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General Subjects => General Forum => Topic started by: ranunculus on May 20, 2009, 02:30:28 PM
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I am convinced that I have inaugurated this particular topic in the past, but I cannot discover the relevant link ... perhaps a new start is now in order?
There are so many wonderful photographers and artists on this splendid forum and these pages are always inundated with magnificent images of plants in the wild, in gardens and as exhibits at our national shows - but there seems to be a dearth of artistic representations on these pages, whether they be photographs, drawings, paintings or poems. Many forum members must have artistic leanings (look at the quantity and quality of the artistic classes at our shows) and it would be nice to encourage members to post their efforts here and reach a wider audience.
I will start the ball rolling with ten offerings from the past week ... they will not be to everyone's taste, but surely that is the nature of art?
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Very nice, Cliff - my favourite is iris no 1.
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Lovely set of photographs, Cliff.
I'm with Anne on Iris No. 1. One of those Pacific Coast Hybrids I would guess. It certainly is as close to identical as makes no difference to one growing here.
Paddy
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I like the bracken and the poppy bud, and the clematis and ....
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Cliff, for me is the Dodecatheon picture extremely "arty". What is behind the flower.
Or was it just luck?
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Cliff,
One from this evening which I hope fills the bill. This is as taken, straight from the camera, no adjustments on the computer.
Paris japonica
And, as art is in the eye of the beholder, I insist that this is arty!
Paddy
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Word got out that Cliff was looking for arty images and everywhere I went there were flowers posing, trying to catch the eye of the photographer. This little geranium was one such.
Paddy
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Super images, Paddy ... many thanks for contributing to this thread. I do not wish to restrict this thread to images straight from the camera, but your photos show that computer manipulation isn't even necessary.
Please post photos of your paintings and drawings and we would love to read your poems.
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I also like the Dodecatheon picture.
A little contributing from me. :)
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Beautiful images, Anne ... more please when time allows.
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Beautiful images, Anne ... more please when time allows.
Thank you. :)
There is so much to do, so little time. I'll look up some more later.
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Four shots taken in my garden by my talented neighbor.
Aeonium Schwartzkopf
Cardiocrinum giganteum
Fargesia nitida (2)
johnw
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Wonderful stuff, John ... the first fargesia is superb.
Congratulations across the fence please?
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Would that my neighbours had such talents......
would that my neighbours had ANY ( useful) talents :-X :(
This is a super thread,what a clever bunch you are!
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Thanks Maggi ... a couple more from me for the month of May.
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Fascinating pics everyone. Well done.
John,
That fargesia on the dark background is superb!!
Cliff,
Love that purple pulsatilla in your last posting. Those little hairy details are excellent!! ;D
Thanks All. Great pics.
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A bright light finds it
in a sea of green - seeing
small is beautiful
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A few macro shots from me.
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Superb Mick ... Love the physalis ... thanks for posting.
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Just for you, Cliff.
Yes, Mick, love the physalis though I think I would have eaten it first.
Paddy
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Very nice Mick, really quite 'up close and personal'. Anemones seem particularily photogenetic, that big and bright round ball in the middle makes for a good focal point.
Interesting effect Paddy, I wouldn't be surprised if you said you painted that!
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Paul,
Of course it's painted!
Paddy
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Thanks for starting this thread, Cliff. Now I can post a couple of pics that didn't seem to fit anywhere else! Lovely pictures all those posted previously.
1&2 Evening shadows on the fridge door last June.
3&4 Hippeastrum in February 2007 - always photogenic.
Last Meconopsis x cookei 'Old Rose' looks good with a purple leaved geranium.
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Beautiful, Roma ... Japanese shadow theatre in your kitchen! This topic is taking off ...
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Robin,
What is that second white thing in your posting?
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Painted this just now.
Paddy
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So pretty, Paddy, but be careful, you'll set off a new round of tulipmania!
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Here's a geranium for you, Maggi.
Paddy
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It must be the time of the evening, Paddy.... i saw that first as a cocktail twizzler! :-\
Cheers!
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Some more from me.
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Not an arty picture maybe but an arty flower
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Great ideas in an imaginative thread - thanks Cliff :)
Butterfly thoughts from me.....
Butterfly bling
is
a
natural thing
to
strut their stuff
one
wing
is enough!
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Not sure whether this fits in here or not?
Just struck me when I took it that the petal glistened so much..... wanted to show it previously but figured that it wouldn't interest people as it was too "arty". Was slightly amused when Cliff created a topic involving that word. Still not sure this fits here though, as pretty basic... and certainly not of the calibre of so many here.
Thanks for the enjoyable pics everyone.
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Fits like a latex glove, Paul ... a lovely image.
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Robin,
What is that second white thing in your posting?
It's a type of Plaintain I think - suddenly flowering whipped up more and more each day like pale candyfloss on a stick!
You BCU of the crocus glistening is lovely Paul
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Anne,
love the tulips.
Paddy
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I love 'em all! Anne, yours are very special - I like the texture you have made.
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lots of great stuff--images that communicate details of species and habitats are wonderful, but images for their own sakes have great value too!
loved the white tulips, anne, among many others..
here are a few of mine:
1Turbinicarpus klinkerianus
flowering on my windowsill
2Lichen?
or something... in the woods near my house..
3Spruce seedling in frame;
an example of nature's artiness--elaborate arrangements of geometric forms modified with flowing organic shapes, enhanced by contrasting light play, and all changing through the seasons!
4Viola renifolia
overlooking fungus
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one for robin.. ;)
Ribes sp
the snow is cold,
it says 'sleep!'...
the sun beckons;
i drink meltwater,
and look up!
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one for robin.. ;)
Ribes sp
Cohen, I love your photos of Nature art and geometric forms and what can I say about your word play? They add a rhythmic dimension that is very important to me, thanks. I shall think of your poem in the Spring melt :)
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Cohen,
The lichen do it for me, great lighting and texture.
Paddy
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thanks, robin :)
our native plants are wise, they know they may have to sit through spring melt over and over again, so they do not hastily spring up the first time!
tks, paddy--these little guys are the heart of the boreal forest!
light moves,
water passes.
in slow exuberance, a patient profusion,
the forest changes.
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Cohan,
Love it, the essence of the forest!
By the way, as we exchange posts it is 8.30a.m. here while it is 1.30a.m. with you. This web communication is a wonderful thing.
I've done my morning chores here, eaten breakfast and am off for a walk now. It is a fabulously beautiful morning.
Paddy
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and its about bed time for me; i like to stay up, but it should be a good day here, tomorrow (today!) 21C and mostly sunny, at least first part of day, and MUCH work to be done outdoors on a day off...
our days are over 16 hours long now... and things are greening fast, with the moisture of last week's snow, and now warm again..
see you all again at the end of your day ;)
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These needle and cone textures on a pine tree looked like a canvas in the morning light. :)
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Good one, Robin
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These needle and cone textures on a pine tree looked like a canvas in the morning light. :)
yes, nice textures :)
i really believe that carrying a camera around a lot/looking for images makes you see quite differently...
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These tiny Dianthus splashing out amongst the rocks reminded me of drops of blood and pricked my conscience to become a blood donor.
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Lois,
Welcome to the forum with the first of many postings hopefully.
Your first photograph is very close to a stained glass image, very nice.
Paddy
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Hi, Lois! Where did your photos disappear to?
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(Trying a third time to get this post right! Photos #1&2 are too fuzzy, but my better ones were rejected for size. Guess I'll have to re-compress things to fit this forum.)
Hello, all --
I just found your SRGC forum -- I was searching for how to spell the German name for the "Acorn Jay" and got into one of the threads here -- and saw the arty images thread. That's my thing! I take lots of photos and LOVE to mess with them. Hope you will enjoy the ones below, all variations of a red rose photo.
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I didn't take them!
Paddy
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Hi Lois,
The general practice here is to reduce image size to 640 on the longer side. It may also be necessary to drop the quality to ease uploading.
Paddy
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Ah, now I see 'em! Yes, Paddy, I see what you mean.... stained glass comes to mind.... and I am very fond of stained glass so these images appeal to me!
Lois, try sizing your images at around 780 x 580 pixels and under 300kb for this forum, it'll make life easier for you and we find that folks generally like to view the images without scrolling :)
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The first two images should look LESS like blurry stained glass and MORE like pencil drawings. :-\ The third one is closer to the image as it's printed. :)
Thanks for the compliments! (I'll need to re-size most of my other work to send to you. That will take a while.)
In the meantime...
Below is the first "haiga" that I ever did. (Haiga is a style which combines a related image & haiku.) I got started writing haiku this year, when Rick Daddario turned me on to it. Haiga was a natural home for me, since I'm very visual. There is a haiga challenge each month at the World Haiku Association -- http://www.worldhaiku.net/haiga.htm -- where folks can upload their creations and have a haiku master critique them. The best ones are shown on their website.
I submitted this flower haiga to the February 2009 challenge.
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Lois, you'll find lots of like-minded folks here..... we shoot flowers, we're not all Scottish, ( one of our German forumists could likely help you with your "Acorn Jay" spelling, since many of us are also birders), some of us are also involved in radio gardening programmes, are artists..... .........bless me, you fit right in! ;D
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I submitted this flower haiga to the February 2009 challenge
Hi Lois, I love your flower haiga and wish you lots of luck in the Feb 2009 challenge!
On the web link you posted I thought there were some really interesting and thought provoking images and words and I love Haiku too ....distilling thoughts in words is such a powerful way of communicating ideas and emotions.
Looking forward to enjoying more of your creative work in this arty thread :)
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Following on Lois' example.
Paddy
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Photography is not really my thing, but here are some images of mine from the garden today. No2 is Aquilegia grahamii, no 5 is white chives, no 7 Iris Teal Velvet.
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I like the camassia, Anne.
One for cliff!
Paddy
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Following on Lois' example.
Paddy
Paddy, your images are wild and intriguing - would it spoil the illusion to know the process?
I use Photoshop a lot but not have not really explored it in an 'arty' way and think may be it's time to abandon reality :o
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Here's an even more dramatically changed image -- a sunflower in front of oak trees, here in Yolo County, California, USA.
(http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1423/848518687_3205150c94.jpg)
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And here's the last for tonight.
This one has no post-production on it. It's artsy because of the choice & placement of the objects as well as the camera angle. (It's laying flat on a mirror, with a large houseplant overhanging it all.) I think this seedpod is from a Clematis, but don't know which one.
(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3301/3278483824_6ce713ac2b.jpg)
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Lois,
Placing the seedhead on the mirror was a very clever idea - very simple, so no great trouble, and very effective. Good photograph.
Robin,
My photoshop methods are completely random, simply messing about. The image of the poppy simply has a mosaic filter applied after a little tweaking with contrast.
The seedhead simply has had the contrast shoved to the extreme. They are just odd images rather than being in any way considered artistic approaches but they do show that there are possibilities.
Paddy
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Robin,
Here are the two original images. As you see that of the pulsatilla seedhead was not good enough for anything else but messing about with.
Paddy
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Lois,
Placing the seedhead on the mirror was a very clever idea - very simple, so no great trouble, and very effective. Good photograph.
Robin,
My photoshop methods are completely random, simply messing about. The image of the poppy simply has a mosaic filter applied after a little tweaking with contrast.
The seedhead simply has had the contrast shoved to the extreme. They are just odd images rather than being in any way considered artistic approaches but they do show that there are possibilities.
Paddy
Effective and fun all the same Paddy - thanks for the tips and the originals which see where your started from ;D I shall have a go ::)
Lois, I like the seed heads in the mirror too :)
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I like the pulsatilla unmodified too.
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a couple of images where the 'artiness' is mainly in the selection of the view (plus a bit of background simplification in the image of the flower..)
Sempervivum
Gymnocalycium vatteri
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Lovely images everyone ... you are a talented bunch.
Some 'loose' landscapes captured this week ...
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some very nice images, cliff! love the combinations of earth, sky, water.. look like some lovely spots as well ...
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Great stuff, Cliff. Particularly three. Four ain't bad either. ;) All good, as always.
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Love the arty 3D shapes Cohan 0f your Sempervivum and Gymnocalycium vatteri ( and the sporty name of the latter!)
Cliff, what gorgeous landscape shots with reflections - the clouds are wonderful and I have to say the light was obviously just right to take the Dainthus shot - something that has alluded me here as the light bounces back from the bright flower
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One little study of Nigella. I love the buds on these.
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The buds of Centaurea can look like art too, I think.
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nigella and centaurea are both lovely--close/macro shots are wonderful for seeing so much beauty that could easily be missed otherwise!
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Two from Turkey ...
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Moody, arty shots Anne, Luit and Cliff and the light is wonderful showing off each to great effect :)
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Echinocereus pectinatus var. rubispinus
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Echinocereus pectinatus var. rubispinus
very nice--and rather delicate colour for this species ;) a friend in nebraska just showed his plant of the same flowering on another forum, guess they are in synch...
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Roma,
Very beautiful, very pink, very girlie! Pink to make the boys blink!
Paddy
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Wunderful pictures which inspired me to play a bit with IrfanView functions.
Below my results...
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... And didn't it prove satisfying, Armin? I particularly like the tulip!
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a couple of interesting details on succulents, grown indoors here...
the first is interesting stem texture on
Echeveria nodulosa
or some cultivar/hybrid thereof... this is perhaps how it got the species name?
second is leaf colour/markings on a grass aloe
Aloe myriacantha
leaves no more than about 1/4inch wide
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Slightly different angle to this thread.
Today at the Peterborough International Orchid show today were these orchids framed. 8)
Rather nice I thought.
Eric
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Pretty as a picture, Eric ;)
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I've seen that done here at an orchid show too. Very effective, isn't it?
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caltha just seem to invite mannered shots, especially those growing in semi shady spots among willows as these are, with a lot of contrasting light effects...
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... And didn't it prove satisfying, Armin? I particularly like the tulip!
Cliff,
of course! It's amazing what a few software instructions can make over an natural image to appear it artificial.
Thanks you like my tulip whittallii in particular.
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Cliff,
of course! It's amazing what a few software instructions can make over an natural image to appear it artificial.
Thanks you like my tulip whittallii in particular.
the wonders of the digital age, huh? things that would have been work only for very skilled individuals with expensive equipment, we can play with easily at home...and of course those skilled individuals with expensive equipment can really work miracles now...lol
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Two pics done from the Pudsey show
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Such fun, Mick as well as being"arty".... like something alien from "Dr Who" ;D
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Mick,
pretty images.
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Open air art in the sunshine in Scotland 8)
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Wonderful photos everyone!!
