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I have learned that it can be fun to read the comments made when someone starts a thread like this one.
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1) Tubby middle-aged men with beards somehow manage to get nubile young ladies to pose in skimpy clothing, simply by giving them money.
2) One ring-balanced-on-a-book-so-it-makes-a-heart-shaped-shadow photograph is about a million too many.
3) And amazingly the same goes for smug-man-holding-wife's-pregnant-belly photographs.
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the foot is the second most popular part of the human body.
there is no overused japanese term for tack sharp focus.
whatever the scene, it's been reproduced and photographed in lego form already.
copying a publicly available photo is equivalent to stealing somebody's car.
people who like to view their photos on tv aren't very bright.
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Has the snow - which some allege has fallen in England - This royal throne of kings, this sceptered isle,
This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars,
This other Eden, demi-paradise,
This fortress built by Nature for herself
Against infection and the hand of war,
This happy breed of men, this little world,
This precious stone set in the silver sea
Which serves it in the office of a wall,
Or as a moat defensive to a house,
Against the envy of less happier lands,
This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England.
-- Richard II, II, i, 40. (Shakespeare) made you bitter ?
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I've always thought that that passage goes downhill quickly - first couple of lines are some of the best ever written, but by line 8 he was struggling a bit...
Anyhow, are you calling me English?!
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No ... but perhaps the impression I have that your enterprise is located there-in is mistaken.
... perhaps in line 8 he was drawing our attention to the amusing chat Bottom had with a wall in MSND, which had or had not been written by then.
At any rate, what think you of some of the recent selections in Look through the photostream of the person above you and choose your favourite ? I haven't been keeping up, and so (I was thinking) if you have some recent acquaintance with the goings on there, you might apprise me of it, bringing me up to date, and that sort of thing.
Still, if you haven't had time to stay abreast of those activities, I understand completely. Well, perhaps a pint will put you right.
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Here's what I have learned after 73 years as one of Flickr's most active members:
If you search for photos tagged "penis", and order the results by interestingness, this is the fourth highest finisher:
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Nice crisp bokeh.
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- I am ashamed to admit that i have not been keeping entirely up-to-date with progress in that esteemed discussion, myself.
I am, however, currently having a drink - how did you guess?
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Another thing I learned from Flickr is that Explore is a sometimes manipulatable feature made for attention whores who will kill to get their photos onto it.
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Ben Cooper's #2 and #3 are good observations. Lego recreations of everything I knew about before I joined flickr. Tampen's observation about the uselessness of "interestingness" searches is okay, but very flickr-specific.
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I didn't know what photowhoring was. . .and now I do.
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there is no overused japanese term for tack sharp focus.
Isn't it Okeh!
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, AOkeh ... please don't be too lazy to check the spelling.
's got his Christmas 'brelly out ... he's gotten into the Christmas spirits again.
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Thank you kindly for correcting my error.
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smug-man-holding-wife's-pregnant-belly photographs.
New dad, are you referring to your own photos, or did you search for "pregnant belly" (which would be very weird)?
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I've learned that is entirely right about #5.
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That HDR is a rude expression.
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@queen of arts - you'd be surprised how many hits ( and creepy faves) a pregnant belly shot gets.
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"4) Photography is best with HDR, bokeh, textures, and some sort of frame."
Yah, but I think the HDR folks and the Bokeh folks don't get along. HDR gives me the heebie-jeebies!
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Me too. And don't get me started on composites, textures or anything else imaginative.
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I've learned the Taiwanese government is into mind control.
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I have no clue!
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I leaned that out of focus photos of Oriental girls can get on explorer!
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a) 98% of good photography has been done by 2% of the people who have operated a camera.
b) fewer people understand how to use HDR than know how to perform vector valued parametric multiple integral calculus in polar coordinates.
c) taste can be accounted for, but 3 cents on the dollar is about as good a return you can expect to get.
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- I never did one of those, partly because they're cheesy, but mostly because it would have meant using a tripod and I'm lazy.
I do take lots of cheesy baby pictures, but they're only shared with family.
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You could have just stopped someone in the street. Would make a change from being asked to take someone's picture outside Templeton's Carpet Factory ;-)
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I have learnt that I really don't like cheesy borders or frames on photographs.
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I read some fancy language in the old DMU and found it permanently embedded in my cerebral cortex even after I'd left the group. Now they say a frontal lobotomy is the only way to excise it.
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- I've never been asked to do that either! In fact, no-one has ever asked me to take a picture with their camera - maybe I look like the type who would run off with it...
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Cheese boards are good, especially with an excellent port.
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Indeed they are.
Cheese boards = win
Cheesy borders = fail
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If you've resorted to eating the cheese board, probably time to find a new cheese supplier.
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I've learned that there are a lot of young women dramatically floating around in empty rooms.
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1. That there's no aspect of photography so banal and uninteresting that nobody can get seriously angry about it.
2. That people really expect other people to not download and save and act as if they then own pictures of theirs that they put on the internet.
