Cheating a bit, this is sunrise on the African coast (the next pic is sunset in the Sahara) from 5* luxury to mud hut type poverty.

Sunset in the Sahara on those well known travelling bikes, a Multistrada and an R1

Shaun,with out picking on your particular pictures most of the sunsets shown here are only half a picture with the forground either blacked out due to exposure problems. Not wanting to teach any one to suck eggs what you see with your eye is not what the camera see's, so often an ajustment needs to be made. One way is to lower the camera and exclude to brighness of the sky this will give the fore ground a chance of being better exposed, holding the shutter button halfway then bring the camers back up and take the shot. All way's take more than one shot, exposing the fore ground and distance in the same way. I will admit you can't do this with a mobile phone or take shoot throw away camera's, but most reasonable camera's have this facility. Another aid to good sunset pictures is really a tripod and longer exposures, but as this is not all way practical especially when thundering across deserts and mountains on a bike . One thing to try is take the camera out of Auto mode and use Manual you will see when using a digi camera the instant results through the len as you troll through the various settings of apretures and shutter speeds. 4D

Meliniemouse has asked me to put this cracking sunset shot of her's up for appraisal. I think this say's it all, lovely shot Mel. 4D

Yeah, you should listen to Fordie about photographic composition you know. After all, he managed to take this picture of the bridge in Bedford.

How the hell he managed to do that without getting abandoned shopping trolley's, people fighting on the embankment, blokes barfing over the bridge and ladettes throwing themselves into the water in the shot I'll never know.

:lol:

Thanks Fordie, what a star you are... But I didn't take it, i had it downloaded and thought it looked same as ... see below.... beautiful piccie though

Phoenix n max, see how identical this is to yours? Thats why i asked if you got it from astronomy of the day. Either that, of you've sent your photo in and you should be given royalties, you could be famous?

Jools, thanks for the comments, BUT when I took the shot on a exposure of about 6 sec at f22 a bloke in a single skull rowed across the river in front of me right across the picture,You can even see where he dipped his oars in on each stroke If you look just under the bridge you can see a faint streeking on the water where he rowed by,that's how to take pictures in crowded places , unless the subject is stationary if won't come out on film.

Thanks for that Pete, that gives me an excuse to go back there and test the theory, i'll blame you when the wife asks why i'm going again:lol:

Yeah i'm just looking at it. In mine the tripod leg is just visible in the left hand corner as a friend was stood beside me taking a shot too.

How weird - where is the one you have from ? I've got a succession of them taken as the sun went down. I thought that one was the best.

Deffo my photo and I don't recall posting it ever before either !

Heres one a few mins earlier and minus tripod leg. It was taken Easter 2003. I'm confused now :confused:

Yep nearer nuf the same thanks to Photoshop 4D

Yeah but what i'd like to know is how it's turned up when to my knowledge i've never posted it before :confused: It's sat on my hd in it's full size and i resized for the first time to post on here. Same with the second one, i've got 6 others too, exact same shot but over time as the sun goes down. The last one ( eg the first one i posted and the one melnie has) was the last shot I took.

Looking at the clouds and sea weed in the water it does indeed look like the same picture taken a few moments apart. Perhaps your phantom tripod owner took it and published it. 4D

yeah it's really odd isn't it? did mine have a tripod leg in it? I see the 2nd o ne is just moved over slightly then, how bizarre, did you friend put it anywhere then if you didn't?

I got it I think from astonomy of the Day, if i didn't i can't think where i would, but it's the only site i go on that i would 'nik' a photo. sorry.. :( Perhaps you should ask your friend too what happened?

Yours would have yes cos it was cropped. Not that it matters, just curious as to how it ended up somewhere that i've never sent it to. The origianl is 1.74 megs, as were all those taken that day.
As to tripod owner - well different camera, settings etc, who knows. I was just stood taking them as the sun changed the colours, hence the skewed horizons ;)

Here's sunset again, same place but with the sun behind me lighting up the bikes

Here are a few I took in scotland in august 2000

And a few from wales in october 2003

Thanks to you all
 

... thes photos are just fantastic - keep them coming and also support the club competition :)

Instant sunset (Hope you don't mind me manipulating ) Its me age 4D

just hampshire

"It took me an age".... all of 40 minutes from post to post on the highly unlikely assumption you were sat there all afternoon waiting for my next one pic, methinks not.

Nice one Pete, you can manipulate me any time, any chance of making me a bit taller and better looking please:lol:

Actually i think you could do a far better job than Mr C did, can you guess which one is me?

Mmmm! village people, maybe the sunsets out of my ar$e

They're amazing....

Thank you mel
Just in the right place at the right time really.

Left out the Indian as every one loves a Indian ,especially on a Saturday night :lol: 4D

Awesome Pete:lol: but where's the sunset in the background?

Must remember to always be nice to you or you'll really stitch me up.

Hi Rob,

I know what you mean about living by the sea, like anywhere else though it has its benefits and disadvantages, luckily the benefits far outweigh the disadvantages. :)

Unfortunately I'm not lucky enough to have a sea view, they cost an arm and a leg plus several Ducatis, however the beach is only a 10 minutes walk away or about half a mile.

Your brother-in-law is a very fortunate to have those views.

You're right, the sea views are like a constantly changing picture, from a serene, tranquil and calm mill pond to a rough, raging and aggressive seas.

Apparently Sandbanks is one of the most expensive places to buy a property in the UK, hopefully a big Lotto win may sort that out :D

Take care mate,
RD

This photo was taken during 2003 by me on a family tour around Australia.
I took so many rolls of film during our trip I'm not 100% sure of the location, but I have a good idea it is Lakes Entrance, Victoria, Australia.
Yeah I still use a Canon 35mm SLR, the original photo is very good but the scanned copy has washed all the colour out, it looks shite compared to the original.

RD.

P.S. Unlike 4D, I'm not good with Photoshop. :(

Here's one from dorset in september! This was just as the winds were getting up to about ninety mph , not fun when your on a cliff in a caravan!!! Shame about the bloke taking a pic of it too! Didn't se him until i got the pics back! Dang it!!!!

Out of our front window, last night :D

I'll understand if this one is pulled, I found it on the receptionists profile :)
WARNING: Bit naughty, after 9pm, but before 11pm TV.

http://static.flickr.com/120/314942175_d38f82d061_o.jpg

This is a clean one, it personifies Ducati ownership I think :)

http://static.flickr.com/108/314945013_b80195c731_o.jpg

Not so sure about that......:rolleyes:

Looks pretty good with a Suzi, too :D

3 Miles out of Pathos - Cyprus - Aug 06
 

Took this on our hols this year, superb place.

Blue Azire Hotel.

setting over jerez

Taken on the Pacific coastal highway, Xmas day 2006 on the way to Monterey to ride laguna Seca the next day.

Here's a couple of my favs... The first was taken from Gili Trawangan, Indonesia, in August 1990, looking west (obviously) towards volcanic Bali. The second was taken in Mendoza, Argentina, a couple of years ago.

here's mine, the last night of an exhausting week spent at an outdoor activity centre in Bradwell-on-Sea in Essex -with 20 kids/"young people" all with drug and alcohol issues!

these are taken from the beach by Bradwell power station - nice ;) - with a really cheap digital camera after a pretty heavy thunder storm.

sun disappearing over Arran, taken from the ferry while leaving DuN's Pibbow's Christmas bash...

Somerset Levels
 

Floods over Somerset Levels Jan 2007