Here are some macros:
Dream on-Echinaceae
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Bouquet of Flowers-red Euphorbia flowers
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Two are better than one-Gaillardia
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The sun-yellow Calendula
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Birth-Allium
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Busy Bee
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Just born!
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Some more drops macros:
Rainbow Drops-water drops on a CD
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Night Drops
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Holding water
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And now some pics of my beautiful and very clever cat Sheleg (meaning Snowy):
Photogenic cat
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Sheleg in his favorite spot
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White on Black
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And last photo...
Sunset-A view from my backyard
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Beautiful images, Miriam ... many thanks for posting.
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Glorious photos, Miriam. 8)
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Miriam ,these are some of the best photos ever posted on this forum. :P :P :P
Eric
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Miriam, I was just writing something like Eric wrote, while I was typing.
Your picture of holding water is SUPERB and I love the cat with two different colored eyes.
Your pictures are not of the arty kind, but real art!
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Back to the arty kind ...
Three from my digital palette ...
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more great images--
robin, nice to see you had time of art on vacation :)
miriam, stunning, esp like the gaillardia
cliff, great landscapes, love the mirroring, always drawn to to reflections in water..
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Miriam how stunning - makes me drool for a macro lens. Plus posting such large photos certainly gives great impact as well.
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Pat,
Just checking that you do realise you can click on the smaller images to make them bigger? I'm just checking, as Miriam's images aren't actually that large compared to a lot of pics we post here (Cliff's for example are larger than hers when clicked on). But whatever size they are, boy are they impressive!!
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Just putting some frit seeds to dry and thought I'd play with the pictures
(it's a Frit crassifolia ex Halda coll)
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Thank you all for your nice comments :D
Dedicated to all
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Miriam,
Very cute whiskers! ;D
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What clever Forumists you are - this is certainly a favourite thread of mine.... thank you for sharing your talents with us and giving food for thought with these superb images. :-*
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Crop circles?
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cheers
fermi
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Cooooool
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That's an icy one, Fermi!
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Looks like you had a good solid frost this morning, Fermi. 8)
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Not strictly to topic but the images slot into this space quite nicely ...
Spent Friday in and around Whitby (on the north-east coast of England) and these are three batches of random images captured on the day - in the town itself and at a small but delightful garden near Sleights.
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Batch two from Whitby ...
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Third and final batch from Whitby ...
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Cliff,
Wonderful images. Favourite I think would be 'Silver Surfer'. Such a cool shot.
Thanks for the pics. Excellent as always from you. 8)
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Your images of an arty kind with their captions are such fun, witty and wonderfully captured - great to see the coastline near you and the characters with pierced noses that inhabit it along with an eclectic mix of flowers - no argument ;D
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Four from street plantings in Corvara ...
AQUILEGIAS IN A CORVARA PLANTER
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Hi All,
I don't like to spoil this most imaginative Tread with my pics,hope the qualify,
Thanks for the idea Cliff.
Think I am going to spendsome time on this art while temporary immobilised and absent from my garden.
enjoy,awaiting Your comments guy`s... :D
Cheers,
Guy.
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Wow, what a good pics!!!!!!!!!!
(http://i69.photobucket.com/albums/i76/arykana/brs.jpg)
(http://i69.photobucket.com/albums/i76/arykana/mhe-1.jpg)
(http://i69.photobucket.com/albums/i76/arykana/trombi.jpg)
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my wife, Lynn, takes all the 'photos, but she's too shy to make postings to the forum so I've selected 3 for the bonfire of appreciation...
1. greehouse ceiling
2. a greenhouse plant
3. a juxtaposition of old and new gardens or traditional and modern
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Wunderful images from everybody.
Inspiring 8) 8) 8)
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Four images captured today of Darlingtonia ...
Darlingtonia californica in a pot in the garden
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Crikey, Cliff... that looks dangerous.... it didn't get little Ollie, did it?
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Looks like it's related to Nessie - in a pot instead of a loch :o
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Crikey, Cliff... that looks dangerous.... it didn't get little Ollie, did it?
Darlingtonia wouldn't get that little darling ... he'd wrestle it back to California!
Not really a monster Robin ... only three inches high at the moment. :D
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Frithia pulchra - a succulent from South Africa with great detail in the leaves.
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Rogan, an extraordinary plant.... lends itself very well to abstraction, doesn't it?
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Frithia pulchra - a succulent from South Africa with great detail in the leaves.
Rogan - Thanks for posting the Frithia pulchra; pulcherisssima! One of my favourite mesembs.
johnw
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Eucalyptus pauciflora ssp. niphophila with shadow of rowan leaves dancing and a close up of eucalypt bark.
Frazer
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(http://i69.photobucket.com/albums/i76/arykana/sr-1.jpg)
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Two pictured in Torrington Devon.
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Eucalyptus pauciflora ssp. niphophila with shadow of rowan leaves dancing and a close up of eucalypt bark.
Frazer
These two bark images with the shadows of the leaves are so beautiful and just the sort of thing I look out for on walks in the woods, Frazer. Are they from your garden?
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Thanks Ragged Robin -
The shots of the bark are actually from Crarae Garden in southern Argyllshire - it is a truly splendid garden, packed full of great plants and well worth a long visit at any time. The trees within my own grounds are British natives, though there is a seed raised Eucalyptus gunnii.
I do enjoy taking abstract pictures of tree bark. I also like the way that lichen is so clearly delineated on north and south facing trunksides. I've attached some more shots - not necessarily that good but of some interest nonetheless......
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I also like the way that lichen is so clearly delineated on north and south facing trunksides
Frazer this is evident everywhere in the forest here - the poor man's compass - love things like that! ;)
Thanks for the new photos, abstract and thought provoking...perhaps: 3 'coral reef', 4 'desert sand dunes', 6 'Mars scape?'
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Super images everyone.
Just a few from the New Forest last week ...
FILTERED LIGHT
HEADS DOWN
MOSS MASS
NEW FOREST STREAM
SEASCAPE SUN
SHORE SKELETON
NEW FOREST STREAM 2
SUNLIT SWANS
TAKE FLIGHT
UP TO THE SKY
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Great shots of forest and coast, Cliff, looks like the weather was good! Love the take flight image it really captures the moment with wings in all directions against the sky 8)
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A shaft of sunlight illuminates 'stained glass' butterfly wings
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(http://i69.photobucket.com/albums/i76/arykana/vadrzsa.jpg)
Do you have sugar? and carrot?
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Robin,
Hope you don't mind. I couldn't resist turning your butterfly upright.
Beautiful shot.
Paddy
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Larch cones in the morning sun about a month ago.
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A few slightly arty shots, hopefully enough to be worthwhile in here...
A couple of different Chasmanthe, and a Magnolia pic.
Please click on the pic for a larger version. If pics are too large, please let me know.
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Lichen growing on Bodnantense Dawn
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Paul,
Great pattern and texture, very nice.
I was out for a walk late this evening, very poor light and used very high ISO. The results, when I managed to hold the camera steady as I didn't bring a tripod with me, were interesting. Hope you enjoy them.
Paddy
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A midsummer night in Norway. I think Sangta Claus is on his way north. :D
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Yes, Anne Karin.... I can see him in the sky! Wonderful! 8)
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Anne Karin,
Summer is over, the mornings and evenings are chilly, it seems to be raining each day so it is good to have Santa Claus on the way - something to look forward to.
I like the shot of the grasses - if you could clone out the flag and the building.
Paddy
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Anne Karin,
Summer is over, the mornings and evenings are chilly, it seems to be raining each day so it is good to have Santa Claus on the way - something to look forward to.
I like the shot of the grasses - if you could clone out the flag and the building.
Paddy
I do not think I have tools for this, but I can make a clipboard. (Is it the right name?)
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Rightio
Reposting the Trillium rivale grown from seed.
Cheers dave
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Lovely
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Orchid on a bed of moss...
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Great photo Rogan - what orchid is it?
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I agree, it is fantastic.
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Anne Karin,
Love the grasses.
And the trillium ... and the orchid.
Paddy
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"Great photo Rogan - what orchid is it?"
Stenoglottis fimbriata - a common orchid found growing on rocks in the moist and shady forests of eastern South Africa.
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"Great photo Rogan - what orchid is it?"
Stenoglottis fimbriata - a common orchid found growing on rocks in the moist and shady forests of eastern South Africa.
Does anyone grow this orchi 'in captivity'?
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The sky tonight ...
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..shepherd's delight, Cliff, and mine too :)
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..shepherd's delight, Cliff, and mine too :)
Stunning shot.... but more scary apocalypse to me than shepherd's delight..... fires of doom..... :o
Well caught, Cliff!
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We had a sky like that also -glowing coals
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Very rich colours, Cliff.
Paddy
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"Does anyone grow this orchi 'in captivity'?"
It is quite popular here in specialist collections and can be used in shady, moist areas of the garden. There is also a large (tetraploid?) form available called 'Venus' - I'll have to post a photo when our specimen flowers later on in the season.
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I can't remember if I posted these here when I took them a couple of years ago ...
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The first one is a topper, Cliff.
Paddy
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That first clematis picture is rather stunning.
This may not be very arty, but I love it and don't know where else I could share it with other nature lovers.
It is a picture of my dam on my hobby farm in Tasmania (sold 2 years ago) The depth is 7 metres as it's in a gully and is 4.5 million litres capacity.The water was used for irrigation of my cherry orchard and of course my daffodils and liliums.Being that deep and fed by a winter creek, it was suitable for trout, so I stocked it with 100 fingerlings.They lasted one year, cormorants flew up from the Huon River and devoured the lot.I had planted many nectar producing trees and shrubs around the dam, so the birdlife was abundant (spot the pair of water fowl), not to mention the quolls, wallabies, wombats, bandicoots and Tasmanian devils.The possums were a pain, they are in plague proportions everywhere and just devour rose bushes.No matter how much you've thinned your Japanese plums, they attack the fruit in such numbers that the limbs are ripped from the trunk.But who could resist spotting a platypus in the late afternoon, whilst listening to a chorus from the frogs.
A very peaceful haven that I miss.
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Paul,
Beth Chatto, a very highly regarded gardener in England, has a similar "pond" in her garden and, like yours, it is simply wonderful.
Paddy
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The Dragon's back - an arty picture taken in the Drakensberg:
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The Dragon's back - an arty picture taken in the Drakensberg:
It could've been modelled on a Stegosaurus!
Here's the heart of a prickly customer,
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A puya from Sth America.
cheers
fermi
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Lovely images everybody ... keep them coming please!
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Absolutely, this thread really see things in a different way - I love this arty view of plants and Nature :)
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Images captured at about 7.20pm this evening on the moors less than 150 metres from our front door ...
Red sky to the front of me, purple to the rear ... colours enhanced by flash and camera settings.
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Cliff, you are lucky to have such fantastic sunsets just outside your door - I particularly like no 3 perspective with the rough grass in the foreground and the overlapping of the slopes with the pylon leading on to the fading sunset colours - terrific atmos :D
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Beautiful fiery sunsets Cliff.
Paddy, Beth Chatto is one of my favourite authors!! I love her style of writting, she takes you right into the soul of her garden.
I like the closeup pictures of single blooms, in this case an abutilon, not sure which one.
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I can't remember seeing so many fiery skies in this part of the world ... three images taken this evening ... once again the colours are enhanced by flash, but not to a great extent.
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Cliff,
You are certainly painting the sky red these nights. Here is one from Tuesday evening, not as fiery as yours but a nice evening sun. Paddy
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Paddy, such lovely light from the setting sun in your beautiful photo picking out the detail of the bridge and the rolls of straw(?) Is the crane there for workers on the bridge? It almost looks like boat rigging :)
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Hi Robin,
This bridge is still under construction, hence the crane. On Tuesday last I was, thanks to the foreman on the site, put in a metal box and lifted by that crane up above the top of the bridge, spun around to get views of all sides and then let down again. A great experience. The photograph above was taken from my neighbour's land. I live on the other side of the bridge - photograph below of garden taken from the crane. The neighbours are away on holidays and I go over to keep an eye on the place, feed and walk the dogs etc. The light in the evening has been good in recent evenings.
I took over 200 photographs when up on the crane but I will spare you! Just one to show you the bridge from my garden - a reverse view of of the view from the top of the bridge.
Paddy
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My goodness me, Paddy, what an exciting opportunity to get your very own aerial photos 8)
A very interesting expereinece, I would think, to have that chance to view your place from that perspective...... did it make you think differently about any particular part of your garden to see it from up there?
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Wow, Paddy ... what a magnificent setting and garden ... and your very own 'football' pitch!
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Maggi,
The trees to the far side of the garden have grown well - I would like a similar result on the near side. Some of those large trees were growing there before I arrived, chestnut, ash and hornbeam but I planted some, the pines which are now as high as the chestnut and ash.
Also, there is a bit of space in the top right area which I think should have another large bed but Mary prefers to keep the garden more open and so curtails my tree-planting inclinations. An inclination to tree planting is, I am assured, a sure sign of an understanding that life is passing and that there is a need to place something of permanence in the ground. In short, a sure sign that I am getting old.
Cliff, for some reason, which I don't understand, Mary insists on leaving the goalpost in position even though the two oldest boys are long left home and the youngest prefers piano and guitar to football. I may insist that rust has gotten the better of it someday and remove it.
The photograph below shows the garden in relation to the river and the town in the distance. The bridge across the river is a disused railway bridge, locally called "The Red Iron Bridge".
Paddy
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Paddy, what fantastic aerial shots of your garden from the crane! Aerial photographs give such a different view of landscaping and I have to say your 'spot' looks idyllic surrounded by fields and countryside - I imagine you must have some great walks in the region.....Your shrub border by the house looks nicely mature and I wonder what the shrubs are? At the father most tip is that a parterre with hornbeams? Thanks for posting this view...you have some lovely plantings and I bet in Autumn the colours are superb :)
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Wonderful views Paddy !!
Not afraid of heights are you.. ;D ;D
I see a lot of lawn with plenty of space for extra alpine beds that do not take away the "open" aspect of the garden... maybe you should talk to Mary again... :P
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goodness me. Good to see your garden.
Could you do something for me? Can I use a full sized image of the first image in a bat lecture. Bats would rather fly along a complete tree line to go to feeding areas rather than follow a gappy tree line.
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Paddy, you are so fortunate to live in such a beautiful place.
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I can't remember seeing so many fiery skies in this part of the world ... three images taken this evening ... once again the colours are enhanced by flash, but not to a great extent.
Cliff,
wonderful photos and colors. The red color of sunset is caused by plenty of dust particles in the air. >:(
Is there any heavy industry or agriculture around where you live?
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Thanks, All, for your kind comments.
