The Tractor Twitcher Posted February 12, 2009 Share Posted February 12, 2009 It's not only all things machinery I enjoy taking photographs of, i'm fascinated by the local landscape and since I got my digital camera for Christmas 2007 around this time last year started doing a lot of walking and taking a few photos on my travels of the nearby scenery. First few snow covered captures are taken from last year, firstly near the level crossing of the North York Moors Railway in Pickering and from a farm track only a few hundred yards from my house. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Massey Boys Mum Posted February 12, 2009 Share Posted February 12, 2009 What a beautiful tree Walter Derwent! Your photos are great. I hope you don't mind me asking - what age are you? It does not say on your profile! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Tractor Twitcher Posted February 12, 2009 Author Share Posted February 12, 2009 What a beautiful tree Walter Derwent! Your photos are great. I hope you don't mind me asking - what age are you? It does not say on your profile! Thanks Massey Boys Mum, i'm not sure what that tree actually is, but it makes quite an impression on the horizon just above where I live, remember my brother and I nick-naming it the "Witch Tree" when we were little lads. I'm a 25 year old country bumpkin who works in retail for a living. Here's the link to my little introduction on here: http://www.farmtoysforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=25540.0 Regards David Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Massey Boys Mum Posted February 14, 2009 Share Posted February 14, 2009 I am pretty sure it's an oak tree! I like trees and all wildlife really. I also like the Co-op - it is the best shop near us in Cornwall - also pretty ethical and uses free range eggs in all products so I don't have to read all the packaging! Enjoyed your details about yourself - would be interesting if all the FTF people did that!! Keep taking the photos you have clearly got the talent. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Tractor Twitcher Posted February 15, 2009 Author Share Posted February 15, 2009 I am pretty sure it's an oak tree! I like trees and all wildlife really. I also like the Co-op - it is the best shop near us in Cornwall - also pretty ethical and uses free range eggs in all products so I don't have to read all the packaging! Enjoyed your details about yourself - would be interesting if all the FTF people did that!! Keep taking the photos you have clearly got the talent. Thank you for your very kind words. I really enjoy where I live and what I do for a living. There's some great scenery around here lots of variety and views to capture and I very rarely leave my camera at home if i'm going out anywhere, but i'm still figuring out how to get the best out of it. Although it was never my original career choice I'm really enjoying working for the Co - operative, I originally started working for Safeways / Morrisons as a "trolly dolly" before the Co -op took over the supermarket about two and half years ago and they started to move me up the ladder. I've since moved into the convienience sized stores and i'm now really keen to progress onto running my own store, hopefully in the not too distant future. Thought it was about time I posted something, I'd been lurking for long enough . I do really enjoy writing aswell, haven't written much in a while ( aside from song lyrics ) but I might post some of the articles I've written in the past for Yorkshire YFC's yearly handbook on here. Here's a few photos I took very early one morning just as the frost was disappearing from the ground near to where I live whilst practicing with various settings on my camera. I use a Sony Cyber-shot 7.2 mega pixel camera one of the best Christmas presents i've had bought for me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Massey Boys Mum Posted February 15, 2009 Share Posted February 15, 2009 Nice light in the pictures. Maybe we should have a FTF poetry competition? a poem that mentions a farm toy ... why not! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Tractor Twitcher Posted February 15, 2009 Author Share Posted February 15, 2009 Nice light in the pictures. Maybe we should have a FTF poetry competition? a poem that mentions a farm toy ... why not! Thank you, now there's a little challenge, a poem about the wonderful hobby of model tractor collecting Here's a selection of photographs I took on walk to a little hamlet called Ellerburn about 3 miles away from where I live right on the edge of the Dalby Forest complex. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deere-est Posted February 15, 2009 Share Posted February 15, 2009 Lovely. Very majestic some of them. I like the one of the double fenceling alongside the concrete farm road. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Tractor Twitcher Posted February 16, 2009 Author Share Posted February 16, 2009 Lovely. Very majestic some of them. I like the one of the double fenceling alongside the concrete farm road. Thanks Tris, the farm tracks leading from Ellerburn are a great place to walk, cycle and capture a few photographs, they take you right into the centre of Dalby Forest and Dalby Village itself. Here's three more photographs taken on my older Canon 35mm camera back in the summer of 2007 in and around Dalby. Staindale Lake Over looking Langdale Forest. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Tractor Twitcher Posted February 18, 2009 Author Share Posted February 18, 2009 Some more photographs taken with the old Canon camera from a walk up to the Bridestones just above Staindale in the Dalby Forest Complex. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MPR Models Posted February 18, 2009 Share Posted February 18, 2009 Fantastic pictures and amazing views David Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Tractor Twitcher Posted February 18, 2009 Author Share Posted February 18, 2009 Fantastic pictures and amazing views David Thank you Pete, It's great being able to travel very short distances to find some of the views around near where I live. Here's some snowy photographs taken by Dad 20 - 30 years ago, first continuing the Dalby theme, were taken from my Uncle's farm. Next couple from where I used to live as a "little un" at the other side of Pickering and of the snow man Dad made me. Last one is of a frozen river near York taken in the late 70's. