tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23282643.post5133563497459399927..comments2023-10-12T15:59:35.120+01:00Comments on radiogandy: Super Sunday - Lovely Lamb - PC fixedtracyjameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00914991294683176018noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23282643.post-27716138051471786052008-10-06T14:10:00.000+01:002008-10-06T14:10:00.000+01:00Re competition judges. I thought that it was a pre...Re competition judges. <BR/>I thought that it was a prerequisite for all photograhic judges to have a humour removal op. as none of them seem able to see a joke. None seem able to read sufficiently well enough to comprehend any "funny" appearing as text in a picture and virtually never see a joke.<BR/>Still, we all think that we know better than any "judge". We took the picture and we know the joke.<BR/>JBAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23282643.post-11068779963890086202008-10-06T11:46:00.000+01:002008-10-06T11:46:00.000+01:00Sorry, but I cannot become too enthusiastic over t...Sorry, but I cannot become too enthusiastic over the roof (or under it either).<BR/><BR/>Pleased you appreciated the fungus foto. I didn’t want the title to take too much attention (don’t forget you can click on the TL corner to enlarge the picture) but thanks for the tips.<BR/>I am not struck on the ‘retouch’ tool in P3 though. I’d prefer ‘clone’.<BR/><BR/>Glad to hear that David sorted you out. Isn’t it useful to have the occasional visit from someone who knows what they are on with? <BR/><BR/>Don’t give the butcher too much credit – the pinkness of the meat, I mean. <BR/><BR/>I think John Sergeant has a unique and attractive style in every way, not just his dancing (for which I shall take your word). Perhaps he is on something rather than onto something? <BR/><BR/>I absolutely agree in principle that ordinary tax-payers should not have to rescue rich businessmen/women who probably avoid/evade payment of tax anyway. But I suppose it is just a matter of pragmatism (remember Harold Wilson?) in that something had to be done promptly.<BR/>The American public and their representatives obviously and understandably felt the same as you and made their point before being persuaded to go along with a strategy which may possibly avoid a crash like that of 1929. Let us hope that we do not have to taste the sour grapes of wrath.<BR/>The Observer yesterday published a very good 12 page supplement about the situation and its historical precedents etc. <BR/>I’ll bet folk are laughing in Cuba (or at least wearing big smiles).<BR/><BR/>The veg soup was OK. Better than OK, in fact; enjoyably tasty and the green veg did not dominate as I feared it might. <BR/><BR/>Although Jill’s very nice photo set me off on my philosophical musings, my comments were not aimed at that picture. I think my point is that chance plays a part in everything – taking Jill’s picture, for instance: if they had not had that room in that hotel, if the sun had not been shining… The thing is to ride luck and take advantage of the chance – ‘carpe diem’.<BR/>I did not for one moment think you were sitting in judgment on the picture any more than I was. I am sure Jill would understand that. <BR/><BR/>I also tried not to be too judgmental about your non-PC restaurant signs, but you have decided upon public self-flagellation which does you great credit!<BR/>But, on the wider issue of judges, from what you all seem to be saying, they often seem to talk a load of cobblers (which, of course, is a euphemism for b*******). Also see response below to Helen’s comment.<BR/><BR/>Quotation from Robert McClosky has it about right, as much of the debate in this blog goes to show. <BR/><BR/>Jill:<BR/>So far as I am concerned it is having an ‘eye’ that matters, but a few tips such as those you mention (and which RG tends quite reasonably to bang on about although I personally think that, correct though he is, he gets a bit precious about the difference between the ‘rule of thirds’ and the Golden Section) do help.<BR/>I can very seldom be bothered ‘photoshopping’ (and think RG will agree that it can be positively undesirable if done in what he or I would consider an inappropriate way) but I DO find Picasa invaluable for judicious cropping, lightening, etc. If you don’t have it, I strongly recommend you should download it (free). See Rg's blog of Oct 3rd for link.<BR/><BR/>We have a water mill in Ollerton which I believe is still in working order. It has an excellent and popular café in the same building which has won national awards for the quality of the tea they serve. <BR/>When my father started work, aged 13, at the Hermitage Hosiery Mill in Mansfield, it was his job to ‘set’ the wheel each morning on his arrival. And he finished his working life at another Mansfield Mill that was still powered by water and lit by gas until after WWII. Unfortunately, although a listed building, it recently had to be demolished after a major arson attack.<BR/>The ‘pensioners’ special’ sounds very good although I avoid cottage pie or anything else made from mince unless I have seen it minced (all right, I eat pork sausage but I am very choosy). <BR/>I look forward to hearing some of your knitting yarns. <BR/><BR/>I have always refused to have flu jabs on the grounds that I have never had flu and my mother never had flu (even in 1918 when she was the only one on the street unafflicted) and that the innoculation might have a reverse effect. <BR/>If I turn out to have made a bad decision RG has my permission to say, “Well I did warn him..”.<BR/><BR/>Helen C: <BR/>Monday’s child is a shining light; Thursday's judge is full of s***e!<BR/>I think your flooded tent photo is great, both pictorially and for its wit. So what if the tent isn’t a third of the way in – rules are there to be broken (when appropriate).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com