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A small get together of Facebook friends who drive either Volkswagen Crafter vans or Mercedes Sprinter vans. Meeting up at a venue thats central for all of us to chat and compare notes in a social putting faces to names kind of way...
Three weeks prior to this, I delivered stone carvings and Paintings to Morvah in Cornwall. Today I returned to collect those items and return them back to their owner up in the West Midlands,
Three weeks prior to this, I delivered stone carvings and Paintings to Morvah in Cornwall. Today I returned to collect those items and return them back home up in the West Midlands, but not before I had paid a visit to Lands End simply for the hell of it. Here in the early hours of Monday morning we set off for home...
A small get together of Facebook friends who drive either Volkswagen Crafter vans or Mercedes Sprinter vans. Meeting up at a venue thats central for all of us to chat and compare notes in a social putting faces to names kind of way...
Three weeks prior to this, I delivered stone carvings and Paintings to Morvah in Cornwall. Today I returned to collect those items and return them back home up in the West Midlands, but not before I had paid a visit to Lands End simply for the hell of it...
A small get together of Facebook friends who drive either Volkswagen Crafter vans or Mercedes Sprinter vans. Meeting up at a venue thats central for all of us to chat and compare notes in a social putting faces to names kind of way...
Three weeks prior to this, I delivered stone carvings and Paintings to Morvah in Cornwall. Today I returned to collect those items and return them back home up in the West Midlands, but not before I had paid a visit to Lands End simply for the hell of it...
This was my room for several hours after loading up for the return journey home. Here I managed to get some sleep before I set off around 01:30am on the Monday morning.
Three weeks prior to this, I delivered stone carvings and Paintings to Morvah in Cornwall. Today I returned to collect those items and return them back home up in the West Midlands, but not before I had paid a visit to Lands End simply for the hell of it...
Three weeks prior to this, I delivered stone carvings and Paintings to Morvah in Cornwall. Today I returned to collect those items and return them back home up in the West Midlands, but not before I had paid a visit to Lands End simply for the hell of it...
Three weeks prior to this, I delivered stone carvings and Paintings to Morvah in Cornwall. Today I returned to collect those items and return them back home up in the West Midlands, but not before I had paid a visit to Lands End simply for the hell of it...
Three weeks prior to this, I delivered stone carvings and Paintings to Morvah in Cornwall. Today I returned to collect those items and return them back home up in the West Midlands, but not before I had paid a visit to Lands End simply for the hell of it...
Three weeks prior to this, I delivered stone carvings and Paintings to Morvah in Cornwall. Today I returned to collect those items and return them back home up in the West Midlands, but not before I had paid a visit to Lands End simply for the hell of it...
Three weeks prior to this, I delivered stone carvings and Paintings to Morvah in Cornwall. Today I returned to collect those items and return them back to their owner up in the West Midlands,
This Nikon Coolpix 700 was my first digital camera. It cost £400 new in January 2000.
The 2 megapixel sensor gave images up to 1600 x 1200 pixels.
Lens was a Nikkor prime, 6.5mm f2.6, 5-element multi-coated.
Powered by 4 AA batteries.
The original CompactFlash (CF) card had 8 Megabytes capacity. This would store 8 Fine JPEGs or one TIFF. A 32MB Lexar CF card cost an extra £81.
Larger capacity cards became available at a very high price. In 2001 a 512MB (half a GB) would cost over £300.
Converter lenses were available including the FC-E8 Fisheye adapter shown inset.
I used it alongside my Nikon F4 and F3 as an introduction to digital photography. Image quality, for its time, was excellent. The prime lens had less distortion and CA than the zoom on the 950.
There was also the additional bonus of hand-held Infrared photography.
However, although Nikon described it as Superhigh-Resolution, its 1600x1200 pixels would be disappointing by today’s standards.
That is, until I came across Pixelmator Photo for iPad. My ageing iMac cannot deal with the new AI revolution but the Machine Learning Super Resolution tool has breathed new life into the old Coolpix images, bumping them up to 4800x3600 pixels.
In the early hours of Monday morning, I stop briefly at a McDonalds to grab a coffee and liven myself up for the long journey home.
This was my room for several hours after loading up for the return journey home. Here I managed to get some sleep before I set off around 01:30am on the Monday morning. This was the view of the Atlantic Ocean from my window.
Three weeks prior to this, I delivered stone carvings and Paintings to Morvah in Cornwall. Today I returned to collect those items and return them back home up in the West Midlands, but not before I had paid a visit to Lands End simply for the hell of it...
Three weeks prior to this, I delivered stone carvings and Paintings to Morvah in Cornwall. Today I returned to collect those items and return them back to their owner up in the West Midlands,
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As usual gas is cheaper outside of Victoria but it's so much easier just to hop on a bike if you don't like Victoria prices. A year from now I predict these prices will seem cheap.
ETA: Jan'09. currently 94.9 in Victoria, up from a low of 81.9. Summer's a long way off and the price usually goes up in the summer. We'll see. The recession has thrown previous predictions for a loop but I would still expect to see the price go above $1.50 again by 2010 or 2011.
ETA: June 2, '09. Gas is 107.9 in Victoria.
ETA: Gas is 112.9 in Dec. 2010. So we didn't get superhigh prices yet but I'm hoping for 2011. High prices are a good thing because they push people hard to stop wasting and start living sustainably.
ETA: February 2011. Gas was 116.9 at the start of the month and jumped to 123.9 by the end of the month due to Mid-East turbulence (Egypt, Libya).
ETA: Early April 2011. Gas hit a record high for March of 128.9. The economy is relatively strong which tends to push prices up. Anybody who doesn't seriously prepare for high summer gas prices is a fool. Buying an RV would mean buying a bottomless money pit.
ETA: August 2011. Prices are on roller coaster with big jumps up and then daily declines until the next big jump. Such instability is considered a hallmark of peak oil.
ETA: October 2012. Prices were changing almost every day for most of the past year. Rarely did the price stay stable for more than a week or two. Prices were over 130 frequently in the summer. The Island has been cheaper than the Mainland recently (it was reversed a few years ago) and the mainland reached up to 150 this summer.
ETA Feb 2013:
On a recent trip up the Island prices were 126.9 to 129.9 everywhere except Duncan where I saw as low as 107.4.
ETA: July 2013. 139.9 vs 141.9 in Victoria.
ETA Oct 2018: 153.9 in Victoria
ETA 2023: gas went up to ~2:32.9