*ENTRY* Thread DSS #31: Open or Closed

LlywellynLlywellyn Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 3,186 Major grins
edited August 24, 2009 in The Dgrin Challenges
Dgrin Sharp Shooters Challenge #31

Welcome to Round #31 of the Dgrin Sharp Shooters Challenges. This challenge is open to any Dgrin member. It will run from Monday, August 10, 08:00am, EST time (GMT -4) to Monday, August 24, 08:00am, EST time (GMT -4).

The topic ready for your interpretation: Open or Closed

You shall not pass! Er, wait...I think you could if you step over the broken bits. :D Your challenge, should you choose to accept it, is to illustrate something open or closed. Doors, eyes, pathways, boxes, and anything else you can imagine. You can invite your audience in to explore, or keep them out with a sense of foreboding. What do you say, will you let us in?

Your Judges:
JeffGroves (Winner of Round 28)
Llywellyn (Guest Judge)



IMPORTANT NOTE: Your entry is to be submitted directly into a Smugmug gallery. It's pretty simple, just go to the gallery link below, and follow the upload instructions at the top of the page: Remember, the basics stay the same: 1 entry per person, and the photo must be fresh, taken during this contest period. Do not use a minimal save method (such as "save for web"), and your exif will be embedded in your image, no worries!

To avoid disqualification, read, in full, the Dgrin Sharp Shooters Challenge Rules, there have been some slight modifications.
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  • TangoTango Registered Users Posts: 4,592 Major grins
    edited August 11, 2009
    rolleyes1.gif Red, no! Blue! (am I on the right scene?)

    Love the new theme... starting to get the gears moving on this one!
    Aaron Nelson
  • richterslrichtersl Registered Users Posts: 3,322 Major grins
    edited August 11, 2009
    AaronNelson wrote:
    rolleyes1.gif Red, no! Blue! (am I on the right scene?)

    Love the new theme... starting to get the gears moving on this one!

    About time we see something from you! mwink.gif
    Linda

    http://lrichters.smugmug.com
  • TangoTango Registered Users Posts: 4,592 Major grins
    edited August 11, 2009
    ne_nau.gif my little stay at the insane asylum kept me a little longer this time...
    Aaron Nelson
  • LlywellynLlywellyn Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 3,186 Major grins
    edited August 11, 2009
    And here I was thinking this round would fly under the radar because it was so quiet. You just had to ruin that, didn't you. blbl.gif
  • HoofClixHoofClix Registered Users Posts: 1,156 Major grins
    edited August 11, 2009
    If think I'm going to take a picture of and old telephone pole in my town that was used 150 years ago to exact discipline on the locals, some voluntarily..rolleyes1.gif
    Mark
    www.HoofClix.com / Personal Facebook / Facebook Page
    and I do believe its true.. that there are roads left in both of our shoes..
  • richterslrichtersl Registered Users Posts: 3,322 Major grins
    edited August 11, 2009
    Llywellyn wrote:
    And here I was thinking this round would fly under the radar because it was so quiet. You just had to ruin that, didn't you. blbl.gif

    lol3.gif
    Linda

    http://lrichters.smugmug.com
  • jeffgrovesjeffgroves Registered Users Posts: 106 Major grins
    edited August 11, 2009
    The possibilities are wide open!
    Llywellyn wrote:
    And here I was thinking this round would fly under the radar because it was so quiet. You just had to ruin that, didn't you. blbl.gif

    Seems like the participation was down a bit with DSS#30. I am thinking that the possibilities for this one would be wide "open" (rolleyes1.gif ). I am anticipating a high level of entries!

    Looking forward to judging this one! Will we find out who the other judge is soon?
    ;) Jeff
    http://jeffgroves.smugmug.com
  • KatmitchellKatmitchell Banned Posts: 1,548 Major grins
    edited August 11, 2009
    AaronNelson wrote:
    ne_nau.gif my little stay at the insane asylum kept me a little longer this time...


    What did you expect when they found you trying to photograph yourself in the buff in a tub in the great outdoors? ya can't blame them..

    Still, it seems they were willing to let you out early for good behavior Aaron..:giggle

    They sound like good folk...mwink.gif
  • MarkRMarkR Registered Users Posts: 2,099 Major grins
    edited August 11, 2009
    Open or Clothed?!

    At long last! Get out the ring of fire and the hedgehog! We've got ...

    Oh.

    Closed.

    Never mind. (Said in best Rosanadana imitation.) :D
  • HoofClixHoofClix Registered Users Posts: 1,156 Major grins
    edited August 11, 2009
    MarkR wrote:
    Open or Clothed?!
    Oh for the days of the not quite polar opposite theme words....
    Mark
    www.HoofClix.com / Personal Facebook / Facebook Page
    and I do believe its true.. that there are roads left in both of our shoes..
  • divamumdivamum Registered Users Posts: 9,021 Major grins
    edited August 11, 2009
    HoofClix wrote:
    Oh for the days of the not quite polar opposite theme words....

    Hey, we had that last round and it nearly killed us all trying to come up with a shot.....!!! I'm relieved to have a nice pair of general, broad, interpretable opposites this time out after a couple of brilliant, but highly specific rounds. :whew rolleyes1.gif
    facebook | photo site |
  • TangoTango Registered Users Posts: 4,592 Major grins
    edited August 11, 2009
    whatcha mean Diva? I cant even decide which way to go...open or closed?ne_nau.gif
    Aaron Nelson
  • TangoTango Registered Users Posts: 4,592 Major grins
    edited August 11, 2009
    rolleyes1.gif
    MarkR wrote:
    Open or Clothed?!

    At long last! Get out the ring of fire and the hedgehog! We've got ...

    Oh.

    Closed.

