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  • We don’t run, but on Epsom Downs …..

    I could have done with a faster shutter speed to capture the motion, and I’ve made the grey day grimmer than it was, and made the colours a bit washed out. But hey, that’s artistic license!
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  • Reigate Park

    dsc00230origPhotoshop couldn’t help me with some dull pictures taken on a grey Saturday in Reigate Park, so I took just a tiny bit of one of the pictures (see left), mucked around some more, and came up with the image below.

    A cake and a cup of tea from a lovely teapot was enjoyed before leaving.
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  • Out the back

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  • In the trees

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  • It looks like a UK web site, but….

    buyerbewareWhilst looking to source a camera battery I came across a web site with a .co.uk web address and which in every respect looks like a UK web site.

    But on the About page it states….

    “We digsin xxxxxxx.co.uk to provide thoughtfully server for every battery buyers.”

    I’m not sure what was intended, but it makes no sense to an Englishman! A simple check using whois.com shows the company is located in China!

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  • Six wasted book purchases

    I’ve been unsuccessful with my recent book purchases…

    1. Back Trouble – Clare Chambers [Couldn’t get going]
    2. The Whites – Richard Price [American slang too hard to follow]
    3. Towards the End of the Morning – Michael Frayn [Couldn’t get going]
    4. In the Dark Room – Brian Dillon [Couldn’t get going]
    5. The First Bad Man – Miranda July [Half-way through I’d had enough]
    6. All My Friends are Superheroes – Andrew Kaufman [Just 110 pages long. Puzzling]

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  • Now that’s what I call a cemetery

    No plastic flowers in this cemetery in Cheam Village!

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  • Photoshopping

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    Original image
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    A bit better
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    Just for fun
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  • Genius

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  • Plastic flowers on a grave

    On a dreadfully cold, dank and drizzly day there’s not much scope for taking pictures. But a walk through the back lanes of Epsom up to the Downs brought me to the cemetery, via the pub (for coffee!). Perhaps grey days are the most appropriate days for a cemetery but I was shocked to see how having bright, lurid plastic flowers on graves appears to be the norm these days. I can’t say I approve! I like to see graves untended and rotting as well as with real flowers, whether wilted or fresh. A cemetery should reflect ageing and remembrance (or not) – plastic flowers are a denial of this.

    Well anyway, I spend far more time manipulating images than taking them, and this is the result.

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