LMAO!!!! Oh my God! Had i known you all would be able to see my ugly drawing i simply wouldn´t have bothered. Sigh....i´m soooo ashamed right now. :mellow:

Fun stuff though....maybe i´ll draw a summerhouse as well....redeem my first awful attempt...ugh.

Making this thread resurface cause i just ran into something i truly hate in the gallery right now. This right here is my pet hate:

Picture 1
Picture 2
Picture 3

Why not just pick ONE of these and upload instead of cluttering the galleries up with clones. This is something i simply will never understand why people would upload 3 basically identical photos at once. :huh: No wonder it has become impossible to keep up with the gallery.

Eh....when i click the link i don´t end up at ephotozine...i get this adress instead:

http://www.sigma-sd14.com/

I don´t mind or anything....i actually liked that presentation of that new Sigma. Just thought you should know your link was a bit misleading. :tt2:

His keys to success? LMAO!!! Good for him. Impressive endresult though....except for a bit of ghosting ontop of her head that i can see on this awfully bright screen of mine.....i guess he earned the right to blow his own horn for a while there. :tt2:

I have in the past yes, whenever i´ve stumbled upon something like that.

Other than that they are the fingerprints of your photo? And if you´re concerned with getting your photos ripped off, then you might wanna hold onto the file containing the EXIF so that you can really prove it yours. I´ve come across photos on this very site even that has been ripped off from other sites...and i could prove that via the EXIF.

Hmmm.....i´m fairly sure it´s called "work-day" and not "working-day"....siiiiiiiiiiiiigh. I´m gonna go watch some more "Hells Kitchen" now....boy can that obnoxious chef rant or what?! :scared:

Oh yeah, i saw that upload as well. And i had to bite my lip not to say anything...i had just prior to that left a comment on someone elses upload that seems to have pissed off that author so i thought it´d be best if i played nicely. :tt2: 

Regardless if he had permission or not to edit and manipulate that photo....which i´m sure he did. Didn´t he say he got it from DevianArt or something? They actually encourage that sort of behaviour there don´t they? Well anyway...as i were saying....about to say rather....even if he had permission to edit and manipulate it, i think it´s quite clear that it should´ve been posted to the "Mixed Medium" gallery instead of Photography-gallery am i right? Or as it says on the top of the gallery-page:

*"Please use your judgment when uploading photo manipulations & photos that have been heavily changed. Images containing 2D elements (tubes, fractals..), stock photos or 3D elements (Bryce, Poser, etc) should be uploaded to the
*Mixed Medium or 2D *galleries"

Which makes the disappearing of your comment even more fascinating. :bored:

Oh will ya look at that...writing this reply took 4 minutes out of my working-day....yippie!!!!! :biggrin:

Huge congratulations!!!! The first time something like that happens, you get super-thrilled. I´ll be sure to look for it the next time i visit one of them tobaccostores that import mags....i think there is one only 1.5 hours away by car. :mellow:

Yup, that guy has some amazing dropshots indeed. I have that site bookmarked and go there every now and then for inspiration.

LOL! Don´t worry Kort, i love animated GIFs myself. It´s when the thumb is completely misrepresentative i feel it´s annoying.

And oooh ooooh...the copy and pasters! Yeah that really is such a slap in the face on those of us who actually type every letter. I once got a copy-paste-comment that complimented the "rich and beautiful colors" in my photo....and that person can´t even have looked because i had uploaded a B&W. :woot:

"My pet hate is thumbnails that are different to the main image as I am firstly looking at the thumbnails deciding on which to view larger."

DITTO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

And ditto the stuff you said about reciprocal (must find it in dictionary) commenting. That´s only logical and natural behaviour and it´s something that is not significant for RR only.

One must also remember that not all are that interested in improving, but instead they use RR as a way to show their families or friends their photos. And then there´s those who ask for constructive critizism and yet when they get it...they get pissed off and deletes their galleries and what not. Or people who deletes their photos simply because they didn´t get as many comments as they had hoped for. I wont waste any time commenting on those no matter how great their photos are if they´re gonna delete it later on.

I think the most important thing to remember is that nobody is forcing anyone to comment or to allow comments. Nobody is getting paid to comment....if they were...i´d be a milionare by now. LOL. And nobody is charging us any money to upload one (big) photo a day either....i think we should all be a bit more grateful about this place....take the good with the bad.....after all, i think we got a pretty sweet deal going here.

Ah comments.....what a lovely topic that is. LOL. I am one of those that just can´t be selective when it comes to commenting. I admit that i comment on just as many images out of guilt/obligation than i do because i really love them.

There are numerous reasons for that. One is because i feel i owe it to those who was generous enough to take the time to leave comments on mine....and that is alot of people just there.
Another reason is because i´ve gotten quite a few IMs whenever i´ve missed someones uploads wondering if they did something wrong or whatever to cause me to overlook them. Sure it´s easy to say that one should just ignore those IMs....but in a weird way they do make me feel bad. :sad: I also get spam-IMs every now and then from people i don´t even know, LOL. I actually love those IMs....they´re sooooo sad....the title would say "Hi Zacko" ....then in the message box there´s only a link to their upload and nothing else, lol. Oooh....and how many of you have gotten comments that says "I have now taken the time to look and review your work and i now hope you do the same in my gallery."...or "I also uploaded a photo of a sunset, you can find it in my gallery. Look here" and then a link....have any of you gotten those? I tell ya...those "requests" are really easy to ignore though. :biggrin:
But the biggest reason is simply because i love commenting....and i know people are getting encouraged by them which makes it all the more fun.

Bottom line however....is that i do comment way too much when i "get in the zone"....and therefor i´m now sitting here with carpal tunnel syndrome as the result of it. :sad: So if i´m ever gonna allow comments on my own photos again (´cause right now i can´t in good concience since i´m not commenting frequently myself...sigh...there´s the guilt again) i need to find a way to balance the commenting and try to not let the people begging for comments get the best of me. And as you said Klaus...there´s ridicilously many uploads every day now....and more and more are joining with paid memberships where they´ll upload 3 shots every day. That´s an entirely different topic though that i´m sure many of us has different opinions about as well.

P.S. Since i´m certainly not qualified as an english teacher i hope Rich can overlook all the typos and bad grammar in this reply of mine. :tt2:

Aww.... thank you Danielle.   I just got Jenny´s permission to post the photos of her in my gallery....so maybe i´ll do just that. Now i only got to convince Sara as well. :bored: