Yeah, so, scrap the whole CCR angle. I still like Born on the Bayou as a theme though.

The things I relate most closely to memories of Curious are Louisiana and cats. Since I don’t want to see another cats theme, maybe something like “Born on the Bayou” with the theme applying to anything that evokes Louisiana – New Orleans,…Read more

(Contest #785)

On the “no more thumbnail images” thing, is that just for Dream a Little Dream or all contests going forward? Because this week looks right.

Yeah, I saw that. Maybe I got 403’s because I scanned the last contest after it closed? Even then I see that 3 out of 39 thumbnails made it through. Strange. I really don’t know the hows and whys of…Read more

The only suggestion I’d offer is perhaps an occasional tighter zoom/crop to see the concentration/effort on the faces of the players (or even focus on just a single player in the middle of the action). I think a couple of those…Read more

Thanks! I’ll PM you the codes this weekend.

Don’t know if/how things have changed on your end but I never got a PM…

Going to be out of town for this one, anyone willing to post then up for me?

Hopefully I should have some of my own to post as well so I could add them to my autoposter queue for you, ‘Cuda.

With the Capitol in the background, that biker shot is very iconic; IMO the only way it could be improved would be if the entire flag was also in frame.

I’ve learned that unless I have the 400mm lens I’m cropping a lot

I often ran into the same thing when shooting football, Pope, even with a 1.4x TE on the 200. But shooting from the sidelines I often also needed a shorter lens so it had to do.

Hey, I’m actually somewhat kinda close to the top! FINALLY MY GENIUS IS RECOGNIZED!

And if you look at total votes, you’re in first place! (At least for now – InterruptingQuirk is just a couple of votes behind.)

In case you’re not familiar with it, you can see the total vote rankings for the current contest on the “Ranked by Total Votes” tab at ht…Read more

Awesome, although be careful with photobucket. A lot of corporate networks block photos hosted there (including my employer and every military base I’ve been on) for whatever reason, so you may be potentially losing votes when people scroll right past that little red x.

Shouldn’t be a problem anymore now that Fark rehosts all images under its own…Read more

I mean, who doesn’t have a selfie or 20 kicking around in their archives or on FB?

*raises hand* Me. My last entry is literally the only selfie I’ve ever taken (and it’s from 9 yrs ago). I only took that one to rub my friend’s nose in the fact that I was skiing and he wasn’t.

It may be that some don’t want their real selves associated with their…Read more

if people can’t easily fark from the internet’s largest photo host, farktography may be lost.

I stumbled upon a new Fark feature a couple of weeks back. I don’t know if it’s “legit” to use or something Fark’s looking to keep on the down low, but you can now upload photos directly to…Read more

I am blind and stupid.

I don’t know that I’d go that far. I didn’t catch that there was a difference between the $310 and the $440 lenses, either. They don’t exactly make that very clear.

They’ve got a 97% positive rating with 30 reviews and have it listed for $310+$30 shipping, so that’d save you $100 over the $440 price.

• U-Man had a four-peat starting with contest #232 and 3 three-peats starting with contests #258, 344, and 351
• Elsinore had a three-peat starting with contest #399
• And now Barracuda has a three-peat starting with contest #457.

Planning on Caprock Canyon hiking on Friday, Palo Duro on Sat/Sunday, staying in one of the canyon rim cabins on Sunday night in hopes of getting some star trails or at least time lapse shots.

Yeah, you’re not making this any easier on me, ‘Cuda. If I wasn’t neck-deep in this rewrite and already committed to a spring break week w/ my sons, I’d…Read more

Just get a bunch of monkeys with typewriters

I don’t think you understand; that’s how we got to this point in the first place! 😆

Also, I just came across this relevant quote this week:

We’ve heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the complete works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know that is not true.

Last I knew, chupathingie was pretty close to there and could probably help out with info, but I’m not sure how actively he monitors the forums.