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Subject: Re: [OM] Paul's PAW - catching up
From: Jez Cunningham <jez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 6 Jul 2014 09:20:53 +0100
Chris - I always assumed it was more difficult (nigh impossible) to move a
brick building (the norm over here) whearas a wood-frame building (the norm
'over there') will hold itself together and absorb some flex, shock and
vibration.
Jez, in stone and thatch.

On Sunday, July 6, 2014, Chris Barker <ftog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Each photo works well, Paul.  I like the frog (does it make much noise at
> night?), and the foreman gives the structure scale.  I would have had him
> off to one side of the shot, but no matter.
>
> Is it only in the USA that people move buildings like this?  I cycled to
> work in Tampa (as I related some years ago) and was very surprised to see
> the road (Bayshore Boulevard) blocked by a house being moved.  In the
> morning twilight it was a surreal sight.
>
> Presumably in the USA the streets are generally wide enough to allow such
> operations.
>
> Chris
>
> On 6 Jul 14, at 05:23, Paul Braun <pbraun42@xxxxxxxxx <javascript:;>>
> wrote:
>
> > The top six on this page represent views of the pond on the property of
> the hospital where I work as well as our little garden pond, one of our
> petunias, and the little frog who's decided to move into our pond.  We've
> named him Kermit because, well, he's a frog.
> >
> > http://zone-10.com/tope2/main.php?g2_itemId=2922
> >
> > snip
>
> > http://zone-10.com/tope2/main.php?g2_itemId=2911
> >
> > The photo of the job foreman didn't really turn out like what I had in
> my head - I think what I needed was to go full-wide on the 12-50 and get up
> really close to him.  However, since the building was already resting on
> 5-foot-high cribbing, I would have had to use a really low angle and pretty
> much look up his nose to get any recognizeable building in the background.
>  What I had visualized was much more of him filling the frame with more
> building fading away behind him.
>
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