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General Subjects => General Forum => Topic started by: ranunculus on January 04, 2011, 05:48:07 PM
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A new year and a new section for this popular topic ... for the original pages please follow this link:-
http://www.srgc.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=3584.0
Leontopodium alpinum
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Very nice Cliff. I almost hear the sound of music. ;D
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A play on words.........
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I was just about to break into song, Sound of Music sort of thing, record my dulcet tones and post but then I thought it might not be up to the standard of the image.
Now, consider yourselves lucky to have been spared.
Paddy
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A play on words.........
I think it was Ogden Nash who quipped "if called by a panther, don't anther." ;D
cheers
fermi
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You should market that one Alan ... but not in Blackpool, the visitors wouldn't understand!!! ;D
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This reminds me of another who lisped. I may have posted this before though.
"The thunder god rode out one day upon his favourite filly.
"I'm Thor," he cried. The horse replied
"You forgot your thaddle, thilly." ;D
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Ten images from a walk in a local country park today ... frosty, but sunny ... hope you enjoy?
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No weather or time to photograph today so I show some from times past.
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Cliff and Trond, I have to come back again to look at those images..
I know I promised to find green things to post, but here are some more wintry images, both altered a bit, from originals here:
http://picasaweb.google.com/cactuscactus/January3102011#
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Gentiana acaulis 'Solar'
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Primul allionii in oils
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Well if it's arty farty
(http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5009/5307438793_fc67f0cdbd.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/e-bygum/5307438793/)
(http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5125/5307344461_ac18894275.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/e-bygum/5307344461/)
(http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5095/5393110432_8af20dfa9e.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/e-bygum/5393110432/)
(http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5289/5324657088_5e89549f65.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/e-bygum/5324657088/)
(http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5130/5324619640_cdd1445aac.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/e-bygum/5324619640/)
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Iceberg, captain....
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Wow! Fantastic pics! Inspired by Cliffs Gentiana I had a "modifying look" on the beautiful buds of Rhodanthemum hosmariense - result may be a bit psychedelic ::) 8) - think the natural plant is already beautiful enough. ;)
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Hans, which picture is manipulated? ;)
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Love the icebergs Stephen. Where are they? We had a clutch of them off the Otago coast a few years ago, literally just a few kms away from my garden. We hadn't gone cold suddenly, they had broken off the Antarctic shelf and floated north.
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Pic from the Early Bulb Display. New camera, poor light and a shaky hand. I was going to delete it but thought it might fit in this thread.
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Pic from the Early Bulb Display. New camera, poor light and a shaky hand. I was going to delete it but thought it might fit in this thread.
Excellent! Looks the same with and without glasses ;)
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Oh dear, I think I feel a little ill now. :-X
;D ;D
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Thanks, Hoy.
Sorry, Paul ;D
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We have got a new Graffiti artist in town ;D
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I see you've copyrighted them MIchael. You'd better be looking over your shoulder when you're on the job. ;D ;D ;D
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Lesley,my photo editing software does that automatically ;D
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I know Michael, but you know me, I had to have a little niggle. ;D
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I see you've copyrighted them MIchael. You'd better be looking over your shoulder when you're on the job. ;D ;D ;D
No chance they'll ever know! Do you think they read these pages?
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Trond I was having a little dig at Michael for BEING the graffiti artist ;D and felt he should be watching out for the police when he was working. ;D By copyrighting the graffiti (not the pictures of it) he was saying clearly who had done them. ;D ;D ;D
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Sometimes I need a teaspoon ;D
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The plant itself if arty, not so much the image. 8) Still fits though I think.
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Hi Maggi , Cliff started a new thread for arty images for 2011 but it seems the old thread has been revived.
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Here's a detail pic of Tigridia pavonia. Such gorgeous colour combinations and markings. 8)
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I'm not sure if this is the right place for these pictures of a window in St Marys Church Thenfod.
I just thought they had a quiet and simple beauty. This church is in Lord Heselitines gardens that we visited with the snowdrop gala.
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Can't think of anywhere better to put them, they are lovely.
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Cheryl,
Such sad faces - sums up religion perfectly, I suppose!
Paddy
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I'm not sure if this is the right place for these pictures of a window in St Marys Church Thenfod.
I just thought they had a quiet and simple beauty. This church is in Lord Heselitines gardens that we visited with the snowdrop gala.
Fantastic windows made with fragments of some older windows..... wonderful!
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I do like a nice pic of the ole stained glass windows, not just Church ones.
Maggie you sound like a bit of an expert on the windows.....
Paddy I promise to find you something more upbeat. :)
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Maggie you sound like a bit of an expert on the windows.....
::) ::) ;D
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Maggie you sound like a bit of an expert on the windows.....
