I posted this on the Friday thread, not realizing today’s was up.
Congrats, Cheryl on your photographic success!
(Not to detract from Cheryl’s success, I’ll post this.)
When my son was 3 months old, I had Mrs L hold him up to a small window in our door, as the sun was shining through it. I entered the photo in the county fair and got 3rd prize!
Since it’s the only time I’ve submitted a photo, I’ve been successful in every photo contest I’ve entered!
Congrats, too, to Peter for winning a ribbon in every photo contest he ever entered! 😉
Many of the arts contests (whether musical or a physical art) are subjective. You learn what you can, but you are well off if you love and enjoy your own work.
Hey Peter, there must have been other baby photos that it only got third place. 🙂 My husband and I joke that if you really want to win a photo contest, send them a human baby or a puppy or kitten.
Most infamously . . . our county fair before we moved actually had a separate category for baby photos. But for some reason someone submitted a baby photo with the general photos (which really should not have been allowed since it did have its own category). When my husband and I walked through the exhibit looking for my photos to see if they won anything (and I think I got a third-place prize that year myself), we found a photo that had been crowned with the grand prize. It was framed really large, massively overpowering other photos near it. And it was a photo of a baby on his or her first birthday, sitting in a high chair, nothing particularly special about the shot except it was a baby–and the photo was completely out of focus. My husband was more outraged than I was; I was mostly amused. Americans might not like actual babies, but we sure seem to like photos of them!
We had a good service today about bold prayer based on Genesis 18 where Abraham keeps being bolder with God in going farther and farther lowering the number of righteous people needed in Sodom for God to save it.
The pastor opened the service up with prayer for Ukraine and Russia. He has served as a missionary in both nations. His heart has ached since the war began. He is close to believers in both nations.
Our message today was on Psalm 103, a nice place to listen to the Lord. I did get the pastor to chuckle. Last night I watched last week’s service online. During the message the pastor warned about spending too much time watching the screen, which was funny because I was watching his message on a screen.
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I posted this on the Friday thread, not realizing today’s was up.
Congrats, Cheryl on your photographic success!
(Not to detract from Cheryl’s success, I’ll post this.)
When my son was 3 months old, I had Mrs L hold him up to a small window in our door, as the sun was shining through it. I entered the photo in the county fair and got 3rd prize!
Since it’s the only time I’ve submitted a photo, I’ve been successful in every photo contest I’ve entered!
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Congrats to Cheryl!
Congrats, too, to Peter for winning a ribbon in every photo contest he ever entered! 😉
Many of the arts contests (whether musical or a physical art) are subjective. You learn what you can, but you are well off if you love and enjoy your own work.
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off to help with a yard sale as folks need help. Deacons got them set up yesterday
nice that it backs up to my daughters street
jo
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Hey Peter, there must have been other baby photos that it only got third place. 🙂 My husband and I joke that if you really want to win a photo contest, send them a human baby or a puppy or kitten.
Most infamously . . . our county fair before we moved actually had a separate category for baby photos. But for some reason someone submitted a baby photo with the general photos (which really should not have been allowed since it did have its own category). When my husband and I walked through the exhibit looking for my photos to see if they won anything (and I think I got a third-place prize that year myself), we found a photo that had been crowned with the grand prize. It was framed really large, massively overpowering other photos near it. And it was a photo of a baby on his or her first birthday, sitting in a high chair, nothing particularly special about the shot except it was a baby–and the photo was completely out of focus. My husband was more outraged than I was; I was mostly amused. Americans might not like actual babies, but we sure seem to like photos of them!
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I don’t think there was a category just for babies. It may have been portraits or something like that. Since it was 41 years ago, my memory is faded.
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“Trump Vows To Drastically Reduce The Number Of Criminals In Washington By Sending Congress Home”
https://x.com/TheBabylonBee/status/1956732820744728610?t=S7AefPa0bzUdCHyqGD6uzg&s=19
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There be traitors amongst us…
The sold out to the defense industry type….
https://x.com/DC_Draino/status/1957071059854754204?t=kVpkCsmEe7gkU436n7CM9Q&s=19
“President Trump is inches away from a peace deal in Ukraine and NATO puppet Lindsey Graham is trying to blow it all up
This is what he did in the 2022 midterms too
Introduced an inflammatory pro life bill that had no chance of passing only to hurt MAGA in the midterms
NEOCON!”
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The history of the Democrat party.
https://x.com/KarluskaP/status/1957064468917092764?t=QKIj8h0kWP_t2FUYKJEaMQ&s=19
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Oops, tangled threads!
We had a good service today about bold prayer based on Genesis 18 where Abraham keeps being bolder with God in going farther and farther lowering the number of righteous people needed in Sodom for God to save it.
The pastor opened the service up with prayer for Ukraine and Russia. He has served as a missionary in both nations. His heart has ached since the war began. He is close to believers in both nations.
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Our message today was on Psalm 103, a nice place to listen to the Lord. I did get the pastor to chuckle. Last night I watched last week’s service online. During the message the pastor warned about spending too much time watching the screen, which was funny because I was watching his message on a screen.
Jo
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Hoping to hear back from my friend in Perth as I would like to go for a visit if it wouldn’t put too much stress on her
Jo
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