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She was slower than the cat. Seriously. He (the kitty) runs away at the sight of my camera since that evening.

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Kitchen knives and sticks would need to be shown in a weaponized context, I think, other than that, it’s all good…

Cool. Makes sense. I can work with that.

Not that I have specific plans, but what about an obviously toy gun pic like this? –> http://photos.imageevent.com/ulle17/fark/Shooter_2156.jpg

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Does anybody (like sleeping or Elsinore) want to chime in? I have some ideas but don’t really want to go through the effort only to have them DC’ed.

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So. How loose is this one going to be?

Guns and tanks – check
Military folks – check
Kitchen knives?
Plastic army men?
Ranger Joe’s models?
Slingshot?
Blow gun dart? (home made)
BB gun?
A sharp pointy stick?

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I just have one question. Am I really supposed to trust a picture that has “photoshop” in the file name? 😯

Heh. Yeah. Believe it. I have a host I first started using for the fark photoshop contests. Then, when I started the photography stuff, I put the photoshop pics to a different folder. I still throw some pics in there to keep them out of the actual contest pics folder.

I have 20 or 30 other dog-in-tree pics if you must have verification. 🙂

http://photos.imageevent.com/ulle17/farkphotoshop/Rider_9733.jpg
http://photos.imageevent.com/ulle17/farkphotoshop/Rider_9752.jpg

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Bees –

http://photos.imageevent.com/ulle17/fark/Attic_3040-bw.jpg
http://photos.imageevent.com/ulle17/fark/L_0451a.jpg
http://photos.imageevent.com/ulle17/fark/Chairs_3489c.jpg
http://photos.imageevent.com/ulle17/fark/Chairs_5885.jpg
http://photos.imageevent.com/ulle17/fark/Attic_3000.jpg – (taken with a Holga lens)
http://photos.imageevent.com/ulle17/fark/Ski_1590.jpg

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Nervous?
Yes.
First time?
No. I’ve been nervous lots of times.

BTW – My airport pic is a different frame and different crop from the 2008 ‘Terminal Madness’ theme.

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A hospital? What is it?

It’s a big building with patients. But that’s not important right now.

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I was at the dentist getting a cleaning and check up and I tried three times to respond on my smart phone and kept getting cut off because they were prompt. Dammit.

Yes. We’re all in agreement. If it is an actual, usual seat it is good-to-go. If it is an atypical, non-traditional seat, it has to be in use or obviously a seat without any sort of captioning.

I love dictionary.com with sound. Here’s orionid. http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/Orionids My wife and I have put in “dirty” words just for fun.

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Looks like I picked a bad week to stop sniffing glue.

I don’t have a clear answer for you. It’s probably a bad idea to just hope it isn’t an issue. Isn’t it?

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I’m an idiot. I have been looking at this name – CauseISaidSo – for the past couple months wondering who CAUSEL was.

Also, just how am I supposed to pronounce orionid? Orio-nid? Orion-I-D? Oreo-nid?

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That reminds me of a pic I had lurking in the archives. (I won’t use this tonight.)

A friend’s dog likes to climb the tree in the backyard. Like, ten feet up.

http://photos.imageevent.com/ulle17/farkphotoshop/Rider_9749.jpg

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The cat in the tree is acceptable. The branch is the seat and it has significance to the photo.

That said, I think that there is some risk that people would have a different opinion. They might view it as not fitting the theme well enough to vote for it. Or, it might be a huge hit. I have posted photos that have succeeded because they were different. I have had some do worse than I expected because people didn’t “get it” like I did.

A lonely chair is the safe entry. A cat in a tree is risky but possibly worth it.

Helpful? 🙂

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I’m in for 12, 16 & 17 as well.

Decision making for this theme shows the difficulty in choosing between: a good photo, what fits the theme, what I think the voters will think. Will they understand that this theme is about the seat? Or will they be OK with the ‘shiny thing’ + a seat someplace in the frame. 🙂

I’m going with empty, man-made seats for this one. Partly as a self-imposed difficulty. Partly because I think that fits the spirit of the theme the best.

/unless I change my mind before go-time….

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I just spent some time combing through the archives. Man, I was going to go out tomorrow and hunt for a chair or two – but that would just confuse me more.

As I previously said, open interpretation is fine. I would like the sitting place to have significance though. I mean, just some guy sitting on something isn’t what this is about.

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