Now, time to start reinstalling plugins and seeing what’s new …

Blists Hill Victorian Town in Ironbridge opened it’s doors on the evening of Saturday November 7 for a Family Fireworks Extravaganza. The streets were illuminated by gaslight as they would have been in the 19th century, and the town’s shops, cottages, and workshops were open for visitors to talk to the ‘resident’ Victorians about life in the late 1800s.

The magnificent new Canal Street is lined on both sides with a wonderful parade of shops, including a Drapers and Outfitters, Post Office, Photographers, Sweetshop, and Fried Fish Dealers. The artisans’ corner includes plumbers, tinsmiths and decorative plasterers.

The evening was rounded off with an authentic Victorian funfair, and a spectacular fireworks show. An excellent night’s entertainment!

Head over to the gallery to check out fireworks!

Many thanks to John-Hendric Durrer for assistance in developing and testing this new spreadsheet.

Not only does it include the solution to the Triangle of Velocities to allow automatic calculation of heading and groundspeed based on the given wind forecast, but it now also calculates your track and distance using the Rhumb line between your waypoints.

Flight planning has never been so easy!

Photography is under attack. Across the country it that seems anyone with a camera is being targeted as a potential terrorist, whether amateur or professional, whether landscape, architectural or street photographer. Not only is it corrosive of press freedom but creation of the collective visual history of our country is extinguished by anti-terrorist legislation designed to protect the heritage it prevents us recording.

This campaign is for everyone who values visual imagery, not only photographers.

The campaign is run by a collection of concerned individuals and owes no allegiance to any single organisation.

We must work together now to stop this before photography becomes a part of history rather than a way of recording it. Look here for more – I’m a Photographer, not a Terrorist.