“I thought there was something fishy about the lens - Now I know!!”
Eric Young made a comment on Pool 2 1 day 1 hour ago
“Every week I swim at Hythe swimming pool and enjoy all the reflections and with Poty in my mind I asked permission to take the undisturbed baby pool with my iPhone. I used an app called roll world on my pad to move it to a pleasing shape. Really a fluke! Although I am happy to use my phone camera even Joe Cornish uses one and prints from those images!!!!”
Melanie Chalk made a comment on Pool 2 1 day 3 hours ago
“Life’s a con Eric! ”
Melanie Chalk made a comment on Pool 2 1 day 3 hours ago
“The shame of Folkestone is that it has been left to decay.Folkestone Council has apparently decided to spend (waste) £17000000 onan office block situated at Ashford,just along the M20. Money that would be better spent closer to home restong the Leas Lift andother things to the benifit of this town. DH”
David Hughes made a comment on THE SHAME OF FOLKESTONE 1 day 4 hours ago
“Avril I like this. The leaves suggest gold leaf that's about to gild the bare bones. Well done.”
Simon Newlyn made a comment on Through Bare Bones See Shining Stars 1 day 5 hours ago
“This is great Fay a really interesting and eye holding image. If you are in the RPS you should enter it in this months competition about the environment.”
Avril Christensen made a comment on REFLECTING ON THE THROWAWAY SOCIETY 1 day 6 hours ago
“Hi Roger I really love this image it looks like an abstract painting, it really holds my attention and I love the vivid colour. ”
Avril Christensen made a comment on Shattered 1 day 6 hours ago
“What focal length are you using here Melanie, may I ask? (Full frame equivalent) Also, what lens?”
Eric Young made a comment on Pool 2 1 day 7 hours ago
“Thanks Andy, never mind...”
Tom Lloyd made a comment on One Too Many, or One Too Few? 2 days 1 hour ago
“David it has its uses: https://www.simonnewlyn.com/projects?lightbox=dataItem-jobcx1sh”
Simon Newlyn made a comment on THE SHAME OF FOLKESTONE 2 days 1 hour ago
“I really liked this, Graham, could look at it for hours! Fascinating.”
Vincent Wright made a comment on New Street 2 days 2 hours ago
“Great image, well deserved 1st place!”
Vincent Wright made a comment on Mono paperweights 2 days 2 hours ago
“I will post some new ones up now there is a lull in my life, ha ha, thanks Roger glad you like it.”
Avril Christensen made a comment on When they take everything away Hold Your Colours Against The Wall 2 days 3 hours ago
“Ah did the judge say somethging about the top hand then ( I arrived late ) I kept it in as it added to the spookiness of the picture in my mind.”
Simon Newlyn made a comment on The Builders Ruined This 2 days 3 hours ago
“Fab Simon, this looks better here I can really see the torch light and I don’t notice the hand so much!! ”
Avril Christensen made a comment on The Builders Ruined This 2 days 3 hours ago
“Love this Eric, so much to look at. Congratulations”
Avril Christensen made a comment on Decaying Orchid 2 days 3 hours ago
“Graham you pulled my leg about this.....now look what you've done for yourself”
Simon Newlyn made a comment on Smoking Kills 2 days 3 hours ago
“Congratulations Ian this was one of my favourite images of the night.”
Avril Christensen made a comment on Boarded Window Detail, Goussainville Deserted Village, France 2 days 3 hours ago
“Well done Ashley love this image, very thought provoking - congratulations.”
Avril Christensen made a comment on Mono paperweights 2 days 3 hours ago
“Love this Graham - are you going to let on??? Did you set it up????”
Avril Christensen made a comment on Smoking Kills 2 days 3 hours ago
“This was one of my favourites too Melanie - I find I am drawn to really dark, or really light images. I too prefer it darker like this. A fabulous set and very well dserved win, it just proves that we all need to put more thought And time into POTY. I like having a project to work on - maybe we should do more of our competitions like this???? Very many congratulations.”
