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In 1881 he was a collector for Gas and Water, unmarried and living with widowed mother Isabella at 15 Hygiene Place in CLM.

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In 1891 he was married to Annie and had daughters Beatrice 8 and Florence 3. He was listed as a General Carrier living at 69 Grange St.

Your photos of the graveyard are lovely, davemac. Quite haunting.

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Recently I was playing a classic game rainbow islands and to test the attachment that you mentioned Neil here it is.

edit: It lets you post them as attachment but still posts them in the body so has to be edited afterwards

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It depends, most days I`m a warehouse/production manager, but if it`s quiet I`m a delivery driver. It`s always quiet this time of year so I do more deliveries. In a month or two I`ll be lucky if I get out once a month.

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Do you take Daisy and Duke with you?

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No, too far for them and there`s not enough room.

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I had a walk over the Coppice to Hapton last night to see a friend, thought I'd take my camera an have a play with exposures an shutter speeds :D

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Were you hand held, or tripod ?

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Looking good AccyExplorer, not easy to do them, I had a go a few weeks ago.
I know what you`ve done on No. 1, you`ve rested the camera on the monument at the top, you can straighten that with most editing software.

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Handheld,you could say i was freezing my conkers off :eek::D

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Saw this on my way to work this morning, Cemetry on New Lane.

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That's a big tree to come down - looks like it only just missed the church!

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Nice shots! Number 1 reminds me of flying over my city in a plane, so the angle works for me. Number 3 is my favourite though :)

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:eek::eek:

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I do hope Davemac isn't out in this inclement stuff.
I have just come in from daughters house and the rain has icy bits in it.
If he is out I hope his mother has a clean vest and socks warming in the oven! :D

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That's what happens when you wet them in the fountain.

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I certainly was, and as they say, you have to be in it to wet it. (but I wasn't out long).

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Today in Pictures, a moist but brief outing to the park.

1. So that's a wet knee to start off with.
2. It's already wet, so just carry on.
3. It just seems a bit early for this flower, last year the sun was bouncing off my head, I am partially there, as something is bouncing off my head.
4. Hyndburn council employ a new driver, he has a woof first day.
5. Although it didn't stop him cocking his leg up on the tyre.

And with that it was home to the oven.

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By the look of the roots it has been partially dead for a while.

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I guessed as much, looked to have snapped just below ground level.

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I love the crocuses. And what is an Iris doing out in February???!!!! I'll have to wait til June for mine to come up, the way we're going over here.

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It was pouring down and I thought to myself Dave will be out in this.......the kind of weather you wouldn't send a dog out in...and you are out on your knees snapping greenery and plants...lad, you must be mad!

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It is an early flowering dwarf variety, but it still is a month early, it should not be out until March.

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It certainly was an unusual day, as you say, you wouldn't send a dog out, yet I snapped a man, dressed as a dog, and he was out in it, sort of a triple wammy. Yet I am inclined to think you may be right about my collection of marbles being a few short.

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Being in a restless sort of mood I was just mooching the site and I noticed this particular thread has had 204,433 views, I don't know, but is this a large number ?

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I think the post to like ratio is more significant.

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That would only be statistically relevant for contributors and viewers who partake in the "like" system, but it didn't exist when the thread started, so unless viewers have gone back to the start it is not an accurate view of the entire thread. But I was just wondering if the number of views that the thread has had was a high number for the entire site, I don't know how to get the number of views for the entire sites threads without spending too much time visiting each sub-section, I was just curious that was all.

I am now waiting for the weather to turn bad so I can go out.

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At a guess, i`d say it`s in the top three, behind change a letter - 4 letter words and the video jukebox.

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I obviously haven't been through the entire site as I haven't heard of two of those.

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I`m glad I had my wellybobs on today.

1. An old Daisy Dairy trailer.
2 & 3. A muddy Daisy.
4. The rivers looking dirty.
5. Whooaah.
6 - 8. Daisy by the river.
9. The Dunkenhalgh.
10 A soggy horse.

