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Hello Bernard Interesting show in 2D but nothing to do with the 3D version! ... Very very impressive, particularily for the detail shots. Excellent new year to you too Patrick

Hi Bill Seeing the pleasure you took photos of your environnement, you were probably in a particularily good mood during your stay in this island By the way, where it is? Very colourful and relaxing ... apart the 2 crocodiles ! Thank you for sharing Patrick

I am always very admiring about this type of photos as I am totally unable to take just one shot during such events. Handling the growing number of onlookers is a hard job ! A very pleasant slideshow... memories, memories ! Patrick

Thank you Bill for this very useful feature. I experiment it since 2 weeks and it is working great. Thank you also for your uninterrupted and silent commitment, since many years, to image and PTE presentations. Patrick

Hi Colin Same comment as George ! Very nice and cool report. For some photos, you probably had to suffer of mild to strong winds .... as attested by the verticals a bit oblique. Patrick

Yes the Luberon area is a very nice and pleasant one... I now understand why there are so many englishmen there ! The light, the colors, the contours, the villages, the weather are delightfull Time, that is what I miss the most! Patrick

During our recent trip to Provence, south eastern area of France, we payed a visit to two old quarries (ocher) nowadays rehabilitated. I puted together a few shots in a slideshow : Ocres, you will find on Bill's Beechbrook website. 28mb - 3'20 - 1920x1200 Keyboard control and F1 key active Take it easy Patrick Any comments welcome.

Hi Colhill Serene and furiously romantic ! Pleasant sequence you can probably easily enhance if you make your slide changes fit closer to the music respiration. The 2 last slides are too contrasty from my point of view and are consequently not of same quality as the others. Thanks for sharing Patrick

Hi Goddi A superb show sustained by an excellent sound track ! This kind of diary, a sort of day after day reportage, makes the concern about the slide quality to be of very poor importance. Thank you very much for sharing such a personal slideshow. I stood stuck on the screen until the last slide and could stay so for a much much longer time. Definitely a keeper ! Patrick

Hi Maureen Wow ! A sober and clean show. Superb shots and very nice lights. An absolute keeper Thanks for sharing Patrick

Hello Daniel Great pictures, moody pictures and in some way, heart-rending pictures. Thank you very much for sharing Patrick

Hi John A la la ... Highlands ! The skies of Skye ! The amazing sceneries ! Impossible to travel there without beeing truly fascinated ! Your photos are very good. The Skye's bridge and it's dark and terrible sky background is stunning. Some photos are a bit dark but they are at there place here as the ever changing light conditions gives such dark impressions. Thank you very much for sharing Patrick

You did a good job and I too know about noise reducers. I tried these tools with my photos, but, as Daniel ("Dadou"), the plastic aspect for the shots where grain is the most visible is much too unreal to my taste. To say truth, I like the "noise" shape and the tightened grains my Sony Alpha renders for high sensitivities ... perhaps reminiscences of some very good black and white photographic papers I am not looking for a surgical photographic precision but more for something that respects an atmosphere. Consdidering the circus stage, lights were crude but there was also a very light white smoke floating in the big top that reduced very noticeably contrasts... very close to my photos grainy aspect !

You will find > here < (on Bill's Beechbrook site) a little and short (2' 50" - 20 Mo) slideshow I created with some of the photos I took during a Circus show. Concerning technical points, I selected most of time 1600 ISO sensitivity (800 ISO minimum up to 3200 ISO) .... therefore the grainy shots. Have fun Comments wellcome Patrick

As Ken... Just concerning the initial text : too quick, initates instead of initiates and spaces missing