::) ::) ;D
Brian Ellis... if those smileys are to show that you know my attitude to domestic window cleaning (i.e. if in doubt, leave 'em alone/ why bother, they'll only get dirty again) then I think it's rather ungentlemanly of you...... :P
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I think that's unkind of you Maggi. I'm sure Brian was referring to the fact that you yourself (and Ian of course) live with some stained glass wiindows (or has my memory of previous posts gone totally doolally? ???
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I'm sure you're correct, lesley... my peevish retort was , I'm afraid, prompted by Ian's remarks in that vein...... I should have known that dear Brian wouldn't be so unkind as to cast aspersions on my standards of housework..... pity I cannot say the same for my husband. ;D
It's not all of us who can see the artistry in a long-lived dust bunny or a wondrous cobweb............
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I'm sure you're correct, lesley... my peevish retort was , I'm afraid, prompted by Ian's remarks in that vein...... I should have known that dear Brian wouldn't be so unkind as to cast aspersions on my standards of housework..... pity I cannot say the same for my husband. ;D
It's not all of us who can see the artistry in a long-lived dust bunny or a wondrous cobweb............
Now, if I had not been enthralled by tonight's episodes of "The Killing" I might have taken umbrage ;)
What is this Housework of which you speak??
I'm glad Lesley has got as good a memory as mine, I seem to remember several nice bits of stained glass shown to us before ;D :D ;D
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So, when we're referring to stained glass here..... are we just meaning the results of pollution and lack of washing? ;D Or are we talking those artisticky ones. ;)
Maggi,
Just be careful with the dust bunnies.... they can eventually get big enough to threaten the pets if you're not careful. We can't have Lily and friends having to defend themselves from rampaging dust bunnines, now can we?
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MY own thought on cobwebs, especially those which cling to the ceilings, is that they add substantially to the insulation against winter cold and I wouldn't remove them for anything. Likewise the clouds of pet hair on the carpets give a soft cushioning to those of us with sore feet.
Someone once told me that if one doesn't dust for a certain time, after that time (unspecified) the accumulation doesn't get any worse. Alas I have proved that untrue. :(
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not really into arty but I try sometimes, 3 efforts of mine.
Rain drops on Cotinus
Shells on a welsh beach
Graham Thomas rose
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Richard,
Beautiful! I particularly like the shells on the rock..... they look like you carefully arranged them for the photograph. ;D The Cotinus pic is very reminiscent of water on a sacred lotus leaf, but the venation is all wrong. :D Thanks for the pics.
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Today, driving home, I did see the light! ;D
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Hi,
there have been so many beautiful and interesting images in this thread, and such variety of objects - very enjoyable. I have two simple plant pictures to contribute, one of a beauty and one of beasts. Digitalis ferruginea is my favourite foxglove in flower, but is also nice as it is stretching to reach that state. The picture of the crab apple (I think) leaves in autumn would indicate that the leaf miners think "there's gold in them thar leaves".
Knud
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MY own thought on cobwebs, especially those which cling to the ceilings, is that they add substantially to the insulation against winter cold and I wouldn't remove them for anything. Likewise the clouds of pet hair on the carpets give a soft cushioning to those of us with sore feet.
Someone once told me that if one doesn't dust for a certain time, after that time (unspecified) the accumulation doesn't get any worse. Alas I have proved that untrue. :(
Maybe you just haven't waited long enough ;D
Hoy - don't go towards the light!
Knud, I love the gold threaded leaves.
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Anne, I didn't go, I drove :o
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This is a group of Galanthus cultivars that I have been working towards for some time now. They are Galanthus adobe ssp. photoshopii x Galanthus microsoftii accompanied by some
genetic computer engineering. :)
As you can see they are bulking up quite well and I will be able to offer some for sale next year for some extortionate price and in a couple of years will retire from the proceeds ;D
Apologies to the Galanthophiles ;)
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You'll make a fortune Graham ;D ;D ;D
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Amazing Graham - put me down for a dozen of those gentian blue ones bottom right. (Once my lottery numbers come up of course)
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looks like a lot of images in some seed/bulb catalogues ;D
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Silver saxifrage spectacular symmetry?
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And I really liked your Blog pic of S. cotyledon Tony. :)
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And I really liked your Blog pic of S. cotyledon Tony. :)
:-*
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1st week in April - no rain in over a month - having to water the garden - water meter - arggghhhhh :'(
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1st week in April - no rain in over a month - having to water the garden - water meter - arggghhhhh :'(
I hve more rain than I need :'( Want some?
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Some of the rain could go to Western Australia - 60 days in a row over 30C!!!!!
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Some of the rain could go to Western Australia - 60 days in a row over 30C!!!!!
I would send it if I could! This spring has been among the wettest ever - but I am not sure I want >30C in in 60 consecutive days. Give me 25C ;D (The Norwegian all time record is 12 days with >30C).
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One of my favourite trilliums:
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Lovely images Anne, thanks for posting.
I'm trying out my eye that was operated on only very recently (just my new eye - I will need a vastly different prescription to use both eyes for image manipulation). Here is an iris sp. captured at the National Arboretum in Washington DC.
