Flying with a lady tomorrow night........

In this pc age you'd have to alternate boys and girls names.............

Yes indeed Zulu time it is! Or just Z for short!

That's all down to a Yank....link

It's not called GMT any more: as a sop to the French, who wanted the Prime Meridian, and therefore the meridian from which time (and navigation) is based, moved to Paris from Greenwich, it was renamed UTC (Temps Universel Coordonné). The initials were rearranged to prevent a well known unions organisation in the UK from getting the idea it was named after them.

Luckily, everyone saw the utter stupidity of having to redraw all the world's maps, but to keep the French happy, they got to give the world time standard a French name: however,it is generally known as Coordinated Universal Time, especially by non-French speaking peoples.
It is regulated by a weighted average of the time kept by over 200 atomic clocks in about 70 national laboratories worldwide. The clocks are compared using satellites.

No argument intended or implied, in fact it sounds like we agree

I was not having a go about verticals, Tim, I was just answering a question Verticals were just one of 3 things I mentioned.

Indeed I actually mentioned the verticals in agreement that they don't have to be corrected to make a good picture. As you rightly point out, some people seem a bit obsessed with them

I expressed an opinion about Pauly's images and was asked to clarify them, which I did. At the end of the day, it's just an opinion. I actually like his work a lot, and think it takes a real artist to ignore the "rules" we all get told about when starting photography, and get away with it.

Pauly,

Perhaps disturbing is not the right word...and as I said, I couldn't quite put my finger on it. However, I have just looked through the pictures on your blog (and Flickr) again to see if I can put my finger on it.
I think it's to do with the fact that a lot of them have uncorrected verticals, bits cut off on the edges (eg peoples legs in More'10, the sign trailer and the right hand side of the statue in George, Duke of Cambridge)and incongruous elements in the pictures (eg the shadow in Emporor Trajan, the rushing woman (with legs cut off), tarpaulin and trailer in Boadicea)
In spite of these "faults", if you call them that, the pictures still work.

The first time I looked at the pictures on your blog, I thought you were not taking enough care over their composition, but on closer inspection I no longer believe that is the case. I think it's deliberate. I also found I really like a lot of them in spite of the fact that these elements could be considered errors in composition or technique if looked at in isolation rather than as part of a body of work. On second thoughts, maybe disturbing is the right word.... In spite of breaking the "rules", these pictures work.

Apologies for the lengthy post, but you did ask!

I will try that crop when I have a go at the pix I have with the whole base. Thanks Puma and Smeggy for your comments too. I really like the light in the first picture.

The Tamron 90mm is a fantastic lens though I don't seem to do much macro with it! I went out for a day with just that lens and the second shot here does show off the wonderful 3d effects you can get wide open.

I love the contrast between nature and man-made in this photo. The detail in the tree and the lack of detail in the two bold colours (assuming white is actually a colour) of the building clash, which gives this image a lot of impact IMO. The touch of sky blue in the white lines is a nice touch too. I like it.

I have to say though, for a reason I can't quite put my finger on, like a lot of your pictures there's something slightly disturbing about it. Maybe that's why it appeals so much.

Plastic Hotel





Sitting in my hotel room in Frankfurt last night, I realised the answer to my entry for the comp was sitting right below me...no tripod so I used a glass table, the reflections on which I quite liked...

26/03/11
Pentax K7
Sigma 18-250 @18mm
ISO 200
F22
15 sec.