Robin, The "parterre" you mention is my vegetable patch, a formal design of raised beds. I'll post a photograph below. The shrub border? A mixture, really. The bed which appears nearest the house is a bed of hydrangeas which has been a good success, great coverage, good colour, no work. I will put a set of photographs together to give a quick tour of the garden.
Mark, no trouble with a photograph. There are plenty of bats around here. A full-sized photograph would be between 4 and 5 megabytes. Is this OK to e-mail? Let me know and I will send it on.
Luc, maybe just one more bed. I keep planning and hoping!
Paddy
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1000 pixels wide please, thanks
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I can't remember seeing so many fiery skies in this part of the world ... three images taken this evening ... once again the colours are enhanced by flash, but not to a great extent.
Cliff,
wonderful photos and colors. The red color of sunset is caused by plenty of dust particles in the air. >:(
Is there any heavy industry or agriculture around where you live?
Many thanks Armin,
We are up on the moors overlooking the town of Rochdale (once a thriving industrial area that has experienced a sharp decline in fortunes and output over the last three decades) in an area of heath and quite desolate (but strangely beautiful) moorland. Little agriculture of note but an abundance of (dusty? :D) hill sheep. These impressive skies are quite rare and a recent phenomenon.
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Paddy,
You need to put that overhead view into your topic on your garden tour.... it shows beautifully how everything you've shown in your tour fits together. Not quite how I had imagined it.... even MORE space than I thought. ;D I only took your tour this afternoon, so it was all fresh in mind, and the overview pic placed it all nicely. I am even MORE jealous. 8)
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Paddy, I agree with Paul, your aerial view of your garden would make a very good reference point in your Garden Thread and remind us of the gorgeous countryside you live in :) :)
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Paddy, I agree with Paul, your aerial view of your garden would make a very good reference point in your Garden Thread and remind us of the gorgeous countryside you live in :) :)
Robin, I have taken your suggestion and included the aerial shot with a general description of the layout of the garden.
Paddy
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Have already visited Paddy and think your overall description with the aerial photo is perfect - I think a lot of people will be visiting your Garden Thread and watch it change throughout the year/s - I know I will as I miss the 'green and pleasant' terribly although here there is a new gardening challenge :'( :)
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My field trips---- collage
Cheers dave
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brilliant Dave, did you do that with Picassa?
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Doug since you showed me Picasa 3 i'm finding all sorts of options which i never had previously with my camera software.
Thanks. :)
Cheers dave
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That would make a superb publicity poster for an alpine conference on South Island!
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It certainly would make a brilliant poster, great idea,wonderfully interesting, would make a great competition - how many plants can you name?
Paddy
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would make a great competition - how many plants can you name?
Paddy
Also -where's Wally--fellow Forum member.......... :D
Dave
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My field trips---- collage
Cheers dave
There seem to be an awful lot of images there that we haven't seen yet, Dave ... I understand now ... the collage is just a taster for a prolonged super-posting? :D :D
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Yes please, Dave, is it just me who would like to see a bigger version of your montage ???
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...............is it just me who would like to see a bigger version of your montage ???
I don't think so.... I'd love to see a larger version, please!
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I can't remember seeing so many fiery skies in this part of the world ... three images taken this evening ... once again the colours are enhanced by flash, but not to a great extent.
Cliff,
wonderful photos and colors. The red color of sunset is caused by plenty of dust particles in the air. >:(
Is there any heavy industry or agriculture around where you live?
Many thanks Armin,
We are up on the moors overlooking the town of Rochdale (once a thriving industrial area that has experienced a sharp decline in fortunes and output over the last three decades) in an area of heath and quite desolate (but strangely beautiful) moorland. Little agriculture of note but an abundance of (dusty? :D) hill sheep. These impressive skies are quite rare and a recent phenomenon.
Cliff,
likely it is "the" phenomena of worldwide spanning pollution belt in the NH. ??? >:(
I saw similar spectacular red coloured sunsets here.
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Autumn is here ...
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OOOOOOoooooo o o o - a spectacular view - what would the spider see looking into a raindrop? ::)
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It would be on the web, Robin! :D
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A very wet web - I assume you were in the dry then ;D
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Here's a pic of the ivy on the basalt dike behind the marine station at Millport on the Island of Great Cumbrae in the Firth of Clyde. I was there until yesterday with a group of senior pupils.
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An amazing tree-like outline, Anthony.
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Nature is wunderful - great photo Anthony! 8)
What is the approx. size of the Ivy tree?
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Wonderfull Anthony !!
I have something interesting to follow, so watch this space ;) ;) ;)
Eric
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Nature's art - like a tree of life - a very special image, Anthony 8)
What did you students think of it?
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Nature is wunderful - great photo Anthony! 8)
What is the approx. size of the Ivy tree?
~10m. Here's another pic, and two of part of the marine station (the red building was the original building, opened in 1896) showing the dike behind. The red circle shows the rocks above the ivy. The last is a photo in the marine station shop, showing a visit in 1901 of the British Association for the Advancement of Science with Sir Joseph Lister just above his signature (to the left of the light grey hat and above his signature).
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Could not resist these.
Made of Japenese Luna Clay ,these are really lovely and so realistic.
Available on ebay from Thailand at a very good price ,from an excellent seller.
I now have Pleione in flower all year round. 8) 8) 8)
Eric
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Eric - we could do with some crocus made the same way ;D Crocus flowers are sooooo fleeting. Your pleione are very lifelike.
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Brillant idea whoever came up with clay Pleione
Anthony your ivy looks more like a huge green balloon
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Thanks Anthony, the size and shape of the ivy is realy amazing.
Eric, I concur Tony. The pleione are very lifelike. 8)
And I would be please to see some crocus made of Japanese Luna Clay ;D
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Tony /Armin
As far as I am aware these Luna clay models are only available in various orchid varieties.
Eric
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Eric - we could do with some crocus made the same way ;D Crocus flowers are sooooo fleeting. Your pleione are very lifelike.
No, no, no! - a large part of the (somewhat perverse) pleasure of crocus is that they are fleeting.
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Poplar leaf, contrasted with leaf imprints in tufa...
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Spotted this piece of graffiti on a ESB(Electricity Supply Board) sub station on the path where I walk the dog.
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Maybe it was a response to the referendum result Michael :P
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No such luck David, on enquiring from a member of the younger generation, I was told that it was a young lad apologising to his girlfriend. She passes this building on her way to work every morning.
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Poplar leaf, contrasted with leaf imprints in tufa...
nice--looks like an arty project in concrete ;)
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Also -where's Wally--fellow Forum member.......... :D
Dave
This comment mobilised a few brain cells I'd forgotten I had! Who was Wally? Well, I remember attending open air rock festivals in the UK in the 70s and inevitably someone would call out for Wally and thousands would mimic the call. A mystery (almost) solved for Wikipedia tells the story http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wally_(anonymous) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wally_(anonymous)) and http://business.virgin.net/nigel.ayers/wally.html (http://business.virgin.net/nigel.ayers/wally.html). This was later immortalised in the series of children's books "Where's Wally".
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Eric - we could do with some crocus made the same way ;D Crocus flowers are sooooo fleeting. Your pleione are very lifelike.
No, no, no! - a large part of the (somewhat perverse) pleasure of crocus is that they are fleeting.
The pleasure will be greater when I am not at work during all the sunny days at crocus-time ;D
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Home surveillance camera? ::)
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Home surveillance camera? ::)
I'll consult my tecnical advisor :D or alternatively I dash home for 'lunch' and upset Jacinta by spending the time at the end of the garden :P ;D
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I saw this emerging Hypoxis species in a nearby field yesterday - so beautifully symmetrical - could almost be a Trillium ;)
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Beautiful image Rogan.
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I saw this emerging Hypoxis species in a nearby field yesterday - so beautifully symmetrical - could almost be a Trillium ;)
Wow! Great image and great plant!
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Wow, Rogan. That is a broad leafed species! :o I grow a couple of Hypoxis, but nothing with leaves that wide. Very nice!
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Each leave has a wonderful flow about it, Rogan which looks like a water current in a river - it must be interesting to watch it grow 8)
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This species of Hypoxis is H. hemerocallidea (syn. H. rooperii), a very important plant in African medicine. It is also known as the African Potato and will eventually grow to knee or nearly waist height.
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A brief stroll through a local beauty spot this morning resulted in the following shots ...
Healey Dell, Whitworth
Rock abstract in a water worn cliff
Fungi
Mossy branches
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Last batch from Healey Dell, Whitworth this sunny October morning ...
Healey Dell, Whitworth
Fungi
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These wonderful woodland shots would make a fantastic set of cards, Cliff - do you do that sort of thing?
I love them all but the moss on the wayward tree, the fungi and especially the rock abstract are my favourites
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Love Dell 6 Cliff, these shots look so lush, many compensations living in this part of the world but the UK really does do lush greens!
Contribution here is looking down towards Alexandropuli on the Aegean from the hills in the Forest of Soufli around 7.00pm last night.
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A great moment - I shall have to look on the map tomorrow, Hristo, to see where the sun is setting near you and creating that amazing sky :)
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Excellent pics, Chris and Cliff. Cliff, it's great to have a gentleman such as yourself who is brings so much enjoyment to us. You are, after all, such a fun guy!! ;D ;D
:-*
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Going nowhere slowly in a field of Homeria...
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Now there's a story, I wondered what happened? You 'Going nowhere slowly' photo would make a great poster, Rogan 8)
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I'm glad you enjoyed my picture Robin 8)
I just love wide open spaces and this photo epitomizes large areas of southern Africa. I snapped this scene near the town of Aliwal North on the banks of the Orange River.
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I just love wide open spaces
Me too....and the vast skies over head - no wonder SA leaves such an impression on anyone who has visited/lived there.
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I'm glad you enjoyed my picture Robin 8)
I just love wide open spaces and this photo epitomizes large areas of southern Africa. I snapped this scene near the town of Aliwal North on the banks of the Orange River.
i also love this scene for the open spaces and light-besides the car and flowers! i can imagine hours of botanising in this landscape!
there are places in southern alberta and british columbia that look quite similar, with a very different flora, of course!
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SOMEHOW I used a slide film twice. A few of the better shots.
see the possum carved into this log at Cruden Farm - the home of Lady Murdoch - as in publishing.
the driveway at Cruden Farm
the side of the house at Cruden Farm
the special honeysuckle at Cruden Farm
at Otto Fauser's garden
again at Otto's - I didn't know he was growing the arils between his pots!
Another at Otto's - what is this paeony?
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Pat, your double exposure shots could be the start of of something special in an exhibition - they are so absorbing to look at and show everything in a new light ;) Really, really, cool 8) 8) 8) 8)
In the digital age no-one would think it possible :o ;D ;D ;D
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SOMEHOW I used a slide film twice. A few of the better shots.
see the possum carved into this log at Cruden Farm - the home of Lady Murdoch - as in publishing.
the driveway at Cruden Farm
the side of the house at Cruden Farm
the special honeysuckle at Cruden Farm
at Otto Fauser's garden
again at Otto's - I didn't know he was growing the arils between his pots!
Another at Otto's - what is this paeony?
happy accident (except of course for the loss of the shots you wanted) and a good eye to catch the interesting ones!
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Pat,
very interesting. The yellow iris in image 0003 resembles the shape of a palm tree in an Greek garden seen in Corfu 8). Recalls nice vacation memories with my family :-*
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Two shots captured through the rear side window of JohnnyD's car as we sped back from the recent SRGC Conference. The sky was a melange of dark forbidding clouds, isolated shafts of sunlight and a transient hot air balloon ... images enhanced slightly for colour intensity.
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My apologies ... I neglected to post the 'arty' version!
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I like all the versions, Cliff!
......Wonder who came to the Weekend in the hot Air Balloon? ;) ::) Didn't spot it in the car park.... nothing surprises me about SRGC members, mind you! 8)
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I like all the versions, Cliff!
......Wonder who came to the Weekend in the hot Air Balloon? ;) ::)8)
Are we trying to guess who was full of hot air? :D
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..... that might be risky.......... :-X
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SOMEHOW I used a slide film twice. A few of the better shots.
again at Otto's - I didn't know he was growing the arils between his pots!
Pat,
it looks like "the ghosts of irises past"! ;D
would make a good X'mas card for Otto!
cheers
fermi
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Thanks for the idea Fermi.
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I made my annual autumnal visit to Tandle Hill country park near Oldham yesterday and I will post some fresh shots (including some fungi images) under the appropriate thread in the 'Places to Visit' category as soon as I find the time to sort them out, but I will also post a few 'arty' shots in this thread.
TANDLE HILL COUNTRY PARK
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Great ,will look forward to seeing more Cliff.
Eric
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Wonderful, wonderful photos of Tandle woods - as if painting the arty growth of tree branches and leafy carpet on the ground - the light is so atmospheric and it feels a really special place, Cliff.
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Many thanks Eric and Robin,
Have 'amended' four more images (always playing) from Tandle Hill ...
TANDLE HILL COUNTRY PARK Amended images
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Many thanks Eric and Robin,
Have 'amended' four more images (always playing) from Tandle Hill ...
TANDLE HILL COUNTRY PARK Amended images
gorgeous shots of what looks like a wonderful place..i'm always fascinated by this kind of woods, as we have nothing like this (in this part of the country, likely do in the east, not sure aobut west coast)--our deciduous woods have very crowded understories, this bare ground looks very exotic to me...lol; we have bare patches under spruce, but its not usually over a large area, and then its very dark, quite different...
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Many thanks. Cohan.
Two images captured this afternoon in Healey Dell nature reserve.
HEALEY DELL, Whitworth near Rochdale
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One of my favourite pieces of work ... an assemblage of four images captured at Southport last summer.
SOUTHPORT BEACH
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Congratulations Cliff - a Lowry feel at the seaside with gorgeous colours - I like the halo effect round the figures especially the guy throwing something, I imagine, for his dog? What do you call it?
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............ especially the guy throwing something, I imagine, for his dog? What do you call it?
..... a stick??!! ;D ::) ;) ;D
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Extremely long snigger! ;D ;D ;D
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What do you call it?
Apologies, Robin. 'Shifting Sands'
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One taken on the broadslast week. No alpines there ::)
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Mick, that is just beautiful ! 8)
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TANDLE HILL COUNTRY PARK a wonderful place, you are lucky to take those pics
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Let's try this one.
Erythronium "Pagoda"
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I like that.... flowery parachutes!
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Excellent image, Fred.
Paddy
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A few from my archives ... I am busy sorting out another digital presentation.
Potentilla nitida rubra
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This is 'exotic' but is it arty?
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Without a doubt ... a beautiful image.
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Three more from the unseen archive ...