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How apt! Nice image.
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Hey,
The man with the new eye is back online. Good to see that it is working well, Cliff.
Paddy
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Thanks Anne and Paddy,
It is still difficult working with just one eye, but not to worry ...
Six more images from the NARGS tour ...
Beautiful iris ... an ID appreciated please?
Gladiolus communis
Iris art
Iris from above
Iris prismatica
Tradescantia andersoniana
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It is still difficult working with just one eye, but not to worry ...
.... as Nelson said after a bad day on the poop deck ::)
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Cliff,
excellent photographs - you haven't unlearned yet ;D
Wish you a full recovery very soon.
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Thanks folks ... two more for today ...
Pulsatilla sp. close-up
Fritillaria pyrenaica
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These were two of my favourite flowers from the show at the conference Cliff - your images are really lovely reminders.... :D
Good luck with the recovery from your eye operation.
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Having spent a pleasant hour this afternoon photographing Primula veris, when I arrived home it was raining, so I've been playing on the computer and came up with this......
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Peter, excellent! 8)
P.veris is one of my favourites.
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I like that effect, Peter.
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It's difficult to get a group of P. veris all looking so good and I love the effect you have created.
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Today my first rose opened after the rain and blushed so delicately - Margaret Merrill is my absolute favourite Rose
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Robin, your rose portrait is stunning.... 8)
.....but so is your fungi shot here:
http://www.srgc.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=7084.msg201139#msg201139
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I've joined a photographic club locally and am really enjoying the challenge :D
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lucky you!
I realy would like if I can join too
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Cliff, this thread has opened my eyes to how plants can be photographed - one of your pictures of an iris earlier on could almost be a painting! I shall try and look at plants in a new way. I remember a recent photo of yours of a Cypripedium that had won the Farrer medal at one of the AGS Shows, which also struck me for its simple beauty. I have always enjoyed photographing plants but generally in a more botanical way, or as groupings in the garden. I shall try to be a bit more adventurous from now on!
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Many thanks Tim ... this topic seems to have been ignored for a while ... I hope this aquilegia might initiate a revival?
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One for Cliff - Cornus 'Porlock', turning from white to having red edges to the petals, a second floral display from the same shrub.
Paddy
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And, one for the good eye!
Geranium against the sun.
Paddy
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Last one, from last night, the lunar eclipse. Paddy
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Lovely images Paddy.
Perhaps my favourite image (amended obviously) from our Dolomite trip in 2009 ...
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Two more in a similar (amended) vein ...
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Like the pictures Cliff, especially the monochrome one.
You've been playing with HDR have you?
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Cliff,
I love that black and white one with the cross. Spectacular.
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Like the pictures Cliff, especially the monochrome one.
You've been playing with HDR have you?
Tinkering, Peter ... just tinkering! :D
Some nice effects, but only with selected images. Quite easy to over egg the pudding I would imagine!
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Over egged? Perhaps ...
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I found this one today.
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Two more HDR images ...
Dolomite scene
Dolomite fungus
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I found this one today.
Can you show this in the orchid thread,they will LOVE IT.
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Final image for today ...
SILENE ACAULIS IN HABITAT - A HDR FILE.
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For those concerned that Cliff is experimenting with Hormone Replacement Therapy, worry not, that is HRT.... HDR is a photographic technique..... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_dynamic_range_imaging ;D
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Eggsactly.
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Meadow cameo ...
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Some barks, unfortunately I don't know what of.
Near Nanaimo, B.C.
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A central London garden court.
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Great Chalfield. Very nice gardens.
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Sissinghurst. Of course/
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Some barks, unfortunately I don't know what of.
Near Nanaimo, B.C.
Not from any dog I ever met! ;D
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No, silly - it's the dogwood you can tell by its bark.
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Certainly not a plain tree!
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Our previous dog, a fox terrier, was called Woody but Tony Hall when he was here told me that was rude.
Roger, from his recent encounter with the large Newfoundland, is now found to have 3 broken ribs, or 1 properly broken and two cracked. >:(
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Double ouch. That is not so good Lesley. Perhaps those funnies were not a good idea? "Does it hurt?" "Only when I laugh." There's nothing you can do with ribs except hope they heal straight. I broke a rib when I was at school and there is a concave in that side of my chest. I'm sure I won't be the only one wishing him a speedy and restful recovery.
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Len, that tree bark is extraordinary.... beautiful but rather disturbing, too.
I see you've been back in the UK...... you could visit Aberdeen, y'know! ;)
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Maggie,
These photos are a few years old now.
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Maggie,
These photos are a few years old now.
Ah, I see.... then that means you are due for another trip soon ! :)
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A few more.
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Has that poor dog had its ears trimmed? :(
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I HATE people who do that. It's unforgiveable.
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Why people think it's OK to cut bits off their pets is beyond me. If it's not ears it's tails. Dogs should have proper tails.
