Your Today in Pictures...

[Brian Fretwell]

That would certainly smash my knees!!! Not even a recumbent bike as seen in Brainstorm, the worst of both worlds.

[Steve Klare]

WHAT the.....????
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I saw this intriguing vehicle at my job today. The building is so big that we have a fleet of adult trikes to get from place to place. At first I saw it and thought that somebody had rebuilt one of them into kind of an oversexed shopping cart: a basket on wheels with brakes! -useless to transport a rider!

-then I saw the guy actually riding it!

It seems that block between the wheels is actually the seat and the rider sits far astern and reaches way forward to grab the handlebars, kind of like Easy Rider!
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So at least until the Safety People catch him out cruising, this may just be the most Radical adult trike ever to exist! (You give an electrician an adult trike, some ty-wraps and some spare time, and amazing things can result!)
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"Ride to live! Live to ride!"

[Graham Ritchie]

Well its back into the winter session of rugby, with my grandson Connor number 9 today at his game, thankfully it didn't rain, but it was close. Last night both Connor and Steven were up to the wee hours putting his Darth Vadar Lego together.

[Chip Gelmini]

[Steve Klare]

"Creative Storage!"
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-a sign of film collecting taken too far?

(When you have rooms with doors you can't open because films come pouring out: You are there!)

Still, there are four other couches now film-less!...and I can quit anytime I want!

[Douglas Meltzer]

I came across this Super 8mm library print of the Laurel & Hardy short Liberty.






The film is in decent shape. Nice to see that it was a popular choice in the late 70's!

[Lee Mannering]

I don't gamble but nice to see this JP on my working/short break

[Graham Ritchie]

This old photo popped up on my Facebook page the other day. Its really hard to take in, that I took it back in 1986-87 for one of the guys in it, as he was leaving, so I did volunteer to take it. The person with the red collar on the left looking directly at the photo, was a chap called Terry Caldwell known as TC. I was on his shift for 10 years, after the place closed I went to work for Ansett. I remember one of the shift charge hands at Ansett, asking me about my past at Mt Cook, he was shocked to find I had worked for TC for ten years, he said he once worked with him and after 6 months working for TC he had a enough and left for Ansett, how did I survive 10 years he asked? . TC was a bit of a Captain Bligh that's for sure, but was always fair in sharing the good and not so good jobs around. He later went onto be one of the big bosses at Air New Zealand.

Its strange looking at all those faces and wondering what happened to most, that's the great thing about film, is recording that "specific moment" in time that will never be again.

[Graham Ritchie]

Hi Rodney

Yvonne camera is a Panasonic Lumex Model No DC-FZ80. I bought it for her after accidently dropping her smaller digital camera. I thought I would get something a bit better although its a still camera you can record 4K video with it as well. I am certainly extra careful these days not to drop this one

[Rodney Bourke]

Not sure what a Yvonne camera is, Film or Digital. If you did that hand held with a Zoom Lens, the Full Moon looks amazing, if you can get a Telescope even better. Happy Passover Holidays.

[Graham Ritchie]

Last night out back the sky was crystal clear and the moon was out, so decided to take a couple of photos of it with Yvonne camera. The next time I should use a tripod, instead of a hand held shot supported against the outside wall. .

Imagine what I could get with a even greater zoom lens?

[Steve Klare]

The Power of Media!
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I got a little bored today, so I decided to wake the cats up!

I found a YouTube video with a cat growling. Immediately they showed up. The first order of business was to stare at each other incredulously. You could almost see the beginnings of some kind of logic operating: "-but if it isn't YOUUU...?"

From there on, it was just stunned silence: their intruder alert had been triggered, but they just couldn't locate the invader!

I turned off the growl and fed them, after all, even Pavlov fed his dogs eventually!

[Lee Mannering]

Harping back to the UK Ed Wood revival in the 80s transferred the old beta tape to S8 for nostalgic posterity only 4 minutes but nice to have his home movies as a keep sake. Those 80s tv programmes inspired many a young film maker to grab a movie camera.

[Lee Mannering]

Our Amaryllis ended at Christmas. Boo.

York railway museum The Rocket amazing

[Graham Ritchie]

Busy yesterday with a change of films for the coming coming weekend "well hopefully"