river beach of long ago
Guildford Castle Gardens
Castle Gardens in spring
spring flower beds
seat of long ago memories
seat beside the tulips
Hartley Wintney funfair
house in Swallowfield
clematis on the canalside wall
approaching West Bay
sunlight on a road near Seaton
into the storm
April showers ahead
pink magnolia
St Michael's, Coombe Bissett
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Colmer's Hill at Symondsbury
stormy evening in spring
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wisteria flower
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lilac in spring
pink bluebells
Spanish invaders?
wild campions
sycamore leaves in spring
aubrietia
feeding the swan
Akeman Street
twixt Spelsbury and Chadlington
dredging the canal
aubrietia
may reflection by the river
grey clouds in spring
spring day at Little Paxton
Jericho Wharf still fenced off
The Dew Drop in spring
slowboat through the spring
springtime in Kidlington
magnolia blossom
St Mary's Church in spring
North Oxford spring
Bletchingdon in spring
Causeway Cottage
spring garden plants
Goring churchyard in spring
spring at Osney Close
Church Way in spring
Abberbury Road
Marsh Baldon post box
English thatched cottage
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peacock's backside
bluebell wood
rhododendron time
chestnut flowers
entrance to White Lodge
Headington Manor, Oxford
Fir Lane in spring
Wolvercote Lock in spring
disused railway bridge
bus stop in buttercup time
golden sands by the Wey
Spanish invade Guildford
beech in spring
Mount cemetery
folly in the morning light
bluebells in the old cemetery
Chantries at dawn
Cowpie country
bus shelter bouquet
Betchworth bus shelter
Box Hill quarry
house with heather
to the glory of the spring
apple blossom time
bug feeders
rare giant beetle
trail of the lonesome apple
wonder who lives here?
Tillingbourne in spring
rooted branch
woodland trail
path down from St Martha's
English bluebells
woodland bluebells
woodland bluebells
as I walked out one May morning
Tillingbourne Valley
St Martha's Church, Guildford
blossom from a bus window
bussing through the spring
Queen Charlotte in spring
Spanish bluebell
Manzil Way blossom
and we can't see the bricks...
flowers to match the graffiti
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four drunks in a boat
charlock by the riverside
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chestnut candle
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view from Burgess Field
on track for the day
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laburnam chains
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spring in the meadow
may morning in the meadow
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spring at the Vine
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Territorial House
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blossom at Bath Street
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Isisbridge club has replied to Howard Somerville clubBut even without the swan, you have ruined the essence of the picture by adding a fake sky and changing the spring trees to a gaudy shade of green. You have also cropped the chestnut candles on the left and truncated a beautiful stretch of river, leaving the scene looing like Could-be-Anywhere.
You are technically very good, but sadly lacking a photographer's eye.
Howard Somerville club has replied to Isisbridge clubAs for looing like, that's a matter of public convenience.
Isisbridge club has replied to Howard Somerville clubHoward Somerville club has replied to Isisbridge clubMy pictures get rubbished when the eye is led in more than one direction. Here, the eye is led nowhere. Even if you don't like the swan or the sky, removing the western third at least makes a focal point of the buildings, birds and the rightmost tree, which are (relatively) interesting, and a bit more East would have helped here.
Isisbridge club has replied to Howard Somerville clubIt is not intended for the eye to be led anywhere, except to the riverside trees and perfect blue sky. The buildings are certainly not the focal point, and I would have preferred them not to be there. The rightmost tree is not a main point of interest either, but included only to balance the leftmost trees, with the whole connected by the faint contrails.
Your version is quite unbalanced and devoid of any atmosphere. The magic of the day has been lost with that inappropriate sky, and the gaudy greens are quite nauseating.
Howard Somerville club has replied to Isisbridge clubIsisbridge club has replied to Howard Somerville clubHoward Somerville club has replied to Isisbridge club2. As I've said, this was just a quick thumbnail adaptation of a screen capture. Were it a serious attempt at a picture, the original colours and even sky would have been retained. It's the composition and content which are the point.
3. It must have swam (or flown) up from the Thames near Slough.
2. Your sense of composition is (in my opinion) seriously flawed, not just with this one, but with many of your own.The point here is NOT to lead the eye down the river to some half-hidden buildings, but to emphasise the long stretch of deep-green river bordered by the spring-green trees and perfect blue sky above. Even if you retain the original colours, you have missed the essence of the picture with your ridiculous crop and made it very boring.
3. The swan should be roasted.
Howard Somerville club has replied to Isisbridge clubIsisbridge club has replied to Howard Somerville clubHoward Somerville club has replied to Isisbridge clubHoward Somerville club has replied to Isisbridge clubIsisbridge club has replied to Howard Somerville clubWhat catches the eye here is the greenness of the spring trees against an almost summery early morning sky. Enough variation is given by the larger trees on the left. There is no need for a swan or an eye-catching red boat, either of which would distract from the essence of the picture.
Did you know that Greensted is still invisible?
Howard Somerville club has replied to Isisbridge club2. Those people like to encourage others and look for what's good in their work, not find fault with it.
3. I speak as I find; there's nothing here that catches mine.
4. It should be visible. Try pressing your "F5" function key to refresh you browser.
Isisbridge club has replied to Howard Somerville club2. No, I'm referring to the people who make trite comments, obliging one to thank them and make similar trite comments on theirs. I have no interest in that type of social interaction and place no value on it.
3. That's fine, and I do the same with yours. I honestly don't care whether people like my photos or not, though I might be a little peeved if someone tries to ruin them, as you've done here.
4. It's visible since I alerted you, but wasn't before.
Howard Somerville club has replied to Isisbridge clubIsisbridge club has replied to Howard Somerville clubwww.ipernity.com/doc/isisbridge/24370933
Your criticisms are occasionally acted upon, but your "improvenents" are generally quite laughable (as here).
Howard Somerville club has replied to Isisbridge clubIsisbridge club has replied to Howard Somerville clubHoward Somerville club has replied to Isisbridge clubIsisbridge club has replied to Howard Somerville clubYou're welcome to rubbish as many as you like.
You've certainly rubbished this one!
Howard Somerville club has replied to Isisbridge clubIsisbridge club has replied to Howard Somerville clubI occasionally take your advice with regard to cropping, but you're not someone whose advice I value when it comes to colour and composition, although I do admire your technical expertise and your skill with photo-editing. That is my honest opinion, and if you see that as "rubbishing the photographer", it is a criticism that you have invited yourself by your continual attempts to alter my photos in line with what you see as your expertise.
When I referred to your "lack of discernment", it was obviously a tongue-in-cheek response to your comment that, if this is one of my best pictures, it doesn't say much for the others.
Saying you "lack a photographer's eye" is a perfectly reasonable response to someone who ruins a good picture in the way that you've done here.
And saying you have a flawed "sense of composition" is a criticism of your work rather than you as a person. It's the main reason I am unable to like many of your otherwise good photos.
We used to have a good laugh about the diarrity of it all, but you now seem to be taking things FAR too seriously.
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