Okay the deadline for the first prompt of ljshootout is in something like ten hours, so here's my submission ( Read more... )

   Its very hard to edit pictures when the lower third of your screen just displays garbled columns of pixels. Not only that but: the laptop charger has a loose connection and only conducts power if laid out just right; power on the boat is frequently not working or power where one is plugged in will shut off and you'll have to move to somewhere ( Read more... )

ljshootout official portrait entries:

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   ljshootout topic this week has been portraits. Even though I don't really like taking portraits, I've built up a few over the years I rather like. The following are, as we say, my cutting room submissions for portrait -- the ones that I can't use because they're out of the time frame.


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   Topic this week is food.

Below the cut, behold the very pinnacle of my awesome powers of chef-ery!

I will share with you amazing secrets to my amazing recipe as well as delicious photographs of it being prepared AND on a plate in all its glory!!!

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   LJShootout topic this past week was Architecture. And this time we needed three pictures.

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For ljshootout.


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   This week's theme in ljshootout is "wildlife." It just so happens that I'm quite fond of wildlife. In particular, insects seem to just come to me.

And so I present to you, insects landing on my hand, a continuing series

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I thought I'd post some my very favourite of my monochrome pictures. These are all from ancient times (1999 & 2001), and the image quality isn't the best since they were originally scanned from prints, uploaded to yahoo photos (which actually wouldn't give me back anything but a very small version until they finally closed down a year or two ago) ( Read more... )