A splash in the groin for Albert (OT - oh Yes!)

LCD said:

I still think they look like ewesed wellies. And that sheep does
look nervous.
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LCD

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Erik Ehudin said:

that he may cease to write and learn to think

Spent about an hour last night on your website. Lots to think
about, and beautiful images. Hope I get a chance to see a live
print someday. Trouble is, it's made me feel a bit like leaving my
photocopier out in the rain.

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Jono Slack said:

Hi Laurie

No restraint - I just damned well missed it!

Where's the thread (obviously I saw the 'rescue bid' thread - but
was there more?).

Never been known to miss a laugh!

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Laurie Sokoloff said:

Jono Slack said:

Hi Laurie

No restraint - I just damned well missed it!

Where's the thread (obviously I saw the 'rescue bid' thread - but
was there more?).

Never been known to miss a laugh!

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I think most of the damage was in Bill's "Revenge is ever so
sweet..." thread, and a wee bit in your "Happy Birthday David Fink"
thread. We were acting out, clearly! David gave the official
validation to my theory of childish affection mixed with a good bit
of latent hostility over your switching to the D1x . . . although
he added something about castration anxiety that I've yet to
understand! [g]
--
Best,
Laurie

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Jono Slack said:

does this mean no fight?
David will be terribly disappointed

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Gerald M. Payne said:

Far be it from me to intrude, (Yeah, and I still have that slightly
used bridge located near Brooklyn for anyone looking for one...)
but perhaps the gentlemanly thing to do would be a duel. You line
up back to back, respective cameras at the ready, take ten paces,
and turn shooting until your media runs out of space. First
combatant to cry "Uncle" and reach for a cleaning swab looses.

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Gerald M. Payne said:

What do you think? I'm still not sure it's fair to pit a Cannon
against a Bazooka... (or was that just something about cleaning
D1X CCDs with Bazooka Joe?)

For those concerned with the level of violence associated with this
thread I want you to know I was going to suggest a relatively mild
form of "Chicken", but felt in light of recent output Jono had an
unfair edge.

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Jono Slack said:

Hi All
Sorry for absence - I've been allowed out of our newly developed
CCD cleaning laboratory for a moment to post these pictures (there
is a new gallery with twelve photos designed to catch the mood of
an early 'spring' day at the seaside!):

http://www.slack.co.uk/Suffolk2002/southwold/index.html

I had to help an old friend set up a new computer over the weekend,
they live near the coast, so I thought I'd pop down to the seaside
town of Southwold for an hour with the camera.

Weather was mixed - a little sunshine - damned cold!

For those who aren't in the know, Southwold is a sleepy seaside
town about 100 miles north east of London. It's rather trendy
amongst rich Londoners these days, and although it may still seem a
little down at heel, prices have gone through the roof.

It's the north sea - this means that it's brown, and freezing cold
(except when the currents bring up a little warmer water from the
Sizewell nuclear power plant a few miles down the coast). If you
are brave enough to go swimming, and foolish enough to open your
eyes under water, the browness is so dense as to make it dark.

Nothing daunted, these Londoners are reputed to pay as much as
£40,000 for beach huts - yes, that's nearly $60,000. There is a
wonderful row of beach huts, all with royal names: there's
Victoria, Queenie, Edward II, Albert . . . . . . and at the end of
the row there's Carl Marx!

Here is Albert:



The coast around here is very much subject to subsidence, and in a
(mostly vain) attempt to stop their houses dropping into the sea,
the locals have put a number of 'groin's along the coastline.

Here is a groin (with a muddy splash)



I hope you enjoy the pictures - now I must crawl back and have
ANOTHER go at getting that last piece of dust from my CCD.

Comment, criticism and insults will all be gratefully received!

kind regards

--
Jono Slack
http://www.slack.co.uk

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Rich said:

Jono Slack said:

Hi All
Sorry for absence - I've been allowed out of our newly developed
CCD cleaning laboratory for a moment to post these pictures (there
is a new gallery with twelve photos designed to catch the mood of
an early 'spring' day at the seaside!):

http://www.slack.co.uk/Suffolk2002/southwold/index.html

I had to help an old friend set up a new computer over the weekend,
they live near the coast, so I thought I'd pop down to the seaside
town of Southwold for an hour with the camera.

Weather was mixed - a little sunshine - damned cold!

