Find all the mistakes in this picture

[Sydney Grew]

A new competition: how many errors can you spot in the picture? Answers on a very large post-card please.

[Don Petter]

Are they the pizzicato versions?

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

The surf appears to breaking on nothing, on the camera side of the rocks, even though the wind direction on the violinist makes such a situation quite impossible.

[John Wright]

She is more 'tubby' in other photos I've seen.

[french frank]

If one's going to be pernickety, strictly speaking there should be no full stop after St. in St. John. The pedantic rule is that the full stop is omitted when the abbreviation ends with the same letter as the full word/name (here 'Saint'). Of course, people are entitled to spell their names as they wish

[Mahlerei]

Really weird. The waves in the foreground seem to be lapping on a beach, yet there's a plume of spray behind Ms St John. Also it seems the wind is blowing straight at her, yet her hair is streaming to the side. And what is that dress made of? Tin foil?

[Chris Newman]

Would you take an expensive looking fiddle on a spume-sprayed beach?

[vinteuil]

I suspect sieur Muchgoddery wouldn't have much truck with
a) girlies playing the fiddle
b) any-one calling him or her self "Lara"

[Mahlerei]

Would you take an expensive looking fiddle on a spume-sprayed beach?

Indeed. That said, I suspect this image has been created on Photoshop and that Ms St John is probably standing in a studio somewhere :)

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Indeed. That said, I suspect this image has been created on Photoshop and that Ms St John is probably standing in a studio somewhere :)

...with a gigantic fan simulating the wind.

[Panjandrum]

I think her people should have advised her not to wear a dress like that for a photo shoot, after what appears to have been a bit of over indulgence over the xmas period...

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

If one's going to be pernickety, strictly speaking there should be no full stop after St. in St. John. The pedantic rule is that the full stop is omitted when the abbreviation ends with the same letter as the full word/name (here 'Saint'). Of course, people are entitled to spell their names as they wish

I noticed that one, but it isn't really a mistake. It's simply that abbreviations that are "contractions" (i.e. begin and end with the same letters as the word) no longer need the full stop, probably because some Oxbridge don has said so. Previously it was wrong; now it's right. That doesn't mean that the earlier "right" is now wrong. (If you see what I mean.)

[Flosshilde]

I think her people should have advised her not to wear a dress like that for a photo shoot, after what appears to have been a bit of over indulgence over the xmas period...

Oh come on, she's not exactly obese. I wish I could look as thin as that after a bit of over-indulgence (in the tummy area, that is - I wouldn't want the other bumps )

Anyway, the ground looks a bit stony to be wandering about in bare feet. She looks a bit peeved as well - not surprising given the sort of nonsense a young performer has to put up with these days to get a record contract.

[Curalach]

What's a Violrn?

[LeMartinPecheur]

Should we be expecting 6 sonatas and 6 partitas? If so, hurrah, progress in these inflationary times!