Wow – okay, so the vortex technique is a post addition? (Not a criticism or calling you out in any way. Regardless, it is STILL a very lovely and cool photo! BTW – youc an call me Tracy!
Well done! Just proves that talent lies in the photog and NOT the camera! This is what I tell my students all the time – get out there and SHOOT and PLAY ‘cuz you just never know what you will end up with! Bravo!
Fun with telepho lenses – VERY cool!
Great colors in this. 
Welcome, Milkay! I took it with my camera phone which is all I currently have!
Wow – okay, so the vortex technique is a post addition? (Not a criticism or calling you out in any way. Regardless, it is STILL a very lovely and cool photo! BTW – youc an call me Tracy!
Ok, then. Welcome, Tracy! I waved the camera phone about and that’s what I got. I doubt I could reproduce the effect.
I did darken it a bit though.
Well done! Just proves that talent lies in the photog and NOT the camera!
This is what I tell my students all the time – get out there and SHOOT and PLAY ‘cuz you just never know what you will end up with! Bravo!
Thanks very much, Tracy. That’s a very nice compliment!
how did you get inside my head?
Ha ha! I didn’t Lulu, but the contents of my mind also do a mighty lot of spinning.
See! ‘also do’. D’oh!
Oh, man, I got it right the first time.
AAAUUUUUUUGH!
Ooops! Did you nearly fall in?
Have I been drinking? ……. ‘hic’
Judging by the ‘hic’ you have indeed been drinking or else you ate your ginger nut biscuits too quickly.
delicious! (The photo, not daddyp’s gingernuts)
I’d rather eat a chocolate biscuit or ten.
Sweet. Is it true that water swirls the opposite way in opposing hemispheres…just wondered?
I’ve heard that, let me check which way it goes here. . . clockwise. And yours?
Wow that is a superb photo. Your photography is excellent
Thanks Jams, and welcome!
Another (extraordinary) good one.
Thank you.
Excuse me, please, Sean: extraordinarily.
Blimey!! I’ll switch to the German language. Mucvh easier.
“The Plain People of Ireland: Isn’t the German very like the Irish? Very guttural and so on?.
If you do that, I won’t be able to understand you at all.