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« Reply #120 on: 14:50:43, 05-11-2007 » |
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Andy, you've unwittingly chanced upon another passion of mine: I love old shops that aren't part of a chain, and which still look like shops looked when I was a child. So you won't be interested in my shots of Sainsbury's then Ron?  Next door but one to the tailor shop there used to be an electrical shop where you could buy spare parts for old appliances, that sort of thing. It closed about a year ago and I'd never taken a picture of it - a warning to shoot things while you can. A local church is now having it renovated but, for a while, its history since 1902 was on display in the windows. As you can see it had been an electrical shop for 61 years.   This is how it looked yesterday (4/11/07) - it's an interestingly shaped building, as it's on an acute angled corner.  (click as usual for larger versions) |
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Ron Dough
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« Reply #121 on: 08:50:58, 06-11-2007 » |
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That's just the sort of building which intrugues me, Andy. More, please! Autumn light and colour still strong up here: |
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Andy D
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« Reply #122 on: 22:57:30, 06-11-2007 » |
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I think that's almost it as far as my interesting small shops photos go Ron, but I'll have a delve. Back to trees today.  (click etc) |
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Ron Dough
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« Reply #123 on: 09:35:30, 09-11-2007 » |
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Another great thing about autumn is the way that the lower position of the sun in the sky casts longer shadows over the landscape, accentuating its contours. I was up on Kinnoull Hill, just outside Perth, yesterday: as well as being famed for its woodland, the views across the Tay to the Kingdom of Fife make it a magnet for visitors and photographers alike. It was another day of many shots, but here's one I particularly like, even though the Tay is hardly visible (just a couple of edges at the extreme left). In the extreme distance at the right is East Lomond, one of the two "Paps of Fife", the twin peaks of the spine of the peninsular which, incidentally, are very visible from Edinburgh too. The little town of Abernethy sits nestled below the ridge in front of it, and at the extreme left at about the same level you can just see the confluence of the river Earn with the Tay. It's prime agricultural land, and in many of the nearer fields the stripes which are telltale signs of cultivation are visible, but what I really love about this shot is those shadows, especially on the ridge in the foreground, and the curve of the stone wall, bottom right. |
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MabelJane
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« Reply #124 on: 21:02:27, 09-11-2007 » |
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Ron, I love your photos but they're so big I can never see the whole picture all at once. Is it just me?  I don't think my screen's abnormally small. It would be great if the whole pic could just fill the screen without having to scroll up and down and side to side to see the top/bottom and right/left side... Having said that, there's so much detail to see when the photo's huge! |
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BobbyZ
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« Reply #125 on: 21:14:05, 09-11-2007 » |
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Andy D
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« Reply #126 on: 21:26:02, 09-11-2007 » |
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The satellite pictures of the area around me on Google Maps are currently appearing with rather long shadows and, judging from the colours of the trees, they were taken at about this time of year, presumably 1 year ago. The shadows make it rather difficult to see things, although I agree with Ron about their effectiveness in landscape shots.
You did post one or two photos using a smaller version as a clickable link, Ron, (as I do) but you seem to have stopped doing this. This doesn't help with viewing the large version, of course, unless you use something like the Image Zoom extension to Firefox. This automatically shrinks a large photo to fit your window and you have the option to view it full size if you prefer. A very useful bit of software.
Btw I might have misled people when I was enthusing about flickr the other week. I've discovered, following the receipt of an email from them, that I've got a trial version of their Pro package which expires at the end of the year. After that I shall be down to smaller original pictures and an upload limit each month - pretty much as photobucket I suspect.
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Andy D
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« Reply #127 on: 21:35:08, 09-11-2007 » |
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Thanks for that Bobby. I particularly like the Contraceptive Shop - no good going in there pretending you're really after a packet of throat lozenges! |
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MabelJane
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« Reply #128 on: 21:45:28, 09-11-2007 » |
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Wished I'd had a digital camera with me today when I was shopping in Cheadle (Cheshire). There's a very old-fashioned little underwear shop there - I was in a hurry so I didn't actually look at what was in the window but it's usually dreary-looking tights and vests! Must take a pic before it closes down one day. There's an unusually shaped building on the crossroads which has changed hands several times over the past few years - I recall it being a restaurant then a video rental shop recently - it's now a pub. Not my photo I'm afraid but this one I've just found does give you an idea of the curved shape of it.  And there's another building I often drive past and mean to photograph one day. It's a semi-detached house completely covered in ivy - only the front door and part of the front downstairs window is visible - you can't see the 2 upstairs windows at all. The amazing thing is, people are living there, there are cars in the front garden so it doesn't seem to be, say, just one little old lady unable to prune it and no-one to help. Reminds me of a house near ours when I was a child - we called it the "mad cat woman's house" as there were always loads of cats in the garden and an eccentric old lady living there. (Just like on The Simpsons!) |
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Ron Dough
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« Reply #129 on: 22:25:43, 09-11-2007 » |
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Sorry about the sizes, MJ; the size I've chosen up to now fits my screen with room to spare: I can see that I'll have to reconsider. Here's a close-up of the window from another shop in Forfar: despite the title, nothing to do with underwear (it would then be a greengrocers' apostrophe in any case), but an emporium where sweets are still displayed in jars and weighed out into bags, and home-made tablet, cakes and traybakes are available too. There's even something endearingly oldfashioned about the naked neon strip, and you don't see that laminated pseudoplanking (at the top of the window) all that often either, nowadays.  (Not all that far away used to be a dairy shop where I once heard an old lady ask very resolutely for a pint of 'homogenocide milk'....) |
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« Reply #130 on: 22:32:27, 09-11-2007 » |
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Reminds me of a house near ours when I was a child - we called it the "mad cat woman's house" as there were always loads of cats in the garden and an eccentric old lady living there. (Just like on The Simpsons!)
MabelJane, But I too lived near to the Cat Lady who had a pram called Timothy in which she used to wheel the cats around whilst clad in a flea bitten fur coat and whose husband (he had an amazing resemblence to Alan Bates) used to hibernate during the winter. !!!!!!!!!  |
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« Reply #131 on: 22:46:42, 09-11-2007 » |
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Maybe every neighbourhood had it's mad cats and owners?  |
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« Reply #132 on: 22:52:34, 09-11-2007 » |
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Maybe every neighbourhood had it's mad cats and owners?
Oh yes, just remembered another mad old cat lady with hundreds of cats who lived near us when we were living near Chorlton-cum-Hardy (love that name!) - actually, I have 4 cats at the moment, in my relatively sane midddle-age... maybe by the time I'm old and wrinkly I'll have dozens of moggies for company... |
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« Reply #133 on: 23:02:49, 09-11-2007 » |
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I suppose you've seen this, Antheil. Seems to be quite a popular look among our feline friends. |
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« Reply #134 on: 23:08:58, 09-11-2007 » |
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Oh yes, just remembered another mad old cat lady with hundreds of cats who lived near us when we were living near Chorlton-cum-Hardy (love that name!) - Bloody hell, MJ! First Ynyslas, now Chorlton! Are you me in disguise? I lived there for two years as a student. |
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