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12/25/2007 01:23:21 AM · #151 |
| Anyone willing to help me pick a textures entry? Standard rules apply; you're free to laugh at my "style," but you aren't supposed to vote on it. PM me. |
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12/25/2007 02:24:48 AM · #152 |
Originally posted by meyers:
Anyone willing to help me pick a textures entry? Standard rules apply; you're free to laugh at my "style," but you aren't supposed to vote on it. PM me. |
Always. :)
Ernie: add me to the pile sending support. I hope your memories carry you through this time of loss.
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12/25/2007 02:32:41 AM · #153 |
| Rob, I sent you a PM. Jeffrey, I'm about to stick some crap (and I use that term literally) in the team thread, if you're willing to give me some advice! |
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12/25/2007 07:09:58 AM · #154 |
Oh, and my Christmas present? A freakin' virus on my computer that's eating my photo folders. I was working on something for textures, went to save, and it says "That folder doesn't exist". It was the folder I was working in. Seems when I was doing a favor for a guy I work with and giving him some pictures to take home, his USB drive infected my computer. Argh. I can't even back up to the portable hard drive I have, since apparently it infects via USB devices. ARGH. And if I have to clean the computer, I don't have my copy of Photoshop with me. I'm hosed. Bah. Humbug. And several other very very bad words. Bad words indeed.
Edit to add - what the puck will I do with myself if I can't take pictures and use Photoshop???????
Message edited by author 2007-12-25 07:10:47. |
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12/25/2007 07:18:44 AM · #155 |
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12/25/2007 08:08:17 AM · #156 |
Some nice IT guys are trying to fix my 'puter for me. With luck it'll still be operational. :-)
And Raish, I'd love to eat that message but I can't get to it from here (it's blocked by the network I'm using). Hope it was good, though!
Oh, and Peter, dear, I know this is kind of a personal question - you needn't answer - but how long have you been neuter?
Message edited by author 2007-12-25 08:56:59. |
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12/25/2007 10:00:31 AM · #157 |
Just a Christmas shot with one of "my" cheerleader kids and her grandfather.....the hair and beard are real.
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Seasons Greetings everyone!
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12/25/2007 10:44:05 AM · #158 |
I seem to have had a run of grace lately....I currently have five entries in either judging or submission and I'm really delighted with all of them.....REALLY delighted.
I've got my fingers crossed, and plan on sacrificing a chicken......sandwich to the gods that I may break my curse of never having broken 6.0 in a Free Study.
I'm not sure what happened exactly, but I seem to have reached a place where my photography is becoming more about its evolution, and my progression, than whether or not it'll fit a challenge. All five of these entries were not taken for any challenge......go figure!
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12/25/2007 10:47:29 AM · #159 |
Merry Christmas everyone!
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12/25/2007 11:01:29 AM · #160 |
| Merry Christmas everyone. May the New Year bring you joy |
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12/25/2007 11:34:48 AM · #161 |
Originally posted by Melethia:
Some nice IT guys are trying to fix my 'puter for me. With luck it'll still be operational. :-)
And Raish, I'd love to eat that message but I can't get to it from here (it's blocked by the network I'm using). Hope it was good, though!
Oh, and Peter, dear, I know this is kind of a personal question - you needn't answer - but how long have you been neuter? |
It should be blocked as it's a site for downloading pirated software.
It's probably best not to talk about neutrality, as extremists tend to see it as a cowardly strategy.
And happy thingies, y'all...
Message edited by author 2007-12-25 11:35:10. |
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12/25/2007 11:41:02 AM · #162 |
Merry Christmas to all suckers, and may the New Year be prosperous and peaceful (especially for Deb, and others in harm's way).
R.
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12/25/2007 12:01:26 PM · #163 |
Originally posted by meyers:
Anyone willing to help me pick a textures entry? Standard rules apply; you're free to laugh at my "style," but you aren't supposed to vote on it. PM me. |
Thanks to all the volunteers, but I've picked a winner(?),  rheverly. Thanks for your feedback, Mr Bruce.
