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Post by zx9 on Mar 21, 2023 9:17:47 GMT
Motorbikes and Jack Daniels! That shot brings back some very pleasant memories for me! Close on thirty years ago, when I was visiting Huntsville Alabama on business, over the weekend I drove (by car) over to the nearest BMW motorcycle shop and bought a lot of BMW kit that wasn't available in Cyprus where my bikes were. There was a young lady in the shop who was also a BMW rider, who was somewhat intrigued by the gay abandon with which I was parting with the green. She started a conversation, and subsequently invited me over to a sort of wooden hutted village a BMW biker group had built in a local wooded area. Booze was drunk, a BBQ was had, and all agreed that to drive back to my hotel would be unwise, so I stayed the night. The next day a set of leathers was found (put on over a pair of my new lady friend's tights 'cos it was cold), a spare BMW Boxer found (lots of bikes laying around, all in excellent nick), and off we went to Lynchburg Tennessee to tour the Jack Daniels distillery. It was a very pleasantly memorable weekend, not the least because Lynchburg is actually in a 'dry' county. After the distillery tour our guide gave each of us a small bottle of JD in a brown paper bag, and advised us to cross the town square to a café which would sell us a coke or branch water to go with it - but at our own risk! Sounds right up my street, well thirty years ago it would have been. |
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Post by kate on Mar 21, 2023 9:51:25 GMT
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Post by kate on Mar 21, 2023 9:52:05 GMT
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Post by petrochemist on Mar 21, 2023 12:14:58 GMT
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Post by stevewmh on Mar 21, 2023 18:20:54 GMT
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Post by dorsetmike on Mar 21, 2023 20:08:59 GMT
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Post by peterob on Mar 22, 2023 6:29:55 GMT
Symmetry. These days I'd use a wider angle lens then crop and straighten but back in 2009 it looks like I went to some effort to frame this. I'm not very flexible so it must have hurt bending backwards to look up. Atomium, Brussels.  IMG_0011 by Pete, on Flickr |
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Post by petrochemist on Mar 22, 2023 8:12:59 GMT
Few of my available images are even close to symmetrical, this one is the best I can find:  Backlit orchid by Mike Kanssen, on Flickr |
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Post by dreampolice on Mar 22, 2023 8:49:38 GMT
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Post by dreampolice on Mar 22, 2023 8:51:19 GMT
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Post by dreampolice on Mar 22, 2023 8:52:17 GMT
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Post by zx9 on Mar 22, 2023 8:54:35 GMT
As above, I don't see in symmetrical composition, I see and am attracted to asymmetric shapes with negative space. Rather than trawl through Flickr I have resorted to cropping a recent iPhone Pano to get something close to symmetrical.  Zell an See IMG_7475crop by Keith Hudson, on Flickr Further confirmation that I don't do landscapes too. |
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Post by zx9 on Mar 22, 2023 8:56:52 GMT
Loving the underground train Nige it looks very Fritz Lang set, where was it? |
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Post by dreampolice on Mar 22, 2023 8:58:33 GMT
Thank you. It was in Berlin.
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Post by kate on Mar 22, 2023 9:16:26 GMT
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