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Weekly Photo Contest: March 22-29 2016 (CELEBRATION)
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Sorry folks in feeling a bit under the weather at the minute and the old brain isn't up for providing critique so let's keep this moving.
3rd Laird Knox
2nd Illuminated
1st Kenoh
Nicely done Ken. You managed to capture the spirit of celebration in a way I was envisaging. Lovely shot.
3rd Laird Knox
2nd Illuminated
1st Kenoh
Nicely done Ken. You managed to capture the spirit of celebration in a way I was envisaging. Lovely shot.
Oh my! Thank you
I hope you feel better soon MacRy. I will get a new contest up later today.
Working you hard again I see Kenoh! 
Congratulations! Also to @Illuminated and @Laird Knox and the others who entered. Nice topic!
Congratulations! Also to @Illuminated and @Laird Knox and the others who entered. Nice topic!
Well done to all. I thought @Illuminated was a great shot, but then I love Imagine Dragons!
Another win @kenoh? You'll have to start believing in yourself at this rate! Well done.
Get well soon @MacRy.
Another win @kenoh? You'll have to start believing in yourself at this rate! Well done.
Get well soon @MacRy.
New challenge up now...
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/weekly-photo-contest-march-30-april-6-2016-journey.1964594/
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Lol. Thanks AFB. I doubt I will change my mindset on my skills gap on here but thanks.
I really liked Laird Knox's picture. Superb colour vibrance!
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/weekly-photo-contest-march-30-april-6-2016-journey.1964594/
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Lol. Thanks AFB. I doubt I will change my mindset on my skills gap on here but thanks.
I really liked Laird Knox's picture. Superb colour vibrance!
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Must say that I really loved @kenoh's shot - it really captured what this week's topic is all about; moreover, it is rare and rather lovely to see a picture of a middle aged woman photographed with such warmth, affectionately and sympathetically, and - moreover - the composition and lighting are first rate. Gorgeous picture.
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Unfortunately, I have the opposite problem, for the very reason that @kenoh suggests below, except that stress drinking rather than stress eating is where the blame may lie.
My exquisitely bespoke suits (made by a master tailor, a chap who trained in Savile Row) no longer fit me in any way comfortably. Or elegantly. The choice facing me seems to be an uncomfortable weight loss challenge, or an expensive outlay to purchase new suits cut to an, ahem, rather different pattern.
Well, if at all possible (and I do know this situation from personal experience), remove - or address - the source of stress first; the eating (and drinking) is symptom, not cause…...
As would I, in your shoes. To be honest, it is invaluable at the moment. Actually, it is most impressive that you are trying to face what I know you are facing without it.
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Unfortunately, I have the opposite problem, for the very reason that @kenoh suggests below, except that stress drinking rather than stress eating is where the blame may lie.
My exquisitely bespoke suits (made by a master tailor, a chap who trained in Savile Row) no longer fit me in any way comfortably. Or elegantly. The choice facing me seems to be an uncomfortable weight loss challenge, or an expensive outlay to purchase new suits cut to an, ahem, rather different pattern.
Well, if at all possible (and I do know this situation from personal experience), remove - or address - the source of stress first; the eating (and drinking) is symptom, not cause…...
As would I, in your shoes. To be honest, it is invaluable at the moment. Actually, it is most impressive that you are trying to face what I know you are facing without it.
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Lol. Yeah, I am a fan of a nicely cut suit and when staring down the barrel of a new line up, i get serious about my weight!
Oh and I dont drink... So I cant cut out the beer... Already did that :-(
My problem is quantity of food. I have no portion control resistance. I need to stop picking and feasting...
I know the source of my stress but it pays the mortgage so need to find a way to navigate round it rather than replace it infortunately.
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And thank you for your kind words. I was very happy with the way I captured her that evening. It was beautiful ambient light and I was sat perfectly where her ample cleavage wasnt too much on show - she likes to show off her assets and there was a major live showing in progress thanks to her wardrobe choices.
My wife was in stitches as I was getting all flustered at not being able to get a nice shot without them stealing the show!!!
Well, it is a credit to your compositional skills, and your good eye, (and basic decency) that - until I read your post and then went back to take a further close look at the photograph, - that said assets were not something I had even noticed.
As a middle aged woman myself, I get very tired of seeing the the female form photographed through the filter of the male gaze. Indeed, to look at published photographs, one could be forgiven for thinking that the world is solely inhabited by young women with 'perfect' bodies and cold dead eyes, entirely devoid of personality, alongside men of all ages and much character.
So, in the photograph in question, the lighting (the candles were superb), the wine glass, the cake, and the subject's face were very well taken and made a wonderful pictorial composition. Said assets were completely unnoticed (by me) until referred to, but that story and setting the context is very funny, and I can well imagine that you wife was in stitches at the whole thing. Still, an excellent photograph, shot with warmth, humour and affection. Did you show it to her?