    Never mind. (Said in best Rosanadana imitation.) :D
    Aaron Nelson
  • TangoTango Registered Users Posts: 4,592 Major grins
    edited August 11, 2009
    Katmitchell wrote:
    Still, it seems they were willing to let you out early for good behavior

    hey, I didnt say anything about being let out...
    Aaron Nelson
  • richterslrichtersl Registered Users Posts: 3,322 Major grins
    edited August 11, 2009
    AaronNelson wrote:
    hey, I didnt say anything about being let out...

    Let out? Out of where? Not the closet! eek7.gif :uhoh:poke:lol4
    Linda

    http://lrichters.smugmug.com
  • KatmitchellKatmitchell Banned Posts: 1,548 Major grins
    edited August 11, 2009
    AaronNelson wrote:
    hey, I didnt say anything about being let out...

    So, they DO have internet...:D
  • KatmitchellKatmitchell Banned Posts: 1,548 Major grins
    edited August 11, 2009
    richtersl wrote:
    Let out? Out of where? Not the closet! eek7.gif :uhoh:poke:lol4

    Oh dear.. I never knew Aaron...eek7.gifhuheek7.gif

    Your too funny Miss Linda... What's the word? Rapscallion...?
    I think you have met your match in Linda, Aaron...thumb.gif

    You guys are too much...rolleyes1.gif

    Kat
  • dniednie Users Awaiting Email Confirmation Posts: 1,351 Major grins
    edited August 11, 2009
    MarkR wrote:

    Never mind. (Said in best Rosanadana imitation.) :D

    I heard her voice before I read in the parenthesis'!
    Donna

    My SmugMug
  • DsrtVWDsrtVW Registered Users Posts: 1,991 Major grins
    edited August 11, 2009
    Will we be expecting something from the freshly repaired camera Kat?????
    Paint cans open or closed.:D:D:D
    Chris K. NANPA Member
    http://kadvantage.smugmug.com/
  • kds1kds1 Registered Users Posts: 242 Major grins
    edited August 11, 2009
    I've been trying to think of Open or Closed ideas all day long and can't come up with anything that seems unusual enough. Interesting enough. Have to keep thinking . . . .
    ne_nau.gif

    Kara
    Kara Stewart
    about.me/karastewart
  • dniednie Users Awaiting Email Confirmation Posts: 1,351 Major grins
    edited August 11, 2009
    kds1 wrote:
    I've been trying to think of Open or Closed ideas all day long and can't come up with anything that seems unusual enough. Interesting enough. Have to keep thinking . . . .
    ne_nau.gif

    Kara
    :) I saw my picture in my head as soon as I read it.... now if there just was a place like that! Laughing.gif, can I draw it???
    Donna

    My SmugMug
  • TangoTango Registered Users Posts: 4,592 Major grins
    edited August 12, 2009
    richtersl wrote:
    Let out? Out of where? Not the closet! eek7.gif :uhoh:poke:lol4

    remember my tub? now just imagine: brokeback mountain themed...

    oh, ya... you've done it now Linda!!:D
    Aaron Nelson
  • sherstonesherstone Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 2,356 Major grins
    edited August 12, 2009
    Llywellyn wrote:
    And here I was thinking this round would fly under the radar because it was so quiet. You just had to ruin that, didn't you. blbl.gif

    You honestly didn't think that open or closed was going to go away unscathed with, Mr. brokeback tub in the wild lurking... did you? mwink.gif

    Aaron you sure are good at putting a smile on our faces, thanks!
    Sean
  • WhatSheSawWhatSheSaw Registered Users Posts: 2,221 Major grins
    edited August 12, 2009
    kds1 wrote:
    I've been trying to think of Open or Closed ideas all day long and can't come up with anything that seems unusual enough. Interesting enough. Have to keep thinking . . . .
    ne_nau.gif

    Kara

    I'm good at generating ideas. I'm not so good at execution (but improving)! I have 8 ideas so far, some of which I don't think I can execute yet.

    Dream about it tonight. :D
  • richterslrichtersl Registered Users Posts: 3,322 Major grins
    edited August 12, 2009
    AaronNelson wrote:
    remember my tub? now just imagine: brokeback mountain themed...

    oh, ya... you've done it now Linda!!:D

    T.M.I. :jawdrop rolleyes1.gifrolleyes1.gif
    Linda

    http://lrichters.smugmug.com
  • marikrismarikris Registered Users Posts: 930 Major grins
    edited August 12, 2009
    richtersl wrote:
    T.M.I. :jawdrop rolleyes1.gifrolleyes1.gif
    15524779-Ti.gif

    Houston Portrait Photographer
    Children's Illustrator
  • marikrismarikris Registered Users Posts: 930 Major grins
    edited August 12, 2009
    Oh hmmm, I did think about something, a version of a photograph that I'd seen a year ago. Hopefully I won't chicken out and actually do this one lol.

    Houston Portrait Photographer
    Children's Illustrator
  • NetterNetter Registered Users Posts: 80 Big grins
    edited August 12, 2009
    We were walking out of the bar tonight (celebrating a completion of a work project) and it hit me what to photograph for this challenge. wings.gifNow, I just have to figure out to bring it to life.
    ----Netter

    twobassets.smugmug.com


  • LlywellynLlywellyn Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 3,186 Major grins
    edited August 20, 2009
    Just dropping in to remind folks: this is the final round to qualify for Mega-Challenge #5. :wow

    No pressure. :D
  • TangoTango Registered Users Posts: 4,592 Major grins
    edited August 20, 2009
    Llywellyn wrote:
    Just dropping in to remind folks: this is the final round to qualify for Mega-Challenge #5. :wow

    No pressure. :D

    jeez, might as well use Salt Rock :D
    Aaron Nelson
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