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15-FEB-2005 dominic

15-02-05 birdbox

Yesterday's photo seemed to be a hit. For some reason, there always seems to be a lot more hits,
when I post an image of Catherine, than one of myself. Still trying to work that one out. The
comments left were great, and a few in particular, and I'm looking at you Zak, Stu and Bandito,
just cracked me up.

Something that also cracked me up today was the standard of penmanship in the local paper - The
Evening Express. Now I'm under no illusion here, you could take a 5 year olds story from their
creative writing class, compare it to the general standard of journalism, and the 5yo would still
be closer to the mark.

This evening's gem was about a local woman who's internet love match, turned to a nightmare when
her new partner became abusive. Now I hope you'll forgive my paraphrasing here, but included were
the Pulitzer prize winning contenders, such as; "When he moved in, he brought with him a bag of
knives. I thought it was strange, but then again they were bonnie, and I like cooking". And "One
night, when we were getting intimate, we had a big row. I wanted the light on, but he wanted it off."

But I digress, because if I didn't I'd be here all night. Anyway, if it wasn't for the local sport
coverage I'd stop buying it altogether, rather than just the once a week.

Well today's shot was taken this morning, on the way into work though the park. I've tried this
shot several times, but I don't really like using the flash, and it's too dark, being north facing
no matter how I meter the light. This morning I thought sod it let it flash and I'll convert to
B&W. Pity really the sunlight was lovely.

Olympus C-50Z
1/40s f/3.2 at 9.8mm iso80 with Flash full exif

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northstar3716-Feb-2005 19:37
you'll have blinded the poor blue tits
Guest 16-Feb-2005 15:36
LOL at the paper, quality writing!! I think this pic really works well in B&W, presumably this was in shade and difficult to meter for (like you said!)
joshishots16-Feb-2005 14:01
The shot works really well in B&W, lovely textures. Great fun to hear about your local paper - sounds worth buying just for entertainment value!
Zak16-Feb-2005 09:19
I didn't know you could get the buteman over there! ;-)
Gayle P. Clement16-Feb-2005 03:32
Your newspaper seems to be much more entertaining than mine!
jude15-Feb-2005 23:44
MY TUMMY!!! ohhh Dom.. that story was hilarious! I used to write for a newspaper and we'd get little tidbits of "stories" people would send in to us quite similiar to that. My biggest problem was transposing letters.. i.e. instead of Church Women United... I'd put Church Women Untied...
They failed to see the humor. LOL
Nice textures in both the tree and the bird box..
Guest 15-Feb-2005 22:53
great textures!
laine8215-Feb-2005 22:31
Oh there it is...LOL !