It was the people on the stairs partly why I cropped the image. The trouble is that those stairs were a thoroughfare down to the restaurant Nightski. But the more I look at it I'm now starting to like the original more and more.

Beautiful capture. The light is amazing especially on download. Love the soft glow from the evening light on the underside of the nearest gull and the chains hanging down from the roof.
Did you notice the sand castles on the extreme left?

I assume you mean the nuclear bunkers Graham.
Scary.

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So where abouts Graham?
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Beautiful capture Graham. Your B&W street scenes are a must see.
It's lucky that Simon was wearing a semblance of a hat otherwise his facial skin tones would have almost perfectly blended into the right hand part of the blockwork and you would have had to darken that part of the wall.
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I think what OddJobber was referring to was :-



Rearrange the above words into a phrase or well known saying.

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Sorry for delay in posting the original but took ages finding it in an old Lightroom backup catalogue.
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Thanks for explanation Nightski. I must admit I know nothing about English football, let alone the US version.
As I said earlier I took loads of photos from various angles and earlier in the day before they lit them all up and I felt that this particular shot showed all of the elements I wished to depict.
Here's the base shot before tweaking the WB and exposure and cropping.

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"like a Monday morning quarterback", I don't know what that means.
I did first think of including my daughter in the shot but the place was heaving with people as down those stairs was a restaurant and a classical string quartet busking.
So I went for the next best thing, taking in the Victorian architecture. I was also pressed for time as we were off to the theatre.
I did take many shots from various advantage points but this I felt was the best one.
I did take this one however of just the balloons.

Will probably go for about 10 days and yes will be going with 2 people of the shopping persuasion (as you so tactfully put )
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Taken 3/9/2015. Early evening the various sized 100,000 balloons are illuminated by pulsating lights to represent the heart beat.
Heart Beat - Installation by Charles Pétillon at Covent Garden
Weaving its way through the South Hall of the Grade II listed Market Building, Heartbeat stretches 54 metres in length and 12 metres in width, and incorporates gentle pulsating white light to symbolise the beating of a heart and reflect the history, energy and dynamism of the district.
For this particular shot I attempted to capture as many of the balloons lit and incorporate as much of the Victorian ironworl

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Great photo Graham as usual, your B&W by far my favourite. As for the 3 objects on the road, the photo would still be as effective if 3 other similarly sized random objects were similarly placed.

I'm possibly going to Japan for a family wedding in Tokyo April 2016. Has anyone else been and can recommend any must see photo opportunities.
Also what lens to take for my Canon 5D Mk iii, or might it be worthwhile buying lenses out there.

Yes, I'd established that from my googling but what I haven't been able to establish is what is the overall effect/look is likely to result in the final mounting.
Phil

Thanks for that. I did actually google it before asking here but most explained the difference in composition not what the final effect would be.
A lot of the sites talked about printing directly onto the foam and not mounting prints.
Phil
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