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A walk I know very well, but there does seem to be a lot more water than last time I visited. Never tried focus pulling myself, it adds a bit of a different slant.

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A trip to Enschede Market & a ride through the scenery on the way back over the villages.

Dutch-German border "Rammelbeecke" - One of many cheese stalls - A 5 a day stall - Street art & dosser - Little theatre facade - Grote Kerk & Oude Markt Enschede - Back in Germany, Bad Bentheim "Burg Benthiem" - Burg Bentheim rear view. :)

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Didn`t know there was a name for it, was trying a milky waterfall and during the exposure just twisted the zoom and that`s what I ended up with.
There is a lot of water at the moment, I`ve noticed the canal level is quite a bit higher than normal, almost overflowing in places.

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[QUOTE=gpick24;1094578]I`m glad I had my wellybobs on today.

1. An old Daisy Dairy trailer.
2 & 3. A muddy Daisy.
4. The rivers looking dirty.
5. Whooaah.
6 - 8. Daisy by the river.
9. The Dunkenhalgh.
10 A soggy horse.[/QUOTE
I see Duke and Daisy are as clean as usual.

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Don't pull your focus ,it can be painfull

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Number 5 portrays how I feel at the moment - an inner ear virus has left me all giddy!

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I have heard it called a few things,pulling the focus being one, but the most common name is Zoom Blur.

It can also give you streaks around the edges.

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Hope you get better soon.:)

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Today in Pictures, was a day when I found more walls than a lorry load of sausages.

1. Styles were never made for comfort.
2. I have to lie down in the muck at some stage, so get it out of the way early.
3. The wind was that strong I am surprised I got anything in focus.
4. I am buffeted that much its like a little boy writing his name in the snow.
5. Sat on my jacksie again.
6. The wet bits today are not streams, but old cart tracks.
7. Why are dry stone walls so wet.
8. My hat is tied on at this point.
9. Looking down on Clitheroe.
10. Over the next hill and back to the car.

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That looks a lonely place Dave, where is it?

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Pendle Hill, left hand side at the top as you drive out of Sabden. Its on the way to Jeppe Knave's grave.

http://www.accringtonweb.com/forum/f...61576-218.html

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Looks a nice way up, only ever started off at Barley to go up there.

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The route left takes you past Pendleton Moor and down to Spring Wood at Whalley. There are some tough styles to climb over and at one point you have to climb over a wall as there is no style, but it is part of the footpath.

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I was flicking through my pics and came across these taken off my Iphone 3gs in 2010.There of morecambe bay from round silverdale area.
What a good little cam it had :)
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Still have my 3gs.

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There a good phone,I was surprised to see how smart the pics it takes are :)

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The cheeses look great, and nice to see the colourful peppers :)

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Thank you - it may take some weeks, according to my doc. It cramps my style a bit - can't stand moving about too much or car rides over 5 minutes in duration. Hence I'm really enjoying vicarious walkies with my Accrington Web camera mates!

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Number 3 is spectacular. I regret never having walked up Pendle - something I missed somehow as a lass. Something to put on my bucket list perhaps!

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A walk around Jumbles Reservoir this morning. I have never seen the overflow in pic 1 going so fast.

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Nice shots! I loved my 3GS too - I still have it, but its battery conked out after 3 years. Now I use it for playing music in the car - plugged in for power of course.

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I am draw to the hill, although there are large areas of not a lot to see,I find the dominating viewpoint and remoteness the reason for me going up there. The downside is when the weather is nice it gets a bit too busy.

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Number 3 is a lovely shot, but that is a serious amount of water!

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All the more reason to brave the elements. Crowds of people would ruin it for me too.

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Decided to treat Daisy and Duke to a trip to the seaside, they`ve never been before and they loved it.

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I was emailed by a friend asking me if I could get a few snaps of Broadway, the town hall and the market so I thought I would use them for Today in Pictures.
It's only afterwards when I saw the news on TV I realised why it was so clean around there.

It was getting dark when I set off home so I managed a couple more pics on my way.