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My dog has a proper tail. 8)
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Glad to hear it. A dog without a tail is like a human without a smile.
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Guinea fowl back lit (in Scotland!!!)
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Oh I like that one Frazer!
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That's a great photo. even without the fowl it would be brilliant. 8)
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My photos are much more FOUL than that !!!!!!
Really nice shot Frazer
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A new species of wood anemone :o
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Monte Balsa form? Lovely image buddy!
Cinque Torri today with the sun above and stunning meadows all around ... it's a hard life!
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I 'woodn't' know which form Cliff but Monte Balsa sounds about right ;D
I feel really sorry for you having to endure such a hard time in the Dolomites. From experience, I know how demanding the photo shoots can be !!!
Still under severe heat warnings here in KY....and it's going to get worse. Oh for some good old Mancunian weather ;)
Give our love to Sue and the Collett's gang...and take a bit for yourself.
BTW..it's about time you did some botanizing in Kentucky. I need a good dose of banter.
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A new species of wood anemone :o
Doesn't look antique?
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Doesn't look antique?
Thought it looked more anwalnut than anteak Anthony ;D
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Propagated, you'll make a fortune with it Alan. :D
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La Vaille in the Dolomites.
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La Vaille in the Dolomites Image 2
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A lichen covered ridge in the Dolomites.
One of the zillion views in these beautiful mountains.
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Using the 'tum pod' I guess you were lying on your back for first 2 Cliff ;D
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I like them. 8)
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Every day can be made a sunny day. :D It's snowing here this morning but we have a good supply of kindling and firewood in and it will be a good day to clean out my kitchen before new oven arrives on Tuesday. I plan to make a choc cake to christen it. :P
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Cliff
I particularly like the manipulated black and white, and the lichen photograph.
Great stuff.
Frazer
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Amazing colour, Frazer.
Paddy
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I couldn't resist these leaves! (Stegolepis guianensis)
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Inula flower buds
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Without knowing, I would have thought some kind of artichoke Roma. It's a picture Cliff will enjoy when he's able to enjoy such things again. 8)
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Without knowing, I would have thought some kind of artichoke Roma. It's a picture Cliff will enjoy when he's able to enjoy such things again. 8)
You are, as always, quite correct Lesley!
I have been trying out Sue's reading glasses and messing about with some random images ... the result may or may not be in focus, but at least it's a start! LOL.
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Looks good Cliff, just wait until you get your own reading glasses! :D
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A floating Trollius (if you don't look too hard), Centaurea montana and Tradescantia.
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I hope I don't live to regret.....
I hadn't previously seen your wonderful rainbow drops Rob. They'll give great hope and pleasure to those who have three white ones under 589 different names. I don't think any apologies are owed to Galanthophiles! ;D
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Been moving things around.... hope no-one is dizzy!
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Impressions from a trip to the alps ...
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Rudi, it feels like I could be there...... 8)
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Maggi, we feel like you, the Allgäu is a real lovely region all over the year and easy to
reach via motorway.
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I think that you have hit the main charm there, Rudi....."the Allgäu is a real lovely region all over the year" ... that is what makes the difference. There are places which are only beautiful at one season.... to have a place that can make a wonderful destination at any time of year is something really special.
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Been moving things around.... hope no-one is dizzy!
Not dizzy but confused (more than normally). To which rainbow drops is Lesley referring? I'm intrigued.
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Been moving things around.... hope no-one is dizzy!
Not dizzy but confused (more than normally). To which rainbow drops is Lesley referring? I'm intrigued.
Crikey..... let me think... it was a picture, digitally manipulated to show clumps pf snowdrops in different colours.... I thought it might have been from Grahaam Catlow.... not Rob...... :-[ :-X :-\
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Just did a quick look back through this thread. Rainbow 'drops - Graham Catlow on page 4.
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Well done, roma! It's here: http://www.srgc.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=7782.msg191619#msg191619
I didn't go that far back to check because of the date of Lesley's reply...... I'm absurdly pleased that my memory of the photo being Graham's was correct ;D Only losing part of the plot and not it all, I hope!
Mystery solved for you Anne, thanks to Roma! 8) 8) 8)
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Testing, testing, testing Cliff's renewed eyesight.
Here is Canna 'Durban' or 'Tropicana' backlit by evening light.
Paddy
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After the rain today there was a period of drizzle and then the sun came out and some drops remained.
Meconopsis hairy leaves
Cotinus
Lobelia
Spiders web 1
Spiders web 2
And then some others
Ajuga
Penstemon
Calceolaria 'Sunset Red'
Moss1
Moss2
Moss3
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Graham, I particularly like the penstemon
...I offer..
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...I offer..
Brightly dressed hairy people in a conga line?
Sorry, I'm thinking about the up-coming Discussion weekend......... ::) ::) ;)
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taken in a wood, natural wood just curling up
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Graham, I particularly like the penstemon
...I offer..
