Hi, good attempts.
With all that sky in the back, the exposure will not be right unless you use Spot metering or manual. As you can see, the whites are bleaching a little.
For manual, expose off grass. If subject is in sun, use grass in the sun. Shade for shade.
Grass is the colour version of the Kodak Grey Card, the 18% grey that all averaging meter systems aim for.

If you can’t see grass, buy a grey card (They used to be expensive…mine in 15 years old!!). Or, a perfect white sheet…that will be 5 stops too high (At 100ASA), but the white method is nowhere near as good as the grass or grey card.
HTH.

Fair enough that we all have our own views on religion, I just don’t really get how people can put all religious type people in the same category. Believe or not, I don’t go to church or read the bible and i’m actually not a literalist and think the old testament is most likely to be fake… God is there for me when I need to turn to him to help me through what have been rough patches in my life and if it wasn’t for God, I probably would have done something stupid, I never forcify my views on God on anyone else, and respectfully, I don’t think that anybody really should. If you have a belief in any God, then great – go for it, but if you don’t, then thats fine.

All fine then.

All types are not in same cat. All leaders are.

You are crediting God for the recovery of your bad times, I’d like to think that you yourself found inner strength and self belief. A meditation period allowed your mind to switch off and the new thoughts were able to formulate.
Your prayer is your meditation, so it works. But, rather than actually receive answers from the heavens, the situation allowed you to find your own.
If that makes any sense.

Proven fake I’m afraid.

So just because I believe in God, i’m a loony? When in fact, praying to God to get things off my chest actually has helped me alot in the past!

Your extreme leaders are the Looneys. Read the post.
I’m glad that you seek something non personal to get things off your chest. Some turn to beer, some even pay the scheisters in the Psychology con-game, some have a trusted friend, or even – a rarity I know – ones spouse/soulmate.
Pray to God all you like, but “The seniors” in your club or anyone that tells me I should join their Church/that I am a sinner/that I am wrong etc. will get the distinguished bile of truth aimed back at them.
Our western laws are based on the claimed scribblings from the 10 stones, and some of them are correct. But, mitigating circumstances can allow diversions on all of them. “Thou shan’t kill” for example. Well, I’m in the Defence lark, my stuff kills bad guys – the better it works, the more bang for the buck, the more people die (Actually less because carpet bombing is now out of fashion and we aim for a square meter with a $300,000 smart).
Or, if anyone killed my wife or kids, they shall die at my hand and I would be extremely proud of it. The “They need pity not scorn” brigade have got something very mixed up.
Any child killer/child rapist should be killed in Public with live TV for those that can’t get to the event. It would be a better world, and even you know it.

I ran the Melbourne marathon a few times back in my younger days…now if i want some exercise i go down into the cellar and rotate my wine bottles

There is a new machine at my Gym that I’ve taken a great interest in.
It’s got Kit-Kats, Mars Bars, Crisps, Dime Bars, Yorkie Bars and to pacify our American colleagues it has Orios. My oh my they are rubbish…..taste like a black dog biscuit. And yes, I’ve eaten a dog biscuit.

I’m quite sure that Christians would never physically abuse women…. would they? :rolleyes:

Religious believers. Argue over who has the best imaginary friend and pontificate right versus wrong when in fact they are all 100% wrong. Parasitic scum, the lot of them. From the Arch of Cant to the looney side of Islam to the perhaps even more looney idiots on the God Squad channels from the USA.

So am I but everything in moderation. That was a dinner to serve 2.

2 what? Children?

When I was a health freak (Ran 70 miles per week, London Marathon in 3:47….there was a 3:30 in me, but I was on 20 fags a day at the time) I ate twice as much as that, and of course more pasta. Can’t run anymore, knee gone. I’m seeking another exercise similar to running long distance, where I can Format(Space)brain:
Cycling is no good, too much concentration required. Swimming, get tired = die.

So it was just a snack then???

An ordinary dinner for me that. I only have fruit for breaky and Sarnies for lunch. With 2 litres of coffee (About 10 cups)

I’ve just had a snack, a packet of crisps.