Avril Christensen made a comment on Devotion 2 days 3 hours ago
“Very nice Ian, shame the tones did not come across as they should have.”
Andy Smith made a comment on Very Still Life - Still Waiting For The Resurrection! 2 days 3 hours ago
“Bang on Tom, shame the projector did not do it justice.”
Andy Smith made a comment on One Too Many, or One Too Few? 2 days 3 hours ago
“Had to be the star of the evening Graham.”
Andy Smith made a comment on Smoking Kills 2 days 3 hours ago
“As a total colour image, there was too much colour, it was overpowering, even though it was natural at about ten 'o'clock in the evening, so a centre selection with a very soft edge inverted then desaturated, just toned it down, and made the stones cleaner to look at.”
Andy Smith made a comment on Dungeness weather warrning 2 days 3 hours ago
“I really like this Graham, very well seen and made image.”
Avril Christensen made a comment on New Street 2 days 3 hours ago
“Love this Melanie - I still can’t work it out, which is a good thing. Love the colour, the composition and all the shapes, fabulous, congratulations.”
Avril Christensen made a comment on Swimming Pool Reflections 2 days 3 hours ago
“Love this Ashley, it looked even better because it had more impact on the big screen. Congratulations”
Avril Christensen made a comment on Royal Military Canal taking on the Sky 2 days 3 hours ago
“Another really well imagined image Simon - there is so much to look at, think about and discover - I must admit I missed the shoes to start with because I was so busy enjoying all the patterns, so perhaps the feet might have been better placed walking in from the left rather than the bottom of the image and or made a bit lighter. The colours are amazing.”
Avril Christensen made a comment on Yellow Brick Road 2 days 3 hours ago
“Eve I love this its a great composition and perfectly fits this competition - what does it look like as a print - it would be great in a panel?Congratulations ”
Avril Christensen made a comment on Wasp on Sweet Fennel 2 days 3 hours ago
“Fabulous Fay - what a great imagination you have. Congratulations.”
Avril Christensen made a comment on BLOWING IN THE WIND 2 days 3 hours ago
“Great capture of the moment Eric, Congratulations.”
Avril Christensen made a comment on A gentle stroll through storm Gareth 2 days 3 hours ago
“A favourite of mine too from last night Tom, the larger view really did it justice, that glove just shone out.”
Avril Christensen made a comment on Rain is Coming Down 2 days 3 hours ago
“One of my favourites from last night Andy, it was a WOW from me when it went up. Love the colours and the way everything leads into the centre, I’d be really happy to have this on my wall.”
Avril Christensen made a comment on Dungeness weather warrning 2 days 3 hours ago
“No not taken as a complaint but it could have been better that’s Night I think.”
Melanie Chalk made a comment on Devotion 2 days 5 hours ago
“Not a complaint Melanie, just an observation. I doubt we will ever get the calibration correct for all members. We have so many differing monitors at home, most will not be calibrated, even for their own cameras & printers. I attempt to end up with a PDI file that will suit the club projector, I haven't enterd this season so didn't get it right on this occasion......not to worry. PDIs are not the ideal way to view our work.”
Tom Lloyd made a comment on Devotion 2 days 5 hours ago
“Yes they were brighter than I had intended. We must work on the projection further and think it needed adjusting for the lighter evenings. However the Colour Munki is missing! I still have to search at home, Michael said he has looked but I know he hasn’t looked properly!!!!! But does anyone have it at home? We can’t recall who borrowed it last. Again we need a system and a book to follow up when we can’t find it.”
Melanie Chalk made a comment on Devotion 2 days 5 hours ago
“Thank You Vince...”
Tom Lloyd made a comment on Rain is Coming Down 2 days 6 hours ago
“I agree the themed projects do make for a better variety if images. I liked this one also, I notice on my screen it is much darker than the projected one last night which in this case enhanced it. At least one of mine was and a couple of Andy's were much brighter when projected Oh Hum that's life. Robin chose and scored on the images he could see....well done Melanie.”