For those who aren't in the know, Southwold is a sleepy seaside
town about 100 miles north east of London. It's rather trendy
amongst rich Londoners these days, and although it may still seem a
little down at heel, prices have gone through the roof.

It's the north sea - this means that it's brown, and freezing cold
(except when the currents bring up a little warmer water from the
Sizewell nuclear power plant a few miles down the coast). If you
are brave enough to go swimming, and foolish enough to open your
eyes under water, the browness is so dense as to make it dark.

Nothing daunted, these Londoners are reputed to pay as much as
£40,000 for beach huts - yes, that's nearly $60,000. There is a
wonderful row of beach huts, all with royal names: there's
Victoria, Queenie, Edward II, Albert . . . . . . and at the end of
the row there's Carl Marx!

Here is Albert:



The coast around here is very much subject to subsidence, and in a
(mostly vain) attempt to stop their houses dropping into the sea,
the locals have put a number of 'groin's along the coastline.

Here is a groin (with a muddy splash)



I hope you enjoy the pictures - now I must crawl back and have
ANOTHER go at getting that last piece of dust from my CCD.

Comment, criticism and insults will all be gratefully received!

kind regards

--
Jono Slack
http://www.slack.co.uk

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Jono Slack said:

Thank you - glad you like the shots. I don't think you could do
the border as a photoshop action, as it requires a bit of choice.

Still - this is how you do it:

Set background colour to black
Image - Canvas Size - increase by about 10 pixels (to taste)

Set background colour to white
Image - Canvas size - increase by about 100 pixels (again to taste)

Use magic wand to select white border
Use Clone brush to clone in whatever bits you want from the picture

Image-Adjust-Brightness/Contrast - increase brightness and decrease
contrast (about 30%)
Filter-blur-Gaussian blur - I used about 3pixels here, but again,
to taste.

Set background colour to black
Image - Canvas Size - increase by about 10 pixels (to taste)

Pretty basic stuff I'm afraid!

I'm never going to impress anyone with my photoshop technique!

kind regards
jono slack

Rich said:

Jono Slack said:

Hi All
Sorry for absence - I've been allowed out of our newly developed
CCD cleaning laboratory for a moment to post these pictures (there
is a new gallery with twelve photos designed to catch the mood of
an early 'spring' day at the seaside!):

http://www.slack.co.uk/Suffolk2002/southwold/index.html

I had to help an old friend set up a new computer over the weekend,
they live near the coast, so I thought I'd pop down to the seaside
town of Southwold for an hour with the camera.

Weather was mixed - a little sunshine - damned cold!

For those who aren't in the know, Southwold is a sleepy seaside
town about 100 miles north east of London. It's rather trendy
amongst rich Londoners these days, and although it may still seem a
little down at heel, prices have gone through the roof.

It's the north sea - this means that it's brown, and freezing cold
(except when the currents bring up a little warmer water from the
Sizewell nuclear power plant a few miles down the coast). If you
are brave enough to go swimming, and foolish enough to open your
eyes under water, the browness is so dense as to make it dark.

Nothing daunted, these Londoners are reputed to pay as much as
£40,000 for beach huts - yes, that's nearly $60,000. There is a
wonderful row of beach huts, all with royal names: there's
Victoria, Queenie, Edward II, Albert . . . . . . and at the end of
the row there's Carl Marx!

Here is Albert:



The coast around here is very much subject to subsidence, and in a
(mostly vain) attempt to stop their houses dropping into the sea,
the locals have put a number of 'groin's along the coastline.

Here is a groin (with a muddy splash)



I hope you enjoy the pictures - now I must crawl back and have
ANOTHER go at getting that last piece of dust from my CCD.

Comment, criticism and insults will all be gratefully received!

kind regards

--
Jono Slack
http://www.slack.co.uk

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--
Jono Slack
http://www.slack.co.uk

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Robert Conn2 said:

Now about this bridge you mentioned, does that come with undercoating?

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Gerald M. Payne said:

Gerald M. Payne wrote:
you two will have to "duel" it out via the net. Me against Robert?
Uh, Uh. Know when I'm whipped, I do. Maybe you could fool, uh
ingratiate, er trick, ah appeal to DF's sense of duty?

Oh well, back to the "John Cleese weekend" on BBC America playing
over my shoulder.

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