ON THE BALL

[FUJI]

Children are drawn to this stone sphere, it is usually revolving on a thin film of moving water in its scooped out base, but it was dry today.

This lass was in a world of her own as she played on and around it:

My vintage REFLECTA 1.8-55 lens again....fully manual:

 

FUJI

[JamesT]

Whereabouts is it? I know I've seen something very similar but I can't recall where -- I did live in Brum for almost 20 years, but if you had asked me "where was the granite ball rotating on a water film" I think I would have had to say "Pune or Maryland". (Of course there may well be more than one)

Also I can't help but think of the Kate Bush song "Them heavy people"

[FUJI]

Hi J

These solid granite spheres seem to have been purchased as a job-lot by local authorities to celebrate the Millennium, ours appeared in the town centre then....is caused a huge controversy as a total waste of money. Occasionally some wag adds washing powder or washing up liquid to the water and it produces foam in huge quantities which flies everywhere.

Sometimes it is working, other times  not, like today.

They are clever the way an extremely thin layer of running water keeps such a heavy, solid item revolving.....adults ignore it.....kids love it.

FUJI

[kev7d]

A nice mono. I think the composition is great. I like the shadow to the bottom and right of the stones.

[FUJI]

Thanks folks.....

I have been taken to task by my ex pro and competition judge mate.....I had full marks for this, until he spotted the post growing out of the head of the girl, he downed me three points for that.

He is superc critical............ He often makes the feathers fly, when he is a guest judge for a few local clubs.

Since, I got to know him, I have been kept in line ;-)).  Not!

 Like chalk and cheese in approach.....he was a Rolliflex and Leica using wedding photographer, knows lenses and settings inside out, he has a Leica now. Plus the best Nikon kit ....

Me, just an old fogey, who can't count who was very late into the hobby, and shoots by eye, rather than being technically perfect......as long as he remembers whose turn it is to get the coffee's when we are on a shoot I don't mind.

FUJI

[Craftysnapper]

Nice candid Fuji, has for your mate,been there done that as a judge but i tend not to point things like that out here.

When you come from a film background when there was no photoshop to clone things out you tend to quickly scan the viewfinder for things like that, no one wants crisp packets, bins in there pictures (especially wedding pics) and trees growing out of there heads and judges would spot rubbish  in any  type of pic and jump on it.

[FUJI]

Thanks Paul

About two years ago, he stopped to ask about the camera I was always carrying in town.......we nattered about kit and approach for some time, to the annoyance of our wives.

Since we've been shooting mates, we just about tolerate our very different approach ...... Yes, he is your kind of photographer, it is ingrained.

Three months ago, he surprised both myself and his club members by moving from his usual very formal, exacting style to my kind of....Street Photography .....he takes an age to get his Leica set up to perfection, then moves around for best view, very=y often, missing.....the Moment.

Me?........ I SEE!......I SHOOT!

He dispairs of me at times........his approach just frustrates and inhibits my unrestricted mind.

As long as he gets the coffee's in