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 04/15/2003 11:29:33 AM · #76
You'd be surprised how easy it is to do that in a college town, IN PUBLIC, no less.....

Originally posted by magnetic9999:
I don't think this is the "Photo You Took in Your Dreams" challenge ;D .. lol

Originally posted by paganini:
I think college girls taking off their clothes in a college bar is pretty much indigenous :-)
04/15/2003 12:57:40 PM · #77
Well, I think there is a strange devate going on. To my knowledge Fauna and Flora refers more to categorized plants or animals or a certain region. there is no wildness implied. I visit often the BIOSPHERE and there you can view the Flora of our forest which is not very wild let me tell you. Moreover, a plant house is certainly a wild plant since it doesn't grow in North America's gardens - they are mostly TROPICAL so not part of my region's flora and definitely wild to my region. So why debating it: we will see all sorts of animals and plants since this is what the challenges are about. The subject of a photo isn't what makes it good or not. It's the overall realization. I will definitely not find myself obliged to go look for a wolf or a bear to meet some voters taste against dogs and cats (which I don,t even own by the way!!!). Be realistic, even if we want to be original to find more rare subject it's not possible to everyone. But I will do my best to submit an original picture even if the subject itself isn't. Is this creativity? Anyhow, this is what my voting criteria will be: techinique and creativity involving an animal or a plant.
 04/15/2003 01:14:01 PM · #78
Right on Natalie! Every week there seems to be a push to take the weekly topic and narrow it down so there is little or no room for interpetation. The theme is pretty general like many of the topics to allow for a nice range of entries. The topics are for the most part vague for a reason - and thats to allow everyone a decent shot of contributing something. If you would like a challenge that strictly says- take a picture of a 12 inch number 2 pencil that is yellow, sharp, and sitting on a piece of white paper- then please- count me out.
 04/15/2003 01:25:12 PM · #79
THere was a stork on a roof top. And some deer outside an office that were also good. the hot squirrel on the weather challenge is a contender.
 04/15/2003 01:28:14 PM · #80
The challenges on here are often too broadly defined. And people tries to narrow it down.

Fauna generically means animals (non-humans) as it is a word defined BY humans to describe other species. Zoo photos are OK, etc.

But i'd say that if someone take a photograph of their cats and dogs versus someone who shot something in the field, the person that photograph in the wilderness should get much higher marks :)
 04/15/2003 01:45:57 PM · #81
Or to put this another way:

"why should i rate highly a picture of Spot lying on the couch, when Foto Fred spent the night hanging upside down from his roof to catch that amazing bat portrait?"

:-D

04/15/2003 01:47:29 PM · #82
Originally posted by pinback:
And it's amazing what you can do with dead animals (in photographs I mean) - there was a pretty amazing picture of a roadkilled Barn Owl in this month's Amateur Photographer magazine by Frans Lanting.


Careful with roadkill...my very first submission here for despair challenge. //www.dpchallenge.com/image.php?IMAGE_ID=12949
This was one of the comments--"Road kill???? This is a bit too Tom Green for my liking. I like the b&w/sepia thing you have going on, but the subject is just too sick."
I actually think there was a photographer out there who did mainly roadkill. Have to check. But, as in the quote above, can be some amazing shots. Just have to be able to stand the stench.
 04/15/2003 01:50:54 PM · #83
Again, I'm not sure that the challenges are too broadly described. Maybe this is on purpose to allow a wider selection of submissions. And to me, that a photo is taken in a Zoo or at home, whether it's a cat or a lion, will not influence my vote. Again, the creativity and techinique will. In my humble opinion, the fact that someone doens't have the time or the money or a zoo available down the street should not degrade his/her submission. Originality can be found in a less original subject. And to me, this is the best quality a photographer can have: the ability to see what others had right under their nose but never saw! Anyhow, good luck to everyone!

Message edited by author 2003-04-15 13:53:06.
 04/15/2003 03:20:38 PM · #84
Fauna:-Animal life in general, as distingushed from flora esp. the indigenous animals of a certain region, environment or period. A classification of the animals of a region, environment or period.
(New Webster's Dictionary and thesaurus. of the English Language)
 04/15/2003 03:43:35 PM · #85
Period thing is going to be hard to do.

For example, I am a diehard Kansas Jayhawks fan. Now, how do I take a photo of a Jayhawk when it was extinct 150 years ago? :)



Originally posted by Diana:
Fauna:-Animal life in general, as distingushed from flora esp. the indigenous animals of a certain region, environment or period. A classification of the animals of a region, environment or period.
(New Webster's Dictionary and thesaurus. of the English Language)
 04/15/2003 03:56:39 PM · #86
Tough for me... lets see, I've got some birds, but those are difficult to photograph. And mammals... Foxes, minks, reindeers (2 hour flight, 3 hour drive, x hour trek). I think I'll go with the bird theme... :)
 04/15/2003 04:26:32 PM · #87
Originally posted by jonr:
Tough for me... lets see, I've got some birds, but those are difficult to photograph. And mammals... Foxes, minks, reindeers (2 hour flight, 3 hour drive, x hour trek). I think I'll go with the bird theme... :)


See? this is what I mean! Our dream subject is not always available to all users. Around here it is all gray and not one animal or flower in sight yet.... &*(?&%& !!!!! haaaaaaaaaa!
 04/15/2003 07:20:44 PM · #88
Around here it is all gray and not one animal or flower in sight yet...

