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“This is No 10 after processing and some additions and straightening. I then entered it in Mono comp.”

Melanie Chalk made a comment on Double Vision Tate Britain 15 hours 51 min ago

“This was some buildings outside St P's and Graffiti from Camden added post process. ”

Melanie Chalk made a comment on Angular 16 hours 8 sec ago

“I just try all sorts of things, I am using my Iphone and Hiptsamatic App. You do not have the ability to see how the second image looks so it is a wing and a prayer! Sometimes I turn the camera to create crossing lines, which work with architecture. Foliage can work well over angular things too. I enjoy the randomness and uniqueness of them.”

Melanie Chalk made a comment on 1 16 hours 4 min ago

“I am no expert but I am guessing that the hardest thing is knowing which two images to select. If you take 2 similar images they compete and clash. Perhaps you need a dominant image with a more bland background image. Enlighten me!”

Eric Young made a comment on 1 19 hours 27 min ago

“ Have been trying a bit of double exposure when I was up in London. I enjoy doing it but sometimes a bit hit and miss. I do sometimes use them adding additionally images and blending them.”

Melanie Chalk made a comment on 1 1 day 8 hours ago

“Avril we are having one this year! The Boulstone Challenge. All entries have to be submitted with just a numbered reference. Re above the last quote was a judge!!! ”

Simon Newlyn made a comment on Nobility of Italy 1 day 21 hours ago

“I like these quotes - we should ge the judges to read them before each competition!! Or here is an idea, let us have a competition without titles next year in the themes 'No titles allowed-a picture paints a thousand words'?”

Avril Christensen made a comment on Nobility of Italy 1 day 22 hours ago

“I think this was undermarked - I rather like it, the colours , the lighting and the fact it reminds me of the Dutch masters.”

Eric Young made a comment on Ayla 2 days 22 hours ago

“A delightful picture Avril. i really like the floor with all the different kinds of reflection within it. And how you can see the beauty in it, naturally leading your eye from the bottom reflection up into the next one and then on up again. In a natural continual flow. As an idea. You could take out that bright light along the top of your picture cropping from just above her head. This would bring out your picture even more and make your reflections even more noticeable. Stopping the eye going too high when it needs to keep level, catching the eye. Unless you feel it is really necessary to be seen for the floor reflections. But not necessarily. Because it is not written in stone necessarily that you always have to see what is causing any reflections. Very good work anyway as usual Avril.”

Nick Blundell made a comment on Graphical Research 3 days 3 hours ago

“This was an old photo from the archives that i have never shown at the club or anywhere else before. I am still trying to remember where i got it. i think i must of taken it off of the tv. Television does some strange things sometimes. A record shot. You can see the movement of the figures in their heads where the aperture is not quite right enough to stop the heads blurring because of probably taking it off of a television screen. Certainly not a live real theatre i was in. As i have never been to any cinema or theatre that looks so old and vintage, classic. Or a picture with a tv been shown on top of it. If it was taken off of the tv. It is never too easy not to get blur and fuzz.Thank you all for your support and belief in me.”

Nick Blundell made a comment on The golden Oldies. 3 days 4 hours ago

“BLACK IS THE COMPETITION?”

Simon Newlyn made a comment on ORANGE IS THE COLOUR 3 days 5 hours ago

““Titles do not give a just idea of things; were it otherwise, the work would be superfluous.” Gustave Corbet“I’ll play it first and tell you what it is later.” Miles Davis“Only connect.” E. M. Forster"Titles don't really matter" Alex Hare”

Simon Newlyn made a comment on Nobility of Italy 3 days 5 hours ago

“Ha ha I seem to have got that right then, I know how hard these shots are to get because I tried in Sri Lanka and I don't think I have one good shot. Good luck with the next one, I await his feedback with baited breath and pray you get a 20”

Avril Christensen made a comment on Sunny Sands Surfer 3 days 8 hours ago

“Yes”

Graham Snowden made a comment on Cypress Trees 3 days 10 hours ago

“Loved it, timeless wish I could walk up that path.”

Melanie Chalk made a comment on Deserted Cottage, Black Valley 3 days 12 hours ago

“A stonkingly good shot Ian - Well done!”

