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 02/22/2008 11:13:03 AM · #26
Originally posted by Melethia:
I'm right there with ya, Don. Apparently you and I interpreted the challenge a bit differently than the rest. Oh well!


you guys aren't alone... :)
 02/22/2008 12:00:02 PM · #27
You guys like barns??????

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02/22/2008 12:14:41 PM · #28
Wow, nice barn! Good to see we have lots of barn cats. Now we just need a nice herding dog too. Anyone have one handy?
 02/22/2008 12:16:42 PM · #29
How about a herding lemur?

Um, woof?
 02/22/2008 12:25:21 PM · #30
Oops! Fergot to bring the kitty back....

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 02/22/2008 12:32:51 PM · #31
Originally posted by purpleflutterby13:
How about a herding lemur?

Um, woof?


Nice to see he has not caught on fire yet! (when are those fire twirling lemur pics coming out?)
 02/22/2008 12:33:38 PM · #32
Apropos nothing (but noobies) -

_ Shadow Curriculum_

Each year we see the novices arrive,
eager for Accolade and full of scorn
for our Establishment, already torn
between their need for patrons and their pride.

We teach of shadows – darkened by the light,
contrasting with the cold or warmer tones
around them – touched and touching, but alone.
By that which they are not, they are defined.

Over the student body, then, we throw
the shadows of our former selves like nets
to capture animals. For them to set
out from these hallowed halls, they need to know

how fallen shadows’ thin topography
lets their full-bodied characters walk free.

PSR

And previously published, too:
(it's here) in Snakeskin, but you have to go to the bottom of the page and click archive and then browse to the 'shadows issue' which is number 67
02/22/2008 12:46:59 PM · #33
My cliche thought for the day (hey, it's new to me...)

Isn't it odd, how every time you look at an image, you're actually looking into the past. A bit like gazing at stars, really. Universes were created and destroyed by the time the light has reached you, who knows where the little squirrel is at this moment, but what you're looking at is a captured, frozen moment.

The medium we work with is tied in with the physical world, but what I don't often think about is that it's also tied in with time.
 02/22/2008 12:57:32 PM · #34
Thank you kindly, Raish. And I am kinda hoping that Team Suck has liberal representation on the last page of Brown. I still am showing wonderful signs of dropping below 4! I will most definitely have a new personal worst. Goals are good!
 02/22/2008 01:31:23 PM · #35
Barn I live in...
02/22/2008 01:31:56 PM · #36
Originally posted by raish:
Barn I live in...


Oh, and I'm on 2.7 something to date. heh.
 02/22/2008 02:07:59 PM · #37
Originally posted by purpleflutterby13:
My cliche thought for the day (hey, it's new to me...)

Isn't it odd, how every time you look at an image, you're actually looking into the past. A bit like gazing at stars, really. Universes were created and destroyed by the time the light has reached you, who knows where the little squirrel is at this moment, but what you're looking at is a captured, frozen moment.

The medium we work with is tied in with the physical world, but what I don't often think about is that it's also tied in with time.

Okay.....along that line.

I got this AWESOME comment from pineapple, a previous Yappie winner on an image I posted in the B&W A Week side challenge, and after all the pissing and moaning lately in the forums, it struck me so deeply that I started a gratitude thread about it.

Of course, one of the first comments that I got was from a TS member, and she commented/congratulated me on doing what I set out to do........VERY cool! (Thanks, Deb!)

Your observation on the time thing is so appropos in that what I like about it is to be able to preserve that moment, in my way, in my view, and that's what I have really been able to work towards since being at DPC, and TS in particular.

I have always been able to see things with my heart anmd my mind as well as my eyes, and IMNSHO, that's really what it takes to be a photographer.

What I've learned so much better here is the mechanics, and some more subtle techniques to allow me to express myself even better.

Anyway, just in case you're interested, here's a thread I started from the comments: My "Not just another pretty face" Pretty Face
 02/22/2008 02:07:59 PM · #38
Well I had what I thought to be a good shot for brown, but that was before my 15 year old found a backdoor around my password protected computer. LOL it is amazing how much damage can be caused in ½ hour when someone wants to cheat on a computer game. Last night I finally downloaded my last program, unfortunately there is no way to the 200+ photos, ahh well.

PS. In my Email today I found a Email from Adobe allowing me to download a upgrade from Elements4 to CS3 for $300.…: )
 02/22/2008 02:10:07 PM · #39
Originally posted by Redneck:
PS. In my Email today I found a Email from Adobe allowing me to download a upgrade from Elements4 to CS3 for $300.…: )

Check around on that......I'm pretty sure that my local camera club was offered a deal for its members at about half that.
 02/22/2008 02:16:43 PM · #40
Originally posted by purpleflutterby13:
My cliche thought for the day (hey, it's new to me...)

