03-07-12 – Instant Inspiration

Well there’s two of you who were confused enough to archive dive. I don’t think that fits the theme, but if it’s that confusing, should we allow it? To some extent, without people being honest, there’s a good likelihood I wouldn’t be able to police every entry for whether they were taken after this theme was scheduled or not. I’m usually an admitted stickler for the rules and theme intention/requirements, but I also don’t want to go so far that participation is overly prohibited. Maybe plamadude3000 will wander in and let us know what he’d prefer to see done….

Yeah, I didn’t want to go outside the rules but sometimes theme wording is ‘go shoot it’, but diving is ok. Since fewer themes require new shots, maybe those that don’t should say specifically ‘no diving allowed’ to help avoid confusion.

If everyone else interpreted it as new shots only too, I’m fine with leaving mine out.

So the crux of hte question is, if you’d picked quotes that did, in fact, fit images you already had in your archive, would you have felt they were fair game? Or did you interpret the theme as requiring new photos shot specifically for this theme?

I think they would have been fair game, but the quotes I was pulling, even in a book about the Colorado, were more about pouring concrete or activities in the town or about Powell losing his barometers. I could have continued looking for quotes that fit preexisting images, but that would have been a bass-ackward interpretation of the theme. Even in the case of the Patton book, I had a heck of a time finding a usable quote, mainly because Patton is a lousy writer.

I was only putting the “new shot” restriction on myself because finding shots to fit random quotes seemed like a big hassle. It wasn’t specified in the theme so I don’t see an issue with archive dives.

In my case, here was my process; knew a couple of my horse books should have something that would work with shots I have. I opened the ‘Spirit’ book to a picture of an Arabian, went to the next page and first saw the highlighted quote I used in the thread. I knew I had at least one Arabian with all four feet off the ground. Then I remembered I’d used that shot in the first Software Hootenanny, so I used a different horse from the same day’s shoot.

On the one I haven’t posted yet, the first page I looked at, again it had pictures (lol me likey picture books!), so on the following page, the quote used was what I saw first and knew what picture would fit it.

But, if I’m the only one who dived, don’t change it. I’d feel bad that others restricted their choices and I went off on my merry little way…as usual. (too much of the good stuff!) 😆

Ok, thanks Elsinore! (btw, now I’m not sure if I enabled voting on my last one or not…) 😳