Hi From Bolton, Up North.

[Paul Cheeseman]

hi

i am paul cheeseman and i have just joined real photographers forum. i live in the north west of england in a town named `bolton` which is not too far from the tiny village of manchester.

i started taking photographs back in the late 1970`s and carried on until the mid 1980`s when i gave up for a variety of reasons, the main ones being cost and starting a family.

i came back into photography about 14mths ago, i knew diddly squat about anything digital, but i knew i could remember composition, exposure etc, the stuff that has never changed.

my main interest is `street` but i will take anything that catches my eye. my only claim to fame is i was one of the 57,000 hopefuls who sent their images into the BBC last summer hoping to get into the countryfile calender which raises funds for the `children in need` charity here in the uk.
i ended up being one of the very lucky 12 people who made it into the calender for 2014, im next december.

i hope to contribute to this forum over time, and i dearly wish to learn from the other members.

thank you for taking the time to read my post.

best
pc

 

[Dave Green]

'Eyup from just down t'road in Wigan

 

[Paul Cheeseman]

eee, a pie eater, hows thee doin me old mucker??

 

[Rob MacKillop]

Welcome, Paul. I've never heard of either Bolton or Manchester, so suspect you might live over the border in Englandshire? So, they have cameras there too?

Congrats on becoming Miss December That's amazing! What an honour. I'll look out for you.

 

[Paul Cheeseman]

thank you for the warm welcome rob, your so kind.

i can quite understand you never having heard of bolton, one would need newspapers, electricity, phones , tv`s etc, i understand these luxuries of modern life wont have reached such far flung places as glasgows little suburb yet.

bottoms up
pc

 

[Dave Green]

eee, a pie eater, hows thee doin me old mucker??

Am chonkin' cocker!

Bowton - I like parts of Bowton. The Mathers of Lancashire part

 

[Davie Hudson]

I've never been to Bolton, though i have been to most of the north west at various northern soul nights lol ... welcome Paul, Although i'm scottish i have a fair bits of Lancs time in me having lived in Skem for 8 years

 

[Dan Cattermole]

Skelmesdale!?! Wow :/ would never of put you from there Davie..... You have intelligence! !

 

[Dan Cattermole]

Welcome Paul.
Hope you enjoy it here.

 

[Beth Carter]

welcome mr. december!

 

[Pete Askew]

Welcome to RPF Paul. I can see you are fitting right in here. I get to Bolton every now and then (usually at least once per year and have a good friend who lives there and a cousin! - both in Heaton). Looking forward to seeing some (more) pictures and chatting about photography.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b008dk4b/profiles/countryfile-calendar-2014

 

[Pete Askew]

What a cracking shot by the way!

 

[Hamish Gill]

"Sheep skyline" man! Countryphile calendar is one thing Paul, but you can add to the that the accolade of "the photo in the countryphile calendar that Hamish and his missis thought should have won"... and that is prestigious!
That's a great competition to do that well in I think!
Welcome to the forum!

 

[Davie Hudson]

Skelmesdale!?! Wow :/ would never of put you from there Davie..... You have intelligence! !

Thanks Dan lol I effectively grew up there

 

[Kev Pugh]

Welcome Paul and well done on the calendar

 

[Julian de'Courcy]

Welcome Paul, nice calendar pic.

 

[Glenn Clabo]

Welcome from Boston Paul. Congratulations on the calendar pic...well done.

 

[Paul Cheeseman]

What a warm and generous welcome, I thank you all and look forwards to sifting through all of your images and all the forums.

A special thank you also to Hamish and his missus, its quite funny, but strangely enough, me and my better half thought exactly the same. I have no idea why though.

Best

Pc

 

[Lesley Jones]

eee, a pie eater, hows thee doin me old mucker??

Oh, for goodness sake - don't encourage him. We have enough accents in here already...

Welcome to the forum and many congratulations on the calendar. I'm off to look at your photographs now...

 

[Lesley Jones]

Ooooh... very nice and I would have voted for this one. You'll have to excuse me - I have a Rundll32 error and the PC is playing up badly tonight. I'm going to give it a serious talking to. I may be some time...