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Bicycle Bill wrote:
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:loon :loon You must be the same sort of people who claim to see the BVM in a grilled cheese sandwich.

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I should sell this to an American Evangelist!!
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You talented bastard you.

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Not talent, a good eye and a pleasure in "developing" images in Photoshop. But thank you for the compliment!!

From yesterday's development session

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Do you ever submit any images to publications like Nat Geo?

Your "good eye" needs to be shared more universally.
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Nope mate, I never submit nor print off.

It's a hobby. If anyone wants the image files, I give them away free.
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Making up for the music, eh?
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I know they have wild ponies on Dartmoor but that's up the road a way from you there in Cornshire. Is that wild (I believe semi-feral is the proper designation) and if so do they have them where you are?

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Dartmoor ponies are bought at the annual drifts, and brought to many areas of the UK as they are very good at keeping scrubland from getting over grown. We have four local herds on West Penwith Moorland. They are, as you say, semi-feral, and are moved around, (normally by the National Trust,) as they are needed.

https://www.forevercornwall.co.uk/finding-wild-ponies/
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Lock-down ain't so bad, when you can stroll out your back door, and walk to this within 5 mins...

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Land, sea, and air.

Nice focal point. A visual contrast and compare exercise.
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Gob wrote:
Sat May 09, 2020 9:42 am
Does that flower normally grow wild there or is it a survivor near an abandoned house.
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I think it's a wild foxglove.

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Andy nailed it. Grows in profusion around here.
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Yes, nice work Gob. Keep it up! :ok

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Rather a louring sky over Chapel Carn Brea tonight. I had intended to have a change of scenery and go to Nanjulian, but they've closed the car park off there.

You'd think they would make an exception for a renowned local photographer*, wouldn't you?



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Inspired by a post on Facebook, I took the chaps up to Chun Quoit for our first proper "eased lock-down" stroll this afternoon. Lovely to be back out that way.


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“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”

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Gob, interesting. There's never an unclouded day in your neck of the woods, and always a great study in shadows and light.

Are these rock formations ancient, or merely a modern day arrangement to look somewhat prehistoric in order to attract visitors?
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