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12/25/2007 12:19:16 PM · #164 |
| 'K, now I need a volunteer - anybody around that wants to tell me what to enter and what not to enter, in exchange for not having to vote on what I probably shouldn't enter? :-) |
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12/25/2007 12:31:17 PM · #165 |
| Email me what you've got Deb. Though, I don't know how good my opinion is, lol! |
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12/25/2007 12:39:51 PM · #166 |
Originally posted by Melethia:
'K, now I need a volunteer - anybody around that wants to tell me what to enter and what not to enter, in exchange for not having to vote on what I probably shouldn't enter? :-) |
Send it on over Deb; I'll give you my usual, sucky advice.
R.
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12/25/2007 12:52:20 PM · #167 |
| Sent you both an email - thanks for helping! |
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12/25/2007 01:24:20 PM · #168 |
| This may be a first (and last) for me. I have 6 photos entered, 2 in voting and 4 in queue. I must be a glutton for punishment. I think I am in for a long week or 2. |
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12/25/2007 01:37:11 PM · #169 |
| That's impressive! I only have one in voting and one in the queue (Free Study). Working on something for the open challenge, though. Now to decide which open to enter... |
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12/25/2007 01:46:02 PM · #170 |
| I was lucky enough to have something to enter in stupid gifts...... |
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12/25/2007 02:01:55 PM · #171 |
Originally posted by BAMartin:
I was lucky enough to have something to enter in stupid gifts...... |
That's the silver limning of the stupid gift, LOL...
R.
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12/25/2007 02:03:31 PM · #172 |
Originally posted by kashi:
Originally posted by levyj413:
I'm amazed at how many Team Suckers did The Little Match Girl. I wonder whether that's more than coincidence. Could Team Suck itself connect well to the mix of tragedy and fantasy, the ability to see beauty despite horrible circumstances? |
I didn't enter the challenge, but the shots I took for the fairy tale challenge were for "Little Match Girl" too. My oldest son was my match girl. |
tee-hee...I was my Little Match Girl! I was just doing a typical snaffles thang, anticipating the tidal wave of soft-focus fairies and so decided to go with perhaps the only fairytale that doesn't have a happy ending...in other words has never been Disneyfied!
Ernie, I am so sad to hear about Siron. :( Tough though it may have been, you did make the right choice and send her on to fields of catnip full of butterflies. |I'm sure she will send you another furry friend soon.
*HUGS*
Everyone, have a wonderful Xmas and let's see what stupid gifts I can shoot!!!
Message edited by author 2007-12-25 14:10:35. |
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12/25/2007 02:09:24 PM · #173 |
Originally posted by snaffles:
tee-hee...I was my Little Match Girl! I was just doing a typical snaffles thang, anticipating the tidal wave of soft-focus fairies and so decided to go with perhaps the only fairytale that doesn't have a happy ending...in other words has never been Disneyfied! |
Actually, in the original versions very few of the classic fairy tales have "happy endings". It's one of the great scandals, IMO, the way the tales have been bowdlerized for modern kids. Here's a modern, but unexpurgated, translation:
//www.rbooks.co.uk/product.aspx?id=0099511444
R.
Message edited by author 2007-12-25 14:09:36.
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12/25/2007 02:11:50 PM · #174 |
| You're right, Bear, most of them did have fairly gruesome endings ... I think Little Match Girl probably survived unbowdlerized... |
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12/25/2007 02:12:37 PM · #175 |
Originally posted by Bear_Music:
Actually, in the original versions very few of the classic fairy tales have "happy endings". It's one of the great scandals, IMO, the way the tales have been bowdlerized for modern kids. Here's a modern, but unexpurgated, translation:
//www.rbooks.co.uk/product.aspx?id=0099511444
R. |
I think that that is exactly what Susan is saying. That most fairy tales have been "Disneyfied" - turned into bubblegum and candyfloss, happily ever after versions of their original stories.
I doubt many of the stories actually resemble their originals in more than title and character names.
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