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 07/14/2005 01:46:22 PM · #26
Originally posted by olliethemagnet:
Ohhh and Chess....chess a sport??


Why not? It's the ultimate matchup - person to person, my skill against your skill. No roll of the dice, no chance involved, clear goal and winning plan in mind: checkmate your opponent without being checkmated first.

Who said sports have to involve physical skill (not that you said this)?
 07/14/2005 01:47:49 PM · #27
to anybody studying former challenges on sports, there was one that did well titled Friday Night Lights or something similar. I was shocked to not see one photo of American Football, which in my opinion is the definition of sport. I figured on their being at least a dozen, which is why I didn't go that route.
 07/14/2005 01:51:18 PM · #28
It's hard to find anyone playing football in America this time of year ... the season here runs from about August through January. It's too hot to play with all that gear on during the rest of the time.

Now that basketball is finally overm and since the NHL decided to give us a year off from frozen fisticuffs, I think the rest of our summer is given over to baseball and auto racing.
 07/14/2005 01:56:01 PM · #29
My only criticism of the entries is not whether it is a sport they are depicting or not, but is it an ACTION shot as the challenge asked for.
 07/14/2005 01:57:35 PM · #30
Originally posted by coolhar:
Originally posted by olliethemagnet:
Since when did Fishing, Poker, and Darts become a Sport??
Especially Fishing.


Hey ollie, what rock have you been hiding under? Try a google search on bass tournament and see how much money is at stake for competitive fishing. And darts is ...... well, have you ever played darts? It requires physical skill.

To me, for a competition to be a sport it must involve physical activity, thus spelling bees, poker and chess don't qualify. But that's just me.

BTW, welcome to dpc Jason. Go ahead, enter some challenges and show us what you can do.


Whoaaaaa there buddy. Just cause its on tv dont make it right. Fishing for sport is ridiculous!! Lazy good for nothings......go play a real sport, and if you get hungry, by all means fish and eat. I apparently am not hiding under any rock but standing tall above the one you are crushing yourself under. No hard feelings though ;)
 07/14/2005 02:01:07 PM · #31
I was voting the photos. Well, there were 4 photos that I can say is a good. other ones, were"just taken for the challenge" and some were "not even taken for challenge, just fits it".

Why posting photo that has no value, nor photographic, nor artistic?

and ome more thing: what is sport? everything that need muscle or patience is not a sport. I mean fishing and poker. Fishing is leisure an Poker is a card game. Chess is a sport as much as it has its own championships

Message edited by author 2005-07-14 14:04:41.
 07/14/2005 02:04:41 PM · #32
Originally posted by faidoi:
Originally posted by brianlh:
Originally posted by faidoi:
Originally posted by olliethemagnet:
Since when did Fishing, Poker, and Darts become a Sport??
Especially Fishing.


If it's on ESPN or ESPN2 it's a sport :P


Does this count spelling bees too? =-o


C-i-a-b-a "double t"-a , ciabatta.


Peace Out!
 07/14/2005 02:06:32 PM · #33
Originally posted by dartompkins:
I have to comment about the "Sport" comments I am receiving. They are generally "Show more of the subject and less crowd". I purposely included a portion of crowd to show the whole sport experience. The action is depicted nicely, as required by the challenge, and the shot is very well composed. (Currently pulling 4.?)

Please consider what the photographer is trying to communicate when judging a photo. My message was about the whole sporting experience which includes the anticipation and emotion of the crowd. Zooming in on the action alone does not always tell the whole story. My message would be deminished by doing that.

Thanks.
-Darlene


Please don't take this badly, I like your portfolio, but a reasonable response might be:
'Please consider the audience when the photographer is trying to communicate. Your message about the whole sporting experience which includes the anticipation and emotion of the crowd has not appeared to have captivated or convinced your audience. Zooming in on the action alone does not always tell the whole story, although the audience would have prefered it here. Your message would be deminished(sic) by doing that, although it seems that your message has not been clear enough.'
 07/14/2005 02:08:08 PM · #34
Originally posted by sacredspirit:
to anybody studying former challenges on sports, there was one that did well titled Friday Night Lights or something similar. I was shocked to not see one photo of American Football, which in my opinion is the definition of sport. I figured on their being at least a dozen, which is why I didn't go that route.


It's not football season which probably accounts for the lack of shots.
 07/14/2005 02:13:52 PM · #35
Remember Trivial Pursuits, the board game? In the Sports category is this question "What sport includes purling?" and the answer is knitting.
 07/14/2005 02:19:02 PM · #36
[quote=BobsterLobster]

I really don't want to be rude or something .I am an art photographer and I usually do not shoot sport action.
What I tryed to say, is that, some people do not take this challenges seriously. I am really sorry if my previous post was rude

If yo would like to see my portfolio, please click here

Message edited by author 2005-07-14 14:22:22.
 07/14/2005 02:43:18 PM · #37
Outdoors writer Tom Stienstra recently defined a fisherman as "a liar standing next to some water."

If you've ever seen a photo of a 400-pound marlin or sailfish breaching you'd probably describe it as as "action shot."

What kind of physical skill does it take to put a 1/4 oz. lure on the end of some string, and sling it about from the end of an eight-foot pole and drop it into a 1-foot diameter circle forty feet away, while standing in 3 feet of moving ice-water?
 07/14/2005 02:47:45 PM · #38
Originally posted by emorgan49:
Remember Trivial Pursuits, the board game? In the Sports category is this question "What sport includes purling?" and the answer is knitting.