Eric Young made a comment on Deserted Cottage, Black Valley 3 days 12 hours ago

“Thanks Avril - I thought his critique was incorrect for this shot. I could think of other reasons to mark this shot down a bit but not the reason he gave. In order for surfers to generate an arced spray they have to be semi-side on in which case they will not be looking at you and they will be very much concentrating on not falling off their board! My guess is that maybe as a landscape photographer he hasn't done much sports photography. The shot of a surfer in action is not an easy shot to take as it deals with focussing accurately on an unpredictably moving subject and taking the shot at exactly the right moment. You can't actually shout out to the surfer and ask him/her to look this way, pose and smile!! But just to shoot myself in the foot, I have another surfer shot in the next PDI which is better and where the surfer is actually looking straight at me!!”

Eric Young made a comment on Sunny Sands Surfer 3 days 13 hours ago

“I likewise saw this Simon - thought it was a composit?”

Ashley Judd made a comment on The golden Oldies. 3 days 17 hours ago

“Eric this is another of yours that I absolutely loved last night, undermarked imho.”

Avril Christensen made a comment on The Underground - A journey into the rock 3 days 17 hours ago

“This is very clever Eric, thank you for letting me know how you did it.”

Avril Christensen made a comment on Metropolis waterfront at night 3 days 17 hours ago

“Eric, you had a really unlucky night - you didn't choose what he liked did you. I love this and had it way up as a 20, its an amazing capture and composition even if he isn't looking at you - he is surfing for goondess sake, it requires a lot of concentration and you've captured the moment so perfectly. I love all the texture in the water, the light on him and the water, his position in the frame, all the detail in his wetsuit and the sea - all in all a very difficult image to capture - Wow.”

Avril Christensen made a comment on Sunny Sands Surfer 3 days 18 hours ago

“Melanie I love this - really great - the piece in the corner definitely needs to be there. Severely undermarked imho. I had it in with the winners.”

Avril Christensen made a comment on Angular 3 days 18 hours ago

“Is this a link to monty python Bryan?”

Avril Christensen made a comment on And Now for Something Completely Different 3 days 18 hours ago

“Congratulations Ian - the minute this went up I knew it was a winner. Can't remember seeing any other work like this from you, so well done, you should do more.”

Avril Christensen made a comment on Deserted Cottage, Black Valley 3 days 18 hours ago

“Eric, I thought this was very undermarked at 16???? However, would you think of making it into a portrait or square image? I love how the 2 beams at the top lead you into the image and there is so much interest in them. Maybe there is too much to look at in the landscape format. I'd like to see how he links in with those rusty beams more - if that makes sense. I'm going to relook at my mono image that he said to crop, at first I thought why?? but then if I don't try I won't know!!”

Avril Christensen made a comment on Rusty Gorman under rusty pier 3 days 18 hours ago

“Congratulations Marie-Laure - I couldnt see this properly on the stand me being so short haha!!. But when it was displayed on screen - Wow!!”

Avril Christensen made a comment on ONE LITTLE FISH AND THREE PELICANS 3 days 18 hours ago

“Congratuations Michael - very well done and well seen. Definitely a Cartier-Bresson.”

Avril Christensen made a comment on Waiting for the Train 3 days 18 hours ago

“I love this work simon and think it deserved a 20. I think the judge did struggle with the title, so may I suggest you make your title a little more descriptive. I must admit to not knowing much about italian nobility, but did a bit of research this morning. When I put in Italian Nobility it did not immediately point me to the subject of your artwork. However when I entered mistresses and italian nobility I was able to get the point of the story you are telling. You know I like long titles (lol). So here is a more descriptive one for your work "Rennaissace Italy and the courtly culture of Emilia-Romagna". You put so much work into researching your art that I think its a shame when the judge doesn't understand it - but he can't see in your head!! - That maybe a good thing ha ha!!”

Avril Christensen made a comment on Nobility of Italy 3 days 18 hours ago

“Thank you Simon - I can see what you mean. Its always a struggle for me to know exactly what and not to leave in, now you mention it I can see the distraction. I've left a comment on your courtly ladies.”

Avril Christensen made a comment on Graphical Research 3 days 18 hours ago

“Nick Very well done but I must admit to being confused. It looks like the screen is the wrong way around! Is that the theatre circle behind the screen and the rake of the floor appears to be going downhill from the back of the picture to the bottom - that would mean that the people at the back of the cinema would be below the people at the front!!!! Tell me i've got this wrong. ”

Simon Newlyn made a comment on The golden Oldies. 3 days 19 hours ago

“Love this very much. Well done. I might of just removed the end of pool table? between the pipes and pillar but that's just me.”