Can i ask Frazer what it is?lovely flower.
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Two from me ...
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fields of lupins seen in West Lothian, Scotland this autumn
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"Artistree"
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A very striking image, Cliff.
Paddy
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A very striking image, Cliff.
Paddy
Many thanks sir.
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A few pics of me and my back garden over the weekend.
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You were certainly setting the place alight, John.
Nice images. Paddy
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Maco shot of Anemonella thalictroides ----taken in shutter priority mode with a slight sharpen in Picasa
Cheers Dave.
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Lovely, Dave ... quite lovely!
(Please read the above in a Richard Burton voice and not perhaps as Kenneth Williams). :D :-*
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Two things which caught my eye in the garden yesterday afternoon. At this time of year I think we see things we otherwise might not as we have to look more carefully for anything of interest.
Identifications on a postcard to Cliff Booker.
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Frazer, I meant to ask when you posted your fields of lupins: these are not natural, are they? Is it a nursery planting?
Great shot.
Paddy
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Paddy
They are on a former shale bing (spoil heap). Pine trees, rowans and blackberry were planted but as I understand lupins were not planted as part of the restoration project. I believe that someone must simply have taken some seeds from plants that are growing on nearby former railway lines and scattered/dropped a few. The lupins have only been present about 10 years and have grown from just a few plants to a patch of well over a couple of acres.
Frazer
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Frazer,
That's amazing and brilliant. It must look great.
Paddy
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Paddy
They are on a former shale bing (spoil heap). Pine trees, rowans and blackberry were planted but as I understand lupins were not planted as part of the restoration project. I believe that someone must simply have taken some seeds from plants that are growing on nearby former railway lines and scattered/dropped a few. The lupins have only been present about 10 years and have grown from just a few plants to a patch of well over a couple of acres.
Frazer
Fraser, I'm sure you know the local bings well, but for the benefit of others they are home to some interesting plants, often arisen spontaneously like some of the helleborines. They seem to tolerate (require?) the toxic elements which are present from the former industrial processes from which the bings were created. Not a million miles from where I recently moved to is to be found the rare Epipactis helleborine v. youngiana. On the same bing I have never seen so many plants of Listera (now Neottia) ovata (common twayblade) - they are there in their thousand, and quite gross at around 60 cm tall, unlike the dainty specimens to be found on sand dunes etc. Unfortunately, the photos I have are in slide form, and I don't have the techno. savvy to convert them. When August comes, I intend to go there and take them on digital. Watch this space..... These helleborines are also to be found on the industrial waste sites in the Newcastle area.
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Never post some pictures here but I give it a trie .....
Rhodendron keiskei . Picture from prevoious weekend in the early morning ...
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Newcastle at night
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Lovely picture Davey - you seem to have found Newcastle on a quiet night, can't see any of the usual party animals around. ;D
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Kris,
Your photograph reminds me of a talk at our local photography club where a speaker insisted that you should never photograph a flower without first using a water sprayer to have water droplets on the blossom. Yours look perfectly natural.
Paddy
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Davey:
There must be some celebrating tonight in Newcastle.
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Super shots everyone ...
Yesterday we paid another brief visit to one of our favourite local beauty spots; Tandle Hill (near Royton in Lancashire), for a pleasant stroll in the sunshine. The place looks deserted, but in fact there were families and dog-walkers in abundance.
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Beautiful location, Cliff. Great images, capture it so well.
Paddy
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Those moss covered trees are amazing, Cliff. I love that water course as well. Beautiful. 8)
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A romantic trip in the wood, Cliff!
Here you have shades:
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Good one, Trond. One of those fleeting moments; so lovely to capture it. Paddy
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Here's a picture from earlier this summer. The Aiguille du Midi above Chamonix taken through a telephoto lens from the table of the mountain restaurant in the next valley where we were having lunch. :D
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Wow, what a picture!! :o
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Superb image Peter ... hopefully we will see it in person in 2012. We are driving from Milan, stopping at Aosta and Courmayeur, visiting Gran Paradiso National Park, through the Mont Blanc tunnel, staying at Chamonix, on to Lake Annecy and then Val d'Isere and over the Petit St Bernard Pass back to Milan.
Has anyone travelled this high pass recently? Would there be any reason not to contemplate using it in summer 2012? The Tour de France is not being held at the time! :D
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If you have the time, and the weather's good, it's worth the (somewhat pricey) trip up the cable car to the top of the Aiguille du Midi. A once in a lifetime experience for most of us, but the views are fantastic. I'll post a couple later when I get back from work of pictures that I took up there last year.
No plants up there though.....
By the way, you need a head for heights - the cable car second stage goes from 2300m to 3777m in one swoop, no supports on the way, very impressive. Then when you are there, you can walk around the summit on metal walkways bolted to the rock, with a view straight down through the gaps to the glacier. :o
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As promised earlier, a couple of images taken from the top of the Aiguille du Midi in summer 2010. Firstly Mont Blanc, then the Grandes Jorasses and Aiguile du Géant.
