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« Reply #2475 on: 15:24:16, 14-10-2007 » |
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I'll gladly add my agreement to that, r. Welcome back.
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MabelJane
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« Reply #2476 on: 16:19:16, 14-10-2007 » |
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Happy to see more posting on this friendly board - and good to see you back here r b. Happy too I've just found the CD of my grandma Lou's piano-playing I'd mislaid - and on it the Bach Gigue I referred to on the Similar Musical Moments thread, so I can hear it again. MJ  Gratuitous smileys.  |
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« Reply #2477 on: 16:44:35, 14-10-2007 » |
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I'm happy to see Richard back here, even though he thinks I'm a mythical beast.
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To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under heaven.
A time to weep, and a time to laugh: a time to mourn, and a time to dance
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Ron Dough
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« Reply #2478 on: 17:00:32, 14-10-2007 » |
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Time to celebrate the glories of nature again: taken last weekend, but now's the time to display it. |
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Il Grande Inquisitor
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« Reply #2479 on: 17:21:46, 14-10-2007 » |
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Now that has cheered me up, Ron. I often think that Autumn is the most glorious season with such a rich tapestry of colours. I took a walk home across the chalkland ridge from school this afternoon, and to see such beautiful hues as the leaves change, plus the array of berries on display, was a joy. (Not such a pleasant walk in the wet!) I picked a few more blackberries and shall shortly prepare a crumble...
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Our chief weapon is surprise...surprise and fear...fear and surprise.... Our two weapons are fear and surprise...and ruthless efficiency
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Ron Dough
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« Reply #2480 on: 17:51:37, 14-10-2007 » |
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It was a rather frustrating day, IGI; that picture was one of the few taken with the middle camera: I had the big one with me as well, and took scores of pictures: unfortunately it had a new memory card in it, which turned out afterwards to have been faulty: the best light and colours of the year, and over a hundred images lost, even with the most extreme retrieval software. Heigh ho. I went back a couple of days later, but the light was nothing like as good, and the leaves were already past their best on some trees. I did have one reward though; I heard some chattering in the branches overhead, and caught a flash of brownish orange. Even with a long lens, it was some way away: they move fast, and the long lens needs slow shutter speeds: the chance of getting a decent hand-held shot of such a timid and restless animal are never very high; this the first passable picture of a live one that I've ever managed.... |
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« Reply #2481 on: 17:59:28, 14-10-2007 » |
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Wish I'd had some decent light today Ron, it was dreadful when I was out with my smaller camera this afternoon but I managed to get this one, though the colours aren't exactly glowing.  (as usual, click to get a bigger version) |
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« Reply #2482 on: 18:05:23, 14-10-2007 » |
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Ron Dough,
Both pictures cheered me up a lot too. They are wonderful.
I am gradually working my way into The Happy Room. What is the point of being unhappy?
There is all such beauty around us. Even when things don't go exactly the way we want the period may be beneficial for growth.
I am glad I found this board and met you all.
Thank you Ron again and again.
I did not see Andy's picture. It is a good one. I used to not like Autumn because it seems that the nature is dying. But it doesn't really. Nature needs this period of sleep and rest. Even in warm climates trees don't grow all the time.
Lights are important for a good picture, but it is not all. It is difficult to show the inner meaning of the subject.
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« Reply #2483 on: 18:08:25, 14-10-2007 » |
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What lovely pictures you people have produced here. I think me and my wife will have to some scenics asap. Especially at Wakehurst Place and the Southdowns where we are not too far from
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« Reply #2484 on: 18:15:48, 14-10-2007 » |
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Beautiful pictures, and I love the squirrel.
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Ron Dough
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« Reply #2485 on: 18:31:16, 14-10-2007 » |
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t-p, If it takes more pictures to keep you in the happy room, then so be it: how about this one? I love autumn: it's definitely my favourite season. |
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Il Grande Inquisitor
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« Reply #2486 on: 18:39:50, 14-10-2007 » |
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Love the squirrel, Ron. We only get his grey cousins here (plenty scampering around our school grounds) but I do remember being taken to Brownsea Island as a youngster to look for Reds...don't recall actually seeing one though. Right, the blackberry* and apple crumble's in the oven, all my marking/prep is done and Elgar's Cello Concerto is contentedly spinning...time for a relaxed evening! *Am I right in thinking they have a different name north of the border? |
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« Reply #2487 on: 18:44:31, 14-10-2007 » |
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this the first passable picture of a live one that I've ever managed.... Well done Ron!  |
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« Reply #2488 on: 20:29:38, 14-10-2007 » |
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You lot put me to shame. I have been admiring some beautiful scenery this week, mostly from the back of the van, and all plans to go and photograph have somehow slipped past me. Ah well, next year perhaps?
T-P, every season has its own beauty, in spring the fresh, new green buds burst into leaves, in summer, the heat is good for drying laundry and the rain for growing crops, in autumn (all right, fall) the trees begin their preparation for another cycle of growth, and in winter everything is swept clean beneath the snow, in preparation for another spring...
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« Reply #2489 on: 21:51:04, 14-10-2007 » |
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IGI, here on Tayside (where they should know about such things, bearing in mind that it's the heartland of British soft-fruit farming) a blackberry is still a blackberry, though there are several other kinds grown too: not just rasps, but also blaes and logans, to name but two. Talking of Tayside, here's its most famous approach; a view of Dundee, City of Discovery, from 'The High Girders' - the Tay Rail Bridge, for many years the longest in the world, successor to the infamous original which blew down in a gale on December 28th, 1879. Its far later road companion is clearly visible across the middle of the right of the picture, and behind it, just right of centre, you can see the two windmills which provide much of the power for the Michelin tyre factory and often for the surrounding neighbourhood, too. The picture was snapped at dawn with my wee camera as the sleeper crossed the firth after my visit South which included the Proms Mahler 3.  (This is another of those 'click it to make it bigger' pictures, by the way) |
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