9th Photo Competition (May)

Right!  Sit up!  Pay attention!  As duly nominated and totally unexpected winner of the 8th photo comp, it befalls me to set the ninth.  OZ decrees (after consulting with an ailing NSW) that the subject shall be ‘AGE’

As Soutie did, I’ll leave the rest to your imagination and inventiveness.

Closing date is midnight on 31st May in your time zone.

Good luck.

OZ

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Author: O Zangado

Just loping around. Extremely fond of roast boar in particular, meat in general and cooking on the barbie. Fish is good too.

60 thoughts on “9th Photo Competition (May)”

  1. I’ve just opened the fridge hoping to find something suitable, no luck (perhaps I’ll wait a while :))

    Thinking cap on, I’m going to have to wait a bit for some inspiration, I’ll be back!

  2. Age… Can it be an old building? Perhaps one showing its, well, age? I will go on holiday in the country for about a week soon and have something in mind… There is an old, abandoned store from the Gold Rush — it’s just a hollow shell now. It was once in the middle of a town, but now all one can see is hills and occasional rocks.

  3. Gentlemen, like I said it’s up to your imagination and inventiveness. The winner will be the one who tickles mine.

    OZ

  6. Part of a tax document of 1237 for the Freshwell Hundred in Essex.

    Yes, I did take the photo!

  7. Duly logged, Boadicea. On the basis of 1237, I’ll award you 10/10 for ‘age’.

    OZ

  8. I cannot hope to compete with Boadicea, OZ, but here is mine. It is an old photograph but I just love the scene on the Thames. The failing light makes it look “aged”.

  10. I know very little about art and painters, Araminta, but your photo reminds me strongly of a similar scene painted by one of the biggies in oils. Perhaps someone can tell me who it was? 😕

  11. Cheers, Araminta. Exactly what this comp is supposed to inspire. C’mon you other Charioteers.

    OZ

  16. Thanks Araminta, but no – the one I was thinking of has a much larger boat and I seem to remember an old guy on the tow path smoking a pipe. But I may be dreaming! 😎

  18. Here’s mine of some Portuguese rural Olds.

    Oops! It’s my comp. Disqualified!

    OZ

  19. Here’s my entry – chosen as it contrasts old and new – both ends of the Age scale. I visited Oxford prison last year with my teenage girls – a great visit even in the rain. What amazed me was the way the old had been refurbished and restored and new had been built next to it beautifully in my opinion. For those that don’t know, part of the prison which I believe only shut in the 80s after centuries of use has been turned into a hotel and restaurant!

  20. This is a picture of a fourth century AD Roman mosaic found in Syria. Age seems appropriate and it is an image of a deer in honour of the judge. I took the picture today.

  22. Christopher – Fixed.
    But please don’t do that again. Your picture was far too big (2k x 2k) and you put it in a post and then tried to link the post into a comment, which will never work. Please, please, follow the clear and simple instructions.

    I’ve had to download your picture to my pc, reduce it to a sensible size, upload it again and then put it in your comment. It all takes time, so please read the instructions in future and follow them, because I get fed up with wasting time doing what some Charioteers are too lazy to do for themselves.

    Thanks. 😎

  23. Mr Bear: please allow me to tell you a story.
    One day I was at grocer’s. I hadn’t timed that visit well.
    It was the busiest time and there was a queue before and behind me.
    Everyone could go through. As it was Hawai’i, it did not go fast, but it went.
    Then it was my turn… Halfway through the system crashed. Just on that register, of course.
    It took 15 minutes to fix. That wasn’t the first time, nor was it the last time. Technology hates me, it has always hated me. No matter what I try, things never work correctly. I will thus state that, until I eventually figure it out or die of old age trying, it would be best for me to refrain from posting images.

  24. No, Christopher, don’t stop posting pictures.
    Keep going and, if you get it wrong, just put up with my moans.
    However, you will find it far, far easier if you read the instructions – on the menu bar. 😎

  25. Christopher

    Print out the instructions – and then play around on your own site where you can delete your ‘failures’. It’s what I did when I was trying something new… and sometimes I had a lot of failures!

    Once I’d got it ‘right’, I had a template to work from until the ‘formula’ stuck in my head… 🙂

  27. Boadicea: I will do that, thank you for the advice.

    Mr Bear Part Two: no worries, I do not get offended easily.
    You’ve never had the joy of renewing a German passport overseas as a dual citizen.
    If that doesn’t give someone a skin thicker than a rhinoceros, nothing will.

