24-hour photo challenge, with your guest presenter, easterbunny

[hirez]

Or something like that.

I was challenged with '4 x the illustrated Betjeman', which was rather good fun.

We begin with the poem 'Bristol', which contains the verse

Ringers in an oil-lit belfry - Bitton? Kelston? who shall say? -
Smoothly practicing a plain course, caverned out the dying day
As their melancholy music flooded up and ebbed away.

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[avocadovpx]

>> with your guest presenter, easterbunny

With cameo appearance by Neasden Postlethwaite?

This is brilliant.

[hirez]

Yes.

You may imagine them on a sofa, exchanging scripted banter and dreaming of a move to a Fox affiliate somewhere up-state.

[hirez]

It was the first thing that came into my head, after WGN-TV.

(I have to admit that I watched an awful lot of Weather Channel when feverish. I miss it.)

[bogwitch64]

Egads! The pic of the churchyard is fabooooooooooo!

[hirez]

It did come out rather well, didn't it? Nat bad for a phonecam + the barest of tweaking with The Gimp.

[bogwitch64]

Phonecam??? I think you must have some magical skills you've been holding back on.

[hirez]

Good luck, more than anything else; once in a while, 'auto equalise' will pull all sorts of detail from a badly exposed shot. Also right place at right time.

[hirez]

Thank you. It's all your fault, of course.

Bath is heaving due to the Christmas Market. Since that and yon tea-shoppe are both in the shadow of the abbey, it was packed with frenzied shoppers.

It's not a bad place, but I wish the sodding tourists would piss off.

[deviblue]

Ah so thats why nothing is right for me atm...I don't have any waitrose beans...cos they're like, essential and stuff.

[hirez]

Yes. Without an Essential Selection, it all goes a bit Pete Tong...

(Thank you. We're here all week.)