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Who in their right mind decides to give Harley and her goons a minigun of all things?
The League of Assassins, I guess.
Really that’s a bit of a stupid question to ask now that I think about it. I suppose if you want to destabilise a nation, arming the crazy is a good way to go about it. Just how they manage to get hold of such weapons to arm the crazies? I mean, does the League of Assassins make all the weapons they supply groups with? Or do they just buy them and pass them on? I’m going to have to ask Bruce when all of this is over. Assuming we all make it through this anyways.
Harley Quinn: Angel! Where’d the cat go!?
Angel: I don’t know I can’t see anything!
Harley Quinn: Split up, find her! We can’t have her ruining Mr. J’s coming home party!
Angel: What about the bird?
Harley Quinn: Leave him! Hammer and Lantern are dealing with him. We need to find ourselves a naughty little pussy cat.
Either Harley really trusts her goons or she thinks that I’m not going to be as hard a person to defeat as Bruce is. Oh who am I kidding? It’s probably both. She’s always had a problem of putting too much trust in people that’s partly why she can’t seem to give Joker no matter how many times he throws her away.
Then again, I’d probably feel pretty confident as well if there were more of me than them. If I had a minigun to boot, man I don’t know how confident I’d feel. Hope Selina can handle Harley and her lacky whilst I deal with these two jokers. Ha. Funny slip of the tongue. Imagine if there actually were two of him?
Jeez, just the thought of something like that gives me the chills and it doesn’t get me out of my current predicament.
My current position is exposed and there’s no good cover. This goon isn’t going to take his eye of the trigger as long as he has eyes on me. There’s only one choice. Hope neither of these two have thermal imaging on their weapons….
As I race up and down the various levels in the main entrance I reach into my belt and remove a pair of smoke bombs. Given that the building is sealed off and this room isn’t too wide it should take only a few seconds for the smoke to cover the group floor completely. Hopefully. Really hope this hospital doesn’t have an emergency extraction system for the main entrance.
Narrowly avoiding a couple of rounds from the minigun that almost manage to catch me, I throw both of the smoke bombs right in front of Harley’s two goons and almost instantaneously the room fills with smoke. Despite this however, the minigun wielder doesn’t immediately hold his fire. Not what I expected. You can often predict what should do, but never what will they do. The one thing you can never truly predict, is stupidity.
The maniac keeps firing for at least another ten seconds by my count. Man, he really is trigger happy. The folks at Arkham would probably have a field day studying him. Regardless, his itchy trigger finger is something I can use to my advantage. Nothing unnerves people more than a person with an itchy trigger finger. I dread to think how nervous it’s making the guy with the jack o’lantern mask knowing that his trigger happy friend is carrying a minigun.
Once the trigger happy fool comes to his senses and decides to stop firing I over hear him and his colleague discussing tactics.
Hammer: Do you think I got him?
Lantern: I don’t know, I can’t see crap but if he’s anything like the Bat, then probably not.
Hammer: Damn it. Then what the hell do we do now?
Lantern: We stick together. He’ll pick us off if we don’t.
Awwww. These guys actually learned something from the last time they crossed paths with Bruce. It’s quite heart-warming to see that Blackgate re-education system actually seems to be working. Unfortunately I wish it wasn’t working against me in this case. If they don’t separate then it’s going to be harder to take them out quietly, but as long as I take that minigun out they shouldn’t be too difficult to neutralise.
Hammer: Do you think he’s in here with us?
Lantern: I wouldn’t be surprised if he was. Follow me.
Hammer: Where you going?
Lantern: If we stay here and wait for him to come for us he’ll come to us on his own terms. I’m making sure he comes to us on ours.
That doesn’t sound good at all. Just what is he planning? I activate the thermal imaging in my mask feeling relieved to know that their guns clearly don’t have thermal so for the moment at least, I’m safe. The pair of them start walking to the right seemingly heading for the nearby corridor. Which department that leads to I can’t tell with the room enveloped in smoke but it seems like neither do they for what it’s worth.
It’s only as I drop down into the smoke to quietly follow behind them that I start to realise the jack o’lantern goon’s plan. Two rooms down the corridor is the hospital waiting room, and there are at least 6 people hiding inside it. Not good.
