tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6447449731131623587.post-18982733792051437872008-03-04T20:11:00.002Z2008-03-04T20:13:20.805Z2008-03-04T20:13:20.805Z<div class="flickr-frame"><a title="photo sharing" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bayphotographic/1424773286/"><img class="flickr-photo" alt="" src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1128/1424773286_1da1b5f9f7.jpg" /></a><br /><span class="flickr-caption"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bayphotographic/1424773286/">Lune Estuary</a>, originally uploaded by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/bayphotographic/">Bay Photographic</a>.</span></div><p class="flickr-yourcomment">I was contacted this week by a resident of Sunderland Point to tell me that some of my captions on Flickr were innaccurate. He pointed out that (amongst other errors) I had referred to a boat as a 'trawler' when it was, in fact, an ex-pleasure boat, and that I had called a building a 'Pilot's Cottage' when it had been used as an Inn.<br />He also gave me the benefit of some of his intimate knowledge of the personalities and families that lived and worked in the area. His comments were both fascinating, and a reminder of how a few words under a photograph can either inform or misinform, and add to or subtract from, the meaning of it.<br />All of which has shaken my confidence about captioning photographs to the extent that I am now going to confine myself to stating facts that I can prove beyond reasonable doubt.<br />Hence the caption above.<br />They may well, technically, be stones rather than rocks, but I am hoping to be allowed a little leeway.</p>Bay Photographichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13989112160700212804noreply@blogger.com0