I can agree that IR can give some particularly appealing results, although I
think I know what Chris means - an overabundance of "white" foliage can be too
much. On the other hand, IR rendition of clouds against a blue sky can be
stupendously effective.
I can expand on the grammar too (wow, who would have guessed) and agree that
your use of word order was no coincidence, Nathan, but not for the reasons that
Chris suggested. Yes, Polish preserves the complexity of Latin that has
disappeared from most European languages - but it is precisely the loss of that
complexity which makes the order of words so important in English (and likely
not in Polish, certainly not in Russian which has the same complexity). When
the distinction between subject and object (not just who/whom as noted already,
but "Man bites dog", for instance) is not obvious from the word form, we depend
on the word position in the sentence. And not paying attention to word order is
the start of mutual incomprehension.
Piers
PS And thanks for the tour around Alicante, Nathan. As always, your eye for the
streetscape is admirable.
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From: olympus [mailto:olympus-bounces+piers.hemy=gmail.com@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Nathan Wajsman
Sent: 17 February 2015 07:31
To: Olympus Camera Discussion
Subject: Re: [OM] IMG: Nathan's PAW 8: town and country
Thanks Chris. I have always loved IR, and I am happy that with the old M8, I
can use the same filters as I did with film and get roughly the same effect,
in-camera, not in post-processing.
As for grammar, of my two mother tongues, Polish is absolutely horrible in its
complexity, while Danish is quite simple. But I consider language an important
tool and always try to use it correctly. So the correct usage you noted was not
a coincidence.
Having said that, I am not quite as pedantic as you with respect to other
people’s mistakes on a maling list (business is another matter). Live and let
live ;-)
Cheers,
Nathan
Nathan Wajsman
Alicante, Spain
http://www.frozenlight.eu
http://www.greatpix.eu
PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws
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YNWA
> On 17 Feb 2015, at 07:09, ChrisB <ftog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Nathan
>
> I’m wary of admiring IR shots for their IR property, but I like those as
> images. I must continue with my experiments with my X100S and the R72 filter.
>
> More importantly (;-)), I would point out to the grammar-sceptics that
> Nathan, perhaps unconsciously, used the correct order of words when he wrote
> “with which”. But it’s more likely that, as a speaker of languages which are
> strict in their use of cases (although I couldn’t speak for Danish or Polish)
> he learned correct English from the beginning.
>
> Chris
>
>> On 16 Feb 15, at 22:56, Nathan Wajsman <photo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> Quite a few pictures from last week, including some infrared landscapes with
>> my M8 with which I am quite pleased, some other pictures from my cycling
>> routes, and about half from a walkabout in the centre on Saturday. You have
>> seen some of these places before, but they looked differently this week. And
>> spring is definitely here, so there are also flowers, on an almond tree.
>> It’s all here:
>>
>> http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws/?page_id=1350
>> <http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws/?page_id=1350>
>>
>> and comments and critique are welcome and appreciated.
>
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