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Without a doubt ... a beautiful image.
I agree with Cliff, Fred, the light is wonderful on your image picking out every curve and nuance :D
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Three more from the unseen archive
Hope there will be more rediscovered images, Cliff, it's hard to choose a favourite but when I saw the 'Meadow' image I thought 'Wow!'
Potentilla nitida rubra is gorgeous in its natural habitat - would love to grow it one day.....
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This is 'exotic' but is it arty?
Yes, particularly as there is no stem holding it up. Are you into levitation now? ;D
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I got carried away when I painted out the background ;D
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Ah, I was trying to work out how you'd affixed it to a background to photograph it.... didn't think of the editing out of said background. Looks effective!!
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Three more that crept out of the holding pen ...
Myosotis
Green Fly
Phyteuma
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Cliff, to have 3 things in perfect focus in a Macro in you Green fly image is an art in itself ;D
Great Macro of Phyteuma too - a mad design don't you think? 8)
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Excellent images Fred and Cliff,
always a source of inspiration :D
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Many thanks, folks!
I have always liked these two images from the 'seldom seen' archives ...
Blur
Contrast
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... And a third ...
Passing Clouds
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Just a few more and then Sue can put me to bed with a warm milk, a rum chaser and an anagram of Gina Lollobrigida ...
SRGC 9 would have been quite a nice shot apart from the raindrop on the lens - it was taken in a storm!
SRGC 10 shows a mushroom that had an imprint of a leaf embedded upon it's surface. It must have grown like that for quite a while before the leaf dried out and presumably blew away.
All images captured in the Dolomites.
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Cliff, aren't you well? Sorry to hear it if you are....
Your last lot of images in the Dolomites are really haunting like a set for a dramatic story and maybe the Mushroom with the leaf imprint is the start of the tale ::)
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Cliff, aren't you well? Sorry to hear it if you are....
Your last lot of images in the Dolomites are really haunting like a set for a dramatic story and maybe the Mushroom with the leaf imprint is the start of the tale ::)
No, I'm fine Robin, but many thanks for enquiring! My humour got the better of me once again ... my bedtime remark was simply an allusion to my great age and the fact that I had possibly exhausted myself by posting more than one image! :D
You MAY (one day) get used to my humour ... many have not. :D
Glad you enjoyed the opening lines of Withering Heights ...
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Cliff,
like especial your "contrast" image - superb!
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I am intrigued, Cliff... is it one of these anagrams for Gina Lollobrigida?
Billiard Agog Lion
Balding Liar Igloo
Gladiola Broil Gin
Baa Drilling Igloo
Bad Gorilla Oiling
Ill Aboriginal Dog
Billiard An Gigolo
Ribald Ailing Logo
Global Airing Idol
A Goad Boiling Rill
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GLAD I NO BOIL A GIRL ;D
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I think it is time for the warm milk, rum chaser and - forget the anagram - Gina Lollobrigida
Paddy
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I think it is time for the warm milk, rum chaser and - forget the anagram - Gina Lollobrigida
Paddy
Younger women have never appreciated me, Paddy! :D
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Cliff,
Where are your manners. Your wife I hope appreciates you, and she is after all an eternally young woman is she not? If the answer to that question is "no" then maybe we can see why young women do not appreciate you? ;D ;D :P
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Cliff,
Where are your manners. Your wife I hope appreciates you, and she is after all an eternally young woman is she not? If the answer to that question is "no" then maybe we can see why young women do not appreciate you? ;D ;D :P
Sue replied; "No comment" - through her solicitor! ;D
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Cliff, just looked at this topic since weeks again.
Excellent pictures as always, but forgot my comments after reading this last page (took me another half hour of my valuable time :( )
In my younger years I was more dreaming of ‘share in pool’ :D
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Your last lot of images in the Dolomites are really haunting like a set for a dramatic story and maybe the Mushroom with the leaf imprint is the start of the tale ::)
The conclusion of the storyless story, Robin ...
Make of it what thou will? Halloween spproaches ... :D
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In my younger years I was more dreaming of ‘share in pool’ :D
I don't think that is an anagram, Luit ... but I certainly get your drift!!! :D
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In my younger years I was more dreaming of ‘share in pool’ :D
I don't think that is an anagram, Luit ... but I certainly get your drift!!! :D
Shearin' loop - it's a kind of crook, like a boomerang, used to catch that sheep running away over the mountain top (story 14) and bring it back into the fold ;D
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Some paeony images from my back files ...
PAEONY
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Oh no, my computer has gone back to 1975 and is now in black and white!!!!! :o :o
It certainly does create a "mood" in a photo, doesn't it Cliff. The b/w and sepia can change so much. Thanks for the pics. 8)
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Thanks Paul.
In case anyone is interested these are the reduced original files.
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Wow, Cliff. Even better having the originals to show just how much different they are. The bw/sepia tones have their own charm, but I am a sucker for the coloured ones. ;D ;D
Thanks again.
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A few from images captured yesterday ...
Please click on the image to enlarge.
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Wonderful colour magic Cliff, I really like the first photo of the isolated fern with ?
Lots of ferns here still looking wonderful in spite of the cold brrrrr
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Wonderful colour magic Cliff, I really like the first photo of the isolated fern with ?
An epimedium, Robin ... many thanks for your very kind comments.
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There are a number of images from Tandle Hill Country Park (and of fungi found there) in the AUTUMN COLOUR IN LANCASHIRE thread, but as I have amended a few of the images I thought that they may be better placed in this 'arty' thread. Several images haven't been amended at all, but still seem to fit the bill? Please enjoy.
Please click on the various thumbnails to see enlarged images.
TANDLE HILL ART
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Cliff, love the first Tandle art pic and just find the fungus forms in all the images incredible - the arrangement of the fungus in T Art 6 is an art in itself ;D
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Fascinating fungi pictures Cliff.
The following was taken in the Cruickshank Garden on November 6th.
Ulmus glabra 'Camperdownii'. I think it looks much more interesting naked.
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Cliff,
Great run of photographs. These dark evenings are giving you lots of time to play with your images on the computer.
Good shot, Roma. Great shape of a tree.
Paddy
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I appreciate all the nice comments folks. Roma - your image is delightful.
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Several more autumnal images from the past ...
AUTUMNAL ART?
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Rannunclus, your pictures are delightful 8)
Roma I too find trees without there leaves amazing I suppose its the twisted limbs that give them there own character.
Angie :)
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Many thanks Angie - so pleased you are enjoying them.
Kind regards,
Cliff
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One more autumnal shot ... this time from The Algarve (enhanced obviously) ::)
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Four images to celebrate the 1000th forum member ...
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Great photos Cliff
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Excellent pics, Cliff. As always!! I think that autumn 4 and Tart2 look like I'd imagine a viewing during an acid trip would. Psychedeli, Man!! :-X
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I love the floating leaf on the leaden, molten water, Cliff - fab photo :D
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Cliff, 2 and 4 are my choice. The acid yellow of the aeonium flowers against the strong deep blue is a good combination. And the 'hand of god' lighting in number 4 is wonderful, a bit of masking for emphasis?
Paddy
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Many thanks folks ... all the images were captured in Portugal ... did you spot the datura blooming behind the aeonium, Paddy? I don't really like masking but sometimes the image cries out for it! :D
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Magnificent pictures Cliff! I love the backlight on the poppy. It gives such a nice delicate papery effect.
As the weather is not so nice like yesterday I found some more time to play a little with pictures.
Here are two more but comparing to your pics rather amateurishly ;)
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did you spot the datura blooming behind the aeonium,
Only now that you have pointed it out to me. Looks good.
Paddy
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Hi all,
I took this photo of Kalanchoe Kewesis a few years ago without paying much attention to the Agave Stricta in the background-I was pleasantly surprised by the result-looks like a starburst behind the flower. (or am I just being fanciful ?)
good growing, James
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lots of beautiful images as always, all!
here are a couple from a recent jaunt into the mountains..
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Luit, James and Cohan, all your arty images are great and really thought provoking ::) 8)
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Lovely run of photographs.
Paddy
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Hi all,
I took this photo of Kalanchoe Kewesis a few years ago without paying much attention to the Agave Stricta in the background-I was pleasantly surprised by the result-looks like a starburst behind the flower. (or am I just being fanciful ?)
good growing, James
this is a really nice one, james--kalanchoes do have lovely flowers; this is a species? the agave provided a great background..
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Hi Cohan,
I have'nt grown this plant for a few years now, the flowers really were its best feature, the plant itself had rather drab narrow green leaves on an erect stem. A brief search on the internet tells me it is an artificial hybrid-parents K. bentii X K. flammea. It was easy to grow if you can find a plant, but one that I always forgot about until flowering time!
James
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As the weather is not so nice like yesterday I found some more time to play a little with pictures.
;)
How easily can I become beguiled and misled by an arty shot? It was not until I visited the Flowering Now thread... .......November 2009 (Northern Hemisphere). page 4,
« Reply #56 on: November 22, 2009, 07:03:20 PM »
http://www.srgc.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=4427.msg122290#msg122290
that I recognised the first of Luit's photos as an Althaea! ;)
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How easily can I become beguiled and misled by an arty shot? It was not until I visited the Flowering Now thread... .......November 2009 (Northern Hemisphere). page 4,
« Reply #56 on: November 22, 2009, 07:03:20 PM »
http://www.srgc.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=4427.msg122290#msg122290
that I recognised the first of Luit's photos as an Althaea! ;)
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Paeonia ?? ;D ;)
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Hi Cohan,
I have'nt grown this plant for a few years now, the flowers really were its best feature, the plant itself had rather drab narrow green leaves on an erect stem. A brief search on the internet tells me it is an artificial hybrid-parents K. bentii X K. flammea. It was easy to grow if you can find a plant, but one that I always forgot about until flowering time!
James
i know what you mean--there are various other hybrids common in the florist trade, nothing special in the foliage; some of the species are nicer, though usually not as floriferous..
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Paeonia ?? ;D ;)
Yes!! :-[
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Can't remember if I have posted these in the past but, as it is reasonably quiet on the forum at present, it can't hurt to repeat the submission?
LILIUM BULBIFERUM & POPPY MEADOWS
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Pretty pictures, cliff, but "quiet on the Forum"??
Ten pages of posts in the last 14 hours...... :o .... yeah, really quiet! ;D
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Apologies Maggi ... I meant - 'A little quiet on the image front'! :D
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I'll forgive you, Cliff! ;D Poppy fields to view on a grey day such as we are suffering here are most welcome!
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a couple of photos I took on Friday
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Beautiful reflections, Mark.
Three versions of the same image captured in Yosemite ...
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I like the first one, Cliff
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Mark, did you mean to post the second picture upside down?
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yes. They are both upside down
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Mark, did you mean to post the second picture upside down?
Roma, it seems that old fashioned gardeners like us still have a lot to learn about arty ::) ::)
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I had assumed Mark posted the second one to show what the first pic was cut from. It really messes with your head seeing the main pic upside down, but it's very cool. ;D
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Let's try an image of a leaf ;D
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Wonderful image, Fred.
Paddy
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I agree. Amazing. 8)
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Before sunrise on Friday.
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Lovely images, Roma ... thanks for posting.
Four from a brief visit to Hebden Bridge on a cold, misty Friday afternoon.
HEBDEN BRIDGE, WEST YORKSHIRE
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Lovely pictures Roma.
Nice ones Cliff, used to sow a few wild oats in Hebden Bridge in my youth. Some good pubs too. ;D
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Cliff,
I like number two and number four - with a little cropping?
Paddy
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Fantastic, Cliff. 1 and 2 are my favourites. I love the perfect reflection in 1 of the arch of the bridge, but that trees etc in 2 are striking.
Thanks for sharing.
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Cliff,
I like number two and number four - with a little cropping?
Paddy
Many thanks folks.
Would you please repost with your cropping suggestions Paddy ... I have actually cropped them a little already but welcome suggestions?
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Arty from Mother Nature.
August 31 2002, she was on a painting mood. And I was on the right spot at the good moment.
Guess the time between photos 1253 and 1254 :)
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I hope you don't mind Cliff.
I liked Hebdon Bridge 2 so I had a little play.
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Very nice, Fred ... certainly a different perspective! So many options - so little time.
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Cliff,
Fred has cropped number 2 as I would have done. The sky was of no interest and didn't add to the shot. With number four, I would crop out much of the lower part of the shot and also the sky giving a narrower landscape view. The foreground and the sky have little of interest.
Paddy
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Exactly what I was playing with on No4 Paddy.
I brushed out the car too ;D.
Gives a panoramic view.
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Bernard,
You have beautiful landscape. Interesting to see the colour changes in the same view.
Well captured. Paddy
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Thanks, Paddy.
It was one of those moment you wish have a device that can capture feelings, sounds, odours, and true colors. Believe it or not, there was only 16 seconds between photos 1253 and 1254.
Bernard
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Bernard,
I've looked back at these two and it is amazing the difference a few seconds made to the light and the colour. A great location and you obviously enjoy the fishing though I think you didn't have great luck with it as you spent your time taking photographs!
Paddy
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Paddy,
When I'm on a fishing trip, my goal is relaxing, far before making a fish cost dropping :)
Time between those two pictures was only 22 seconds.
Bernard
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Thanks, Paddy.
It was one of those moment you wish have a device that can capture feelings, sounds, odours, and true colors. Believe it or not, there was only 16 seconds between photos 1253 and 1254.
Bernard
My goodness! I was thinkingthere would only be a few minutes, but never only seconds! They are lovely photos.... relaxing- yes, but such views make the heart soar!
Did you catch any fish, by the way? ???
HaaHAA! I just wrote this and got the message that Bernard posted his reply about fishing!!
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Interesting. If I haden't seen the sequence numbers I would have put pic two first. 8)
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Beautiful images Bernard ... forget the fishing, stick to photography! :D
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Bernard,
Amazing light, a great setting and amazingly quick change in the light.
Paddy
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Maggi, it was with my first digital camera (HP 2MP). With my Kodak Eesyshare, 3 or 5 in a row shut, could be more 'impressionnant',
Anthony, That is a positive point for the digital camera.
Cliff, thanks, but if I was not sticked to fishing, I would never had those picture.
I could show you an other batch taken in 2005, but I'm out until tomorrow.
Bernard
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Sun set on Lac Dugal.
2005-08-13, 10 pictures in 12 minutes.
Bernard
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Bernard,
beautiful sunset. Usual a good time for fishing (Muskie, Walleye?).
Did you get any bites?
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Armin,
In this lake, only trout.
But I think they also watch sun set, So, not a lot of bites.
