[olavf]

I’d assumed that any pic had to be from last year. Oh well, probably wouldn’t have changed my entries, but I know a few people that’ll likely submit if that’s the case.

/oh, and Elsinore, thanks again for the opinion. Definitely using that one this week.

[olavf]

I ended up polling a couple of Farktographers and Farktography for input once I had the list down to three or so, which got it down to two with a light edge towards the one I was leaning toward as well.

Might do the same thing, though and hold off submitting that one for a little bit to see what else pops up though – but it’s unlikely that any of them will be similar to any one else’s.

[olavf]

Might have been Admiral Jones as a matter of fact. Don’t remember for sure though.

[olavf]

Oh that one is easy – “I was just standing here Officer when this crazy woman came screaming and ranting along here then jumped – here check out the photos, have to love the bokeh on this one. And the way the sun is caught in her dress as she clears the rail here!” 😛

haha! thank you. that made my night.

I just wish I could remember what Admiral she claimed to be. Before she was the cop or the town councilwoman.

[olavf]

shortly after that, this woman approaches olav and starts telling him that it was illegal to take that guy’s picture without his permission.

At this point Olavf took a picture of her right?

I wouldn’t have been able to help myself in that situation, especially when I know I would be in the right 😀

In retrospect I wish I had. My nifty fifty was on the camera and it could have made a really nifty close-up of insanity in full-rant. especially apropos since she was screaming at me how I had permission to take her picture, amongst other things. Really, I just wanted her to go away :/

I actually thought about it at the time, but the other thing that held me back was that there was a good chance that she’d have gotten violent, attack me, break my camera and get her crazy ass thrown in the river. Explaining that to the cops was *not* how I wanted to spend my Sunday afternoon

[olavf]

Anyone else having trouble picking a #3 for this week? Ugh.

#1 I knew immediately, #2 came quickly too, but that third one is kicking my butt :/

[olavf]

Congrats to millera9 this week!!

Definitely. And to you for the tie as well 🙂

[olavf]

I think that’s a fair summation for me as well. Love to watch them. On *me*, not so much….

[olavf]

I already had a similar reaction with a tiny little jumping spider that was crawling around my couch a couple weeks ago. Every time he jumped, I jumped. I’m sure if anyone wer watching, it would have been hilarious, but…. Yeek. Spiders….

They normally don’t skeez me out to bad, but this sucker was about 1/2″ across. There was just nothing little about him 😛

[olavf]

Can’t speak for everyone else, but I’m pretty much always thinking spiders. Fascinating little creatures, and almost guaranteed to make a captivating photo. They’re so alien that it’s hard not to be drawn to looking at pictures of them.

olavf I always end up with these little guys on the end of my lens when I’m taking macros of them. I keep my neck strap off so that when it happens I can set the camera down and let them back off at their leisure. I see your point, though. 🙂

They are, indeed fascinating. What I’m really looking forward to is mantis season though. We had some huge ones in our yard last year, but I didn’t manage to take any pics I was happy with – I’ve never really done a lot of close-up shots – this year’s going to be different though 😉

Problem with that particular spider though is that it was a ‘hopper’, so were it going to go on the attack, it would have cut out the middle-man and come straight at me, rather than the camera…

[olavf]

I dunno. that and bees it seems.

This dude was all over the place and moving fast though. durn near impossible to focus on fast enough.

Also, I was taking shots and realized that my strap wasn’t around my neck. Told Kat I’d better fix that because if he jumped at me I was likely to throw my hands up in the air and scream like a little girl 😛

[olavf]

Durnit. Talk about taking pics a few days too late… :/

http://65.78.140.207/TF/mypics/black_spider-0642_sm_web.JPG

edit: uncropped too.

[olavf]

When does this post to the main page?

midnight tomorrow, EST. so, 25 hours from now.

[olavf]

If you have a linux box available, try that.

I was able to recover 95% of a thumb drive that Windows refused to read. Thank goodness too, because that thing contained ~8GB of my wife’s life work. and there was no way to get at the original files.

[olavf]

good luck man! look forward to seeing the results.

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