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That one was non-votey. There are a few crustaceans and the like in the mix though.

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that’s awesome. bummer it didn’t make it.

When I was a kid, I used to go fishing in the local creek in FL. You really, really wouldn’t want to eat anything you caught there, so I would sometimes bring my catch home in a bucket.

Our fish tank had a bream, a catfish, and a small-ish large mouth bass. Anything else was just food.

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LOL Kat looks less than thrilled to be holding the fish in the fish slap pic.
That fish head soup looks yummy BTW … not really but great shot!

Thanks 🙂 She was actually trying really hard not to laugh. Back story: The kids were being really rambunctious – pretty much getting out of control – so I literally yelled out of desperation: “don’t MAKE me get the fish!”. They stopped and asked “what?!?”, so I replied, “I have a fish, and I’m not afraid to use it!”.

Well, they were still carrying on, so I called them into the back yard, gave Kat the fish, and started taking pictures.
(didn’t hit them with it, but they were so derailed that it worked)

The soup one I *had* to take. I’ve had that damn song stuck in my head since the contest was announced 😕

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I tried for that kind of shot, it takes a lot of patience to shoot salmon swimming upstream. I spent 4 hours over 2 very chilly mornings waiting for that kind of shot. I got maybe 15 pics, and only 1-2 are good (in focus, recognizable as a fish, etc). Since I’m not a TFer you’ll have to wait to see it.

The chinook don’t start running until next month here. It seems like there’s some good vantage points at the hatchery, but I don’t know how crowded it’ll be. Gonna try tho.

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Didn’t feel much for this contest, unfortunately. But one can’t be thrilled with all themes, I suppose.

The nearest aquarium to here is a 90-mile drive so gas plus admission for two (and I’m sure that’s more than $20 a piece).

I think the tilapia cost around $3 or $4, and was a whole lot more fun. Especially threatening the kids.

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lol. I was thinking about that song last night…

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Absolutely. A “Little Deuce Coupe”, for example.

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Only two?

Amateur.

Actually, three if the wife counts 😉

That gives me an idea, but the ex would kill me.
/she sometimes peruses the contests

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QueenBee:

I vote no tentacles but that’s just me.
Seahorses, eels and sharks should all be allowed though.

I think I’ve got two ready and no tentacles, I promise, kestrana.

/I don’t like them either.

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Now that’s an astrophotography kit.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1318457/Astronomer-Dave-Grennan-discovers-290million-year-old-supernova-exploding-star-garden-shed.html

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ennuipoet, I think I mentioned it in the original theme thread, but the basic concept was borne out of something Kat and do on a pretty regular basis. We call them ‘photo safaris’, and basically pick someplace and just go wander around and see what there is to photograph. Old Sacramento is one of our favorites, because there’s always just a hodgepodge of people and things to keep us clicking. Sometimes we’ll pick a place that might have something for a Farktography contest, or an idea for a shot one of us wants to get, but either way, the idea is to get out with the camera and use it. We try and do that at least once or twice a month.

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My hope is that everyone gets all excited and runs out and takes a bunch of pics in the next month, but I didn’t make it a requirement. So, that’s the spirit of the contest, but not the difficulty.

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We have a massive set of folders organized by year, then by month, then an ‘event’ tag that includes date, who took it, and what the occasion was. That’s not too bad. I keep meaning to add a text file with keywords in the directories but I haven’t.

that whole mess gets backed up to my other server several times a week… I have all the stuff I need for a 1TB external drive to keep offsite but I have yet to do that.

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That’s what I was going to say. I don’t think there are many themes that lend themselves to three-in-one.

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Side profile of a guy with a shave head holding his hand to his ear?

Something like this: http://www.follandfamily.com/TF/farktography/091021.music/guitarist-0930_sm_web.JPG but less cluttered?

As much as I’m afraid to ask, is it possible to link an mp3 of his cover track? That may help.

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