Guess the Place

[John Walker]

Time for a clue. This town has three railway stations.

[John Walker]

Ecclesiastical?

Not Ecclesiastical.  In a town.  Can be seen on GSV.

[MartinR]

Ecclesiastical?

[John Walker]

My next GTP.

Where is this and where do the stairs lead to?

[MartinR]

Watch out with drones.  The law has been tightened up significantly and for all but the smallest drones you will need a licence.  Even for the small ones, if they have a camera they need licensing.  See https://www.caa.co.uk/drones/rules-and-categories-of-drone-flying/introduction-to-drone-flying-and-the-uk-rules/

Nice camera.  I've recently upgraded from a Canon EOS 4000D to an EOS 7D Mk II.  It's still and APS-C camera, so my glass still works!  Remember that for hand-held the shutter speed should be faster that the reciprocal of the focal length; for 40mm that means 1/400s maximum, better to be a bit quicker.  Hence the need for tripods in all but the most brilliant sunshine.

[stuartwaters]

I have a camera with a long lens - or rather, my wife does. A Nikon D80 digital camera. She doesn't use it, so I'm thinking I might as well. Need to invest in a tripod for it though. I'm also thinking of buying a drone.

[John Walker]

Thanks MartinR

That one was fun.  I reckon you were near the Premiere Inn when you took that?

Next one up soon.

[MartinR]

Near enough John, sat on the seafront in Southend looking across the Thames.  ISO 100, f/5.0, 210mm with APS_C cropping = 336mm, further cropped in post-processing.  Over to you John.

[John Walker]

From the end of Southend Pier ?  (with a very long lens)

Trying to work out the angle that puts the fort to the right of the turbines.

[MartinR]

Not in a boat, but very nearly there.

[John Walker]

Were you sitting on a boat in the Thames looking toward Sheerness/Queenborough?

[MartinR]

Close-ish but not quite there.

[grandarog]

Photo taken from somewhere near Briele Way taken across Peel Port Turbines with the Thames Fort and Essex in the background.

[MartinR]

OK, here is an easy one to restart the ball rolling.  Where are these wind turbines, and where was I sat?

[John Walker]

Okay, it's time to hold my hand up and admit a mistake. Shoot99 and Grandarog are right and in the spirit of absolute fairness, it really should be Shoot999's turn. If he's happy to let MartinR have it, then that's fine with me. I can only offer my sincere apologies to MartinR and to the rest of the players.

In mitigation, I did take the photo more than ten years ago and for some reason, managed to convince myself that it was in the grounds of the church in Upchurch. Looking through all my photos, I can see that I did take a bunch of photos around the church in Lower Halstow, the intention being to upload them to my PC and have a play with some photoshop-like software I had acquired.

Easy done StuartWaters  .   It made the GTP more interesting.  I'd never have found this one even if you had got the right church.