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The Art of Photography => The Coffee Corner => Topic started by: Rob C on December 25, 2019, 04:34:12 pm

Title: Duchess
Post by: Rob C on December 25, 2019, 04:34:12 pm

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b016r10h

Isn't that a beautiful portrait with bokeh to die for, as they say?

Rob

Title: Re: Duchess
Post by: Richowens on December 25, 2019, 04:47:42 pm

Quite delicate.

Title: Re: Duchess
Post by: davidedric on December 26, 2019, 09:11:14 am

A lovely portrait, though I won't be watching the programme.

A piece of trivia.  Pretty much all the yellow bananas that we eat are a single variety "Cavendish", but why the name?

Not far from where we live is the ancestral home of the Dukes of Devonshire, Chatsworth House, in whose greenhouses the Cavendish variety was developed in the 19th century.  And Cavendish is the family name of the Dukes of Devonshire.  I love these little snippets that tie us to the past.

Title: Re: Duchess
Post by: KLaban on December 26, 2019, 10:30:49 am

Keira Knightley is stunning throughout.

Title: Re: Duchess
Post by: Rob C on December 26, 2019, 01:32:24 pm

Quote from: KLaban on December 26, 2019, 10:30:49 am

Keira Knightley is stunning throughout.

Unfortunately, I didn't watch, perhaps because I got hung up on the Internet and didn't notice time drift past. Happens to me now and then, but as the tv sound is lousy right now, both on satellite as via fibre optic, I stick to the iPad and get excellent sound there via the 'phones. I suppose the tv needs fixing, but as it usually serves me only for the news and some BBC4 music on Friday nights, whether I get that clearly or not doesn't much matter: it's all fake anyway or a repeat.

Miss K is one girl I'd love to photograph!

Rob