i thaught ringway at first but then thaught speke ( john lennon ) would be a better possibility as it had a lot of the motor industry factorys close by

http://www.chesterwalls.info/gallery/airport.html

hmm, this is a whole new dimension to the discussion!

The thick plottens!

most of TV is scripted , so what if he offended someone !!

todays britain is a country full of whingers that can’t wait to phone or complain about trivial things

the fact so many phoned in to complain shows this point very well

maybe we have too much time on our hands in todays uk so we have to find trivial things to fill it

i’m partialy disabled and work with the disabled and if the complainants can’t handle a quip like that they’d go appopleptic being where i work

i’m affraid the uk seems to be full of soft ars*d lefties ready to be millitant at the drop of a hat

clarkson realises that and as a sensible well grounded human realises it and gets great joy out of it ( not to mention his yearly book release around christmass )

presently clarkson will be coining it in this lot of morons has given him better promotion than he ever could have by himself

if it had just been ignored we wouldn’t have heard anything of him hardly from then till the next top gear !!

there is a saying ,, no publicity is bad publicity !! jezzer is smart enough to realise that , the complainants are too thick to comprehend this

at a time when pensioners will definately die this year because they will be too scared to switch on the heating

an ex soldier and his wife who had learning dissabilities commited suicide because they couldn’t afford to eat

a whole generation of teenagers have no hope of employment

i think the truth may have hurt the public sector

even with what they are having to put up with they have little realisation of what it is like at the blunt end of todays hardships

jezzer was bang on with what he said just because there is a right to strike doesn’t mean you should

the only thing a union ever did for me was lose me and 35 others our jobs if i was ever asked again i’d tell them to “go to hell ” and keep my weekly fee in my pocket !!

OK, I like the man, love Top gear and I think his documentaries are superb and captivating.
But this time, he’s been a pillock.

i’m the opposite i fully support what the man said and don’t think he should have had to appologise in any form !!

i have worked on both sides and all i can describe the public sector as is an easy day for good money

fair enough they are not all fantastic but head teachers who are paid £60’000.00 per year and with most employees well above minimum wage with a paid pension

i work unsociable hours , in a high stress job ( once i did a 26 hr shift with no breaks because of staff shortages and i couldn’t just walk off because i was looking after someone ill and disabled ,

recently i have had 50 hrs per month taken away so am now £15.00 a week worse off than i was on the dole having only £18.00 PER MONTH LEFT AFTER BILLS FOR FOOD .

i also have no hope whatsoever of paying for a pension

i thaught we were all in this together !!

there’s only one thing i’d have done difrently to jezzer

i’d have birched them and rubbed salt in the wounds before i shot them !!

very much depends on how you use it and what you want to get from it !!

you tend to get more from it by either joining like minded groups or starting them

i’m in a group for photographers that drop by and give comments

tagging photo’s to cover just about every descriptive word helps with views

i did once just use it to put demmo photo’s in web forums but facebook is adequate for that and it saves me needing a pro account

so i can leave flickr for mostly decent shots

flickr certainly is better quality than photobucket

as for selling photo’s , there are so many good shots available free for the asking from the web that there is little point or money involved

the only real way to make it now is to specificaly work for someone

i’m shooting a home tommorow for the organisation i work for , for a newspaper promotion but there are very little smarties involved for the taking

safety is a difrent matter i have always said ” if you want an image to be safe don’t put it on the web !! “

i recently caught a local flicker user to me passing off several of my images ( taken from panoramio ) after an argument and threatening to take further action he took all his ( very doubtful ) images down from flickr

there are features on flickr that stop right click actions and i’m pretty sure you can check who downloads but nothing someone smart couldn’t get around even copyright water marks are no challenge to some !!

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.

there is no law saying you cannot take candid photo’s in the street ,

laws on shops vary as it comes down to permission and usualy shopping centres no longer allow it , docklands around canary wharfe are usualy sharp at stopping you too as it is private land where photography is frowned on

it is also vague on cameras pointing from peoples gardens realy as there is a video of two police officers arguing with a house owner that photographed them from his own garden they had to radio someone in charge at the local station to enquire ( the police lost and had to walk off red faced )as again it is not against the law to photograph people in public places

http://youtu.be/6Vj4imfGXYo

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.

there is no law saying you cannot take candid photo’s in the street ,

laws on shops vary as it comes down to permission and usualy shopping centres no longer allow it , docklands around canary wharfe are usualy sharp at stopping you too as it is private land where photography is frowned on

it is also vague on cameras pointing from peoples gardens realy as there is a video of two police officers arguing with a house owner that photographed them from his own garden they had to radio someone in charge at the local station to enquire ( the police lost and had to walk off red faced )as again it is not against the law to photograph people in public places

http://youtu.be/6Vj4imfGXYo

100% legal the owners own the property therefore if they have given permision for it to be done etc

fail to see the difrence between cctv and a photo

from what i get regularly in shops that passes for service a lot of staff are long overdue a shake up

at the end of the day the company pays for work not a social club

there are plenty around that would be glad of a job and work to stay in them at present

unfair probably but if there’s knowledge that mystery shoppers go in the person caught only has themselves to blame

i have been in shops where an alleged sales person has been chatting away to a friend and has served me as a customer as an inconvenience to her planning her evening out !!