Hereâs another b&w taken yesterday afternoonâŚ
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I remember seeing this observatory in Carl Saganâs âCosmosâ TV series years ago but it was the wooden dome and the antique 24" telescope that stuck in my memory. The last time we were in Flagstaff in 2011âŚhad to take the tour. 
My picture during the lectureâŚ
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I love looking at photographs and those on this thread are wonderful.
Iâve only got a very basic digital camera, myself, but would like to upgrade some time in the near future.
Anyway, I thought Iâd add a couple of my own shots to this thread because no collection would be complete without a couple of sunsets, would it? 
Yarmouth, Isle of Wight.
Santo Tomas, Menorca
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Beautiful sunsets Halo.
TBH the quality you can get from basic digital cameras these days is excellent. Unless you want very large prints to hang on the wall a basic entry level DSLR will easily enlarge to 24" x 16" prints. I have half a dozen of this size on our walls from a 10.2mp DSLR so donât spend a fortuneâŚÂŁ350 - ÂŁ500 will get you a 24mp camera today. See if Barry wants to sell hisâŚstill in the box, unopened 
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I wonder if CholulaKid or anyone else could solve the riddle of something that has puzzled me for some years:
The 3 photos below are some that I took from a plane flying above Siberia. The last one shows 2 parallel lines running from the centre bottom edge of the photo. Through the plane window these lines seemed to be something on the ground yet they appear to be too straight and to cut unrealistically through the landscape. Any idea what they could be?
Originally posted by @Halo-Stickman
I wonder if CholulaKid or anyone else could solve the riddle of something that has puzzled me for some years:
The 3 photos below are some that I took from a plane flying above Siberia. The last one shows 2 parallel lines running from the centre bottom edge of the photo. Through the plane window these lines seemed to be something on the ground yet they appear to be too straight and to cut unrealistically through the landscape. Any idea what they could be?
Oil pipelines I would think.
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Originally posted by @lifeintheslowlane
Oil pipelines I would think.
Ah yes, that would make sense, cheers, lifeintheslowlane; and thanks, too, for the camera advice.
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When I was about 12 I took a whole film of 24 photos on a day out with my finger partially over the shutter (or whatever you call it). Anyways, when I got the film developed and posted back to me, I was less than impressed with my work.
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You mean the finger was out of focusâŚbummer. 
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These days I just take other peoples pictures of in focus fingers from the internet! 
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This is great - almost a âsteampunkâ like image 
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Hey Spuds, switch off the autofocus
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Hoping he serious photography hobbyists out there can help me.
I am really struggling with Windows 10 on my laptop and itâs Photo App. Itâs beyond rubbish. All I want to do is find my photos and scroll through, delete and maybe make a few changes. But it just wont let me. I cannot go back to Photo Viewer as its a Windows 10 laptop. I donât want to shell out for expensive programmes. Any suggestions?! Reading a lot of reviews that this is universally a rubbish app.
I have the full Photoshop software on my desktop and laptop so when I say this Iâm not really speaking from personal experience. However there are a whole host of free online photo editing website that are supposedly easy to use. This one seems to fit with your requirements NikiâŚstep by step instructions too: https://www.freeonlinephotoeditor.com/
If you just want to view your pictures just click on âPicturesâ in Windows and click on âNew FolderââŚname the folder and drag and drop your pictures into that folder. I usually title the folder descriptively e.g. âHoliday 2018â Open the folder and you can just scroll though all your picturesâŚshown as medium size icons to the left and full size on the right of the screen. Then you can decide which ones you want to display on Social Media etc and upload and edit in the online editor.
Thanks. Have now moved all of the folders into Photos and seem to be now able to scroll through. Trying to open them in Microsoft Photo is very frustrating.
If you click on the Windows Icon, bottom left and scroll down to âWindows Accessoriesâ and expand to show all the extras, open âPaintâ and you can adjust and resize and a few other rudimentary adjustments. Itâs a little irritating as after youâve finished editing the picture and saved it you have to close âPaintâ before you can open it again to load the next picture. Once you open âPaintâ itâs best to right click on the âPaintâ icon in the taskbar at the bottom of the screen and click âPin to taskbarââŚitâs then easier to relaunch.
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I had THOUSANDS of photos. I was incredibly anti Cloud storage so had back ups and back ups everywhere.
I even had a back up and restore version.
Then I had a laptop die on me, windows 10 came along, my back up photos restored in one lump with one new date absolute mess.
I took ages going back through them.
Then I lost my mobile phone. So all of those photos I thought were gone.
Amazingly when I replaced it, entered my never used gmail account, boom, they were all back again.
Like you I used Photo Editor before this new photo app (which is a crock of shit. Resizing to send Hi Res was so simple before.
But then I realised for my needs I can store medium res photos and they are way better then I will need as a memory keeper.
Now I manage with Google Pictures, share stuff, tidied them into albums from the filmstrips having tried all the other apps out there.
As a safeguard I also use one drive to back them as well with the free storage I get from work.
I have some good ones.
But my best ever photo?
This one
That is the busiest road in Dubai. This was 14th Jan 2015. I walked into the middle of the road, took this picture with my Canon Powershot point & shoot.
So far meh you cry.
George W Bush was visiting the City. Rains had caused accidents the day before so Authorities called a Public Holiday and closed the City down so Dubya could do a tour.
This photo took up the ENTIRE Front Page of the National Newspaper. They even used my headline âDubai turns out to welcome Bushâ
This was the Press Photo of the Year. I of course had to sign the rights to the paper so I was âStaff Photographerâ I won nothing except a warm fuzzy feeling
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Couple of B&Ws from this weekâs break in North Yorkshire. First one in Saltburn-by- the-sea and the second in Whitby. No I didnât ask permission for either picture. 
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Did you take the selfie with a timer?
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