Before I have to chance to think of something to possibly stop them, the goon carrying the minigun kicks down the waiting lounge and the pair of them quickly storm the room terrifying the people hiding in the room.
Hammer: Everyone get down on the ground!
Lantern: Nobody moves, nobody gets hurt!
Great. Now it’s a hostage situation. Man, I hope Selina’s having more luck than I am.
Managed to work on this abandoned project and was happy it is coming along albeit slowly... I have no choice for the high roof there because of the white flags which I wanted in the front... though I have no idea how to complete the top roof... :O
I managed to get a few photos of a female hummingbird at the feeder outside the window the other evening at dusk. We only have the Ruby Throated Hummingbirds in Ohio and the females don't have the brilliant ruby red markings. One of these days I'll catch a male. But they usually spend their time sitting in a tree or shrub nearby so they can chase off the other hummers that come to feed. It's not very often that they perch at the feeder for very long.
Managed to capture this one doing the classic upside down pollen capture trick. I was having a better day today getting them in focus. The extra sunlight was a big help.
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Finally managed a half decent shot of my resident female Bullfinch, still picking at the buds on my neighbour's tree
Managed to catch up with the Yellowhammers again on Friday though the wind made them a little skittish
Managed a few shots of this Stunner before she flew into the woods, Nip of the wing short of perfect day :-)
Only managed to buy four different coloured bottles so far with the amethyst being the oldest and rarest 1865/1875
Mrs. Susan A. Allen, the wife of a New York City dentist, first introduced her product in 1840, and by 1854, was selling the formula from her husband’s Broome Street practice, which served as the “Manufactory and Depot.” An 1876 advertisement declared Mrs. S.A. Allen’s World’s Hair restorer “The only Preparation that will certainly revive, renew and restore the original or natural colour of grey or faded hair, stop its falling out and induce a luxuriant growth. ”The ad further claimed that “Forty years of trial and success is the basis for this unqualified statement,” during which time, “it has been used by thousands of persons, and it has never failed to satisfy the expectations of a rationale purchaser.”
The recipe for this “Great Unequaled Preparation” was said to contain a mixture of “sulphur, acetate of lead, glycerin, and flavored water” – hardly a concoction likely to enhance the beauty of one’s hair. Yet with establishments in New York, London and Paris, the hair restorer enjoyed a global market and was “Sold by all Chemists and perfumers throughout the World.”
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I manage to snap these photos of my Aunt's sexy feet! She was a bit nervous at first. she told me she has ugly feet! I convinced her to take her tennis shoes and socks and show me her feet. Enjoy!!! I actually tasted them later!
I managed to wobble out of my bed this morning, last night I was so tired I really didn't think I will make it for sunrise, but somehow I caught 2nd breath. I remember thinking just before I went to bed..."this could be the best sunrise ever" .... lol, not sure why, but it must have helped.
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Managed a long weekend getaway. Quiet house with a short walk to the beach on the Delaware Bay. The low tide exposed some cool patterns in the sand.
I managed to get up early this morning, for the first time since well before Christmas and, to the enormous delight of the dog, set off straight out the gate and down the road to the pier. So many thrushes singing as we walked along - it was like the end of February, not mid-January! A big tide, and a wonderful dawn sky... .
Managing Editor of Natural Bridge Literary Magazine at a Renaissance book fair...
(The stack of books her hand rests on? I have 3 photos in the latest edition...just saying...)
Managed to get this shot out of our bedroom window.
When feeding started the parent birds were bringing in very small caterpillars. They are now about a week into bringing up the chicks and the caterpillars are getting bigger, not sure if they are the same cats that are growing bigger or the birds are choosing larger ones as the chicks grow. They also occasionally bring spiders and moths.
Managed to cut off a bit of his left ear in the initial shot... but he or she had such a lovely face I wanted to keep the image, so decided to try a tighter crop.
Managed to pull myself out of bed a bit earlier this morning, Inspired by the wonderful talk last night by Joe Cornish organised by the Shropshire photographic society. What a down to earth guy with a enchanting philosophy on photography & life.
Managed to get a quick couple of pictures of these two beardy marvels while Thomas was visiting the UK.
