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amawanqa
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Thanks guys. And a warm welcome to the SA thread. 
It was pure luck though; I had it on macro mode to focus on both the bee and thistle, and as I pressed to take the pic, it took off. Lucky Wanqa I be. 
I've now uploaded it (full-size) onto the Esato Photo Gallery:
http://www.esato.com/phonephotos/viewphotos.php?pid=6691
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amawanqa
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From: Hornchurch UK & East London SA
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A potential 'Esato Around The World' pic.
N73, taken this morning in the actual Blackburn Rovers media conference room at the Ewood Park Stadium. We managed to wangle a way into this er... restricted area...
..yeah, this English Premiership team's latest signing is...:
LOL, dream on, Wanqa. 
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Aware
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Hey...........some of the best photos are luck......
Like that last one.........you do seem at home there tho'!
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amawanqa
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Yeah I guess.
Donning the Rovers' home strip did help a little to persuade some of the Ewood Park establishment that these few Saffers that suddenly arrived there, had made quite an effort and journey to visit the place; couldn't quite tell them then and there that I'm not really a Rovers' fan, but the mate that was with me certainly is. It worked, and my mate is still singing the accommodating Rovers' establishment's praises.
We managed to organise entry into the players' changing rooms etc as well, and amazingly all the team strategies utilised against Arsenal on Sunday were still up on numerous whiteboards! We also managed to take N73 pics of these , and when I'm not such a knackered Wanqa as I am now, ie. sometime on Tuesday, I'll cover the supposed 'Strictly Players and Officials Only' areas that we were extremely fortunate to have access to in a few posts later.
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Hobbs
Joined: Oct 07, 2006
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From: Cape Town,South Africa
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Hey Wanga.National Geographic are looking for for a photographer specialising in taking photos using a mobile phone.Take the job dude.
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Hobbs
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Pity about the no HSDPA coverage where you live Falcon.Jeez,I would love that.Sea Points coverage is pretty much 3G/hsdpa 24/7.Mmmm maybe i should go on Vottle and see if anyone wants to swap a N95 for my Phone.You never know.Going to give it a bash.
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Kryptik
Joined: Jun 24, 2005
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From: Port Elizabeth, S.Africa
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Wanqa, bloody brilliant pic mate!!! Just showed it to the Head Numpty here who fancies himself a crack photographer. Was soooo worth showing him, it's not every day that i get to see a pygmy turn green with envy! 
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Rhino8
Joined: Jan 07, 2005
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From: South Africa (Bloemfontein)
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I realise you are probably tired of hearing it, BUT thats a splendid photo
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Tsepz_GP
Joined: Dec 27, 2006
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From: Johannesburg, South Africa
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WOW! Wanqa thats one brilliant pic man,seriously you should start charging people to view them 
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PeterKay
Joined: Jul 08, 2003
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From: The Ummah
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@amawanqa, lovely pics!
How long were you in Blackburn?
Ewood park is say 2 minutes away from me....
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amawanqa
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From: Hornchurch UK & East London SA
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Thanks guys.
@ PK:
I was only there for 2 days, mate. We stayed at The Woodlands Hotel at the top of Preston New Road. Gee, there were enough speed cameras going down the A666 towards the stadium!
We got a bit lost in that one-way system in the city centre while looking for take-aways one night. Most of the restaurants (like The Windmill etc) were not taking further orders at the time as it was pretty late by then. We ended up having some of the best pizza I've had in a long time at Pizza Planet. There were quite a few kebab and pizza places to choose from. We weren't sure how to navigate our way back out the one way system to get up the A666 again.
The one short Asian guy in his 20's that worked there said he would draw us a map, then realised he could help us out even better. He offered to get in his car and drive ahead of us and take us back onto the A666, which he did. We were pretty blessed by his kindness. When he pulled over to signal us to go on ahead once we found our way, my friend Marius climbed out the car and was so impressed by what the guy did for us that he offered him 10 as a thank you. The guy declined, thanking Marius but asking him to rather give it to the poor, as did it for us "from his heart." Wow. That spoke volumes.
That kind of stuff one does not forget in a hurry.
A pity that I didn't realise that you stayed in Blackburn. Woulda been great to meet up with the legendary PK in the short time that I was there.
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PeterKay
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Hey shame, you could've come for a meal or tea at least!!
not to worry, maybe next time.
Speed camera's  plenty of them in Blackburn mate, trying to make the roads safer!!
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mario2004
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For 50bucks you can get a bluetooth GPS for your N73. The software is virtually free for th s60 os You'll never get lost again never mind asking strangers for direction. The tomtom is very nice in europe while here in sa, Garmin rules. Carefull with the bluetooth Gps thou, the garmin protocol is not the same as the more popular nmea ! Help may be 'on the way' if I am successful with the porting of 'gpsproxy' to the s60 platform . Greetings from Jeffreys.
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amawanqa
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From: Hornchurch UK & East London SA
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@ PK,
Yup, next time I'm in your neck of the woods, I'll send you a PM before the time mate.
@ Mario,
Thanks for that info. Gotta look into that. I obviously haven't climbed onto the GPS bandwagon yet; we've always managed quite well to get around with the map books here, but it would've come in handy on Sunday night..
The one-way systems are even worse in Stirling and Perth in Scotland; they make Pretoria's one way system look like an absolute breeze! (which it kinda is, IMHO.)
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Falcon786
Joined: Sep 09, 2005
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From: Vereeniging-South Africa
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Yeah wanqs actually i find sa one way systems to be very simple indeed.take durban,jhb,pta as examples...mario is that 50 pounds or rands ?if rands then flip that's cheap!
My dad's contract is coming up for an upgrade so i have to option of a new phone.problem is i'm pretty happy with both my phones oh just sold the w800 last week.what i really find usefull about the v3x as second phone for calls is the extended detailed call log ie 60 of received calls log plus 60 dialled and with full details like time duration and also if caller id was shown or not...and privacy settings are a blessing lol nobody has access to any of my messages or anything i choose to lock!
I can even lock the phone book or particular programs
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