This thread is for comments arising from the January 2010 picture thread.
This thread is for comments arising from the January 2010 picture thread.
Fabulous Picture. Had Caro and I in stitches
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... i believe that everyone else my age is an adult whereas i am merely in disguise
Margaret Atwood
Good effort, the Full Moon is the most difficult because of lack of shadows ... try again when the Moon is about half!
If you're not living on the edge, you're wasting space
yep brought a huge smile to my face...memories of when my kids were small
Simply enjoy photography
Take more crap than good pics but the good ones make me feel good
No more than an amateur so feel free to ignore anything i say
Never had any kids but it made me smile too. Excellent picture, well worth being woken up at 5:30 for!a huge smile to my face...memories of when my kids were small
If you're not living on the edge, you're wasting space
Great Mars shot there BJ! I've noticed it getting quite prominent and see it most nights when walking the dog- a bright orange star in the south East. Ufortunately its been far too cloudy to get any shots here!
I came into this world with nothing, and I still have most of it left!
The Invented Eye-My Photo Blog
Just thought I'd add to the FristView comment thread by saying that I may well try to contribute to this again as I seem to be finding the photography bug again after an absence of most of the last year.
And if anyone is interested, my August submission from last year
now looks like this
We begin work on the garden on Monday.
Cheers
David
I spent a good part of today bird watching at Marton Mere on the outskirts of Blackpool. This place first sparked my interest in nature conservation. I used to work in the office in the background of the photo, National Savings where Premium Bonds live. Every lunchtime I'd have a walk around the Mere and escape for an hour or so, never imagining I would change careers.
Cracking shot.
some real hum dingers this month
Fen .......... My Website and Blog - My Flickr
... i believe that everyone else my age is an adult whereas i am merely in disguise
Margaret Atwood
Thanks Richard. It's Claire that's the coffee drinker in this house. I'm a tea drinker myself.It's looking good David, I especially like the espresso pot on the stove.
Oh! And this is what it looks like when I take some care over the shot.
Cheers
David
Folks,
Please would you comment on the colour balance of my moon shot. Last night I posted it without a great deal of thought or adjustment so I was surprised this morning to find that it looks a bit 'brown' to me.
I'd be glad of any comments on the appearance for you.
MickLL
As one with a great deal of experience in this matter, it looks fairly accurate to me. The reflected light from the moon really is considerably redder than sunlight; the eye tends to see it as slightly bluish because the receptors in the eye that respond to red light don't work as well at low light levels (look up "Purkinje Effect").Please would you comment on the colour balance of my moon shot.
As the moon is fairly even toned, I usually shoot it in monochrome. But, if you want a shock, go back to the raw image & turn the saturation way up ... one of the maria ("seas" or dark patches) is a different colour to the others, though the difference is very hard to impossible to see with the eye. The lunar surface samples returned by Apollo and the unmanned Russian sample return missions show that there is a difference in the chemical composition of Mare Tranquilliatis, probably deriving from unusual properties in the asteroid that slammed into the Moon creating the mare basin almost 4 billion years ago.
If you're not living on the edge, you're wasting space
Didn't cosmologists determine some time ago that the 'colour' of the universe was, in fact, beige...
TheFatControlleR
'But above all, he should be taught to yield to the truth, and to lay down his arms as soon as he discovers it, whether it appears in his opponents argument, or to himself in his own thoughts.' - Michel de Montaigne (on the education of children)
'Everybody is in favour of free speech. Hardly a day passes without its being extolled. But some people’s idea of it is that they are free to say what they like, but if anyone says anything back, that is an outrage.' - Winston Churchill
'Live fat, die young, and leave a self-basting corpse for the burn up...' - TFC
No, it's deep into the infrared / microwave region of the spectrum ... the 2.7K background radiation, signature of the Big Bang.Didn't cosmologists determine some time ago that the 'colour' of the universe was, in fact, beige...
If you're not living on the edge, you're wasting space
Thanks for all of the positive comments on this one.
We have now returned the young person to his official keepers (our son and his partner) so look forward to some peace in the mornings.
Just shows, you can't believe everything you read.
TheFatControlleR
'But above all, he should be taught to yield to the truth, and to lay down his arms as soon as he discovers it, whether it appears in his opponents argument, or to himself in his own thoughts.' - Michel de Montaigne (on the education of children)
'Everybody is in favour of free speech. Hardly a day passes without its being extolled. But some people’s idea of it is that they are free to say what they like, but if anyone says anything back, that is an outrage.' - Winston Churchill
'Live fat, die young, and leave a self-basting corpse for the burn up...' - TFC
Well, that's it for another month. Thanks to everyone who participated and showed us a little slice of their lives on the 1st of January, 2010. A good turn-out, I think - and let me urge you all to try and keep it up for the rest of the year. See you back here in February.
Late-comers, pm me or one of the mods to get the picture thread re-opened, as usual.
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