Tom Lloyd made a comment on Devotion 2 days 6 hours ago
“My favourite image in this category.”
Vincent Wright made a comment on Rain is Coming Down 2 days 7 hours ago
“Oh thank you Eric ! It’s my friend Simon’s prayer chair and taken at a photoshoot, before the model Kneeled down.i am inspired by the themed projects, enjoy working on them and try and think outside the box. I work hard on making my images a bit different and they can catch the judge’s eye. But really wish someone else had got the top place This time.”
Melanie Chalk made a comment on Devotion 2 days 8 hours ago
“This was my favourite image of the evening!”
Eric Young made a comment on Devotion 2 days 14 hours ago
“Oh shucks, you spotted it!”
Eric Young made a comment on Big waves from Storm Erik at Sunny Sands 3 days 1 hour ago
“:-)”
Ashley Judd made a comment on Big waves from Storm Erik at Sunny Sands 3 days 1 hour ago
“Clever use of bubble wrap Eric”
Ashley Judd made a comment on Big waves from Storm Erik at Sunny Sands 3 days 1 hour ago
“Great to see your images Roger, you are very creative. Let’s hope you life settles down and you have time for more creativity and we get to see more of your ideas.”
Melanie Chalk made a comment on Fallen Petals 3 days 19 hours ago
“I love the colours and tones in this one Avril. Where's some of your other minimalist pictures? Can we see them?”
Roger Brown made a comment on When they take everything away Hold Your Colours Against The Wall 3 days 21 hours ago
“I like it.”
Roger Brown made a comment on Out There Somewhere in the Vast Nothingness of an Obsidian Sea 3 days 21 hours ago
“Andy that is good news Vinyl is very much 'on-trend' and on the way backhttps://www.forbes.com/vinyl/#5fd7f865ebdd”
Simon Newlyn made a comment on Sgt Pepper 6 days 6 hours ago
“I think that like vinyl, my photography is more in keeping with a previous vintage !”
Andy Smith made a comment on Sgt Pepper 6 days 7 hours ago
“Very good!”
Melanie Chalk made a comment on Sgt Pepper 6 days 9 hours ago
“Andy I can hear it......Being for the Benefit of Mr Kite!”
Simon Newlyn made a comment on Sgt Pepper 6 days 22 hours ago
“Actually a 2 foot high stick of goorse taken close up from a pot hole with the sleepers at Dungeness as a background.”
Andy Smith made a comment on 12 1 week 1 day ago
“Brilliant.”
Vincent Wright made a comment on 12 1 week 1 day ago
“Lovely shot Andy. Very bleak”
Steve Harris made a comment on 12 1 week 2 days ago
“Really good evening with a very talented photographer and photoshopper. Good to see a big audience too.”
Vincent Wright made a comment on Night and Day with David Jenner 1 week 2 days ago
“Great speaker this evening, David Jenner, shares his talent and fabulous images thank you FCC”
Ashley Judd made a comment on Night and Day with David Jenner 1 week 2 days ago
“I would try using the shadow slider in LR to bring out more of the detail in the dark areas and also I think you could get more impact from the sky using the gradient tool. The exposure may need lifting slightly as it feels a bit dark overall but all of these things are easy to bring out if this has been shot in raw”
Avril Christensen made a comment on Watchers of Ships at Sea. 1 week 3 days ago
“Hi Nick this is a really well seen image. I Like the angle view you have here.”
Avril Christensen made a comment on Watchers of Ships at Sea. 1 week 3 days ago
“I do like this image Nick. There is nice light on the foreground and you could probably exentuate this a bit more. I love all the sulphur mist rising into the air and the different tones you’ve captured in the mountain relief and clouds. You could probably tweak these a bit more too for added impact. Just check the horizon is straight - my eyes are a bit weird so I can’t always tell but it just looks slightly off horizontal to me. Great capture did you take it recently?”