  28. Well I have been avoiding the photo comp (too painful and all that with the camera missing…) but have just arrived back again as I have found the camera!!!! Woo hoo…

    And Cuprum sent me over. Some great shots.

    Re: the photo posting in comments, Christopher, here is my solution:

    Edit photo to smaller size: remember to copy the original then work with the copy, then you don’t loose the original. I use Microsoft’s own program that came with the computer. Basic, but adequate. On that program ‘resize’ gives you the option of ‘large web’ size which seems to be acceptable.

    Over on my site I have a photo page and I have carefully been trying out photos there before posting them over here – my trick is similar to Boadicea’s.

    Upload the smaller size via the dashboard, uploading media.

    After uploading I copy the photo’s location, then I go to my photo’s page and post this in a comment.
    Then I reopen (as if to ‘edit’ comment) a previously successful ‘photo in comments’ and copy the whole thing in text version. This gives the formula to work with next time: I paste this into the next comment, then delete the old midsection and paste in the new photo location information, then enter.

    To then post that photo over here I reopen the comment as if to edit it and copy the text an then pop over here and post it in, knowing it will work! Clear as mud?

    Well one way to do it so you can see this in action, would be to post a blog here, and then ask for someone else to post a photo and you can then open that comment, as it is on your own post, and use the formula with your photo info.

    I’ll shut up now

  30. A much less painful method is to upload the copy to a program like this

    http://www.imgur.com

    The app automatically generates a number of different code options – the one called

    ‘HTML Image (websites / blogs) is the one to use for posting in comments here.

  31. Age? When I was a child I was told this is “The oldest secular building in Britain”, is it?

    William Fitz Osbern’s Great Keep, Chepstow Castle, definitively dated 1067.

  32. Nice one, LW. So impressive, Chepstow Castle, though I loved Stirling Castle too for the same reason.

    Loved the pic of the oldies sitting around chilling, OZ. Just like Blaina but hotter.

  33. How about this. I did not cheat and Photoshop oui t the crane 🙂

  36. This old vine – just outside my ‘garden’ in a plot under (friendly,) dispute with my neighbour – is reputed to be over 100 years old. It still bears fruit.

  41. Evenin’ all. I’m back, having had all my comms zapped by a storm of epic proportions last Thursday and thank goodness those splendid chaps from Portugal Telecom climbed upteen telegraph poles to locate the problem before the closing date of this comp in eight days (31st May).

    This is going to be mighty tricky for Mr. Justice OZ – there are some cracking entries already.

    Keep ’em coming.

    OZ

  43. Cheers, Bearsy. It’s good to be back. The storm was an absolute humdinger, but probably winter’s final fling. At its height I saw a thunderbolt or some such phenomenon shoot horizontally down the valley as both sheet and forked lightning lit up the backdrop. It was so dark I had to keep the lights on all day (when the power was on, that is).

    OZ

  45. Sorry, Pseu, no piccies of this one but I may be persuaded to write and illustrate a post on Great Portuguese Storms wot I ‘ave encountered.

    This is just a reminder that the only Chariot Comp to survive the cull 🙂 closes at midnight on Tuesday. Much as I don’t want my job to be made even more difficult than it already is, get your entries in soon.

    OZ

  48. Howzit Oz

    I was really undecided on what to present here, I was tempted to meander around Fort Frederick for you. Although Port Elizabeth was only founded in 1820 the fort was built during the Napoleonic wars in 1799 and is probably the oldest building still standing down here, perhaps another time.

    Looking through my library I was tempted to post a pic of Stone Henge, now that is really really old, I’ve some great pics from a holiday a couple of years ago.

    However, I do enjoy adding a local flavour here so this is the one that I chose, taken on a recent trip to Mossel Bay a fully working reminder of the steam age.

  53. The oldest European building in the southern hemisphere. Allegedly. The Portuguese chapel on Isla da Mozambique.

  54. Mornin’ all. The competition is now closed and I’ll do my very best to publish the results this evening. I only mention this as a ‘just in case’ because it’s a beautiful day here – 25º at 09.00 with a distinct lack of cloud or wind and there are ten kindred spirits coming round later for a lunchtime barbie. Beer and wine may be involved 🙂 , not to mention a large haunch of boar, crunchy crackling and lots of marinated belly pork and it has all the makings of an epic Cave day.

    OZ

  55. OMG, haunch of boar and crunchy crackling.. Having trouble controlling the drooling here. I’ve got salmon sarnies for lunch. Sob.

  56. What a brilliant competition OZ! Put us out of our misery soon! (are bribes still welcome?) 😀

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