Somewhere else?

Last weekend i had a trip out before my railcard expired - from now on most trips will be to the library. The pictures above were both taken from the train doin around 100mph (1/500 sec). As you can see the motorway sign has been paint shopped but i left the junction # ... so question is which motorway and whats the river to the left of it?

Sky High

The red arrows were at the Great north run a few weeks back (see previous post) and armed with the 100-300L i fired a few shots off. They were pretty hard to track and lack of USM focus slowed things down but a few shots pleased me. The display was certainley very impressive using the British Hawk jets. Apologies to those who have already seen the pics on fotopic, and those who havent, Enjoy....

Shutter 1/1000 and 1/640 @F8, ISO 200

Keep on running....

Ive been in Newcastle for 3 years yet Sunday was the first time I bothered getting out of bed to watch the Great North Run, which is apparently the largest half marathon (13 miles) in the world. The reasons for this were mostly because Steve and Ben* (G) were running in it, I wasn't hungover, it was sunny, half a mile away, and Si was going. It certainly provided something different to snap, masses of colour as seen in this shot with Nessie forging her way through the crowd. We got up on the northbound carriageway of the A167M central motorway - the sheer volume of the 40,000 ish crowd was impressive, especially as we only saw half of them - the rest passing underneath, dodging the p*ssers up top. In the end we went to South shields via the Tyne Ferry to the finish, where we waited for Steve. Getting home was certainly a mission, so if you end up in Tyneside when the run is on, beware!

Well done to Ben and Steve