Completely Cream Crackered

What a weekend, glorious sunshine and I was out  working in it the whole weekend. Saturday included a visit to Brentford v Wolves, whilst Guildford City hosted & beat Horley Town, Sunday was spent mostly at Wings & Wheels, until to sunburned to sit comfortably in the sun any more, then today (bank holiday Monday) I had a food festival, a sports day & Woking v Torquay United (with a sly 10 minutes at Godalming v Guildford City who won again).  Now I am officially & completely & utterly knackered. So a cheeky couple of cold ones are probably in order.

28/08/2017 Odiham Food & Drink Festival. Fruity Foods display

28/08/2017. Godalming Town v Guildford City. Marlon Pinder scores City’s second Goal

28/08/2017Woking FC v Torquay United. Woking’s Bobson BAWLING scores Woking’s Fourth Goal

27/08/2017 Wings & Wheels. Dunsfold Aerodrome. The Red Arrow Synchro Pair

A great win…

 

Guildford City after a win in the FA Cup, during the week, today met old rivals in the next round. It is seldom a bore draw in the league, & this was one that Guildford will look back with satisfaction, running out 4-0 winners, and reality it could and probably should have been a few more.

City were unstoppable on the day, and I don’t recall the City keeper being tested very often. The FA Cup draw for the next round takes place tomorrow (Monday) hopefully a good draw and a continued run would be good, for the club & the club’s coffers.

2008/2017 Guildford City FC v Camberley Town. FA Cup. City 4-0 Winners. City’s Kieran Campbell celebrates scoring city’s first

2008/2017 Guildford City FC v Camberley Town. FA Cup. City 4-0 Winners. City’s Nathaniel Williams scores City’s Fourth with a competitor for goal of the season.

2008/2017 Guildford City FC v Camberley Town. FA Cup. City 4-0 Winners. City’s Dan STEWART goes close

2008/2017 Guildford City FC v Camberley Town. FA Cup. City 4-0 Winners. City’s Dan STEWART scores City’s second goal

2008/2017 Guildford City FC v Camberley Town. FA Cup. City 4-0 Winners. City’s Dan STEWART scores City’s second goal

2008/2017 Guildford City FC v Camberley Town. FA Cup. City 4-0 Winners. City’s Nathaniel Williams scores City’s Fourth with a competitor for goal of the season.

2008/2017 Guildford City FC v Camberley Town. FA Cup. City 4-0 Winners. City’s Dan Stewart

2008/2017 Guildford City FC v Camberley Town. FA Cup. City 4-0 Winners. City’s Dan STEWART

2008/2017 Guildford City FC v Camberley Town. FA Cup. City 4-0 Winners. City’s Nathaniel Williams scores City’s Fourth with a competitor for goal of the season.

2008/2017 Guildford City FC v Camberley Town. FA Cup. City 4-0 Winners City’s Kieran Campbell scores City’s Third from the penalty spot.

2008/2017 Guildford City FC v Camberley Town. FA Cup. City 4-0 Winners. City’s Dan Stewart

2008/2017 Guildford City FC v Camberley Town. FA Cup. City 4-0 Winners City’s Ben FRANKLIN

2008/2017 Guildford City FC v Camberley Town. FA Cup. City 4-0 Winners City’s Kieran Campbell scores City’s Third from the penalty spot.

2008/2017 Guildford City FC v Camberley Town. FA Cup. City 4-0 Winners. City’s Daryl SIAW

2008/2017 Guildford City FC v Camberley Town. FA Cup. City 4-0 Winners. Chad Goulter crosses

2008/2017 Guildford City FC v Camberley Town. FA Cup. City 4-0 Winners. City’s Daryl SIAW

2008/2017 Guildford City FC v Camberley Town. FA Cup. City 4-0 Winners. City’s Dan STEWART scores City’s second goal

2008/2017 Guildford City FC v Camberley Town. FA Cup. City 4-0 Winners City’s Kieran Campbell scores City’s Third from the penalty spot.

2008/2017 Guildford City FC v Camberley Town. FA Cup. City 4-0 Winners. City’s Kieran Campbell celebrates scoring city’s first

2008/2017 Guildford City FC v Camberley Town. FA Cup. City 4-0 Winners. City’s Nathaniel Williams scores City’s Fourth with a competitor for goal of the season.

2008/2017 Guildford City FC v Camberley Town. FA Cup. City 4-0 Winners City’s Kieran Campbell scores City’s Third from the penalty spot.

 

Disappointing Result

I was at Craven Cottage to cover Fulham v Sheffield Wednesday. Only one goal in it, unfortunately it was’t a Fulham goal. However at least it stayed dry. More football tomorrow as Guildford City play in the FA Cup.

