03-30-11 – Glass 2: Shattered & Stained

Thanks for the tips, Elsinore and Kestrana. I’ll be fiddling around with Flickr and figuring it out with your suggestions 🙂

There are LOTS of good pictures this week, some really nice stuff. That being said, I swear that my instincts for posting are 180 degrees off. The Glass Block shot was a last-minute photo session result; posted as the best of what I’d taken on the venture (and not a long venture–maybe an hour.) I liked, but not overly so. The Amber Orb shot session was well over an hour in itself, focused exclusively on the bulb (and it’s brother, in some), and I picked my favorite (or 2nd favorite; jury’s still out) and thought it would be the run-away ‘hit’ of my 3 entries.

And of course…my “well I guess this is the best of what I can use” shot is competing with U-Man’s most excellent wine glass shot (!), and my personal favorite, while gaining ground, is my least voted upon entry.

Is Amazon selling the “Voters, for dummies” book yet? Because I need to read it to figure out why my instincts have been outsourced and why my own opinion on my entries is always so juxtaposed with the voters.

markie_farkie‘s church shot is the bomb. bucky, I voted for your wine glasses, too–in some contexts, I like them better (no offense, U-Man; you got a vote, too)(also BISS‘s glasses); orionid‘s carved glass shot is fantastic, and plamadude‘s 2 foot lens could be a Lady Gaga costume. A bunch of others, too.

Well, whatever it is that you guys have, it’s not something that I have as well. Either that, or my shots don’t resonate with the voters at all. I think this will be the last time I have my husband help me pick my shots. He really liked the candles one, and that’s doing the worst. Then again, I haven’t exactly picked too well either. Next week I get to try all over again though, and I do look forward to doing so. At least I haven’t given up, and at least my shots have votes, so someone liked them.

/shakes fist at Red Baron

bucky, I voted for your wine glasses, too–in some contexts, I like them better

Thanks!

Thanks for the tips, Elsinore and Kestrana. I’ll be fiddling around with Flickr and figuring it out with your suggestions 🙂

Or, just buy a $12 domain from godaddy, and use the free hosting account for posting your images. //sayin’

NO NO NO godaddy business! Not after the video showing the CEO killing an elephant. What a jerk that guy is:

http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/129331/20110331/namecheap-godaddy-elephants.htm

“Bob Parsons, the CEO of GoDaddy.com (a major Internet domain-hosting company), has killed at least one elephant and a leopard for his personal enjoyment? It has been well established that elephants are capable of experiencing emotions, including joy, anger, grief, and sympathy? Killing a single elephant can devastate a family, and their mourning ritual over the death of a family member rivals any that we humans have developed.?

Namecheap also denounced Parsons and GoDaddy. It said:

?It?s not often that we would disagree publicly with a competitor, but we at Namecheap are very disturbed by this video of a competitor killing an elephant for sport.?

Namecheap is now offering to transfer domain from GoDaddy to Namecheap at a price so cheap that Namecheap loses money on those transactions. In addition, it will donate $1 for every transfer to Save The Elephants (www.savetheelephants.org).

Namecheap?s special offer is good until 11:59pm EST of April 1st. The coupon code for the offer is BYEBYEGD (bye bye GoDaddy).”

And stupid Flickr also changed the ‘grab the link’ prompts again, which confuzzled my old brain.

And stupid Flickr also changed the ‘grab the link’ prompts again, which confuzzled my old brain.

Im not happy about that since it no longer works in opera.