Day 20: July 2010 Photo-a-Day Thread

[rick55]

I get scared just looking at the shot of the yellow-jacket, Pops. Those suckers really hurt, and the darn things don't even die after they sting you. Nice DOF.

Cheers,
Rick

[Crovean]

You need this as your wallpaper on your phone ^_^

[Colin Southern]

Good stuff, Colin: it makes sense that if you have that much investment in a trip, between crew, consumables, and the ship itself, you spend the money to maximize the return. Warm and comfortable except when you're up on deck during that six hours on: and as you say, hard work.

Even more below deck as well (They're factory trawlers -- fish go in one end, and come out the other as frozen fillets all packaged and labeled ready for export at the other.

[James G]

Glasgow:
couldn't post this until today (21st), but I moved from Liverpool to Glasgow, This is a busy week)

Went ot in the evening with a few colleagues for a meal, but before hand dropped into waterstones looking for a book. Saw the window and was told it was hidden for years after the buiding changed from a cinema to a bookshop. Just recently, it had been rediscovered. The two readers sitting there just made the whole image for me.

Later, at our meal I saw the piano,

James,

[rick55]

A lot of great angles and lines, Chriss. Did you crop the top intentionally for effect, like cropping a portrait at the forehead? I'm not objecting, just wondering.

I agree, James: the people make the shot. Especially the gentleman on the right, with a couple of books on the windowsill. That's the way bookshops are supposed to feel. I like the shot of the piano, too: more diagonals and intersecting lines than you can shake a tuning hammer at.

Cheers,
Rick

[Peter Ryan]

I'll get today's PAD shot in early

This is the fishing boat I've been working on for the last couple of days ... thought I'd grab a shot of her going out to sea today ...

I do like everything about this shot Colin.

[Colin Southern]

I do like everything about this shot Colin.

Thanks Peter,

The original plan was to capture the Apollo smack-bang between the two yachts, I had to change the plan at the last minute when the pilot boat came out as well. Just to make things even trickier, the pilot boat slowly overtook the Apollo as they both came into view, but with a bit of good luck I was able to get the gaps centered with the pole in the middle, and it all came together quite nicely.

I also used a CP "for old time sake", but couldn't really see any difference

The only thing I might do is crop a little of the right hand side and stretch it out a bit so that the gap to the bow of the left-hand yacht is the same as the gap at the stern of the right-hand yacht.

[Klickit]

Rick, so the Daddy is the one who carries the egg sac around in his mouth? Who would have thought it.

I don't think so: that black thing on top is something else, I think. I think you can see the mouth parts just below the front of the beast. They're slightly lighter brown, and have a joint in front. The black think could be an egg sack, but not in its mouth.

Cheers,
Rick

This is what I meant:


See the egg sac? I thought this was a mummy daddy long-legs, but maybe it was a daddy daddy long legs. This was wombling around in the handbasin back in the days when we lived in a house. I could see it was carrying something, but didn't see the detail til I got her/him up on the screen.

[Antonio Correia]

...I like the landscape, António. The hay bales (if that's what they are) in the field help: it would be an empty space there otherwise. Cheers, Rick

Thank you Rick

[Antonio Correia]

[Peter Ryan]

Hi Colin,

I agree. It probably needs a little more space in front of the left boat but the general proportions are very good. The blue colours and exposure are great.

I was thinking of the simplicity of this shot and how the three boats (always a good number) form an implicit triangle within the rectangular frame of the shot strengthening the composition. Having the boats slightly off-centre in the triangular formation also strengthens to shot (bit like rule of thirds). This is teh type of thing I want to see when I talk about triangles - not just triangles structural formations.

[rick55]

Wow! Great shot, Kit. I don't know if it's male or female, but that's quite a burden.

Cheers,
Rick