Congratulations to the DSS Mega-Challenge #2 Winner!

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  • divamumdivamum Registered Users Posts: 9,021 Major grins
    edited December 3, 2008
    PaulThomasMcKee wrote:
    First of all, thanks to everyone for your kind comments.

    Second...I called my wife to tell her the good news and it went something like this,

    Me: Hi hon. Guess what. Remember that picture you saw me working on?
    Her: Don't even!
    Me: Yep!
    Her: DO NOT EVEN TELL ME!
    Me: Oh Yeah!
    Her: I can't believe it!
    Me: It's true!
    Her: I can't believe that I've been making fun of you for two weeks about that silly thing and it actually won!
    Me: (in my head...this is so SWEET!) out-loud: yeah, can ya believe it?!

    She had several other choice comments (some about my manhood) and we had a really good laugh. She wanted to know how it was made and when I told her she was a little incredulous that I had gone to the store and bought flowers then driven to a park on my lunch hour with a change of clothes (it rained hard the night before so the ground was sotched), set up my camera, sprinkled the flowers out on the grass and took pictures of myself. I'll have to admit that the whole thing is kind of embarrassing...but so worth it.

    Regarding the manhood issue...and even I almost can't believe this, but I actually went into a Fabric Store on my own volition yesterday to look for a backdrop for the Still Life challenge - and enjoyed it. I did notice that I was the sole male in the place...other than a photo of Christopher Lowell advertising his products.

    But isn't that what these challenges are all about? Getting out of our comfort zones and stretching to grow both as photographers - and as sentient beings?

    Ok, that is officially hilarious!! :D
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  • pyrypyry Registered Users Posts: 1,733 Major grins
    edited December 3, 2008
    PaulThomasMcKee wrote:
    She had several other choice comments (some about my manhood) and we had a really good laugh. She wanted to know how it was made and when I told her she was a little incredulous that I had gone to the store and bought flowers then driven to a park on my lunch hour with a change of clothes (it rained hard the night before so the ground was sotched), set up my camera, sprinkled the flowers out on the grass and took pictures of myself. I'll have to admit that the whole thing is kind of embarrassing...but so worth it.

    You had a lie down in wet grass, for a picture?
    I like the dedication, go Paul! :D

    I had my runsamok in the snow wearing water resistant outdoor stuff...
    Creativity's hard.

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  • sherstonesherstone Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 2,356 Major grins
    edited December 3, 2008
    congrats PTM
    WAY TO GO!

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    Sean
  • Michael AtkinsMichael Atkins Registered Users Posts: 116 Major grins
    edited December 4, 2008
    Congratz on your amazing photo! clap.gif
  • lisaplisap Registered Users Posts: 294 Major grins
    edited December 4, 2008
    Congrats Paul!! clap.gif
    -- Lisa P.

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  • richterslrichtersl Registered Users Posts: 3,322 Major grins
    edited December 4, 2008
    PaulThomasMcKee wrote:
    First of all, thanks to everyone for your kind comments.

    Second...I called my wife to tell her the good news and it went something like this...

    H I L A R I O U S! rolleyes1.gif
    Linda

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  • travelwaystravelways Registered Users Posts: 7,854 Major grins
    edited December 4, 2008
    richtersl wrote:
    H I L A R I O U S! rolleyes1.gif

    To be very honest, I kinda agree with your wife.... rolleyes1.gif

    Funny/funky looking... but it's very creative and nice :D

    So it is not a composition, but actually a shot... ha! Even more astonishing!

    Congratulations clap.gifclap.gifclap.gif
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  • jeffmeyersjeffmeyers Registered Users Posts: 1,535 Major grins
    edited December 4, 2008
    PaulThomasMcKee wrote:
    But isn't that what these challenges are all about? Getting out of our comfort zones and stretching to grow both as photographers - and as sentient beings?

    Sometimes it feels more like finding the sentimental woman inside of me. Oh. Wait. She's not there! :whew
    More Photography . . . Less Photoshop [. . . except when I do it]
    Jeff Meyers
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