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02/14/2006 09:48:30 AM · #9251
There will be no further posts on this matter from me. Thanks.

Demia
02/14/2006 10:30:07 AM · #9252
I have conducted myself in a manner that is not who I am. I have posted things that have offend my wife and the trust that she gives me. I came here to learn photography but I have crossed the line. I have a double standard that I have been living here. I say things that I would never say infront of my kids, so I should not have posted them here. I don't feel Demia is over reacting at all, I am just reaping what I have sown. I never intended to offend anyone least of all my wife. My marriage is too important to me. Sorry this is out in the public but my behavior was public. Thanks Jeff
02/14/2006 10:31:08 AM · #9253
Demia - I seriously do not know why you are upset, particularly with me. With all due respect, i believe this needs to be taken to private (my email is mesmeraj@gmail.com) if you honestly think that you have been done wrong.
However, if you have indeed read this entire thread, you will note that i treat all involved, male and female, in the same playful manner. I am a flirty person by nature. No one takes it serious because (as also started in the thread) i am also a married woman. Theonly other thing i can see you maybe finding upsetting is the fact that i post nude pictures. That is part of the context of a photography site, and if that is the problem - you have a beef with phoography, not with the models that go nude.
Please email me - for jeff if anything. He has done nothing wrong, and has ALWAYS spoke highly of you and youre kids.

To everyone else - Do not go throwing my name about in your blanket statements about this situation. Especially those of you that are in no way involved and have just entered the thread for the drama. It does not help Demia, or Jeff in any ways and frankly is quite rude. If youre not involved, stay out of it.
02/14/2006 11:38:55 AM · #9254
what the heck is going on in here?
02/14/2006 12:22:11 PM · #9255
Originally posted by saintaugust:

what the heck is going on in here?


Emotional recovery at this point.
02/14/2006 12:32:34 PM · #9256
WTF? That was just unreal WOW!
02/14/2006 12:50:38 PM · #9257
Originally posted by thegrandwazoo:

WTF? That was just unreal WOW!


No, I think that was reality rearing it's ugly head into to our unreal sillyness.
02/14/2006 12:52:35 PM · #9258
I guess your right. To bad for old Jeff.



Peace & Love All!
02/14/2006 12:53:22 PM · #9259
Originally posted by thegrandwazoo:

I guess your right. To bad for old Jeff.



Peace & Love All!


Dude, that was wrong. :P
02/14/2006 01:42:48 PM · #9260
How terribly sad that Jeff is gone. His account is gone from here. Such a neat guy, who never said anything wrong. He can't control what others here say and yet his wife has essentially grounded him. Poor Jeff - marriages are important, but so is personal freedom which it seems he has none of.
I just can't believe this. Jeff has been such a good friend.

< shaking my head in disbelief>
02/14/2006 01:46:51 PM · #9261
I've been thinking about this development all day - Sarah and I had a good long talk about this post, what's in it, what it means or doesn't. We've been sharing Jeff's family pain - concerned about how things will go from here.

As I'm thinking - I decided I wanted to post a few things.

First of all, if you are in this post having fun and it's beyond what you would want to do outside of this post, don't participate in it - I really don't think any of us want unintended things like this happening to anyone else. I know that I didn't start this thread to start some inter-family wars. I started it for chat, for fun and to meet some new people and I think I've made a lot of new, great friends from this post.

Second, please be considerate of other people's situations when you post. Jeff originally asked if I was married to Elli or Nog about 8000 posts ago. That could have set off tribal warfare in MY household if n8trchik didn't know all about this site and this thread. He was asking based on several things - my early on comments, his mistake of thinking it was me married not wave, etc. But that easily could have caused this same type of issue. Just be careful - that goes to the people starting stuff and the people joining in later.

Third - I've reread the entire thread. I found every one of the references Demia was referring to and although I don't see a single one of those instances as being something inappropriate, she did. That's up to her - we can't decide for her how she feels and we need to respect that other people's boundaries are not our own. After this post, I honestly hope the entire thing gets dropped and we move on.

As far as moving on - I'm still going to post in this thread. I've made some damned good friends on DPC and in this thread since November. I am not going to give that up for someone else's moral standards. If anyone else chooses to withdraw, please feel free. If you do not want to be a part of our games and fun, please let us know so that we don't post anything inappropriate about you. If you stay, you do so at the risk of me or someone else in this thread popping off at the mouth and getting you in trouble. If you're cool with that, post away.

For all the people who are sick of this thread showing up or being brought up - put it on ignore and leave. Nobody asked you to be here, we have enough people and basically if you just start posting at the 9500 post mark, WTF? We also don't need the drama chasers, we don't want that in here. We're friends, we're trying to have some good fun - anything else, take it to your own post.

To Mes, Nog, Wave, Briz, Saint, Loz, n8trchik, Pug, and the other regulars - I don't think anyone here has purposely done anything that would have caused what we went through earlier. I'm pretty sure most of us are feeling pretty shitty right now, but I just wanted everyone to know that I think we've had a LOT of good fun - not malicious, bad or hurtful. I hope some or all of you stay.

