City - Ripon State - NORTH YORKSHIRE Country - United Kingdom
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This is the view of Fountain's Abbey looking bacak from the Water Gardens near by.
The monk's built their living quarters and their Infirmary over this river, so they in effect had medieval flushing toilets and running water.
The river meanders over 3 wiers till you get to the huge curve you see in the foreground of this photo, then turns into a spectacular series of lakes with statues positioned on plinths.
A new photo of your face, Ade, unless I'm mistaken. Have I shown you mine? It's to be found on www.drspringmann.com together with information about a book I recently published, that might or might not be of interest to you. Chosing sepia for your "Abbay and River" gave excelent results, making it look ancient, but still intact. Thanks for your generous comment on my "Hungarian glass ladies 2" Regards, Rafi
Not sure what package you've used for resizing your moon Ameed, but I use either Photoshop or a free tool called IrfanView. I use IrfanView for just about everything except adjusting levels, curves etc in Photoshop.
But what you can do when you resize is specify how many PPI, points per square inch, you want when it's resized, and also how much JPG compression.
If you set the PPI fairly high, between 180 and 300, you get a really smooth little image. Then you play with the JPG Options when you save the small image to try to get it down to the allowed site. To be honest, I usually leave them fairly big.
I think your shot of the moon has a lot going for it as there's a lot more on show, maybe try resizing it to 500pixels wide and putting it below here - see if it makes any difference?
Hope that helps...
Anyway, here's another view of the Abbey in the photo above. This is from the other side o it, looking through the main entrance. This entrance has a Romanesque/Norman style from about 1189. The monks expanded it later when Gothic came into fasion, hence the pointed arch at the far end.
Very nice capture, i liked using the sepia in it, i think using this color is showing the best out of this picture. Very well done. Btw thanks for your comment, i liked your moon better :) i will try to shoot it agian with a a diffrent lense, thanks and my kind regards,
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{K:89517} 7/7/2004
