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<DIV><SPAN class=440482612-16082006><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>If I
may put my oar in...</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=440482612-16082006><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>I
don't think you are being picky at all - is that a pun I detect?
:-)</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=440482612-16082006><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>The
standard you endeavour to set is the pictorial equivalent of ensuring the
absence of spelling and grammatical errors in text.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=440482612-16082006><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Peter
Humphreys</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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face=Tahoma size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B>
bellhistorians@yahoogroups.com [mailto:bellhistorians@yahoogroups.com] <B>On
Behalf Of </B>Richard Offen<BR><B>Sent:</B> 16 August 2006 02:39<BR><B>To:</B>
bellhistorians@yahoogroups.com<BR><B>Subject:</B> [Bell Historians] Re:
Photographs<BR><BR></FONT></DIV>
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<P><BR>> <BR>> Hello Richard<BR>> I was SOOOOO gratified to read your
rendition of the word<BR>> 'camapanalogical'<WBR>, You, I, & Fabian
Stedman seem to be the only ones<BR>> who would spell it so.Most everyone
else prefers 'camapanological'<BR>> which may be good Greek but has nothing
to do with the title of the<BR>> book Campanalogia (which in my copy of OED
is incorrectly spelt<BR>> 'Campanolgia' shame on them.<BR>> <BR>>
Anyhoo Congrats on your contributions to the webpage - a very <BR>useful
site<BR>> <BR>> mew<BR>><BR><BR>Hi Ed,<BR><BR>I'm afraid to admit
that my spelling of 'campanological' had more to do <BR>with a posting made
late at night after a long day than any particular <BR>foundation in Greek or
Double Dutch!<BR><BR>Thanks for the compliment on the web site. We are very
pleased with <BR>what we've achieved so far. It has taken many hours of very
<BR>enjoyable work on my part researching and editing and an equally long
<BR>time for Peter Trotman who has made the site so easy to use.<BR><BR>I have
also put together a Power Point presentation, which I first used <BR>for a
lecture I gave earlier this year at the University of Western <BR>Australia.
We hope to make a version of this available on CD at some <BR>point
soon.<BR><BR>There are still many more pictures I would like to add, but
finding <BR>really good quality images is not always easy. It seems that not
<BR>everyone who takes photographs has an eye for detail. Take the
<BR>Cheltenham web site which David Bryant referred to in his recent
<BR>posting for example, that contains a potentially very good shot of <BR>the
ringers in action, but the photograph is totally ruined (for me at <BR>any
rate!) by the tat that has been left on the ringing room table <BR>(handbags,
sweet jars, etc).<BR><BR>When I was doing picture research for the recent
Central Council <BR>recruiting leaflet, I was supplied with a wonderful shot
of a ringer in <BR>action at a ground floor ring, taken looking up the nave.
Magnificent <BR>…except for the large cardboard box sitting on the font plinth
beside <BR>the ringer and the pile of crumpled altar linen and surplices on a
<BR>table to the right! Oh dear!<BR><BR>Call me Mr Picky if you like, but
years of commissioning the country's <BR>top photographers for National Trust
photo shoots (and looking at Chris <BR>Dalton's near perfect bell shots) has
left me very fussy about the <BR>pictures I use. In a world where we are
bombarded with exceptional <BR>images, we need to portray bells and bell
ringing in as professional a <BR>way as possible.<BR><BR>Sorry, I'll get down
off my soap box now!<BR><BR>Richard<BR><BR></P></DIV><BR><PRE>--
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