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10/30/2007 08:39:56 PM · #1401

Originally posted by formerlee:

Come on Suckers! Breast Cancer Awareness Challenge thread, it needs donations! Check it out, please?

Much nicer......8>)

Greetmir

Nikon D60

10/30/2007 08:59:00 PM · #1402

Originally posted by klstover:

I want to brag a little if that's okay... I'm SO proud of this photo. Photographer's comments have some detail about that.

And I wouldn't have been able to get the good focus with my old camera, so again, thank you Team Suck!!!!!!!

Absolutely gorgeous! ... I actually stood up from my chair and jumped up and down.

HUGZ and congrats! What a head shakingly beautiful image.

krnodil

Canon EOS-5D Mark II

Canon EF 100mm f/2.8L Macro IS USM

10/30/2007 09:02:30 PM · #1403

Welcome back, Svetlana - it's good to see you back with the Butterflies. Hope your time away, distressing though it may have been, made you stronger.

Now I just have to lay off work long enough to enter some challenges myself. :)

Greetmir

Nikon D60

Sigma 18-200mm f/3.5-6.3 DC OS for Nikon

10/30/2007 09:07:14 PM · #1404

Originally posted by silverfoxx:

hi:)

i hope everyone is well
i have missed a lot here, too much
is it ok if i come back?
it's been a horrible year, really
good it's all over
:D
it is!! and life is great. again
so nice to see you:)

now i'll go and read Deb's thread and look at all your wonderful photos i have missed
:) have a beautiful day dear all

OH MY GOODNESS! ... You have been SO missed. I am so looking forward to seeing more of your insightful images.

You are loved ... know it. (I hope you don't take that in a wrong way)

me

JerseyGenie

Canon EOS-400D Rebel XTi

Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6

10/30/2007 09:49:34 PM · #1405

Life is good. Our Silver Fox is back!

Kelli

Canon EOS-D60

Canon EF 28-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM

10/30/2007 09:52:55 PM · #1406

Welcome back, Svetlana! We've missed you too!

krnodil

Canon EOS-5D Mark II

Canon EF 100mm f/2.8L Macro IS USM

10/30/2007 10:38:39 PM · #1407

well, whaddya know...I actually managed to produce a shot. :) I'm in for something old...

levyj413

Apple iPhone 15 Pro Max

Tamron SP AF 17-50mm f/2.8 Di II LD Aspherical (IF) for Nikon

10/30/2007 10:46:01 PM · #1408

Originally posted by krnodil:

well, whaddya know...I actually managed to produce a shot. :) I'm in for something old...

I'm slidng the other way - nothing in for either of this week's challenges. But I've got what I hope will be a doozy for the free study.

Svetlana: welcome back! Can't wait to see what you've got for us. :)

griz210

Nikon D300s

Nikon AF-S DX NIKKOR 18-200mm f/3.5-5.6G ED VR II

10/30/2007 11:02:28 PM · #1409

Deb, its great to hear you are doing well and i sure enjoy you photos from the middle east. Thanks for taking the time to share them with us.

Svetlana its good to know you are Back, Ive missed you comments and great photos. Hang in there your bad year is behind you. hope things contuine to look better for you.

10/31/2007 12:10:43 AM · #1410

quiet_observation and

NikonJeb led the scoring in the last two challenges. Congrats also to

rheverly for his top 5.

10/31/2007 12:11:55 AM · #1411

And I think the Blue Ribbon winner for "From the Ground Up" looks an awful lot like one of

levyj413's shots.

posthumous

Canon EOS-40D

Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II

10/31/2007 09:59:53 AM · #1412

Something Old...
Votes: 21
Views: 31
Avg Vote: 6.1429
Comments: 1

luckily, I didn't start at 7 so I'm very happy with this score. ;)

The score has been going down a bit. If it stays above 6 I'll have 3 challenges in a row without a 5 score. How long can I maintain this streak?

10/31/2007 10:14:07 AM · #1413

Originally posted by posthumous:

I'm pretty happy being on the good side of a 5.0 for once. Not sure if I'll break 50%, but I should easily break 5%.

10/31/2007 10:24:36 AM · #1414

First, I want to apologize for having a meltdown the other day in public. I'm kinda stressed with my mother-in-law and being unemployed. I also am sick. Not an excuse, but at least an explanation.

