Posted by Ian Bramham (Manchester, United Kingdom) on 13 January 2008 in People & Portraits and Portfolio.
I just fancied a change from all those photos from Paris that I've been posting.
This is from a place called Les Saisies in the French Alps....I hope you like it!
. HOT TIP FOR ALL AM3 CONTRIBUTORS : I've been having problems for ages with my uploaded landscape orientated images looking fuzzy and not as sharp as they should be....well I finally found the answer recently in an answer by Jason Kravitz to a query in the forums .....if you too have been having this problem the answer is to make sure you resize your photos to a maximum horizontal dimension of 800 pixels (vertical size is not limited). Anything greater than 800pixels and AM3 will automatically resize it leading to the reduction in sharpness.
Please feel free to copy and paste this advice into your own AM3 blogs as I'm sure there are lots of our fellow AM3ers out there having this same frustrating problem...it would be great to sort the problem out for as many of us as possible.
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Fiery and Vibrant, what a shot...I feel the cold and the wonder...high drama points, again ;)
13 Jan 2008 8:43am
@Lorraine: Thanks Lorraine!.....this was Christmas Eve in the French Alps and these ski instructors had just skiied down from the top of the mountain each carrying one of these torches.....there were about 80 of them and it looked like a river of fire snaking its way down.
it's a team of instructeur "Ecole de Ski Francais" literally "French School of Ski" most of us went to that school when you got the privilege to skiing as an children. Well capture the contrast is good
13 Jan 2008 9:17am
@Pouhou: Hi Pouhou!......I guess this brought back a few memories for you then.
what a happy image
13 Jan 2008 9:29am
@eddy: Thanks Eddy.....it was Christmas Eve so everyone there was feeling happy, the children especially.
What a beautiful color night shot. Well done.
13 Jan 2008 4:52pm
@See The Light: Thanks Mary!....it was Christmas Eve and these instructors (about 80 of them all carrying these fiery torches) had just finished skiing down from the top of the mountain.
What a fun and vibrant shot!! Wonderful Ian!! BTW.. I'm back! Had a boo at what I've missed... LOVE love love the Paris series... excellent! I do have a fav, tho': your Albert Dock post!!
13 Jan 2008 8:30pm
@amy: Thanks Amy!....its great to see you back and I hope you're feeling fully recovered now!
Fantastic.
21 Jan 2008 4:58pm
@Twelvebit: Thanks very much!
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