This wasn't a waste pipe, it was a water spring that fell from the top of the hills, the pipe takes it down underneath a road and carried on out to sea. And guess wot after his experience of the pipe, climbing in and out, he didnt even get a wet bum :-o

Thank you Donald ..... i will show him this . cheers again .

You all mentioned using photoshop or any other manipulating programs. I have these programs, but just wanted to give you the original images. Thank you all who commented, your knowledge is very valuable and obviously its something i need to build on. Maybe taking a sunset cloud shot wasnt the best place to start........ so i guess i will be sitting swatting over my manuals and finding out as much as possible. Thank you to everyone.

Im not sure where your from Michelle A and sure as hell im not trecking half way across the world with me rubber gloves and me wahing up liquid. lol

Being prepared for a particular shoot of a particular thing is always necessary. Without the equipment you wouldnt have such wonderful images. And well if your being paid you need to produce exactly the right image that you have in mind before setting out to get that shot. There are bound to be times that you have gone out without a particular peice of equipment and seen something that catches your eye, and think Oo Damn !oO But then you might see something else that is just perfect for what you have avalable at the time. It really all depends on what the reasons are for taking the picture in the first place wether it be for a paid job, or just for self satifaction that you managed to capture such an image or just coz you love photography/ art. I can imagine from the various differant people in this forum range from your top notch photographer who is well known right down to the bottom on the scale of your average everyday person like myself who just has an interest. So we will all have differant ways or ideas of what we call being prepared. Or what our goals may be.

If you are being paid for your photography then its totally understandable to be organised shall we say. But if your not being paid, and its more for having an interest then why plan things, just go out with camera at hand and stumble across what ever takes your fancy, be it a bug, a leaf, or a beauftiful sunset. I even take my camera with me when picking my daughter up from school. (just in case something catches my eye on my journey) . planned or unplanned still create stunning shots.