Avril Christensen made a comment on Iceland. 1 week 3 days ago
“This is a lovely capture of the moment Nick, the composition works really well. Unfortunately that darn fawn has moved and I’m guessing you couldn’t raise your shutter speed because the rest of the image is quite dark. I’d try and regain some of the light on the peoples faces by moving the shadows slider in LR, maybe even reduce contrast a bit and take the highlights down. Well seen thugh.”
Avril Christensen made a comment on Loveing and Trusting. 1 week 3 days ago
“Hi Nick - unfortunately this little guy has moved as well so the image is looking blurred. I always try and have my shutter speed fast when taking this type of shot or do the opposite and have it really slow to really show the movement.”
Avril Christensen made a comment on Oestrich 1 week 3 days ago
“Hi Nick - I see that you’ve tried to capture this bee which I know is difficult when they are moving about. Unfortunately he’s moved out of focus so a judge will say ‘hes’s not sharp enough’. Also the judge will comment that the green and purple are fighting with each other for attention so you almost miss the bee altogether because our eyes are searching out the lightest part of the image. Macro photogrpahy is really hard, you just have to keep on taking images - it requires a lot of practice I know myself.”
Avril Christensen made a comment on flower with Bee. 1 week 3 days ago
“Also for judges I would probably crop the top so you lose the light bit at the top and darken down the very light bush on the left hand side.”
Avril Christensen made a comment on Food from the countryside. 1 week 3 days ago
“I really like this still life and how you’ve put it together with the background. The judge will say That there are a couple of bright bits catching his eye - namely the edge of the knife and the tops of the bread? If I were you I’d try and tone these highlights down. If you can reshoot it turn the knife over so the light doesn’t hit the edge of the blade, or do a HDR and blend the 3 images together. That might work. Beautiful composition.”
Avril Christensen made a comment on Food from the countryside. 1 week 3 days ago
“Hi Nick, If you have a look I already made a comment about the move. I don’t actually mind too much, sometimes change is good and we can always move again if we increase our numbers. I quite like the library as it has a cosy ambience, I find St Georges cold and austere, maybe this is because it is a religious establishment too and religion has bad memories for me. I’ve suggested we try it for a year and see how it goes. Folkestone is a nice friendly club with lots of educational elements, we need to think of a way we can actively promote membership. ”
Avril Christensen made a comment on Picasso Faces. 1 week 3 days ago
“Hi Avril,Sorry for the late reply. This is because i quite often take along time to look at the website when doing other things. Thank you for your kind comment. The picture is a record shot of a picture at the Tate modern gallery. Picasso always had bits of faces all over the place.You may be interested in having a look at the bulletin comments that people have given under Dave Hughes. On what do people think about the move to Sandgate library. I have put my own ten penny worth in as well.”
Nick Blundell made a comment on Picasso Faces. 1 week 3 days ago
“It is what it is, you didn't put them there.”
Vincent Wright made a comment on Mono seascape 1 week 3 days ago
“It is a shame about the second groyne, it makes the posts a bit cluttered.”
Andy Smith made a comment on Mono seascape 1 week 4 days ago
“Thank you Simon, you may have just started something ”
Ashley Judd made a comment on Trouble at the Warren 1 week 4 days ago
“Thank you Vincent - it’s Simon Compo‘s they are catching lol”
Ashley Judd made a comment on Trouble at the Warren 1 week 4 days ago
“FANTASTIC....well done. You'll be directing Game Of Thrones at the Warren soon.”
Simon Newlyn made a comment on Trouble at the Warren 1 week 4 days ago
“Lovely. So tranquil.”
Vincent Wright made a comment on Mono seascape 1 week 4 days ago
“Full of surprises. Great work!”
Vincent Wright made a comment on Trouble at the Warren 1 week 4 days ago
“Very clever - tasty one Vincent”
Ashley Judd made a comment on Water Elf 1 week 6 days ago
“To us humans yes, but his element is aquatic. No problem. Anyway he's got the lifejacket on under the costume!”
Vincent Wright made a comment on Water Elf 1 week 6 days ago
“Looks dangerous to me ......... surely an Elf and Safety issue?”
Eric Young made a comment on Water Elf 1 week 6 days ago