09-01-10 – Waterscapes

For my voting it, came down to context. I felt that water had to play a large roll in the shot but it couldn’t be the only thing. A picture of waves doesn’t do it for me, you might as well take a picture of a nicely mown lawn, add people and a coastline, then it works for me.

FWIW my leading vote getter is my least favourite entry, I’ll never figure voters out.

I seem to have been having what was, at best, and intermittent issue.

I’ve noticed intermittent problems the last two contests. Sometimes red X’s and sometimes properly sized frames with no pics. I’ll keep an eye out this week and let you know if I see it again.

olavf, all three pics were just x’s, but clicking on them successfully brought up the large sizes.

Yeah, I keep everything backed up on a regular basis. If the thing completely failed, I’d have everything up to this morning or so, so no real worries there. I do need to make a backup of the database for my gallery though. I’d hate to have to recreate all that data 😛

With any luck, it’ll just be the motherboard. *theoretically* Back up in under an hour. Linux is pretty resilient to that kind of stuff. If the OS is hosed somehow, it’ll be sometime tomorrow, since the install process can take a while, and I’ve got to configure some stuff (like the firewall & web server) before I can get back online – the rest of the config can be done on a live box thankfully.

It’s been giving me fits for about two weeks now though, and I’ve tried everything else :/

I guess I’m not understanding what you mean by “landscape aspect” then. A desert landscape might not be very “scenic” either, but it obviously qualifies under either definition (though in this case, obviously a desert landscape had to have water in it, too). Ultimately vote for whatever you want, but it seems like you’re suggesting a lot of photos in the thread don’t qualify as landscape photos nor meet the theme requirements.

(and the others who’ve) I’m not saying they don’t qualify for the contest. They just didn’t get my vote. Tastes and interpretations differ, and that’s a good thing. I wanted something in the picture’s distance besides the line between water and sky. Boats, piers, something. That’s just me. I’ve voted (so far) for well over 100, probably closer to 150, of the entries. Had to draw a line somewhere or I’d have voted for all of them. There’s very few poor pictures in there this week.

Yeah this is a huge contest. When was the last time we had this many entries in one contest? I am gonna wear my voting finger out this week for sure. I also feel very outclassed this week. but I am getting some votes so I don’t feel like a complete loser.