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Reave the Unjust - very nice pictures!

Wyldewode - love your Arch of Constantine and artifacts from Pompeii. Where abouts is the Arch?

I wasn't able to take pictures in Bath yesterday so here are 2 from my last trip and 3 in London:
statue next to Bath Cathedral:
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Weir in Bath
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Thames view:
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Tower Bridge:
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Greenwich - overlooking Canary Wharf:
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Ahem...which bridge? :P
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CovenantJr wrote:Ahem...which bridge? :P
:oops: fixed! :oops:

at this point I pleed not guilty due to not being a true Brit and it being past 1am here!
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A Lazy afternoon looking at the clouds..

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and a picture of clouds as reflected in a pool on a windy day

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That reflection one is both weird and wonderful lurch!
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You guys really make me wish I had something more interesting to photograph around here.
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Chrysalis wrote:That reflection one is both weird and wonderful lurch!
thanks...like a lot of the atmospheric shots,,i just see something interesting goin on,,take the pic,,,and my trust is rewarded with the unexpected...
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Chrysalis wrote: Wyldewode - love your Arch of Constantine and artifacts from Pompeii. Where abouts is the Arch?
Thanks, Chrysalis! However, I must say that I misspoke myself when I named that Arch the Arch of Constantine. It's actually the Arch of Titus, and it is located just southeast of the Forum in Rome. :oops:

A statue in the Vatican museum
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On the Roman forum
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Street in Pompeii
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Another view of the storeroom in Pompeii
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matrixman wrote:Thanks for the encouragement, Sorus. :) Yeah, what I've learned from using a cheap camera is that I need a better camera! :P
it keeps your paintshop skills honed ;)
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Blackhawk, you are correct. Part of the fun of digital photography is being able to play around with your pics in image editing software. However, I will say that if a shot comes out of the camera looking good, I don't fiddle around with it. Much.

Nice to see more architectural goodness around...

Reave, very nice shots from Paris!

Wyldewode, I like that dramatic shot of the Arc de Triomphe. Nice one of the Arch of Titus, too. Also like the pics of the Pompeii artifacts.

You travellers just make me sick with envy. Sick, I tell you.
thefirst wrote:You guys really make me wish I had something more interesting to photograph around here.
Any subject can be interesting, depending on how you photograph it. At least, that's the excuse I'm using. :P I'm not a traveller, I just go around my city and take pictures for the simple pleasure of it.

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Snowfall from last week.

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Back in January, Winnipeg achieved a Guinness Record for having
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matrixman wrote:Blackhawk, you are correct. Part of the fun of digital photography is being able to play around with your pics in image editing software. However, I will say that if a shot comes out of the camera looking good, I don't fiddle around with it. Much.
I very rarely do any editing of my pictures. . . though I am hoping to get a new computer some time this year, and with it some more sophisticated editing software! :D

matrixman wrote:You travellers just make me sick with envy. Sick, I tell you.
I haven't been anywhere exciting since 2006. So I'm living on my memories from my first trip to Europe! :P
matrixman wrote:Any subject can be interesting, depending on how you photograph it. At least, that's the excuse I'm using. :P I'm not a traveller, I just go around my city and take pictures for the simple pleasure of it.
I think MM has hit upon the key to it. . . we have to look with fresh eyes. I'm thinking about taking some pictures around town myself if the weather is nice enough this week.

And MM, I love the one with the snow and the the tree-lined way. Makes me think of the Frost poem! :D
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The shot I took of the daffodils blooming in the snow and my daughter making her first snow angel are about the most interesting things around here. Until the weather gets nicer and I can get out to the country and shoot something a little more scenic. I mostly meant that architecturally, there's not a lot of interesting things to photograph. Most of the farms here aren't even that quaint, so I'll have to get really creative, and that will mean getting out without this infuriating splint on.
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Re: A Lazy afternoon looking at the clouds..

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lurch wrote:Image
That's weird and surreal. I like it. 8)
lurch wrote:Image
This one disturbs me. In a good way. I think.
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Thanx Cj,,,I like pictures. I enjoy all these fotos by everyone..Like the saying goes,,a thousand words.....

Cj ,,that shot there is another one of those fotos that I had no idea what I got until after putting it up on the screen..Compressing 3d into 2d seems to make things happen, Alls I know ,,it was an interesting area in the sky,,so I took the shot,,,I guess I'm the face in mist..Maybe its my dad,,He took a pic of mom, in their early years,,and she posed almost exactly as the female cloud form,,Hey, talk about surreal , huh!
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I'm going to make an honest effort to get out and take some sunset pictures just for you lurch. Please, don't hold it against me. :?
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A couple of sky pictures for lurch :
Both NZ
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jellyfish
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Ricoletta cemetery, Argentina
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Roman Mosaic, Tunisia
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Again, Great shots everyone. Seriously some amazing photographers in this group.

I don't photoshop my pics either. I don't even know how. :D What you guys see is the image I shot. :P
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Cameraman Jenn wrote:I don't photoshop my pics either. I don't even know how. :D What you guys see is the image I shot. :P
Me either. I will crop them a bit but thats it. I do love playing with photoshop but I can't say I really know how to use it to its full advantage.
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Chrys, did you really take the pic of the jellyfish?
I thought you were a ripe grape
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the kind you keep for a really long time
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drew wrote:Chrys, did you really take the pic of the jellyfish?
I did yes.

Although it was taken at a zoo, not out in the wild.
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