Hi Andrew Very good slideshow as it is. Here the few things that could be enhanced from my point of view - at the beginning, the words "ARBEIT MACHT FREI" are very very hardly visible - the end is much too brutal - there is something as a red water pole exactly in the center a one photo, about halfway of the slideshow. It is probably not something that existed during the camps "life" and, as it is very (too) visible, I find better this object to be wiped off 3 more minor points - you can put off the mouse pointer for all the sequence - music could be more sorrowful (tastes.... ) - the comment about the crematorium comes a bit curiously as it is the sole one for all the slideshow. i find it needless... or you have to give comments for all your slides ! As contrasts and color saturation are very high, I suppose you used a particular effect (High Dynamic Range like): what is that effect ? I find this effect very suited for the subject as it gives a particular patina... as old color postcards. Once more, congratulations for this very good slideshow Patrick

Hello Maureen Superb shots, great sceneries ! Very good lights with some awsome skies, when blue or grey ! A few carribean blue seas, with, I suppose, nearly antarctical cold waters The very last slide and the music terminates a bit abruptly but, for me, a keeper and a sequence I will see again with pleasure Thanks for sharing Patrick

Thank you very much for all your warm and encouraging comments. I have uploaded some of my photos on my Pbase space, and here you will find the trail of our trip and also localized photos so that you can have an idea where I took them Patrick

The land of contrasts; The land God made in anger; The ageless land, The land of wide-open spaces.... Namibia. I had chance to be there last month for 2 weeks. You will find on Bill's Beechbrook Cottage site my last slideshow Namibia - land of contrasts : - 6'22" - no particular tricks, only photos : sorry for some poor quality photos of animals... my tele lenses is of very modest standard - PTE V4.49... I had so much trouble trying to cope with the V5's timeline that I abandonned due to lack of time and tenacity I hope you will find as much pleasure to view my photos as I had to take them. If the transition rythm is too fast... no problem, the slideshow is fully keyboard controllable (pause, arrows, ...) and you can also pause/resume it with the left mouse button Happy viewing Comments welcome Patrick

Hi Jeff Despite bad weather conditions you had chance to take some great and unusual shots ! I enjoyed much this pleasant trip story. As attested by your aft right bumper, you made some unattended encounter ! Thank you for sharing Patrick

... not hundreds of meters but only 1m50 and the crash would have been actually a fatal one ! The glider slipped on his belly and was stopped by trees as they sheared off the wings. The wreck definitively arrested on a ridge, only 1m50 far from a steep stone scree which ends 200m down there Maybe in half a year... Patrick

Thank you very much for watching. Next time it will be very difficult for me, just to keep the same quality level after your comments ! Concerning my friend, just a few words. He crashed in the southern Alps at 2000m altitude because of strong unattended descending north winds. The glider was totally destroyed and he had to wait there about three hours, incarcerated in his cockpit, before the searching helicopter found the spot. Since then, he supported 3 surgical procedures for a crushed lumbar vertebra. For the moment, apart residual pain and difficulties to stay long times in vertical position, he is also too "stiff" to sit in a glider cockpit ... maybe at the end of this summer ? Patrick

Soaring passion This slideshow has for subject the passion for flying with gliders of a friend of mine, Roland Stuck, internationaly known in the glider world. He suffered last year a very dramatic crash in the french Alps and is unable to go back in a cockpit for months. He asked me to put together some photos as a remembrance of better days. There are 3 sequences : plain flight (thermal soaring) near the home base Haguenau (Alsace / France) and, in the french south Alps, mountain and ridge flight (dynamic soaring) at Puimoisson and wave soaring (the nirvana for a glider pilot) at St-Auban. I am the author of the first third photos and I give, as indicated at the end of the slideshow, a collective credit, because of numerous authors (french-german meeting of young glider pilots ) for the last third of photos. Photo format = 1280 / 848 pixels Slideshow fully controllable (mouse or keyboard) Thank you to Bill for hosting the slideshow Happy flyings ! Comments welcome Patrick

... CCleaner Patrick

Ite missa est (it's over, the fat lady has sung) ... in PTE we trust ! Nothing to add ... useless ! Good night (midnight in 30 min) Patrick