I left for work two hours early today so that I could take a long route and take some photies along the way. I got to see some impressive scenery around Douglas, (so I was able to turn them into average pics), and took the full two hours walking.
By the time I got into town my legs were tired and I decided I had probably worked up an appetite to go to KFC. I felt hungry enough for it too.
So I got more than usual - a large [3] crispy strips meal, a mini-fillet burger, 3 hot wings. diet coke (I’ve recently switched to diet drinks, not as part of a ‘diet’ but just to do my body at least one favour).
I got into work where it was all stations go. I ate the mini-fillet burger and the fries. I looked at the strips and decided I wasn’t hungry anymore so I shared them out. And I simply forgot about the wings. This is NOT like me. Usually I finish a meal feeling hungry for more. Where did my appetite go?
1 - Nice composition with the lines in the concrete contrasting with the sky; I would crop out the tree line, or retake the photo at an angle where the building blocks a view of the trees.
4 - Again, a well-composed shot, and here the contrast between the dark blue of the sky and the stark white of the building is interesting
5 - I thought the Electric Railway sign was pretty cool, actually. I think I’d photoshop out the wires, though.
7 - This high-contrast photo - something or other against the water - I don’t get it.
8, 9, 10, 11, 17, and many others (showing the rocks and the coast, etc.) are lovely and they make me homesick for Maine - the geography is very similar.
12 and 14, the high-contrast shots with the water and the bridge, are also visually interesting; I might be tempted to crop much of the water, though, and go for a more purely abstract composition.
33 and 34 - Seem a little overexposed - the contrast is too grey. Was it hazy or foggy that day? I would bring up the contrast on those shots to get more out of the details.
23 - I’m partial to leaded glass windows, what can I say? Where is that one installed, and do you remember how big it is? (Professional interest - I build and repair leaded glass for a living.)
I made a note about the building in the other forum.
“The building (summerland complex) showed it’s first signs of being demolished. It had a fire about 25 years ago in which many people died (an experimental transparent roof caught fire and melted). After the fire it was repaired (cheaply) and re-opened, but it looked ugly and had nothing like the number of visitors as before. It was a shadow of it’s former self. This year it is finally being demolished and replaced with something new. The picture of the side of it where it looks like there used to be a sign is to show the first evidence of demilishion. (the fact that the sign has gone). The building’s ‘unique’ shape and features had become fixed in the psyche of manx people. It’s significance is probably lost on those outside IOM so the pics look like ‘pictures of bits of an ugly old building’”
I should retake that in the same conditions but without the wires and lamppost in view.
Just rocks.
It was installed on the side of a shop. It was about a metre across. here is a wider shot of it.
Thanks for your comments. When I’m next back at work, and if the weather is right, I’ll take that route again and take some of the comments here and at the other place into consideration. In fact I had already decided to go that way again. I usually re-do ‘routes’ so I can retake the same pics but without the mistakes, or with new ideas gained by looking at them on a bigger screen.
I really like #8. The colors are beautiful. I also like that you took the picture from above the rocks so that you can see into the water. When I was a young girl (eons ago) I used to ride my bike to the beach and sit on a group of craggy rocks and look down into the water for hours. Your picture instantly transported me back to those wonderful afternoons - I could feel the warmth of the sun on my back and hear the seagulls. Thanks for bringing back good memories.
Back to the appetite question. It could have been the exercise. Once, years ago, I added a couple of gym classes to my schedule and was following an hour of weight training with an hour of racketball. My appetite fell way off on the days I exercised, especially in the first few hours after.
I also vaguely remember seeing mention of exercise reducing appetite in a magazine, but even if I could remember which one and when, I wouldn’t consider it a usable cite.
I could guess that digestion takes energy and recovering from exercise takes energy and sometimes the body chooses between them. You could experiment with it and let us know. Enquiring minds and all.
That’s interesting. I will certainly experiment with the idea (another reason to take a long route to work). It brings into doubt the idea of ‘working up an appetite’.
A fitness-obsessed co-worker mentioned the idea of walking as a form of excercise. That planted a seed. I enjoy walking. So I have had it in my mind to take longer walks to work and to go out walking for the sake of walking. Until that point I had considered walking a necessary part of getting from A to B and that the shorter the distance the better, but I can’t believe I never entertained the idea of simply setting off earlier and going a different route. It makes for a far less boring journey, it increases the excercise, it increases oportunities.
When I’m next back at work, and if the weather is right, I’ll take that route again and take some of the comments here and at the other place into consideration. In fact I had already decided to go that way again. I usually re-do ‘routes’ so I can retake the same pics but without the mistakes, or with new ideas gained by looking at them on a bigger screen.