> The yellow shirt a common peccadillo of > homosexuality but not a surprise to long time PF'ers. My wife will love that one ;o) Mmm ... is that true about woofters. The yellow shirt thing I mean? Perhaps you'd dare to repeat it sometime in the presence of the South African rugby team. Watching your head on it's way to score a "field goal" would make a real nice shot ;o) > The only surprise here actually is that he uses a darkcloth for 35mm. An > eccentricity of the English I suppose. YES! English. NO! Not a national characteristic - the eccentrickery is all my own work. > They still bore me to tears but I have a newfound respect of them. > Now I think it would be interesting for someone to write a computer > program that could undo the wrinkles so that we could see what the > reflection would look like if the water was smooth? Thinks: given two (or more?) shots from the same viewpoint but at different phases of the ripple it might not be that impossible. Not sure it's possible from one single shot - at least not without human intervention. Dang, there's my next diversion: deconvoluting ripples. > I devised a system in school to photograph the cork coming out of a > champagne bottle. Not nearly as technical as this but fun at the time. I > am inspired. I did that: by the third shot I was plastered!