Your Photo of the Month -- October [Archive]

tazo

Oct 8, 2003, 09:19 PM

This thread will serve as the area to submit one's photos, for the month of october.

In case you havent read 8 pages of 'photography', post your photo for this months given theme, where eventually a panel of judges [from this site] will review them.

RULES:
1. must be a new photo
2. must relate to topic
3. post it in this thread only
4. Must relate to the theme 'spooky'
5. Prize and/or incentive to be determined
6. Only submit one photo per month
7. Be nice.

Mr. Anderson

Oct 8, 2003, 10:31 PM

ah, tazo - what happened to the other thread with several pages of posts?

D

tazo

Oct 8, 2003, 11:01 PM

I dunno

ColoJohnBoy

Oct 8, 2003, 11:18 PM

I'm baffled...... what's the theme for this month? Panther? What kind of photos are we talking about? Why do monkeys throw poo? Why does that kitty look like kibbles?

And so on....

tazo

Oct 8, 2003, 11:21 PM

the theme for this month is supposed to be 'spooky' and this thread is supposed to be just for submitting photos..but i digress

Mr. Anderson

Oct 9, 2003, 12:22 AM

the other thread is gone tazo - did you delete your original post and end up deleting the whole thread?

D

MacBandit

Oct 9, 2003, 12:24 AM

Originally posted by Mr. Anderson
the other thread is gone tazo - did you delete your original post and end up deleting the whole thread?

D

Is it even possible for a non-moderator/admin to delete a thread?

Wardofsky

Oct 9, 2003, 02:36 AM

Originally posted by MacBandit
Is it even possible for a non-moderator/admin to delete a thread?

Power of a demi-god.
If you delete the first post in a thread, evey other one goes with it.

Click edit on a post and read what it says next to "Delete?".

Note: deleting this post will result in the deletion of the entire thread if this post is the first post in the thread.

Mr. Anderson

Oct 9, 2003, 05:49 AM

As had been discussed in the previous thread - using a single thread to post pics is not the way to go here. It will be too much of a mess and too difficult to view all the images if they come in between discussions of previous ones.....

And don't delete anymore of your posts.

D

shadowfax

Oct 9, 2003, 08:11 AM

Originally posted by Mr. Anderson
And don't delete anymore of your posts.

D why can't we delete our posts? that's one of the privileges we pay for here.

tazo

Oct 9, 2003, 08:18 AM

Originally posted by shadowfax
why can't we delete our posts? that's one of the privileges we pay for here.

it is? I thought we were just being nice to arn ;)

Mr. Anderson

Oct 9, 2003, 09:20 AM

Originally posted by shadowfax
why can't we delete our posts? that's one of the privileges we pay for here.

sure, if its just your post...but tazo did something stupid - he deleted his post, which was the first post in the thread that ended up deleting over 100 other posts, including discussion on logistics and planning for the contest. Not good and you have to realize why you shouldn't do it.

I should have said *don't delete any first posts in a thread*

D

eyelikeart

Oct 9, 2003, 09:24 AM

damn...

yeah...ask before doing something u don't know what u are doing...

wdlove

Oct 9, 2003, 11:06 AM

Originally posted by eyelikeart
damn...

yeah...ask before doing something u don't know what u are doing...

As a moderator could you bring the thread back? At least now we know not to delete the first post in a thread. The warning is appreciated. I have only done a delete post when I accidentally caused a duplicate.

jelloshotsrule

Oct 9, 2003, 11:13 AM

Originally posted by wdlove
As a moderator could you bring the thread back? At least now we know not to delete the first post in a thread. The warning is appreciated. I have only done a delete post when I accidentally caused a duplicate.

i think that's the problem.... that because the one post was deleted (ie, erased entirely), the entire thread was.... it's not as though it were sent to the wasteland or something

it's just gone.

Mr. Anderson

Oct 9, 2003, 11:16 AM

Originally posted by jelloshotsrule
it's just gone.

yep, it's just gone.....and if it happens again, there might be issues, so please don't do it.

thanks,

D

MacBandit

Oct 9, 2003, 11:28 AM

Is it possible to create a thread where a person can only post a linked image and not type text?

wdlove

Oct 9, 2003, 11:33 AM

Originally posted by Mr. Anderson
yep, it's just gone.....and if it happens again, there might be issues, so please don't do it.

thanks,

D

So this isn't like your hard drive at home? If you know how or have the right program you can recover lost data. Just curious about the situation, thanks.

