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Re: Without Prejudice
« Reply #460 on: June 26, 2011, 01:07:19 pm »

Sorry Rob, tongue in cheek (didn't mean to test your computer skills)
You'll have to close your eyes and imagine it  ;)
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Re: Without Prejudice
« Reply #461 on: June 26, 2011, 01:18:29 pm »

Sorry Rob, tongue in cheek (didn't mean to test your computer skills)
You'll have to close your eyes and imagine it  ;)



You see what I mean about skills? The granddchild doesn't take after me very much...

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Re: Without Prejudice
« Reply #462 on: June 27, 2011, 01:49:53 am »

Congrats to both of you, Rob!

Mike.
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Re: Without Prejudice
« Reply #463 on: June 27, 2011, 02:57:30 am »

I always thought it was called a Stomach Steinway.

Baby boomers driving large 4x4s around Australia towing caravans are called Grey Nomads. This one was just a bit different from the rest. Somehow I thought of Rob when I saw it. I'm assuming the bikes would have to go.



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Re: Without Prejudice
« Reply #464 on: June 27, 2011, 03:21:15 am »

Congrats to both of you, Rob!

Mike.


Thanks, Mike; I always suspected that girl was going to be trouble. She and her kid sister always had their noses buried in books, even at meals, and that annoyed me somewhat, but what's a grandparent to say? When the books were finally put aside, we used to have 'debates' as we'd eat together out there on the terrace when they'd be here on holiday, debates that were not really debates as much as total demolitions of my stances on various points, political, social and possibly moral. The problem was that, to quote the legal eagle one (the other starts uni reading medicine this year), one has to learn to think laterally, as well as vertically. For a while that definition/distinction baffled me. As it would. By the time I realised what she meant it was too late: too late to pull seniority and hope to hide behind it!

Lovemall!

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Re: Without Prejudice
« Reply #465 on: June 27, 2011, 03:45:57 am »

I always thought it was called a Stomach Steinway.

Baby boomers driving large 4x4s around Australia towing caravans are called Grey Nomads. This one was just a bit different from the rest. Somehow I thought of Rob when I saw it. I'm assuming the bikes would have to go.



Cheers,



Not so sure about the bikes having to go (just as long as they don't import them into Mallorca), Tom, but the trailing thing, certainly. There used to be zillions of caravans circulating the byways of Scotland during the 50s and 60s and getting caught behind one of those disasters meant that you might as well park at the first opportunity and go for a siesta, or at least a swim in a brook. Of course, as in the Dordogne outwith winter, you never could park unles you broke down, in whch case you could simply shrug, spread your arms out wide and smile. That's why we would almost invariably pick a rainy day for going on family picnics; on the other hand, that might just have been our luck at the time, but at least we had the few slots to ourselves. I recall playing Patsy Cline over and over on the tape at some period around the 60s/70s. Even then I couldn't sing, so that's hardly a talent I lost with time. But nobody seemed to mind - I was the one doing the driving, I suppose, and it kept me awake.

But I know why you thought of me: the car's much the same colour as my old refurbed Rusty!

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Re: Without Prejudice
« Reply #466 on: June 27, 2011, 05:55:51 pm »

Three different worlds…

I suppose my view of caravans in Britain has been coloured by Top Gear. You either drop them from a helicopter, blow them up or have a conga line of cars following you on some country lane.

When I was in Spain I was in awe of the ability of Madrid drivers to park in such restricted spaces. I thought that it should be called a Parker's License not a Driver's license.

This shot was from a different world, Outback Australia. I just got back from driving 4500km from Sydney to the Eyre Peninsula, South Australia and back. Caravans are no problem in this part of Australia. The only thing slowing them down is the cost of fuel. Modern caravans are a whole world away from the tin cans of the past. Queen size beds, toilets, showers, fridges and real kitchens. Top Gear wouldn't have the budget to blow up some of these babies. You're more likely to see a Land Cruiser towing them than 6 cylinder mum and dad car.

The roads in that part of the world are something else too. You're more likely to have 200km stretches of road with nothing more than a half a dozen rest stops along the way. The signs are mainly things like kangaroos next 150km or a microsleep can kill or this one from South Australia…



I think it's something about creeping over the speed limit which could be quite true. Either my speedo is out by 25% or there are a lot of drivers that are more than creeping.

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Re: Without Prejudice
« Reply #467 on: June 28, 2011, 04:31:16 pm »

Well, Tom, it's always nice going back to your site for another trip down south!

Having washed old Rusty recently, and having spent more on tarting him up, I think I shall refer to him as the 'coupé formerly known as Old Rusty.''

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Re: Without Prejudice
« Reply #468 on: June 28, 2011, 05:26:52 pm »

Thanks Rob.

After cleaning up a kangaroo my car came back from the repair shop looking all shiny and new. It only lasted a week as I was given an offer I could refuse at work and so have unlimited time to do things now. I took it back to the outback and it now has a thin covering of red dust all over it.

Having had my last two cars stolen from the front of my house I have called my car the Loaner, That is, it's just on loan till it's real owner takes possession of it.

I worked with Danny who also had his car stolen. Around a year later he spotted his car on the street. He still had the car key on his key chain so he drove it home happy that it was in better condition than when he last saw it. It was gone the next day…

It's better to be just looking at down under on my site, winter is upon us and it's getting cold.

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Re: Without Prejudice
« Reply #469 on: June 28, 2011, 07:25:02 pm »

Photographers in the wasteland.  Just trying to give sense of perspective from almost in the middle of Badwater Basin.  I didn't have a great sky, the borders between salt polygons weren't there, and there was nothing in particular to focus on in the reach of my camera at the time (LX5), so the other photographers, waaaaaay further out to the west, would have to do.  The black and white gave it (to me, in any case) a more extreme sense of the tiny figures up against the barren immensity of the background.