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Bernard,
Certainly a location with amazing light. In the first six or so you can follow the movement of one particular cloud, how little it moves and yet the sky colour is changing remarkably quickly. Very interesting.
Paddy
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Bernard,
which bait do you use usual for trout fishing? Are there any conditions to the fishing method, type of bait (worm, grubs, artificial fly, streamer, spinner, jerk baits, ect.) close season ect.?
Here in Bavaria, Germany trout season is closed already from Oct.1st till eof Feb.
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Armin..... Bernard's photos are from August.....2005 ;)
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Upps Maggi, thanks for the hint ???
You may have noticed I'm an enthusiastic fisherman too ;D :-*
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Yes!! You should be planning to join Fred Admin on his trip to New Zealand, Armin.... he says the fishing there is some of the very best.... 8)
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Maggi, yeeessss! :P
Brown trout fishing in NZ must be great! I see me already standing in an wild river 8) and a capital trout is fighting on the root and giving me a big thrill...Oh Armin wake up!
Regrettable I'm afraid can't join. :'(
;D ;D ;D
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Paddy,
This lake is on the top of "Bouclier Laurentien" mountain system. When the sun goes down in the evening, insted of being masked by mountain, his light cross the clouds +/- thick. This produce an prismatic effect (Just a theorie).
Armin,
Since at least 25 years, I'm only fishing with artificial fly. Only a little box, and if a trout jump 180° away from your fly, in half a second, you can put your fly in the good spot.
Fishing season began the first May and finish 30 September, but we can't go to this lake before June.
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Are they lake trout then? What do you have to use in summer? Sinking lines and wet flies...?
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Lori,
All those lakes have rivers or Brooks, and trouts can jump from Saguenay (sea level) to lakes up to 800 meters.
I,m not a dogmatic fisher. I usually use dry flies with floating line, and I don't care if I don't catch any fish. The first goal is "Relax".
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Oh, sorry, maybe I did not make my question clear! :) I was wondering what species of trout are in the lake... and maybe you did already answer it, I'm not sure? (Lake trout and brook trout are two species - best fishing for lake trout is usually when the ice is just out, apparently. "River" trout is not a term I've heard before, so I don't know if that refers to a particular species in your area?)
Do Atlantic salmon come in from the Saguenay?
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Lori,
The only trout in this lake is this one. http://pages.globetrotter.net/jocelyn.aube/educp1.htm
But his meat vary in 3 colors (White, lighe-pink, salmon-pink)
I had never fished bigger than 12 inches. the better size to eat, (For me).
Bernard
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Bernard,
thanks for your reply. Flyfishing only. Fascinating sport. :D
The Northern Brook Trout (Salvelinus fontinalis, German name: Bachsaibling) has been introduced in the 19th. century in Germany too.
It is one of the most colorful char especial when they spawn. Unfortunately this species did turn out to grow very slow here.
Artificial fish stocking programs therefore nowadays very limited. Also due natural hybridisation with native brown trouts which produce sterile Tiger Trouts influencing our native fish fauna.
But if you catch one accidentally and grill it, the taste is much better then a Rainbow trout or Brown trout.
Smoked it is a special delicacy :P ;)
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The only trout in this lake is this one. http://pages.globetrotter.net/jocelyn.aube/educp1.htm
But his meat vary in 3 colors (White, lighe-pink, salmon-pink)
I had never fished bigger than 12 inches. the better size to eat, (For me).
Ahh, pretty little brookies! Always our favourite, as much for enjoying the habitat where they can live (only the cleanest, coldest water), as for their beauty. (We used to kill some to eat, but soon went to catch & release, though it was not regulated in the area.)
We used to flyfish (only) for brookies in northern Saskatchewan where they were stocked in small creeks. (Lake trout, whitefish and grayling are the only native salmonids there). Those narrow, willow- and alder-hung streams forced a person to get damned good at casting - your backcast would often have to go out side-arm or up at 80 degrees, to keep from getting hung up in the branches! Wading was an acquired skill too - the rocks in the creeks were either round, greased cannonballs (from coatings of algae and blackfly larvae) or flat and tippy - very exciting! Casting and wading in the places we flyfished in Alberta afterwards were child's play, by comparison!
It was great fun to be out on the stream and see mink moving along the bank, over and under the branches and rocks and into the water and out - they moved like ribbons, or like a length of film as it moves up and down and around through the spools. Great memories!
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I think we slide out of the subject ???
Fall's colorson my land.
Bernard
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Wow, Bernard ... you never said that you lived in paradise! :D
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Cliff,
A man made paradise, (Or a Gulag for a man slaving himself to have paradise on earth ::))
But I don't want to cause this thread sliding away again. Maybe later on a new thread, if I can put my photos in order to describe evolution of the work.
Just one to show the beginning.
Bernard
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In the bleak mid-winter ...
Images from local beauty spot, Healey Dell taken on Friday after the first light snowfall ... we have had considerably more snow since then.
HEALEY DELL, WHITWORTH.
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MORE FROM ...
HEALEY DELL
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FINAL FIVE FROM ...
HEALEY DELL
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Oooh Cliff, just came in to warm up after working outside in - 4 C and rather windy.
Now looking at your pictures I am getting cold again.... BRRRRR ::)
Nevertheless very nice pictures!
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Luit,
Whereas I was enjoying the brief almost cool feel to them after a 34oC day today (still around 30 outside at 7pm ::)). The Icicles would be so welcome right now. ;D
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Snowing very hard here today folks and the sky is as grey as slate - drifts are forming on top of the existing accumulations - hope Sue will get home safely from work or I might have to make my own meal! :D
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I recommend fried steak with a couple of fried eggs Cliff - Algarve style. 8)
J.
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I recommend fried steak with a couple of fried eggs Cliff - Algarve style. 8)
J.
Gee John ... that sounds GOOD!!!!!! :P
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Nice icicles Cliff, here in BG they give me the heebie geebies as they grow to 2ft long and fall
off the gutters onto the streets below, very 'Final Destination'!
Weather is cycling madly here bewteen warm and cold, today +6c, three days ago -15c.
Some nice sun sets currently but did a super volcano blow up and no one noticed? ;)
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Captured them "Snowy Hats" yesterday in the freesing air
Cheers,
Guy
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Replacing the first pic from previous post.
Guy
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Wonderful arty images everyone - this was a double reflection in high water, reflection in the water and water on the ducks' feathers
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a very rare instance of me taking photos and up and downloading them the same day! :o
a frosty morning here, but only outside my yard--interestingly, it seems at least sometimes the trees all around block the ice fog, so all the deposits are only on trees etc at the edges of and outside the property....
more pics and larger at picasa:
http://picasaweb.google.ca/cactuscactus/December252009#
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Beautiful images Cohan.
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thanks cliff--enjoyed your icey views, and those of robin, guy as well--at least its pretty once in a while-winter might as well be good for something, eh?
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Great pix everyone - the snow has gone here so no further Christmas views to be seen... :-\
The ones shown here make up for it though.
Wonderful imagages everyone !!
Cohan, that 124742AA pic is flabbergasting !! :o
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Magical frosty tracery in your beautiful photos Cohan - really wintery.
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Fantastic pics, Cohan. My wife enjoyed them as well (I just had to show her, all the pics in this topic are brilliant!!). I'm with Luc on the one that drew my eye most. That is an amazing growth of ice crystals!! :o Any chance of you sending me a large version of that to my email so that I can look at the details. In fact any of them would be appreciated. That sort of crystal growth is something I've just never seen before, and the pics here are too small to get all the details. ;D Plus, I can look at the bigger versions as we head into summer and maybe I'll feel a little cooler. :o Dreadful to think that we still have the heat of summer to come, and we've already had a 39oC. :-\
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thanks, robin, luc, paul--
i think the frost is probably the prettiest thing in winter..
someone showed me a pic yesterday from somewhere else (i presume down east or europe where its wetter) and the crystals were even much longer than we get here! i guess our fog just isnt as wet..
that plant with the longest crystals is an (ex)Epilobium-common fireweed- i was wondering if there were any fuzzy seeds left to hold that ice, though i thought all the fluff was long gone--if i remember i will look at that plant when i'm outside today..
paul--there are slightly larger versions, and a few more views at my picasa page,
http://picasaweb.google.ca/cactuscactus/December252009#
and i will send you a couple as well--i'll try original (full sized)version, if either my email or yours doesnt allow such a large file, i'll trim a couple a bit later on to send you..
glad to be of help getting through your summer...heat as a hardship is (mostly) outside my experience--35C with high humidity in toronto could be challenging, but to me only if indoors spaces werent well cooled, outside i didnt mind it...
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Cohan, that 124742AA pic is flabbergasting !! :o
Cohan - That shot is fantastic. Is that solely the result of ice fog?
I have never seen ice fog. Funny I was just reading on the internet that Halifax has 120 days of fog a year and it finished by saying "tourists will be heartened to know the fog rarely lasts more than 12 hours a day"! A bit of an exaggeration.
johnw +1c and still overcast.
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john, i better be careful on my use of weather terminology, without looking it up!
i'm assuming there was fog, though i didn't see it, since it didn't come into the yard, and i wasn't out during that time (overnight presumably)..
if there is a difference between ice fog and simply fog when its cold, i don't know!
i'll have to try to find some info to read up on the mechanisms; i'm assuming these fog patches, which drift about, and don't just settle in lowest areas (in fact we drive along a line of hills coming home from work and in suitable weather there are likely to be patches up there) are caused by temperature differentials, especially on days with a big difference from day to night temperatures, which is common here, and also when we have different air systems coming through, also common so near the mountains..
the fog is not coming off a body of water as there are none of any significance, and certainly nothing that is not frozen several feet down..
there are advantages to living out of sight of any neighbours: i forgot to check that fireweed plant from the photo in question when i was out sawing wood, so since i still had on longjohns (stylish black ones, thank you!) and wool socks, i just threw on a heavy coat, rubber boots, and went out to look!
there is no residual seed fuzz on the plant, and no longerterm ice or snow, just the papery seed capsule remnants--like dried grass blades, more or less, so that was all ice crystals from the presumed fog, long gone by now...
here are a couple of more shots -a closer view of another shot of the same plant, and a couple crops of another shot of frost on the branches; these are enhanced a bit for sharpness and contrast;
enlarging/cropping further to a closer view of the ice probably wouldnt help much, as these shots were handheld, super close will not be that clear..
paul--i'm still happy to send some full size pics if you want, but you probably wont be able to see much more than this, for the above reason..
EDIT: i added one more crop of original photo, which might show just a bit more of the structure; also sharpness and contrast enhanced..
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Fantastic stuff, Cohan. Thanks for the pic you emailed me too. I could still find heaps of detail in it by viewing it at various sizes. Just amazing!! I think I am very glad we don't get that here. ;D ;D
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Fantastic stuff, Cohan. Thanks for the pic you emailed me too. I could still find heaps of detail in it by viewing it at various sizes. Just amazing!! I think I am very glad we don't get that here. ;D ;D
glad you enjoyed it/them, paul
unless you are driving in the fog--which of course happens, though its not usually a real problem right in my area, at least --need to drive slower, but you can see the road immediately in front of you, at least ;) and its patchy, so you usually come out of it regularly, but--there was once last year that we couldnt find one of our turns onto a gravel road, coming home at night in the fog, until the second time going past again, very slowly...that might have been in fall rather than winter..
but as for this icey stuff--its just pretty, and is soon gone, its already cold when it happens, or it wouldnt, so it has no effect on comfort or plants or anything else (of course, note the 'already cold' part...lol)
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Christmas Day 2009 ... from my daughter's house perched high above Whitworth, Lancashire.
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Cliff,
That looks more like something you'd see in parts of Australia at this time of year..... it looks like a bushfire scene. Thankfully the widespread rain has put a stop to most of them for Christmas, which is excellent.... although there have been flood watches in various places as in some places they're getting more rain than they've had in a decade or longer. You can never please everyone, can you. ;D
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Bernard please start a new thread to show us photos of your garden in progress
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Some Pinus pinea seedlings in the greenhouse:
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Giles are those pine nuts?
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Yes Mark.
Very big seeds, easy to grow, good for rock garden and bonsai.
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Can those from supermarkets grow or only those in their kernal as found in macaw food?
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Christmas Day 2009 ... from my daughter's house perched high above Whitworth, Lancashire.
looks like quite a perch! i can see why someone wants to keep those trees in the foreground pruned..
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Mark,
I bought them as 'seeds' from a tree seed company, (Forestart).
They are bigger than the pine nuts I've seen in food shops, and I guess fresher/better looked after and therefore more likely to germinate well.
I've got some left over if you would like some.
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I don't usually get round to posting pics on the day they are taken, but here are a few of ice pictures on the greenhouse roof this morning.
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Nice patterning.
Paddy
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Exquisite, Roma! Like fine engraving on Victorian glass!
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Cohan and Roma,
many thanks for the beautiful winter images.
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Amazing, Roma. Isn't nature wonderful. 8)
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great shots roma :) wonderful patterns
we've had several days of fog and hoar frost and now more snow--so its more winter wonderland everyday! (more pics soon)
i just keep saying: 'if we have to have winter, at least it might as well be pretty!'
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Superb, Roma!
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Lovely pictures Roma. 8)
Angie :)
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I thought the ice pictures looked good on Monday but I had the family coming for lunch so had no time to get the camera out. Luckily the patterns were repeated on Tuesday and I was able to capture the pictures. It has not been cold enough last two nights for frost to form on the glass.
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lots of opportunities lately for frost shots!
i posted some more in Alberta Wanderings,
http://www.srgc.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=3546.60
and even more on picasa
http://picasaweb.google.ca/cactuscactus
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Roma, your greenhouse frost shots are stunning - they would look great as a print for paper design
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I'm enjoying this thread very much.
Here is a photo of Acer palmatum 'Orange Dream'. It is planted near my deck. In this particular top view looking straight down from the deck, with the young fans of foliage streaked with color, it struck me as arty or "artsy".
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Your Acer is not a cultivar with which I am familiar, Mark.... I like it!
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Mark, Maggi,
I saw examples of this cultivar in Cornwall last Easter and it struck me as a particularly good one.
Paddy
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Thanks, Paddy..... I'll keep a look out for it... though where I'd find room for another Acer I cannot imagine! :-X
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Mark, Maggi,
I saw examples of this cultivar in Cornwall last Easter and it struck me as a particularly good one.
Paddy
It has become a fairly popular cultivar here, carried by a number of Japanese Maple growers in the US. It goes through a rich color progression, opening a veined yellow and orange, turning a bright orange soon after, then changing to butter yellow, and eventually chartreuse in summer with new foliage tips showing deep reddish orange, and then all yellow-gold in autumn. Spring color is best. The pale foliage in summer is prone to burning, so is best situated in open half sun/shade.
