I can just imagine the next post we will get from you on the subject of computers.

In an effort to pre-empt it, I proffer this:

http://free.grisoft.com/

Let's hope it works on ME.

G

For goodness sake, Peter, Windows ME is ancient, and so, no doubt, is the computer you are using it on.

If you are going to use a digital camera, you need computer software and hardware that were designed for it. You will find your digital experience is improved enormously if you view and edit your pics on a 21st Century computer.

What you are doing is like entering the Tour de France on a Penny Farthing.

It's not as though computers are expensive any more.

G

"I'd be interested in anything accessible from South West London."

"And I'd be interested in anything accessible from Essex - London or anywhere not too far from the M25 really."

Piccadilly Circus?

G

Could be a plot. I suspect Dr Fu Manchu. Admittedly he was Chinese, but that's just a detail.

G

Street photography is the purlieu of Leica users, most notably HCB. Another of the invisible bretheren, David Douglas Duncan, was famous for his advice on how to do it:

"Get close. Then get closer."

G

Masochist.

G

This is the great question. Where does one draw the line between "correcting" a few little imperfections, and creating a whole new image based on the orginal photo?

I'm with you; I don't like too much manipulation, and I'm still trying to find a precise definition that separates what I call a photograph (a picture that is essentially produced by a camera) and an "image", which owes more to a computer than to photography.

We've passed beyond "Is film dead?" and "Is film better or worse than digital?". But "When is a photo not a photo?" will be with us for a long time to come.

G

Fair enough, but there are also times when it's nice to know that something you have produced has made a positive impression.

When people just post a picture, without specifically asking for criticism, then I assume that they are not averse to receiving a little praise. So (if it's deserved) I am happy to give it to them. Such a case was my response to a recent pic of Clarky's.

But I agree that non-stop, fawning, platitudes can be rather wearying.

G

Spencer Tunick

http://www.i-20.com/artist.php?artist_id=19

G

Quite agree, but if a winner wants to impose a rule for that particular week, why not? I think it would add interest and variety.

After all, setting "monochrome" landscape is imposing a rule on top of the subject (the landscape).

G