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Monday 13th October 2003, 14:29
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Different Self-portrait
Everyone's seen those pictures of photographers dripping with equipment, hanging from both shoulders, around their neck, bulging from pockets in their waistcoats, etc.
They're also, usually leaning on a big tele-lens mounted on a tripod with other stuff 'spilling-out' of a huge gadget bag on the ground - just in case you're unsure of their role in life! Attached is a self-portrait from a slightly different perspective - has anyone else any shots of themselves other than the standard mug-shot?! BTW, this in no way implies that I regard myself as 'A Photographer' - certainly not with a capital 'P,' anyway. Adey |
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Monday 13th October 2003, 14:49
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Hi Adey, I have some similar views of myself, with just a small butterfly showing in the huge shadow partially obliterating that which I had spent twenty minutes chasing.
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Monday 13th October 2003, 17:52
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I agree, It's artistic.
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Monday 13th October 2003, 19:32
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What did the Herring Gull think of it?!?
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Monday 13th October 2003, 21:13
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Talk about taken in deep shadow!! its great, and its different.
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Monday 13th October 2003, 21:15
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Love it!
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Monday 13th October 2003, 21:46
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I really love this. Great, great shot
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Monday 13th October 2003, 22:04
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Nice pic by the way. |
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Tuesday 14th October 2003, 00:10
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You don't believe in splitting Herring Gull and Yellow-legged Gull then, Michael.
Sorry for hiding most of the ID details! |
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Tuesday 14th October 2003, 00:28
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These shots would probably send shudders through my dad because as a kid he picked up a gull that was sick and in some distress. It promptly turned round, clamping his nose firmly in it's beak making his eyes water.
he said that the two holes it had put either side of his nose took weeks to heal!!! |
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Tuesday 14th October 2003, 01:06
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Great composition.It is different,
How did you get so near to the gull. Christine. |
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Tuesday 14th October 2003, 08:41
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Simple answer, Christine - food!
In fact, someone else had fed it and it was trying to scrounge off both myself and my wife (I didn't give it any!) Adey |
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Tuesday 14th October 2003, 09:12
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Hi Adey,
Great shots! I've heard that if you need to pick up a gull, that if you hold out your finger, presumeably with a glove on? or a pencil?, that the gull will hold tightly to that, allowing you to carry it without risking your eyes, I have no idea if this is true, so would welcome anyone's opinion, as we get the occasional gull in trouble down this way.
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Tuesday 14th October 2003, 09:36
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The pencil idea sounds interesting.
Animals in trouble don't seem to have the capacity to say 'thank you' to their rescuers! A few years ago a Sparrowhawk wedged itself upside down in my privet hedge, so I put on my barbour jacket and thickest gloves before carefully pruning all around it to eventually free it. Just before it finally went it grabbed one of my fingers with its talons and went through the glove and pierced my skin. Ungrateful little *******! Several years before that, I was in the pub one evening when one of the regulars walked in and said; 'I found an injured Heron in a ditch today, so I took it up to Clive (another keen, birdwatcher)' Knowing the size of a heron's bill I said that it sounded a bit 'dodgy,' and sure enough, 1/2 an hour later in walked Clive with a large plaster on his nose, wondering why we all burst out laughing! Adey |
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