Managed to get just the one image of the heather in bloom and at its peak.
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I managed to add 3 hours to my previous version of this on Saturday night, but that has little to do with the above result. This is my first attempt at collaboration with my good friend Dave Williams (whom I have never met, as he lives in the frozen northern wastelands known as Manchester). Dave works in NB, and provided Ha, which I added as a luminance layer (after trying a few other techniques without success), and this is the result. Now I'm fully aware that what you can see above is predominantly luminance, with a bit of RGB thrown in to provide character, so Dave very much deserves most of the credit for this image. However, as he's not on Flickr, I'm happy to accept it :)
This is also my first attempt at combining Ha with RGB (albeit as luminance), and It makes my previous version look a bit sick :)
RGB:
SW ED80/EQ5
Nikon D70 modded, Baader Neodymium filter
45 x 180secs iso 800, 60 x 180secs iso 640 (5 hours 15 minutes)
Guiding (RA only): Quickcam Pro4000/9x50 finderscope, PHD
Stacked in DSS and processed in CS5
Ha:
15 x 600secs (2 hours 30 minutes)
Used Hasselblad 250mm f4 lens at f4 (cropped - quite a bit!)
Moravian G2 8300
Astrodon 5nm Ha filter
Takahashi EM200 mount
Guiding: DMK through an old 100mm M42 lens
Managed to get my other half down to Cornwall for a few days, staying in Talland Bay. Unusually for me taking photo's wasn't really important, I just enjoyed some nice walks and paddles. Didn't venture very far, just Polperro and Looe along the coastal path.
Managed to spare 15 minutes round Tower Hill while on a work trip. Nice to finally get some creative stuff with new camera. Three shot HDR, processed with Photomatix
Managed to catch the #RSPB gardens in an early morning mist . The pergola takes on a strange aspect .
My grand Scandinavian Aviation Tour 1982
A beautiful sight - the first time on my tour of Finnish airfields where I managed to get up close and personal to some Soviet hardware :)
On the fourth day of our 'grand tour' we started the day in Savonlinna, with a drive to the border with the U.S.S.R. near Parikkala - my personal highlight! We then travelled south-west along the border via Lappeenranta airfield to Utti, where we were amazed to come across an open day at the local air base!! And there were Russians and vintage Propliners on show - lucky me :)
HS-6 Mil-Mi8T The air force, Finnish Army Aviation (Suomen Maavoimat) and Frontier Guard (Rajavartiolaitos) operated a total of ten Mil Mi-8 helicopters. The first one, coded HS-2, was delivered on May 28, 1973, and the second, coded HS-1, was delivered three days later. Finland eventually obtained eight Mi-8T and two Mi-8PS. The type logged more than 36.000 flight hours in Finnish military service from 1973 to 2010, without encountering a single fatal crash.
Utti air base unofficial air show :) - so we rolled up in our Swedish Saab at the local air base hoping to be able to peer through the fence, and discovered that they were holding an annual open day for the local townsfolk! We parked up and tried to blend in with the locals, which wasn't so easy arriving in a British registered car, and me wielding my Zenith camera. Anyway, after pushing up to some flimsy ropes which had been put up, and getting the courage up to start snapping some photos, I couldn't wait to try and get close to the two Mil Mi-8s that were parked up on display, HS-2 and HS-6. I managed to grab some nice photos without incident, but we hadn't gone un-noticed! As we returned to the car, we heard a shout behind us, and as we looked round, a couple of guys were following us, and took our photos for the files! And photos of our car. But they didn't start interrogating us, so I reckon they were Finnish police rather than visiting Russians. We never heard any more about it, and I have some rare photos to cherish :)
Utti In 1918 General Carl Gustaf Mannerheim set up the first Finnish Air Force base in the village. Today, Utti is best known for the Utti Jaeger Regiment, a helicopter base and a training ground for special forces and military police, and civilian skydiving recreational activities.
HS-6 Mil Mi-8T c/n 13306 - the Mil Mi-8 (Russian: Ми-8, NATO reporting name: Hip) is a medium twin-turbine helicopter, originally designed by the Soviet Union, and now produced by Russia. In addition to its most common role as a transport helicopter, the Mi-8 is also used as an airborne command post, armed gunship, and reconnaissance platform. Along with the related, more powerful Mil Mi-17, the Mi-8 is among the world's most-produced helicopters, used by over 50 countries. As of 2015, when combined the two helicopters are the third most common operational military aircraft in the world.
