on 17-06-2014 10:28 AM
on 22-06-2014 06:31 PM
I think they are just a bit too vivid. Not natural enough for me and the effect, though wow initially, makes them all a bit the same so ultimately they lack that individuality.
on 22-06-2014 06:46 PM
No. I cut the milk bottles up so that they fit over the throttle and air filter assembly and they keep the water out of the air
filters....they're the feral mower variety ..... Their normal habitat is under trees in steeper parts of the place
where we have smaller cleared spots
From memory it was flooding when this was taken and I had collected them from down the bottom.
on 22-06-2014 06:50 PM
Icy, I have one of those tea caddy scoops. Mine is a souvenir of Jenolan Caves, which Mum got in 1951.
"One for each cup and one for the pot" with Robur tea the choice of our family.
DEB
on 22-06-2014 06:52 PM
ahhh so they are garden ornaments.
They reminded my of my Dad's Daihatsu. The fuel tank rusted out so he tied a two litre plastic bottle to the front grill and ran the fuel line from them.
By this time most of the car had rusted out. We used it for beach fishing at Sth Ballina.
on 22-06-2014 07:09 PM
Well...I am pretty sure the mrs reckons they're ornaments... I have never seen her use one ...but they do go...
on 23-06-2014 05:13 AM
Bumping for the chatty blokes. 😉
on 23-06-2014 05:57 AM
I can't say I like photos that have been HDR'd either. To me they look artificial and "soulless". But everybody has their own taste in things. Doesn't make their's wrong or mine right.
I found this challenge tougher than the previous ones. But I'm glad I participated because it's made me look beyond the trees and ponds I'm fixated with and see where I can find beauty in places I normally wouldn't have even looked. Maybe not exactly beauty, but something of interest anyway.
It's funny how I can do that with a brush and a canvas but a camera is a different story. I think I might go back and do some of the past challenges on my own, just for fun.
on 23-06-2014 06:14 AM
The HDR modified photo's remind me of Frank Hurleys work in the late 40's and early50's when colour photography was
still a complicated process and rarely used by amateurs. The scan will probably make this colorvue postcard from 1948
pixelate a bit but the colour saturation is still prominent
on 23-06-2014 06:29 AM
Frank hurley colour photographs circa 1917. See the colour saturation in the second photo. It was quite an involved slow process taking colour shots 100 years ago
23-06-2014 12:43 PM - edited 23-06-2014 12:44 PM
Polly, what a great idea!
A few years ago, I noticed that our traffic lights haven't changed at all in my entire life. While everything else is so different, those good 'ol lights are still exactly the same. 🙂 They seem to be indestructable.