Mr. Anderson

Oct 9, 2003, 01:55 PM

no its gone - that's why its an issue. Hopefully all the demis will learn that with their power comes responsibility. This hopefully won't happen again :rolleyes:

As for photosubmissions only, no, that's not possible.

D

MacBandit

Oct 9, 2003, 02:15 PM

Originally posted by Mr. Anderson
no its gone - that's why its an issue. Hopefully all the demis will learn that with their power comes responsibility. This hopefully won't happen again :rolleyes:

As for photosubmissions only, no, that's not possible.

D

Okay we need a thread then with a stern warning at the top that says photo and descriptions only. All other posts will be deleted.

tazo

Oct 11, 2003, 12:08 AM

here are two of mine on the subject...as of now...I'll prolly change em

http://www.boycottbuymusic.com/photo/gallery/image/52.jpg

and this one too...

http://boycottbuymusic.com/photo/54.jpg

-tazo

tazo

Oct 11, 2003, 12:10 AM

jefhatfield

Oct 13, 2003, 03:49 AM

Originally posted by Mr. Anderson
sure, if its just your post...but tazo did something stupid - he deleted his post, which was the first post in the thread that ended up deleting over 100 other posts, including discussion on logistics and planning for the contest. Not good and you have to realize why you shouldn't do it.

I should have said *don't delete any first posts in a thread*

D

in the old days, everyone had the ability to delete their own thread, and some got mad if they lost fifty posts on that one thread, but then again, how important could those fifty lost posts from one poster on one thread be?

i wish we still had the power to delete a thread we started because often one starts an honest thread, and other posters get nasty with it and hijack the thread...i am glad that the political threads do not count as posts though and some posters here on the rest of macrumors avoid the political section or have two different identities like desertrat or others

i used to also be networkman also but didn't use that other membership for anything special so i don't use it anymore:p

eyelikeart

Oct 13, 2003, 08:31 AM

thought I'd drop something in for good measure... ;)

Mr. Anderson

Oct 13, 2003, 11:16 AM

Originally posted by tazo
Well...considering all of the posts were offtopic...

Please, don't even get me started here. There was a lot of discussion on the concept, which was good - and in the end it is not *your* responsibility to determine if a thread needs to be deleted or not. Sure threads get sidetracked (this is the community), but the discussion was valid and set up a lot of what we're planning to implement - now its all gone. :rolleyes:

Jef - I think one of the reasons deleting posts/threads was taken away was for this reason - it gets abused or mistakenly removed and it just caused issues.

D

Wes

Oct 13, 2003, 12:18 PM

I'll add to the er... cheer. Ok, so it's not a real picture, but we'll just pretend.

MacBandit

Oct 13, 2003, 12:24 PM

Originally posted by Wes
I'll add to the er... cheer. Ok, so it's not a real picture, but we'll just pretend.

Did you make that? It's quite good. Just a technical tip if you did make it. Most subs only have 4-6 blades on the prop.

Wes

Oct 13, 2003, 12:34 PM

Originally posted by MacBandit
Did you make that? It's quite good. Just a technical tip if you did make it. Most subs only have 4-6 blades on the prop.

Well the sub is somebody else's model, but I'm playing with it, before I read your post, I had just removed the propellers. The lighting is what I was trying to get to look good, I just threw a random submarine model I found in there. Now I'm thinking of making a 5-10 second animation of the sub moving through the water with little bubbles coming off the propeller.

MacBandit

Oct 13, 2003, 12:41 PM

Originally posted by Wes
Well the sub is somebody else's model, but I'm playing with it, before I read your post, I had just removed the propellers. The lighting is what I was trying to get to look good, I just threw a random submarine model I found in there. Now I'm thinking of making a 5-10 second animation of the sub moving through the water with little bubbles coming off the propeller.

Bubbles off the prop, cavitation is very very bad on a sub that's the primary way any propeller driven vehicle is detected in the water. It creates quite a bit of noise. Modern subs are designed to move through the water without making any noise including the prop.

It'll make for a cool video though. I definitely would like to see it when you are done or mostly done with it.

tazo

Oct 13, 2003, 01:10 PM

Originally posted by Mr. Anderson
Please, don't even get me started here. There was a lot of discussion on the concept, which was good - and in the end it is not *your* responsibility to determine if a thread needs to be deleted or not. Sure threads get sidetracked (this is the community), but the discussion was valid and set up a lot of what we're planning to implement - now its all gone. :rolleyes:

Jef - I think one of the reasons deleting posts/threads was taken away was for this reason - it gets abused or mistakenly removed and it just caused issues.

