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    desert storm photo test

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    ok sorry not working then!
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    ha ha! finally! yea! chose the direct link option and realised on the mac its cntrl/apple that gives me the option. will now try more...
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    Re: desert storm photo test

    You need to click on the icon that looks like a picture of a mountain and then just paste the URL of the image in including the "http://" bit and it does this...

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    Re: desert storm photo test

    Superb photo by the way
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    bloody hell, whre you find this!? i try that but im on a mac, and when the forums window come up to post the URl, the paste option disappears!?

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    Re: desert storm photo test

    Maybe a Mac browser issue? If you're not already using it, you could give Firefox a go and see whether that's any different.
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    Re: desert storm photo test

    the road to uis through damaraland in namibia. have to do this twice a week to get to work....


    sandstorm last week, cars had to stop as windscreens where getting frosted!


    stayed here for about an hour waiting for it to blow over, eventually had to go of-road for 50kms before back on the road


    on a good day.....

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    Re: desert storm photo test

    Commuting to work can be a bitch sometimes,


    saw the title and thought you'd bought the desert storm Varadero, 1 of a kind and up for sale, was not expecting a real storm in the desert great photos

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    Re: desert storm photo test

    was as funny as hectic! that top photo of my face is not my beard!
    my nose started bleeding with the rapid pressure and heat change, and sand sticking to it. i did not realize at the time, and stuck my head through a few tourist windows to tell them to turn their vehicles with backsides to the wind. imagine the stories they gonna tell back home of this bloody helmeted biker from hell banging on their widows in the middle of the desert.
    the frantic hiding of daughters should have warned me.....wasnt the dashing good looks then!

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    Re: desert storm photo test

    He's cracked it!!! Thanks Joe! Man, that sand looks BAD! That's Brandberg in the background isn't it?

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    Re: desert storm photo test

    yea man, did it. im such a friggen ignoramus, but now i know how, im gonna post photos till your all so bored (or jealous) you kick me of the forum! doing another sand thing this weekend(if i get my tyre), so youl get to see my impersonation of a namib dune mole. thats indeed the brandberg. folks recon it was the worst eastwind in 70 years!? welcome to global warming mate! discovered today that all my radiator finns had been flattened as well. picking sand and rocks out of places i did not know places existed! thanks for the help

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