#744. Photography’s week links (30 June 2018) – Baking noodles in a tent

jean pierre (pete) guaron says:

The shot of the tiger lilies takes me WAY back – the very first time I ever bought a birthday present for my mother, I bought her a tiger lily bulb and it used up all the pocket money I had at the time – and decades later, when I sold the house for her, it was one of the most magnificent plants in her garden, having spent its time in the intervening years growing to well over a metre in height and diameter!
In the same vein the next shot shows that your cat is taking over – the photo is excellent – valiant piece of rear-guard action, Pascal 🙂
The last one is great – you should make an enlargement, at least A3 size, and hang it. Superb tone control, well composed (two centres of interest for the eye, both off centre in opposite directions, and two diagonals drawing the eye down through the image to the main focus of interest – with wonderful control over depth of field). 🙂
I have to add one, to your story about nudism at waterfulls here, Pascal. I think I mentioned a while back that I was sunning myself on the beach here, to get dry, after going for a swim one Saturday morning in mid summer, and when I stood up to retrieve my towel etc, I noticed a couple of teenagers, stark naked, “conjugating” on the beach fully 3 metres from where I stood – “discretely” screened from view by a storm water drain pipe that crossed the beach at that point. And much earlier in my life, I even found a couple of police (one male, one female) “doing it” amongst the shrubbery in the gardens along the river, at the back of the university – unfortunately I couldn’t stop to chat, because of the circumstances which led to my discovery of their performance/behaviour, but that’s a whole different story. 🙂
I was astounded by your suggestion that shots of mars are “off topic” – I should have thought it is well within Susan’s recipe – totally free from idiots with selfie sticks and zillions of tourists, as yet largely untapped even by experts from NASA or wherever – a perfect subject for a future landscape article in DS !! 🙂
Facebook, Twitter, Instagram – sigh – it’s a disease I have natural immunity to – one clown recently complained that his efforts to make money as a photographer had crashed because everyone else on Facebook was pirating the photos he was trying to sell – or was it Instagram he was complaining about? Who knows, who cares anyway – what a peculiar way to conduct a business enterprise!
I’ll shut up here, and leave the rest of the page to the other members of the group – my dog wants to visit her Dachshund friend, and as Pascal has now discovered, we have to do whatever our pets tell us to do. 🙂