D

I wasnt abusing it nor was I mistaken.

Mr. Anderson

Oct 13, 2003, 01:12 PM

Originally posted by Wes
Well the sub is somebody else's model, but I'm playing with it, before I read your post, I had just removed the propellers. The lighting is what I was trying to get to look good, I just threw a random submarine model I found in there. Now I'm thinking of making a 5-10 second animation of the sub moving through the water with little bubbles coming off the propeller.

You might want to just try making a fun little animation with your own sub - there's a lot of good stuff for underwater out there - a robotic submersible is even better, cause you can use lights ;)

www.dukestreet.com/subs.mov

not my work - sample file from lightwave.....;)

D

Mr. Anderson

Oct 13, 2003, 01:13 PM

Originally posted by tazo
I wasnt abusing it nor was I mistaken.

then you were irresponsible and wrong

D

tazo

Oct 13, 2003, 01:39 PM

Originally posted by Mr. Anderson
then you were irresponsible and wrong

D

Nice rephrase there ;)

I aint gonna get banned over this....

*deletes thread*

;)

MacBandit

Oct 13, 2003, 01:42 PM

Originally posted by tazo
Nice rephrase there ;)

I aint gonna get banned over this....

*deletes thread*

;)

I was wondering how far this was going to go.

I thought the subject had been dropped last week but all of a sudden it was raging again. It doesn't matter who is wrong or right what is done is done. We all learned from it and that is what counts.

Can't we all just get along.;) :p

MacBandit

Oct 13, 2003, 01:47 PM

Okay I figured out how we can do this Photo thread. One of the mods can create a thread with the rules and the instructions on entering in the first post. Then that mod closes the thread.

To enter your image in the thread you will PM the mod or mods listed in the instructions with the link to your photo and the description. The mod/mods can then simple create a new post in the closed thread with the linked image and the description. This will prevent the spam and off topic posts and will keep the thread what it suppose to be, a contest thread.

Mr. Anderson

Oct 13, 2003, 01:51 PM

Originally posted by tazo
Nice rephrase there ;)

I aint gonna get banned over this....

*deletes thread*

;)

Nice try - you're not deleting this thread, and I knew you'd try ;)

I agree we all need to just get along - and I have no problem with that. Discussion is good, removing things you don't agree with is not right. You can slam me all you want and I'll stand my ground. If I'm wrong, I'll admit it. Play nice and let the mods worry about what should and shouldn't be posted.

D

eyelikeart

Oct 13, 2003, 01:59 PM

Not to get off topic here, but it's just that type of thing (deleting threads by anyone other than a Mod) that's going to ruin it for everyone. ;)

MacBandit

Oct 13, 2003, 02:34 PM

Originally posted by eyelikeart
Not to get off topic here, but it's just that type of thing (deleting threads by anyone other than a Mod) that's going to ruin it for everyone. ;)

Okay enough, enough, enough about the deleting threads stuff. How's my suggestion on the contest thread?

Mr. Anderson

Oct 13, 2003, 02:35 PM

Originally posted by MacBandit
Okay enough, enough, enough about the deleting threads stuff. How's my suggestion on the contest thread?

the mod's have been working on this - a good solution will be at hand shortly.

D

MacBandit

Oct 13, 2003, 02:36 PM

Originally posted by Mr. Anderson
the mod's have been working on this - a good solution will be at hand shortly.

D

Good to know. Updates are nice to have.:)

tazo

Oct 13, 2003, 02:47 PM

Originally posted by Mr. Anderson
Nice try - you're not deleting this thread, and I knew you'd try ;)

I agree we all need to just get along - and I have no problem with that. Discussion is good, removing things you don't agree with is not right. You can slam me all you want and I'll stand my ground. If I'm wrong, I'll admit it. Play nice and let the mods worry about what should and shouldn't be posted.

D

I wasn't going to, hence the wink in my last post.

I dont care for your sneaky. sleazy tactics Mr. A; inserting your post prior to mine? Cheap.

And if the mods read the thread title, and realized what it meant, maybe I would not have had to delete the thread. Surely ya can see where I am coming from?

So when are you admitting it?

