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petermfiore

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Re: Without Prejudice 2
« Reply #1000 on: September 18, 2015, 11:23:10 am »

I love that concept, Peter: it's exactly what the illusive image is really all about: the suggestion of what might be there, could one but see it clearly enough to describe it instead of just feeling it.

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Rob,

I know all art is illusive...and that's where all the magic lives.

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Re: Without Prejudice 2
« Reply #1001 on: September 18, 2015, 11:24:03 am »

Cheers, Pieter!



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Re: Without Prejudice 2
« Reply #1002 on: September 18, 2015, 11:28:56 am »

Buddy there looks like a katydid, not a cricket. Katydids are even louder.


But... but this is Mallorca, not North America. Please don't tell me they can cross oceans!

However, Lubbock, Texas is America, so perhaps you were right after all.

Was a time they drove me crazy; then a few years ago I thought they'd gone to pastures new. However, in early August, my daughter came out on holiday and complained about the screeches. I couldn't hear a damned thing. Clearly, they hadn't become migrants (oops!), but I'd lost their wavelength. So, age does bring some rewards...

;-)

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Re: Without Prejudice 2
« Reply #1003 on: September 18, 2015, 11:32:53 am »


But... but this is Mallorca, not North America. Please don't tell me they can cross oceans!

But then agan, Lubbock, Texas is America. Maybe you're right after all.

Was a time they drove me crazy; then a few years ago I thought they'd gone to pastures new. However, in early August, my daughter came out on holiday and complained about the screeches. I couldn't hear a damned thing. Clearly, they hadn't become migrants (oops!), but I'd lost their wavelength. So, age does bring some rewards...

;-)

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Re: Without Prejudice 2
« Reply #1004 on: September 18, 2015, 03:23:26 pm »

Mycena sp. near Sufignon.
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Re: Without Prejudice 2
« Reply #1005 on: September 19, 2015, 10:17:02 am »

Some things never die in the heart.

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Re: Without Prejudice 2
« Reply #1006 on: September 19, 2015, 11:12:15 am »

'Negatives" is "just like a ball and chain".
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Re: Without Prejudice 2
« Reply #1007 on: September 19, 2015, 11:31:20 am »

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Re: Without Prejudice 2
« Reply #1008 on: September 20, 2015, 04:41:05 am »

Here you go Rob -
http://www.soundboard.com/sb/Katydid_sounds


I mentioned earlier the doubtful pleasure of having moved 'beyond' the beasties' vocal range; further example of that hit me the other day when I went to the AGM of the community in which I live: I realised that the echo within the meeting room was preventing me from picking up clearly quite a few of the voices. Several people who were old when I was middle-aged used to say "don't raise your voice, that doesn't help. It's about clarity, not volume."

Who need crickets, anyway?

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Re: Without Prejudice 2
« Reply #1009 on: September 20, 2015, 05:28:39 am »

For those who speak French, an untranslatable joke.
A couple lying in bed:

Her: J'éteigne ?
Him: Oui, je t'aime !
...
He thinks: Putain d’acouphène...

(I'll turn out the light?
Yes! I love you!
...
Damn ringing in the ears :-( )
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Re: Without Prejudice 2
« Reply #1010 on: September 20, 2015, 06:13:58 am »

For those who speak French, an untranslatable joke.
A couple lying in bed:

Her: J'éteigne ?
Him: Oui, je t'aime !
...
He thinks: Putain d’acouphène...

(I'll turn out the light?
Yes! I love you!
...
Damn ringing in the ears :-( )


Though that'll - uhm - go down well in parts of Canada, Buddy was from Texas...

;-)

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Re: Without Prejudice 2
« Reply #1011 on: September 21, 2015, 03:36:30 am »

Found in my garden yesterday. Amused me, anyway.
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Re: Without Prejudice 2
« Reply #1012 on: September 21, 2015, 04:09:59 am »

Found in my garden yesterday. Amused me, anyway.


Hot news: Slowest Suicide Ever Hits Garden!

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Re: Without Prejudice 2
« Reply #1013 on: September 21, 2015, 11:05:34 am »

Morning Lineup...

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Re: Without Prejudice 2
« Reply #1014 on: September 21, 2015, 11:20:12 am »

Morning Monoliths...

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Re: Without Prejudice 2
« Reply #1015 on: September 21, 2015, 12:54:55 pm »

Peter, there's something very church-like in that shot.

It also reminds me of the Scottish Parliament building which was apparently designed by a Spanish architect who died, and then the project completed by his wife. This is from memory and I made no notes, but I'm absolutely certain that Isaac will know...

Anyway, the point is that they apparently and collectively designed some sort of sloped sitting area which, in the event, is too low to permit ease of sitting other than for the special Swiss gents from Zurich who deal with finance. Whether this was, in fact, a purpose-built option designed to keep out the international press whilst facilitating secret talks remains to be disclosed, but then with so many leaks it's sure the "truth" will surface in the end, and Gulag will publish.

Disclaimer: this could be entirely another place of which I think, but it was definitely Edinburgh, as in Scotland.

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Re: Without Prejudice 2
« Reply #1016 on: September 21, 2015, 01:19:55 pm »

It's a splendid shot Peter. If the tables were bare, it would be much less interesting. The napkin rolls, etc., on the tables are so delicate they make a fine counterpoint to the massive architecture and rigid areas of light and shadow.
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Re: Without Prejudice 2
« Reply #1017 on: September 21, 2015, 06:53:34 pm »

It's a splendid shot Peter. If the tables were bare, it would be much less interesting. The napkin rolls, etc., on the tables are so delicate they make a fine counterpoint to the massive architecture and rigid areas of light and shadow.

+1. Great shot
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Re: Without Prejudice 2
« Reply #1018 on: September 22, 2015, 04:50:08 am »

This from the place I probably use most for lunch. It's usually more full, but I've noticed it starts to fill after I've reached coffee... maybe this poor lady didn't know.

There must be a not-so-hidden message there, but I turn a blind eye. Needs must! ;-)

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Re: Without Prejudice 2
« Reply #1019 on: September 23, 2015, 05:37:10 am »

Sony? What Sony? Florence? Nope, home.

D200 and some tiny thought. And Vaseline. That was the tiny thought.

Oh, and for our technicians: ISO 200, 1/4th sec, f2.8/24mm manual lens, wide open. Flesh tripod.

They do say that most of the action that a swan indulges in goes on below his Plimsoll line.

;-)

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