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My word, Peter, that first one is taken from such a perspective as to really make the viewer feel part of the scene.... I feel quite intrepid! 8) ( like Martin on a via ferrata? )
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Superb images Peter ... many thanks for posting.
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Two from me.Peter the quayside was quiet on the last pic that i posted.
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As promised earlier, a couple of images taken from the top of the Aiguille du Midi in summer 2010. Firstly Mont Blanc, then the Grandes Jorasses and Aiguile du Géant.
We've been there, as well :o (a long time ago, hence the scanned slide ::) )
... Martin on a via ferrata?
I think he's there on my picture
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That'll be Bamburgh castle I assume Davey? A lovely shade of lurid green :D
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................By the way, you need a head for heights - the cable car second stage goes from 2300m to 3777m in one swoop, no supports on the way, very impressive. Then when you are there, you can walk around the summit on metal walkways bolted to the rock, with a view straight down through the gaps to the glacier. :o
Er! went dizzy just reading this.
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That'll be Bamburgh castle I assume Davey? A lovely shade of lurid green :D
Peter you are 100% right.In the daytime it is one of my favourite places in the U.K,stunning beaches.
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That'll be Bamburgh castle I assume Davey? A lovely shade of lurid green :D
Peter you are 100% right.In the daytime it is one of my favourite places in the U.K,stunning beaches.
Really spooky in your shots, though Davey......... :o
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Kilnsey Crag, Yorkshire Dales ...
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Nice one of the cliff, Cliff. ;D ;D ;D
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Just a thought...... could you darken the sky a little in the top right to put a little more details into this area?
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Just a thought...... could you darken the sky a little in the top right to put a little more details into this area?
Not without hours of training! :D
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Not without hours of training!
That's quick - it's taken me years.
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Couldn't resist posting one last pic from the Aiguille du Midi.
Er! went dizzy just reading this.
- David may want to lie down for this one. ;D
Note the Alpine Chough showing off
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Amazing pictures everyone.
One from today :My pond absorbs the last Sun of the day .
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Very atmospheric, Kris 8)
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Thank you Maggi .
This Cyclamen cyprium has also something artistic ....
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Not my pictures but they are worth looking at:
(http://gfx.nrk.no/n7p8vma5DUnHnJEpmGx2lA1MlVUsan2xJ3tiy5Dbg_SA.jpg)
More here:
http://nrk.no/nyheter/distrikt/nordland/1.7871971
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Quite glad that's not your photo, Trond... it looks like you might have been smoking something illegal!
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Quite glad that's not your photo, Trond... it looks like you might have been smoking something illegal!
Well, Maggi, if I did smoke anything illegal I wouldn't advertise that much for it ;)
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Stunning images Trond .
Here's a Nomocharis close up . :o
Cheers Dave.
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Amazing pictures everyone.
One from today :My pond absorbs the last Sun of the day .
Kris, I love your picture, - I keep on returning to it. I don't know min qualifies as 'arty' but I like it anyway. Mallard snoozing on Linlithgow loch
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Amazing pictures everyone.
One from today :My pond absorbs the last Sun of the day .
Kris, I love your picture, - I keep on returning to it. I don't know min qualifies as 'arty' but I like it anyway. Mallard snoozing on Linlithgow loch
Happy you love my picture Maureen :D Of course your picture is an "arty " one ! I like the reflections in the water and it has also something mysterious .
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Maureen those Mallards look as if they are enjoying the sun. Lovely picture.
Angie :)
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'Sphere Flies'
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Good blue, Cliff. Not the easiest to capture. Paddy
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"Let it be light" aka "Out of the tunnel"
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I think the seed of Clematis 'Princess Diana ' has something arty ...
Second picture :Sorbus berries in the cool light of the evening
Third pictures : Hortensia flowers on their return ...
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Some non-flower images. I went to Durham last night where they have an artistic festival in progress (Durham Lumière 2011 - last night tonight), which sees many buildings illuminated with either plain lighting schemes for the occasion, or various artistic interpretations. Durham was absolutely packed, its a small city, and they had instigated a one-way system along the riverside paths to control the crowds. It made a change from the usual Saturday night revellers. :D
Firstly some views of the railway viaduct arches. If you've ever travelled up the east coast main railway line from London to Edinburgh you will have crossed over this viaduct with it's wonderful view of the cathedral.
Secondly a couple of images in white light that were projected onto a building and continuously evolving to music. Many of the images seemed to be either of plants or invertebrates, and it was great fun trying to guess the flowers that (maybe) were depicted - one of these seems to show three Protea flowers.
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The cathedral itself was illuminated with a 10 minute light show repeated throughout the evening which depicted scenes from the early history of the region, to the founding of the cathedral and also of the 'Lindisfarne Gospels' - a richly illuminated manuscript from around 700AD. It was difficult to take pictures that didn't look smeared, as the projected images often moved over a 4-6second exposure, but here are some of the successes.