Rower_CPU

Oct 13, 2003, 02:54 PM

Originally posted by tazo
I wasn't going to, hence the wink in my last post.

I dont care for your sneaky. sleazy tactics Mr. A; inserting your post prior to mine? Cheap.

And if the mods read the thread title, and realized what it meant, maybe I would not have had to delete the thread. Surely ya can see where I am coming from?

So when are you admitting it?

Cheap is deleting a whole thread you started because it starts to go OT.

I don't even understand what you're trying to say in the rest of your post.

MacBandit

Oct 13, 2003, 02:55 PM

Originally posted by tazo
I wasn't going to, hence the wink in my last post.

I dont care for your sneaky. sleazy tactics Mr. A; inserting your post prior to mine? Cheap.

And if the mods read the thread title, and realized what it meant, maybe I would not have had to delete the thread. Surely ya can see where I am coming from?

So when are you admitting it?

Come on drop this. I as I am sure many others are sick of hearing about this. Learn from the past and move on.

shadowfax

Oct 13, 2003, 03:01 PM

Originally posted by MacBandit
Come on drop this. I as I am sure many others are sick of hearing about this. Learn from the past and move on. and by "past," we all know he means "every time you've done stuff like this..."

come on tazo, i would think you'd know better than to publically go against a moderator by now, on an issue of moderation.

Wes

Oct 13, 2003, 03:12 PM

Do we really need all these posts in this thread? Can we separate them easily?

A bit of a shame that a potentially cool thread like this dies like this.

totally_fly

Oct 13, 2003, 03:25 PM

I went through my iPhoto library and chose my favourite pictures.. I have about 15 to show off! (Although they probably looked better in iPhoto)

Each picture was taken with my digital camera and with very little, if any, modification.

Because of bandwidth concerns, I have made them available on my webserver, but will not post them directly.

Check them out! (http://achkara.ath.cx:82/macrumors/)

Mr. Anderson

Oct 13, 2003, 03:27 PM

Originally posted by tazo
And if the mods read the thread title, and realized what it meant, maybe I would not have had to delete the thread. Surely ya can see where I am coming from?

Further issues on this subject and your concerns about my actions here should be handled outside of the threads - pm me with your concerns.

You have a track record that has been prone to requiring moderator intervention before, this fiasco only furthers that.

As for going OT - per the rules the Community Forum is lax in that regard - as you know and allows for a wider range of discussion beyond the thread topic.

In this case, serious posts were deleted, several involving the moderators discussions with other individuals in setting up a Photo thread/forum. This was important to the topic of the thread, the same topic of this thread, btw.

And as I recall, I had posted saying that no single thread for image posting would be viable for a contest, very few people would want to search through 100 posts looking for images among the comments on the shots themselves. Others agreed, and it had been put forward to let the mods figure out the solution.

We're doing that - but you went ahead and deleted the thread, starting over by posting your *rules*, too impatient to wait for us to get things set up.

There will be a place set aside for, as Wes said, a potentially cool thread. As a photographer, I look forward to contributing my pics and comments as well. Setting up something like this needs to be done correctly and until we get everything put together I think it best to move on to better and more constructive discussions.

Thank you,

D

shadowfax

Oct 13, 2003, 03:35 PM

i know this is way off topic, but can we call you "Big D?"

Mr. Anderson

Oct 13, 2003, 04:02 PM

Originally posted by shadowfax
i know this is way off topic, but can we call you "Big D?"

ahahahaha!

for you, sure :p

D

monkeydo_jb

Oct 13, 2003, 05:59 PM

Originally posted by eyelikeart
thought I'd drop something in for good measure... ;)

eye, I see your Cemetary and raise you one!

-jeff

http://www.sveltegeek.com/images/tombstone.jpg

wdlove

Oct 13, 2003, 06:41 PM

Originally posted by shadowfax
i know this is way off topic, but can we call you "Big D?"

Thank you shadowfax for lightening up the thread. Needed to be brought back to a productive and positive mode! ;)

Thank you "Big D" for showing restraint. :cool:

eyelikeart

Oct 13, 2003, 07:09 PM

Originally posted by monkeydo_jb
eye, I see your Cemetary and raise you one!

fair enough... ;)

monkeydo_jb

Oct 13, 2003, 09:56 PM

Originally posted by eyelikeart
fair enough... ;)

Doh, I'm running out of decent ones, I wasn't prepared for such a duel!