19/08/2017 Fulham v Sheffield Wednesday. New signing Fulham’s Rui FONTE

19/08/2017 Fulham v Sheffield Wednesday. Fulham’s Ryan SESSEGNON shoots wide

19/08/2017 Fulham v Sheffield Wednesday. Fulham’s Ryan SESSEGNON just fails to connect with Fulham’s Rui FONTE’S cross

19/08/2017 Fulham v Sheffield Wednesday. New Signing On the Bench today Fulham’s Sheyi OJO

19/08/2017 Fulham v Sheffield Wednesday. Fulham’s Rui FONTE

19/08/2017 Fulham v Sheffield Wednesday. Fulham’s Rui FONTE free kick

19/08/2017 Fulham v Sheffield Wednesday. Fulham’s Stefan JOHANSEN shoots

19/08/2017 Fulham v Sheffield Wednesday. Fulham’s Ryan SESSEGNON shoots wide

19/08/2017 Fulham v Sheffield Wednesday. Fulham’s Ryan SESSEGNON

19/08/2017 Fulham v Sheffield Wednesday. Fulham’s Ryan FREDERICKS

19/08/2017 Fulham v Sheffield Wednesday. Fulham’s Stefan JOHANSEN

19/08/2017 Fulham v Sheffield Wednesday. Fulham’s Ryan FREDERICKS

19/08/2017 Fulham v Sheffield Wednesday. Fulham’s Ryan SESSEGNON

19/08/2017 Fulham v Sheffield Wednesday. New signing Fulham’s Rui FONTE

19/08/2017 Fulham v Sheffield Wednesday.

19/08/2017 Fulham v Sheffield Wednesday. Fulham’s Tom CAIRNEY

19/08/2017 Fulham v Sheffield Wednesday. New Signing On the Bench today Fulham’s Sheyi OJO

19/08/2017 Fulham v Sheffield Wednesday. Fulham’s Ryan FREDERICKS

19/08/2017 Fulham v Sheffield Wednesday. New signing Fulham’s Rui FONTE

19/08/2017 Fulham v Sheffield Wednesday. Fulham’s Neeskens KEBANO

19/08/2017 Fulham v Sheffield Wednesday. Fulham’s Tom CAIRNEY

19/08/2017 Fulham v Sheffield Wednesday. Fulham’s Tom CAIRNEY

19/08/2017 Fulham v Sheffield Wednesday. Fulham’s Ryan SESSEGNON shoots wide

19/08/2017 Fulham v Sheffield Wednesday. New Signing On the Bench today Fulham’s Sheyi OJO

19/08/2017 Fulham v Sheffield Wednesday. Fulham’s Rui FONTE

19/08/2017 Fulham v Sheffield Wednesday. Fulham’s Ryan FREDERICKS

19/08/2017 Fulham v Sheffield Wednesday. Fulham’s Rui FONTE

19/08/2017 Fulham v Sheffield Wednesday. Fulham’s Ryan SESSEGNON shoots wide

Cracking Result

Guildford City had their FA Cup replay mid-week against Newport IoW FC and ran out 3-0 winners. Next up is Camberley Town on Sunday.

17/08/2017 Guildford City v Newport IoW FC. City in the FA Cup won 3-0 at Wey Court. Dan STEWART opens the scoring

17/08/2017 Guildford City v Newport IoW FC. City in the FA Cup won 3-0 at Wey Court. Dan STEWART opens the scoring

17/08/2017 Guildford City v Newport IoW FC. City in the FA Cup won 3-0 at Wey Court. Dan Stewart celebrates his 2nd & Guildford’s third

17/08/2017 Guildford City v Newport IoW FC. City in the FA Cup won 3-0 at Wey Court. Dan Stewart celebrates his 2nd & Guildford’s third

17/08/2017 Guildford City v Newport IoW FC. City in the FA Cup won 3-0 at Wey Court. Kieran CAMPBELL shoots

17/08/2017 Guildford City v Newport IoW FC. City in the FA Cup won 3-0 at Wey Court. City celebrate after Keiran Campbell scores from the penalty spot

17/08/2017 Guildford City v Newport IoW FC. City in the FA Cup won 3-0 at Wey Court. Keiran Campbell scores from the penalty spot

17/08/2017 Guildford City v Newport IoW FC. City in the FA Cup won 3-0 at Wey Court. Keiran Campbell scores from the penalty spot

17/08/2017 Guildford City v Newport IoW FC. City in the FA Cup won 3-0 at Wey Court. City celebrate Dan STEWART opening the scoring

17/08/2017 Guildford City v Newport IoW FC. City in the FA Cup won 3-0 at Wey Court. City celebrate Dan STEWART opening the scoring

That’s it, no more spending

This year has been an expensive year, upgraded from the old EOS1D mkIV bodies, replaced all the glass, replaced flashguns, upgraded iPad, laptops & desktop machines, repaired a Quantum Turbo, serviced the studio kit, & the list goes on. So no more money is being spent on photographic equipment this year. Unless a Sigma 150-600 OS Sport comes up at an unbeatable price, or a Canon 400mm F2.8 or a 500mm F4 or…………

Feeling as Rough as a Badgers Arse…

Been feeling as rough as f*ck the last couple of days, hot/cold sweats, aches, blocked nose one minute, running then next… So seeing as the football season is well & truly upon us I thought it prudent to use the time to update the Photo Mechanic Code Replacement document for the Championship.

