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Post by nikonbob on Jul 3, 2006 14:32:09 GMT -5
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Post by Randy on Jul 3, 2006 16:38:48 GMT -5
Nice shots Bob, where is that?
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Post by mickeyobe on Jul 3, 2006 18:35:26 GMT -5
Bob,
As a kid I always thought merry-go-rounds were something special and I still do. They are a unique artistic medium that is beyond compare. And the music too is in a class all its own. They represent pure joy.
Mickey
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Post by nikonbob on Jul 4, 2006 5:39:08 GMT -5
Randy
It is at a city run park in Thunder Bay Ontario. The park has a beach area for swimming, camping and picnic areas, playing fields and a small zoo.
Brian
Whats a rangefinder? Just kidding.
Mickey
You are so right, they are a unique artistic medium.
Bob Hammond
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Post by GeneW on Jul 4, 2006 6:11:25 GMT -5
Nice shots, Bob. These really bring back memories of the way merry-go-rounds looked when I was a kid. They make me want to get up on a horse and have another magic ride!
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Post by doubs43 on Jul 4, 2006 12:53:41 GMT -5
Nice shots, Bob. These really bring back memories of the way merry-go-rounds looked when I was a kid. They make me want to get up on a horse and have another magic ride! I quite agree. There was a Merry-go-Round at the park on Braddock Mountain just West of Frederick, MD, that we used to ride when we were children. I even managed to snag the "gold" ring a time or two! Later, as teenagers with dates, we'd ride the Merry-go-Rounds at the carnivals and fairs. The pictures do bring back the memories. Walker
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Post by John Parry on Jul 4, 2006 15:31:14 GMT -5
Thought they were called carousels over there?
I love them now - to look at. Strange but that uninterrupted round and round motion always made me sick. I can stay on a waltzer, corkscrew or Big Dipper all day!
The photographs are brilliant. The subject is made for colour. I'm not saying you couldn't get a great b&w shot from it, but you would really have to work hard at your contrast levels - and I suspect would have to go to at least 50mm to get silhouette effects, losing the overall effect.
Great
Regards - John
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Post by Rachel on Jul 4, 2006 16:28:26 GMT -5
That's interesting Bob. I'm sure our Merry-Go-Rounds go around the other way
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Post by doubs43 on Jul 4, 2006 17:28:24 GMT -5
Thought they were called carousels over there? Regards - John They are....... sometimes. So much of American "English" is dependent upon the part of the country where you grew up. That's not as true as it once was because TV (Telle) has influenced speech across the country and colloquial ways of saying things are slowly disappearing. An example is how people take their meals. Most will now say "Breakfast, lunch and dinner". I grew up saying - and still do - "Breakfast, dinner and supper". Another change taking place is the use of "a" preceeding words such as "historic". I was taught "an historic" and anything else sounds strange to me. Only words with a hard "h" rate "a" before them as far as I'm concerned. Younger people are now being taught differently. Oddly enough, there are more distinct "dialects" in Great Britain than in all of the United States. My neighbor in Needham Market (Suffolk) went to Yorkshire and came back shaking his head because he couldn't understand their speech! Walker
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Post by PeterW on Jul 4, 2006 19:32:40 GMT -5
Oh dear, Walker. Once I get started on English words and usage I go babbling on like Tennyson's brook. It's one of my hobby-horses.
Briefly, the use of an as the correct word before a non-aspirated aitch was insisted on by late Victorian gammarians because they liked to have words from other languages pronounced in their native way, not Anglicised. Hotel comes from the French hôtel, and as the French don't aspirate intial aitches they pronounce it otel. But 'a otel' sounds clumsy so the grammarians insisted on an otel. Later teachers of spoken English put the aspirated aitch back in hotel and historic, and a few other words, to avoid it sounding just bad pronunciation - like 'a notel' or 'a nistoric occasion'.
I think they slipped up a little on historic, taking it as coming from the French l'histoire, but both the French and English words have their roots in Latin and Greek - and who's to say if the Romans and the Greeks aspirated their aitches or not?
Historically, lunch, or luncheon, for a mid-day meal is correct as it comes from the 16th century nuncheon, a variation of Middle English noneschench (none = noon, and schench, variation of quench, = drink). So luncheon was a drink, usually with a very light meal, as a mid-day break for agricultural workers.
Dinner also came from Latin, via Old French, and originally meant the main meal of the day, eaten after work. Supper, again from Old French, was a light meal just before going to bed.
(I remembered less than half of this, so I cheated and consulted an etymological dictionary and Fowler's Modern English Usage).
I'd better stop or I'll go on all night. And please don't get me started on dialects or I'll rabbit on OT for days. There are, for example, five distinct London dialects and ... NO! I've got to stop!! ;D.
Peter W
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Post by doubs43 on Jul 4, 2006 22:08:04 GMT -5
Peter, I also enjoy "words" but I'm obviously not as deep into them as you are. I grew up in an area that was primarily of German ancestory as my paternal grandmother was. My mother's side were from the British Isles with names of Wright, Adams, Giles etc. My father's side also included English names and I'm pretty certain that "Smith" was English. However, the German ancestory in the area gave us dinner and supper rather than lunch and dinner.
I can highly recommend a book by a chap named Bill Bryson entitled "The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way". You'll find it an interesting read and yet educational. He has also written other books about English and is considered an authority... at least on this side of the pond.
One point he made that you'll find interesting: English scholars have criticized those English who have "adopted" American words, apparently unaware that they were in common useage in England at one time but had fallen out of favor. and eventually forgotten. Americans were simply re-introducing them to their place of origin.
Walker
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Post by PeterW on Jul 5, 2006 7:26:41 GMT -5
Hi Walker,
Thanks for recommending that book, I hadn't heard of it, but I'll see if my library can get me a copy.
Don't want to prolong the topic too much, but I love the way some slang phrases are becoming international. Some years ago I was in Germany with my Contax II, and quite by chance met a German Contax collector. He identified mine as a very early production model - different knurling, slightly different sequence of shutter speeds etc.
He'd been looking for one for years, and wanted to buy it, but I wouldn't sell. He handled it for a while and then remarked:
Ich habe mein lid geflippen!
Take care,
Peter W
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Post by GeneW on Jul 5, 2006 8:47:50 GMT -5
The history of languages is interesting stuff. The more I read on the subject, the more complex it gets. English is a particularly rich study, being such a hybrid of sources, influences, and subsequent evolution.
Peter, your German anecdote triggered a memory of a sign I saw once in a computer room:
Alles touristen und non-technischen looken peepers! Das Machine is nicht fur gefingerpoken und mittengrabben. Ist easy schnappen der springenwerk, blowenfusen und poppencorken mit spitzensparken. Ist nicht fur gewerken by das dummkopfen. Das rubbernecken sightseeren musten keepen das cotten-pickenen hands in das pockets - relaxen und watchen das blinkenlights.
Sorry to be so far off topic...
Gene
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Post by heath on Jul 5, 2006 9:32:20 GMT -5
Nice pics of the merry-go-round. Here is my hsot of one, taken almost exactly 12 months ago with my then new Moskva 2 (purchsed that day) on Ilford XP-2 Super. This one is in the area of Sydney called Darling Harbour. Heath
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Post by GeneW on Jul 5, 2006 9:36:13 GMT -5
Heath, beautiful tones in this carousel shot! How do you find using the Moskva? They've been tempting me for years Gene
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