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I see you've been were we park.By the canal bridge.We sometime walk Max from there either to Rishton or Burnley

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What a cracking set of shots, number 9 made me look twice, it almost could be the same bird snapped a few times on the same frame. I know its not, which makes the shot a little belter. I am sort of guessing at Oystercatcher.

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I see what you mean about the cleanliness, also, almost devoid of people as well, nice portrayal of the town.

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Thanks, I think you`re right about the species, I did wonder what they were, tried the RSPB identifier but didn`t come up with anything that looked like the ones in the pic,

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Today in Pictures, a walk down to the river without paying too much attention to the river. The sun was shining, the birds were singing, it could be mistaken for Spring, well almost, its still very gloopy underfoot.

1. Its always nice to start with a wet bit.
2. Looking in the direction of Whalley Nab, the sheep are now in the fields for lambing.
3. My back is to the river looking back up the hill.
4. The water is not as heavy as expected.
5. Look what I found !
6. Almost like bubbles.
7. Long shadows and a stripy sky.
8. The only shot of the river.
9. Time to head back up the hill.
10. Almost back at the top.

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Top marks that man! undeniably oyster catchers, the prominent white bar along the wings, their shape & the long straight red beak.

Very good photo that Gp24. :)

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Some more pics taken on IPhone 3GS :).......Pics are of Leighton Moss nature reserve etc, Silverdale, Carnforth.


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Post 6561 DaveMac, number 3 is another one that I really like, good photie Dave, proper pastural, nice. :)

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Thanks, shooting in the direction of a low sun gave it a warm feeling.

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Today in pictures, St Mary's burial ground and the Millennium Woods.

1. Autumn leaves and Spring flowers.
2. I'm on the ground again.
3. The Daffs are trying to get out.
4. Reading the stones tells a story of Why Victorian families had a lot of children, a lot die young, and you wonder how they managed.
5. Next location.
6. Alder, female catkins right, male catkins left.
7. Early Cherry blossom, but not many.
8. Another world on a wall.
9. We like to think we will be remembered forever, but two generations and we are lost in time.
10. Just messing with texture.

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Great shots,No2 is my fave.... Can you do close ups with a bridge camera? :confused:

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If you can get your hands on a laser pointer, you can get good close ups with your 3gs.

DIY A IPhone Macro Lens with Laser Pointer for $1

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Time for a beer break.

And that snow pile is all my own work.

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If your camera has a macro setting use that, or if it doesn't, does it have a thread on the end of the lens for screwing filters in, if it does then you can get close up filters in various dioptres, The photo you like was shot with a 10 dioptre stack (three screwed together).
Another way is to stand back a bit and zoom in as close as it will let you. Not technically macro, but you will get the same result.
What camera are you using ?

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Just checked the link, an innovative way to use the phone in close up mode.

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Saw it a while ago, never tried it though. I think laser pointers are banned in this country.

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How come you didn't make a snowman from it.

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Where is Jumbles Reservoir?

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I need to get use to it,It's a fuji finepix s6500fd it's pretty new (to me) I got it as a gift off a mate :D

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Over This side of the pond it reads,macro lens with laser pointer for £10 ;)
Ive a 4s now,the 3GS is so yesterday (so I'm told) :D

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Have looked at the manual for the camera and it has what Fuji call a super macro setting, so yes you can take macro shots, and the zoom is 28-300mm
which is impressive for a bridge camera.

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"Super micro setting" eh,Cheers,I'll have to look into that :D

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It is between Ramsbottom and Bolton

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I don't know if you got the manual with the camera, and if you are like me you don't read it until something goes a bit pear shaped, but here it is either way. (page 74)



FUJIFILM FINEPIX FINEPIX S6500FD TROUBLESHOOTING MANUAL Pdf Download.

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For todays walk a 5 mile walk from Forton to Galgate and back on the canalside.

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1) - 5) Reflections
6) Canalside Des Res
7) The complementary duck.
8) -9) Max
10) Yes they are out now

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Some nice reflections there, number 4 is very atmospheric.

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Today in Pictures, a walk in the Park.