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Wow! That is something other! Love it!
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Another picture of the cathedral, and some of the illuminations along the river......
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Wonderful, wonderful images, Peter ... especially 'Durham Castle'.
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Certainly a spectacular display, Peter, and difficult to capture on camera so especially good to see them here. Cathedral 4 was my favourite.
Paddy
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First time I venture into this topic... :P
We had some nightfrost, some fog and than some sunshine which had the following results in the garden... :D
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Beautiful shots, Luc ... 3201 especially.
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Peter, if the outside of the cathedral is like that, I assume people don't want to go inside ;D
Strange - I do not like nightfrost but when the result is as you show us Luc it probably isn't as bad after all.
Here is a kind of mushroom - and it is like this.
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Beautiful shots, Luc ... 3201 especially.
It would have to be 3170 for me, looks like a little landscape, with these surreal frosted blobs everywhere.
Lovely pictures Luc
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Peter, if the outside of the cathedral is like that, I assume people don't want to go inside Grin
Trond,
There was another show in the cloisters. Didn't get a chance to see it though, by the time I'd finished taking pictures of the outside they were about to turn the lights off for the evening. With the colour acheme in picture 4 though, it does make one wonder what had they put in the communion wine.
Cliff,
Glad you liked the picture of Durham Castle, I have plenty of other pictures, any colour you like, red, green, blue...... ;D
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One from me on this sunny morn' ...
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Luc,
Amazing frost shots. Not knowing how big the originals are..... do you have any closer shots of those wonderful, what looks like ice balls in the centre of 3170. If you have time and don't mind, I'd love a larger version of that pic (obviously due to size, you'd probably need to email it instead of post it here), just to have a wander through some of the details. It just looks amazing. Brilliant pics.
Peter,
Those cathedral shots are amazing. Must be breathtaking in person.
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One from me on this sunny morn' ...
Brilliant Cliff !!
Luc,
Amazing frost shots. Not knowing how big the originals are..... do you have any closer shots of those wonderful, what looks like ice balls in the centre of 3170. If you have time and don't mind, I'd love a larger version of that pic (obviously due to size, you'd probably need to email it instead of post it here), just to have a wander through some of the details. It just looks amazing. Brilliant pics.
I've e-mailed you some Paul !
Hope you like them, it's amazing what nature can do !!
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Trond,
I knew your fungi resembled something! :D
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ice blooms
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Thank you Luc. Got the pics and they're breathtaking. AMAZING!!!!!!! :o
Razvan,
That is a lot of ice sitting on such a fine stem. You wonder how it can hold so much.
Cliff,
Nice white peacock pic. They're so cool. 8)
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that's what a week of continuous fog and freezing temperatures does. all is white and crispy
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I only recall one freezing fog event here and that was within the past 2 years. I think it's not uncommon in eastern Newfoundland.
johnw
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Trond,
I knew your fungi resembled something! :D
What a resemblance! But the fungus lasted only a couple of days. . . .
ice blooms
Pretty cold it looks! Glad that kind of weather is very rare here but I have often seen it in other parts of Norway.
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A summery shot of a Tragopogon seed head in a high Dolomite meadow.
A larger file size image has also been posted to show detail.
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You seeing the world through rose-tinted spectacles again, Cliff? :D
Easy to see the attraction in it!
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You seeing the world through rose-tinted spectacles again, Cliff? :D
No Maggi, he had a hard night, that's the colour of his eyes!
Cracking images Cliff.
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You seeing the world through rose-tinted spectacles again, Cliff? :D
No Maggi, he had a hard night, that's the colour of his eyes!
Cracking images Cliff.
;D ;D One just for you David ... from your beloved Yorkshire.
Wensleydale
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Ah! God's chosen acre. ;D Up or down from The Strid Cliff, lovely image too?
for the uninitiated below:-
http://www.yorkshire-dales.com/strid.html
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;D ;D One just for you David ... from your beloved Yorkshire.
Wensleydale
Well, of course, as Wallace said to Gromit : "everyone likes Wensleydale" :D
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;D ;D One just for you David ... from your beloved Yorkshire.
Wensleydale
Well, of course, as Wallace said to Gromit : "everyone likes Wensleydale" :D
Bit cheesy, Maggi ... ? :D
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Sorry Cliff... I was hungry..... and I'm very partial to a bit of wensleydale.... :D
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Me too. Nice with a bit of Christmas Cake.
If you're reading Martinr sorry to use the C word ;D
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Dundee cake, David.... Dundee cake... can be eaten all year ! Any time, any place ;)
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Ah yes, I like their marmalade too ;)
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A summery shot of a Tragopogon seed head in a high Dolomite meadow.
A larger file size image has also been posted to show detail.
