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02/22/2008 08:04:34 PM · #51 |
peter - you've done it again. i hope everyone realises how lucky we are to have two poets on our team. real poets are few and far between
far and few, far and few, is the land where the jumblies live
their ... are green and their heads are blue, and they went to sea in a sieve...
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02/22/2008 08:47:13 PM · #52 |
Whats a barn without a 
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02/22/2008 09:05:57 PM · #53 |
*clambering up into the mow to check the quality of the hay*
...and somewhere there's a pic of a freshlt scrubbed-out mow that I took for a challenge and never entered...and there are some barn pics kicking around too... |
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02/22/2008 09:09:53 PM · #54 |
Originally posted by NikonJeb:
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..... |
Oh, I don't know...guinea pigs can be quite aggressive if you catch them at the right moment. I actually have scars to prove it. I'd say the barn cats had better be on their guard. |
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02/22/2008 09:17:24 PM · #55 |
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. |
Here you go, Jelena, the Washington Post had this to say on Thursday:
"...Much as pigment and canvas are material for paintings, light and time are material for photography. As one Lady Eastlake wrote in 1857: 'Every form which is traced by light is the impress of one moment, or one hour, or one age in the great passage of time.'"
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02/22/2008 09:22:49 PM · #56 |
Gah - we're in a barn, you'd have thought someone woulda mucked it before we made it home !
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02/22/2008 09:23:46 PM · #57 |
Having kind of an 'off' day here - and not made any better by finding one of my 'browns' redone in the current challenge :(
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02/22/2008 10:09:31 PM · #58 |
Thought we might be able to use a country road and silo to go with our weathered old barn.
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02/22/2008 11:51:29 PM · #59 |
Thanks,  incubus, for reminding me that I actually have something related to barns in my portfolio:
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02/23/2008 12:58:08 AM · #60 |
Originally posted by kashi:
Having kind of an 'off' day here - and not made any better by finding one of my 'browns' redone in the current challenge :( |
Yeah, this challenge might be more of a bummer than I thought. A lot of people are interpreting "excellent" to mean "eye candy". I don't know why they couldn't simply make it a tribute. That being said, I'm thrilled to see one of mine up there! |
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02/23/2008 01:26:18 AM · #61 |
| I was kinda hoping it was a challenge to have fun but based on my comments so far (with one very notable exception - thanks, Catherine!) no one else is seeing it that way. I'd say "live and learn" but I've been here long enough that I really should have learned by now. Kinda sad, really. |
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02/23/2008 01:56:26 AM · #62 |
Originally posted by posthumous:
A lot of people are interpreting "excellent" to mean "eye candy". |
How long have you been here? ;) And you're still surprised?
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02/23/2008 03:54:02 AM · #63 |
Originally posted by levyj413:
Originally posted by posthumous:
A lot of people are interpreting "excellent" to mean "eye candy". |
How long have you been here? ;) And you're still surprised? |
Some of us quietly still hope for more. Though hope is fading.... |
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02/23/2008 04:18:07 AM · #64 |
| Hello new team suck thread! |
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02/23/2008 04:48:53 AM · #65 |
Originally posted by posthumous:
A lot of people are interpreting "excellent" to mean "eye candy". |
Originally posted by levyj413:
How long have you been here? ;) And you're still surprised? |
Originally posted by Melethia:
Some of us quietly still hope for more. Though hope is fading.... |
Umm...
So you guys are saying that this is a bad thing?
Are you saying that the images that you like best are not?
I don't mean to be rude, but I have no problem with being devil's advocate on this.
This is my favorite image of mine, coincidently my highest scoring, and I'm delighted that it's pleasing to the eye.
I also love these:
  
  
  
I have a bunch I like that are NOT Team suck.......8>)
My point is......the term eye candy is relative......what works for me is not necessarily what works for you.
I like to think that I have an eye for creativity, and an appreciation for the story told in an image, but I do like a visually pleasing image as well.
And if that some days coincides with the masses, so be it.
Okay......just for sake of discussion......here are my three site faves, and why.
 8.0421 Minimal editing challenge. Wow.
 The eye for pathos that this young man has just blows me away.
 When I first saw this, I actually went "Whoa!" and backed away from my screen. What an imposing image!
Two of these are 8+ images, absolutely eye candy, and IMNSHO, two of the most excellent images I have seen in my life bar none.
If that's a bad thing, well screw it, I'm bad.
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02/23/2008 06:39:36 AM · #66 |
Yeah, that Doomwatch pic is a fave of mine too - the guy who introduced me to DPC showed it to me on the computer - holy hell! What an expression!
Hey where's the manure pile located? We're gonna need to truck out lots of brown stuff at the rate my scores are headed... |
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02/23/2008 06:57:10 AM · #67 |
| At least the person who's brown ribbon I emulated had a similar understanding about the challenge. My entry was intended as a tribute instead of a "I'm better than you". |
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02/23/2008 07:37:40 AM · #68 |
Jeb, eye candy when well done is not a bad thing. It's just not the only thing. Does that make sense? And I would't qualify very many of those shots you posted as pure "eye candy" either.
Glad to hear it, Mary. I got a comment from  SaraR that made my entry worthwhile. :-)
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02/23/2008 08:05:08 AM · #69 |
Jeb, i agree with deb - there's nothing wrong with eye candy, but it's not the only way to see the world. i guess eye candy is what it says - nice, but too much and you get sick. there is some, beautiful, perfectly made candy, a true art form. but there is also a need wholesome food too - both a good hearty meal and nouvelle cuisine.
ok, enough with the similies...
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02/23/2008 08:10:26 AM · #70 |
| similes are like spaghetti |
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02/23/2008 08:18:32 AM · #71 |
Some sheds to store stuff in when the barn gets too crowded. (It doesn't appear that I have any barns to share, so these will just have to do.)
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02/23/2008 08:21:31 AM · #72 |
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02/23/2008 09:35:48 AM · #73 |
Originally posted by xianart:
peter - you've done it again. i hope everyone realises how lucky we are to have two poets on our team. real poets are few and far between
far and few, far and few, is the land where the jumblies live
their ... are green and their heads are blue, and they went to sea in a sieve... |
I think we have three . . . Robert ( bear_music) is also quite an accomplished wordsmith . . .
/edited to add/ . . . or were you perhaps referring to a DPL team rather than TS?
/end edit/
Message edited by author 2008-02-23 09:36:47.
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02/23/2008 09:56:59 AM · #74 |
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02/23/2008 09:58:33 AM · #75 |
Originally posted by Bruce_the_Robert:
Originally posted by xianart:
peter - you've done it again. i hope everyone realises how lucky we are to have two poets on our team. real poets are few and far between
far and few, far and few, is the land where the jumblies live
their ... are green and their heads are blue, and they went to sea in a sieve... |
I think we have three . . . Robert ( bear_music) is also quite an accomplished wordsmith . . .
/edited to add/ . . . or were you perhaps referring to a DPL team rather than TS?
/end edit/ |
ooo, jeez, sorry robert the bear. how could i have been so remiss? of course, three wordsmiths.
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