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Autumn 2010

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Posted by Dave Tucker on October 1, 2010 at 5:20 AM
Autumn 2010
As a child I spent many a happy hour playing "conkers" in the school playground, alas this custom seems assigned to history as playing conkers is now banned in many schools due to "health & saftey regulations" anyway the sight of conkers brings back may happy memories :smile:
Posted by Andrew Parkinson on October 1, 2010 at 6:13 AM
Sorry Dave, not really working for me!
Posted by Dave Tucker on October 1, 2010 at 6:50 AM
Hi Andrew
Thanks for taking the time to reply, :wavey:
Posted by jack chapman on October 1, 2010 at 8:40 AM
interesting idea but i'm not sure about how you've presented the image, don't think it should be panoramic as i think the incusion of more of the trees at the top would give a better sense of setting, quite like the composition aside from that

i've never heard anything about health and safety regulations in regard to conkers, but if you type "health safety conkers" into google the first link is about how this is a myth, the second is from the daily mail claiming that handstands, tag, yo-yos, skipping and running are also banned in schools, nonsense of course :rolleyes:
perhaps we should criticise the demise of journalism rather than the rise of health and safety
Posted by Ian Macdermott on October 1, 2010 at 9:15 AM
Hi Dave :wavey:

sorry I too am not keen on it. Its very small and dont look sharp maybe bigger and as a portrait would work better.
Posted by Jeroen Stel on October 1, 2010 at 9:42 AM
I too would like to see it bigger but think this might very well work as a Black and White image.

greetings,

Jeroen Stel
Posted by Simon Litten on October 1, 2010 at 11:45 AM
As presented it's not working for me.

Simon
Posted by Dave Tucker on October 1, 2010 at 12:32 PM
Thanks guys
Back to the "drawing board" good job pixels are free :smile: Will take on board all the critique, many thanks
Dave
Posted by David Taylor on October 1, 2010 at 4:15 PM
A nice idea. Perhaps a stacked image like this would work

http://www.photomacrography.net/forum/viewtopic.php?p=29107#29107

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