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Mark.
Reading your post above I noted that you are in USDA zone 5 which strikes me as tough conditions for Acer palmatum cultivars. Here, and in the UK, harsh winds are the enemy of the acers. I haven't come across this cultivar for sale here in Ireland but it certainly is one I will purchase when the occasion arises.
Have you any photographs of it in autumn colour?
Paddy
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Reading your post above I noted that you are in USDA zone 5 which strikes me as tough conditions for Acer palmatum cultivars. Here, and in the UK, harsh winds are the enemy of the acers. I haven't come across this cultivar for sale here in Ireland but it certainly is one I will purchase when the occasion arises. Have you any photographs of it in autumn colour?
Paddy
USDA Zone 5 can be tough for some Japanese maples, mostly because hybridizers in milder climates like Oregon are not breeding for hardiness, producing lots of cultivars really only suited to USDA Zone 6. That said, there are many palmatum cultivars and small maple species that are perfectly hardy here. The better Japanese maple nurseries do indicate hardiness in their listings. This url goes right to 'Orange Dream' (scroll down), which shows the summer color of yellowish green with brilliant orange-yellow new leaves.
http://www.japanesemaples.com/catalog/index.php?id=2&page=8
The autumn color on 'Orange Dream' is negligible compared to most palmatums, perhaps the reason I haven't specifically taken any photos of the fall color. Spring and summer color is why you buy this one. I did find a photo of my Acer griseum tree (glorious red), and to the left is a small tree of Orange Dream, just starting to color up yellow-gold in the upper part of the tree... it is a rather short-lived show.
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Looking good.
Paddy
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Just wish i had the room to plant a few Acers .
The following original pic i took recently is of Celmisia philocremna --- from a different view.
Cheers dave.
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That is a stunning image Dave ... congratulations - and many happy returns.
A few images captured on New Year's Eve and today in snowy Lancashire.
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Cliff,
Image BB above is outstanding. I love the composition, great depth of field, perfect lead-in lines, nice foreground interest, good tonal range and as sharp as a pin.
Yea, you got it.
Paddy
Post Scriptum: Cliff, I have taken a liberty. I have taken the image, converted to greyscale, increased the contrast overall and then more so in the sky. There wasn't much colour to begin with so it suited conversion to greyscale.
Upping the contrast has made more obvious that you have a few spots on either your lens or on your sensor.
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A couple from my trip into Fiordland today.
Ranunculus lyallii from a different point of view.
(i'll head over now to post a yummy pic in the New Zealand field trips Jan 2010).
Cheers dave.
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Cliff,
Image BB above is outstanding. I love the composition, great depth of field, perfect lead-in lines, nice foreground interest, good tonal range and as sharp as a pin.
Yea, you got it.
Paddy
Upping the contrast has made more obvious that you have a few spots on either your lens or on your sensor.
Thanks Paddy ... the spots were on the lens, it was damn cold that day and too chilly to clean everything prior to shooting.
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That leaf is amazing, Dave!
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Studying a leaf with the sun behind it brings a whole new understanding to 'greenery' - fabulous Dave...i'm off to NZ field trips Jan 2010 after that teaser :D
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Three impressions of Magnolia 'Forrest Pink' fall & winter 2008.
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Great photos,
John edit: SORRY,McMARK !!.... there wasn't much of the tree surviving after the ice storm though, was there? :-\ :P
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Mark,
That's an incredible amount of damage. Thankfully, we don't get anything like that here.
Paddy
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Great photos, John.... there wasn't much of the tree surviving after the ice storm though, was there? :-\ :P
John ??? I looked back at the last 2 screens on this thread to make sure I wasn't getting "off the mark" again ;)
Two more photos after the sun came out later in the day, for a surreal experience. No snow, just ice. We were without power for one week, some areas for 2 weeks or more, lost all the food in our refrigerator and freezer. Managed to find a hotel about 35 miles away closer to Boston where they had only rain or minimal freezing rain. The damage was unbelievable, never have seen anything like it my whole life. Spent every weekend throughout the winter and spring clearing debris.
At least half the limbs on Magnolia 'Forrest Pink' were demolished. In spring I cut the remaining limbs back to stubs propertionate with the remaining profile of the tree... surprisingly it leafed out thickly, but many of these "water shoots" will not be good in the long run.
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I never new ice could do so much damage :o. I have seen this before my friend Donita sent me pictures of her family home in Tulsa, the mess was unbelievable and even metal structures were twisted and broken. I cant imagine what it would be like and to think that I get upset when the weight of the snow breaks some branches.
Angie :)
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McMark, forgive me... it has been a lonnnnnnnggggg day... and its not over yet! :-X
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This image is made up of three photos creating a panoramic view of the mountains on a walk yesterday - not exactly arty but challenging to assemble and the sky differences are still not quite right - any ideas how to merge sky tones welcome :D
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Robin looks perfect to me, what beautiful scenery you have. You walks must be so enjoyable, snow covered peaks and beautiful blue skies its just so pretty.
Angie :)
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:o ice smashes trees? How does it happen?
:o Three photos Robin? Expertly put together
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:o ice smashes trees? How does it happen?
...when it pours rain when well below freezing, water turns to ice, ice & water are really heavy, ice becomes incredibly thick, everything starts crashing and collapsing under the shear weight of thick ice. Some of these images shall help, they refer to the great ice storm of 1998 in Quebec, Canada.
Ice Storm 1998 Quebec
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzj3xiDqLSY
http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2007/10/ice-storms.html
http://windupradio.com/icestorm.htm
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Ad now something completely different, a photo of Trillium vaseyi; a psychedelic worm's-eye view.
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...when it pours rain when well below freezing, water turns to ice, ice & water are really heavy, ice becomes incredibly thick, everything starts crashing and collapsing under the shear weight of thick ice. Some of these images shall help, they refer to the great ice storm of 1998 in Quebec, Canada.
I had an ice storm in my garden once which nearly killed a Buddleia davidii.
It was a very localised storm.
Forgot to turn off the hose pipe and it had a leak and sprayed water over the Buddleia all day whilst I was out (the air temperature had dropped to below zero. When I returned, the bush was completely weighed down by thick ice ... :)
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Amazing images, Mark.
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Robin looks perfect to me, what beautiful scenery you have. You walks must be so enjoyable, snow covered peaks and beautiful blue skies its just so pretty.
Angie :)
Thanks Angie, yes we're very lucky to have Alpine scenery just on our doorstep - every day the mountain view changes, painting a different picture 8)
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Extraordinary ice storm images, Mark, the field of icicled grass is just amazing. Icicles are a big feature here at the moment encasing mosses and ferns and grasses where the snow melts in the sun and drips over rocks and ledges.
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Another image from the Dolomites ...
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Here are two images from last year. They are "haiga" -- a Japanese art form which merges a haiku (poem) with an image. I hope you enjoy them.
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Was going over some old photos today and thought these were perhaps good enough to add here?
The first makes me smile, and at the same time feel sad everytime I see it. This elderly nun sat by the side of the road for over 2 hours outside my apartment in Madeira - she kept going through her handbag and looking hopefully at the passing cars - there looked to be a knitted hat for a grandchild or something in her bag - then eventually another nun came and took her back to the convent. I don't know who she was waiting for but they never came for her. :'( Just as I took a photo the wind caught her veil.
The second picture is of a flower on one of my summer jungle plants (Alocasia calidora) - I really like the 3 different sorts of texture within the flower - almost like snake skin.
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Another image from the Dolomites ...
Cool shot Cliff, looks like an Ansel Adams. Is that the natural coloring or was a color filter applied to the image?
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Was going over some old photos today and thought these were perhaps good enough to add here?
The second picture is of a flower on one of my summer jungle plants (Alocasia calidora) - I really like the 3 different sorts of texture within the flower - almost like snake skin.
That's one phychedelic flower, awesome! Bottom 1/3rd green diamond snake skin, corn in the middle, brains at the top. Weird and wonderful.
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John - Was it wind or an electrical charge from the transformer? ;)
johnw
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there looked to be a knitted hat for a grandchild or something in her bag
The nun looking at the pattern colour of the knitted hat in her hand bag is the focus for me - in her world of black and white it's like a dream, so poignant.....
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Two more photos after the sun came out later in the day, for a surreal experience. No snow, just ice. We were without power for one week, some areas for 2 weeks or more, lost all the food in our refrigerator and freezer. Managed to find a hotel about 35 miles away closer to Boston where they had only rain or minimal freezing rain. The damage was unbelievable, never have seen anything like it my whole life. Spent every weekend throughout the winter and spring clearing debris.
At least half the limbs on Magnolia 'Forrest Pink' were demolished. In spring I cut the remaining limbs back to stubs propertionate with the remaining profile of the tree... surprisingly it leafed out thickly, but many of these "water shoots" will not be good in the long run.
luckily we dont get that here, either-certainly not like down east, anyway; i was in toronto during that storm which hit much of eastern north america, but downtown by the lake we were fine..
here the world is white again after a full day and more of freezing fog--but those ice crystals are rather light, and wont be breaking anything..
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Many thanks Mark ... the image was amended on the computer prior to posting. I adore the Ansel Adams comparison but I'm afraid the poor chap would turn in his illustrious darkroom. His name is synonymous with the majesty of the mountains.
John, your images are gorgeous.
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Taken at twilight with rather a puzzling result
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Moody. Mist and treetops juxtaposed.
But what makes the reflection ..... it is a reflection?
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Taken at twilight with rather a puzzling result
interesting image--sometimes the 'failures' take on their own life
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Moody. Mist and treetops juxtaposed.
But what makes the reflection ..... it is a reflection?
Tony, the lights belong to a real thing...and I haven't processed the image at all ;)
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Taken at twilight with rather a puzzling result
interesting image--sometimes the 'failures' take on their own life
Cohan, I certainly agree that surprising results can be rather intriguing and I was experimenting taking this shot at twilight but did not expect this day-glow effect :o
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Robin,
Is it a train?
Paddy
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Robin,
It's a metallic structure. I can see a twisted wire flat parts.
Maybe a bridge.
Bernard
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Robin,
Is it a train?
Paddy
Spot on Paddy, it's the Mont Blanc Express train winding round the track in the twilight with snow and trees
Robin,
It's a metallic structure. I can see a twisted wire flat parts.
Maybe a bridge.
Bernard
Bernard, this was what surprised me that the whole image appears twisted with the light tracing the metallic structure but the main light is from the windows and the lights on the roof must be from the electric cables - the lights to the right show the front of the train - the train must have been tilting as it turned on the track.
I'll try again with a tripod
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Late fall foliage on Cornus 'Milky Way' classifies as psychedelic. The leaves at the outer periphery turn a leaden blackish-purple color, while the inner leaves are like burning embers, reminiscent of ashen hot charcoals to this barbecue meister.
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Crocus gargaricus in snow
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Maybe the previous two aren't arty enough to garner any comments. Here's a photo of Callicarpa dictotoma 'Issai' catching the sun.
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Mark,
A lovely plant, well caught in the ray of sunshine. Here, we grow Callicarpa bodinieri and treasure the unusual colour of the berries, that nice purple I see on your plant. I don't think the foliage on C. bodinieri is as nice though.
Paddy
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Your Callicarpa is a stunner, much nicer than my C. bodinieri. Nice image too.
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Didn't looked a while in here.
Great shots and images from everybody.
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Three from last week ...
WHITWORTH LIGHT
TRIPLE BARRIER
LIGHT THROUGH MOSS
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so many days of fog and frost this winter, i have never seen anything like it!
makes for a very beautiful winter;
also, we had an unusually warm late august and september, so when it suddenly turned very cold in early october, many trees were left with leaves undropped--most fell later, but many remain, as on this sapling aspen..
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Wonderful pics, everyone. Thanks. 8)
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I love the play on light in your images, Cliff & Cohan, especially light around the moss edge and the aspen leaves frost :)
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thanks, robin--light is crucial to me, i have a hard time convincing myself to take out the camera on evenly overcast days..
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a martian face :o
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a martian face :o
well! i hope its not an invasive plant!
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Here' s my piece of art: "I'll remember Vincent" ;D
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"I'll remember Vincent"
I hope you don't feel like cutting of your earlobe, Hans? ;)
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a martian face :o
well! i hope its not an invasive plant!
"I just Googled for a date and this where I landed :o"
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"I'll remember Vincent"
I hope you don't feel like cutting of your earlobe, Hans? ;)
No, I won't! (http://www.cool-smileys.com/images/bunny2.gif) (http://www.cool-smileys.com/bunny-smiley-big-ears) ;D
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A few friends in the garden with me today ;D
Cheers Dave.
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(http://i69.photobucket.com/albums/i76/arykana/pretty.jpg)
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Corylus colurna 'Te-Terra Red'
(natural Spring colouration)
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Not what I intended but I like the effect. I had taken a pic of the buzzard in a tree then walked a bit closer. I was about to take another shot when it flew away and I followed it with the camera as I pressed the shutter.
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Roma, as they say: good art is unique, and making such a picture again,will be impossible.
So "arty" enough for me with this green background! Really like it!
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Hermannia
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Very pretty, Luit. A lovely image.
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A great arty image like 3 hats 8)
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Luit, is this the only colour of this lovely plant? I am not familiar with it but really like it
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Very pretty, Luit. A lovely image.
Thank for the compliment Cliff :D
Luit, is this the only colour of this lovely plant? I am not familiar with it but really like it
Robin, there are Hermannia with other colors, though I never saw them.
Thought that H. stricta is only this color??
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IMAGE FOR TODAY
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A great image, Cliff, almost like pewter and the detail is fascinating in BW
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Fascinating silver image, Cliff.
Luit,
The Hermannia is amazing. Not a genus I have heard of before. The flowers look a little oxalis-like, although facing downwards of course. Excellent pic as so clear and so interesting. What is the rest of the plant like?
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Welcome back Paul ... hope you are getting some sleep?
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Welcome back from me too, Paul, I often wonder how you are and hope that you are finding a little time just to yourself and to enjoy your garden inbetween work, work, work.....lovely to see your postings :)
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Just after the rain, a simple Welsh Poppy shines in the shadows
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A number of images captured over the past few weeks ... hope you enjoy.
BACKLIT BUDS
ASTILBOIDES TABULARIS
CASTILLEJA AND IRIS
DAMSEL ON HOSTA
MECONOPSIS DELAVAYI
MECONOPSIS LOVE
PRIMULA VIALII WITH AIRS AND GRACES
POPPY PASSION (CAPTURED IN KINGSWINFORD)
JOSEPH - OUR BEAUTIFUL NEW GRANDSON
POPPY PASSION TWO (CAPTURED IN KINGSWINFORD)
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hello all,
These are two plates that I did for Botalia. Alberto Grossi has invited me to his international art competition.
