Foreigner in North East

[Radar]

Hi,

I've been hanging around in this forum for a month or so.

Bought an E-600 on the Currys deal in November and have started from less than basic level. I'm from Norway and I live in Newcastle and hope to get lots of photos from around Northumberland with all the fantastic nature. I'm 34 with a big family and hope to get time to have photography as a hobby.

I haven't got any preferred objects to photograph but I'm experimenting with lights, portraits, landscape ...basically the whole lot. So far I've learned a LOT by reading in these forums so I thought that now is the time to say hi even if I'm not the most active on the forum.

[gno]

Re: Foreigner in North East

Welcome Nordic Geordie

Regards

Gavin

[BobS]

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Welcome Radar

We love Northumberland...........but it's always so cold when we are up there!

Bob

(Having said that, it's not so warm here at the moment!)

[catkins]

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Welcome - there seems to be one or two fellow Olympus users on this forum in the Northumbria region, so perhaps one day soon we'll have to start organising our own events up here! In the meantime, have fun with the new camera and the excuse to explore a fabulous region that for a while this snowy winter looked almost as good as Norway!!

BTW BobS, the cold is only here to scare off the tourists and just wait til you see the massive traffic jams up here close to those massive pitheaps and belching iron and steel works!!

Chris

[BobS]

Re: Foreigner in North East

Welcome - there seems to be one or two fellow Olympus users on this forum in the Northumbria region, so perhaps one day soon we'll have to start organising our own events up here! In the meantime, have fun with the new camera and the excuse to explore a fabulous region that for a while this snowy winter looked almost as good as Norway!!

BTW BobS, the cold is only here to scare off the tourists and just wait til you see the massive traffic jams up here close to those massive pitheaps and belching iron and steel works!!

Chris

[catkins]

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Oops - caught out in my snow white lies ;-))

Indeed having lived in the region for most of my life (and that's a few years!) it's a good few years since the last pit heap was carefully landscaped and a bit of northern history yet again disappeared for better or worse.
And linked to that was the disappearance of the "belching iron and steel works" that I so loved (from purely the photographic visual & geographic point of view) at Consett - now yet another carefully landscaped hillside that has removed the linkage of the town with its landscape setting and history. (Now even the 'modern' iron and steel works at Teeside is under threat and could soon be gone.)
And the "massive traffic jams"? - that's only to entertain shoppers on their way to the Metrocentre shopping centre and to remind people driving by the Metrocentre on the A1 why its good not to live in the south!!
For the rest of the region, traffic jam free roads, dramatic history and beautiful scenery are reasons why you'll always be welcome here and why we should have an Olympus photo weekend up here sometime perhaps.
Thanks for the banter and sorry to slightly move from the original thread!
Regards
Chris

[Ken Lister]

Re: Foreigner in North East

Welcome to the forum. There are several members living in the region, so a get together and day out are not out of the question. A lot of knowledge and help from the members is only a mouse click away.

[benvendetta]

Re: Foreigner in North East

Welcome to the forum. There are several members living in the region, so a get together and day out are not out of the question. A lot of knowledge and help from the members is only a mouse click away.

You could always join a photographic club local to where you live. You WILL learn a lot by looking at other people's images and about photography in general although I suspect that you would meet few Oly users .

This is good forum for Oly-info though

[maccabeej]

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I do hope that the shipyards where my father did his apprenticeship haven't dissappeared as well
Seriously welcome to the Forum.

Jim

[catkins]

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I do hope that the shipyards where my father did his apprenticeship haven't dissappeared as well
Seriously welcome to the Forum.

Jim

Hang on - I'll just check.

Oops, just missed them, all remnants of Swan Hunter's shipyards have been shipped off to India.

Oh well, before we know it even the Bigg Market will have disappeared!

Closely followed by the Angel of the North after its discovery by some enterprising scrap metal merchant that it could be pulled out of the ground by one of the Army's long lost Chinooks.

Chris

[BobS]

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There is one thing I don't miss...........the thin layer of coal dust that used to settle on the car if I parked anywhere. Ahhhh, happy days!

Bob

[catkins]

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There is one thing I don't miss...........the thin layer of coal dust that used to settle on the car if I parked anywhere. Ahhhh, happy days!

Bob

And the layer of red dust that covered the washing when the wind blew in the wrong direction from Consett iron & steel works!

[maccabeej]

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[Radar]

Re: Foreigner in North East

You could always join a photographic club local to where you live. You WILL learn a lot by looking at other people's images and about photography in general although I suspect that you would meet few Oly users .

Have already joined my local club and attending my second meeting on monday. As said; Not many people use Olympus as Nikon and Canon have the upper hand in the market with all the accessories from other producers available on the market.

Very pleased so far with the camera but haven't made an online gallery yet but that's hopefully done sometime during next month.

[catkins]

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Begins to explain why sense of contrast and white balance is askew