Pay it.
I hate the system as much as anyone, but it is very seldom beaten. One of Wifey’s pals is a Traffic Warden…and to prevent people getting away with it, they take down a lot of details and photo’s of the car. This includes Valve positions on the wheels (For the “No return in two hours rule”), warmth from the front grilles, photo’s – preferably with the restriction sign in shot.

Wait till you get a £45 fine from a private car park scam, or a Wheel clamp scam of £180, then moan.

Sorry you save the Planet bods but today I bought a 4Ltr V8 car.Think of the children think of Climate change! Nah I will just drive it and light up a fag to poison my passengers.

Anyone else done anything to hasten the destruction of this planet recently?:)

Yeah, but what is it?
(Fellow 4.0 V8 driver)…..limited to 155mph but able to get 187mph from the thunder of 283 horses.

You need to buy a Grey Card, made by Kodak. Gray Card might be the mispelling on the box.

A raw image, in Lightroom or photoshop can be corrected for just about any colour problem, but you need to know what you are doing with the histograms and such.

As for the car, 1 hour before sunset has a temperature of something like 3,500 deg Kelvin whereas noon is about 5,500 degrees.
The automatic parts of a camera will always try and give a neutral white balance but this is probably not what you needed for the car shot.
Unfortunately, Reds and Greens require a little more work in photoshop to get them right, even after you corrected the colour temperature generally.
Green grass is the colour equivelent of the 18% Grey (The Grey card again) so, take meter readings (With camera or light meter) off the grass then set those up in manual mode on camera. Obviously, if subject is in shade, find grass in shade.

CCTV and big brother observation has nothing to do with upholding the privacy laws.
There are allowances on home based security systems. IIRC a home camera which faces a street has to be a fixed type, and pointing at your own property with as little of the public area as possible. These things are only investigated upon complaint, they are not Policed. Security cameras at a workplace must try and avoid the public rights of way too.
I’m sure (From one of my old Camera clubs I’ve got an A4 booklet about the laws of photography but it is in my UK house and I’m not!) that you are not allowed to take pictures of people in the street without permission. If you take an innocent but candid shot and say put it on FlickR, you must remove it if a person objects (The chances of them seeing it are pretty slim though eh).
And, I’m also sure there is a seperate set of rules about taking pictures of people in shops. You certainly cannot take photographs in the London Underground (A by-Law) but plenty of people do and put them on the net. Not Policed until a complaint, again.

PeeDee.

Are you sure you’ve got enough variety in your life ? One hour looking at “Marvellous Mersey Mud”. Blimey ! I’m impressed. Good alliteration if nothing else.

I’m not surprised ‘nobody else thought of it’.

John Green

No, if I go into a Gallery (Especially if I had to pay…which is not many) then I commit to the time.

What is the artist saying, why has he (she) given it that title, what don’t I like or what impresses me.
But then, and I find this an important bit, if I don’t like it I try and establish why I don’t, what wavelength isn’t blending, is it because I have some baggage in my head etc. (With the veto on stuff which is disturbing (to me) like aforementioned)
“If you can’t change something then change your attitude about it”.
I adore the Concorde and the Mosquito (There is another element working here because “Beautiful machinery” appeals to both sides of the brain, the Engineering mastery and the visual beauty) but I think the A380 is butt ugly (but still a masterpiece of engineering).

I could EASILY spend 2 or 3 hours walking around Concorde and under it. I spent 2 hours around and in the Vulcan at Newark.

Don’t forget those like me (Engineer, by the way) that haven’t expressed an opinion either way! 😉

And aren’t pilots supposed to be ‘left-siders’?

Sorry, I’ve mixed me brains up. Yes, Starboard of head is creative.

I’m sure (Pilots) some are, but the procedural rigour in their daily life indicates that out of the box brainstorming is not a natural trait.

New works laptop loaded with Micros#|t (sorry microsoft) windows 7.:mad::mad:

I don’t want to do it the microsoft way, I want to edit these files just the same way I did under windows 3.1, windows NT (when I had finally sorted out what had changed), windows XP (when I had finally sorted out what had changed).

Thank goodness we never saw windows vista at work.

rmr

You will get used to Win 7 once you set up the UAC properly and enable the “True” Admin account and not the one that calls itself the admin. But Office 10 is pure trash compared to 2003. OK, it might do more, but it looks 1000 times worse and is considerably harder and slower to use.

Swear today? Finding out from a 4th party that one of my staff has a health issue……..that I should have been told about when I arrived 4 months ago.

Here a few pic of bugs & beetles, taken in Greece last month. Any thoughts on what an ant could want a rose thorn for?

The soft inner must be high in sugars? Nice macro shots.

Or, he’s playing Darth Vader in the Anthill Theatre companies production of “The Deathstar Canteen”.
I DON’T NEED A TRAY.