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twsy said:

Hi,This cottages is in Sanur Kaja Bali Indonesia. Very nice to meet you!


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© Alan L. said:

The one standing on his head is Very Funny!

Regards from IRELAND

Alan.


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Ruud van Dijk said:

Hallo Lex,

Ik was benieuwd en heb dat album even opgezocht, heb de cover inderdaad gevonden: Fragile

Ik heb toch even gek naar de cover zitten kijken. Het paadje kronkeld op zo'n zelfde manier, en ik heb al vaker gedacht aan de titel "Fragile planet" voor één van m'n panorama's. Ik moet nog op de copyrights gaan letten zo langzamerhand =)

Ik heb verder nog nooit van de band of het album gehoord, allemaal toeval dus. De vergelijking heb ik dus ook nooit eerder gehoord.

Persoonlijk vind ik het belangrijkste bij deze foto's de elementen vlakbij in de voorgrond. Het leukste is veel dynamiek en kruisende lijnen over het hele "aardbolletje". Indien je de foto's in een open grasveld neemt wordt het maar een saai groen plaatje. Bij deze foto onbrak het zonlicht helaas in het grootste gedeelte van het terrein.

Een luchtballon zou inderdaad een welkome aanvulling zijn ja. Deze blijven moeilijk dirigeerbaar, maar ik ga er eens achteraan hollen op een mooie dag, in de hoop dat de ballon dan ook langs een interesant plekje vaart.

Bedankt voor de complimenten in ieder geval.

Groeten Ruud van Dijk


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rumpolo said:

JokHarle is correct. The original owner intended to build a larger manor house towards the rear of the five acres for his son who never returned from the Boer War. I never knew the his name so adding Sir Harry's name to the history is helpful.

The house itself was constructed as gatehouse attached to a wall which encloses five acres with an apple loft the other side of the front gate, and a spring-fed fountain at the top end of the acreage.

The house was sold by Eve to Joseph? Collier (my great grandfather) who trained at Kew Gardens, and had four sons who planted an orchard of stone fruit trees selling into the London markets.

The house and property was known as 'Forder Gardens'.

One of the sons was my grandfather who emigrated to New South Wales, Australia in 1911.

It's great to see and a great photograph, thanks.


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LexTollenaar said:

We stayed for our holiday in the nearby Eastcott Lodges, last year. See my other picture on: http://www.panoramio.com/photo/11597928


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LexTollenaar I like to make use of small, flexible and good quality camera’s. Known to be a difficult combination. Most important are image quality and a super wide zoom lens. Furthermore I need manual control over exposure time, aperture and distance. On the other hand I don’t care for changeable optics, since I will always have the wrong lens mounted on that particular moment. So in this respect: to have no choice at all is the right choice for me. I started of with a Canon Powershot A80 in 2004, which still delivers remarkable good results in low artificial light. My second camera was a Panasonic Lumix DMC TZ-3. Fine optics (Leica) but the electronics use a bad compression algorithm showing dirty yellow-green spots on smooth light colored surfaces in low light. This typical Panasonic problem is so persistent, the press does not even mention it anymore. For a moment I have made a switch to a Samsung WD-550. This switch did not last very long because of the overall lack of crispy sharpness. So I switched back to the Panasonic Lumix, to the more recent DMC TZ-10. Better but still not perfect. Yet one of the strong advantages I would like to mention, is the remarkable good optical image stabilization. At the far end of it’s long zoom, on a cloudy day, taken with no additional support, it still produces crispy sharp images! My hope is now focused to the new Canon Powershot S-100. Not so much zoom, but promise to offer: a (big) new Canon made sensor, fast sharp optics, low grain, manual control and nice colors. I will let you know….

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