Time Team

[iainjclark]

Well, there's a distinct possibility that I may be talking to Tony Robinson on Time Team tonight. :-)

We entered their photo competition, and I was woken from my hangover this morning by someone calling to say that we might have won and would I mind talking on the phone during the show. Our pic is of Hardknott Roman Fort, halfway up Hardknott Pass in the Lake District. It can be seen as one of their many banners on the Big Roman Dig website. It's not the greatest photo evah, so I can only assume they didn't have a lot of entries. It's a crop of a photo taken around the same time as this one. The picture had to be a very specific size, but I think the severe cropping actually helped the composition:



So assuming that the broadcast isn't the usual chaos, that they manage to get around to me, and that Tony Robinson (or whoever) actually listens to a word I say, I might well be on the phone to them during the show tonight some time EDIT: around 8.20 to 8.30ish. Cor.

I think this is a good thing. A much better thing is the rather nice camera which is the prize. :-)

EDIT: I survived! After all my fretting beforehand they hardly gave me a chance to say much, but it wasn't too scary. It's weird - they ring you a few minutes beforehand and then basically put you on hold, listening to the TV but about 5 seconds ahead of where the broadcast is up to.

Comments

[tinimaus.livejournal.com]

I'd certainly hang that in my living room. Beautiful!

[iainjclark.livejournal.com]

Aw... thanks. Despite my phone call this morning I won't officially find out whether I've won til around 8.20 apparently.

[ajp.livejournal.com]

Well done! In it's cropped form, that is an excellent photograph. The composition is extremely good - the cows in the distance draw the eye in; and the mountains right of frame give it real depth. The slight mist in the middle-ground and beyond give the whole thing a slightly water-colour-like quality.

[iainjclark.livejournal.com]

Thanks! We don't normally pay a lot of attention to producing lovely, well-framed shots when we're photographing archaeology, but cropping is very handy!

[ajp.livejournal.com]

Well it's always been said that framing, makes the picture; and with photography good cropping can turn average photographs into great ones.

[itchyfidget.livejournal.com]

Well done! Will tune in if I remember :)

I think that having cropped this makes it a lovely photo with really terrific composition.

[tinimaus.livejournal.com]

Oh, now I'm going to have to watch Time Team to hear what the Ian sounds like. Life is sooo hard :-).

[iainjclark.livejournal.com]

Whatever I normally sound like, I feel sure that in a phone conversation on TV I'll sound like a complete fool. :-)

[tinimaus.livejournal.com]

That was short, wasn't it.

[ajp.livejournal.com]

Very. But hey, he's a famous TV star now...

:-)

[iainjclark.livejournal.com]

Autographs for a reasonable rate... (i.e. I pay you.)

[ajp.livejournal.com]

:-)

[iainjclark.livejournal.com]

Never mind the width, feel the quality! Or something.

[majuran.livejournal.com]

Congrats, it really is a beautiful photograph.

... although something tells me Tony wants your new camera ;)

[iainjclark.livejournal.com]

Well, given the chance I'd have told him it's a lovely 6 megapixel camera which blows our 4 megapixel one out of the water...

[swisstone.livejournal.com]

Oh, it was you! I just saw it and I thought "I wonder if that's the Iain Clark form LJ".

Congrats.

[veggiesu.livejournal.com]

Hee! You sounded nothing like I was expecting :-p Well done, chap - and make sure you get that camera!

[iainjclark.livejournal.com]

Frankly I sounded nothing like *I* was expecting. (All muffled for a start, but that's just the phone.) Funny how no-one sounds the way they think they do!

But wheeee! I've been on the telly! Also I won something! The last time that happened I was about ten years old.

[iainjclark.livejournal.com]

So...what *were* you expecting? :-)

[veggiesu.livejournal.com]

Something rather more Northern?

[majuran.livejournal.com]

Likewise...

[iainjclark.livejournal.com]

That was my Sunday best voice. :-)

I actually have a pretty neutral accent, except when I veer off into Yorkshire-isms. I think a lot of people who've been to Uni, had a lot of education, and generally mixed with loads of people from different accents, tend to lose the rough edges from their accents. Plus my Mum talks really posh. :-)

Having said that, I swear my brother's Yorkshire accent got twice as strong after he moved to London...