---- Graydon <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 08:57:33AM +0100, mike wilson scripsit:
> > The word "slideshow" put me off looking at this at home but now, at
> > work (where they insist on loading up every intrusive, pox-laden
> > taradiddle Microsoft releases) it's a different story. Unfortunately,
> > my worst fears are realised - a continually looping set of pictures,
> > similar enough to make it difficult to spot where you first came in.
>
> It's a Picasa slideshow; nothing but javascript. Weird open source
> browsers with no plugins do fine.
Not if Javascript is turned off. I'm not too keen on Flash, either....
>
> There are even control buttons, including pause and the display
> increment, down at the bottom.
>
> I shall however be cautious of slide show presentations in future, given
> the general tenor of the response to this being one!
>
> > Interesting subject but the pictures are rather (I think the term is)
> > "boingy" - you can ask Mark both if I've got it right and what it
> > means. Think cross hairs.
>
> O Mark? Might you care to explicate and expound?
>
> I will cheerfully confess to an objective of recording field marks with
> these; that's part of what got me interested in photography. ("what
> _was_ that?" as a question with a hope of an answer.) Artistic merit is
> (for me, about bird pictures) generally secondary to being able to tell
> what it is.
I'm with you on that question/answer thing but there is also a train of thought
that pictures of wildlife should have some artistic merit. One of the
differences between a record and a work of art is that the subject is not
necessarily slap in the centre of the frame in art. This, apparently, merits
the exclamation of "boing!" (or something similar) when it happens. All of
yours are so framed but you say you did it deliberately, so that makes them
works of art and all is well with the world.
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