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Cliff Booker (Booker)
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Post Number: 4
Registered: 5-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, March 26, 2005 - 8:47 pm: |    |
Hi gentle folk,
An early posting from the Cleveland AGS Show held on a cool, damp and misty Easter Saturday 26th March 2005. The Farrer Medal plant was Trillium rivale exhibited by Geoff Mawson. Other images will surely follow when the effects of the day (and the lunchtime trip to the pub)have eventually worn off.
Kind regards to all,
Cliff Booker. Whitworth. Lancashire. U.K.
Geoff Mawson with his Farrer Medal winning plant of Trillium rivale
Close up of the stunning Farrer plant |
Margaret Young (Myoung)
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Post Number: 303
Registered: 3-2003
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, March 26, 2005 - 8:56 pm: | |
Thanks, Cliff! What a fabulous plant.. those leaves are amazing,best of the best!
Congratulations to Geoff, who looks justifiably happy !
Is that my chum, Brian Smethurst, I see in the background? |
Paul Tyerman (Tyerman)
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Post Number: 321
Registered: 10-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, March 26, 2005 - 9:16 pm: | |
Cliff,
Great pics. I have GOT to get some of that leaf form of rivale now.... very speccy to put it mildly. Changes the whole look of the plant, and in a good way to my way of looking at it.
As always great pics Cliff!!
Paul T. Canberra, Australia. |
Mark Smyth (Mark__n_ireland)
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Post Number: 887
Registered: 10-2003
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, March 26, 2005 - 9:33 pm: | |
stunning leaves. How do people ever grow such a potful. My own plants never increase. |
Cliff Booker (Booker)
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Post Number: 5
Registered: 5-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, March 26, 2005 - 9:38 pm: | |
Certainly the 'lurker' is none other than Brian Smethurst (seen here with his lovely wife Shelagh)...they have become ubiquitous to practically every show. Wouldn't be the same without them!!
A few early shots from Cleveland to hone the senses...please, please, please could we raise the file size for these images to a maximum of say...120k? Are we foregoing image quality for a morsel of cyberspace?
Newcomers ALWAYS start interfering, don't they?
Cheers. Cliff
Primula bhutanica
Raoulia eximia
Fritillaria crassifolia ssp. hakkarensis
These tiny blooms are only 20mm across, but incredibly beautiful in close-up.
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Paul Tyerman (Tyerman)
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Post Number: 325
Registered: 10-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, March 27, 2005 - 10:21 am: | |
Cliff,
Great shots. So many of the smaller frits are gorgeous in closeup. My favourite is Fritillaria purdyi which looks like it has been dipped in ice around the tips.
The only problem with raising the file size is that it increases the bandwidth usage dramatically, and then we may start having problems with getting a host site (or start getting horrendous charges). I know that bandwidth problems have caused the demise of sites in the past.
The pics you have posted above are stunning, so if they fall within the 70Kb then they are looking just fine!! The difference a really good camera makes eh? Puts my poor low-pixel pics to shame! LOL
Keep em coming Cliff. Great to see more pics of the shows from everyone..... just like being there (well sort of!!) *grin*
Paul T. Canberra, Australia. |
Mark Smyth (Mark__n_ireland)
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Post Number: 889
Registered: 10-2003
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, March 27, 2005 - 11:20 am: | |
I dont mind larger images for better quality but I hate images being posted which are huge in width like those posted which are 800 pixels wide and bigger. I have to use the bottom scroll bar to view these images and scroll continuously left to right and back to read the text. I would like to see all images 600 wide or less. My monitor is a mere 14 inches. An 800 pixel image is 28x21cm / 11x8". What if I posted one of my large images which are 90x60cm / 35x23". Rant over. |
J.Ian Young (Iyoung)
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Post Number: 330
Registered: 2-2002
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, March 27, 2005 - 11:44 am: | |
I think your pictures are fantastic at 70k Cliff. We will not be increasing the permitted file size for the reasons already mentioned above. This forum has to be a compromise between speed of down load, band width and quality and your pictures prove that we have got the correct balance.
Keep the posts coming it is always nice to welcome another regular poster. |
Cliff Booker (Booker)
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Post Number: 6
Registered: 5-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, March 27, 2005 - 11:56 am: | |
Thanks to all who responded to my query regarding the possibility of increasing image file sizes...I will, of course, continue to post smaller and 'narrower' files to this wonderful forum, but I must apologise in advance if some look a 'little' marbled or pixelated.
Easter wishes to all,
Cliff |
john forrest (Jof)
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Post Number: 108
Registered: 12-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, March 27, 2005 - 3:24 pm: | |
Brilliant photos Cliff.
Cheers
John |
Cliff Booker (Booker)
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Post Number: 7
Registered: 5-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, March 27, 2005 - 10:20 pm: | |
A close-up of the glossy flowers of Ranunculus creticum taken at Cleveland AGS Show on Saturday 26th March. Other images to appear as time and tide allow.
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Lesley Isabel Cox (Lcox)
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Post Number: 263
Registered: 10-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, March 28, 2005 - 11:07 pm: | |
This Ranunculus is of great interest to me as I have one as R. creticus (not creticum) but it has pure white flowers, rather like a virtually stemless R. alpestris. The foliage is a little rounder than that species and lightly indented around the edges. Is this the same species as above? and is it (presumably) variable in colour? Love this yellow.
And Cliff, do you remember whose was the Raoulia eximia please? An outstanding achievement I think. |
Lesley Isabel Cox (Lcox)
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Post Number: 264
Registered: 10-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, March 29, 2005 - 6:26 am: | |
Just ignore that last posting. I've just been reading my March AGS Bulletin, arrived this morning, and realize of course, that my Ranunculus is crenatus - not creticus. Silly me. What were you saying about senior moments Carol? |
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