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I have learned that there are alot of strange and wonderfull people out there with cameras of one kind or another.
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is there going to be a test later? i didn't realize we were supposed to be learning anything, and this may well end up ruining my evenings if i suddenly need to cram study.
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I've learnt that people like starting threads about copyright. Which is fascinatiiiiiiizzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.........
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Things I have learnt...
A Panda can vomit photos in a rainbow
People can not get enough of kittens
Watermarks can use a whole image
A lot of people like feet
People actually like HDR
oh, and Canon is better than Nikon
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I've learned that urban exploration is really cool.
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I learnt that FlickR is full of pervs!
Upload 1 shot of a semi-naked girl and it seems all of them want to be your contact! lol
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Yes, Stormtroopers ARE everywhere. People think they're funny, but stormtroopers riding bicycles gets on your nerves after the 100th incarnation.
Geez.
I've learned that 200 photos is actually quite a few if you only take 1 or 2 a day.
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One thing I learned at Flickr is that if you have lots of time to kill then what better way to while it off than posting mundane boring pointless comments in topics such as this one
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I've learn t that I'm not the only sarcastic git who owns a camera and doesn't really care what people think about my pictures(or as some people call it...."work") its late and the red wine is good!
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We need more creepy stormtrooper pervs to balance out the girly-faving ones on Flickr. Does anyone know someone whose fave stream consist entirely of stormtroopers?
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There is a group devoted exclusively to stormtroopers. Looking at them, this discussion actually made me chuckle, even if it might make the "Explore junkies" cry.
What is wrong with stormtroopers anyway? I have made my own contributions that topic.
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G-Man in China [deleted] says:
I have learned how to say 'Hello' in 72 languages. Every time I open my home page it tells me 'Hello' in a new language.Thanks FLICKR.
I today learned that MIKE is Hello in HOPI. Now to learn which country Hopi is spoken in.....See FLICKR also encourages me to do research!!
FYI its the Hopi Indians in Southwest U.S.
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yes, yes it is.
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Girls love to take pictures of themselves for an entire year.
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If you buy a DSLR and a big zoom lens you are automatically a Pro photographer without needing the necessary skills.
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people suck
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I've learned that people give compliments to almost any photograph.
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Nice comment!
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I've learned some ways not to take a photograph and ways I never thought of taking a photograph before that have been of inspiration.
This one attempts to make order out of chaos which has become a recent project.
"sunset through the woods" by Hopefoote, Ambassador of the Wow [?]
It's real tricky to compose such a shot and certainly flickr is a school of photography that is often universal and wide ranging in its approach.
Though I can imagine the wide variety of approaches may confuse some. There is no absolute wrong or right to photography. I often define it by my compositional approach but seeing others work I find a need to redefine it or add more elements such as where to put shadows, balance or unbalance colors or totally go out of the box to see where it leads me.
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That I'm tired of hearing "sunsets", "kittens", and "bokeh" in comments.
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Is "penis" still OK, though ?
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"Penis" is not mentioned often enough.
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I've learned that you can pass any self-imposed, unnecessary excuse for mediocrity off as a virtue.
"Straight out of camera! Expired film! Did not clean the dirty lens! Light was bad! Camera broken! Did not feel like taking pictures!"
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, perhaps they (the items from your "excuse for mediocrity" list) are, rather, a plea for special consideration, than a claim of virtue. I have in mind this sort of, perhaps unconscious, mental dialog between a flickr image poster and an observer : "Imagine, dear photo viewer, for the requisite time period, that the (ameliorating circumstance(s) (such as those noted by Meastro Hatch (above))) had not been in effect when I activated the image recording technology that eventually resulted in this digitized image upload to flicker. What a splendid image would have resulted then ! Please. Favorite and comment favorably upon my humble effort in light of what could have been, rather than what is." Something to think of for a pico second perhaps.
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I didn't read that! Eyes are tired!
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My God. I am using that excuse!
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I'm using "light was bad" but I'm not jealous if anyone wants to borrow it.
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I bought a new camera three days before I went away and all my vaca shots turned out soft focus. Bloody fucking hell. Thank goodness we can sharpen images, even if it isn't quite enough.
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If you're shooting pictures of your vaca, I think there's some people here who would favorite that if only they could keep their favorites private.
Or your privates favorite.
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I am imagining that I am looking at your ( )new set of vacation photographs, and that I am favoriting each one, because I am imagining the stunningly magnificent capturosity that they might have revealed to me if things had been other than they were. I am imagining typing the comment Thanks for sharing what could have been such a great picture with us. (well cutting and pasting it in each one - but I truly mean it).
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I don't take "typical" vacation pics:
I have about fifty more to post! :D
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If you truly want to be considered a hipster then you should only shoot with a Holga or a Diana. Also you shouldn't support the film industry by buying fresh film and should only buy someone else's expired cast-offs instead.
