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03/22/2009 08:14:42 AM · #455

Originally posted by Melethia:

Happy Spring to our northern hemisphere types! (And we have sub-freezing temps predicted as lows this week with a chance of light snow... )

Snowed here in central Pa, Friday, the first day of spring......8>)

03/22/2009 08:18:40 AM · #456

*scratching head* what, I thought Peter just said he was leaving...?! ;-)

03/22/2009 08:31:20 AM · #457

What I want to know is where the whole attitude that individual members/users get to get pissed off and dictate how everybody else is supposed to do things came from?

I've been following some of the comments/low scores threads and I cannot believe the unconscienable gall that people have just because they don't like the way some people vote, comment, or don't!

If you don't like a vote or comment, TOUGH NOOGIES! END of discussion!!!

Either don't enter challenges, or roll the dice like everyone else and take the bad with the good!

You NEVER hear people bitch about glowing, effusive comments, and 10s on images that absolutely do not warrant them on any level other than someone's opinion, so why do people who have a different opinion get dressed down unmercifully????

The people who gripe do not own the site, they do not administer it, and other than their participation, have nothing to do with it at all, so why do they feel they get to dictate policy?

This whole checkbox thing going on right now is just disgraceful! I realized this when Deb said something, and I know it was in a joking manner which is why I use the example, about my not having marked her comments as helpful. First I was mortified (I fixed that, BTW), then I was puzzled 'cause Deb ALWAYS leaves courteous, well-thought out comments, and I wondered how this happened.

Well.....I figured out how. I get e-mail notification when I get a comment, and especially from a month ago back when I had dialup, I didn't always have time to open the page and check the box on my way out the door to work, or to take the kid somewhere, or go to the grocery store, or something else in REAL LIFE!

So does that make me an insensitive, discourteous SOB???? Well, according to some here, YEAH!!!!!

I refuse to apologize for having a life and missing a comment, I refuse to feel that I have to check a box just because someone feels their time is SOOOOO valuable that they MUST have acknowledgement, and I'll be DAMNED if I'll feel guilty about not meeting someone else's expectations when I've paid my $25 to play here according to the TOS.

Is it just me, or does it seem like there's just been this giant rash of people who seem to want to dictate how the site is run, what should be implemented RIGHT NOW, and how we're all supposed to behave????

03/22/2009 08:31:53 AM · #458

Originally posted by snaffles:

*scratching head* what, I thought Peter just said he was leaving...?! ;-)

Geez, I was hoping that was just a subtle version of a rant.

03/22/2009 08:40:33 AM · #459

Originally posted by Melethia:

Happy Spring to our northern hemisphere types! (And we have sub-freezing temps predicted as lows this week with a chance of light snow... )

Creepily accurate, cause I'mlooking outside at about an inch of snow where there was none left before...*sigh*

Oh well better go shower now and check to see if camera battery is recharged. Plan to go to a flea market where I haven't been for some time now and do some shooting, maybe get some nice scenic shots while the cold white stuff lasts.

And oh yeah, change lenses to the 18-55mm, that way I don't scare the natives! And should something awful happen, at least it's the kit lens, and not my $700 18-200 mm.

BTW Jeb (if you're still on) do you use the 18-200 mm for interior shots, too?

03/22/2009 08:51:23 AM · #460

Originally posted by snaffles:

Creepily accurate, cause I'm looking outside at about an inch of snow where there was none left before...*sigh*

Oh well better go shower now and check to see if camera battery is recharged. Plan to go to a flea market where I haven't been for some time now and do some shooting, maybe get some nice scenic shots while the cold white stuff lasts.

And oh yeah, change lenses to the 18-55mm, that way I don't scare the natives! And should something awful happen, at least it's the kit lens, and not my $700 18-200 mm.

BTW Jeb (if you're still on) do you use the 18-200 mm for interior shots, too?

Nope!

It's the ONLY lens I own!

03/22/2009 08:56:31 AM · #461

Uhhh...don't you mean Yep! as it's the only lens you own? :-)

Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8L IS USM

03/22/2009 09:14:39 AM · #462

Originally posted by snaffles:

Uhhh...don't you mean Yep! as it's the only lens you own? :-)

No.....I was just being my usual smart-@$$ self!

quiet_observation

Canon EOS-7D

03/22/2009 11:52:15 AM · #463

Beware to all bottom feeders; I'm into abstract motion.

Kelli

Canon EOS-D60

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

03/22/2009 12:01:53 PM · #464

Originally posted by quiet_observation:

Beware to all bottom feeders; I'm into abstract motion.

ROFL! Yeah, I'm giving some competition on the brown contenders on this one!

03/22/2009 02:24:24 PM · #465

Originally posted by raish:

I am leaving dpc....The swine here don't even notice the pearls of wisdom and beauty I cast before them.

Oh you mean like this entry of mine, Peter?

Message edited by author 2009-03-22 14:26:13.

Canon EF 24-105mm f/4.0L IS

03/22/2009 02:55:09 PM · #466

I added some more shots to my Honduras folder/collection.....these are all in the little village where I worked....I will update the other collection later. I have 80 images done now, but I've been sick ALL week and it takes a lot out of me.

Nuevo San Isidro

Melethia

Canon EOS-80D

03/22/2009 03:12:33 PM · #467

Shot for two challenges this week, won't be entering either of 'em. Haven't lost my mojo (since that would assume I had some to begin with) but sure have seem to lost something. Perhaps just a "blah" phase, huh?

Pentax DA 18-135mm F3.5-5.6ED AL [IF] WR DC

03/22/2009 03:23:17 PM · #468

I have 2 that I'm trying to decide on for language,one is likely a 4. something the other a probable brown.

tnun

Ricoh GR III

03/22/2009 03:41:44 PM · #469

snow, crocuses
pigs and pearls
all your flounce belong to me

(one second challenge)

03/22/2009 03:47:51 PM · #470

03/22/2009 04:14:43 PM · #471

I got nothing for any of the three going off, and my Illumination is sitting at 3.6 for my DPCO team.

I don't know WHAT I was thinking to join up after the piss poor showing I had last time.

I am also on Day 8 of this f*cking flu and am miserable.

03/22/2009 04:51:29 PM · #472

Jeb, I have one for you, this is a T-bird, for sale and expensive. I have never seen a T-bird that ever looked like this, but I like it a lot, what can you tell me about it?

03/22/2009 05:05:09 PM · #473

Originally posted by alans_world:

Jeb, I have one for you, this is a T-bird, for sale and expensive. I have never seen a T-bird that ever looked like this, but I like it a lot, what can you tell me about it?

It's apparently either a kit car, or a HEAVILY customized early ('55-'57) 'Bird, either way, it's of limited intrinsic value to collectors, so only pay big money for it if you must have it.

The only caveat to that would be if there's provenance to suggest that someone like Boyd Coddington, George Barris, or someone of that ilk did the modifications to it.....and then only if there's appropriate papoerwork to go with it.

Have you seen it closely enough to ascertain whether it is an early car?

I'd lean more towards that from the looks, but it certainly is modifed hard.

Here's a site that has a passel of early 'birds so that you can compare the differences.....the silhouette/bodyline is what strikes me as kind of bizarre.....

Amos Minter T-Birds