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Yes she saw it and liked it. There are more which I may share but it was Angelas night so they are hers to enjoy.
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Oh and ... Perfect is the wrong word. A perfect shaped woman is a woman with some shape. A woman should be distinguishable from behind from a boy or girl. IMHO. These malnourished examples we see are not a good example to young girls...
Sorry off my soap box
That is why I put the word "perfect" between the verbal health warning of straitjacketed inverted commas. Anyway, I agree entirely with you, and personally, I find this obsession with obtaining an impossibly skeletal and emaciated form (and marketing that as 'perfect') to be profoundly unhealthy, mentally, physically and psychologically for women.
Back on topic, I'm very glad the birthday girl (woman) liked the picture.
You stay on it mate. You'll need to counteract all those channels and images that your two young girls will be bombarded with all of there lives. I've already had to deal with a young teenager who thought she was fat (she wasn't even remotely).
Well deserved mate. It was a lovely shot.
Cheers AFB. Touch of the man-flu. Hopefully I'll make it through the night.
I'm sure Mrs MacRy will look after you. Hot honey and lemon with plenty of paracetamol.
Hot honey and lemon is guaranteed to make me feel worse. I'm planning on self medicating with wine later on.
Ah, yes, the old man flu….well, I hope you recover soon.
I tried that last night - and got it myself. Very welcome it was too; Mother is the only one who gets tender loving care chateau nous; the rest of us, alas, have to fend for ourselves…...
Actually, as I have a bit of a chest congestion thingy at the moment, I have done both: Self medication with wine (or beer) and self-medicated with hot lemon, paracetamol and lots of organic honey. Not sure which has worked better.
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Oof... Remember MacRy, SS is a Grammatical-ninja... You missed her expert use of punctuation above where she called you an old man... Note "old man flu" as opposed to "old man-flu"... Subtle... Nicely done SS...
Oof... Remember MacRy, SS is a Grammatical-ninja... You missed her expert use of punctuation above where she called you an old man... Note "old man flu" as opposed to "old man-flu"... Subtle... Nicely done SS...
You are too kind, sir. Cue sound of a modest, smothered and slightly embarrassed cough.
Usually, a different noun beginning with the letter "n" - one resonating with dark echoes in our history - finds itself attached to the word 'grammatical' when describing someone who, um, occasionally polices the grammar used by others.
Now, I could ascribe it to the fact that I worked as an editor in the Parliamentary Debates Office for a year, but, in truth, that was the outcome of an interest in both the English language and politics, and where and how they intersect, and not the cause of it…..
Now see I find that fascinating because I soent time with my aunty who was seriously into etymology. She taught me about looking at how and when people used the words they did in order to obfuscate or otherwise disguise their messages. It is quite fascinating to analyse the choice of wording of politicians. You know, how they spin messages of great negativity to sound like a good thing.
Case in point. Our local council finally caved and is gettng rid of the complex recycling system we have on bin day. It is easier to decode an enigma message with pen and paper!
Anyway, they said we are investing £1.4m in improving our recycling and also changing the dirty bin to a once every three week cycle... So up front, positive investment... Reality? Cutting back on collections... So actually not better...
Now see I find that fascinating because I soent time with my aunty who was seriously into etymology. She taught me about looking at how and when people used the words they did in order to obfuscate or otherwise disguise their messages. It is quite fascinating to analyse the choice of wording of politicians. You know, how they spin messages of great negativity to sound like a good thing.
Case in point. Our local council finally caved and is gettng rid of the complex recycling system we have on bin day. It is easier to decode an enigma message with pen and paper!
Anyway, they said we are investing £1.4m in improving our recycling and also changing the dirty bin to a once every three week cycle... So up front, positive investment... Reality? Cutting back on collections... So actually not better...
But the English language is an extraordinarily flexible instrument with which, or, in which, to express yourself. This is partly because its vocabulary is so rich, nuanced and extensive, and moreover, contains a vast number of synonyms which allows for great precision, or subtlety, in how you choose to express yourself.
In turn, this allows the language used to be exceptionally and exquisitely precise, or opaque to the point of deliberate confusion or downright distortion of meaning.
Granted, once language and meaning separate - or become separated - more than unusually widely, new forms of language - often blunter and plainer or cruder in expression than the language it replaced - or satire, - tend to evolve to fill the gap or replace or describe that for which language no longer exists.
But yes: This is an area which has long fascinated me. And the history of how the English language developed - adding vocabularies from every language it encountered, to supplement and further refine meaning, rather than having one language and vocabulary (such as Norman French) replace, or supplant, that of the culture and society it overthrew (such as, say, the version of the native language spoken in Saxon England), which is what mainly happened elsewhere, is extraordinarily interesting.
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