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Howard Somerville club has replied to Isisbridge clubOn the way home I made a special detour to get this shot. Strangely, although I know the Watlington area, I'd never come across Cuxham, and only got wind of it last week when a follower on Flickr published a near-identical shot. His though was taken in May, and comparing like-with-like it's greener and nicer now in July. Both he and I though had magnum opuses in removing the same telegraph pole and spider's web of cables ruining that genuine sky.
Isisbridge club has replied to Howard Somerville clubIt's nice to see you keeping realistic colours.
Howard Somerville club has replied to Isisbridge clubHoward Somerville club has replied to Isisbridge clubI prefer the original but then you know I am Mr As Is! to me the wires etc are a sign of human habitation
Howard Somerville club has replied to John LawrenceIsisbridge club has replied to Howard Somerville club(than the version that was here before being replaced)
The problem with your edited version is that you've highlighted the end wall on the left, making it stand out too much (which is why Roy wanted to crop it off), whilst giving less prominence to the phone box. But you were right to add a little extra on the righthand edge.
I like having the wires and telegraph poles there.
Why do you consider them an eyesore and the phone box not?
Howard Somerville club has replied to Isisbridge club2. I didn't highlight the wall. The sun, which was shining directly on it, had come out more when the second shot was taken. But I accept that it was slightly distracting and have darkened it.
3. One does not "consider" anything to be beautiful, ugly or an eyesore. Considering is a deliberate and conscious act whereas beauty or ugliness is perceived - felt - intuitively. Hence my inability, however much they offend my aesthetic sense, to explain in rational terms why cables, telegraph poles and aerials are eyesores, and why traditional telephone boxes are not. But it can be understood insofar as the latter were designed by Giles Gilbert Scott on classical lines, whereas the electrical services were installed with no consideration whatever about their appearance.
Also, red telephone boxes can add a splash of warm colour where needed, but I removed the yellow defibrillator from inside this one.
John Lawrence has replied to Howard Somerville clubHoward Somerville club has replied to John LawrenceIsisbridge club has replied to Howard Somerville clubBut I'm puzzled by the straight dark line between the path and the phone box.
Is that the shadow of a telegraph pole?
Isisbridge club has replied to Howard Somerville clubHoward Somerville club has replied to Isisbridge clubYou appear to have gone there specially and spent some time there (though waiting so long for the bus back, more than you intended), while I (strangely, having been through and to Watlington many times over the years) had, until last Friday, had never even heard of Cuxham.
Howard Somerville club has replied to Isisbridge clubRaise the contrast by 15-20% and it'll be better still.
Isisbridge club has replied to Howard Somerville clubSo shouldn't you be cloning out the pole shadow???
Howard Somerville club has replied to Isisbridge club[We've discussed this before but] the latest smartphones with 3 or even 4 cameras, as opposed to just the one in my ancient iPhone 8, produce better image quality than the compact or bridge cameras of a generation ago, but nevertheless aren't entirely suitable for serious photography.
Isisbridge club has replied to Howard Somerville clubBut you make a good point in your earlier comment, where you say that beauty and ugliness are things that are felt rather than considered. A great deal of modern architecture is so ugly that it wounds the soul, but the architects consider their creations to be beautiful because they follow the rules they have learnt about what makes something beautiful (e.g. having the windows in a certain configuration). They are considering rather than feeling.
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