Just when you think it’s all over

Having upgraded & replaced just about everything in the kit bag over the last 12 months, the Quantum Turbo decides it’s time to stop working. I have ordered a replacement cell, which will be here tomorrow & with luck that will cure the problem, as I have no plans to replace the Quantum with the Quantum 3 (over £500) when I only use it occasionally.

Anyway it is a quite simple process, but a right royal pain in the arse, undoing the three screws was simple enough, and getting the control panel & electrics a bit of the way out was easy enough, however Quantum use a bit of industrial double sided tape to secure the battery to the case, obviously not anywhere that it is easy to reach or indeed obvious to spot.

Anyway a lot of swearing and the whole assembly is out of the box.

I can’t really complain, I have had the Quantum since some time in the early 2000s, and although it has been used 15 years between services can’t be too bad. I ordered the replacement battery from http://www.batterycompany.co.uk on Sunday night & it should be here tomorrow (Tuesday) pretty good service & cheap £22.00 including shipping.

** Update** Well that went well,  all reassembled and working perfectly, with no left over bits, and no rattles either. Just a full recharge required.

Brentford v Nottingham Forest

 

Covered the Brentford game today, another goalfest, unfortunately even though t hey took the lead, they were unable to get all three points (actually they  couldn’t manage a single point).

12/08/2017 Brentford v Nottingham Forest at Griffin Park. BrentfordÕs Andreas BJELLAND scores

12/08/2017 Brentford v Nottingham Forest at Griffin Park. BrentfordÕs John EGAN appeals for penalty

12/08/2017 Brentford v Nottingham Forest at Griffin Park. BrentfordÕs Lasse VIBE

12/08/2017 Brentford v Nottingham Forest at Griffin Park.

12/08/2017 Brentford v Nottingham Forest at Griffin Park. BrentfordÕs John EGAN

12/08/2017 Brentford v Nottingham Forest at Griffin Park. BrentfordÕs John EGAN

12/08/2017 Brentford v Nottingham Forest at Griffin Park. BrentfordÕs Andreas BJELLAND scores

12/08/2017 Brentford v Nottingham Forest at Griffin Park. BrentfordÕs Henrik DALSGAARD

12/08/2017 Brentford v Nottingham Forest at Griffin Park.BrentfordÕs Lasse VIBE shoots

12/08/2017 Brentford v Nottingham Forest at Griffin Park. BrentfordÕs Florian JOZEFZOON

12/08/2017 Brentford v Nottingham Forest at Griffin Park. BrentfordÕs Andreas BJELLAND

12/08/2017 Brentford v Nottingham Forest at Griffin Park. BrentfordÕs JOTA

12/08/2017 Brentford v Nottingham Forest at Griffin Park. BrentfordÕs Florian JOZEFZOON

12/08/2017 Brentford v Nottingham Forest at Griffin Park. BrentfordÕs JOTA

12/08/2017 Brentford v Nottingham Forest at Griffin Park.BrentfordÕs Henrik DALSGAARD

12/08/2017 Brentford v Nottingham Forest at Griffin Park. BrentfordÕs John EGAN celebrates

12/08/2017 Brentford v Nottingham Forest at Griffin Park. BrentfordÕs Andreas BJELLAND scores

12/08/2017 Brentford v Nottingham Forest at Griffin Park. BrentfordÕs Andreas BJELLAND scores

12/08/2017 Brentford v Nottingham Forest at Griffin Park. BrentfordÕs John EGAN scores

12/08/2017 Brentford v Nottingham Forest at Griffin Park. BrentfordÕs Henrik DALSGAARD

12/08/2017 Brentford v Nottingham Forest at Griffin Park. BrentfordÕs Romaine SAWYERS

12/08/2017 Brentford v Nottingham Forest at Griffin Park. BrentfordÕs Henrik DALSGAARD

12/08/2017 Brentford v Nottingham Forest at Griffin Park. BrentfordÕs John EGAN

12/08/2017 Brentford v Nottingham Forest at Griffin Park. BrentfordÕs John EGAN celebrates

12/08/2017 Brentford v Nottingham Forest at Griffin Park. BrentfordÕs Florian JOZEFZOON shoots

12/08/2017 Brentford v Nottingham Forest at Griffin Park. BrentfordÕs Neal MAUPAY scores

12/08/2017 Brentford v Nottingham Forest at Griffin Park. BrentfordÕs Florian JOZEFZOON shoots

 

Wet & Dry & Wet Again

A day covering a bit of Cricket & Championship football, been wet so many times, however the new waterproof kit did the job (mostly) first job was Cricket in Chesham followed by Fulham v Norwich, In the end a draw seemed fair. Next football is Guildford City v Newport IoW in the FA Cup on Wednesday.

 

Can we please have some Summer now!!

Expensive Year

Finally got around to upgrading the last of my old lenses. The 70-200 F2.8L IS has now been replaced by the 70-200 F2.8L IS USM mkII.