/style/camera type specific contests in the future too?

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

Impressive, Sam!

I admired this taken by a mate

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

A few old ones , I don't think I ever took as good a pic with any digital camera as I used to get from my old 90's Fuji film camera.

I like the last one Graham, where was that?

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.

Yep I was thinking that actually, must have been autumn with a 5.00 p.m. sail

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.

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

There!

Ha Graham , I didn't look at who posted the photo's ,and then thought-- ahhh I know that coupe

nice photo" s Graham

believe it or not ......I have my coupe back all done and running properly
drove it back on Friday ...straight to bodyshop for a full respray

if your interested I'll give you a nod when its done

Post some pics on "Chat"

Photo from the Battle of Britain weekend at Headcorn aerodrome

Will do when it comes back &#128077;

Took this when in Cuba in 2018 and yes, the heavens opened up shortly afterwards and treated to a thunderstorm

photo dump!

Excellent photos everyone!

Really interesting to see such a wide range!

Neil, have you ever done any car photography with that camera? I imagine the results would be very interesting!

I reckon a Coop against this kind of background, taken with that camera, would be really striking!

Not working for me Sam?

Not Trinidad on south coast by chance?

and these

@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

This needs rescanning on my more recent scanner and balancing: http://nailed-barnacle.co.uk/bigimages/0029.jpeg

Best I can do with guess what the huawei spy phone as someone has recently called it. All taken just weeks ago and a sneaky one from previous trip

What am I doing wrong?....

I want to link to images on my Flickr account, using IMGPOP - any image I post is simply blank

I don't really want to have to reduce the images to 2MB to use the attached images function

A direct link.... Bamburgh Golden Hour

Afraid not, it was Varadero we stayed in, but did get into Havana for a day trip

Really?

Yeah, give me a shout when it's all sorted out. Are you leaving those crazy wheels on it or going for something a bit more sensible?

Paul & Graham, Found these oldies but goldies dated 2002... I seem to remember it being between Christmas and new year

crazy wheels ,my car ?? remember I had to go one size up as running the bigger 330 mm front discs and alfa calipers ...
yea I know 'Really "

they have stripped most of the stuff off it already, so ready top get back to primer and re spray ...I'll buzz you when its sorted

yes Rosso I remember ,showcase cinema, is that correct ? that must have been 15 -16 years ago at a guess !!

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.

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

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?

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

OK, just a teaser... recent photo taken on a preserved railway near us.



Paul

That looks like a toy engine and track along with wee trees

Ah, but I never said it was full size, just well preserved!

Hornby Dublo?

I never said you did

I just knew it was a model railway