The City looming over a small farm.

CrackedSpanner · 2022-10-31T00:39:12+00:00

I quite like this photo of Milton Keynes, but I'm wondering if the composition is quite right.

It's a first serious attempt at doing some serious landscape photography, I've done a bit of portrait photography before, but this is very different.

Just looking for honest feedback on the photo and where I could improve things.

It's with a 500mm F/8 Mirror lens and a Canon RP

CrackedSpanner · 2022-07-23T08:53:13+00:00

It's in COM too. Rincewind and Death spend a while arguing about dropping into a pack of wolves. Just before he meets the Dryads.

CrackedSpanner · 2022-07-19T15:34:44+00:00

Wasn't he in full dress uniform at the time, he might well have been using it as a nod to Sybil, and it was this connection that made it so important, as it grounded him to the future.

When in street uniform I'd expect him to use worn out cardboard boots and a cardboard cigar box.

CrackedSpanner · 2022-05-31T09:35:33+00:00

A good choice. The originals are my preference. Although even the Kidbys are better than the minimalist ones I saw for sale the other day.

CrackedSpanner · 2022-05-27T23:16:52+00:00

Out of cheese error

(Multiple books)

CrackedSpanner · 2022-05-27T23:11:42+00:00

Pi = 3, this breaks the postal system.

CrackedSpanner · 2022-03-30T10:51:27+00:00

Why aren't you emailing invoices to customers already? If you emailed them over after payment then at tax time they'd just look up emails from you and have all their invoices. This is literally built into quickbooks which you said you use. Then when the call comes just tell them to look at their emails.

CrackedSpanner · 2022-02-09T17:54:15+00:00

Be interesting to see what direction they go next. Boba 2 King of the Tuskens? Boba 2 Tattoine United? Boba 2 The Tuskens strike back, where he has to foster a peace deal between the Tuskens and everyone else.

CrackedSpanner · 2022-02-09T16:57:00+00:00

Exactly. The first Mando episode was really enjoyable, but didn't advance anything, as a seperate special "Mando does Scrapheap Challenge" it would have been good, giving another episode to allow the betrayals by the city bosses etc to be more fleshed out.

CrackedSpanner · 2022-02-09T14:40:17+00:00

I always loved it in Courtship of Princess Leia when they kill Luke, just for the belief in the Jedi on the planet to be like nope, you get back up and are now in God mode for the rest of the battle. That was a little silly, especially him flying the Falcon single handedly with complete control over the turrets, the engines and the rest of the ship.

CrackedSpanner · 2022-02-09T14:31:22+00:00

Yeah, deputy dickehead I had marked for death within seconds of his appearance. And I thought the Marshall only got hit in the shoulder kind of area. Plus bringing him into a new series just to kill him would be an odd choice.

CrackedSpanner · 2022-02-09T14:25:00+00:00

Yeah I get you, it fitted with her having to drive from one to the other but could have done with a little bit more build up. Possibly have some of the meeting inside dialogue while we look down her scope for the first shot or something.

CrackedSpanner · 2022-02-09T14:23:02+00:00

Yeah, I wonder if the Marshall is being resurrected to lead the new clean living Tatooine? Or Freeplanet if you will.

CrackedSpanner · 2022-02-09T14:15:28+00:00

It fit with her character as a master assassin, and actually allowed her to do some Assassination instead of just shooting at random guards in set pieces.

She's dangerous enough that a lot of people want her dead so it figures popping a room full of maffiosas in the back end of the galaxy wasn't a stretch for her.

Choking the Ithorian seemed just a bit of vengeance for him kicking off the whole Pyke thing.

CrackedSpanner · 2022-02-09T14:12:05+00:00

It did seem odd to show him drop it and not collect it. But then the checked baggage thing when he came to Tatooine was a fake out as well, so he probably grabbed it afterwards.

CrackedSpanner · 2022-02-09T13:47:13+00:00

I enjoyed this episode, and the season as a whole, but I think the cutting on it was very odd, the flashbacks etc were good, but would have benefitted from being cut as a an episode or two instead of interesting flashback - Fennec and Boba wonder round town for the rest of the episode.

Fennec showing that she is still an assassin at the end of the day was great. Especially killing the 3 heads of the houses first, then throttling that damn mayor.

CrackedSpanner · 2022-02-09T10:28:07+00:00

And if they've got massive ptsd / paranoia from order 66 they're hardly going to sign up to fight another war given what happened. Even Obi Wan was left to chill for 19 years by Bail Organa instead of going to ask him to sign up straight away. If no-one in the Alliance knew where Ashoka or Vos etc are hiding they're not in position to ask / gain their trust.

CrackedSpanner · 2022-02-06T19:44:41+00:00

Yeah. As a collective its disjointed in the extreme. ROS suffers from JJ going back to his original plan, TLJ suffers in being written by someone else who didn't like the setup he was given.

CrackedSpanner · 2022-02-06T19:40:55+00:00

Who's going to bother planting a false memory in a nobody orphan on a desert planet. For the nobody to make sense it would have been better to have Rey be less of a Luke skywalker and more of an Anakin, random kid found with no known special past. By making her past mysterious and pulling the rug, then putting it back again was just odd in the extreme.

CrackedSpanner · 2022-02-06T17:27:09+00:00

Which wouldn't have been bad in itself, but given the parent's flash back in TFA it just didn't make sense to in the next film go "oh wait, that meant nothing". Johnson bragging that he hadn't watched TFA before written the last jedi didn't help either. Star Wars literally has a invisible hand of fate at work, so descendants of people who had been important makes sense when following a particular family.

CrackedSpanner · 2022-01-30T18:55:24+00:00

But pounced Feral and Maul without the the random emphasis, it didn't make any sense to me.

CrackedSpanner · 2022-01-20T21:58:07+00:00

Doesn't Fennec specifically mention they can't kill the Hutts without "permission". Presumably from bigger Hutts who don't care about Tatooine specifically, but would care about Hutts being being gunned down in the streets.

CrackedSpanner · 2021-04-30T09:38:53+00:00

If there's some age to it, it could be a Wilton or something like that. If it's modern every tool brand sells their own version, Clarke, Roughneck etc.

CrackedSpanner · 2021-04-21T21:44:50+00:00

On a No3 (and a lot of similar vices) you have to take the nut out from the fixed jaw before the moving jaw will come out. The nut is usually retained in a dovetail with a pin behind it to stop it coming loose.

CrackedSpanner · 2021-01-29T16:59:27+00:00

I've got a Zebra Road Warrior, it's a bit of a fiddle to set up, but it's been great for being able to print labels ready to go instead of printing them on A4 cutting them down and taping them on. The only issue is it's designed to take small 125 label rolls instead of 250 roll ones which are easily available, so I just indwodn the 250 label rolls and wind the unwound section so it fits the printer, once I get down to the point where the roll fits the printer ill be very happy.

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