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Posted on 24/03/24 3:40:46 PM

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Posted on 24/03/24 10:24:12 PM

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Thanks Mariner and Gordon.

Posted on 24/03/24 10:25:50 PM

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Ben - love your rendition - very striking - like the canvas texture as well - excellent.

Posted on 24/03/24 10:35:05 PM

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Lots of great entries so far. I really don’t want to make individual comparisons but I am really taken with the deep dramatic perspective of Frank’s image.

Mine is very calm and simple this week:

SENSATIONAL FIND IN WISBECH!

Professors from the University of Norwich alongside curators from the Wisbech Museum don waders and hard hats to inspect an astonishing find!

In 1849 a killer whale was reputed to have been caught in the river Nene in Wisbech. According to local lore it subsequently escaped out to sea. No daguerrotypes or other contemporary evidence have ever been found in substantiation and the capture has remained little more than urban legend.

Today a whole new dimension has been given to this story as diversion and draining of the river for dredging and cleaning revealed an unexpected discovery!

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Posted on 24/03/24 10:42:53 PM

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GKB wrote:
In response to an overwhelming number of requests (well, one from Mariner) we welcome Bing Crosby and Louis Armstrong in ...
http://vimeo.com/manage/videos/926576611

Well matched Gordon, I enjoyed that.

Posted on 24/03/24 10:44:13 PM

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Frank wrote:
Wife back home from hospital recovering from broken hip and finally got a little time to play. Here's my whale of a tale.
Looks like some real good entries while I was absent!

Frank, that really shows how it is. Nicely put together.

Posted on 24/03/24 11:15:44 PM

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Thanks David and Ben.
David , fantastic job draining the river - love the extras (old bike, shopping carts, debris, reflections, etc on river bottom. Overall great work as per usual.

Posted on 25/03/24 06:30:24 AM

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David, I second Franks comment - the drained river looks very real.

Posted on 25/03/24 11:20:10 AM

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Very well done, David.

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...n 1849 a killer whale was reputed to have been caught in the river Nene in Wisbech. According to local lore it subsequently escaped out to sea. No daguerrotypes or other contemporary evidence have ever been found in substantiation and the capture has remained little more than urban legend.

Is any of this true, or did you just make it up?

Posted on 25/03/24 3:10:14 PM

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Mariner wrote:
Is any of this true, or did you just make it up?

A bit of both. I took Steve's true story of the capture of a whale in the nineteenth century and changed the ending ..... using the whale from his showcase picture to do so.

Thank you Michael, Frank and Ben for your compliments. This one was fun. I love trying to create 'narrative' images.

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Posted on 26/03/24 06:34:58 AM

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Without canvas overlay.

Posted on 28/03/24 03:39:36 AM

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Posted on 28/03/24 04:57:52 AM

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Nice research Michael.

Posted on 28/03/24 10:18:06 AM

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Thanks Ben.

Posted on 28/03/24 11:39:56 AM

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Michael this is extraordinary. First off, it's classically clean Micheal work but it has left me a bit puzzled.

It's full of lots of, what to my eye, is very accomplished but completely unnecessary work. You have done a beautiful job getting the background to conform to the date but then you have chosen to bring the sun out and add hard shadows to everything. It's so seamlessly and beautifully done that it took me a long while to even realise it! Terrific! It must have taken a huge amount of meticulous work ............ but why? It seems a somewhat self imposed rod for your back.

Next puzzle is that I can't quite see where you are headed with the April 1st date. If this is a fisherman's tale would it not be a lot 'taller'?

On a teeny negative note your boat appears to be manned by vampires.

As usual I am awed by your quality and level of detail.

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Posted on 28/03/24 12:15:33 PM

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Ben and Michael wonderful work!

Here's a scene from modern times...

Posted on 28/03/24 1:05:31 PM

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Michael this is extraordinary. First off, it's classically clean Micheal work but it has left me a bit puzzled.

Puzzled?

It's full of lots of, what to my eye, is very accomplished but completely unnecessary work.

David it is not work, it is fun, pleasure, enjoyment, job satisfaction, and shutting out the world which makes me look for anything I can add to a picture that will improve it in any way. The first thing I notice about Steve's challenges is how low-res and desaturated they look, either because he has a poor camera, or because he deliberately desaturates them before publication. That's the first thing I have to put right.

...It must have taken a huge amount of meticulous work ............ but why? It seems a somewhat self imposed rod for your back.

I repeat, this to me is not work, it is pleasure, so I will put in as much time as necessary to get things right.

Next puzzle is that I can't quite see where you are headed with the April 1st date. If this is a fisherman's tale would it not be a lot 'taller'?

David, the tall story in the Gazette was inspired by your excellent graphic and explanation of events. My picture was three quarters finished and I needed to fill in the night time hours on Wednesday and Thursday, so I decided to do some research into a newspaper which really existed in 1849. Yes, it is a fisherman's tale, but I couln't think of anything witty to put in it, so in the end it was possible, even likely, that your graphic was the answer. The other article in the Gazette is unchanged and, I find, quite interesting.

On a teeny negative note your boat appears to be manned by vampires.

Please elaborate.

As usual I am awed by your quality and level of detail.

Thank you David. I aim to please others, not just myself. Your own work rarely fails to impress me.

Posted on 28/03/24 1:22:47 PM

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Thanks Michael. Your own entry this week brought a smile to my face!

Posted on 28/03/24 2:17:26 PM

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Mariner wrote:

David it is not work, it is fun, pleasure, enjoyment, job satisfaction, and shutting out the world which makes me look for anything I can add to a picture that will improve it in any way.

OK. I can relate to that. It's a question of when to say 'when'. Being intrinsically rather lazy I tend to do it when the glass is only half full.

On a teeny negative note your boat appears to be manned by vampires.

Please elaborate.

Vampires don't have reflections.

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Posted on 28/03/24 4:38:29 PM

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David wrote
On a teeny negative note your boat appears to be manned by vampires.

Please elaborate.

Vampires don't have reflections.

Ah yes, I missed that. On the original .jpeg they didn't have reflections either - the water was too choppy.

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