Allotments 4 All

Hi all, just checking if this will post. Been reding the other threads so here goes.
(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y20/Dirkdigger/daffodil.jpg)
seems ok on preview

what a fantastic picture

HOW COME YOU CAN DO IT

Waggi, do you have a album on line through photobucket ?
If you have, when you have uploaded(sent them the photo's) you will get a picture with 3 addresses underneath. The bottom one says img( which is the one you need to copy.(click in the address to highlight it, right click and copy) go back to alloments thread right click again this time paste. you should get IMG some obscure photobucket address linking to your image ending IMG.
If you then click on preview at the bottom of the allotment input page the image should appear.
Does this make sense ?
Probably not the best way to do it or the only way, but it seems to work for me.
Good luck.

Play with this... http://imageshack.us/ easy peasy 8)

dibberxxx , glad you like it, taken today at about 3'0clock. Really just a grab shot along with a few others. Quite liked the blue and orange highlights in the background, lots of people walking bye, obviously thinking what a weirdo kneeling down taking photo's of flowers, obviously belongs to Allotments4 all.

Dirk - What a beautiful picture !!
Absolutely adore the combination of yellow and blue ! Spring is definitely on its way !!
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This I just Love.

dirkdigger most have look at your picture 10 times tonight really do love it its just so bright like the summer

Wish I could do focus like some!

I too keep going back to look at it !  Just to start off my day !  :D

Someone who I work with suggested trying to sell copies for charity( Madame Currie cancer)..They have a daffodil as an emblem I think. It seems a good idea as I lost my father aged only 49 to the dreaded C, 20 years ago. I have also been asked to take some photo's for a local girls birthday prom, decided to allow any money made from the sale of any images to go to the above charity.
What does anyone think of this idea ?

I'm afraid I pinched it for my new desktop screen.........................such a GORGEOUS picture!!!  :-[  Hope you don't mind...........liza

No problems Liza, as I have said before any photo's posted are free to anyone to use as wallpaper or what ever. Its just if anyone wanted a print for a wall or anything it could be arranged by sending me a PM. They are printed on heavy gloss paper, not by myself. The charity thing was just a thought thats all!!

i think that is a really good ideal dirkdigger i would certainly buy one i lost my dad to cancer 6 years ago i am all for given to cancer and such a lovely picture who could resit buying one

Hi Dirk

I think that is a BRILLIANT idea !!  Anything that can help organisations like Marie Curie have my vote, definitaly.  I too lost my mum to cancer 10 years ago this year.  Well done Dirk - It's all for a VERY good cause.

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Thanks for all the encouragement, think I'll get some printed up at 12x8 inches and 7x5, another thought is to limit them to only say 15 copies ? and perhaps mark on the back the number of the copy.
Then do as some photographers, delete the original image to never be seen again.
I'll let you know how I get on.
Dirk

(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y20/Dirkdigger/knighthayes.jpg)

Wow Dirk - those colours are absolutely beautiful!
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Still going through old images from Knighthayes court garden.

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last one for a while.

You certainly have an eye for a fab pic!

With great surroundings, its not that difficult. Only 20 miles down the road from me, never been there before. Will certainly go back.
Anyone been to Heligan ? due to visit later in the year. Really looking forward to it, any special places to look out for ????

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Wow that is almost 3 dimensional, feel I could dip my toe in there ;D well captured ;)

If you like sub-tropical green plants, you'll love "The Lost Gardens of Heligan", there is an abundance of hardy palms, tree ferns, banana plants, big leaf plants like Gunnera manicata and of course rhododendrons and hydrangea's.

Here's a link to my visit to Heligan piccies to give you a taster.
http://community.webshots.com/album/58573443DahuIW

Roy, thanks for the links to your photo's, some great images and weather. Interesting the other garden is another I want to visit, Trebah. If your photo's are anything to go by is a definite. The others on my list to visit are Trellissick ? and Lanhydrock. Anybody been to these venues ?
What about the Eden project, seems a mixed bag on the reports I've received. Everybody seems to be wowed by the DOMES nothing else.
I've been very tempted to try and go to a course at Rosemoor(RHS), they are advertising a 2 day course on garden photography, I think it runs in April and October. The photographer is a Clive Nichols, apparently world famous garden photographer. 2 days for £91, birthdays coming!!!!!!

DD I went to the Eden Project a couple of years ago before I was properly in to gardening. Yes the domes are impressive, but I found a lot of the plants very impressive too, especially things like rice (growing in perspex/glass columns so you could see the roots), Coffee plants, papyrus, cork trees, and tobacco. Stuff used in ordinary life, but you rarely see a growing plant, or in some cases I didn't even know what the plant looked like before seeing it there.

Probably not as impressive as some gardens, but I thoroughly enjoyed my visit!  :)

And garden photography course sounds marvellous  ;D

Thanks for the info Moggle, I suppose if I'm in the area it would be a shame not to pay a visit
Yes the course sounds great, I'll need to check if there are any places still available.

Loved Eden, but then I am a sucker for a tropical plant, no matter where it is growing, and to see pawpaws growing, and coffee, and narnars, and the kids adore it, love the tropical dome.

Wonderful gardens down that way and if you are going to rosemore, there is another little paradise, but I haven't yet convinced my grandad to open his patch to the public.  ;D

And Eden is there beyond it's beauty - to preserve for the future?

I visited Eden in 2001 it was still in its prime, I was very impressed with the size of those Biomes, the tropical plants were not as impressive then, but I'll bet they are now, great experience, although I preferred the sub-tropical gardens in and around Cornwall. ;D

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Roy, thanks for the photo's looks really good, would it be worth getting the fasttrack tickets, or just the old British custom of standing in a line ?

From what I can remember Dirt Digger, it payed you to buy your ticket in advance from any tourist board, I believe it was at a reduced rate then but 4 years on things may have changed, enquire just in case, plus you were put in a separate queue so you got in quicker ;)

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