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Photo-a-Day  (Wednesday, 13th May, 2020)

Crocus


Crocus
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Photo: Mick Byrne  (Panasonic DMC-TZ100)
Views: 2,234

Comment by: Alan (on Vancouver Island) on 13th May 2020 at 00:05

And I thought it was a bollard. Oh wait, I hadn't turned the image high enough up, now I can see the crocus.

Comment by: Mick on 13th May 2020 at 06:33

Yes crocus and newly painted bollards,these are at lock 80 in Ince.

Comment by: DTease on 13th May 2020 at 07:24

Have a go at me if you like folks but I find it hard to believe that this is the best photo that was available for P-A-D. If it is then things do not bode well for the future.

Comment by: Mick on 13th May 2020 at 10:40

Of course Teasy Wheasy, it wont be better that the ones you have sent in.

This photo is not a competition photo, its just one showing the nice newly painted bollards that have been done by the Wigan CRT volunteers and a few beautiful crocus, that I was told have been planted a few years ago by and old lady of Ince

Comment by: Terry on 13th May 2020 at 11:07

It looks like a photo taken when somebody accidentally catches the shutter release button when they're picking the camera up or putting it down.
Only surprised it doesn't show a pair of feet or a thumb in the corner of the picture.

Comment by: DTease on 13th May 2020 at 11:20

Mick, you do talk a load of bollards at times.
Come back Dave Oy, your P-A-D needs you. Frank Orrell, take up your camera again and show us how it's done. And Mick, I will send a photo in and I'll sign it singaporemick, maybe then it will have a chance of getting a showing.

Comment by: Tony L on 13th May 2020 at 12:34

His daft hat fell over his eyes when he was taking the picture and spoilt it.

Comment by: Helen of Troy on 13th May 2020 at 13:03

I'm no great photographer but it may have made a better image had it been taken from a different angle.

Perhaps it should have been a pic of the white bollard OR the white crocus...just a thought.

Comment by: Mick on 13th May 2020 at 13:57

Your quite correct Helen in what you say, I did look to at the prospects of taking the snap from another angle but on the left of me was broken glass and on the right of me was a pile of dog muck, so I was limited.
Also my bike was unattended so I wanted to get it taken as quick as I could and carry on to a safer location.

Comment by: Big Keb on 13th May 2020 at 14:33

This photo's not recent, there's no painting been done this year.

Comment by: Rev David Long on 13th May 2020 at 14:57

Mick - to have produced a really arty-party pic you should have snipped the heads off the purple crocuses. The white one draws the eye to all the other white features around the lock - the bollards, and the white-painted parts of the gates and the footbridge.
Your pic even stirred me to versify:
There was an old lady of Ince,
Whose hair had had a blue rinse,
And who thought it would look very chintz,
To plant up some crocus -
And lo - hocus-pocus,
Each Spring it positively glints.

Comment by: Veronica on 13th May 2020 at 16:19

If a navy blue ribbon was tied round the narrow part of the said bollard, it would look like a sailor's cap ...
Confess Mick where you trying to be quirky like wot Tracy Emin's 'unmade bed'? Only joking lad..

Comment by: Ken R on 13th May 2020 at 16:35

Nice one Mick... Rev, don't give up your day job.

Comment by: broady on 13th May 2020 at 19:32

Not your best Mick but not the worst I've seen. Want to see bad check out album. Someone's family album again.

Comment by: Garry on 14th May 2020 at 13:30

I think the Rev needs a sherry.

Comment by: DTease on 19th May 2020 at 07:34

I think the Rev as already had a sherry!

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