Thanks for listening. I just had to post.

~Matt
02/14/2006 01:54:35 PM · #9262
Well said Matt.

*cough* did you forget me? LOL!
Happy thoughts everyone... please ;) Have a great Valentine's Day :D

Exactly when did love come to your hearts,
Vesting something one in something twain,
Exchanging simple wholes for complex parts,
Less purely self, more vulnerable to pain?
Yet passion often migrates into need,
Not needing much to crave unfeigned affection;
And so each craving does the other feed,
Need serving need as bond against rejection.
Doubt not such sweet sense can be sustained,
Not by passion, but by will and grace.
In long-lived love there's too much to be gained,
Convectively, to easy unembrace.
Oceans well up richly well within,
Letting go the air that we begin
Avidly to breathe, with passion burning,
So fraught with love no years can hold our yearning.

Happy thoughts.

Rikki
02/14/2006 02:03:24 PM · #9263
Originally posted by wavelength:

Originally posted by thegrandwazoo:

I guess your right. To bad for old Jeff.



Peace & Love All!


Dude, that was wrong. :P


Sorry I know I am new here and chimed in way late. I meant no offence.

Best Regards
Erick

P.S. I do hope the best for Jeff even though I dont know him at all.
02/14/2006 02:05:20 PM · #9264
Matt,

Very well said. I will still post here, yet this will be on my mind for a long time as Jeff has been such a help to me both with silly chats in here, and privately with PM's while dealing with my own problems. Let me say this, Demia and Jeff are both very religious, and share a closeness with God that many now adays will never know - myself included. While the comments we read here seem trivial and all said in fun, I can see where Demia would be offended by them.
Demia - if you check on this from anywhere, just now that I'm sorry for the hurt you feel. I understand where your views come from, and you have every right to them. Not everyone here shares the saem views, but we al try to respect each others.
Jeff - thank you for all your friendship and insight. I hope you will continue to pursue photography as you have really been growing and progressing here. You will be sorely missed.
02/14/2006 02:13:02 PM · #9265
Following Rikki's lead, you want Valentine's poems? I give you a Valentine's poem:

Precisely like a pillow she's, my love,
bringer of comfort where I lay my head;
nor brittle nor harsh nor bitter lurks in her —
she is my sleep, my bright, enormous bed.

Lovely even in anger my love is;
as any rose, more precious for her thorn —
beside her, nothing of light outshines her shade.
she is my life, the tree where I was born.

She is my life, that gave my heart back life.
She is my rose, my heartbright stinging bloom.
She is my bed, my pillow, my sweet sleep —
and when I wake from sleep, my light-filled room.

— Robt. Ward


Happy Valentine's day to all!

R.
02/14/2006 02:45:41 PM · #9266
i don't think anyone ought to be excluded from posting in this thread. Whether they were here from the first page or just join now. DPC has open forums for all its members.
02/14/2006 02:52:06 PM · #9267
Originally posted by frisca:

i don't think anyone ought to be excluded from posting in this thread. Whether they were here from the first page or just join now. DPC has open forums for all its members.


Nobody is "officially" excluded. A bit of a suck happened and I don't think it's right for the whole dpc world to descend on our party just to see what happened and figure out who's done what to who. Of course my word isn't DPC policy - but it is a request and it's my intent to ignore anyone who comes to the party late wondering about the drama. I'd think that would be SC's goal too.

I mean - don't you hate when the Internet helps ruin a good thing?
02/14/2006 03:15:09 PM · #9268
Wow what a day.
02/14/2006 03:20:39 PM · #9269
Hello all. I read the thread after matt told me what happened. I havent posted as much lately as I used to and I really didn't get to know jeff at all. I just hope that he can work it out with his wife, as thats the most important thing. He clearly loves her a lot.

Erin how are you doing? You guys seemed like extremely close friends.
02/14/2006 03:26:51 PM · #9270
Steve and I both consider Jeff a good friend. We were looking forward to meeting him and his family later in March.
02/14/2006 04:07:28 PM · #9271
Originally posted by brizmama:

Steve and I both consider Jeff a good friend. We were looking forward to meeting him and his family later in March.


that sucks.

i fear to venture back into the thread and see what started all of this.

02/14/2006 04:55:34 PM · #9272
I don't think any one person or thing caused this, rereading won't help too much.

Message edited by author 2006-02-14 16:55:42.
02/14/2006 05:12:05 PM · #9273
Originally posted by mavrik:

...Nobody is "officially" excluded....


ooo ooo... can I be excluded?!?!?

:-)
02/14/2006 05:15:22 PM · #9274
Sure you can! LOL Anything for you.
02/14/2006 05:15:51 PM · #9275
Originally posted by Palmetto_Pixels:

Originally posted by mavrik:

...Nobody is "officially" excluded....


ooo ooo... can I be excluded?!?!?

:-)


Only unofficialy. :)


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