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Re: Challenge pictures and a shiny new website

Fantastc photos. Wieght is only a problem if you can't carry it!

Out of intrest, what camera set up did you take on the challange?

Re: Challenge pictures and a shiny new website

Excellent. (Specially the pic of Jack Manning at the Park - ah, bless!)
Makes me want to have a go at this GTO challenge....do I need my own tent?

Re: Challenge pictures and a shiny new website

Mike as I understand it a virtual tent will do and it doesn't have to be your own. The GTF Challenge is a wonderful institution and many of the participants should be institutionalised.

Ian C.

Re: Challenge pictures and a shiny new website

I'm glad you like the pictures. I used a Fuji X-Pro1 with 3 lenses. If you are interested Andy Howell asked me to do a review of it for his blog. It should be published tomorrow at http://www.andyhowell.info/trek-blog/

Ian C.

Re: Challenge pictures and a shiny new website

An interesting review Ian.

Re: Challenge pictures and a shiny new website

Non experts struggling with the term bokeh? It is derived from the Scots dialect word "boke"- to retch or vomit. In photography it is used to suggest that blurred, out of focus shots are somehow artistic.

Re: Challenge pictures and a shiny new website

john donohoe
In photography it is used to suggest that blurred, out of focus shots are somehow artistic.


Almost correct John. Part of the picture has to be sharp and the rest of it out of focus for it to be considered artistic. The bokeh referring to the out of focus bit.

Ian C.

Re: Challenge pictures and a shiny new website

Hmmm-sounds like a conflation of focus-hocus-pocus and baloney!

Re: Challenge pictures and a shiny new website

Yes sort of. Boke is a Japanese term meaning blur or fuzzy. The term is also used in the sense of mental haze or senility, which I guess could cause a degree of conflation.

Re: Challenge pictures and a shiny new website

Hi Ian,
Your skill with the camera is self evident and I thoroughly enjoyed the pics.
I especially liked the Callater Burn Flows and the "Fuji" colours in the pics of the flowers. They gave me a good flavour of the potential of the X Pro 1, which I have been thinking about buying.
I haven't been into your emporium for a good wee while. I bought a Pentax LX in the Quiggs days, so I must pop in to get some words of wisdom on the next camera.

Re: Challenge pictures and a shiny new website

Ian C.
I'm glad you like the pictures. I used a Fuji X-Pro1 with 3 lenses. If you are interested Andy Howell asked me to do a review of it for his blog. It should be published tomorrow at http://www.andyhowell.info/trek-blog/

Ian C.


Thanks, will check the blog

Re: Challenge pictures and a shiny new website

Nice one(s) Ian. Camera looks like it was worth it!