The themes are orchidaceae and cactaceae.
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Gorgeous images Rafa.
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brilliant, Rafa!!
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Thank you guys,
I am currently working in a comparative watercolor of Iberian Epipactis species, I will post it.
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Rafa,
Extraordinarily beautiful images. The brush is obviously mightier than the camera.
A few years back a beautiful book was produced here in Ireland on our native orchids. It was a large format book with all the illustrations drawn and painted by Susan Sex. I was very fortunate to be gifted a copy of the book by Susan and it is one of my most treasured and most beautiful possessions. I think you must set about producing a similar volume.
Cliff, that Joseph is a very nice flower.
Paddy
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oh thank you Paddy, I am going to look for it in abebooks, it sounds very intersting and beautiful book.
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Rafa,
I'm afraid it was a limited edition printing, published in 2004, and unlikely to be generally available. It has appeared in some specialised book auctions here in Ireland with a price tag well in excess of 1,000 Euro.
The artist also sent me two of her preparatory line drawings for images she used in the book and they are framed and hanging on my kitchen wall and I treasure and adore them.
Susan Sex and Brendan Sayers have also, since then, produced a field guide to Irish orchids, in 2009 I think, which is an excellent book.
You can see some of Susan's images at: http://www.franklewisgallery.com/flg/node/2
Paddy
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Anemone's ...trying to be arty.
There is beauty and wonder in nature when really, really close.
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close detail
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Stunning images Frazer.
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i haven't checked here in a while--great stuff all!
rafa--beautiful paintings!
frazer--i quite agree with you about the wonders of close detail!
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Clearing out photo files - came across this shot of cactus taken. A little bit different
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Like Cohan I have not checked this subject for a while and so missed Rafa's and Fraser's fabulous pictures. You are indeed gifted Rafa with the brush. WHEN the ASI do a book with drawings/paintings of aril irises I know where to turn. A pipe dream presently.
Rafa all the best in the competition.
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A number of images captured over the past few weeks ... hope you enjoy.
BACKLIT BUDS
Cliff, I really like the backlit buds... hidden textures and dangers revealed. Are those poppy buds?
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A number of images captured over the past few weeks ... hope you enjoy.
BACKLIT BUDS
Cliff, I really like the backlit buds... hidden textures and dangers revealed. Are those poppy buds?
Many thanks Mark ... I quite liked that one myself ... here is the poppy!
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One taken on 28th June at Downham ...
'FLEECED'
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nice image, cliff, great colours!
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Many thanks, Cohan.
Today's contribution ...
BLACKSTONE BRIDGE
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Regarding the poppy Cliff, I think you should have got your iron out :)
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Regarding the poppy Cliff, I think you should have got your iron out :)
;D ;D ;D
Perhaps this one is more FLAT-tering? :D
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hello again!
This is another plate for Botalia, the theme are Orchidaceae in Chile. I love them they are extremely difficult to paint!
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Rafa, I have never seen these orchids before and your paintings are so enticingly beautiful it's like seeing the real plant for the first time. The detail and character of each orchid you have painted on this plate is fabulous. Excuse my ignorance, but who is Botalia? Are there other plates you have illustrated?
Have just seen the link to the blog - wonderful :D
Double clicking on the photo in the blog gives a huge photo with stunning detail 8)
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Rafa, good paintings! You should draw the exotic plants in my new fantasy book ;D
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Rafa,
Until quite recently I did not know of this artistic work of your and am astonished at the beauty of your illustrations. It really is outstanding, beautiful and a joy to see.
Many thanks, Paddy
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Rafa,
Absolutely superb - what a talent to treasure.
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Botalia: Painted flora. International Botanical Art Competition. Lucca, Italy. 3-5 September, 2010
... an event of botanical art illustration organised by forumist Alberto Grossi.... some details here:
http://www.murabilia.com/mcms/docs/Botalia_eng.pdf
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Thank you very much friends, I'm glad you like it.
Maggy thanks for the link
Alberto grosssi organized "Botalia: Painted Flora" it is an international art competition in the botanical garden of Lucca, Italy.
It is the first time I participate. The theme are Orchidaceae and Cactaceae, but you can also choose another theme.
They request four works and the price are medals and an accesit.
I am currently working in Epipactis plate and I will send my works next week as the exposition is in September.
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Magnificent Rafa.
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Rafa,
I visited the botanic gardens in Lucca a few years ago and really enjoyed them - great taxodium. A walk around the walls of the town is a lovely experience.
Enjoy! Paddy
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Paddy, I only saw some pictures in their website. Unfortunately I can't visit it in September, Lucca must be a beautiful city!
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Rafa:
Beautiful stuff.
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Rafa,
Bravo! Chapeau!
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well done Rafa!
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Beautiful Rafa. Lucca is a lovely city. It has the oldest pizzeria in Italy.
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mmmmmmmmmmmmm in that case there are no excuses for visit Lucca ;D
Thank you all, for these nice comments to my work.
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Stolen from internet
but so nice I have to show it here
Root tip in waterdrop in the Taphos Cave in the Kalk Bay Mountains
Roland
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Five from the Dolomites this season ...
BLUE BEYOND
ETHEREAL SKY
FRANZ KOSTNER HUT
NIGRITELLA RUBRA
UPWARDLY MOBILE
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Great shots, Cliff.
I think Franz Kostner needs to call the fire brigade.
Paddy
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A couple of pics from Harlow Carr
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Beautiful images Mick.
Only one today ...
Aquilegia art
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... And two more for now ... showing the original and the 'corrupted'. :D
TROLLIUS SP.
TROLLIUS SP. TWO
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Beautiful images Mick.
Taken by Henley (aged 3). He decided he wanted to use grandads camera for the day and chose his own subjects.
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Beautiful images Mick.
Taken by Henley (aged 3). He decided he wanted to use grandads camera for the day and chose his own subjects.
Note that name for the future! At least you know what to buy him for Christmas, Mick. :D :D :D
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Beautiful images Mick.
Taken by Henley (aged 3). He decided he wanted to use grandads camera for the day and chose his own subjects.
Wow! It must be in the genes! Well done young Henley. 8)
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In between his camera duties he still has time to play.
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Crikey! Is he cute or is he cute!!??
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Lovely little chap. I think the whole world's a granddad bar me :(
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I know the feeling, David.... I've always thought I'd make a good Grandma.... but since I have no children that's a bit on the tricky side to arrange...... :( :-X
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Elderly bloke, fond of kids (are you allowed to say that these days!?) willing to act a surrogate granddad. No reasonable offer refused.
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My 25 year old son has just bought his own Nikon camera after using mine before. He has taken some pretty good photos at home and around the district.
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Particularly like the lichen image, Pat ... keep him focused!! :D
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It's really interesting to see your son's view of your district with thought-provoking images....I really like the old wood stacked on the cart.
Also it is is intriguing to see colour and b&w of the same subject together for comparison....for me the lichen wall zig zagging away works better in colour
Congratulations on great images :D
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Pat, your son has a definite eye for composition... beautifully framed images, beautiful if not haunting imagery. Enjoyed these a lot.
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Super pix, Pat.... more talent in your brood , I see!
What is the tree... in flower?... in image #051 ? Very stately look to it, without its leaves but covered in what I assume are blossoms.
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I will relay the messages to my son who will be chuffed.
The tree is possibly an old almond which is a survivor where old farmhouses have long gone.
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I will relay the messages to my son who will be chuffed.
The tree is possibly an old almond which is a survivor where old farmhouses have long gone.
So he should be, Pat... he's doing so well it's only right to give appreciaiton for his efforts.
I do like that tree! I can see it may be almondish!! :D
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The picture of my day (as opposed to my picture of the day) ...
CYCLAMEN IN SHRUBBERY
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..it's trite, but beauty and the beast?
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I feel this Youtube video shows Kiwi art of the highest calibre. Kindly sent to me by our friend Anthony Darby
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9f1awn9vBZE
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I know that Cliff B likes to play around with some of the visual effects available in image processing software programs. I've played around with some effects in my avatar-madness days ;D But I occasionally check out what certain photos will look like when applying a filter or effect, it's fun. The last one in this series is a "brush stroke" effect, for an instant impressionist painting ;D
The original photo is part of my Allium garden in August 2007.
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Lesley,
Really enjoyed the inflight safety video - it's only fair that to show that the Brits can get people's attention as well. We saw this one last year going on holiday, I even looked forward to the return flight. ;D
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjHCc6TZhaM
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That's really nice Peter and I'm sure would get a lot more attention than the usual version. I'm usually annoyed at the hostess for interrupting my reading. ???
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Light reflections as the last of the sun dips down over the river
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Lovely, lovely image Robin.
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It certainly is.
Cliff that small plant has arrived and I'll send it off tomorrow. I'll be away from NZ for a week from Wednesday so best get it away ASAP. On the dryish side I think?
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Many thanks Lesley, I will await it's arrival with love in my heart, oxygen in my revival equipment and a hot coffee and light snack of nutrients ... have the most wonderful trip and give our kindest regards to those Aussie people please! Take care.
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Glad you both liked the image and have a safe and happy trip Lesley, looking forward to seeing some photos ::)
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I liked your lovely picture too Robin :D
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Robin that's such a lovely picture, so tranquil.
Angie :)
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Thanks for your comments Luit and Angie, it did have a real feeling of tranquillity at the end of a busy day :)
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Some lovely images in this thread.
I found it fascinating to look down on the forest from cablecars this summer. Here is one impression.
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That's a fir distance up, Tony. I pine for scenes like that in autumn and winter.
An image now by that celebrated photographer; Anton Aconitum ... a deliberately larger than usual image Maggi to allow for detail recognition.
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Fermi sent me some "arty" images of flowers but I deleted them after looking. Silly of me as they'd fit here very well. Fermi, if you're looking, can you post them here?
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Petrocosmea
Petrososmea2
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In sphagnum
In sphagnum 2
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On the web ...
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On the web 2
On the web 3
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Cobwebs are great shots, Cliff.
Paddy
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Reminds me of a card I have where one small spider in its web is saying to another small spider in the next web, "I heard a rumour that there's a world wide web."
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Cliff,
very good shots of the snake head and wet spider net 8)
In the latter I like the play with light in the background.
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(http://i69.photobucket.com/albums/i76/arykana/th_szv.jpg) (http://s69.photobucket.com/albums/i76/arykana/?action=view¤t=szv.jpg)
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Lovely clear sky tonight. The new moon through a rather dirty window.
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A few from Mallorca last week ...
FISH ON MARKET STALL
CACTUS LIGHT
MALLORCAN ENCOUNTER
PAMPAS LIGHT
MALLORCAN ROCK POOL
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Very nice Cliff... my, that first one looks tasty :-X
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Two fishy shots for Cliff. Paddy
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I know my plaice Paddy! :P
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Ah, it's all a cod, Cliff.
By the way, the boat and drying cod (which I had one night and enjoyed) are in Camara dos Lobos and were a favourite painting subject for Winston Churchill. I've added a few wider views to give you the setting.
By the way, in photograph 3 below you will notice the cloud topped hills behind the village. This is the top of the second highest cliffs in the world.
Paddy
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Excellent black scabbard fish, Paddy. Don't see many of them on gardening forums! Deliciously ferocious beasts :)
The fish markets in Madeira are quite something!!
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Well, just to remind you of the fish markets in Funchal, here are a few photographs, even some of the beautiful scabbard fish, which I enjoyed greatly while visiting.
Paddy
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autumn in a single leaf
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Obviously, a leaf high on LSD.
Paddy
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For Hans ...
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A beautiful tribute Cliff.
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Many thanks Robin ...
The evenings are drawing in ...
Autumn lights
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This young Aberdeen Angus cow sought greener pastures in the park! :)
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Great oaks, Robin.
Paddy
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Paddy,
looks more an old weeping willow ;)
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Armin,
Certainly, on looking closer, those are not oak leaves so it could definitely be a willow. Great trees.
Paddy
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You've had me studying the leaves now!! Can't tell what the nearest ones are, tho' not oak, I agree... but isn't that a big old willow in the far left distance?
I was busy earlier, studying the conformation of the heifer - she is very pretty.
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Maggi,
Good thing you liked her.... Robin did after all describe her as a "Young Aberdeen Angus cow", so the pic was obviously aimed at you. ;)
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Young and knew her own mind - she wasn't going to be bullied into leaving until she was ready and had had her say - wonderful to watch her running rings round 5 men for over half and hour! The first photo hit the local newspaper as their photographer arrived too late ;D
The trees are the most magnificent giant willows 8)
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Young and knew her own mind - she wasn't going to be bullied into leaving until she was ready and had had her say - wonderful to watch her running rings round 5 men for over half and hour!
My goodness, Paul, you're right... this is indeed an artistic representation of me - It's confirmed by the description! ::)
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I was not implying it was an artistic representation of you, just that the pic was FOR you. I am not going to accept the implication that I called you a cow. :o
I like it here, and want to stay. ;D
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Bully for you, Paul! :D
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From Hilliers arboretum in the summer:
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Super image, Stephen.
Captured the following images on a leisurely trip back from a meeting in Wensleydale (Yorkshire) yesterday ... sun and mist and magnificent scenery ... a heady mix!
WENSLEYDALE & WHARFEDALE
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Cliff lovely images, love the one with the mist. Yorkshire is such a beautiful place.
Angie :)
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Stephen, that's an intriguing image - what tree is it?
Cliff, wonderful moody images of the Yorkshire landscape :)
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Super image, Stephen.
Captured the following images on a leisurely trip back from a meeting in Wensleydale (Yorkshire) yesterday ... sun and mist and magnificent scenery ... a heady mix!
WENSLEYDALE & WHARFEDALE
Fantastic images Cliff... had to call my wife over (she sits at her own computer about 2 meters away from me) to come see these photos; the countryside looks amazingly beautiful and serene. Is Wensleydale the namesake for Wensleydale cheese, one of Wallace and Gromit's favorite cheese varieties?
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Yup, McMark...... now you see why "everyone loves Wensleydale!" :D
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Super image, Stephen.
Captured the following images on a leisurely trip back from a meeting in Wensleydale (Yorkshire) yesterday ... sun and mist and magnificent scenery ... a heady mix!
WENSLEYDALE & WHARFEDALE
Fantastic images Cliff... had to call my wife over (she sits at her own computer about 2 meters away from me) to come see these photos; the countryside looks amazingly beautiful and serene. Is Wensleydale the namesake for Wensleydale cheese, one of Wallace and Gromit's favorite cheese varieties?
