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04/15/2004 11:22:15 AM · #76
Originally posted by john22132:

It is just basically making an interesting discovery by accident. Walk about and find something you find interesting.


Yea but I don't think that simply something interesting would do, it has to be visible also the fact that you discovered it by mistake or accident while you were actualy looking for something else.
04/15/2004 12:06:52 PM · #77
Originally posted by faidoi:

Serendipity- You go in to buy a tripod for your Sony and because you're the 1 million customer they give you a Canon 300D Rebel with a couple lenses.

Happy happenstance.Something totally unexpected but very good.


My entry winning a ribbon!
04/15/2004 12:17:22 PM · #78
I don't think you can really illustrate serendipity in a single photo, without clearly staging a "scene". I challenge anyone to post an old example out of your archive that we can agree illustrates serendipity. Personally, I am going to sit this one out.
04/15/2004 12:25:19 PM · #79
I might have to pass on this challenge too :(
04/15/2004 12:53:04 PM · #80
Something came to mind although I will not do it.

Take a photo of a baby or person laying/sitting beside a birth control sheet with one unused pill...

Now - that should illustrate serendipity!

;)
04/15/2004 12:59:53 PM · #81
Originally posted by nshapiro:

I don't think you can really illustrate serendipity in a single photo, without clearly staging a "scene". I challenge anyone to post an old example out of your archive that we can agree illustrates serendipity. Personally, I am going to sit this one out.


Last May I went to visit Stan Hywett hall in akron OH. Goodyear founder's mansion. There was a wedding party there for photographs. I bet if i had asked i could have taken a few shots. That would qualify.

Soo...if i read the paper for wedding announcements and just 'happen' to drive by the church and take a few shots...or does the planning defeat the serendipity part, and from only the photograph how can a voter tell? ;)

Message edited by author 2004-04-15 13:00:26.
04/15/2004 01:02:37 PM · #82
what i would class as Serendipity would be going out to a coffee shop getting a coffee, meeting a chick and gettin some. :) too bad you can't post shots like that on this site. lol

Message edited by author 2004-04-15 13:03:00.
04/15/2004 01:04:26 PM · #83
Originally posted by bestagents:


Soo...if i read the paper for wedding announcements and just 'happen' to drive by the church and take a few shots...or does the planning defeat the serendipity part, and from only the photograph how can a voter tell? ;)


Part of my point is exactly that. How will your photo illustrate the story of how you found your subject by chance?

Or if you are illustrating a scene, where the subject finds something serendipitously, how can you illustrate those conditions?

This is even worse than "surprise".
04/15/2004 01:05:06 PM · #84
I'll take the challenge - serendipitous find as I was checking woods for a shot at a waterfall

04/15/2004 01:10:48 PM · #85
Originally posted by amsmyth:

I'll take the challenge - serendipitous find as I was checking woods for a shot at a waterfall

Funny shot, but I can't see looking at the photo that you got this by serendipity. And reading the challenge more carefully, I think the point is to illustrate serendipity, not to show an unplanned photo.

Edited to add the challenge details:

The word 'serendipity', coined by Horace Walpole in 1754 to express his delight at a fortunate yet accidental discovery, is based on an old name for Sri Lanka (Serendip) and a local fairytale of three princes who "were always making discoveries, by accidents and sagacity, of things which they were not in quest of....". Create an image that represents Serendipity.

Emphasis mine.

Message edited by author 2004-04-15 13:14:33.
04/15/2004 01:16:38 PM · #86
So a picture of a lottery winner?
04/15/2004 01:24:26 PM · #87
Originally posted by bestagents:

So a picture of a lottery winner?


I doubt it, but you gave me a good idea... I was going to mention it here but it's too good. He he - Muh ha ha ha...! ;)

And no - it's not the baby and the unused birth control pill...
04/19/2004 04:37:40 PM · #88
Well I entered an image that is strongly about serendipity to ME but it's a personal interpretation and one I doubt will score highly given that most posts in the forums seem to be gravitating towards the opinion that the image must be a candid of serendipity in the week of taking rather than a representation of the meaning itself.

Still, I felt I really ought to enter given the dismay my challenge suggestion brought about!!!!

IF YOU DON'T LIKE THIS SUGGESTION DON'T FORGET THAT EVERYONE CAN MAKE SUGGESTIONS FOR FUTURE CHALLENGES AND SHOULD INDEED DO SO. THAT WILL ENSURE THE GREATEST VARIETY IN CHALLENGE THEMES.
04/19/2004 11:28:55 PM · #89
So, the challenge says "Create an image that represents Serendipity."

I had one good idea & one that I am in LOVE with. However, while waiting for my subject to get home from school, I was finishing up knitting a poncho for my neice. I was foolowing what I thought was my daughters instructions, and totally went off course. While trying to fix it, I noticed the poncho turned out to be the most beautiful one I have made. Not entering this into the challenge, but funny how serendipity find us...lol
04/19/2004 11:47:52 PM · #90
Well, I am pretty sure that my shot will get marked down for not be serendipity. But really, the scores don't bother me as much as they used to, and to me, this shot is sure serendipity. I really like the photo a lot and am very proud of it, and to me, that's all that counts. I am proud to say that I entered the serendipity challenge. And thanks for just that, a challenge. That's what I love about DPC!
04/19/2004 11:55:28 PM · #91
Originally posted by goinskiing:

Well, I am pretty sure that my shot will get marked down for not be serendipity. But really, the scores don't bother me as much as they used to, and to me, this shot is sure serendipity. I really like the photo a lot and am very proud of it, and to me, that's all that counts. I am proud to say that I entered the serendipity challenge. And thanks for just that, a challenge. That's what I love about DPC!


