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After watching my offspring disconsolately pushing the verdant cruciferous vegetable delight known as broccoli around their plates for 20 minutes, hiding it or surreptitiously attempting to orbit it ( basically anything but eat it), I thought some fatherly encouragement might be in order. I was struck by inspiration; To the youngest (age 2) I phrased the notion that It might turn his poo green.Evidently the prospect of turning this now somewhat less turgid brassica into a green turd stimulated his imagination and it was gone in a trice.
Pleased though I was at this point, it was hardly a major accomplishment as we're still at the stage with this one where spontaneous avionics displays of his grub initiated by parents, culminating in emergency touchdowns on his tongue are still sufficient inspiration to actually ingest it. No the flash of genius was suggesting to his sister (an infinitely more sceptical 4 year old) that the element of competition afforded by a poo race might be amusing. Eager to entertain no further delay at the prospect of being the first to pass a large green stool, the aforementioned calabrese was promptly masticated.
The Romanesque Cauliflower pictured, I bought just to photograph which I did using a low powered ringflash off the camera as a light source so metering was very much try-it-and-see I quite like the final spotlight effect and reminds me very much of a subject a raytracer might choose (appropriate maths could generate the fractal (it looks a bit like part of a Julia set to me) wood grain and spotlighting very much a raytracer's stock in trade) Needless to say the kids did eat this one afterwards without promising it's colourful egress from biological processing
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After watching my offspring disconsolately pushing the verdant cruciferous vegetable delight known as broccoli around their plates for 20 minutes, hiding it or surreptitiously attempting to orbit it( basically anything but eat it), I thought some fatherly encouragement might be in order. I was struck by inspiration; To the youngest (age 2) I phrased the notion that It might turn his pooh green.Evidently the prospect of turning this now somewhat less turgid brassica into a green turd stimulated his imagination and it was gone in a trice. Pleased though I was at this point, it was hardly a major accomplishment as we're still at the stage with this one where spontaneous avionics displays of his grub initiated by parents, culminating in emergency touchdowns on his tongue are still sufficient inspiration to actually ingest it. No the flash of genius was suggesting to his sister (an infinitely more sceptical 4 year old) that the element of competition afforded by a pooh race might be amusing. Eager to entertain no further delay at the prospect of being the first to pass a large green stool, the aforementioned calabrese was promptly masticated.
The Romanesque Cauliflower pictured, I bought just to photograph which I did using a low powered ringflash off the camera as a light source so metering was very much try-it-and-see I quite like the final spotlight effect and reminds me verymuch of a subject a raytracer might choose (appropriate maths could generate the fractal (it looks a bit like part of a Julia set to me) wood grain and spotlighting verymuch a raytracers stock in trade) Needless to say the kids did eat this one afterwards without promising it's colourful egress from biological processing
Edited on 2007-10-01 20:56:34 by IanHayhurst
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<div style="float:left;width:230px"><div class="thm-inline" style="height:163px"><a href="IMG2832"><img src="../images/_MG_2832-thm.jpg"></a><br /><div class="title">Fractal Vegetable<br />Romanesque Cauliflower </div></div><br /> Needless to say this was all too much for our distinguished dinner guest (Mother in-law) but even she agreed that the technique (although highly unorthodox) had demonstrated a remarkable efficacy in getting my children to eat their greens.
The Romanesque Cauliflower pictured, I bought just to photograph which I did using a low powered ringflash off the camera as a light source so metering was very much try-it-and-see I quite like the final spotlight effect and reminds me verymuch of a subject a raytracer might choose (appropriate maths could generate the fractal (it looks a bit like part of a Julia set to me) wood grain and spotlighting verymuch a raytracers stock in trade) Needless to say the kids did eat this one afterwards without promising it's colourful egress from biological processing
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<div style="float:left;width:230px"><div class="thm-inline" style="height:163px"><a href="IMG2832"><img src="../images/_MG_2832-thm.jpg"></a><br /><div class="title">Fractal Vegetable<br />Romanesque Cauliflour </div></div><br /> Needless to say this was all too much for our distinguished dinner guest (Mother in-law) but even she agreed that the technique (although highly unorthodox) had demonstrated a remarkable efficacy in getting my children to eat their greens.
Edited on 2007-10-01 20:49:55 by IanHayhurst
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""<div class="clearleft"></div><a href="P0009" rel="bookmark" title="How to get your kids to eat broccoli">How to get your kids to eat broccoli</a> <div style="float:left;width:230px"><div class="thm-inline" style="height:163px"><a href="IMG2832"><img src="../images/_MG_2832-thm.jpg"></a><br /><div class="title">Fractal Vegetable<br />Romanesque Cauliflour </div></div><br />
After watching my offspring disconsolately pushing the verdant cruciferous vegetable delight known as broccoli around their plates for 20 minutes, hiding it or surreptitiously attempting to orbit it( basically anything but eat it), I thought some fatherly encouragement might be in order. I was struck by inspiration; To the youngest (age 2) I phrased the notion that It might turn his pooh green.Evidently the prospect of turning this now somewhat less turgid brassica into a green turd stimulated his imagination and it was gone in a trice.
Pleased though I was at this point, it was hardly a major accomplishment as we're still at the stage with this one where spontaneous avionics displays of his grub initiated by parents, culminating in emergency touchdowns on his tongue are still sufficient inspiration to actually ingest it. No the flash of genius was suggesting to his sister (an infinitely more sceptical 4 year old) that the element of competition afforded by a pooh race might be amusing. Eager to entertain no further delay at the prospect of being the first to pass a large green stool, the aforementioned calabrese was promptly masticated.
Needless to say this was all too much for our distinguished dinner guest (Mother in-law) but even she agreed that the technique (although highly unorthodox) had demonstrated a remarkable efficacy in getting my children to eat their greens.
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Atypical British Summer?
A Ride On
The Watercress Line
The Watercress Line
Stormy Littlehampton
From West Beach
From West Beach
La Vache Qui Rit
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Atypical British Summer?
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The Watercress Line
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Stormy Littlehampton
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From West Beach
La Vache Qui Rit
Ha! typical / atypical I don't really know anymore. After several years of very hot summers and drought, was 2007 just a return to the norm we all forgot about? Apart from the obvious distress caused by the flooding, I think it's been much better in a photographic sense. I was beginning to think the UK didn't 'do' proper clouds and went from a very un-picturesque fog, through gray featureless blanket cover straight into clear blue skys. This summer has had some spectacular clouds and brooding thunderheads which look great over agricultural land. The additional excitement and frisson of danger (do we take out wet weather gear or risk it)
With the current (or recurrent) bouts of foot and mouth and now Blue tongue, 'Daisy' here probably isn't laughing any more, unless it's about the possibility of our not being able to go anywhere in the Autumn either as no doubt we'll see mass footpath closures (less people spread infected midges about on their wellies). Just think of all the CO2 that we haven't released in all those summer barbecues that didn't happen .
Picking the exact moment is not something that landscape photographers have to do too much (on the scale of seconds that is) A Ride On The Watercress Line as the title suggests was exactly that. It was a family day out (a day out with Thomas the Tank engine no less!) On the way between Ropley and Arlesford I spotted this scene as we flashed by, I wasn't that quick but on the return journey I was ready , window open, braced and most importantly IS (Image stabilisation) switched on, waiting for the perfect moment to slide into view, The red car was just lucky
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