easy solution - dont pay for a firewall or antivirus... look up AVG for antivirus or ZoneAlarm for a firewall.  Some say they are better than the ones you pay for... that and you could get yourself the anti-spyware programs which are free... Spybot Search & Destroy and/or Ad-aware.  My computer is running fine using all of the abovementioned programs...

LOL Kort usually checks out by now. He 'plays' with us from work...lol. ;^)

That dahlia pic is just beautiful Kai! I don't know why you never posted it. I like yours too, Rich. It has a very haunting quality to it...

Sigh....I tried it...but it came out creepy.  ;^P

Now if only I had a pic of someone in a real teddy and a pic where Andreas doesn't look like a swedish terrorist.....   ;^P

Oh and nice to meet you Chrissy. Wow this thread is going a mile a minute! Surely we've outdone that SA thread by now.... 

Oh there ya are mommy :biggrin: I'm gonna be in trouble cause I haven't done some work but oh well I'll do it during class LOL and yeah we really do need some better pics of that SWEDE LOL but not sure about the teddy part... maybe do a google search?

:b_sweat: .....gulp.....

I may have some old polaroids somewhere ................... hahaha!!

Not a chance!!!

Google then!

I'm off to bed now folks - thanks for allowing me to butt in here and I'll catch up with the goss tomorrow sometime, probably after work!

Sleep tight y'all.

:sleep:

Good night Chrissy... Oh now daddy dont you have that camera of yours with you there? :biggrin: ya could help us out here and take a few quick shots beggs

http://www.yotophoto.com
http://www.sxc.hu/index.phtml
http://www.morguefile.com/

^^ free stock sites... the first is an attempt at bringing them all together and the next two are the largest i know of from my time over at Worth1000.com where i needed stock images free of royalties to play around with in the photoshop competitions.

On that subject here is something i made the other week:

from the image you can see at the start of this animation i made of the "step-by-step" making of the image. It is the Koenigsegg CCX the second fastest production car in the world:

WHOA!!! That is one sweet looking ride. Amazing job on that one Rich. 
And no Kai....my cam here at work is only used to take dropshots with.

OH and did you know the Koenigsegg is a SWEDISH :tt2: how cool is that? eh? yeah I bet Andreas would let us manip him into that beast :lol:

so what does "segg" mean on the end of a word then... i know koenig is king in german at least... but the segg bit was annoying me.

:crying: you're sooooo mean daddy I'm sure you could make the camera take a photo of you :tongue1: but ok ya don't have to do it for us

Oooooh! That´s right. That´s a swedish car. So much cooler than any SAAB´s or Volvo´s i´ve ever seen. :biggrin:

Indeed SIR! That's the car I want when I get the $$$ cause I'm sooo swedish oh and about that segg thingy, jag ingen aning... :rolleyes:

eller gör jag

LMAO! Yeah....i´m sooooo not gonna correct your swedish grammar. :tt2: Gotta love them translators for doing such a neat job, lol.

If Zacko is your daddy Kai then he must be mine toooooooooo?
Also went into chat Rich and you just not answering :(
Chris

well there was the option of gör or göra - but i doubt that is the problem...

My personal swedish experience is limited to knowing (not in the biblical sense of the word mind...) a swedish girl by the name of Cornelia... who i ended up hating with a passion: she insisted on always speaking posh english to me and on the odd occasion would quote some french philosopher... in french. I think that sums up why we didnt really click as friends... well - maybe that and the fact that when we were sharing a flat with a group of friends she had some weird obsession with cleanliness yet squirmed when cleaning needed to be done "i'm allergic to soap"... arg... i'll stop now before i go on a wild rant rant... jag er säker du er inte intresserad.

Oh my. I just hope my wife doesn´t find out about all these bastard children i obviously got. :biggrin:

Ha en underbar natt du med grabben! Och hälsa lilla sim-fröken nästa gång du talar med henne.

chris - read back a few pages... i dont think things were working my end...

hehe - that is great... translator says:

"Have a wondrous night yous with lads! And hail lilla sim - madam next tread yous am speaking with hers."

haha you in chat now.
Anyone else what to come and chat with Rich and I in RR chat?
Chris

Here is one I thougt not just right for gallery.  So many sunsets...so little time..or places to catch the perfect one. This one kept me on a dock of a nearby lake for a while. This was the same night I chased the moon..looking for the ecclipse.   Anyway, here is a sunset to see from my part  of the world.       Tom.

Thats beautiful Tom.
Chris

i'm awake - but just doing some work i should have been doing last night... how was class? did he teach you how to turn the camera on today?

LOL mmm actualy it was Interpersonal communication and Written communication today = BOOOOOOOORRRRRRRIIIIIIIINNNNNNGGGGG but important :crying: yeah actually he was much nicer to me the other day :biggrin:

:blink: OMG I think i wanna hang some 'crap' on my bedroom wall well as long as it's your crap LOL some just above my pillow would be good too LOL....

OH and good morning there enjoy your walk and hope to see you uploading  more of that stuff when you get back and hunt us a tussilago will ay? :biggrin:

I might as well "get rid of" some more photos. The next ones are of that dumb-ass model i shot....i´m starting to regret actually shooting her. :tt2: But i wont get into why. Most of these are way over-smoothened....but i wont get into why they´re that either. :bored: It´s sufficient to say that this is the only exposure they´ll ever gonna get.....and that i wont ever work with that witch again. :tongue1:

Oh my...they sure look pixelated before clicking on them...and still i resized them and made them no bigger than 600 pixels before posting them. :blink:

Well, I shan't ask why you won't use her again, but she is very attractive to look at (but beauty isn't just skin deep, I know!)
I especially like the third one - wearing the greay woollen hooded top, very nice indeed!
Hello and good day to everyone here in RR land - I hope you've all had a better day than I have - one of the worst in weeks!!
Never mind, a brief troll around the forums / galleries now whilst I drink my tea then a nice hot shower to wash away the day - that should put me to rights!

WOW! It was the middle of the night here! I miss everything doing Overnights! Those are some amazing shots Ka, I love the bird! Post it! Hey Bibby, sorry you had such a rough day. Tom see those clouds just above the horizon? See how they sort of form mountains? Well if you're six or seven it's really easy. When my kids were little we decided that's where unicorns and pegasus ponies live, so I really loved that shot. Andreas, she was stunning, you made her amazing! Let it go you can make anyone look amazing, you don't need her. Soon you'll have the young prince and everything will change. I shudder to think what the drop shots will be of! LOL! Gotta go check the e-bots before I fall on my face. 
BJ

GOOOOOD MOOOORNNNNING PEOPLE..... :b_grin: :m_licklips: Hope you're all well out there... :m_blush: Ok let me start of with this :m_thoughtful: Papa never regret something like that (taking them photos of her) cause if ya ask US (yeah I'm gonna speak on the behalf of the others here if they don't mind), but these are some pretty awesome shots I mean hey if I could get a portrait as good as what you got in all of those I'd be stoked... Don't let that one bad experience put you off cause you're good at what ya do and should keep doing it!!!! I'm not really the one that should be saying this but: Don't forget it's not always that beauty queen that makes the best photo :rolleyes:

Thanks guys. It´s not like i´m not gonna do any more model-shots because of this "being". Infact i got 3 new models lined up. Speaking of line-up....my team is winning!!!!! Gooooo MoDo!!!!!! Whooo Hoooo!!!! Icehockey-playoff incase anyone´s wondering. :tt2: 

P.S. LOL @ BJ. Yeah i don´t think i´m gonna be doing any dropshots like that....i guess it all depends on the viscosity though. Hmmm..... :tongue1: