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Forum Rules, FAQs, and Announcements / Re: Maintenance Notice

« Last post by keithsnell on April 11, 2012, 06:22:57 AM »

Something weird did happen this morning.  When I used the word, date or new, a hyperlink goes to some sort of ad.  So I replaced those words with others.

Can you explain that in a little more detail Michele?  I don't understand what you mean when you say "when I used the word, date or new."  When you used them on the site?  Or when you typed them into your address bar on your browser?

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Forum Rules, FAQs, and Announcements / Re: Maintenance Notice

« Last post by Michele on April 11, 2012, 03:45:00 AM »

Something weird did happen this morning.  When I used the word, date or new, a hyperlink goes to some sort of ad.  So I replaced those words with others.

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Weekly Photography Assignments / Re: Voting for the Weekly Assignment "Textures in Black and White" March 27 - April

« Last post by Michele on April 11, 2012, 03:18:38 AM »

Please note that I made a boo-boo and put the titles of the photos ABOVE the photos.  Sorry about that.

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Weekly Photography Assignments / Voting for the Weekly Assignment "Textures in Black and White" March 27 - April

« Last post by Michele on April 11, 2012, 03:09:27 AM »

Please vote for up to three of your favorite submissions from the "Textures in Black and White" assignment for the "People's Choice" award.  You can select one, two, or three separate images to vote on.  To vote for your favorite images, please select the check boxes associated with those images in the poll attached at the top of this thread, and click "submit vote."  If you change your mind after your initial vote, you can select the "remove vote" option and resubmit your vote.  NOTE:  You need to be logged in to see the voting options.  Voting will end at midnight, Mountain Time (GMT-07:00) on Wednesday, 25 April 2012.

Please let me know if you would like to go back to 1 vote for People's Choice.  I have an idea.  How about 20+ photos and we have three votes, however, less than 20, we get 1 vote.

The guideline for this assignment was to focus on how black and white brings out textures.   I did not include the color photos but if you would like me to add them, I will.

Reading Time




River House




If you could speak, what would you say?




Poor little guy




Shells




Along the shore




Almost like the moon...




Weeds




Old stump




Storm




Ice Figures




Ear Bird




GreenHouse View




Sea Shell Witch




Grace




The Forest




Pine cones




Barbed Wire




Barbed Wire 2nd Try




Tree Bark




Tree Bark - Revisited




Tree Bark - Shadows




If you could hear, what would you play?




Lone Wagon




Rainy Day Exploration




Stairs




Feathers




Old Trees




Virginia Dogwood




Cat tails on their way out




Dogwood in the forest




Dogwood:  It was worth the shot

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Weekly Photography Assignments / Weekly Assignment "One Subject - Three Angles" April 11 - April 25, 2012

« Last post by Michele on April 11, 2012, 02:22:09 AM »

We have some great ideas for assignments coming when the seasons change a little more for all of us.

Our last assignment had a lot of participation and I think we can really keep the energy up.  One question, are we still ok with bi-weekly assignments or should we go back to weekly?

One member in the last assignment gave me an idea for our next challenge.  

We sometimes get stuck taking a photo with the same angle and never feel like we get it just right.  In this assignment, we are going to do another "Triptych" http://community.spiritofphotography.com/index.php?topic=575.0 again. Please go review the triptych assignment we did in May 2010 if you are uncertain what a triptych is.  If you can't put your three photos together, post them individually and I will put them together for you.

In this assignment, take the same subject at three completely different angles.  You can change the DOF, your lens or any other settings you like but the subject has to be the same and the angle must be different in all three photos.

Let's see if we can learn a new trick or two by trying out alternative views.

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Forum Rules, FAQs, and Announcements / Re: Maintenance Notice

« Last post by Michele on April 11, 2012, 01:32:00 AM »

Thank you, Keith, for fixing the site.  I changed my password too.  What could possibly interest someone to hack into this site?

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Forum Rules, FAQs, and Announcements / Re: Maintenance Notice

« Last post by marilyn on April 11, 2012, 01:03:45 AM »

I clearly have no insight into how hacking happens, but how would you have been able to catch it as soon as it happened?

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Forum Rules, FAQs, and Announcements / Re: Maintenance Notice

« Last post by keithsnell on April 10, 2012, 09:33:35 PM »

Thanks Marilyn.

(Sorry about not catching it as soon as it happened.)

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Forum Rules, FAQs, and Announcements / Re: Maintenance Notice

« Last post by marilyn on April 10, 2012, 09:01:19 PM »

I went on last night and discovered the hacking with a really gross "welcoming" image.  I'm impressed you got it back so quickly, Keith.  You're awesome!

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Weekly Photography Assignments / Re: Assignments

« Last post by TrvlRick on April 10, 2012, 07:21:14 PM »

I think we should give it a try. We don't have many out yet but it will be fun turning over rocks and logs. Let's do it!