The Soviet military originally showed little interest in the Mi-8 until the Bell UH-1's involvement in the Vietnam War became widely publicised as a great asset to the United States, allowing troops to move swiftly in and out of a battlefield and throughout the country. It was only then that the Soviet military rushed a troop-carrying variant of the Mil Mi-8 into production. By 1967, it had been introduced into the Soviet Air Force as the Mi-8.
The Finnish Defence Forces and the Finnish Border Guard began using Mi-8s in the 1970s, with the Finnish Air Force receiving its first, serial HS-2, on 28 May 1973, and the second, HS-1, on 31 May 1973. Six Mi-8Ts were obtained at first, followed by further two Mi-8Ts and two Mi-8Ps. Three of the helicopters were handed over to the Border Guard Wing. One of these was lost after sinking through ice during a landing in April 1982. It was soon replaced by a new Mi-8. After their Border Guard service, the helicopters were transferred to the civil register, but shortly thereafter to the Finnish Air Force. In 1997 it was decided that all helicopters, including the remaining five Mi-8Ts and two Mi-8Ps, should be transferred to the Army Wing at Utti.
All Finnish Mi-8s have now been retired, but three have been preserved. HS-6 is now on display at the Finnish Aviation Museum in Vantaa, and HS-1 is at the Päijänne Tavastia Aviation Museum in Asikkala, near Lahti. HS-4 is at the South Carelia Aircraft Museum, Lappeenranta. The two final Mi-8Ts were given to Hungary in August 2011 with all remaining spare parts. [Wiki]
My grand Scandinavian Aviation Tour 1982
After making four successful tours of Northern Europe, in 1978, 1979, 1980 and 1981, made primarily to visit some of the major airports to feed my need to see 'exotic' aircraft, but also to take in the experience of travel abroad, I was lucky to take part in my most interesting and adventurous tour in 1982 - to Scandinavia! Inspired by my long-term affinity with the region (being 6' 2" and blonde I am obviously descended from the Vikings :) I planned the trip to take in the following countries: Norway, Sweden and Finland. For some reason, I couldn't engineer Denmark into my two-week itinerary! The main goal for me was to explore some of Finland, and in particular, to at least see the border with Russia a.k.a. the U.S.S.R. :)
As Finland was the most interesting country of the three for me, I engineered quite a long visit to the country [six days] and managed to visit six of the nine military airfields located in the southern part of the country:
1) Helsinki-Malmi
2) Utti
3) Turku-Abo (shared civil airport)
4) Tampere-Pirkkala
5) Jyväskylä-Luonetjarvi (shared civil airport)
6) Kuopio-Rissala
as well as
7) Helsinki-Vantaa (shared civil airport)
Taken with a Soviet made Zenith TTL camera and standard lens.
You can see a random selection of my aviation memories here: www.flickriver.com/photos/heathrowjunkie/random/
Managed to capture my 3 fixations, tree, water and sky and process with my new toy Silver Effects Pro
Managed to get relatively close to 3 fox cubs as the played around the den before they decided enough was enough! Gorgeous evening but maybe a little to much light,and unfortunately the fence casting shadow across its back!
Managed to get my other half down to Cornwall for a few days, staying in Talland Bay. Unusually for me taking photo's wasn't really important, I just enjoyed some nice walks and paddles. Didn't venture very far, just Polperro and Looe along the coastal path.
Managed to find a nice copy of the film camera my father used in the early 1960's. Most of the important image records of my family were shot on Kodak 127 "superslides" and Kodacolor negatives in those days. This particular replacement has a cover piece missing, but is in otherwise fine shape. These Sawyer TLRs are hard to find in working condition. Very happy to have found this one.
Last week I managed to get out with the camera and head up into the hills near home. Upon reaching the top I noticed the rays of light bouncing about the hills in the distance so I quickly attached a telephoto lens and set up. The light was changing so fast. The wind was quite strong, so finding a spot that was sheltered was impossible so I had to use nearby trees/bushes as a wind break. Shooting with a telephoto lens in these conditions is never going to deliver sharp pics but I'm happy with the end product.
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I managed to shoot another angle of the fleet on this occasion, which I’m glad I did so I didn’t leave these trucks cut out. What you can’t miss are the dark blue transfer trailers, along with the Freightliner and ACCO prime movers in front. These ribbed trailers were hooked up to the two transfer station blade packers, serving the two pits used for green-waste and general waste (eventually split into wet and dry streams). What might stand out the most is that yellow rear loader, which is undoubtedly an old City of Sydney Merc, also being a truck I never recall seeing out on the road. Beside this truck you’ve got a JP6 rear loader on a chassis I won’t bother guessing and at the bottom you’ve got two of the MkIV one armers the company just took on. I also want to point out that plain white 4x2 Isuzu side loader towards the back, which was one of the trucks previously used for bottles collection in Pittwater (more to come in future). Then of course in the background you’ve got the Belrose landfill, today closed and under rehabilitation. That bright patch of greenery on the hill is now well and truly buried too, because the beaches councils dumped and covered a lot of rubbish in that airspace during the final years.
Managed to get a shot in on the building site before being disrupted by Mr Security dude. Really, I ought to have just gone down the road to the lake in the park for reflections. But then I'd have been interrupted by ducks :)
I managed to sneak up on this comma back in April. It kept returning to the vertical post to rest, in between patrolling its territory and chasing off other butterflies in that feisty way these little critters have. This shot caught it just before it took off again - it has twisted its head slightly in anticipation of its imminent takeoff!
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Managed a few shots before it started pouring. A typhoon is approaching, hopefully not causing casualties.
Managed to catch this doe as she took off ... it may be a butt shot but loved seeing her from any angle :)
Still amazed how quickly the D500 and the Nikon 200 to 500mm lens focus in most situations...
ISO800 F8 1/1000sec 500mm
I have been sick all week. I managed to dodge the germs that came shooting out at me from the unrefined mouths and noses of my customers all during the Christmas rush and the January flu season. I even had the audacity to brag about the fact that I was the only one at work that made it through the flu war unscathed. I should have kept my mouth shut.
All week, I have been feeling like a herd of elephants had run over me and then in unison, consented to come back and run me down again. Sleep has been my only reprieve. Getting to sleep is another matter. How can I sleep when my nose is so plugged up and where the heck is this stuff coming from? How am I supposed to breathe? My head has imploded so many times that I am beginning to think that someone is really messing with me. I am sickened by my coughing. I am tired of holding my ribs during my frequent episodes of convulsions. I am genuinely repulsed at my constant nose blowing but more than anything I am thoroughly disgusted with myself at how many movies I have watched this week on Netflix.
I am sick of being sick!
When I woke up this morning I decided I needed to suck it up baby, and gather up as much strength and willpower I could muster and take Ben down to the ravine for a good walk.
The fresh air would do us both good and perhaps kill the remaining germs that were reluctant to leave my sickly blob of human protoplasm.
It was -21. A glorious, crisp winter day. I sucked in the air like I was on oxygen, and imagined all the tiny aliens that had set up camp within my body were getting obliterated with every breath. With an eager Ben at my side we entered the ravine and crossed down the banks and onto the creek. I decided to follow it. It had just snowed and there were no tracks. Like Explorers, we went forward step by step in the fresh snow making our own tracks. It was one of those times when you are so incredibly grateful to be alive. I watched Ben as he frolicked in the snow like a bear cub coming out of hibernation for the first time. It had been a long week and I could tell he was just as happy as I was to get out of the house.
We had walked for about a half an hour when I decided not to overdo it and I climbed up off the creek and bushwhacked up a hill where I found a deer path that ran along the cliffs. We followed that for quite some time, pausing every now and again to hear our surroundings. It was so quiet. We were alone and relishing every moment of the solitude. I hesitated to break the silence but out of necessity I had to blow my nose.
It started with a single howl. Then two howls. Three…then a fourth joined in and I knew we were in trouble. I looked at Ben. He was in Wolfhound mode. This is what he was bred for.
