BS: WAV with Pics

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 25 Jan 21 - 02:09 PM

Thanks, again, D. ... not sure what mountain that is?

My WalkaboutsVerse poem questioning "People or Money?" with a photo of zhezhi - the Chinese predecessor of Japanese origami - from a Hong Kong money-changer.

Subject: RE:Pics
From: Donuel
Date: 25 Jan 21 - 11:00 AM

Familiar stars in OZ https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/2101/SouthernCross_Slovinsky_3000.jpg

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 24 Jan 21 - 05:32 AM

Either way, thanks for the Nasa pics, D. (I quite like the way they peel open); and an apology for the typo just above - it's the Pyramid OF Cestius, in Rome, sorry.

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 23 Jan 21 - 06:29 PM

Believe me, you have never written an actual poem.

Subject: RE: Pics
From: Donuel
Date: 23 Jan 21 - 05:07 PM

My poem sailing was shaped like a sailboat.

In photoshop finalize the text and draw new words in a different colour or colorize the finalized text witf a word or symbol
unused engagement ring

Subject: RE: Pics
From: Donuel
Date: 23 Jan 21 - 04:22 PM

Bagle

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 23 Jan 21 - 02:40 PM

My poem "For the Poor" - shaped into a pyramid and with a photo of the Pyramid in Cestius, taken through a bus window in Rome, during my visit in May 2019.

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 16 Jan 21 - 06:21 PM

Thanks again Steve and I shall keep it in mind but, whilst I am up-to-date with my laptop and Windows 10, I don't have a smart phone as my 2002 model Nokia still works! (It's in my bag in case I have to make an emergency call and for the occasional message, and sometimes used as an alarm.)

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 16 Jan 21 - 06:18 PM

I'm absolutely no expert on telescopes, but I would just say that, in order to save both disappointment and your hard-earned dough, you should do mucho homework before you buy, preferably on astronomy-type websites. It's something of a minefield, and I have a feeling that you definitely get what you pay for.

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 16 Jan 21 - 06:11 PM

I strongly recommend the Star Walk app. It might cost you a couple of quid, a one-off, but it's incredibly beautiful. Point your phone or iPad at the sky and it tells you exactly what you're looking at in glorious view. Move your device around and you can follow the sky around, even below the horizon, and there are lots more facets to the app. I wouldn't be without it. Apart from Daily Art, it's my very favourite app.

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 16 Jan 21 - 05:51 PM

Thanks Steve.

This is one telescope I was tempted by Celestron PS70/700 Refractor Telescope

And this is a good site I found recently for seeing what is out there each night https://www.timeanddate.com/astronomy/night/

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Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 16 Jan 21 - 05:43 PM

Unless you want to spend an arm and a leg in order to get fuzzy views of the Great Red Spot or Saturn's rings, the best astronomy tools for the amateur astronomer are your eyes. A decent pair of 8x30 binoculars are useful at times too. Most zoom binoculars are of inferior optical quality, so don't bother. For meteor showers, magnifying tools are your worst enemy as they cut down drastically the amount of sky you can see. The bins will get you seeing some nice double stars, such as the one in the middle of the Plough handle (a triple, actually, which binocs will reveal), and you can see the four big moons of Jupiter (there's a brilliant app for them). Decent kit for viewing things close up in anything like decent definition will cost you big mazumas.

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 16 Jan 21 - 04:59 PM

...I have never had a decent telescope but do have quite a good south facing view from my studio flat; and, just lately, I have been looking at Argos's options; I have 40 X zoom with my late grandad's binoculars but it would be nice to have over a 100...

I tried mostly trad English poetic forms in my collection, but also made up a couple of my own and had a go at an Italian sonnet, plus a few haikus - including this one with a few photos attached of airliners and contrails: "Humanity"

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: Donuel
Date: 16 Jan 21 - 07:41 AM

PIC OF ORION NEBULA i CALL MT OLYMPUS
I prefer the spectacular

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 15 Jan 21 - 01:55 PM

With some photos from the observatory in Greenwich, London, my poem on Mars, "Pie in the Sky"

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 14 Jan 21 - 03:10 PM

With aerial photos of German farming (taken to and fro a visit to Rome in 2019), my poem on, when it comes to meeting global food needs, "Progress"

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 14 Jan 21 - 12:02 PM

No Donuel: as an amateur, I've turned up at poetry and folk clubs and festivals (including a few competitions), and done some mini-gigs; on a lighter note, at Newcastle's Green Festival (quite a big one) it's free entry and unpaid performance, but we were given a ticket for a vegetarian meal so, that day, I literally sang for my supper!

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: Donuel
Date: 13 Jan 21 - 07:31 PM

Have you gone commercial in any way yet?

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 13 Jan 21 - 06:53 PM

With photos of the Burj Khalifa & a trad wind-tower dwelling in Dubai, my poem "Overcome"

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 08 Jan 21 - 12:23 PM

"Millennium Dreams"
with photos from England and Australia.

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 02 Jan 21 - 05:18 PM

"To Scotland, Again"
- with newly captioned pics from a train journey to Glasgow from Manchester, plus some of Glasgow's fine architecture and 2019 Christmas decorations.

