Your daughters are beautiful! And what a fun picture.
"The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its' own reason for existing." ~ Albert Einstein
"Remember, no matter where you go, there you are." Buckaroo Bonzai "Some people say I done alright for a girl." Melanie Safka
Paulclem, Themis, qimi thanks for the compliments.
Great pictures Gilliatt, I wish I could visit those beautiful places.
MarkBastable you have cute daughters, are they twins?
Great picture Mark. Two cute kids you've got there.
totally bewitching, Mark.
“Oh crap”
-- Hellboy
Thanks, all.
Snowqueen - no, they're very alike, but there's nearly two years between them.
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Haven't checked in for some time. Mark, your girls look wonderful !!
Let's call this "Scans Taken by You"
I'll borrow this thread to send out my 104 year old happy Easter message. Something from my stamp / postcard collection:
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Sitting in the garden, I noticed this cloud formation and thought it might make an unusual picture.
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Last edited by Emil Miller; 04-26-2011 at 03:57 PM.
"L'art de la statistique est de tirer des conclusions erronèes a partir de chiffres exacts." Napoléon Bonaparte.
"Je crois que beaucoup de gens sont dans cet état d’esprit: au fond, ils ne sentent pas concernés par l’Histoire. Mais pourtant, de temps à autre, l’Histoire pose sa main sur eux." Michel Houellebecq.
Went to South Cornwall the previous week and stayed on Goonhilly Downs. Absoulutely beautiful place:
Max absolutely loved Hayle Beach. Godrevy Lighthose in the background (top left), inspiration for Virginia Wolfe's To the Lighthouse:
Searching for Daphne de Maurier's 'Frenchman's Creek'. These bluebells look lovely in the wild as Maxim explains in Rebecca:
Au revoir:
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"The farther he goes the more good it does me. I don’t want philosophies, tracts, dogmas, creeds, ways out, truths, answers, nothing from the bargain basement. He is the most courageous, remorseless writer going and the more he grinds my nose in the sh1t the more I am grateful to him..."
-- Harold Pinter on Samuel Beckett
Thank's Gilliatt, I have been somewhat removed from the photography front recently, but now I've found some extra time to look at what my camera (actually it's really a computer with a lens attached) can do. Despite, or perhaps because of the wizardry, there is an element of charlatanry ( which is the curse of our age) that enables us to gerrymander our photos rather than rely on our individual skill to get acceptable results. So that taking pictures becomes secondary to getting a shot that can be altered according to requirements. The picture I have posted was taken with the camera set at Auto against some budding rose bushes, whereas in the past, I would have had to arrange the settings for myself.
Last edited by Emil Miller; 05-01-2011 at 06:24 PM.
"L'art de la statistique est de tirer des conclusions erronèes a partir de chiffres exacts." Napoléon Bonaparte.
"Je crois que beaucoup de gens sont dans cet état d’esprit: au fond, ils ne sentent pas concernés par l’Histoire. Mais pourtant, de temps à autre, l’Histoire pose sa main sur eux." Michel Houellebecq.
You are preaching to the choir. I gain more satisfaction out of a photograph that was composed prior to snapping the shutter. I have toyed with the digital filters, but even then I feel some guilt to the point that I attach the old manual lenses so I can use the physical screw on filters.
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