1. A bit of depth of field, with what could be described as bokeh (just showing off)
2. This used to be my "Mess Room" when I worked here, inside were traces of its former use, to the right, the stables, they were still set out for horses with feeding racks and tether loops. The centre section, our "mess Room" would have been the tack room as it had wooden brackets for harnesses, and the sliding doors on the right were for the carriages, with brackets for harnesses again. One thing that must be lost by now were "slippers" to put over the horses hooves, they were rubber coated metal with a wing nut at the rear to tighten onto the hooves. I think this was to stop the horses damaging the grass when they walked over the lawn, possibly pulling some sort of grass cutting gear.
3. The Azaleas are starting to colour up.
4. Can you tell were I am yet ?
5. Yew trees are starting to get out their pollen bits.
6.&7 crocus and a wet knee.
8. I was at ground level again looking at the slug damage, and this cheeky fly just looked at me.
9. There are now more snowdrops than you can shake a stick at, but if you do shake a stick at them the "parky" will chase you.
10. What are you whispering about.

and with that, if you hadn't guessed, finishes my tootle around Haworth Park.

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Great shots again Dave. Does the council still have Park Keepers? I remember when I was on the council I had to rewire Haworth Art Gallery on my own.

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Really nice reflections. Number 3 is my favourite. Max is lookin' good!

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Must agree with that, missed seeing him when he was poorly. Great to see him out and about.

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Super shots, Dave! I always loved Haworth Art Gallery. Great job capturing the fly :)

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Not resident to a park any more, they travel around. I was in the gallery recently, the photographic exhibition, nothing appears to have changed much with the fabric of the building although the use of rooms has changed.

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Not something that was done on purpose, so I cant say it was good shooting.

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I thought I would try to get some photos of the viaduct in Accrington but after seeing the clutter from street furniture I gave it up.
No.2 Then only about 300 yards away I took this.

Both taken from car, as usual.

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I know what you mean about the "clutter, it shows up less if you do a shot looking down the length of the arches, or from height, this is possible from the Arndale car park.

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Today in Pictures, a short toot around Rhyddings Park.

1. The main entrance.
2. Apparently you have to be a child to play on here.
3. And here.
4. But soft, What light from yonder window breaks.
5. Oh! it nowt.
6. The only bird shots I am any good at.
7. You wouldn't want that growing on your elbow.
8. The inscription reads,"This fountain was erected by Will I. Smith esqr Los Angeles. California. USA. in memory of his father and mother Alexander & Jane Smith of Oswaldtwistle. 1914.
9. Looks like the memory if fading, and will soon be gone.

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There have been a few photographs on here taken from the top of the Arndale Dave, I thought I would try something different seeing as I was on Homebase car park.
Another good spot to take photos of the viaduct is on the station bridge.

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Never tried the view from the station, the view from the car park will have made the street furniture compress in the picture, assuming you had a bit of zoom on.

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My idea Dave was to get some shots of the viaduct from low down, there are plenty about taken from high up, I have a lot of steam trains specials crossing it taken from the Arndale roof.
It's when I saw all the street furniture that I thought it would make an interesting picture so that's why I posted it. They street furniture gets in the way of a lot of good pictures taken in towns. There seems to be more and more.
The other picture was taken from Matalan car park looking at the pond opposite.

The photos I posted the other day of the Accrington Pals banner and the market and Town hall all have clutter in front and it can't be avoided. I used a 10mm wide angle lens for those.

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Didn't have much time but I had a go at shooting some close ups with the super macro feature,deleted them though.They all looked like my camera had a cataract.;)

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Never tried the macro the setting with this camera before, don`t usually do close ups but curiosity got the better of me.

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And a few of Little Chewie. He`s not been on here for a while.

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For super close up shots gpick you can buy an adapter which allows you to fit the lens the wrong way round on the camera body.
It is two parts, one fits the body and the other has a catch to alter the aperture which fits that and has a 15mm thread (in my case), then the lens is screwed onto that and you have a super macro lens.
I have put some photos on here a while back using mine and you can get so close to a subject that in the case of a penny you can only get about a quarter of the face on.