Daily themes - December 2023

[peterob]

I only ever managed to make one "card" and I seem to have deleted it.  It only existed on my desk top.  I spent hours in GIMP trying to figure out how to add text to a jpg.  All I remember is huge frustration that I couldn't seem to edit the font size or font or even move it about.   Anyway I am "reasonably sure" that this was the background image.  It is a winter (December 18th 2016) image selected to be a Christmas card.  I really don't "get" how to merge layers (I suppose it must be done using layers) and my editing is more or less Lightroom.

Anyway - Christmas card base without the message.   Otherwise, as a photo of a blue tit,  I would (and did) crop away all the space to write words in


BV9R0019.jpg by Pete, on Flickr

Edit: I did just find it but it is too big to add as an attachment.  The text read Happy Christmas /n/n from /n/n xxx and xxx in white in some curly font that occupied the space above the top of the bullrush seed head suitably distanced from the stalk and the right hand edge.  

Edit 2: where /n is newline

[zx9]

Dec 14, 2023 18:56:59 GMT dreampolice said:

Christmas Sheep by Nigel G, on Flickr


And they/them identify as a reindeer

And I identify as a reindeer by Nigel G, on Flickr

Baa humbug.

[kate]

Handles

ap handle knives by Kate Ferris, on Flickr

[zx9]

Handle.

Group B rally cars that inspired the term 'Pram Handle Spoiler'

Metro 6r4. by Keith Hudson, on Flickr

Yellow Pug. by Keith Hudson, on Flickr

Audi Quattro S1 E2 Goodwood FOS 2011 by Keith Hudson, on Flickr

I was looking for an Escort Cosworth but can not find one.

[zx9]

Pan handle.

_MG_0140 by Keith Hudson, on Flickr

[zx9]

Spoon handle.

FB_7232 by Keith Hudson, on Flickr

[kate]

Dec 15, 2023 8:20:10 GMT zx9 said:

Pan handle.

_MG_0140 by Keith Hudson, on Flickr

That's lovely.

[zx9]

Dec 15, 2023 8:42:08 GMT kate said:

Dec 15, 2023 8:20:10 GMT zx9 said:

Pan handle.

_MG_0140 by Keith Hudson, on Flickr

That's lovely.

Thank you, I do miss wide aperture primes on full frame, it is a look that my APSC crop EOS M6 can not do with the lenses that I own.

[kate]

Dec 15, 2023 8:54:56 GMT zx9 said:

Dec 15, 2023 8:42:08 GMT kate said:

That's lovely.

Thank you, I do miss wide aperture primes on full frame, it is a look that my APSC crop EOS M6 can not do with the lenses that I own.

I know what you mean. I no longer use my Nikon and the good lenses I have.  I particularly miss my gorgeous 200mm fixed lens which gave near perfect results.

[kate]

I could take a picture of my lovely bruise where I stumbled into the door handle of my bedroom as I staggered out at 2am. But better not, I guess.

[kate]

Jug by Kate Ferris, on Flickr

[petrochemist]

Hopefully this very useful handrail will count as a handle
Use the handrail? by Mike Kanssen, on Flickr

[petrochemist]

As he's a builder my eldest thinks he can easily handle any block he comes across
sml P1150595 bw by Mike Kanssen, on Flickr

[petrochemist]

My kids normally avoid sessions at our camera workshop, but my youngest was keen to join us when it cave him the chance to handle snakes
aIMGP7311small by Mike Kanssen, on Flickr

[aitch]

A python?  

A Python I should not advise, —
It needs a doctor for its eyes,
And has the measles yearly.
However, if you feel inclined
To get one (to improve your mind,
And not from fashion merely),
Allow no music near its cage;
And when it flies into a rage
Chastise it, most severely.
I had an Aunt in Yucatan
Who bought a Python from a man
And kept it for a pet.
She died, because she never knew
These simple little rules and few; —
The snake is living yet.

Hillaire Belloc