• Members 52 posts
    Oct. 20, 2023, 4:19 a.m.

    Yes, both are a subspecies of Black Bear called Kermode Bear. The white fur is a result of a recessive gene, so that gene must be present in both parents for the offspring to be white. For much more than you wanted to know, check out this Wiki link: Wikipedia - Kermode Bear

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    Oct. 20, 2023, 4:25 a.m.

    The chicken and the egg. Which came first? Your avatar or the photo?
    The colour, the grin and the menace. All very appropriate for the season. Photographically, the framing of the skeleton within the V shows it off beautifully.

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    Oct. 20, 2023, 4:29 a.m.
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    Oct. 20, 2023, 7:59 a.m.

    Thanks Pete
    I tried an edit of the first one to make the clouds darker. It seems to work nicely.
    The weather was changing quite fast with dark and lighter clouds flying by. At some moment the clouds could have looked darker, just like this, so the edit is not too far from the real weather that day :-)

    Is it better than the original?
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    JPG, 3.4 MB, uploaded by Fireplace33 on Oct. 20, 2023.

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    Oct. 20, 2023, 8:03 a.m.

    Good shot. I like the bleached out white rope as shown. I can imagine it laying out there, baking in the sun!

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    Oct. 20, 2023, 8:09 a.m.

    Another gem!
    Somehow the "Dutch angle" tilt gives it a more dynamic feeling. Together with the title, you can really imagine that the squares are lifting up and flying off :-)

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    Oct. 20, 2023, 1:01 p.m.

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    JPG, 1.2 MB, uploaded by OpenCube on Oct. 20, 2023.

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    Oct. 20, 2023, 1:30 p.m.

    Thank you so much, Mike. It's cool you felt the sound, even if you didn't know they are metal pipe wind chimes 😁

    I see you posted again, and after much searching, I found your additional comments within those of Fireplace ("Now that I have been told that they are chimes...")

    I think there are also two additional entries from ChrisOly with my pic that appear to have no new comments.

    I understand from Minnie that many of you are still struggling with this format. I can sympathize! However, once you learn to type your replies outside someone else's comments (find the end-quote tag), it's a lot easier. Also, there is the edit button to fix bloopers. I've employed the edit button on DPRev many, many times!

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    Oct. 20, 2023, 1:45 p.m.

    Yes, initially I was caught out a few times until I realised I needed to scroll down to the last end quote. It isn't always obvious that there is more text below. I am thinking of making a suggestion on the requests page that the insertion point is placed there so we don't have to click.

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    Oct. 20, 2023, 2:33 p.m.

    The bench on the right side breaks up the flow of the image and makes it unbalanced. If it had been on the left there would be a curve near to golden ratio and the image would have felt more natural.
    Your description makes it clear you weren't going for balanced or comfortable. The composition works.
    I think I prefer the wider image as well. It has a sense of loneliness or isolation or out-of-place which also works better. It makes the buildings feel like they are encroaching on the beach's tranquility. This ever growing wall of man made buildings intruding.
    It all reminds me of a scene from the movie "Dark City"

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    Oct. 20, 2023, 3:37 p.m.

    I suspect that sometimes people are using phones too, which I can imagine adds greatly to the degree of difficulty. I'm not "out and about" enough to need a phone with internet; I wouldn't be able to read the tiny text anyway, lol.

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    Oct. 20, 2023, 10:06 p.m.

    it has taken a while but I now think I have the habit of scrolling down with each reply to find that final post. My problem is the number of times I need to run through the entire week's posts every time I want to add a reply. I find I need to do this for every photo I'm commenting on to ensure that I have my head around the to-ing and fro-ing of discussion around that image. It is taking too much time. The scrolling repetition becomes boring. Worse, I find I don't have a grasp of the thread of discussion about an image. This is a problem for me. I'm finding that we are drifting into a pattern of individual responses to an image - similar to the various threads with images posted where participants make a post and move on. It doesn't encourage the kind of in depth discussion of an image that I feel has been the distinguishing feature of our weekly meetings.

  • Members 523 posts
    Oct. 20, 2023, 11:55 p.m.

    It's difficult for me to scroll through several pages of very different photo subjects and styles, let alone keep track of conversations. I hope there's a solution soon as I've grown quite fond of this group!

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    Oct. 21, 2023, 2:09 a.m.
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    Oct. 22, 2023, 4:27 a.m.

    Broken camera = instant art.

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    JPG, 881.5 KB, uploaded by OpenCube on Oct. 22, 2023.

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    Oct. 22, 2023, 8:09 a.m.

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    Did you bring the lens wipes?

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    JPG, 1.9 MB, uploaded by Bryan on Oct. 22, 2023.