Hi Melody, pleased to meet you.

Thank you very much for your visit and comment - appreciated. 

That is a fascinating concept you suggest... would be interesting to have an insect in the tube when aking he photograph.

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Thanks again, Diane.

I have vast numbers of film-photographs I need to scan in - but I doubt many (any?) of mine would inspire anything positive!

I shall certainly look forward to seeing your submissions.

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Hi ren,

>R> Oh, that's lovely -- thanks for sharing it!  I would have to agree with Nas. . .it's a fabulous photo. . .

Thank you very much also.

>R> open door to butterfly bush. . .to land and horizon. . .our expanding vistas. . .should we allow ourselves to see them. . .with all that space where do the butterflies come from?  *smile*

There is a good question - though that space is edged by trees and extensive hedging - so I think they may breed and over-winter as chrysalis there.

>R> Thanks Prosaic

Thank you, Ren.

Hi Nas,

>N> I disagree, I think it is a good picture.

Thank you. All I meant was it is a snap-shot, rather than a carefully-composed photograph in my view). Pretty but, I think technically quite lacking. But, hey if you and others like it that is all that matters. Pointless having a technically-perfect photograph if no one cares for it.

>N> I like the contrast between the foreground with its flourishing buldia, full of colour and the brown (almost barren) feel to the field (especially the one on the horizon).

Thank you. Glad you disagree with me - hink I'll opt for your view!

>N> The budlia is magnificent and lovely to look at from your window (not so sure about the fields).  I prefer to see trees. Though the fields are bare of trees in this view, to the left and right of the fields are tree-lines and there are woodlands near-by. I like trees too.

Thanks Nas.

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Prosaic,

I absolutely love and prefer the second photo over the first. The two photos together make a strong example of tunnel vision and how we often focus on the small stuff and miss out on the true beauty that life offers. We all need to be reminded of this from time to time and your post does that quite well.

Thanks,

Diane

Hi Patrice,

Thanks for popping in again.

>P> What a beautiful view!!!

Thank you - yes we are a very lucky. Mind you, we have few facilities here so there are potential disadvantages, too. And many of our friends would hate to live here - too cut-off (though it is a cottage in a terrace of four).

>P> Such visual interest in the foreground, yet so much to see for miles and miles (or kilos and kilos in your case).

Thank you - the foreground is our budlia (sp) tree - colloquially known as "the butterfly bush," because it attracts said insects en mass.

But the UK, as the USA, still uses miles. Although kilometres are now taught in schools, all road distances and speeds are still expressed in miles. Suits me, I was never taught metric.

>P> Thanks for sharing the whole view!

Well, thank you. I would not have put it here usually as it is not a good photograph, per se - but as Ren mentioned what was beyond the cup and plant...

>P> What fun it would be if everyone shared a photo out their writing room window.....  which I will do from either my archive or something new *smile*

Excellent - might be a good idea to start a new tile which we can all add to.

Thanks again, Patrice.

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Hi Tim,

>T> If you take the same shot from a slightly higher elevation, the image would remind me a tube slide I used to go down as a kid.

You are braver than I - not that they had them when I was a child but they terrify me now.

>T> Maybe bring more adult-centric items and it might create an image of sliding through age, into responsibility and what-not. Kind of like 'the bloody birds' in Phillip Larkin's High Windows poem.

All I can say about Larkin is that one day a colleague of mine told me he once received a letter from Larkin. As my colleague, educated though he was, was rather far-removed from poetry, I was incredulous. But I was wrong - the following day my colleague produced said letter. Though I cannot remember the exact text it read something like "Please return your overdue library books and pay the fine - we have been waiting six months. P Larkin"

The explanation is simple: Larkin was Librarian at Hull University (English east coast) at the time my colleague was a rather recidivist undergaduate.

Apropos High Windows - well there is a poem open to many interpretations. But certainly I take your point of tunnel vision as he looks down one end to t'other. Now which way round his tunnel is is a moot point. Ineresting Idea, thanks Tim.

>T> Just a thought. I think you're on to something with the tunnel vision.

Thanks - it is an old friend of mine.

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prosaic,

If you take the same shot from a slightly higher elevation, the image would remind me a tube slide I used to go down as a kid. Maybe bring more adult-centric items and it might create an image of sliding through age, into responsibility and what-not. Kind of like 'the bloody birds' in Phillip Larkin's High Windows poem.

Just a thought. I think you're on to something with the tunnel vision.


Namaste,
~Tim