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May 23, 2005 |
Volume
1 - Number 107
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TODAY'S PHOTO -
the immature little blue heron, from your favorite
reflection picture, here to talk about "This
and That."
"Yep, I know, birds are not the most frequently
asked for category in Picture to Ponder and I'm here
today because Sheila said with my mouth open I'd be
a good symbol for all the "this and that"
which she has to say.
Actually Sheila got some great head shots of me with
food wrapped around my bill. It took her a while to
figure out what my, seeming, beak rings were and,
if you ask her, she might share those photos with
you.
Also, please excuse the fact that I am not looking
right at you. I thought I'd reach more people projecting
my voice out into the world in a distance this way."
THIS AND THAT -
WINNERS
The three winners were drawn by Bob Tatem from the
names of all the survey respondents last week. They
were: First Prize - Marva Harvey; Second Prize - Ola
Norma; and Third Prize - Cynthia (no last name given).
All other respondents were e-mailed their promised
gift certificates.
If you responded to the survey and did not receive
your certificate, please e-mail
Sheila. Two respondents did not include their
names and, to let you all know, I was unable to match
respondents with their coments, so no concern if you
did not want to be identified.
SOME SURVEY RESULTS
There is now a page on the site with a
list of the top 12 photos that were selected more
than any others. The reflection of the little blue
heron above, or his brother or sister, was #1, having
been listed by 23% of all of the respondents.
In creating the thumbnail photos, so you could SEE
what they, are on the list
page , I became in even more AWE of those of you
who responded.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
I was surprised at the number of people who actually
went through every issue to check out the photos and
make sure they matched them up with the # of the issue,
as I had requested. I realized as I worked on the
thumbnails how difficult that was, ESPECIALLY with
the first 50 or 60 where the description was in a
different issue!!! So added THANK YOU, THANK YOU,
THANK YOU for all that you put into this.
PLAYING WITH OUR MINDS
The responses, below, to Friday's issue were quite
interesting. I love when people are totally caught
up in the unexpected. I was reminded of this when
I created the thumbnail for Root Grass. At the time
it was published nobody knew what it was. I turned
it on its side today for the thumbnail and suddenly
it became more obvious. See rootgrass
original and rootgrass
horizontal.
Suggestion: Taking a lesson from the "root
grass", where this week might you rotate something
180 degree to gain a whole new perspective?
READER COMMENTS ON THE LAST ISSUE - Issue
106
"Cool - at first, without reading the description,
my eye was looking for the water line where the reflection
meets the horizon - but it's a piece of wood!!"
Debra Schanilec
"I would love this as a painting."
Gretchen Little - I
actually got the feeling, myself, of a painting from
the picture.
"To reinforce your statement that "There
is the possible mystery of not even knowing what we
are looking at.", my initial thought was that
of wind blown sand on a beach flowing over a tunnel.
Not until I read what it was did I actually see it
your way." Joel Grubman
"Here's one where the subject line, while absolutely
truthful, sent me off in a deceptive direction. I
decided the whole thing was the landscape and that
I was looking at wind rowed sand.
Couldn't figure out what that brown thing in the middle
was, though.Even after I read "top of a railing,"
it took my brain some minutes to resolve the photo
in my mind.
I see the boy with the bell, but this pic is "fantastical"
even without looking for hidden images." Mary
Gray
"I loved this pic. When I first looked at
it I thought it might be a cave in a dessert, I could
almost imagine a dragon lurking inside! Rachel Kitterman's
influence.**
It also reminded me that a couple of years ago we
picked up a piece of driftwood off the beach that,
if you squinted at it, looked like an angel holding
a mirror. I have just gone to find it and sure enough
it still looks like an angel holding a mirror. Phew!
Thank you for reminding me about it.today, so...."
Alis Parkinson
**Rachel
did a YOU*U focus group DAYDREAMS
and DOPPLEGANGERS:Finding your Creative Voice.
Although I did not do the course, I did read the material.
Very EXCITING!
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