A conversatiom at work recently - someone reported that a relative had a painting which, we inferred, was war loot. "Was it the Fallen Madonna with the big boobies? Was it smuggled out in a saus… (View Post)

A few years back I aquired my late grandfather's stamp collection. His 'Germany' collection had a whole album to itself, having lived there in tbe 70s for a few years. Slightly jarring… (View Post)

Sorry, yes, I know where you are - that's one of those occasions when a slightly distracted poster (i.e. me) responds to the reply to the post he meant to reply to. I meant to reply to @tlg86. (View Post)

Yeah, fair enough - if I were to take a picture of a skyscraper I would use portrait. But generally, for video, portrait almost never works. The vast majority of movement filmed is horizontal rather … (View Post)

Eagles, we share a bugbear. Most of human existence takes place in a horizontal plane. We are a gravity-affected species and move flatly. Our eyes ae next to each other, rather than one on top of eac… (View Post)