What bemused you today?

[Alfonso_Frisk]

Just been informed by comment on another forum that the horizon on the picture below is 0.3 degree out....

And so it is. But the main thing wrong with it is that you have failed to correct for the curvature of the earth. What are you like, eh?

Which forum ?
I have around a 100 seascapes I would like them to look at and measure the horizons. 

[jinky]

No it`s 0.28 degrees out I`d say Dave - great shot.

Of course what I have learned elsewhere is that you should have gone more off and stated it was a Dutch Angle - which evidently is the technical term for the tilted shots we all see. I find more and more of my shots are ditch angle when I look at them but some very subtly so 

[skellum]

The forum is "worldphotographyforum" which to be honest is not very good..

[Oldboy]

This http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/breaking-news/offbeat/condom-in-burger-case-settled-14977969.html gives a whole new meaning to the term Big Whopper! 

[Just Dave]

Just been informed by comment on another forum that the horizon on the picture below is 0.3 degree out....

Shame on you Dave, dont know how you missed that, Flippin fools

[Hinfrance]

What, honestly, is the point of airport security?

Nice try.

[spinner]

What, honestly, is the point of airport security?

Nice try.

Tell me about it, it appears one of my wife's medications contains nitroglycerin. When we went to fly out last week to Miami the TSA found 'explosive' residue on her hands. Nobody asked her if she takes medication for her heart, they just treated her like a potential terrorist, made her strip off her coat and sweater and frisked her all in public view, then they went through her carry on luggage. She hates flying, has to take tranq's to get by and this just put her in a tizzy before we even got on the plane.

[Hinfrance]

You can only work in airport security if you are too pathologically misanthropic to get a job as a traffic warden or tax inspector 

[ABERS]

The results of the Taylor Wessing portrait competition announced on the BBc news website and in BJP.

http://www.bjp-online.com/british-journal-of-photography/news/1895182/david-chancellor-wins-taylor-wessing-photographic-portrait-prize

It's a strange world we live in sometimes. I'm not too sure if the editor of the BJP is damning the results with faint praise here.

'Though derided by many for its perceived preference for po-faced artiness and its obsession with images of sullen teenagers, the prize provides a unique barometer of contemporary portraiture and our changing attitudes towards representation," writes Simon Bainbridge, BJP's editor, in the magazine's November issue

It's nice of the BBC, on their piece on the results, to spare us the ridiculous and somewhat obscene by cropping the lady sitting outside her house devoid of her knickers. The BJP has no qualms in showing it in all it's glory, the picture I mean.  .

Didn't there used to be joke about keeping flies out of the house?

[Hinfrance]

Well I like the first prize picture, Lamprou's picture, on the other hand, quite a long way the wrong side of tacky and pointless IMHO. The trouble is, I think I know which one is going to be remembered.

[spinner]

Well I like the first prize picture, Lamprou's picture, on the other hand, quite a long way the wrong side of tacky and pointless IMHO. The trouble is, I think I know which one is going to be remembered.

Yes, in nightmares no doubt. That is as unphotogenic a subject as I can ever imagine. 

[Graham]

  Well, I find both front page pics a bit obscene in their own sweet way.
                                 Graham.

[Oldboy]

Didn't there used to be joke about keeping flies out of the house?

My father, when he was in the army and before been sent abroad, was given a lecture on VD by the medical officer who finished with these wise words, 'Remember flies spread diseases, so keep yours shut!  

[Graham]

      The picture editor of the Derby Evening Telegraph requested that I send in some of my Motorhead pics before midnight on the evening of the show, so I did just that.
      I got this comment back via email.
                   
               "thanks Graham
nice pics
I will ask our entertainment people if they can squeeze one in - with your name on it of course - BUT I am not sure at this stage whether they will run anything as it happened already last night...
will email you to let you know ;O)
Very Best
Victoria :O)

       So. If you want to get a pic in the paper make sure you get it on the editors desk before the event actually happens!
                                       Graham. 

[jinky]

Taylor Wessing Portraits shots - my god they are both rubbish to me. I obviously know nothing. The first seems too tightly cropped, totally uncomvincing as a hunter set up and subject to a little distortion. The 2nd would sit better as a Reader`s Wives snapshot and to be honest looking at the small pic I thought she had a todger!