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Its summer here at the moment and it reminded me of these few photos we taken a few years back, on a drive up the Port Hills with Sumner and the city in the background. The road round the summit is not much wider than single track, but has great views, an ideal drive on a summers day.
Sumner that's where the Hollywood cinema was situated one of our favorite cinemas to go to.
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Well I came across these below still photos last night on the internet and boy did it give me a jolt to the past of me at the aero club from 1976 to 1986 and the people I once worked with. I have no idea who took it, but it was around the mid-eighties. Looking directly at the photo I am on the far left. The chief engineer is the one in the middle, and he was the one that got me involved in Super 8 in the first place. All up I think we looked after around 19 aircraft. In the photo there were just four of us full time, it certainly brought back memories of those times now long gone, sadly as well as some folk also featured in this photo.
And with that was the first short Super 8 film I took back in the late 1970s which I will add here as well.
Last edited by Graham Ritchie; February 17, 2024, 11:30 AM.
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Nevertheless, Doug, it was a meeting of like minded people who live so far away from each other who are prepared to meet up given the opportunity.
I am always amazed at the people from the various countries that turn up at Blackpool every year. I've met Shorty on several occasions,(hopefully meeting you eventually, on either side of the pond), Eivind from Norway, Oliver and Joachim from Germany to give a few examples. Without the forum I doubt that would ever happen, remembering the wilderness years between the mass market demise of super 8 / the onslaught of video, to joining the forum. I really believed then that I would be in a one man hobby for the rest of my life. Then for the right reasons, joining the forum blew that out of the water!
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Today was the Solar Eclipse here in North America.
Naturally in a place with a couple of thousand scientists and engineers, when something like this happens, we all go outside and take a look!
We are south of the path of totality, but got close to 90%. We were not plunged into darkness, just a slight "dim"!
Maybe not the most inspiring photo ever taken, but since it was taken with a cellphone looking through a pair of eclipse glasses at two objects 200 thousand and 93 million miles away, I'd rate it not half-bad!
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