Absolutely stunning image Cliff !! :o :o
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Beautiful images! I am afraid I would have made the same cheesy remark that Maggi made - but what a fine scene and so nice to see it in black and white. I wonder if the albino peacock could be turned pink by the same pigment the flamingoes are given?! Northerners no doubt have to spend time under the sun bed!
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Many thanks folks!
I like this one ...
'Storm alert for the climbers'
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I like this one ...
'Storm alert for the climbers'
So do I, its amazing how dramatic it looks.
Angie :)
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Love that shot Cliff!
This shot from last weekend has some nice light.
'leaving just in time...'
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As you say; "Beautiful light", Doug.
I like an image that tells a story ... and none more so than this ... (again from the Dolomites - this time 2009).
'Battle weary'
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Another cameo shot (with small and large files to show detail).
'Dew on Primula farinosa' in a Dolomite meadow.
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Potentilla nitida - close-up
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You keep persevering Cliff ! ;D
ALL amazing images !! :o
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You keep persevering Cliff ! ;D
ALL amazing images !! :o
Many thanks Luc ... one just for you ... Papaver rhaeticum captured in the Dolomites.
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Cliff that last one is so lovely, could see that on a big canvas in my house.
Angie :)
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Cliff that last one is so lovely, could see that on a big canvas in my house.
Angie :)
I prefer this one from the same series ... it would look nice in your unlit loft!!! ;D
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Beautiful pics, Cliff. Particularly that last one.
I love the lighting in Kiwi's shot as well. 8)
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a few snapshots i took today
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I like 146 especially, Razvan.
Paddy
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Thanks Paddy
It is good to enjoy nature even in winter.
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Lovely images Razvan. One of your countrymen caused me some pain today-he's my dentist! ;D
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Lovely images Razvan. One of your countrymen caused me some pain today-he's my dentist! ;D
Did he comment on your shortage of wisdom? :-*
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Lovely images Razvan. One of your countrymen caused me some pain today-he's my dentist! ;D
Did he comment on your shortage of wisdom? :-*
He didn't get to the root of the matter! :D
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But David.... you could be his crowning achievement. :P
Beautiful pics, Razvan. Thanks for sharing them. 8)
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But David.... you could be his crowning achievement. :P
You're as bad as he is! ;D
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One for David ... captured in a meadow on the Pordoi Pass in the Dolomites.
Echium vulgare
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I'm sure you are Cliff ;D
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I'm sure you are Cliff ;D
For our members in distant lands ...
A gentleman from Yorkshire (!) might say; "Eck, I am vulgar", when emitting excess hot air ... !
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I'm sure you are Cliff ;D
For our members in distant lands ...
A gentleman from Yorkshire (!) might say; "Eck, I am vulgar", when emitting excess hot air ... !
Yorkshiremen are far too polite to do things like that in company......................................... unless, of course the company happen to be Lancastrians :o
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Cliff, David,
I read it reported that at some important social occasion one of the Guinnesses, the brewing family, broke wind. A lady standing nearby asked, with a disgusted look on her face, "Did you break wind?" to which he replied, "Of course, I broke wind, you stupid woman. Do you imagine I smell like this all the time?"
But, "Eck, I am vulgar." suits the situation also.
Paddy
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To restore a little decorum ...
Val Gardena
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Very pretty Cliff. By the way was that ant and decorum?
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Very pretty Cliff. By the way was that ant and decorum?
No
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;D
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Gentiana acaulis in Switzerland
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Very, very beautiful, Cliff. Well captured and lovely work on it.
Paddy
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Very, very beautiful, Cliff. Well captured and lovely work on it.
Paddy
Comments echoed for your gorgeous little bundle of joy, Paddy!
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Oh, I can take no credit for that photograph; it came from my son. But, I do agree, she is a dote.
Paddy
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Very quiet on the forum during the run up to Christmas, so nine pretty pictures from the Dolomites for your pleasure ... hopefully?
Potentilla nitida
Silene acaulis
Hotel Pordoi scene
Dianthus and grasses
Insects
Pulsatilla alpina ssp apiifolia
Potentilla nitida
Saxifraga oppositifolia
Potentilla nitida
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Lovely to have some nice sunny photographs in these dull days of winter.
Very nice, Cliff.
Paddy
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Cliff, terriffic cliffs! They have a dramatic look to them!
Here are some from me: The first is from Kaukasus and the next two are from Southern Norway.
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Green cicada in the garden today.
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Beautiful shot, Anthony.
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Super photo, Anthony. That is a perfect green... a well named critter for a change. I'd half expect it to be a yellow cicada, given the vagaries of most nomenclature.... or perhpas you are just calling it that, 'cos he is?
I have a new coat that is almost that colour... expect wildlife photos from the Aberdeen area of the rarely seen giant Scottish Kermit :-X ::)
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Actually, I think it is an April cicada? I just called it green because it is. ;D
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A candelabra primula, possibly 'Inverewe' brightening up a damp day in June.
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https://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=12732 (https://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=12732) (for 2015)
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