I like yours much better anyway....

-jeff

http://www.sveltegeek.com/images/mary.jpg

tazo

Oct 13, 2003, 10:08 PM

Honestly I have lost interest in the entire thing. No one seems to give a **** anymore.

MacBandit

Oct 13, 2003, 10:47 PM

Originally posted by tazo
Honestly I have lost interest in the entire thing. No one seems to give a **** anymore.

Sorry but your wrong. If you had been reading and not just ranting you would know that the mods are working on an official image page so that we can do this right. Until then this whole contest can't work.

I really can't wait for this thing to get going myself but it just won't work with a regular thread.

By the way I was on your side with this whole thread thing until you started whining so much. Doesn't mean I don't still like you though. Just let it go.

shadowfax

Oct 13, 2003, 11:10 PM

Originally posted by MacBandit
By the way I was on your side with this whole thread thing until you started whining so much. Doesn't mean I don't still like you though. Just let it go. out of the mouth of a yellow smiley face, the wisdom of the ages ;)

tazo, man, we're not being hostile, but don't you think your life on MR would be so much better if you learned to let go of things and not be paranoid about mods?

tazo

Oct 13, 2003, 11:13 PM

Originally posted by shadowfax
out of the mouth of a yellow smiley face, the wisdom of the ages ;)

tazo, man, we're not being hostile, but don't you think your life on MR would be so much better if you learned to let go of things and not be paranoid about mods?

*sigh*

If you only knew...

eclipse525

Oct 13, 2003, 11:20 PM

Hmmmm.....perhaps not as nice as the others but fun.....

~e

shadowfax

Oct 13, 2003, 11:22 PM

that is really creepy, eclipse. i like how the fact that it's got the fuzzy overlap actually enhances the spookiness of the image...

eclipse525

Oct 13, 2003, 11:29 PM

Thank my Sony CyberShot P72 and alittle PS7.

Yeah I though it was kind a creepy myself but I threw in the ghosts for good measure......:D

~e

eyelikeart

Oct 13, 2003, 11:47 PM

Originally posted by monkeydo_jb
Doh, I'm running out of decent ones, I wasn't prepared for such a duel!

I like yours much better anyway....

thanks man...that was a good shot though... ;)

Wes

Oct 15, 2003, 11:46 AM

Since I posted the still of this quick animation here is the close to final thing:

http://webspacegurus.com/~wesley/SubRender.mp4

I think you are going to have to download it to disk, it's not letting me play it just clicking on the link.

Mr. Anderson

Oct 15, 2003, 11:50 AM

ah, not bad - good caustics on the water, but the bubbles don't work too well - and I think the sub needs to move a little faster....

Did you see my link above on a small animation I found?

D

Wes

Oct 15, 2003, 12:08 PM

Originally posted by Mr. Anderson
ah, not bad - good caustics on the water, but the bubbles don't work too well - and I think the sub needs to move a little faster....

Did you see my link above on a small animation I found?

D

Yeah I saw the link you posted. The bubbles are hard, I'm not sure how I should go about them. I'll make the sub go faster.

MacBandit

Oct 15, 2003, 02:05 PM

Originally posted by Wes
Since I posted the still of this quick animation here is the close to final thing:

http://webspacegurus.com/~wesley/SubRender.mp4

I think you are going to have to download it to disk, it's not letting me play it just clicking on the link.

After I downloaded it Quicktime told me that it wasn't a valid .mp4 file.

Wes

Oct 15, 2003, 02:43 PM

Originally posted by MacBandit
After I downloaded it Quicktime told me that it wasn't a valid .mp4 file.

I just tested it and it worked fine, you have the latest QT version? It was fully downloaded?

MacBandit

Oct 15, 2003, 02:48 PM

Originally posted by Wes
I just tested it and it worked fine, you have the latest QT version? It was fully downloaded?

I just tried it again before responding and it worked. Must have been a glitch in the download.

It looks good except for the bubbles which you already know.

wdlove

Oct 15, 2003, 08:38 PM

Originally posted by eyelikeart
thanks man...that was a good shot though... ;)

A great photo eyelikeart. A good study in black and white at a work site, showing real life. That would be a good contest entry.

tazo, you should try to take some slow deep breaths. Try to close your eyes to relax some. If you are having difficulities, the best approach is to always approach it directly. Try to PM the person or persons involved. Holding thoughts in only frester an grow.