I have to remember to keep my perspective, This was the first time I had such a rockin' score that wasn't gone after two hours. And it was also the first time I've ever had a score slide for 5Â½ days. Again, no excuse.

Having looked at this from a little different perspective, I have some things to say. I didn't even know how to use my camera when I got to DPC......I learned here. I learned how to use PhotoShop here.....well, sort of, I'm WAAAAAY still learning that!

Then I got to Team Suck, and I got my first 6+, and a ribbon at the same time, and theoretically.......learned that it's *not* supposed to be about the scores. I'm obviously still working on that, too. Yet my scores *do* keep improving. Three score milestones happened for me with this challenge. My average vote recieved went past 5.25....I was a member of AU5 for quite some time. My profile page scores are all above 6.25, and four of them are above 6.6! I'm an idiot if I can't see my own improvement. And lastly, I got a *rockin'* score with a balck and white image......more on that later.....

BUT.....the coolest things?

One.....Don made mention that I should be more than aware how much the side challenges bring to us in the way of learning and development. I used to hate B&W and was pretty much convinced that not only did I not care for it, I just didn't get it, or want to see what it was all about. Two 30 Day B&W challenges, I get a 6.7226 in a challenge with a B&W shot......and when I looked at the original when I downloaded it out of my camera, the first thing I thought was this HAS to be a B&W shot. I would never have learned that were I not exposed to these side challenges. I love and understand what B&W can be all about now.

Two.....This family. I was looking at Svetlana's profile the other day, and reflecting on the way that she is just such a stone natural and what a gift she has in the way that she expresses herself and brings her images to life. I realized that I missed her a lot, and suddenly realized at the same time that there are so many of us that I know through their style, and who they are through their images. And also by their actions. Like Deb's honoring the Cinnabon guys and Lea's work for Kasey.

Geez, maybe I'll freakin' learn something yet! I posted this image that was an experiment.....[thumb]602450[/thumb]

And somebody gave me the best compliment by saying that it reminded them of

purpleflutterby13!

What a compliment, and it also made me realize that this was something I would never have even tried had I not seen Jelena's fine work.

meyers noted that the Ground Up winner looked like one of Jeffrey's shots.....sure does to me, too! His various and sundry architecture shots are a landmark of his style to me.

......and I know there's so much more I'm not even touching on.

So I am delighted to be here, I learn so much from you guys, I do improve, and am still doing so even if I forget to look, and again, I humbly apologize for being whiny.

Message edited by author 2007-10-31 11:46:50.

JuliBoc

Apple iPhone 6s+

10/31/2007 10:42:07 AM · #1415

Wet noodle lashes for me. I have been DQed from the Beginning challenge. The entry was doing so badly that I had considered a self-DQ, so maybe the SC did me a favor. Does anyone remember where the penalties for DQs are written? I searched hard last night, and couldn't find them, although I do remember reading them once upon a time.

posthumous

Canon EOS-40D

Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II

10/31/2007 10:57:31 AM · #1416

Originally posted by JuliBoc:

Does anyone remember where the penalties for DQs are written?

Do you mean Team Suck penalties? Ain't none!

Canon EF 28-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM

10/31/2007 11:06:41 AM · #1417

Question....I know I'm supposed to comment on the challenge that I was in for not sucking worst in that specific challenge, but do I have any further punishment for the Momentary one that's across the board?

noraneko

Canon EOS R5

10/31/2007 11:16:29 AM · #1418

Originally posted by JuliBoc:

Sorry to hear about your DQ, Julianne! That sucks, pun intended! I wish site council would do me a favor and DQ my Something Old shot - the score is abysmal. Unfortunately, the sucker's legal as could be.

Anyway, in terms of penalties - your first DQ results in no penalties. If you get a second DQ within the next 25 challenges entered, you can't enter anything for a week.

10/31/2007 11:22:53 AM · #1419

Originally posted by NikonJeb:

The weekly leader in scoring gets to bask in their own juices, er "glory". We used to have this person comment on all of the entries that week, but there's just too many of us entering challenges now.

And when I saw your last post I thought you had found an image of

purpleflutterby13 that you liked. I wonder what my style looks like.