Pics of places that look like places from the films, or are just nice.

Looks great;.stonehenge in the background there?

Thanks for the comments. I wasn't sure if it was too foggy or too dark, but the description in the book includes the sun setting so it had to be very low in the sky. Gave me no end of problems that did!

I actually have a Stonehenge model Saradoc, well Stonehenge as it would have been before bits of it fell down that is, but these are just individually placed stones.

Wow... That really is the Barrow Downs. I'm scared and wanna go home!

And Cousin Tyrant really has a good eye, those pictures are excellent!

All Tyrants have a good eye Amarie, some of us even have two!

This is a bit of a liberty but Mrs Tiggs took a lovely picture she wished had some power cables removed, but was uncertain how to go about it. I used GIMP and the clone tool to remove everything modern from it, but the exact same simple technique can be done in photoshop if thats what you use. Its just a matter of copying stuff close to where you want to cover up and cloning over the top. Here's the pic (but if you'd rather I didn't post it Mrs Tiggs I can delete this post- I did send you a message asking permission honest-but I just can't resist the chance for something creative when I can see the solution!- and besides its a cracking pic, well worth sharing with as large an audience as possible)

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Amarië wrote:Wow... That really is the Barrow Downs. I'm scared and wanna go home!

And Cousin Tyrant really has a good eye, those pictures are excellent!

I had a similar reaction, Amarie. And that effect created just from a picture with no atmospheric music to enhance it, or dark creatures to inhabit the location; for the location itself is scary as is. Who needs super-duper CGI? Realism works well with Tolkien I think.

Fantastic picture, Petty

If you mean the Barrows one Ringdrotten then I thank you.
But if you mean the autumn one with the castle then the praise is due to Mrs Tiggs- as it is her photo- I just did a little post work on it to demonstrate how easy it was to use the clone tool to remove unwanted elements llike power lines, roads and buildings.

The comment goes for both, really, though it was the editing I was commenting. But of course, the photographer deserves praise too, it is a wonderful picture

Yes it is. My favourite time of the year Autumn. Its that time of the year when you have to start preparing for winter by squirrling away your buckie stash for the cold months to follow.

I would post pics but I can't upload from my iphone.

That a shame Lorient. No way to get them from your phone onto something you can upload from?

I guess I could email them to myself and post them from a regular computer.

Sounds like a plan to me Lorient- go for it.

Can't wait to see the pictures you've got, Lorient!

Should get them posted sometime tonight. The quality isn't great cause the iPhone 3GS has a garbage camera

Problems Lorient? Although uploading does suck.

Sorry, wasn't able to access a regular comp like I thought. I'm not sure when I can post them

Well I went to view the pics on my phone and they werent there! My best guess is that when I recently updated my phone it deleted all of my pics! . It must be some Apple conspiracy

That's a shame Lorient. I was looking forward to pics of people with strange beards on carts and horses- oh hold on is that Quakers?!

Pettytyrant101 wrote:That's a shame Lorient. I was looking forward to pics of people with strange beards on carts and horses- oh hold on is that Quakers?!

You're thinking Amish. As someone who was raised in a Quaker Meeting, it got old really fast having people ask why I wasn't wearing a top hat, or how could my family own a car.

Ah sorry, its hard to keep straight all the Christian cults in the US- you have so many of them.

I'm afraid England is to blame for Quakerism, Petty. I was fortunate to grow up in one of the less dogmatic and moer tolerant Quaker organizations out there, though. Open-minded enough to perform same-sex marriages, but not open-minded enough to cease financial support to larger, explicitly homophobic Quaker organizations.

The English are to blame for much Eldo, however on this one occasion it seems to me taking all the people who didn't want any buckie drinking, dancing or fun to be had, putting them all on a big boat and telling them paradise was across the otherside of an immense ocean why don't they go find it, was quite a good idea at the time. Better for all however had they also drilled some holes in the boats first just to make sure.

Maybe they should have sent the Pilgrims to Australia so they could spend all their time evangelizing to convicts. Give the rest of society a break and have a suitably unpleasant punishment for criminals. Two birds, one stone.

Now thats good thinking Eldo- just what those Ozhobbits need too. That's why you're the Admin!