(24 Jan 2015, 7:23 pm)Malarkey wrote It has came to my attention that a certain Bus Enthusiast with dark hair and flashy camera, took it upon himself to invade my territory today whilst photographing the Mercs on there last day on the 2A/2C, This person was caught red handed by ones mother as she walked down the street to get the Bus, hmmm I wonder who it could be.
(24 Jan 2015, 7:23 pm)Malarkey wrote It has came to my attention that a certain Bus Enthusiast with dark hair and flashy camera, took it upon himself to invade my territory today whilst photographing the Mercs on there last day on the 2A/2C, This person was caught red handed by ones mother as she walked down the street to get the Bus, hmmm I wonder who it could be.
(24 Jan 2015, 7:26 pm)Dan wrote Was this bus enthusiast with dark hair and a flashy camera also munching on a Big Mac and a Toffee Honeycomb McFlurry?Had a feeling it was you when my mother gave the description, as for the Big Mac and Toffee Honeycomb McFlurry I have zero idea, doubt it though as she seen you at the bottom of Lambton taking this photo - https://www.flickr.com/photos/danielgrah...355419972/
(24 Jan 2015, 7:27 pm)MarcTheA4 wrote What was he doin' ya turf?
(24 Jan 2015, 7:31 pm)Dan wrote For 5327!
Go North East: 5327 / NK58DWE by danielgrahamm, on Flickr
When I was planning where to get my photographs, I realised that this was the only place (besides The Galleries) that I could photograph 5327 in full sun. Low sun means I have to plan around open spaces - Lambton serving as a good example!
(24 Jan 2015, 7:36 pm)Jimmi wrote I think we all have our own turf's and we don't want people stepping on our patch, a few month back someone stepped on my patch and they did a real s**t job of getting photos there.
(24 Jan 2015, 7:32 pm)MarcTheA4 wrote Oh I thought he was on about Bazza.
(24 Jan 2015, 7:35 pm)Malarkey wrote Trust you to post at the exact same time haha, the low sun is a right pain in the arse when coming up the main road through Lambton, when I took my photo of 5325 last week I tried to get it at that spot, but ended up with Sun all over the Windscreen, so ended up do an Olympic Sprint back up the street.
(24 Jan 2015, 7:38 pm)MarcTheA4 wrote Gotta be honest I do love CLS, albeit all of its downsides.
Don't like crappy photos in the place - Mods: if he has an account on here please delete my post - but 'uktransportvideos82' on Flickr seems to take photos with a £10 phone from Tesco and get like 30+ likes on every photo! [emoji47] - a lot of which are in CLS!
(24 Jan 2015, 7:45 pm)Jimmi wrote I ended up in his photo of an Arriva Enviro 200 the other week.
That particular photo has 69 likes, think I'll have to stop trying so hard and follow the whole of Flickr - just kidding I couldn't do that.
(24 Jan 2015, 7:52 pm)Tommy_1581 wrote Next time that you see him give him a salute of some kind...
(24 Jan 2015, 7:51 pm)Dan wrote Went through his photostream the other night and noticed the massive amount of faves on each photo. Looked on his profile and saw he followed 5,600 others - I only follow 132!
(24 Jan 2015, 7:43 pm)Dan wrote 'SunCalc' helps me a great deal when planning the best location to get photos.So from looking at you would of been standing on the of the Pavement just before the double parking spaces then im guessing, might have to start using this as it seems to be quite helpful, and clearly makes a major improvement to photos if stood in the right position.
For the spot I caught 5327 at:
http://suncalc.net/#/54.8934,-1.5367,20/...1.24/14:25
The middle line represents the angle which the sun is coming from. The sun needs to be behind you, so you also need to stand somewhere on this line (in real life - obviously!)
At this time of year, 14:30 is probably the latest you can get a photo there, as I had to squeeze the bus into a tiny space to avoid a few shadows at the back of the bus. The sun will start getting lower by 15:00, meaning that there are more and more shadows.
(24 Jan 2015, 7:54 pm)Dan wrote I jumped on the following 82/83 to The Galleries. He had plenty of layover at The Galleries before heading back to Sunderland, so I stood there and gave him a really big grin for the duration. I ended up on his bus later when I was heading home - he didn't get a 'thank you' or 'cheers' from me!
(25 Jan 2015, 8:40 am)Tom wrote Aye. Hope you have a good day
(25 Jan 2015, 8:41 am)Dan wrote Probably not Park Lane, but I'll be at various places in Sunderland to get photos of the service changes. Have to do our news update first, though!