WOW!!!!

One day away from the forum and I've missed all this! Isn't technology brilliant?

After more than a month away, a wedding, a honeymoon, and a car crash, I am very happy to give a little contribution to this forum once again.

- George, well said, thank you for your initial post with which I completely agree, being often judged as a grumpy/arrogant/rude character myself.

- The use of proper written english is, in my opinion, absolutely essential for the survival of culture, and means like this forum, are (and should be) essential tools for the educational endeavour that we ALL should pursue, in teaching young and old to write in proper english. I am a foreigner, and I have spent years learning english, english grammar, spelling, and sintax.

I suffer every time I have to correct the english of one of the young adults I work with; their level of english is terribly poor, and although this is becoming common in modern society, it is still not excusable. As much as anyone is allowed to write as they wish, we should all try our best to educate our fellow forum members into the use of proper english. It is not a matter of dictatorship or rules, it is a matter of culture.

- I also have a personal opinion regarding the 'powers that be' in this forum, and have often disagreed and argued for my and other people's causes. I do believe there should be a rather more democratic approach to the management of the forum, but I also understand that most of the times the moderators are only trying their best, and any mistake is not the result of viciousness, but rather a naive attempt at solving a problem.

- There will always be idiots around. It is harder and harder to discern them from the rest of society.

Great to be back after such a long time, good evening to everybody.

Nathan


Discaimer: I hope I haven't upset or offended anybody with my post. If I did, I apologise for my offence.

Indeed,

one of your comments (and a very kind PM) just made me realise that there are rules for the forthnight competition... I forgot that the photo had to be taken in the time-period of the challenge, so I now remove my entry

Good for you all, it was the BESTEST SHOT and would have certainly won the challenge!!!!!!

I am very conscious that my writing is offensive to some, and therefore I am thinking of a disclaimer I can add to the bottom of my posts, in the meantime, I am cautious...

BTW, completely agree with you, and mine was a simple consideration...

I don't want to be rude here, but most of these photographs show movement from a stationary position, and I think that the ones that are panned, and still in focus, are of a much higher level of technical ability (although we are probably not judging technical ability here..)

Heidi's shot is almost in perfect focus, and its very good IMO, and I am also very please about shot which was taken from a running carriage, trying to capture movement in the opposite direction. This is very hard and as much as the subject has movement blur, i was extremely pleased with this shot, and the fact that I managed to pan the background and almost get the subjects as well!

Stationary movement shots are surely more clean, and detailed, and this is admirable, but learning to move the camera during the exposure is so much fun!!!

thank you...

I have poor eyesight... -6/7 miopia... I think it will be allright!!!

Again, great great suggestions also in PM's, thank you all soo much.

I have changed the colour scheme of the text - made it darker.

Also changed the slideshow settings, it now start at the click of the viewer, and i managed to get rid of the info bar which was annoying.

after another suggestion i changed the wording of the contact page - so that it should be easier to understand and read.

Again, thank you all so much for your help.

Nathan

Martin, thank you so much for this.

I am trying to make the homepage bigger, in order to fit more pixels... but i'm really struggling with it.

Great suggestion on the option for the slideshow.

I had it in black first, and charcoal later, so I wanted to go for white!!

Ahh thank you all soo much!

I have tried to make it wider, but it doesn't seem to be possible

I can definitely darken the grey, although, i have arranged it to go black on mouse rollover. WHat do you think about that?

I have removed all the text from the intro page, and also removed 3 pages, of services, links, and news. All to try and simplify the layout, and just make it easy to the eye.

Any other comments anybody?

looking for comments and advice on new website layout.

Any comment is welcome

www.nathanservi.com