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  • Constructively Critical Comments

    - 10 years ago - 14 comments
    One of the main reasons why I join photo communities like Ipernity is to learn from others. I can learn simply from looking at other peoples work but I also think that CONSTRUCTIVE criticism is important and would help me to understand how I can improve. When I first took up photography numpty seven years ago I joined a camera club or photographic society. Each week we had to produce a mounted print for review and criticism by the other members. The criticisms were meant to be helpful but cou…

  • The Doughnut

    - 10 Sep 2013 - 17 comments
    As a present, we’d bought my son a day’s tuition in rally driving and had gone along to watch. It was a cold, rainy day. The course was on a disused airfield. It was completely flat and the wind howled across the landscape, but we were relatively warm and dry. Spectators were given use of a portacabin with access to as much tea and coffee as we cared to make. Neil had a great day, throwing the car around the curvy course which was partially on gravel and partially on mud. He got some grea…

  • The Day My Son Found God

    - 13 Aug 2013 - 6 comments
    Neil, my son, had not long started school, which makes him about five or six. One day he came home, after having had a Religious Instruction lesson and started to ask questions. “Dad”, he said “I don’t understand about God” “Well son, what don’t you understand”, I replied with a little trepidation. “Who is He? Where does He live? Is He a good man? What does He do? Can I meet Him?” the questions flowed quickly. I thought for a few moments stroking my chin in what I hoped was a profes…

  • Mexican Adventures

    - 30 Jul 2013 - 7 comments
    About three years ago I visited Mexico for the wedding of our son, Neil, to Kerry. After six days lying on a beach, albeit a very nice beach, I was pretty bored. So six of us booked an excursion to the Mayan ruins at Coba. The excursion included a morning’s “activities”. When we enquired what this meant we were told it was a visit to a cenote. Cenotes are large underground freshwater lakes or rivers. It sounded like fun – a visit to a sort of cave! Great! So we signed up! However, my suspi…

  • Paying the Price

    - 03 Jul 2013 - 9 comments
    I've reached that certain age when certain little things peeve me. My wife (bless her) tells me that it's the Age of the Grumpy Old Man. I thought you might like to hear one of those things. I’m in the newsagents. I’ve bought a daily paper. I take it to the cash desk to pay. Where there is a long queue of people waiting to pay for their goods. I join the queue. At the front is a lady clutching two items. The cashier takes them and rings up the prices. “That’ll be £1.54 please” s…

  • The Squirrels Wore Nail Varnish

    - 28 Jun 2013 - 6 comments
    There I was, lying on a white sandy beach with the tropical sun beating down on my back, listening to the gentle hiss of the surf. Beside me lay a stunningly beautiful, nubile, young blonde girl, nearly wearing a bikini and gently caressing the hair on the back of my neck. I rolled over to kiss her gorgeous lips ………………… She dug her elbow in my ribs ………………….. hard! “Gerroff” I growled. Another dig in the ribs. Harder this time. “Are you awake” I heard. It was Jen (my wife).…

  • Supermarket Blues

    - 24 Jun 2013 - 8 comments
    I hate shopping at the supermarket. Some of you may not understand this aversion. Let me explain. It’s not the act of picking food and drink from the shelves that I mind. This is, indeed, quite pleasurable, imagining the promise of tastes and flavours in the days ahead, but as you stroll around pushing your trolley full of goodies, you suddenly encounter them. Three women (yes it’s always women) having a cosy little chat, right in the middle of the gangway. Their trolleys lay abandoned…

  • All Change

    - 17 Jun 2013 - 9 comments
    In my humble opinion, Flickr was in need of a change. It was creaking at the seams, getting ever slower and frequently misbehaving. To be honest, I had also gone stale, posting less and less and just going through the motions. So, Flickr, or more correctly Yahoo, made sweeping changes. Unfortunately, when it was released, it was full of bugs, ran even slower, looked awful and denied photographers any choice as to how their images were displayed. True, there was far more space available fo…