CHAT Thread - W/e comp 5-7 Feb 2010 - "Collection"

[michaelb104]

Originally Posted by purplegurl

Hi everyone I'm a newbie to the site and have just uploaded my first ever entry titled "Sticks & Stones". I would appreciate any feedback you can offer.

Kind regards

Kate

Hi Kate, welcome to the weekly competition, it's good to see new faces. From the quick look I've had it looks like you've got a really clean sharp image.

Good luck.

[michaelb104]

Originally Posted by HinFrance

Yeah I thought of that too, but Mrs H won't let me near her knickers

Yep, I got warned away from the dental floss and Bridget Jones's too

[michaelb104]

Well after lots of struggling I'm in with this feeble effort unless I can come up with something better tomorrow.



Right, I'd best go and clean my gear off the dining table before I get into trouble again......

[HinFrance]

Welcome Kate - the more the merrier.

Mike, I can't quite understand why your glasses are all empty. Did you neck the contents before you took the picture?

[purplegurl]

Sticks & Stones may break my bones... but words will never hurt me



This is my first ever entry here ... I am new to the forum and to photography... so please be kind :/ any constructive criticism or feedback you can offer would be fantastic.

Kate

[purplegurl]

Thanks for the warm welcome guys

[flake]

Picture if you will a young man in the late 1930's sitting at the dining table with a number of stamps, still stuck to the paper of the envelopes, a bowl of water to soak them off and his precious stamp book to catalogue them in.

He couldn't foresee what the story was that the stamps were telling him, but looking back now for us it's history and they do tell a story. A story of terrible events whose terrible conclusion was a cataclysmic war in Europe.

On centre top right is the commemorative stamp of King George V s silver jubilee, a year later he will be dead and King Edward VIII (above & left in red) will have been crowned and abdicated. Top right is the coronation of King George VI and the Queen mother, all in one year. The centre top stamp celebrates 100 years of the monarchy & is well into the war.

Bottom left is the effects of inflation on Germany largely caused by the payement of reparations imposed after WWI, sometimes stamps were only valid for 2 days and most were never cancelled. One of them has been over stamped with a higher value to save printing, and the time it would take, rendering them out of date before delivery! The chilling image of the swastika rising over the world while the eagle encircles it is is shown in the centre.

At the bottom right is frances symbol since the revolution, Marianne, and to its left the palais de Luxembourg the seat of the senate, soon to be dissolved. At the top left is the face of King Victor Emanuel III of Italy, following the end of the war a plebiscite forced , he was forced to abdicate and died a year later in exile in Egypt.

And now the stamp book has come to me, it has a story to tell in it's tiny images, I wonder what todays stamps are saying about us.

Quick handheld shot catching the candle light this weekend at a birthday tea; with a collection of trick candles you cannot blow out.

[reggy]

ill give an insight into my pic, i dont collect anything other than grey hairs so i asked my daughter to borrow her ponies, she reluctantly agreed after being bribing with chocolate (she is only 3 so in her eyes it was a fair swap)

i did have a back up plan of picturing my lenses but i only have 2 and would have needed to use one of them to take the picture :O

[Cutter]

WEll it just had to be! they don't call me edward scissorhands for nothing

Hope my wife does'nt see those shoes Terrek ,its got to be a women thing!