I agree with you 100% about entering photos that you feel are your best effort especially under the circumstances, and moreso ones that you can be proud of. That's much more important than the score. It's still hard to see something you "love" getting callously bashed. ;) I applaud your attitude (even if I do give your pic a 1 -- just kidding ;) )
04/19/2004 11:59:50 PM · #92
Originally posted by nshapiro:

Originally posted by goinskiing:

Well, I am pretty sure that my shot will get marked down for not be serendipity. But really, the scores don't bother me as much as they used to, and to me, this shot is sure serendipity. I really like the photo a lot and am very proud of it, and to me, that's all that counts. I am proud to say that I entered the serendipity challenge. And thanks for just that, a challenge. That's what I love about DPC!


I agree with you 100% about entering photos that you feel are your best effort especially under the circumstances, and moreso ones that you can be proud of. That's much more important than the score. It's still hard to see something you "love" getting callously bashed. ;) I applaud your attitude (even if I do give your pic a 1 -- just kidding ;) )


I used to get SO discouraged about getting ones and low scores, but now I look at it as "Hey, they don't know what they're missin' out on." Plus hey, everyone has had their fair share of ones. No, but it has taken me a while to get to this point where I can finally say that though. It's warm welcome people such as yourself that has taught me to not care about scores.

PS Odds are prety good that you will rate it low, but I am fine with that...because I will probably rate your's low as well! Hehehe! LOL!

;)
04/20/2004 12:06:07 AM · #93
Originally posted by goinskiing:

Originally posted by nshapiro:

Originally posted by goinskiing:

Well, I am pretty sure that my shot will get marked down for not be serendipity. But really, the scores don't bother me as much as they used to, and to me, this shot is sure serendipity. I really like the photo a lot and am very proud of it, and to me, that's all that counts. I am proud to say that I entered the serendipity challenge. And thanks for just that, a challenge. That's what I love about DPC!


I agree with you 100% about entering photos that you feel are your best effort especially under the circumstances, and moreso ones that you can be proud of. That's much more important than the score. It's still hard to see something you "love" getting callously bashed. ;) I applaud your attitude (even if I do give your pic a 1 -- just kidding ;) )


I used to get SO discouraged about getting ones and low scores, but now I look at it as "Hey, they don't know what they're missin' out on." Plus hey, everyone has had their fair share of ones. No, but it has taken me a while to get to this point where I can finally say that though. It's warm welcome people such as yourself that has taught me to not care about scores.

PS Odds are prety good that you will rate it low, but I am fine with that...because I will probably rate your's low as well! Hehehe! LOL!

;)


I am not a professional, so I do expect to score fairly low, but I appreciate all of the comments that I have received. MY goal is to ribbon before my brother-in-law. That will come with pure luck.
04/20/2004 09:38:48 PM · #94
Just thought that I'd add this---a Serendipity ribbon winner...

04/20/2004 10:58:21 PM · #95
Well, the closest I came to a serendipity photo this week, even using the definition of an unseen element was:



But the photo doesn't do anything for me artistically, so as I suspected, I'm sitting this one out. Good luck to those that enter.
04/20/2004 11:03:26 PM · #96
OH MY GOD!!!! I am sooo upset I have to sit this one out too. I was sure I had a winning idea. Was all set to take the shot, it has been raining since late this morning. No chance at all to take the photo. Today ws my only chance to get it. Sat patiently all week waiting for today and Mother Nature took over. Good luck to everyone else. NOw I am on the edge of my set to see all of the entries. :)
04/22/2004 01:12:23 PM · #97
Here's an excellent real-life example of serendipidty:

The idea of using microwave energy to cook food was accidentally discovered by Percy LeBaron Spencer of the Raytheon Aircraft Company when he found that radar waves had melted a candy bar in his pocket as he accidentally walked in front of an activated radar (this is a no-no!). Experiments showed that microwave heating could raise the internal temperature of many foods far more rapidly than a conventional oven.

I hope the the guy with the candy bar already had all the kids he wanted...
04/22/2004 04:08:48 PM · #98
Originally posted by Are_62:

Here's an excellent real-life example of serendipidty:

I hope the the guy with the candy bar already had all the kids he wanted...

Microwave ovens work by electomagnetically exciting polar molecules (e.g. water); a rapidly alternating field makes them change their orientation rapidly enough to cause heat (friction?). They are not "nuclear" and do not emit ionizing radiation so far as I know. They will denature proteins but I don't think they are mutagenic.

Xrays (and the phenomenon of radioactivity -- the key to nuclear physics and our modern understanding of matter and the universe) were discovered by William Roentgen when he developed a photographic plate upon which he'd left sitting a lump of uranium ore and found it fogged.
04/22/2004 04:45:17 PM · #99
Would you consider this serendipity? Why? Why not?
04/22/2004 05:25:00 PM · #100
Originally posted by JasonPR:

Would you consider this serendipity? Why? Why not?

Actually I would. I like the coincidental repetition of the image of the man's abs.
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