All Souls College, Oxford

Splendid capture!

Thanks. It was taken from the tower of St Mary's Church in November 2011. Isisbridge was standing behind the parapet wall taking a picture, but I waited for her to move out of the way.

I'm not sure how to take that!

Then I suppose you'd better ask Roy! :o)

Roy is keeping his mouth shut, as you should never comment on a woman's bulk.

But the way you took it was OK, as we can see, below. Because you didn't include the arch in your composition, you were able to include more of the buildings beyond it, which I'd preferred to have done.

It's surprising how much the clouds had moved in the short time between our taking our respective shots.

Roy didn't particularly notice your bulk or lack of it, but with hindsight he'd have taken another shot while you were standing just left of centre, though you'd only have been visible in silhouette.

Roy was too scared of being thrown off the balcony if he said anything. I like the effect of including the arch, but the drawback is that it brings your main subject rather low in the picture. I think I was lucky in catching a more interesting sky.

Notice how different the colours are between our respective cameras, mine being a simple 8mp automatic, and yours far more sophisticated.

In those days I only had a an 11.3MP small-sensor compact which didn't have as much as an eye-level viewfinder, and (against my better judgement) I didn't use RAW, even though it had that capability. But in spite of those limitations many of the pictures I took with it were better than those from the (much larger) film cameras that I still used, e.g.:

You're talking way over my head with all the technical stuff.

Regarding the French picture (which shows great promise), Roy would have included more river to the south and east, to bring the girl up to a more prominent position. She is currently just an irritation in the corner of the eye

The melancholy feel that this picture (which was runner-up in a photographic competition run by volunteers at the Royal Marsden Hospital, London in 2011, and a print of which is on the wall in the cafeteria there) has to it is appropriate.

The building in the background, formerly a watermill, was then an hotel and was where Shirley and I stayed in August that year, knowing full well that it would be Our Last Summer. Our room was only just large enough for us and the elephant in it.

The melancholy is what you feel because of your own associations. It doesn't feel that way to me, having looked at it without the knowledge of this being where you stayed together.

Beautifully framed.

Superbe cadrage !!!

Outstanding shot and framing! Stay well!

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Beautiful light and frame in the frame composition.