yyr
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A striking building though some of the shots look a little under-exposed and could do with either lifting the exposure or the shadows.
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*** This Week Through Your Eyes 2021.05.01 ***
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yyr
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Good shots! I have to say those red eyes are quite spooky though.
yyr
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Hahaha. Maybe he has a Hollywood career ahead of him because it's certainly a very good likeness.
yyr
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You have a knack for these. I like the slightly wider composition of the first and the colour of the fourth.
yyr
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Fascinating. I read through the other comments because I was going to ask about the two holes but I say your reply to W.
yyr
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Very cute and I would say it's worth the effort of some PP.
yyr
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Gee, those two lighthouse shots are astounding. Just fabulous.
kaphinga
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The second caught my eye. The mustard seed look like pure gold.
yyr
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The mustard seeds look like little gold balls. Great fun.
yyr
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We were still in lockdown so there weren't many people around. Re the statue, the extract below is copied fromm the WWW. The sculpture is not as recent as I thought, I must have misread the inscription.
‘The Drums of the Fore and Aft’. Given to the town of Wodbridge by the 9th Earl of Albermarle whose father was the sculptor. Created c1902 and cast at the foundry of AB Burton.
The sculpture shows a drummer boy beating the signal to attack with his companion the bugler slumped dying at his side. It illustrates a story by Kipling of the Afghan war published in 1895. The men of an untried regiment known as the Fore and Aft at first fled from the Muslim fighters leaving the youthful drummer boy stranded together with his bugler companion. Fueled by the alcohol in their flasks and bravery they rallied the regiment. An obviously amateur piece but the moving representation of the dead bugler must reflect the 8th Earl's experience of the Boer War in the previous year, where he successfully led five companies of the City Imperial Volunteers, at the Battle of Doornkop. The earlier history of the sculpture is not recorded but it was on this site by 1979
yyr
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Yes, it's very popular with Londoners who want a second home out of town and there's a big yachting fraternity.
JosephScha
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So ... what are they? (My wife knew - they are Bleeding Heart flowers. Regrettable name.)
Anyway: I put a black plastic notebook behind the flowers for these shots. Fairly bright cloudy weather was the light.
White
Pink
The pink plant was given to my wife by someone where she worked, perhaps a dozen years ago. Comes up every year. The white one showed up just a few years ago, it was a surprise. We did not plant it, it just appeared next to the pink ones.
One more - a close up version of the white ones - I don't like this composition as much.
Close up picture of white flowers... meh
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js
Anyway: I put a black plastic notebook behind the flowers for these shots. Fairly bright cloudy weather was the light.
White
Pink
The pink plant was given to my wife by someone where she worked, perhaps a dozen years ago. Comes up every year. The white one showed up just a few years ago, it was a surprise. We did not plant it, it just appeared next to the pink ones.
One more - a close up version of the white ones - I don't like this composition as much.
Close up picture of white flowers... meh
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js
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Vahur Krouverk
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I'm not very good at knowing plants but to me they look like Asian bleeding-hearts.
Nice shots.
Nice shots.
Vahur Krouverk
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I'm not very good at knowing plants but to me they look like Asian bleeding-hearts.
Wormsmeat
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Both are really rather beautiful. The second looks like some kind of ancient Egyptian gold artefacts.
Wormsmeat
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Lamprocapnos spectabilis. The first is a well-conceived angle and the black background brings out the white.
kaphinga
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That black background really sets them off. I especially like the first one.
JosephScha
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Thank you! 20% thought, 10% effort, 70% good luck.
JosephScha
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Yes, I like the first one best also!
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