Isn't it odd, how every time you look at an image, you're actually looking into the past. A bit like gazing at stars, really. Universes were created and destroyed by the time the light has reached you, who knows where the little squirrel is at this moment, but what you're looking at is a captured, frozen moment.

The medium we work with is tied in with the physical world, but what I don't often think about is that it's also tied in with time.


very nice observation. there's a poem in there.
 02/22/2008 02:27:00 PM · #41
You might be thinking of the CS3 upgrade CD that only works with Photoshop 7, CS, CS2. Regular price $200. The upgrade from Elements regularly is $550.
 02/22/2008 02:30:31 PM · #42
Originally posted by Redneck:
Well I had what I thought to be a good shot for brown, but that was before my 15 year old found a backdoor around my password protected computer. LOL it is amazing how much damage can be caused in ½ hour when someone wants to cheat on a computer game. Last night I finally downloaded my last program, unfortunately there is no way to the 200+ photos, ahh well.

PS. In my Email today I found a Email from Adobe allowing me to download a upgrade from Elements4 to CS3 for $300.…: )


Ouch. Fifteen years olds are sent to try us. Hope it didn't spoil the love.
 02/22/2008 02:35:29 PM · #43
Originally posted by Redneck:
Well I had what I thought to be a good shot for brown, but that was before my 15 year old found a backdoor around my password protected computer. LOL it is amazing how much damage can be caused in ½ hour when someone wants to cheat on a computer game. Last night I finally downloaded my last program, unfortunately there is no way to the 200+ photos, ahh well.

PS. In my Email today I found a Email from Adobe allowing me to download a upgrade from Elements4 to CS3 for $300.…: )

What in the world did your offspring do to your computer?? Are the photos lost or did you just not have time to get to them? Which reminds me - and everyone else - don't forget to back up your photos! I need to set an auto thing to do it once a week. Otherwise I forget.

Is that offer on the upgrade something Adobe is doing for everyone or are you on a mailing list of some kind?
 02/22/2008 02:57:03 PM · #44
Originally posted by Melethia:


PS. In my Email today I found a Email from Adobe allowing me to download a upgrade from Elements4 to CS3 for $300.…: )

What in the world did your offspring do to your computer?? Are the photos lost or did you just not have time to get to them? Which reminds me - and everyone else - don't forget to back up your photos! I need to set an auto thing to do it once a week. Otherwise I forget.

Is that offer on the upgrade something Adobe is doing for everyone or are you on a mailing list of some kind? [/quote]

Seems my boy picked up a cupple of worms. Every time I turned on the computer, something automaticly jumped on the internet and started sending Emails, 1,000's of them. I ended up having to dump the system, thats right F11, and starting from scratch.

Adobe link

Message edited by author 2008-02-22 14:57:59.
 02/22/2008 02:57:08 PM · #45
Originally posted by posthumous:
Originally posted by purpleflutterby13:
My cliche thought for the day (hey, it's new to me...)

Isn't it odd, how every time you look at an image, you're actually looking into the past. A bit like gazing at stars, really. Universes were created and destroyed by the time the light has reached you, who knows where the little squirrel is at this moment, but what you're looking at is a captured, frozen moment.

The medium we work with is tied in with the physical world, but what I don't often think about is that it's also tied in with time.


very nice observation. there's a poem in there.


Since I'm no poet, I'll leave that one as an open challenge :)
 02/22/2008 03:04:50 PM · #46
Woohoo, come back from vacation and we have a new home for Team Suck.

First one not quite barn like, but from the trip:


Here are two from a barn:
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I'll have to catch up on all the Team Suck happenings here in a bit. Once I get settled back in (and gone through my photos I took).

Cheers all.
 02/22/2008 03:07:50 PM · #47
I tried it once:

Old Ways

Hung in a forked ash branch, a crow,
dead. I know, I have the photograph.
Who it should frighten and away from what
in those unburdened, blasé bluebell woods,
he might have known. A man sat wattling.

That’s what he did; took straight green staves
of ash or hazel, clove to pliant lath,
stripped bark for poles – a woof and warp
of panelled fence, received and given goods
of his own industry – he was a wattler.

So, if the crow has gone now, so has he
no one will take his place, or find his path.
There’s not much more to say, nor much to see:
some wattled panels and a photograph.
02/22/2008 03:34:35 PM · #48
I concede to raish's poem. In case you're wondering why I like poetry, it's for poems like that.
 02/22/2008 03:46:32 PM · #49
If you folks will keep your barn cats away, I'll share a pic of our pet after this week's challenge. :)
 02/22/2008 07:40:00 PM · #50
Originally posted by levyj413:
If you folks will keep your barn cats away, I'll share a pic of our pet after this week's challenge. :)

Jeffrey has a kitty snack.....

Jeffrey has a kitty snack.....
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