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billdroadrunner01 [deleted] says:
What I have learned about Flickr or at least the people on Flickr is that is if a game is established like the game - Pick a favorite from the above photostream" then new games are ignored just because they are just started and everyone is like the saying "Monkey see, monkey do". I started a new game on another group, and it is a nice game, but hardly anyone wants to play it and I think it is a cool game:
www.flickr.com/groups/flickritis/discuss/72157625504364814/
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How to have more fun!
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Muzzlehatch wrote I've learned that you can pass any self-imposed, unnecessary excuse for mediocrity off as a virtue. excellent observation, but that is not something I learned... but laughed. actually, make that something I learned to laugh about.
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Yes it all doesn't matter but for a while it seemed very unimportant.
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I'll get back to you when i've learned something.
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if 100s of random strangers post one/two word comments such as - excellent/great shot/great capture/awesome/mindblowing/ amazing - for your images then it must mean you are a great award worthy photographer!
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Another thing I learned from Flickr is that the game you think you're playing is not necessarily the game that others think they're playing, and sometimes it's just better to play with yourself.
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And if you're going to do that, it's easy to find a bloke with 4,000 nipples to study while you do.
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BeccaG
I have learnt that I really don't like cheesy borders or frames on photographs.
There is a place for those!
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Here's another vaca pic so you can see what I'm talking about.
Hey, it isn't often I pimp my pics here.... :-D
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- You were investigating one of those low cost subterranean passage way tours to Mexico ? Tough for the auto focus in such low light. Did you help with the project to recycle trash from Mexico in the US where the requisite facilities are available, by carrying a trash bag or box of waste back to the US, in order to get the tour discount ?
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Can I pimp my vacation photos here as well?
I do not take 'typical' vacation photos either.
I do Art.
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i don't take vacations... can i pimp my non vacations pics here?
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i do art... i'm into that dark film noir....
pps
better than the weird looking santa dude above me... :P
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Huh?
(p.s. Close. It was shot at O'Hare)
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Learned: Most people into photography are bitter bastards.
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phew! I thought they were called fucktards, but bitter bastards is better. I can retire with that title.
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Nope. We just act like it because here we can get away with it. How's your daughter?
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Ohhh, touche!
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I've also learned that the everyday common place scarcasm that is prevalent in this group is not nearly tolarated as much in other groups....this indicates a lack of sense of humour in most other corners of flickr............
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I have learned that most other corners of flickr have had a sense of humour bypass and that not everyone can spell sarcasm.
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Scarcasm is sarcasm so cutting that it leaves a permanent mark.
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as opposed to scatcasm, which is when humour has gone to shits. perhaps that is what has happened in those other corners.
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Too many groups do not allow any sense of humour. You show any humour you end up getting banned.
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If I sit crossed legged on the sofa with a laptop on my lap for too long then both of my feet go to sleep. It's a very painful tingly lesson to learn.
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I've learned that in order to beat 'em, you have no choice but to join 'em, because on a site with as many members as Flickr...if you don't do by-the-book, impressive things, then someone else will, and your stream will stagnate.
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I've learned that if I want to become a pro all I have to do is give flickr a few quid. Saves you doing all that college work and interning.
I learned that there is no photo so awful and soul-destroyingly bad someone won't turn it into a group 'bling' icon.
I learned that while I thought photographers liked taking photos it turns out that what they really like are donuts.
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well, I've learned...
I'll make up whatever excuse I feel suitable to cover for my crappyness, "the subject was moving too fast", "my camera transformed into a killer robot", "I'm poor, can't buy a good camera, okay?", "what is photoshop?"
I'm an attention whore, I'll do anything and I mean anything to make people go through my photostream.
I hate critiques.
I like to go through useless topics, while I'm supposed to be studying for exam.
oh, oh... and there are insane amounts of drama, politics and backstabbing going around in some of the groups... trust me, I was threatened with lawsuits :|
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I can't believe nobody has mentioned gif awards...
(If you have actually mentioned gif awards and I didn't notice then feel free to whine about it in the space below.)
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"great tones!"
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I have found that people will post the following comment on a picture of a duck:
"Nice portrait!"
commented with FlickrComment
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"Great capture" is one of the most common comments on Flickr.
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If it was used on a photo of an animal snare or Saddam in his spider hole then it would be appropriate.
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Flickr has taught me only to be rude to some of the people some of the time instead of all of the people all of the time
It has also taught me the quickest ways to get banned from boring fucking groups I can't quite bring myself to leave voluntarily
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, AOkeh ... please don't be too lazy to check the spelling.
's got his Christmas 'brelly out ... he's gotten into the Christmas spirits again.
, perhaps they (the items from your "excuse for mediocrity" list) are, rather, a plea for special consideration, than a claim of virtue. I have in mind this sort of, perhaps unconscious, mental dialog between a flickr image poster and an observer :
)new set of vacation photographs, and that I am favoriting each one, because I am imagining the stunningly magnificent capturosity that they might have revealed to me if things had been other than they were. I am imagining typing the comment Thanks for sharing what could have been such a great picture with us. (well cutting and pasting it in each one - but I truly mean it).
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