It certainly is, Mark ... Wensleydale is famous for cheese, hills and dales, historic villages, traditional markets and blissful tranquility. Aysgarth Falls and England's highest single drop waterfall; Hardrow Force are prominent landmarks. Towns and villages of note are Hawes, Leyburn, Bainbridge and West Witton.
So glad you enjoyed the images and please apologise to Mrs. McMark for disturbing her peace!
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Magnificent images Cliff. Been twice in the Dales for just a few days, but never managed to make some pictures like these ::)
Well, I hope that is just because you know the area much better, otherwise I better stop making landscape pictures ;D ;D ;D
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So glad you enjoyed the images and please apologise to Mrs. McMark for disturbing her peace!
When I'm able to convince my wife to journey all of 2 meters over to my computer screen, what I show better be DARNED GOOD >:(; luckily she was duly impressed. By the way your Yorkshire Eight has the most striking & compelling sight lines, finely composed views.
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Stephen, that's an intriguing image - what tree is it?
Wonderful shots, Clifford!
It's art ;) Should have made a puzzle of it! Here are a few more. The first one is a zoom out on the first one I posted! The artist's name is Janet Schooley and the chair was £280 - a lot of work went into that!
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Maybe that's what I should be doing for the bazillion samaras that fall off of my Acer griseum tree,
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Many thanks folks! (I haven't been called Clifford since the last time I had to see the headmaster! ;D
Another batch from Wensleydale & Wharfedale - all taken yesterday.
Luckily Sue was driving, so I just shouted; "Stop please" - leapt out and focused before a car came up behind. :D
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Ah!!! Such fond memories you have brought back to us Cliff. Sherba absolutely fell in love with Yorkshire when she was in England. She even watches "Last of the Summer Wine" for nostalgia's sake. We stayed in Wensleydale one year after the Harrogate show. Personally, I prefer Cheddar (the cheese, not the gorge).
Thanks for sharing the terrific photos.
Now have you got any shots of rainy Manchester to satisfy my home-sickness ;D ;D
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Wonderful, Cliff. Made me homesick, and I'm already here!
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Hi Cliff,
I love the lighting in Yorkshire seven. Is it natural or have you tweaked it?
Susan
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Decidedly tweaked, Susan ... artistic license is permitted and encouraged in this particular thread! :D
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Decidedly tweaked, Susan ... artistic license is permitted and encouraged in this particular thread! :D
ahh, but how did you do it?
New to this technology lark, can barely get my photos off the camera let alone play with them once they are on the pc. :-[
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Hi Susan,
The original image is attached. I utilised iPhoto for the Mac. I simply added a sepia tinge in 'effects', then tweaked the saturation and the highlights (just a little), and then tweaked the 'boost' by a factor of three. The posted image is the result.
Some may well prefer the original, others enjoy the 'arty' version ... simply a matter of taste. 8)
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.............. Yorkshire is such a beautiful place.
Angie :)
..... and produces such beautiful people too ::).......
Cracking images Cliff and I'm with Anne in the homesickness stakes.
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Hi Susan,
The original image is attached. I utilised iPhoto for the Mac. I simply added a sepia tinge in 'effects', then tweaked the saturation and the highlights (just a little), and then tweaked the 'boost' by a factor of three. The posted image is the result.
Some may well prefer the original, others enjoy the 'arty' version ... simply a matter of taste. 8)
Thanks Cliff.
Will definitely have to have a go myself.
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Cliff,
I'm with Mrs McMark on this..... definitely well worth viewing.
McMark,
Maybe next time you want her to see something and you're unsure of the reception, you could always send a link to her computer? That way she wasn't forced to move the 2m perhaps unnecessarily. I really like the idea of his and hers computers, in the same room. Not sure I have room in my office to do it unfortunately. ::)
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Anyone happen to have a picture of the Yorkshire village, Mytholmroyd? I would like a picture for an article I'm writing :)
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No pics Stephen but it was a place where some of my wild oats were sown-happy memories! Cliff Booker might have some.
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lovely images of a lovely area, cliff! love the stone walls (so much more poetic than our barbed wire :( and the atmospheric misty shots...
over the last months i have been having fun playing with various filters and other manipulations in my freebie photo editing software..nothing terribly sophisticated, but it can be fun to see various things that can be done to an image, from subtle, painterly effects to quite abstract..here are a couple of recent ones...
(more here where you can see them in series:
http://picasaweb.google.com/cactuscactus/November212010Artsy# )
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Anyone happen to have a picture of the Yorkshire village, Mytholmroyd? I would like a picture for an article I'm writing :)
How soon do you need the image Stephen? We get across there every so often, so I could take one, but of what?
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Really nice, aren't they , Cohan? It makes me wonder why we bother to paint sometimes.
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Really nice, aren't they , Cohan? It makes me wonder why we bother to paint sometimes.
Talking of painting Anne i have just seen yours on ebay and i must tell you they are incredible and a steal at the price,you are a very talented lady.
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Cohan,
I like the alienated images of the rose! It is almost like a watercolour painting.
Which free SW did you use?
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Nothing "arty" about this one.... it's just last week's cut flowers, ready for the compost pile, but I still find the colours really enchanting and even the wilted petals add to the feeling somehow...
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Funny that, as I was just about to add this one, entitled "Last Week's Tulips." I've enjoyed them even as they died. A jar of purple tulips died more gracefully, the petals simply falling off, still in quite good condition.
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thanks anne, and armin!
the program is called photoscape-besides adjusting brightness, saturation, contrast etc, i mostly play around with their filters, esp those under pictorialisation-i find the most interesting thing is layering one filter over another to give interesting effects..
anne-- do you have a link to your paintings? i have thought similar things--easier way to do painterly things with images, but then, a)i love the physical process of drawing, painting etc as much as the result, so i wouldn't readily give it up (not that i have made any time for it lately, so the photos satisfy the urge to play with images, at least)
b) without a much more sophisticated program than i have, you naturally have much greater freedom drawing/painting to create totally
c)actually some of these images have given me ideas of ways to play with images in drawing/painting
lori--nice image-- i like the light/colours
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Lori, I love your image of fading flowers with the antique feel - are they all flowers from your garden?
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Oh, how I wish! :D No, everything was frozen off a couple of weeks ago. I buy cut flowers through the winter to make up for it! This is what it looks like here now. :o
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Funny that, as I was just about to add this one, entitled "Last Week's Tulips." I've enjoyed them even as they died. A jar of purple tulips died more gracefully, the petals simply falling off, still in quite good condition.
Nice curtains, Lesley ... did you paint them yourself? :D
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Oh, how I wish! :D No, everything was frozen off a couple of weeks ago. I buy cut flowers through the winter to make up for it! This is what it looks like here now. :o
well, at this moment our gardens look about the same ;D
i take comfort in small things, such as the afternoon forecast is now -18C, it was -20 dropping to -23, with windchill of -32, now they are not mentioning windchill.... we'll see when i go out for wood...
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Nice curtains, Lesley ... did you paint them yourself? :D
Oh yes, of course, along with the wall papers, the artwork in the bathroom and loo, hand threw the porcelain in the dining room and also wove the carpets. ::)
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my goodness, i'm amazed you have time to garden! ;D
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Cohan,
She's a pretty amazing person you know..... she did all that before Breakfast. ;)
That leaves her plenty of time to do the gardening! ;D
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Cooked a three course breakfast too. ;D
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Funny that, as I was just about to add this one, entitled "Last Week's Tulips." I've enjoyed them even as they died. A jar of purple tulips died more gracefully, the petals simply falling off, still in quite good condition.
Nice curtains, Lesley ... did you paint them yourself? :D
Sorry, Lesley,
I only gave the tulips a quick glance but, after Cliff's comment, I went back to have a good look at your curtains. Don't know what fellow in on about!
Paddy
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I only gave the tulips a quick glance but, after Cliff's comment, I went back to have a good look at your curtains. Don't know what fellow in on about!
Paddy
Very few do, Paddy ... very few do! :D
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My contribution for today ...
POPPY BUDS
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Cliff, I love your curtains.
Paddy
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Cliff, I love your curtains.
Paddy
Pull yourself together, Paddy! :D Keep on the rail! :D
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OK, Poppy Buds,
Paddy
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Cliff, I love your curtains.
Paddy
Pull yourself together, Paddy! :D Keep on the rail! :D
Cliff,
We really need to draw this to a close. ;)
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Cliff, I love your curtains.
Paddy
Pull yourself together, Paddy! :D Keep on the rail! :D
Cliff,
We really need to draw this to a close. ;)
IT'S CURTAINS THEN!!! ;D
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Just when I was about to ask for some light to be let in on the matter.
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Lesley,
And here I was, blinded by the subject. I shall now pleat the fifth and drop the subject. ::) Off to have a nap. Sheer luxury. 8)
OK, I'll stop the curtain terms. As cliff said.... It's curtains!! :D
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snowy scene from the yard.. (actually the path just visible in the snow is where mom takes the dog to poo!)
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Super image, Cohan ...
... And now for something completely different ... captured in Mallorca in October.
Marooned
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Gentiana verna in the Dolomites.
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I love photos of plants with mountains in the background
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So do I...a really lovely image Cliff, the Gentiana blue is so vibrant in that setting :)
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What a beautiful picture, Cliff, the subject, the composition, very pleasing. :) :) :) the sort of picture that makes people say: "Aaaah" when seen on a big screen.
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tks, cliff... ah, to be in the mediterranean now! we've arrived a bit early at that stage where everything is white and likely to remain that way for a long time--makes it hard to remember that we have other seasons where its totally different-even a time of year when everything is green! at this time it seems unbelievable that anything can grow here at all, other than maybe annuals! i think i will go back to editing summer flower pics, lots of those to show yet ;D
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My Acer shirasawanum 'Aureum' sitting in its pot on the front doorstep. Will it survive?
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Beautiful image Roma ... hope the Acer survives!
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In France, farmers who grow cherry trees wet their blossoms when it is freezing to protect them with ice :D
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Goodness, Roma, was it positioned under a dripping pipe or something?
Paddy
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From sunnier times ... Platanthera bifolia.
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If that was my plant, Roma, I would bring it inside so the ice melts and put it out again
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Yes Paddy the Acer sits on the doorstep and the gutter is dripping right on it. The gutters should have been cleaned once the larch needles had finished falling but neither of us are able to climb ladders just now and the needles had barely finished falling when the snow came.
Mark, it might have been possible to move the pot a few days ago but it is now encased in ice. I am still hobbling around on elbow crutches and my husband would not think moving a pot a priority when he's struggling taking in coal and firewood and getting to the village for shopping. Luckily he has a 4w drive pickup or we'd be stranded.
Second picture view from the front doorstep
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Hi Roma
Hope you Acer will be ok. My gutters had no needles or anything else in them and mine are the same. The back door has huge icicles hanging from them and the plastic guttering has given way. At least we have had no more snow today.
Remember once the you are up to it come over for tea and a nice big piece of cake.
How are the horses ?
Hope to see you soon.
Angie :)
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Quite a waterfall, Roma. My gutters are full, full of ice.
Paddy
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Hi Roma. Leave it like it is. the ice is actually insulating it from any colder temperatures.
It will also moderate the temp change as it thaws so it wont go from say -5 to + 10
fast on a warm day.
John B
My Acer shirasawanum 'Aureum' sitting in its pot on the front doorstep. Will it survive?
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I agree Roma. At most I'd carefully break off some of the stalactites in order to lessen the weight and perhaps pervent stems breaking.
Our Central Otago orchardists who frequently get hard frosts during blossom time, have permanently installed overhead hoses and these are turned on to spray the flowers, so encasing them in solid ice, as you said Nicole. The ice gradually melts as the sum warms up leaving the flowers ready for pollination.
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its been done here on frosty early mornings in the vegetable garden as well (not by me, i haven't had occasion, but i remember my aunt doing it when i was young..i probably wouldn't be out of bed at the right hour...lol) ::)..
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i said i was going back to summer pics, and i am, but a few more winter shots ;D
from today on the acreage..
only number 3 is altered beyond a little sharpening...
album here:
http://picasaweb.google.com/cactuscactus/December042010Home#
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From warmer times ...
Pulsatilla vernalis, Switzerland.
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A shot of the sunset on my way from Keyneton to Angaston - the flash brought up the roadside grasses well.
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That's beautiful, Pat. :)
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Yes Paddy the Acer sits on the doorstep and the gutter is dripping right on it. The gutters should have been cleaned once the larch needles had finished falling but neither of us are able to climb ladders just now and the needles had barely finished falling when the snow came.
I discovered a similar ice covered plant when I came home one cool autumn day some years ago. It was on a Buddleia (not that winter hardy). I had forgotten to turn off the hose pipe, it burst and with the temperature below zero it had sprayed the Buddleia, freezing on contact, for several hours. Although it remained ice-covered for over a week it did recover...
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A shot of the sunset on my way from Keyneton to Angaston - the flash brought up the roadside grasses well.
nice view!
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a couple of altered images from the other day..fun to play with an image and see what variations are possible (i did 10 of the first one...)
and an older image i played with recently..
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The final image is the one, Cohan! Superb.
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The final image is the one, Cohan! Superb.
thanks cliff!
bad air days have their value (this was during days of smoke from far away forest fires in the summer) and blurry shots can have their redemption ;D
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Just caught up with reading here (from 2009!!)
See nothing posted since 2010 and hope you all are still out there and okay.
Here's my next contribution "of an arty kind" ...
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AHAH!!!
I just located where you-all went! Just in case anyone else gets here by accident, a newer thread on this topic can be found at:
http://www.srgc.org.uk/forum/index.php?topic=8529.0
See you over there?
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Hi Lois, long time no see. :) How are you?
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It's pitch black outside and we have had the first snow of the winter.
(https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8612/15818453280_78ab4f16c6_o.jpg)
Crocus niveus
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This thread is no longer being used. If you would like to continue the conversation and/or show your own work, go to:
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All prior "Images of the Arty Kind" threads known to exist are at:
The prior "Images of the Arty Kind" threads known to exist are at:
https://www.srgc.org.uk/forum/index.php?topic=3584%20.0 (2009 +)
https://www.srgc.org.uk/forum/index.php?topic=7782.0(started in 2011)
https://www.srgc.org.uk/forum/index.php?topic=10873.0 (for 2013-14)
https://www.srgc.org.uk/forum/index.php?topic=12732.0 (for 2015)
https://www.srgc.org.uk/forum/index.php?topic=14367.0 (for 2016)
https://www.srgc.org.uk/forum/index.php?topic=17281.0 (2019)
These links should work now!