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“Do you want us to send you the question and answer, or do we just read it out on the night.”
Fay Meek made a comment on Members Social Evening 23 hours 19 min ago
“I definely favour the bright white, and work at achieving it in camera sometimes over exposing.  When they come out grey or cream they are binned. I do try backgrounds sometimes, but coloured ones are sometimes not subtle enough for me, and fight with the subjects.  I could try a light texture to reduce the starkness but at present I am into the high key look. But thanks for the suggestion.  I am creating lots of these vignettes of natural things I pick up on my daily walks.  It forms a part of an Art Course I am doing.  I walk with my eyes on the ground a lot of the time searching for rusty screws, washers and bottle tops.  'Nowt so queer as folk' !!!”
Melanie Chalk made a comment on An Autumn Vignette 2 days 9 hours ago
“It doesn't look as good in this small size but it looked great on my screen on Monday.  I think it has a lot of interest and feeling, maybe a different title would have helped you achieve a higher mark, but for me a fabulous image, may even look good in your favourite mono.”
Avril Christensen made a comment on In memoriam 3 days 19 hours ago
“for me the light in the middle is a focal point and I really like it.  Also I like the ICM composition, but the light lifts it and makes it different.”
Avril Christensen made a comment on Autumn Beech Wood 3 days 19 hours ago
“Melanie you always put things togehter so well, but I can't help wondering if a different coloured background would have lifted this amazing composition.  I was thinking Yellow, but then I was thinking sacking might lift the leaf colours and the white linen, who knows maybe you tried that and it needed green!!”
Avril Christensen made a comment on An Autumn Vignette 3 days 19 hours ago
“Fay, I really like this its so unusual I love the colours so rich in the rusts And the aquas really complement.  I love the very bottom of the image where you have captured the slowed the movement of the sea - it  super - A 20 from me who knows nowt!!”
Avril Christensen made a comment on LOOKING DOWN ON GORMLEY'S IRON MAN 3 days 19 hours ago
“Michael I think your what looks like a fig hanging from the tree injects interest into your image.  U an drawn to it because it is most likely the lighted part of the image and I am wondering - ist it a fig?  When was the tree planted/. Are figs as old as the castle, who used teat them and how long ago.  it is giving me a flavour of what happened, maybe, in the castle and yes that makes for a more interesting photograph than just a castle.  The image itself is all very well exposed even the fig which is brighter, so it looks technically perfect to me, not an expert.. there are a lot of greens, if it were my image I might have attempted to loff the luminance and Ithe colours individually with a. Luminance and or colour mask.  I do really like it I think it was well seen.”
Avril Christensen made a comment on Autumn At Walmer 3 days 19 hours ago
“Yes I long for both print and onscreen competitions. Watching tv/monitor screens, according to research, can somehow stifle thinking - just another tv programme/mail etc - which is a shame as my "dead goats" picture was perhaps intended as a metaphor for C19 - random arrows can hit anyone etc. I think this concept - or the concept of some form of tragic event - it says POLICE on the side of the helicopter flying overhead - was perhaps not even thought about by the judge! But, full marks to Graham Snowden who thought about White House Farm.To paraphrase Mashall McLuhan "The Medium is the Message" ...... I long for the day when we can get back to an environment whereby pictures are given a little more room  and time to 'breathe' and tell their stories. ”
Simon Newlyn made a comment on Dancing with Bananas 6 days 5 hours ago
“Hi Alan well done with the 19.  ”
Avril Christensen made a comment on Passion 6 days 23 hours ago
“Amazing capture - its a 20 from me, nothing not to like, no technical imperfections that I can see.”
Avril Christensen made a comment on Green Tree Viper, Costa Rican Rain Forest 1 week 4 hours ago
“The patterns the bananas make in this image is mesmerising Simon,  I think you must have spent a lot of time constructing this and it is really eye catching especially when viewed as a large image - I expect it would have looked better on the big screen - oh I'm craving face to face meet ups.  I would have preferred a red dress though (with a judge hat on ha ha).”
Avril Christensen made a comment on Dancing with Bananas 1 week 4 hours ago
“I like the other 2 people in this image Melanie, beautifully made into mono, no technical imperfections so should have been 18. Drop two marks if you don't like the image.  Don't like that tree though just to the left of his head, why didn't you take your chain saw with you, you could have chopped it down, (sorry just having a little snigger here to myself).  Its how I deal with stuff.  ”
Avril Christensen made a comment on Absorbing the Winter Rays 1 week 4 hours ago
“Love this image Graham and should have scored at least 19 imho.  I love the gradiated tones and hues you've captured in the morning? light.  Beautiful leading lines take you all around this image - who needs a farmhouse when you have those beautiful trees and their silhouettes to focus on.  I can just imagine being there and watching the light change the landscape as the sun rises.  Beautiful.  If anything I would have liked to see a teeny bit more at the top of the image, it just feels a little tightly squeezed there,  but I'm guessing (like a judge) that the sun was a little bright higher up and would have been distracting.”
Avril Christensen made a comment on Tuscan Fields 1 week 4 hours ago
“I like these Melanie, the grid idea, but especially this one using the cyanotypes”
Roger Brown made a comment on Cynotypes 1 week 20 hours ago
“I used a filter for a few weeks before being tempted along the conversion path. Due to lockdown & shortages of parts it took 12 weeks to get the conversion.I know it can be a 'Marmite' style, but I'm doing it to please myself - may even break out the Lensbaby!”
Sue Dixon made a comment on Seaweed at Samphire - Infrared 1 week 1 day ago
“I am enjoying your infra red images, executed in your usual perfect way.  I am sure you have told us before but did you have a camera converted?”
Melanie Chalk made a comment on Seaweed at Samphire - Infrared 1 week 1 day ago