Mugabe to go?

Paul Watson

Megan Forbes wrote: suspicion now is that the 2 cronies who offered Mugabe's resignation might actually just be viing for the position themselves :| I hope not.

Paul Watson
Bluegrass
Cape Town, South Africa

My humble photographic tribute to our world[^]

Konstantin Vasserman

I'm so sick of hearing... I'm just kidding. :) Unfortunately, I know very very little about the situation in Zimbabwe, but it looks like at least some kind of movement in the positive direction is being attempted. That's a good thing. I hope the situation will keep improving. Off topic: I've visited your photo gallery. Very nice images you've got there. I like "Sun Ray Boat" a lot. I myself have jumped back into photography a couple of months ago after about 15 year break. I am enjoying it very much even though I don't have much time lately to experiment with it. If you get bored you can take a look at some of my photos here: click[^]

KaRl

Paul Watson wrote: I will not be surprised if he dies a swift (but natural) death once he has left Zim Generally, this kind of assholes[^] die in his bed, without responding of his action in front of men justice. They often have too good protections[^]

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Paul Watson

Konstantin Vasserman wrote: If you get bored you can take a look at some of my photos here: click[^] :-D another CPian on photoSIG.com, great stuff! Really like the Self Portrait shot in the cat's eye. I am on photoSIG too, not many points yet though :) Konstantin Vasserman wrote: I myself have jumped back into photography a couple of months ago after about 15 year break. I am enjoying it very much even though I don't have much time lately to experiment with it. Well I am brand new to photography and am having a whale of a time figuring everything out. I keep bugging ChrisM (he knows photography too... just what doesn't he know about I have no idea!) and may just start bugging you :-D

Paul Watson
Bluegrass
Cape Town, South Africa

My humble photographic tribute to our world[^]

Konstantin Vasserman

Paul Watson wrote: I am on photoSIG too Cool! :-D Paul Watson wrote: Well I am brand new to photography and am having a whale of a time figuring everything out. I consider myself new to photography as well. Not only 15 years is a long enough period to forget most of the details, but I have also made a jump from B&W to color and from film to digital. Needless to say I was kind of lost for a while there. But I think that I am getting a hold of the situation pretty quickly, so I hope to be up to speed on my photography skills soon. After all, it is not the equipment or format that maters but your ability to see things in unique way. I don't know if I have it but I am enjoying the process of figuring it out. Paul Watson wrote: may just start bugging you I am not sure how much of a help I can be, but feel free to ask questions any time.

peterchen

good to hear, but I share Meg's suspicions. God luck for the next elections. Paul Watson wrote: that Bob is the problem with Zimbabwe, not Blair or the US or whites, but Bob himself. But it's always the US' fault, sin't it? :cool:

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Anna Jayne Metcalfe

It's about time. Let's hope things actually improve over there. Anna :rose: www.annasplace.me.uk

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benjymous

I think I'll find the courage and put up some pictures on there. Most of the photos[^] I take tend to just be snaps of friends and family more than anything artistic, but there are a few (especially amongst the Paris ones) that are quite nice :) -- Help me! I'm turning into a grapefruit!

Paul Watson

benjymous wrote: I think I'll find the courage and put up some pictures on there Does not take courage (well, ok, it does take some but not too much if you do the following.) All it takes is a wanting to learn. As the about page says photosig.com is not a photo host. It is not there so you can upload 1000s of photos and have them archived. It is there so you can upload a photo you want constructive feedback. benjymous wrote: Most of the photos[^] I take tend to just be snaps of friends and family more than anything artistic, but there are a few (especially amongst the Paris ones) that are quite nice I always liked that panoramic shot of yours of Paris, very cool. We can stage a CPian onslaught onto photosig.com and prove we programmers can be creative :-D

Paul Watson
Bluegrass
Cape Town, South Africa

My humble photographic tribute to our world[^]

benjymous

Paul Watson wrote: It is there so you can upload a photo you want constructive feedback. Yeah, and that's where the courage comes in ;) Paul Watson wrote: I always liked that panoramic shot of yours of Paris, very cool. Yeah - doing panoramas is something I've always liked. My grandfather always used to do it manually (i.e. just take lots of photos that you'd have to spread out on a table to see the full view) - he'd have loved playing with the stitching software. Sadly whenever I look at them I can always see the joins - I guess I need to perfect my technique so I can take the set of photos as quickly as possible, to prevent things like light levels changing majorly, and I must remember to take a tripod with me next time I think there may be a panorama opportunity, since they work much better if the camera is kept exactly in the same position and level -- Help me! I'm turning into a grapefruit!

