What floats your boat?

[Anonymous]

Hi all,

Bored at work!

I was wondering what other passions/hobbies are favourite amongst the members here?

I love to take pictures! So I tend to take pictures of my hobbies/things I love.

Aeroplanes, Watches, and my cat! I do the odd portrait for friends, and some landscapes too, but I find that is the most challanging.

Here are a few random shots for you to peek at.

Davie

Typhoon

Mindy

Home

Breitling

My Prelude (RIP)

Leopard!

:sleeping-yellow:

 

[RCZ1]

I like your "Home" photo a lot :thumbup:

I too am into photography. My favourite is Landscape photography. Yes it is challenging because first and foremost, nature doesn't always play ball. Too much cloud, not enough light, not enough of the right sort of light, etc, etc but its thoroughly rewarding. I don't take photographs of people (out of choice - been asked but not keen) but I do like to take photographs of my "adopted" Westies (one belongs to my brother and one belongs to my sister). I've actually been asked to take some pictures of someones Labradoodle puppy this Saturday, which they have adopted for a year as part of the K9 partnership, who train dogs up to help disabled people, etc. They are trained to go to toilet on demand, take clothes out of the washing machine, do the washing up (okay I lied about that one :eusa-whistle: )

I produce calendars each year, which I sell to people and half the cost from each one sold is given to a charity that we collect for each Christmas at work, instead of sending each other christmas cards. This years Calendar will be Skye. I also do one each of the Westies for my brother and sister.

 

[Anonymous]

HI Dave is your SURNAME name BAILY.......................... :lol: Cracking photos mate top notch.

as for hobbies i dont really have a true hobby i am more of a car enthusiast :thumbup: but and i do take home cinema very seriously having spent more on that than what a RCZ costs and then some :shock: i am a true movie buff

 

[Anonymous]

Jassy!

Home cinema huh.....I was on the Dolby mailing list when surround 1st arrived! They did a cool leaflet "heard any good movies recently?". That was in 1984.......I had a fab Panasonic Hifi VHS and a Yamaha Amp....and a really crap telly

I updated my system constantly when I could afford it, Last Amp was the Panasonic VSAX10.... A BEAST! Now I'm running

Onkyo TSxR875
B&W 603's all round
Panasonic 50" (Hope to be a 60 by Xmas!!!)

My lovely wife Elaine can work it all better than me.

I see my pics are cut off due to size I guess....my photobucket name is damnfoolman just like my name here if you'd like to be bored by more pictures

Take care

Davie

 

[Anonymous]

Hobbies, what's that, it's all work work work for me.

Do like my football though and I too like my home cinema, currently got:

Denon AVR-3806 Amp
Denon DVD player (better for DVD's than Blueray player or PS3)
Miller and Kriesel speakers
Panasonic 3D Blueray
50" Panasonic 3D TV (wanted bigger but boss said no)
PS3 (not that it gets used though)

 

[Anonymous]

a novice, but denon is top gear

 

[Anonymous]

Nice breitling, I'm guessing at an emergency mission?

 

[Anonymous]

Nice breitling, I'm guessing at an emergency mission?

Very very close

Mine is a simple titanium E the mission is a steel beast and there are many differences except both have the 121.5 emergency transmitter made by Dassault. :dance:

I'm a Breitling collector so they are part of my soul.

D

 

[Anonymous]

I wear a black face steel navitimer A23322 on the steel bracelet, keep meaning to buy another but never seem to get round to it :thumbup:

 

[Anonymous]

Jassy!

Home cinema huh.....I was on the Dolby mailing list when surround 1st arrived! They did a cool leaflet "heard any good movies recently?". That was in 1984.......I had a fab Panasonic Hifi VHS and a Yamaha Amp....and a really crap telly

I updated my system constantly when I could afford it, Last Amp was the Panasonic VSAX10.... A BEAST! Now I'm running

Onkyo TSxR875
B&W 603's all round
Panasonic 50" (Hope to be a 60 by Xmas!!!)

My lovely wife Elaine can work it all better than me.

I see my pics are cut off due to size I guess....my photobucket name is damnfoolman just like my name here if you'd like to be bored by more pictures

Take care

Davie

yeah i was there at the birth of dolby surround as well i have had some great av sound systems even imported some av equipment from the states back in mid nineties like pioneer THX laserdisc players "the first film on disc to have "DOLBY DIGITAL" "Clear and Present Danger" and kenwood THX amps and kef THX speaker system............i think that was the main reason why the mrs well ex :lol: divorced me :lol:

if your going 60" avoid plasma i am a "backlit led fan" "edge lit led tvs"dont have great blacks as they dont have local dimming,but there is a huge difference from viewing a 60" tv than a small 50"tv :lol: :lol:

 

[Anonymous]

stereo bits ....... *yawn yawn yawn* ... I get enough of that from the OH!!