The thing is ... you don't have to submit a photo every week if the challenge doesn't suit where you live. I had been thinking of taking domestic animal pictures but now I don't know if there's any point.
 04/17/2003 02:19:48 PM · #89
Originally posted by cykhansen:
Around here it is all gray and not one animal or flower in sight yet...

The thing is ... you don't have to submit a photo every week if the challenge doesn't suit where you live. I had been thinking of taking domestic animal pictures but now I don't know if there's any point.


Of course I don't have too but you know I have too!!! ha ha I'm addicted! Don't bother, I will manage to submit something suitable!!
 04/17/2003 02:24:24 PM · #90
Originally posted by nathaliedoo:
See? this is what I mean! Our dream subject is not always available to all users. Around here it is all gray and not one animal or flower in sight yet.... &*(?&%& !!!!! haaaaaaaaaa!

I'm going to look in the back of the refrigerator for some colorful, indigenous molds...

Message edited by author 2003-04-17 14:24:39.
 04/17/2003 04:14:58 PM · #91
I had to look this one up in the dictionary, {a collective term for the animal's perculiar to a region or epoch] now I have to look up [epoch], on and on I guess. Have know Idea where I would have to go for something like this, I don't recall ever saying , now ain't that "perculiar" to see that, other than my kids bringing good grades home. I got a picture of a dog, that came and hung around the house for awhile, thats perculiar, he wasn't mine.
 04/19/2003 09:38:47 AM · #92
Just bought the Digital Photographer Issue 5 and there is a section featuring Geoff Simpson wildlife photographer work (www.goeffsimpson.co.uk). In there they include pictures of cats ("Even household pets make great wildlife subjects - the advantage is that tame animal are easier to photograph", and leafs and grass as flora ... I guess that even professional see fauna and flora only as a way to define broadly plants and animals....
 04/19/2003 09:41:21 AM · #93
Originally posted by carsten:
Originally posted by kosmikkreeper:
Flora and Fauna...... yikes! Dogs, cats and lots of flowers!!!!!! :-P

I´ve said it in another thread and I say it here too.
Dogs and cats aren´t fauna - fauna is the "wild" animals around us.
And flora is the "wild" plant world around us.


Wild? Are you sure? I thought fauna = animals, and flora = plant life, flowers. (shrug)
 04/19/2003 09:42:32 AM · #94
Originally posted by blemt:
*whimper* Drat, I'm in the middle of the city darn it. Maybe I can find a rat...


LOL
 04/19/2003 09:50:30 AM · #95
Okay, I just made it thru the entire thread.
John is right. Everyone is too uptight about this. Take a good photo. Then, vote on the photos. Seems simple enuff to me.
All this.. "well, I'm gonna vote down" this and that .....
(shrug).
makes my head spin, so I will stop here.

Message edited by author 2003-04-19 09:52:12.
 04/19/2003 11:02:21 AM · #96
I will vote highly for photographs that show skill, whether or not the animal was "wild" or not. A portrait animal shot will express a certain "posed" quality while a wildlife photographer may exhibit more of a journalistic feel, as one can't always get an elk to pose properly. We are talking about two different kinds of photography here, and each should be evaluated on its own merits.

So shoot away and have fun! And get it in focus, please, unless you have some good reason why it shouldn't be.
 04/19/2003 11:39:46 AM · #97
OK...here goes! After reading the discussions on this weeks Fauna challenge I have but one area that seems to have been missed. Does the subject matter need to be alive?
 04/19/2003 12:46:52 PM · #98
Originally posted by bruster54:
OK...here goes! After reading the discussions on this weeks Fauna challenge I have but one area that seems to have been missed. Does the subject matter need to be alive?


ha ha ha! I don't think so but as mentioned herein this thread, beware, people's taste for dead animal isn't much with high score!
 04/19/2003 12:53:24 PM · #99
I would vote highly for a well composed, "journalistic" shot of a dead animal or animals, if it had more to say that just "Here's a dead animal. Cool, huh." But that's just me. And I mean that quite literally!
 04/19/2003 08:09:51 PM · #100
After reading the earlier posts on this topic my first impression is lighten up guys !!

Go outside - take a photo of an animal (which isn't wearing a collar and isnt in a cage) and apply a little common sense to the whole thing.

Are all the competition topics so heavily debated ?
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