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deere-est Posted February 18, 2009 Share Posted February 18, 2009 A Cortina?! You're showing your age now!! Lovely shots, love the first one looking up or downstream of the river. Could be many a place along the Wye in Wales that one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tractorman810 Posted February 18, 2009 Share Posted February 18, 2009 mk3 cortina and a mk3 escort, dam they must be old pics, mind you i have one somewhere in a yellow mk2 cortina gt black roof 2 door one :D great pics, really must remember to take my camera out when i go bike riding, due to start again soon so must do it this year Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Tractor Twitcher Posted February 18, 2009 Author Share Posted February 18, 2009 A Cortina?! You're showing your age now!! Lovely shots, love the first one looking up or downstream of the river. Could be many a place along the Wye in Wales that one. mk3 cortina and a mk3 escort, dam they must be old pics, mind you i have one somewhere in a yellow mk2 cortina gt black roof 2 door one :D great pics, really must remember to take my camera out when i go bike riding, due to start again soon so must do it this year Thanks Tris and Sean, The Mk3 Escort was my Uncle's and the Cortina was my Dad's. My Dad's had a few Cortinas in the past and several Escorts. When we moved to where we live now in 1988 the first car I remember us having was an immaculate Y plate Mk3 Cortina Crusader. Dad's two rally cars he built on the farm were also Fords, Mk1 and Mk2 Escorts back in the mid seventies, shame I wasn't around to see them in the flesh. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tractorman810 Posted February 18, 2009 Share Posted February 18, 2009 mk 1 escort eh, guy i work with has a mk1 escort, fully rally preped, no decals ect, uses it for trials ect, things imaculate, and he uses it to comute to work each day Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Tractor Twitcher Posted February 18, 2009 Author Share Posted February 18, 2009 mk 1 escort eh, guy i work with has a mk1 escort, fully rally preped, no decals ect, uses it for trials ect, things imaculate, and he uses it to comute to work each day I'm a massive fan of the old Escorts, proper rally cars that sound the business too. I'm not as interested in the really really expensive modern rally cars of today, I still try and attend half a dozen rallies a year especially those taking place in Dalby. And while we're on the subject of the Escorts here's my Dad's two cars. Firstly Dad practicing with the Mk1 up at the farm and the Mk2 fresh from the work shop ( an old chicken shed). Dad only did 3 rallies in the Mk2 before selling up and settling down. Would love to see some photos of your colleague's car Sean. I know it's slightly off topic for this thread but If anyone's interested I have loads more old photographs of both cars in action on events. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Tractor Twitcher Posted February 19, 2009 Author Share Posted February 19, 2009 Final few snow covered photographs taken across the Vale of Pickering at the weekend before the mild weather took over this week. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BC Posted February 19, 2009 Share Posted February 19, 2009 I'm liking what I see with those old Mk1 and Mk2 Escorts David. Any pictures of Mexicos Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Tractor Twitcher Posted February 19, 2009 Author Share Posted February 19, 2009 I'm liking what I see with those old Mk1 and Mk2 Escorts David. Any pictures of Mexicos Thanks Bill, i'm afraid I don't have any Escort Mexico photographs, my Dad's first brand new car was a lime green Mexico, but when he decided he wanted a rallying Escort Mk1 the Mexico was the first thing to be sold to pay for it. Here's dad in action on an event in his back yard of Dalby Forest in his B.D.A powered Mk1. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BC Posted February 19, 2009 Share Posted February 19, 2009 Nice action shot there David. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Tractor Twitcher Posted February 19, 2009 Author Share Posted February 19, 2009 Nice action shot there David. Thanks Bill, it was taken by a friend on a rally called the Leeds Crest stages in 1978 an event which Dad won. It now goes by the name of the Trackrod Rally Yorkshire. Dad and I went up to spectate last year on the event and quite by chance met up with his former co - driver who had navigated him to victory 30 years ago on the corner we were watching from, a very nice surprise. His former co-driver Jim on the left and Dad on the right. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BC Posted February 19, 2009 Share Posted February 19, 2009 It is a small small world as they say David. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Tractor Twitcher Posted February 22, 2009 Author Share Posted February 22, 2009 It is a small small world as they say David. It certainly seems that way sometimes Bill, had a great day reminiscing and took plenty of photographs as always Here's a few from the event from where we were spectating and a couple of the cars. First of all a couple of pictures taken playing with camera settings staring up through the early morning mist. Followed by some of the scenery and a couple of action shots. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Tractor Twitcher Posted February 22, 2009 Author Share Posted February 22, 2009 Here's a few attempts at landscape views with machinery themes old and new. Cereals 2008. Festival of the Plough. Snainton YFC Ploughing Match from Saturday just gone. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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