I put my foot down to having speakers put up all over our new lounge when we built our new house - so he insisted one of the spare bedrooms was going to be his cinema to house his projector etc ... 20 months on and it's still in the box. We did get the house wired with HD and and all the rooms are wired up for roof speakers (my compromise) and a Sonos system, but they're still not bought either........ he's spending too much time surfing for Range Rovers or bits for the RS...... bloody men..... :eusa-whistle:

 

[Anonymous]

stereo bits ....... *yawn yawn yawn* ... I get enough of that from the OH!!

I put my foot down to having speakers put up all over our new lounge when we built our new house - so he insisted one of the spare bedrooms was going to be his cinema to house his projector etc ... 20 months on and it's still in the box. We did get the house wired with HD and and all the rooms are wired up for roof speakers (my compromise) and a Sonos system, but they're still not bought either........ he's spending too much time surfing for Range Rovers or bits for the RS...... bloody men..... :eusa-whistle:

HORMONES HORMONES.......................... :lol: :lol: :lol: I HAVE a 55"led tv in my bedroom and a full home cinema system. Then in my MENS ONLY DEN a 65"panny plasma which is about to get changed SORRY DONT DO PROJECTORS :thumbdown: and a serious A FULLTHX SOUND SYSTEM.I DONT DO NOWT ELSE NO SOCIAL LIFE HER INDOORS just buys clothes clothes,shoes,shoes :lol: :lol:


range rovers donna Cmon get him told :lol: RS Focus :thumbup: but not little penis syndrome range rovers :lol: :lol:

 

[Anonymous]

range rovers donna Cmon get him told :lol: RS Focus :thumbup: but not little penis syndrome range rovers :lol: :lol:

It was Lotus Evora being googled last night :roll: :roll: .....but ONE of us needs to keep a decent family/snow car!!! :eusa-think: :eusa-think:

 

[Anonymous]

I did the wise thing, not even knowing it when I married my sweet Elaine

My beautiful wife likes technology. So big telly and big speakers are her happy friends!! She likes the 42" plasma on the wall in our sparse bedroom so she can watch the re-run of match of the day on Sunday morning as I cook her a nice brekkie.

What's not to rejoice in?

D

Oh and she hates shopping, I buy pretty much all her clothes. And no she does not go ton work looking like Worzel Gummidge....

D

 

[Anonymous]

I did the wise thing, not even knowing it when I married my sweet Elaine

My beautiful wife likes technology. So big telly and big speakers are her happy friends!! She likes the 42" plasma on the wall in our sparse bedroom so she can watch the re-run of match of the day on Sunday morning as I cook her a nice brekkie.

What's not to rejoice in?

D

Oh and she hates shopping, I buy pretty much all her clothes. And no she does not go ton work looking like Worzel Gummidge....

D

Not your run of the mill strereo typical female then dave :lol:

 

[Anonymous]

Hi all,

Bored at work!

I was wondering what other passions/hobbies are favourite amongst the members here?

I love to take pictures! So I tend to take pictures of my hobbies/things I love.

Aeroplanes, Watches, and my cat! I do the odd portrait for friends, and some landscapes too, but I find that is the most challanging.

Here are a few random shots for you to peek at.

Davie

Typhoon

Mindy

Home

Breitling

My Prelude (RIP)

Leopard!

:sleeping-yellow:

THAT! Is one VERY cool moggy you got there.... :thumbup:

 

[Anonymous]

Drumming! I've been doing it for.. say 10 years

Here's my set (sorry for the big pic, don't know how to resize):

And this is the most current one, sorry for the cell phone quality of it

Hope you like them

 

[Anonymous]

Oh how I'd love to have the co- ordination to play drums!!! :clap:

I am crap at that!

My friend has a wicked digital drum set up thing with recording stuff etc etc. he suitably rocks!!!

Hmmmm drums.....

Yummy

 

[Anonymous]

Oh how I'd love to have the co- ordination to play drums!!! :clap:

I am crap at that!

My friend has a wicked digital drum set up thing with recording stuff etc etc. he suitably rocks!!!

Hmmmm drums.....

Yummy

Digital drum sets are a good way of getting rid of neighbour threats. But otherwise I just go for acoustic, it's much better IMO. Here, that's me playing with that same drumset but older cymbals/snare drum setup, enjoy :beer:

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