CGeezer's 52 2010 - Week Four "Cheat"

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OMG it's 2010 already.

I'm setting out in the hope that I can do this 52 challenge in full and doesn't time just fly by :) I'm also going to try my level best to comment on everyone's 52 during the year ahead. I was looking for the list of 52'ers that I believe was going to be stickied so that I could have a nosey through other 52'ers threads but I can't find it for looking. I'm also swapping camera and expecting my hard earned D300 to arrive on Wednesday or Thursday of next week and will be waving goodbye to my trusty D200 soon so I must be allowed a little leeway for my OOF and badly composed images :lol: The whole point of this 52 is to hopefully improve my togniques so I'm looking forward to being tested and will try to stumble on through.

I still have no idea what the themes are as yet and will probably have to nudge Simon for some links to start with. I wish everyone else doing the 52 week challenge the best of luck and hope you get out of it as much as you would like to over the year.

Let the games commence.
 
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No I don't think I want to torture her at such a young age and besides she may be better than me :lol: Thanks for the link :thumbs:
 
Subscribed and watching with interest dude :)
 
good luck with "commenting on everyone"
it looks like a bumper crop this year
don't forget to allow time to take your own pictures as well!
 
I should be okay commenting on everyone's during the week but I would like a clickable link with everyones 52 to make it nice and easy for me. That could be a bigger challenge than the photos :lol:
 
You've got another watcher....

Knowing how hard you faught to get your D300, I'm looking forward to seeing this!!

Good luck John!!:thumbs:
 
Still waiting for my camera. I'm determined to use it so my 52 is on hold for now. The PO should have delivered by 1pm today but I guess I have to give them a little leeway for the weather. Don't I?? :annoyed: :dummy:
 
Slimbert said:
You've got another watcher....

Knowing how hard you faught to get your D300, I'm looking forward to seeing this!!

Good luck John!!:thumbs:
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Thanks for popping in and commenting matey :thumbs:
 
Tick tock, tick tock...... waiting patiently.......:bat:
 
John, it's your project, you can have as much leeway as you like... it just gets harder to catch up, but I'm sure you know that... Looking forward to the first shot.
 
Hi John
hope your d300 arrives soon, will follow this one fella with great interest. :thumbs:
 
First of all this is not the photo I had in mind to post this week. I was going to shoot the local 10 million quid bridge in Blackburn. But.. I was rushed into hospital on Wednesday and am confined to barracks for the next few days. I was in hospital and was playing about with my phone and noticed these rather groovy curved lines. I hope this is going to drag me through this week and will be trying to find a better subject once I get paroled :) By the way this is shot using my new D300 and It was the second or third shot so it will take me a little while to get used to it. I have a year to perfect it though :lol: Hope you like it.

John

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John, I hope you get better soon, that's gotta be a bit grim, what with getting a new camera and all. Plenty of curves there, and is that a curve phone too ? The DOF works, and helps accentuate the curved lines. Well done considering :thumbs: Looks well used too ;)
 
this one caught my eye on flickr.. hope you're up and about soon to play with your new toy.. take care :)
 
nice bit of dof fella, shame its not focused a tiny it more upward's on the curve of the button's.. good try with what you've got being held captive in hospital though
 
Considering your consequences I say well done! Really good shot too :thumbs:
 
jgs001 said:
John, I hope you get better soon, that's gotta be a bit grim, what with getting a new camera and all. Plenty of curves there, and is that a curve phone too ? The DOF works, and helps accentuate the curved lines. Well done considering :thumbs: Looks well used too ;)
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It's a Bold but it was the Curve that gave me the brainstorm of the idea. Thanks for commenting.

mich66 said:
this one caught my eye on flickr.. hope you're up and about soon to play with your new toy.. take care.
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It was what made me insist they released me. Thanks for commenting Michelle. Hope to catch up with you on the next learn together meet :thumbs:

Ste L said:
nice bit of dof fella, shame its not focused a tiny it more upward's on the curve of the button's.. good try with what you've got being held captive in hospital though
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I wish I took a little more time now. I have a light-box jobbie and I'm sure I could have done a better job. I just wanted to get this one up and out the way to be honest. I will try harder as I go on, thanks for looking in mate :)

karmagarda said:
Considering your consequences I say well done! Really good shot too :thumbs:
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Thanks I'm going to try to wear this shutter out will see how I feel tomorrow and may re-shoot. that will mess up all your comments :lol:
 
