I’ve been sharing my own photos now for eighteen months so I thought the end of the year was a good time to call it a day.
If you wish, you can find the published photos by following the tag “LifeLens” on the main page of my site, or by hitting this link.
I thought I’d just round off the series by re-presenting a handful of my favourites.
This fountain was in a car-free town called Riquewihr, in Alsace, France. It “feels” German, and not surprising – it’s right on the border. I’m not a big fan, normally, of pretzels, but the fresh pretzels here were incredible.
There are lots of vineyards around the town. So far north, the specialty is white, sparkling wine, and Alsace produces a wine called crémant. Find a good one and it’s more delicious than champagne, at a fraction of the price!
Again, the detail of this fountain blows me away.
Mister Bump 
This is awesome photo.
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Thanks Sadje
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You’re welcome Pete.
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Very expressive and interesting fountain head. You caught it at a great angle.
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thanks. It was a beautiful place to stay.
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Gorgeous.
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y, I liked this one, too.
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Pretzels are delicious and that cremant wine sounds heavenly
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It’s not so dry as chanpagne, is very slightly more fruity, but still sparkling.
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I’ll have to find some 😁
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Good pic. But why ‘call it a day’ on sharing your photos? Just curious.
Total non sequitur, but I’ve just noticed that you appear to have ‘Mystery Person’ set in your site’s discussion settings. Good call; makes the ‘likers-who-may-be-shall-we-say-just-a-tad-disingenuous’ really stand out. I’ve had ‘Wavatar’ set for years, but I’ve just taken a leaf out of your book and switched to ‘Mystery Person’ too 🙂
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For one, There were only so many photos I considered decent.
For two, these images are generally hi-res, so were hitting my disk allocation.
I set all this up years ago, I want to encourage comments in general, so don’t pre-moderate, but I figured that a genuine commenter would at least have a WP account. That side of things doesn’t cost with WP, so anyone genuine, there’s no impediment.
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May I suggest taking a gander at my post ‘The green way to blog longevity via image optimisation‘?
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All your suggestions involve degrading the image. The intention is for the user to be able to load the hi-res image.
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Um. ‘Degrading’? Depends upon your point of view. Why do you need a 3Mb image of, say, a box of figs, when a 13kb image will do the job just as well?
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Because it’s a photocopy post.
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OK, I admit I don’t understand what you mean by that (and I am, as always, willing to be enlightened). I tell you what: I enjoy a challenge. Give me a link to one of the images on your site that you consider ‘has to be a ‘hi-res image for the benefit of the user’ and let me see if I can create a version that works just as well but which doesn’t take up as much bandwidth/ disk space. Are you game?
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Reducing the size in any way degrades the image, that’s how compressive file formats work. If you would like, the hi res image is on the post, under the lo-res image, but reducing the size holds no value for me.
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I do know about file compression 😛 Your mind seems set, I don’t wish to appear to be argumentative. But, just in case it is of interest, I continued my self-imposed challenge, and I offer you the result, here.
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Hmm… pretty sure that I sent a response to this, but I don’t see it here. Could I ask you to check your spam folder, please? (I think Akismet is becoming more aggressive of late… and I can’t say I blame it, the spammers are on the rise!)
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Yes there it was. Now what made it spam that but not this?
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Yeah… dunno. it may have been something to do with there being a link in it. Perhaps the Akismet algorithm read ‘take a look at <link>’ as ‘too spammy’. All I know is I’ve been in touch with Akismet support lately as I’ve noticed that a lot of my comments have been disappearing (as opposed to appearing, but with a ‘this comment is in moderation’ message) and their advice has been to do exactly as I did here: post another comment asking the site owner to check their spam folder. I have no recourse but to point the finger firmly at the spammers, who are getting more and more bold with each passing day.
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Very unique 🙂
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thanks. I liked this one.
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