I went the Alameda County Fair last weekend. In the building housing the winners of the various arts and crafts competitions, I found a panel of awards dedicated to the winners of the "speed-crocheting" contests.
 07/14/2005 02:50:00 PM · #39
A sport does not have to be defined as action. However, the challenge stated to capture the action of a sport. I do not play darts or poker, but understand in some releams they are condisered sports. Some of the photographs depicting these sports fail to show any action.
 07/14/2005 03:09:02 PM · #40
Some competitions of the mind, such as chess and spelling bees, can have manifestations that mimick those of physical activity, for example perspiration and fatigue. But that does not make them physical activities, and therefore not sports by my definition.

Computers can be programmed to play chess but I haven't heard of one that can catch a fly ball, or boat a large mouth bass.
07/14/2005 03:18:14 PM · #41
Originally posted by olliethemagnet:
Whoaaaaa there buddy. Just cause its on tv dont make it right. Fishing for sport is ridiculous!! Lazy good for nothings......go play a real sport, and if you get hungry, by all means fish and eat. I apparently am not hiding under any rock but standing tall above the one you are crushing yourself under. No hard feelings though ;)

So what do you consider to be a "real sport" ? You can see my favs in my portfolio - football, basketball, horse racing, surfing, and of course, the best sport of all, baseball. No pictures but I have played darts on teams in leagues, and as an individual in tourneys. Darts is a sport by any reasonable definition.
 07/14/2005 07:31:27 PM · #42
Originally posted by coolhar:
Originally posted by olliethemagnet:
Whoaaaaa there buddy. Just cause its on tv dont make it right. Fishing for sport is ridiculous!! Lazy good for nothings......go play a real sport, and if you get hungry, by all means fish and eat. I apparently am not hiding under any rock but standing tall above the one you are crushing yourself under. No hard feelings though ;)

So what do you consider to be a "real sport" ? You can see my favs in my portfolio - football, basketball, horse racing, surfing, and of course, the best sport of all, baseball. No pictures but I have played darts on teams in leagues, and as an individual in tourneys. Darts is a sport by any reasonable definition.


Well as for fishing you know my thoughts....chess and cards I think everyone agrees is not a sport......as for darts, well that just seems like a bar game to me rather than a sport.
 07/14/2005 08:35:50 PM · #43
Originally posted by olliethemagnet:
Well as for fishing you know my thoughts....chess and cards I think everyone agrees is not a sport......as for darts, well that just seems like a bar game to me rather than a sport.


So what do you consider to be a "real sport"?
 07/14/2005 08:47:00 PM · #44
Nobody' mentioned ballroom dancing!
Olympic trials are set I believe
Ice dancing is already a sport according to some people but............
Pool does not require physical activity, neither does motor racing!
just random thoughts
 07/14/2005 08:49:09 PM · #45
Originally posted by brianlh:
Originally posted by faidoi:
Originally posted by olliethemagnet:
Since when did Fishing, Poker, and Darts become a Sport??
Especially Fishing.


If it's on ESPN or ESPN2 it's a sport :P


Does this count spelling bees too? =-o

And scrabble :-D

I've watched both of those and Chess... Kaspy is awesome btw!
 07/14/2005 08:50:06 PM · #46
Originally posted by p2jvr:
Nobody' mentioned ballroom dancing!
Olympic trials are set I believe
Ice dancing is already a sport according to some people but............
Pool does not require physical activity, neither does motor racing!
just random thoughts


I heard the IOC dropped baseball and softball from the Olympics starting in 2012. I guess they won't be real sports after that time.
 07/14/2005 08:50:56 PM · #47
Originally posted by olliethemagnet:
Originally posted by muckpond:
Originally posted by brianlh:
Does this count spelling bees too? =-o


and cheerleading!


OF course it does....cheerleaders frolic.....didnt you read the definition!
:c)


Cheerleading is definately a sport for all...


07/14/2005 08:51:25 PM · #48
Originally posted by faidoi:
C-i-a-b-a "double t"-a , ciabatta.


Do they allow that in your spelling bees? They didn't in my school district to avoid possible confusion like...

v-a-c-u-u-m vs. v-a-c-"double u"-m vs. v-a-c-w-m

I went to school with one guy who was born in the south and for whatever reason his parents taught him to say letters like he was trying to remember how to spell Mississippi. The judges thought it very amusing when he was given the word peonies and he started with a "hump back" and ended with a "squiggly letter".
 07/14/2005 08:51:33 PM · #49
Originally posted by olliethemagnet:
Since when did Fishing, Poker, and Darts become a Sport?? Especially Fishing.


Since when has the DPChallenge theme really mattered? I think the weekly themes is only there for the sake of being there only.
 07/14/2005 08:51:38 PM · #50
Originally posted by cloudsme:
Originally posted by p2jvr:
Nobody' mentioned ballroom dancing!
Olympic trials are set I believe
Ice dancing is already a sport according to some people but............
Pool does not require physical activity, neither does motor racing!
just random thoughts


I heard the IOC dropped baseball and softball from the Olympics starting in 2012. I guess they won't be real sports after that time.


... and now Darts and roller sports are under consideration to be included. Olympic Roller Derby, I can picture it now.
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