Still can't decide if I really like it or not.

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Re: Without Prejudice
« Reply #470 on: June 29, 2011, 04:02:25 am »

What are these guys doing - walking on water, or similar?

Actually, this picture illustrates a phenomenon that's been troubling me - well, inviting my attention - these past few months: what is it about some photographs that allows them to be very interesting indeed, but absolutely not material for the wall? I can't really think of another medium where there are such obvious decorative purposes yet so many instances where decoration isn't what it's ultimately about. Street (however you might care to define it) fits into this for me: very interesting but not something I'd think of putting up on the walls of my home. Landscape is another such - I see painting as far more likely to get that hook; about the only use I can honestly see for photography on the wall, as decoration, is black/white hanging in some city loft somewhere, and then probably a nude of some sort; a statement, if you will.

On the other hand, I see photography as having an almost exclusively 'right' home within books, where painting doesn't look at ease. Also, I think photography looks very much in its element in galleries, and it's ironic that they (photographs) are only there in order to be transported to another location where they will probably not look so good.

So really, I doubt very much that it boils down to whether or not an image is good or otherwise, but has far more deeply hidden factors at play.

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Re: Without Prejudice
« Reply #471 on: June 29, 2011, 02:45:02 pm »

What are these guys doing - walking on water, or similar?

Well, they're walking on the huge salt pan that is Badwater Basin, so they're sort of walking 'over' water.  When I took it, if you kneeled down to get a certain angle, or sat down on it, the crust would break and you'd end up with wet and scraped up knees.
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Actually, this picture illustrates a phenomenon that's been troubling me - well, inviting my attention - these past few months: what is it about some photographs that allows them to be very interesting indeed, but absolutely not material for the wall? I can't really think of another medium where there are such obvious decorative purposes yet so many instances where decoration isn't what it's ultimately about. Street (however you might care to define it) fits into this for me: very interesting but not something I'd think of putting up on the walls of my home. Landscape is another such - I see painting as far more likely to get that hook; about the only use I can honestly see for photography on the wall, as decoration, is black/white hanging in some city loft somewhere, and then probably a nude of some sort; a statement, if you will.

On the other hand, I see photography as having an almost exclusively 'right' home within books, where painting doesn't look at ease. Also, I think photography looks very much in its element in galleries, and it's ironic that they (photographs) are only there in order to be transported to another location where they will probably not look so good.

So really, I doubt very much that it boils down to whether or not an image is good or otherwise, but has far more deeply hidden factors at play.

Rob C

Very interesting ideas I hadn't yet considered.  I wonder, and this is impossible to quantify, how many people appreciate/view 'fine art landscape' photography through books as opposed to hanging on a wall.  With the advent of coffee-table books and their popularity rising since I was a kid in the 70s, I'm guessing it's likely waaaay out of whack, like 100/1.
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Re: Without Prejudice
« Reply #472 on: June 30, 2011, 04:22:44 am »

I suppose my view of caravans in Britain has been coloured by Top Gear. You either drop them from a helicopter, blow them up or have a conga line of cars following you on some country lane.
Or play conkers with them.

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Re: Without Prejudice
« Reply #473 on: June 30, 2011, 10:33:02 am »

Or play conkers with them.

Jeremy




To me, Clarkson is an enigma. I used to read him when I would buy the Sunday Times, and he was brilliant; I watch him, on and off, on his car (?) programme and he leaves me stone cold. He exchanges the relative erudition and real wit of his writing for the most crass of junior schoolboy (with budget to indulge himself) pranks. And the audience grows... What a friggin' world. For years I simply couldn't make myself watch, but left to my own devices now and facing the joyous alternative of Photoshop, I sometimes give up, make yet another coffee beyond the allowed dose and switch on the show. It numbs the brain, and that's sometimes a good thing, I guess.

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Re: Without Prejudice
« Reply #474 on: July 23, 2011, 06:42:25 am »

Discover why my generation is/was slimmer:

http://youtu.be/LLnOhTRk-Is


you had to be, otherwise this was impossible.

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Re: Without Prejudice
« Reply #475 on: July 23, 2011, 09:25:52 am »

Discover why my generation is/was slimmer:

http://youtu.be/LLnOhTRk-Is


you had to be, otherwise this was impossible.

Rob C
Can you still do that stuff, that fast, these days, Rob?

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Re: Without Prejudice
« Reply #476 on: July 23, 2011, 10:24:41 am »

Can you still do that stuff, that fast, these days, Rob?

Eric


You want the truth or you want the dream?

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Re: Without Prejudice
« Reply #477 on: July 23, 2011, 12:45:02 pm »


You want the truth or you want the dream?

;-)

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Me too.    ;D
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Re: Without Prejudice
« Reply #478 on: July 24, 2011, 09:22:53 am »

This is probably one of the most processed photos i've made. Lot's of doding, burning, cloning and cropping the hell out of it. :D



Also, will I get hanged for posting a (digtial) drawing here? I had almost forgotten about it when I found it today. It turned out pretty well I think.
http://i52.tinypic.com/33cb2g8.jpg
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Re: Without Prejudice
« Reply #479 on: July 24, 2011, 01:59:51 pm »

Also, will I get hanged for posting a (digtial) drawing here? I had almost forgotten about it when I found it today. It turned out pretty well I think.
http://i52.tinypic.com/33cb2g8.jpg
That's the nice thing about this "Without Prejudice" thread: You should be able to post anything and nobody should complain.

Of course, if you want preempt any complaints, you could always take a photograph of the drawing and post the photograph.   :D
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