Well using Yv's rules I have decided to unashamedly change my entry as I managed to get out in the back yard without eagle eyes catching me :lol:

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It's a lovely image of a bottle of Jack in the snow. Maybe increase the aperture slightly to keep the neck label in focus too. Not sure it says curved to me though. But lovely bokeh :lol:
 
mmmm, love JD, bet that will be nice and cold to drink now, no ice required lol

Great shot, nice DOF, and the bottle does have some nice curves :D
 
Good use of DOF with the phone, the JD is just teasing :beer:
 
dlh said:
It's a lovely image of a bottle of Jack in the snow. Maybe increase the aperture slightly to keep the neck label in focus too. Not sure it says curved to me though. But lovely bokeh :lol:
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Yea I gave it full on Bokeh on the Aperture settings maybe a little bit back would have been a better idea.

Slimbert said:
Good work John....

Good to see you out and about with your new toy!!:)
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Thanks matey I was even facebooked tonight having 40 winks and cuddling up to my camera :lol: and the strap looks like it was placed that way by Nikon advertising.

Ste L said:
mmmm, love JD, bet that will be nice and cold to drink now, no ice required lol

Great shot, nice DOF, and the bottle does have some nice curves :D
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I'm on beer atm but will put what the missus missed in the bottom of the bottle back out to chill tomorrow It really needs putting to bed that one.

Graham00 said:
Nice shot, and shallow dof shows off those 4 curves superbly.
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Thanks you Graham I thought I saw a curved in there somewhere :D

foggy4ever said:
Good use of DOF with the phone, the JD is just teasing :beer:
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Agreed.
 
Nice shot John, I think you have all the angles covered this week :D
 
Hi John.

Hope you're on your way to getting better.
I liked your phone shot for the DOF, but I think I prefer the one that you replaced it with.
Very nice shot. Would have been nice with a full bottle, just for an extra bit of colour . . . would have given you a good excuse to go out and buy another bottle too ;)
 
YOU HAVE NOW BEEN FOUND... :lol:

Another stalker signing on... :D

I shall be watching this with interest John... :suspect:

Great start by the way... :thumbs: ...so on that basis yours will be a 104 then... :naughty:


And jolly good luck with your labours matey...




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Hello John :wave:

I've just been reading through your adventures with your new camera and sympathise with getting whisked off to hospital just as it arrives. I hope you're able to enjoy it now. I've had my pride and joy just over a year now and passed the 10,000 click mark this week! It just gets better and better - even if my photography doesn't! - I'm sure you'll feel the same. :D

Enjoy the 52 - that's a great start - I love the dof on the phone and there are curves on the JD bottle, and nature's fridge saves on the ice cubes. :lol:

I'll be following your thread with interest. :)

Jean
 
Nice shot of the JD bottle, not sure it really fits the theme though but then it's your 52 so you can do what you want.
 
Thanks for your comments all. I have been stalling all week hoping to put my plan into play but.. Today Saturday the roads finally cleared enough for me to make the forty mile round trip to take the shot of Jeffreys Hill only to find **** weather and un-usable photos. so as a compromise I'm going to use one I took last week and as promised one of my partners granddads poems who died five years ago as a tribute to him. Count yourselves lucky as I didn't use one of the REALLY broad Lancashire dialect poems he usually wrote in.

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The Lords Gift

So spake the Lord, to the very first Poet,
"I bestow upon Thee, the gift, of the Word."
That thou speak for the Fur-clad Beast.
And, for the Feathered Bird.

And, interpret the voice of the inanimate,
The Plant, the Water, the Earth.
That thy fellow men, of lesser ken.
May learn full well, their worth.

That thou hast nought, 'cept beauty of thought.
Bask not alone, in thy wealth.
But ever seek, however meek.
To tend thy neighbour's souls health.

And the beauty thou sees, in the Mountains, and Trees.
Thus, wilt thou seek, to convey.
That all may note, that beauty of thought.
To the benefit of their mortal stay.

If, with this gift, I endow thee.
thou immortalise Water, or Stone.
Or name of unknown neighbour.
So too, shalt thou immortalise thine own.

For Sculpt, shall eventually crumble, to powder.
The thickest paint, wither and dry.
Yet, a single pure thought, by the Poet's verse, taught.
May, for it's beauty, ne'er fade, or die.
 
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