Thanks Tom. I think the shot of the steps could be very pretty if taken on a wet day in spring, with the fresh leaves and blossom on the plants and bushes either side.
Not that I'm into pretty pictures at all, but I suspect a shot like that could sell well and would be in keeping with the long-established artistic and photographic traditions of the area. Frank Meadow Sutcliffe photographed a lot around there, and there is a school of English Impressionist painters called the Staithes Group. Much of their work looks chocolate-box sentimental nowadays; however, they were quite avant-garde in their day - many of them worked and studied with the top-rank French Impressionists - and a very large part of their work was honest and unsentimental about the lives of the fishing & farming people of the area. Dame Laura Knight (born Laura Johnson) and Harold Knight are probably the best known. I like a lot of the paintings of Frederick William Jackson, Robert Jobling and Henry Silkstone Hopwood. Many of the views these people painted are essentially unchanged, and now much photographed. I've seen a lot of paintings where I must have stood on the same spot as the painter - without me being aware of the painting before. For example, I took this photo: http://www.web-options.com/Fret/images/13170012.jpg before I was aware of this painting (middle one in the top row): http://www.tbrj.co.uk/acatalog/copy_of_copy_of_copy_of_copy_of_RJoblin g.html but compositionally they are identical. -- Bob > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Tom C > Sent: 03 March 2007 00:53 > To: [email protected] > Subject: RE: Soggy postcards > > I'm enamoured with the Cowbar Nab town shots, wet lens and > all. The 'Steps' > shot just following those is also very good. I liked quite a > few others > also, but those are the three that really stood out to me. > > Very nice! > > > Tom C. > > > > > >From: "Bob W" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Reply-To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <[email protected]> > >To: "'Pentax-Discuss Mail List'" <[email protected]> > >Subject: Soggy postcards > >Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2007 00:22:35 -0000 > > > >Hi, > > > >here is a little gallery of photos from my trip this week to Staithes > >and the cliffs round about: > > > >http://www.web-options.com/photos/ > > > >You may notice that I had a small problem with driving rain and > >condensation on some of them. Once I'd decided to take the filter off > >the condensation went away, but the rain didn't. I quite like the > >effect on some of the pictures, so I've included them. I wouldn't > >normally resort to soft focus, but I bought a splash-proof camera, so > >I'm damn well gonna get it wet! > > > >One or two of the other pictures are also a bit soft, from long > >exposure times, badly supported. I took my Leitz table-top tripod but > >it's really not much use without a table-top... So next time > I'll take > >one. Or a proper tripod. > > > >See if you can spot the 2 where I thought of the PDML. > > > >Cheers, > >Bob > > > > > >-- > >PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > >[email protected] > >http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