I could read his mind. His body was taut. He was on full alert. His instinct told him to run - toward the pack. With a deftness that astounded myself I clipped his leash onto his collar and said forget it - we are going the other way!
The coyotes’ excitement was not lost on me. I knew they had found something and by the sounds of their yipping getting closer and closer I knew that the odds were it was Ben and I. They must have caught our scent down by the creek. I never was a runner. I really disliked running. I dreaded having to run around the gym during Physical Education at school and providing that sort of entertainment for my classmates. BUT, I do know that the good Lord gave me two legs and an ability to manufacture a precious source of adrenaline when I needed it and the good Lord knew I NEEDED IT NOW! I ran like I have never run before…
Today turned out to be a good day. My head cleared up. My coughing stopped. My nose isn’t running anymore. I took my dog for a walk.
Tonight, I will make a good supper for my husband and after we will sit by the fire with a glass of wine and I will tell him about my day. Perhaps, we will even watch a movie on Netflix.
Managed to wake up one morning to catch a sunrise in Maui. Totally worth it.
Taken handheld with the 6D
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Managed to capture this little fella testing out his wings and jumping off the ground before he scuttled off after Mum and Dad.... had more shits of the jump but the focus did not keep up despite using 1/1200 on shutter priority.....
Self portrait for coming school project.
The project is on my personal experiences, based on misery, distress, hopelessness and escapism.
The smeared mascara is a little cliche i admit, but im currently looking at concepts and symbolism.
The portraits im working on will become apart of larger, distressed, collagey, painty pieces
(because I don't take photography i can not hand it in like this - yes i would adore to do a photography degree but i have never studied it before and have no portfolio. I tried to get on to a course with my landscape and nature work but it's a fine art degree and my landscapes and nature 'doesn't have any concept or meaning..just asthetically pleasing' - they want conceptual art.)
I didn't want to do any post work to 'beautify' this piece; with other portrait i would be tempted to take out lumps and bump, stray hairs etc, but here i wanted ugly, misery is ugly, misery is never glamourous. the glorification of depression is something awful.
(hand held self portrait, window light, compact camera, michelle blacks BW essence)
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I've yet again managed to end up about three weeks behind with uploads, mainly because I take loads more photos when the weather is nice, plus there's been a glut of interesting vehicles around Lincoln lately. These couple of photos have queue-jumped because they show some of the more newsworthy additions to Lincoln's buses.
Following the Saturday B5/55 and the debacle that was the 47s a little while ago, another route to transfer operators has been the 50 from Lincoln to Louth and Mablethorpe; previously Stagecoach but now run by PC Coaches. To allow for such a seamless change of operator, I take it that the route is some sort of Lincolnshire County Council contract thing? What I find strange is that it has all the makings of an InterConnect route, but doesn't seem to have ever been marketed as one.
The 50 could now be called the route of the ex-demos, with branding carried by the Scania Fencer and a new addition to the fleet, YJ68 FXY. It was a surprise to see this electric blue Versa rock up unexpectedly; quite clearly a former Optare demonstrator with the colour and large front logo. As nice as a Versa would look in standard PCC colours, I'm glad they kept the blue colour as it's a lot better than white and looks very striking!
There's no mistaking this is the 50 with how they've branded it, and it'll certainly catch the attention of those who might still be looking for a Stagecoach bus along the route. The way the service is described down the side is a bit odd, starting at Louth even though that's more like a midway point, but it handily advertises the £2 max fare is valid all the way. Also, it says it has USB charging, WiFi and air con, so quite highly specced (not surprising for a demo) with far better amenities compared the typical E400s Stagecoach put on the 50. The roof is more skylights than actual roof, too.
YJ68 FXY waits in Lincoln bus station for the next 50 departure at 17:30, on 7.6.23
Managed to make it to London Pride again, with my pal sisyphus007. This time I hired a Canon 85mm f/1.2L II lens, an absolute brick that was in itself a workout to carry round. Was perhaps a bit too ambitious in my determination to shoot with as wide an aperture as possible. When I hit the right focus point it was sharp, but I did find the focussing to be a little cumbersome.
As ever, the day was characterised by fun, happiness and laughter. The participants were, without fail, delighted to be photographed. Hopefully they all enjoyed the day !!