Paul Watson

benjymous wrote: and I must remember to take a tripod with me next time I think there may be a panorama opportunity, since they work much better if the camera is kept exactly in the same position and level Holy crap you did not use a tripod? Wow, more kudos to you then. Hard enough taking panoramics with a tripod, never mind without :-D

Paul Watson
Bluegrass
Cape Town, South Africa

My humble photographic tribute to our world[^]

benjymous

Nope - just held by hand. My camera (Digital Ixus V) has a "stitch assist" mode which is damn handy though (it displays a portion of the previous image so you can get the overlap lined up nicely, but you still have to manually make sure you keep the horizon at the same position through all the pics, else the stitching software has to crop a lot of the image off the top and bottom, which is always a shame :( -- Help me! I'm turning into a grapefruit!

Roger Wright

It is to be hoped, too, that he'll leave quietly, rather than emulating someone like Idi Amin. I've gone to find myself. If I should get back before I return, please keep me here.

Roger Wright

Paul Watson wrote: Actually exiling him is going to be a good thing because he will find himself in a foreign country without his cronies and will be shocked at his lack of power and respect. We could offer him Iraq if he promises to leave quietly... I've gone to find myself. If I should get back before I return, please keep me here.

Roger Wright

Wow! You started on B&W too? I got started with a Brownie box camera, and developed the films sitting on the floor in my bedroom closet. I'd bet that drove my Mom nuts, but she never complained. I started a photo club in High School, and got them to build us a darkroom with real equipment, then went on to form a club at UC Irvine. There we got a whole building (a very tiny one at the edge of the athletic fields) from the school, and I learned that businesses could be counted on to donate very nice equipment to students for a good cause! We've sure come a long way... I can't wait to get a decent digital camera one day!:-D I've gone to find myself. If I should get back before I return, please keep me here.

Paul Riley

Paul Watson wrote: We can stage a CPian onslaught onto photosig.com Interesting site that. Might go and upload a few of mine later in the week; I like 'em but I've no idea what other people would think. Paul Pleasently caving in, I come undone - Queens of the Stone Age, No One Knows

David Wulff

:bob: run's Zimbabwe?! Sorry, I haven't been following Zimbabwe affairs recently - there's just too much shit going on in the world to pay attention to all of it. :(( Certainly sounds like a good idea though.

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Lost User

We can only hope Paul :suss: From breadbasket to starvation :( The tigress is here :-D

Paul Watson

David Wulff wrote: run's Zimbabwe?! LOL, no, if that were so Zim would be a utopia. Bob is short for Robert. And the primate in charge of Zim is named Robert Mugabe. Plus he even looks apeish. David Wulff wrote: Sorry, I haven't been following Zimbabwe affairs recently - there's just too much sh*t going on in the world to pay attention to all of it. No problem David, I don't expect anyone but Zimbabweans and other southern Africans to really care much.

Paul Watson
Bluegrass
Cape Town, South Africa

My humble photographic tribute to our world[^]

Konstantin Vasserman

Roger Wright wrote: You started on B&W too? Yes. I started with B&W when I was in high school. I had some cheap but decent quality Russian made camera. I was doing my own development and printing. I had to use blankets and whatever else I could find to block all the sources of the light, so I basically had to seal myself in the room for a few hours in order to do anything with photography. I am not sure what happened afterwards but somehow I had completely abandoned this hobby. I went back to St. Petersburg, Russia last year after 10 years of living here in US. I took a very simple point-and-shoot 35mm camera with me. I've started taking pictures and I couldn't stop. I've purchased a good digital camera as soon as I came back to US. I am still re-learning, but it has been a lot of fun.