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Congrats again, you two. Looks like it was a great day. I like the bubbles, cool idea.

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My wife told one of her friends about the bats and she asked what we were going to do to get rid of them! I’m thinking I need to build them a house so they have somewhere to roost.

How to Build a Bat House: http://www.nwf.org/Get-Outside/Outdoor-Activities/Garden-for-Wildlife/Gardening-Tips/Build-a-Bat-House.aspx

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*** Shakes fist in the air *** Mendooozaaaa, er I mean, U-maaaan!!!

Go ahead with yours, if you like. I was planning on making mine a b-side anyway. I think Warhol is way overrated anyway :p
CauseISaidSo , if I am thinking like you and U-man, I am definitely on the right track! Re your two photos, I like the coin better. Keeping in mind, I’m a coin collector who loves macro photos 😕

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The idea is to take 4 different colors of cellophane, saran wrap, or as my wife suggested the clear covers they sell for kids’ book reports, and divide the glass of your scanner into quadrants. Lay a Campbell’s soup can in the center of each quadrant, et voila – your own personal Andy Warhol.

Already got one … in the CAN *rim shot*

/thought I was being all clever-like, now everyone’s gonna think I stole your idea grumble grumble 😉

rav glad you can participate! Sounds like you got a good machine for DOF. Like lokisbong, I have one of the cheap (HP) ones that blurs anything more than 5mm from the glass. Also, absolutely move stuff while scanning, that is part of the uniqueness of scanography.

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Some b-sides: http://www.flickr.com/photos/42385982@N06/sets/72157626007121333/

Judging by how poorly my statue entry is doing, I wish I’d picked one of the murals or graffiti.

The plaza dragon, esp.

ennui, I kind of went with the combination of both. Did I like what was depicted? Then further, did I like how it was captured by the farktographer? If a ‘yes’ to both, then it got my vote. And a few select ones got it meeting only one of the criteria, exceptionally.

I think the ‘liters’ really brought it this week.

Thanks, the dragon nearly made it, it was one of the final choices. I think the statue one I had a little bit of infatuation goin on because I took it that day. I still like it, but for the theme, meh.

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Some b-sides: http://www.flickr.com/photos/42385982@N06/sets/72157626007121333/

Judging by how poorly my statue entry is doing, I wish I’d picked one of the murals or graffiti.

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Were you shooting though a window screen or something like that?

Yes, that is probably it. Looking at the other pics next to the one above, I see the robin inside my fence, so if I’d gone outside he would’ve spooked–so they were shot through the screendoor. Both of these are also 300mm at f/5.6, without the same effect:
http://img600.imageshack.us/img600/6974/robinground.jpg
http://img10.imageshack.us/img10/317/sharted.jpg (warning-birdpoop)

Judging from the angle of those two, they were shot through the window as opposed to the screen. I suspect I had just the right distance from the screen to get that hazy effect. Not likely to repeat the results without some rig to hold a pice of screen the right distance from the lens, I reckon. Ah well, been meaning to try that vaseline trick anyway.

Olavf, I tried your tip, but it was not quite what I was hoping for ..

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This is really fun.

This does not bode well if anyone was hoping to take first place … or second, or third 😉

ravnostic, can’t you borrow someone’s, or use a work scanner on your break? That would suck if you can’t play. Looking forward to see what people come up with for this one.

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Pope Larry II, the one that made me laugh most was “This is vandalism/u are gay”.

ravnostic thank you for reminding me about murals, there are a ton of them around town…

U-man I love Iron Man, looks like an iron golem waiting to be animated. And on the subject of humorous stop signs referencing one-hit-wonder rappers with questionable fashion sense, I would like to add: http://www.flickr.com/photos/42385982@N06/5774755928/in/photostream

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Oy, got my pics posted–sorry for the captions/titles Elsinore, just got home from work and started throwing stuff up w/o reading the description 😳
EEdiot!

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Can’t wait to see the contest; the sneak previews I’ve seen on here and flickr look good–U-man that first fire B and the last dandelion B are awesome.
I wish I could’ve done all four elements, but fire is out. The “best” idea I had? Learning how to breathe fire and get a good self-portrait of it … maybe next time.

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Meh, it’s just a blog. I wouldn’t get to upset especially when he is praising your work. It could be worse, he could be making fun of your photo like mine!
http://ihateyourhdr.tumblr.com/page/8 (Mustang Ragtop)

I laughed at this BTW.

😮 You’re right, that is worse. What a douche. I notice the first photo mentioned on that page has 17 500 views and 300 something favorites: http://www.flickr.com/photos/kros/3213219623/in/photostream/
(the one right beside it of the double decker bus is pretty sweet too IMO)

I think I’ll write the author, and tell them to take it down like Farktographer said, because it rubs me the wrong way that I wasn’t asked; and also take sleeping‘s suggestion so it hopefully doesn’t happen again. Thanks guys.

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Amazing photos everyone. Here’s a set of this week’s b-sides: http://www.flickr.com/photos/42385982@N06/sets/72157626007121333/

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LeicaLens, it’s good to see you posting again. Funnily enough, I was just thinking today that I hadn’t seen you post in a while, wondering if all was OK there…

Ditto that. Has anyone heard from corsec yet?

Can’t see SS‘s photo on Fark, but the link works.

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I have 250-odd B’s here.

Anyone see any obvious picks?

Favorited the ones I liked, but “Brian” was already a fave.

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