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  • Nonsuch Park – puffy clouds & spaghetti

    It was just before sunset and there were some magical cloud formations on a short walk in Nonsuch Park.

    Earlier in the day, whilst looking at Google Maps, I was amused by the spaghetti-like paths in Nonsuch Park.

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  • Bosham – the tide was out

    Bosham is a lovely village near Chichester. On a previous visit the tide was in, but today it was out. I think I prefer it when the tide is in. [Helpful public transport tip! Bus route 56, every 90 minutes or so from Chichester, takes you right down to Bosham harbour, whereas bus 700, every 20 minutes or so from Chichester, leaves you a mile from the harbour.]

    For a second day I decided to take JPG images, intending to use the pictures straight from the camera – ie with no photoshopping. This also means I could use the panorama feature of my camera, whereby I can scan a wide scene and the camera will automatically take and stitch together multiple images into a panorama.

    Sadly, I am not happy with the images straight from the camera and I have resorted to photoshopping to beef up the pictures. I’m not totally happy with the results – some pictures have come out better than others. I think in future I might take both JPG+RAW images so that if a JPG image is inadequate I can use the RAW file to do the photoshopping – this is the preferred way. Sadly this does rule out using the panorama feature, which only works when taking just JPG images.

     

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  • Straight from the camera

    Straight from the camera, no raw images, no photoshopping, just playing with the settings on my lovely Sony Rx100 (model 1) on a lovely sunny afternoon.

    And I love to live so pleasantly
    Live this life of luxury(?)
    Lazing on a sunny afternoon
    In the summertime

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  • Because I can

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  • I wish I had this garden

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  • Yours truly, by 3 year old Chloe

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  • Iris the bulldozer

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  • The kids came. It rained all day.

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  • The Clown

    “Trump is a menace, both ignorant and chaotic. His saving grace is his incompetence. In his first six months in office, he has made a hash of our foreign policy, set back efforts to contain global warming, exploited public land and depopulated the State Department. But these efforts — as bad as they might be — have been so far confined to the margins. Trump has not passed any major legislation or, for that matter, built any walls. On the other hand, his most significant and appalling contribution has been to normalize lying as an ordinary tool of the presidency. He has ghettoized truth, confining it to something characterized as the lying and disloyal mainstream media. He lies for purpose and he lies just for the hell of it. His lying is such that it ought to be a mental ailment. Call him politically insane.”

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/whos-worse-for-the-nation–trump-or-pence…..

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  • Hurst Point, near Lymington

    On our last day in Lymington we took a short drive to Keyhaven to get the small ferry to Hurst Point and Hurst Castle. It’s a fabulous short boat trip and on landing one can enjoy visiting the castle or just wandering around the spit which is just ¾ mile from the Isle of Wight.

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