COMMENT THREAD for April Contest 'World of Work'

[Mz Pip]

Please post your comments for this months photo contest in this thread.



The SUBMISSION THREAD can be found here:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=280x53694

Mz Pip

[Mira]

1. I've missed you Tekisui - glad you showed up,, and I'm glad

you submitted that one.

[tekisui]

2. Thanks for missing me!

:hi:

Between the weather(rain), school(busy) and playing catch up at work(due to the rain), my camera has been traveling back and forth with me, rarely taking off the lens cap.:(

I should be over a crest in school work soon, and be back to my preferred free time hobby of walking with my camera.

[NashVegas]

39. Mira, Where Did You Take That?

Exchange the nun habit(? abaya?) for a sari and it looks very Gauguinish.

[Mira]

41. This was taken in Egypt, in Sekem, a place near Cairo

http://www.earthfuture.com/economy/sekemegypt.asp

I could talk about that place until I am blue in the face, instead, every now and then, I show a photo of it.

[NashVegas]

42. Great Composition

Really nice.

[Mira]

43. Thank you! It looks serene, to me. N/T

[JeffR]

3. I can see where this is going.

Every photo that gets posted, I think, "That's my favorite." Until the next one gets posted and I think "No, that's my favorite."

[Cassandra]

4. In this age of people being paid obscene amounts...

for screwing up even gambling, the sight of people doing productive work is very moving.

[Mz Pip]

5. That's what I was hoping for

when I suggested this. I think I commented that I really didn't want a pic of some CEO exiting his limo...

[Cassandra]

6. They don't really exit...

they just ooze out.

[JCMach1]

7. I like the -photo realism- kind of pics we are see so far...

We often don't see enough of that in the competitions...

[Celebration]

8. remember paintings in the 30s

By the WPA artists? They were often industrial looking, and work was celebrated. Of course they painted landscapes, etc. as well. But I love the look of the industrial paintings in the 1930s. That is one reason I thought that this would be a good theme.

[JCMach1]

9. Exactly, maybe there will be some more cool B/W entries!

[Blecht]

10. Oops

The photo I submitted is too large, and I didn't notice it until the time window for editing posts closed. Sorry about that.

I have a resized version that follows the rules ... what should I do?

[Mz Pip]

11. Submit your resized version

under your original entry. No problem!

Mz Pip

[Blecht]

12. Done

Thanks.

[47of74]

13. Mine

My submission was my dad and my brother working in the field last fall.

[Celebration]

14. beautiful

It has an old fashioned look to it.

[Dinger]

26. You're Gonna Get My Vote

Neat picture, loved it!:)

[Tindalos]

15. This was a great idea for a theme

The sheer variety and possibilities encompassed by the word "work" are overwhelming. I look at each of these entries and say "Wow!". Coming from a family of goldsmiths, I'm rather partial to Cassandra's submission but, sentimentality aside, I really don't know how to choose one of these pictures over another. I'm just blown away by it all.

[tekisui]

16. NashVegas--I can't see your picture.

I don't know if it's on my end or yours.

[Cassandra]

17. I'm having trouble with it, too.

I'm on dial-up but most pics come through eventually.

[Celebration]

18. not showing up here either

Maybe try to link using Photobucket?

I want to see a mentalist!

[NashVegas]

20. Now?

I'll re-upload to Photobucket if the second attempt isn't showing.

[Mz Pip]

19. The image needs to be resized

That may be the problem. Resize it to the specifications in the guidlelines. Make it 800 pixels on its longest side. See if that helps.

Mz Pip

[NashVegas]

21. I Don't Think That's It

Something in Picasa's architecture, but this hasn't happened before. No idea what's up. I reposted and if it still doesn't show (it does for me, because it's in my cache) I'll try a different service.

[Celebration]

22. cache

See, what happened with me was that I clicked on your properties when it was still a red x, and then did copy and paste of that into my browser, and got to see the picture that way.

So, when I came back to the thread it showed up!! But that is because I went to the actual website.

So, I really wouldn't know if what you did makes a difference or not. Because, I have been able to see it ever since going to the site with my browser.

[NashVegas]

27. Should Work Now

[tekisui]

37. It does.

Nice shot.

[jhain]

23. Dear Mz Pip,

May I change my submission?

[Mira]

24. Make that:

Dear Mz.Pip, may I please submit two entirely different but entirely magnificent photographs, just this once, please?

[Mz Pip]

30. One entry per person!

:-)

[jhain]

34. hahahhahaaa

I could create another user name and another email account and wear big sunglasses while doing it and it would be all spy=ish!

[Mz Pip]

29. Put the one

you want to submit under the one you have and with a notation that you are changing your entry. :hi:

[Dinger]

25. Mine Was Mr. Dinger Cutting Up A Dead Tree In Our Woods

It was a beautiful day. Not the best pic as far as quality, but my camera is not a fancy one. I titled it like I did because of the bumper sticker.
"Better a bleeding heart than none at all"

[Mira]

28. Really a good sticker. And I got it. I'm glad you submitted the photo.

If we have the obstructionists continue with their atrophied or non-existing hearts, I might make some of those stickers for my friends and other interested parties.

[pipoman]

31. Nice entries this month

I like Farmers Self Portrait and Jeweler's Hands...very nice

[JeffR]

32. Pipoman, fergosake have mercy.

That entry deserves to win. Hands down.

It kills me to see this small & jpegged. It should be printed big and hung in a gallery.

[JeffR]

33. I hasten to add

inasmuch as I'm capable of hastening after a few benign intoxicants, there's some amazingly tough competition so far. I can easily pick 4 or 5 photos that I would applaud as the winner, but I stand by my own choice.

[pipoman]

35. You are very kind

Actually this is printed large as part of a 3 photo series displayed in the corporate offices of the small drilling company who owns this derrick. I shot these for myself and just sent a set of 5x7s to the 2 guys working on the derrick. A week or so later the company president called and asked for large prints.

Here are the other 2.





Again, thank you Jeff for your kind comments.

[Celebration]

40. Woo Hoo, a great story

The photos sold themselves. Love it, and I sure understand how that happened.

[JeffR]

45. And these two are just as good

Beautiful series.

[Mira]

36. You have a lot to be charitable about...Your photo rocks!

You got that in just under the wire, and even if it doesn't it is a total winner. It's like a painting.
Anyway, congratulations in advance :)
When I look at the entries in all their portrayals of hard work, I just get tired and want to rest.

[Cassandra]

38. Thank you.

The color in yours is truly magnificent.

[Blue_In_AK]

44. Pipoman, that photo is dazzling.

I was going to enter something, but I think I'll pass now. It's not even worth the effort. :)

[Mz Pip]

46. LAST DAY TO ENTER!

Let's fill up those last spots!

[NashVegas]

47. Congratulations, Priller!

(Just saying it early in case I'm not around for voting.)

[Mz Pip]

48. Less than 3 hours left!

Get those last minute entries in!

[Mira]

49. Has this happened before? Pipoman comes in with a drop-dead gorgeous photo

and the only noise after that is chins hitting the deck, so to speak? Not an entry after that, and there is space now for a disguised jhain to submit the egg farmer, and she can't do it.
What's with that?

:sarcasm:

Good luck everyone.
On to another contest, and I have so much fun being part of it, and I don't take it for granted.

[tekisui]

50. Photo contest has started in GD, K & R the threads, and what about

Thread # 3, I am only finding 1 & 2.

[Mz Pip]

51. Problem with

one of the pictures - Falling Down on the Job will not post as a picture - only as a link. I have tried several times to re do the thread but that same picture will not post.