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 01 Jan 21 - 04:20 PM

A poem and photos about the nice rail-side scenery where hills meet the sea in "North Wales"

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 31 Dec 20 - 05:27 PM

With newly captioned photos (whilst, again, watching "The Sound of Music" on he Beeb), my poem on "Liverpool"

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 29 Dec 20 - 03:53 PM

With newly captioned pics, my poem about The Birmingham Botanical Gardens and Glasshouses - "Bit of Each"

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 28 Dec 20 - 05:36 AM

...no longer feeling blue.

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: Donuel
Date: 27 Dec 20 - 08:39 PM

I just read it and it has an extra 'have to'.
I have an aphasic stutter in spoken words too.

Oops I did it again...poem

egads and just there too
Rhymes seem to stick to me like glue
Is there anything I can do

Ahh I can read WAV with video and sound.
See... I'm cured.

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 27 Dec 20 - 05:48 PM

So Donuel,
We now can tell,
Is a poet
Who does know it.

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: Donuel
Date: 27 Dec 20 - 05:40 PM

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guide_book

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: Donuel
Date: 27 Dec 20 - 05:39 PM

Guide books and traveloges have a rich and varied history.
You don't have to even have to call it poetry.

Hey look I wrote a poem!

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 27 Dec 20 - 05:08 PM

With photos of pedestrian crossings in London and Chiang Mai, my poem on their timing - "Green Light"

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 24 Dec 20 - 11:31 AM

Not exactly sure on "victims" SRS but, according to Google's stats, a few hundred thousand have had a look at my verses, and I used to get considerably more visits when my collection was on MySpace's blog spot.

Either way, happy Christmas, all; and, with a pic (again according to Google stats, a few million have looked at my contributions to Google Maps) from Rome and one from home, my carol "Christmas Sung Simply"

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 22 Dec 20 - 11:35 AM

Don't you have anyplace else you can conduct this self-promotion of bad poetry? Are we your only victims?

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 21 Dec 20 - 06:04 PM

...some further forgiveness required as this poem is about Cornish Pasties but the two photos from Devon's Exeter Cathedral, "Tin-Miners' Lunch"

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 20 Dec 20 - 02:45 PM

"Hobson's Choice" with photos of Cambridge, including King's College - from the front and from The Backs; thankfully, the carol service is still going ahead on Christmas Eve...forgive me but I guess they had...

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 19 Dec 20 - 05:12 PM

At churchyards, "Why the Yew?" with a couple of pics.

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 15 Dec 20 - 06:08 PM

"Oxford" - including photos of The Bridge of Sighs, Radcliffe Camera, and one of Matthew Arnold's "dreaming spires".

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 14 Dec 20 - 03:33 PM

"The Proms" - with a photo of Albert Hall shot from Kensington Gardens.

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 13 Dec 20 - 02:42 PM

With photos of the Diana Memorial in Hyde Park, my poem "A Loss For Humanity"

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 12 Dec 20 - 12:44 PM

With a photo of a local mural, my poem on "The Notting Hill Carnival"

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: Donuel
Date: 11 Dec 20 - 01:41 PM

Pre Pandemic retrospectives are all the rage.

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 11 Dec 20 - 01:38 PM

With captions just added, my poem on "Portobello Road" - not far from the abovementioned bedsit, in London.

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 09 Dec 20 - 02:44 PM

...In "Remembrance of Things Past" (Proust), a "A Bayswater Bedsit" - my first home in London upon repatriation from Australia in 1997; and photographed on a return visit in 2014, with captions added a couple of minutes ago.

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: Donuel
Date: 08 Dec 20 - 09:50 PM

One should not dismiss the great great grand cousin of Proust,

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 08 Dec 20 - 06:05 PM

Just done some more work on the captions of this WalkaboutsVerse song - "Impressions of London in 1997"

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 25 Oct 20 - 03:52 PM

Just finished, again, going through, and adding pics to, my intro blank-verse poem 0 - 19: HELPED BY “THE OLDS”; SCRIBED 2000 A.D.

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 20 Mar 20 - 01:26 PM

The USA, Gillymor, should be run by a council of Native Americans/Amerindians/First Nations and those who don't like the idea of that may do what I've done and repatriate to where they belong - the Trumps, e.g., may choose either Scotland or Slovenia; my poem, from WalkaboutsVerse, "Repatriating - Australia to England"

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: gillymor
Date: 19 Mar 20 - 08:30 PM

The Dixiecrats could have used more of your ilk back in '48 when they were trying to beat back integration.

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 19 Mar 20 - 07:48 PM

No Gillymor - Yet another finely wrought argument for keeping our world multicultural.

And, from just above that, I saw on the news today Elizabeth Windsor, plus Corgi, making way for our new Buckingham Public Hospital.

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: gillymor
Date: 14 Mar 20 - 10:51 AM

Yet another finely wrought argument for racism and xenophobia. Bravo!

Subject: RE: BS: WAV with Pics
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 14 Mar 20 - 10:41 AM

With pics from the Olympic Parks in Sydney and London, my poem "Olympics or Globalisation?"