Here I am sending another message to DPCers. I hope that it doesn't go without comment as the last two did. I may have missed something but I thought users wanted to have a session where they talked about the just ended challenge. It now seems that the instant a challenge is completed it is forgotten, with the exception of Mr. Setzler's Critique Club. Don't get me wrong I like what they do and I feel that their effort should be appreciated by all that participate on this site.
During the week of voting and leaving comments on pictures I read the comments that have been left and seriously make an attempt to deliver some sort of response to them when it is all over. Good or bad I try to shed some light on why I took the picture and a little about it. Last week (12/15 through 12/21), I submitted twice to the Challenge Results Forum on my two pictures. You guys and gals viewed one of them 52 times with no replies and the other one was viewed 67 times with only one reply other than 1 of mine. You don't have to be interested in the pictures, although one of them placed fifth, but a common courtesy to reply some of the time, wouldn't hurt too much.
This brings me to "Four" and "Body Parts". I must apologize for giving you an IQ test on my "Four" picture "21". I thought the game of 21/Blackjack was a fairly international game and that most of the population had some knowledge of it. Boy, am I surprised! I don't want to go into the complete game but the general idea is to be dealt two cards by the dealer who also takes two cards. The object is to have a hand that totals as close to 21 as possible, with face cards and tens each counting ten, the aces counting either 1 or 11 and all the rest at face value. You can draw additional cards to try to attain a score nearer to 21, should you overdraw you instantly lose. If you are dealt an Ace and a ten-value card you win unless the dealer has it also, then you tie or have a push. An ace and a 6 is what is called a soft 17 because you could count it only 7 with the ace also being valued at 1. You would normally hit or draw a card on this hand because most of the cards in the deck would help it, or make it closer to 21 and therefore hopes of a win. If you were to draw a FOUR you would hit smack dab right on 21. That is good! It turns out that my soft 17 was the worst hand I have had since participating on DPC at a whopping 3.866. Oh well wait until you see my B/W Portrait.
My "Digital Image" was an example of coming up with a title and then trying to make a picture fit it. I started out with the idea to make a "finger in the box" picture. When I was in grade school (a lot of years ago) a kid had this small box with cotton in it and a hole just large enough to stick his finger into the box. He would paint his finger up with Methyolade and stick it up into the box. He would then come up to the girls and ask them if they had seen his missing finger, and he would hold up his hand with all but one finger showing. (Just the opposite of what they do today.) Then he would quickly shove the box in front of them, remove the lid and show them his amputated, bloody finger inside the box. You didn't do too bad on this one so I guess my trip back to childhood once again wasn't a waste of my time after all.
Keep shooting and good luck to all. Have a Happy New Year.
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