Yep.

ThE pOwEr Of SiLeNcE wrote:

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http://www.welephant.co.uk/ says you have to put the fire out to enter, but in Chrome the fire didn't load so I couldn't put it out. It is a shame because I thought Welephant might have had something to say about having a nice and safe weekend but there we are.

Anyway Jumu'ah Mubarak and Shabbat Shalom!

A froggy. One of the differences between a frog and a toad is that toads might try to crawl away but if you stop them they sit still as if you can't see them right there. Frogs just hop away, but this one sat still long enough and then I edited him like crazy:

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Rupert Murdoch is a frog and his son is a tadpole. It is social commentary. Mainly I made it all blurred around the froggy and warmed it up. It isn't really a good shot in the first place and it is the second time I have posted a common froggy in that pose. It is a cool pose but sorry again for my poor photography and the repetition again for my poor photography. Perhaps Murdoch is happy for a chance to shed a lot of newspaper staff because newspapers have underperformed and I recall he always punishes them when he is budgeting for his other media such as a few years back when he made it impossible for them to hire new staff and then introduced swingeing cuts but that isn't funny.

I don't know where we get world news from now on but Murdoch's BSkyB bid is in somewhat less jeopardy. He is offering hoarders free souvenirs. The rest of the site is haraam. Maybe this thread can be the new News of the World but with frogging instead of bugging. It was Britain's best selling newspaper. That's exactly like The Adult Channel being Britain's top news station. Maybe that's what Sky News is in for (but I have checked them all out and Sarah-Jane Mee is the only viable candidate).

News of the World would never have let this happen. Jennie Gow's biog only has two pictures in the frame so when you click it a few times she looks wrong. Maybe Murdoch is planning to make her his slave.

She could be a pimp.

Ocean & Rupert sitting in a tree...

Ocean wrote:

He doesn't look like a frog to me...

And I don't like Frogs, I didn't say I didn't like the photograph.

tbh I'm not that into them but they are among the kind of cool things to look for and learn about. For not saying you didn't like the photograph tyvmi.

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Question: I thought images were edited so you wouldn't notice that were edited and yet make them look good...

Generally I take my shots a little too out of focus or narrowly focussed ever to look good and when I edit them I am looking not for good results but for mixed results. Mixed results is what my editing is all about. It is social commentary.

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OH I have to tell you about this patient well 4 years ago he decided to study photography and got a diploma after 3 years. Since then he's been travelling America and has been paparazzi-ing animals (crocodiles, birds of prey, giraffes and apes to name some) and landscapes. So he had a sight test and he was like an hour earlier and the practice was quiet so i ended up listening to his "adventures" like wrestling with the crocodiles and sleeping with the lions and camping in the forresty area in Tree houses etc etc I don't remember many of his stories or his advice on which cameras to compare except he did say that it's better to invest in a camera where the Telescope lenses can be inserted and removed.

His work is amazing. I liked his detail from a snowy day and the other was a panoramic landscape view, Absolutely brilliant. The real size of the final version after he had edited was 10 feet long apparently but he showed me much scaled down version and it looked FAB!

EDIT: I forgot to mention MY FAVOURITE out of his collection. It was of a butterfly, you could see the hairs, the TINY TINY hairs on it's body and the antennas didn't look like fine thread but rather structured... Loved the detail he had captured.

I am not a great photographer and he has a vastly superior setup. I think he sucks.

Here are some images I took this week. I forgot to tell National Geographic I was going for a walk.

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Ocean wrote:

Jealoused?

Totally.

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You're welcome, your photo bucket is pretty cool!

Thanks! I have started and dropped blogs before but this one has more of a purpose. I have had over 170 visitors since Friday afternoon!

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I seeeeee. Why do you like to take your shots a little out of focus? The best thing about the eyes (that i find facinating) is its ability to allow that focus! So why do prefer it blurry? Or does it just end up blurry? And by mixed results do you mean you can't make your mind whether if you like it or not?

I'm working on it.

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Who invented questions?

Might have been me. I used to cry until I got my milk.

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Do you tear your tissue the night before shabbat? and prepare a proper liver pie? What do you get up to on your lazy day?

I think there was a moment in my teens when I cared about ripping the toilet paper and would do so before Shabbat, but I only do that if I have guests who might care. I wouldn't want them going smelly. And I am vegetarian. The main Shabbat meats tend to be chicken in soup or with the main course, and for lunch a cholent which is a slow-cooked stew of various cuts and pretty much what you like. My mother has a vegetarian cholent but I don't like the infusion of nearly burned flavours that you get from stewing it overnight. It is because the meal cannot be cooked on the day, although non-cooking food preparation is generally fine.

In all truth I am not keeping Shabbat to the letter. I don't have Orthodox beliefs but the community is where I am at home.

Generally it is not all that lazy because I am invited to meals and I walk fairly long distances, and generally wish I could have taken my camera or a bag for foraging. But I am kind of lazy either way.

I was always a bit veggie, and gave up fish in my teens to become totally veggie. Bread, eggs and milk are all fine. I eat a lot of pasta and try to experiment in between. When I was little I was some kind of genius for always cooking pasta or eggs. Now I still always cook pasta and eggs but it doesn't seem so genius. How to make a really good omelette in 4 minutes:

Turn on the grill and the stove. Fry something yum, like mushrooms. Or if you like comic books fry a comic book or whatever. Add some vegetable oil to stop butter burning. Chuck in some eggs and scramble briefly with the fried stuff at a high heat, but do allow it to congeal and be an omelette. Flip it with a spatula, put a layer of grated cheddar on top and stick the pan under the grill for a minute. That kind of thing is how you know you're a proper cook. The heat from both sides will make the cheese all puffy. Season to taste.

What is your job again Ocean?

Poached egg isn't something I do very well. Fry that egg!

A lot of people turn veggie after one visit to an abattoir, one open to visitors at that, but I was merely raised to be veggie. I have always been comfortable with vegetarianism as a noble exercise even more than I wonder if that is just stupid. I don't oppose all killing of animals especially if it is for consumption.

Cattle and chicken trucks on the road do look wrong. The way the live animals are jam-packed into cells with front ventilation to be driven on motorways is a very blatant abuse. Eggs and milk do implicate me - I prefer buying organic but can't claim to be a saint. I might strengthen that commitment in light of the question you asked.

There is something very wrong about the scale of the sum of the centralised production and distribution of foods. The best thing for the planet is if we end up making ourselves ill. The best thing for us is if we take a hard look and explore the alternatives. I do have a secret plan.