Giving Up the Ghost

I'll just get this out of the way and move on.

Sometimes I put an image on photo.net and it just flops!  This is one of my "isn't my baby cute?"  "No your baby sort of sucks" photos! 

This was taken with a 1 meg camera which is 5 meg smaller then most people's cell phone cameras.  In fact most peoples cell phones have more memory then my Nikon!   In order for me to make this into something larger then a 4x6 photo I have to do some digital darkroom processing. 

This was taken at -10F-ish staring into the sun as Lake Monona was "Giving Up the Ghost".

It seems people are disliking this image when they rate it.  There are three things I look for in ratings.  The number of times it's rated is one thing.  If no one rates it, that's the worst, it means it's not even worthy of looking at.  With this one people clicked on the image as it is interesting and then say "I hate this"  LOL  Which is not really a BAD thing because it get's their attention but . . . . .

People don't like my Merry Go Round photo either but then people love my photo of the Argus Bar in Madison which I took under my arm behind the back without looking or focusing or even knowing what was behind me.

 

One image that really gets high marks is from the Overture Center in Madison.

The moral of the story is  - you just never know.

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ALL-STAR Survivor starts tonight and this is a REAL All-Star group. Survivor #20 is 10 years old and if you have never seen Survivor this should be the one to watch.  I read that before the night is over there will be a dislocated shoulder, a broken toe and a topless finish. 

This Survivor started filming 3 weeks after the last one finished so Evil Russell did not have a lot of down time to regain his weight.  I also read that Jeff Probst beat out Phil Keoghan (Amazing Race dude) 10 years ago for the chance to host the show. 

Richard Hatch (jail) will not be on the show and other Season #1 Survivors declined (Susan, Colleen or Elisabeth Hasselback from The View).  It's a two hour episode.

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We need more drunks in Wisconsin.  My job of late is to find out WHY our counties are not reporting more alcohol related problems.  Without these drunks the fed will withhold $$ from the State.

WE NEED MORE DRUNKS!!!

I've probably said to much and HIPAA will come after me.  I was involved with major HIPAA programming for the state (not sure why I mention that but . . )

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Now that I have given the photo to my client I leave you with one of the portraits I took last week.

 Have a great Thursday!

Rod