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I've been posting a lot of photos recently that were taken during my trip to France over Christmas but didn't want to ignore this photo of Southport Pier on the NW coast of England that I took recently near where I grew up.
It's from the weekend before last, about an hour and a half before sunset, with the low winter sun casting long shadows and a mellow golden light across the beach.
The tide is out as you can see, but I searched out the wettest part of the sand that I could find to get some reflections of that great sky.
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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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If you have any other burning queries about Aminus3 or just a great suggestion you want to make, why not try the forum here :Aminus3 Forum.
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@sangram: Thanks very much Sangram!
@Chinky: Thanks ...what a nice thing to say!
@One Way: Thanks ......I'm pleased you liked it!
@GJC: Thanks GJC.....it was just one of those chance lucky shots as I hadn't planned to take a photo of the Pier that day!
@Guillermina: Thanks Guillermina....I took a number of photos but knew that with the reflections in the water that this would be the best one of the bunch. I was still surprised though by how well it turned out!
@MOHAMMAD: Thanks Mohammad!
@Kaddy: Cheers Kaddy.....great news as well that the tip about resizing was useful.
@Lorraine: I'll take it that you liked it then! :-)
@Sandrine: Thanks very much Sandrine!
@marc: Merci beaucoup Marc!
@Laurie: Thanks very much Laurie!
@danthro: Thanks...there's a larger version here..http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=2190022541&size=o
@See The Light: Thanks very much Mary....I take that as a big compliment coming from you!
@tom: Thanks very much Tom!
@amy: Thanks very much Amy...I'm really pleased that you liked it!
@«miguel.peixeiro»: ....thanks very much!
@Oswegan: Thanks Oswegan!
@Nick Passantino: Thanks very much Nick!
@Izad: Hi.....surprisingly photogenic aren't they. I think it comes from the simplicity and lack of clutter that naturally seems to be a part of most shoreline photos....have you seen the Chromasia (no connection to me!) photoblog based in Blackpool yet...I'm sure you'd like it.
@Katie: Thanks very much Katie!
@danthro: I've changed the permissions ....give it a try again, it should work now!
@SPunkt: Thanks very much!
@Damon Schreiber: Thanks Damon....that's a great compliment coming from you as I really love your photography!
@Momo: Thanks very much Momo!
@danthro: no problem...thanks for letting me know that the flickr link wasn't working!
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