02-09-11 – It’s on the Travel Brochure

Rav came and visited me last month, and I think he had a good time.

I did! I recommend the Plama-tour to everyone. I’ve picked up a boatload of OT for the next couple weeks, so I don’t know when I’ll make it down again, but I’d look forward to it. Preferably when it’s not so damned freezing cold! Oh, and sans cloudcover, too, if we can swing it.

There may be something to be said for posting only in threads you have something for, rather than setting a goal of neccessarily posting 3 images to keep the stats looking OK…more power to ’em.

This has been my stance for a while now – I don’t post in threads that don’t interest me, or that I don’t think I can do justice to.

That said – I generally *shoot* for those threads, even if I don’t post to them. Keeps me on my toes.

or out of my league (Software Hootenanny), I opt to cheer from the sidelines.

if you don’t have PS or one of the pay photo manglers the Gimp is free. i looked at my last entries and while they didn’t get a lot of votes i still enjoyed making them.

and the voters will surprise you. enter those shots you took. sometimes i stay out if it’s an archive dive but if i shoot for a contest by gosh something is going up.

It’s interesting, them statistic things. “Travel Photography” got far more entries (270 v 210) than this one, but this one has way more votes (results not yet in, but it’s on the top ten recent contests, and ahead of TP by 3 as of Sat morning).

Great shots by everyone–a real pleasure to vote on–congrats to Markie_farkie!

Lots of good stuff this week indeed, and congrats also to markie_farkie (does he come ’round these parts?)

I’ve updated the vote graph in my previous post to show the whole timeline. You’ll see we had a great Sat surge that pushed us past our previous best recent contest of Weather by 168 votes. That puts this one at #6 on the most voted contests ever.

It’s interesting that even with all of the votes, we only had one farktographer to break 100 votes total:

Rank   UserName   ContestVotes

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1    orionid             101

2    Ranger Joe           95

3    swampa2              92

4    markie_farkie        89

5    kestrana             88

6    Haerski              88

7    takoyaki             84

8    plamadude30k         84

9    U-Man                83

10    Mopsy                80

And finally, I hope y’all will indulge me in just a little celebration of my own: It’s obviously a reflection of voter whims and not talent, but it’s the talent of the photographers I’ve temporarily bested (stats-wise) that makes it special for me:

Rank   Farktographer   Recent Vote Total

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1    orionid                       888

2    BecauseISaidSo                739

3    U-Man                         717

4    kestrana                      694

5    Elsinore                      656

6    Ranger Joe                    641

7    ravnostic                     582

8    Mopsy                         539

9    Ennuipoet                     537

10    olavf                         512

I don’t anticipate that lasting long, so U-Man, I’ll keep the spot warm for you. (You’re on your own for orionid‘s spot, though.) 😉

I just haven’t ‘felt the magic’ for several months. – I can totally understand that and I’ve only done 36 contests. I’d imagine after 189 contests, periods of feeling like that would be expected. Not to mention the times when real life interjects its interruptions and distractions.

re: Mopsy & Mr. Mopsy – Best wishes to them both and I agree – that is dedication!

re: Your A-game – Oh, I’m well aware of where I shake out when you bring your A-game. Nonetheless, it’s always good to see, so… bring it! 🙂

If it’s anything like your last color pop, I’m shuddering.

I also can’t say I got nuthin, but what I do have is a bunch of standard HDR stuff.

I looked back and saw that image–immediate ‘WOW’ factor.

I now have software that’s supposed to be comparable to Elements–and, for the some 2 things I’ve learned to do, maybe it is. But they’re letting us work OT, nearly unlimited, and paying off the truck in 4 months takes precedence over learning new tools (I work 6 12 hr days a week right now).

Spending my mornings unwinding and toying; don’t have much to offer for it, yet.