****Comment Thread for March Photo Contest. Theme: Animal Planet****

[mnhtnbb]

Have some fun! Talk it over here

Link to Submission thread: http://www.democraticunderground.com/103651156

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. I'm in!

I didn't have anything recent, and animal photos aren't common for me.

But I caught this one at a family gathering, and I love it.

I hope the voting public loves it too........just not too much!

[a la izquierda]

4. That's a very sweet photo nt.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

5. Thank you! n/t

[mnhtnbb]

2. Oh, we're getting some fun photos!

Mira, we were at the Hemingway House years and years ago...great kitties wandering about.

[Mira]

3. Almost all of them have a special trait

http://www.hemingwayhome.com/cats/

I think mine was one of the special ones. What do you think?

[mnhtnbb]

6. I count six toes!

[elleng]

7. I'm in!

@ my daughter's home, becoming more like a farm every day.

[mnhtnbb]

10. Up at the crack of dawn, are they?!?

[elleng]

14. I understand they are,

but at least doesn't bother my son in law who has an early bird job!!!

[Blue_In_AK]

8. After the hostile takeover of my computer by Windows 10,

I have had to take it in to my pro to hopefully get everything cleaned up. With any luck at all, I will not have lost all the photos I've taken since the first of the year, but computer dude said there are no guarantees. I probably have some usable photos on my external drives, but with no computer, I can't get to them.

I hope I get it back in time.

[mnhtnbb]

9. Oh, no, Blue! How awful.

Hope your computer guy can retrieve your photos. Let us know how it's going--we can easily leave this open a day or two--so you can enter.

[Curmudgeoness]

20. Oh no.

A friend in the photo club here had an external hard drive fail on him, and lost most of his photos. I hope that you have better luck.

THIS is why, no matter how many times MS nags me, I am just ignoring the "upgrade NOW" pop ups. Glad I am now.

[Blue_In_AK]

21. I was ignoring it, too, but

it apparently downloaded on me with a set of Windows updates. My computer guy said I must have said okay to download, but I sure don't see how. I accidentally left my computer on overnight, and when I woke it up the next morning, it was in the middle of downloading. Once it was finished, I tried it out and didn't like it, so I went to the place in settings where you can revert back to Win 7, but then my desktop looked all different, stripped down, and I couldn't find my pictures. So frustrating. I gotta get my taxes in, too, so this came at a particularly bad time.

And I took some really beautiful pics on Monday that I'd like to share, but I can't because I have nowhere to download them. At least I didn't erase my cards.

[Curmudgeoness]

25. Now you have me afraid

that this will happen to me too. My IT guy tells me that 25% of the downloads screw up...and that is not good enough for me.

It is apparent that they do not want us to continue to use Windows 7 or 8, but if they force me, I want my IT guy to do it.

[mnhtnbb]

26. It is so easy to accidentally click something.

I kept refusing the Windows 10 upgrade (from my 7 that I special ordered on a new laptop about 5 years ago when 8 had come out) and then the motherboard on that laptop
died in January. My IT guy is my oldest son--who develops software--and he suggested I try Linux. So, here I am getting used to it. When we were packing up to leave Bonaire
I couldn't for the life of me find where to click to bring up the turn off choices (my son told me to just close the cover and let it go to sleep most of the time, but turn it off
for traveling or going to be away for quite a while) and then I remembered that pushing the button to turn it off brings up the turn it off (sleep, etc,) choices. Oy! There have
been other things that are different, too, but I really do like how I am no longer bothered by ads following me around from everywhere I've been on the internet.

[alfredo]

11. FYI, I shoot in Micro 4/3 so the 1024 will be on the money, but the vertical will be long.

1024X768

[mnhtnbb]

12. That's ok.

The way we specified was longest side not to be more than 1024, so you're good. Theoretically 1024 x 1024 would be ok.

[alfredo]

13. Thanks.

[Trailrider1951]

15. OOps! I forgot to downsize my photo

Is it OK as posted? or should I delete and re-do?

[mnhtnbb]

16. It's ok!

Cute squirrel!

[mnhtnbb]

17. I am having fun watching these photos come in...

hope y'all, are, too!

Do you suppose we'll get some lions, and tigers and bears (oh, my!) before we're done? We are coming up on tornado season!

[bluedigger]

18. I threw one in there, but I 'm not sure why.

After seeing the first entry, I figure the contest is over. Nice shot, Johnny!

[Curmudgeoness]

19. Ditto.

I felt the same way after seeing that photo. But we still have to give him a run for the money, right? I found your photo to be so right though...fog, deer in the mist. Eerie.

[Solly Mack]

22. I'm in.

Duh. Of course with a bird.

I'm loving the turtles.

I like all the entries. I love animals.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

23. It's a beautiful shot, my dear Solly Mack!

Very expressive and I love the bokeh!

[Solly Mack]

27. Thanks, CaliforniaPeggy!

I love animals, so of course I adore the theme.

I especially love turtles.

[a la izquierda]

29. I had a pet turtle when I was a kid.

I came home from kindergarten and he was gone. My parents told me he ran away. From the upstairs room where he lived...

[Solly Mack]

42. I'm sorry!

Turtles are just plain neat.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

24. I'm in, too!

Turtles!

[Maru Kitteh]

28. "The Cat's Name is Bear" - A perfectly normal evening west of Kalispell Montana

This image was taken last fall when the bears were in hyperphagia. It's just slightly out of focus because of the combination of low-light and YES I was shaking a little.

What a beautiful guy though. Bear and the bear.

[mnhtnbb]

30. That is great!

I would have been shaking, too!

[2naSalit]

35. I like it

what a chance encounter! Down here near the ID/WY borders we get grizzlies more often than black bears. I'd be a little nervous too. Great entry.

PS. So how do you get the $$ bills out of that narrow-neck jug?

[Maru Kitteh]

51. Hemostats :-)

It was truly one of those "is this happening?" kind of moments.

[2naSalit]

60. ...

I must admit that it might have taken me a while, even when desperate, to think of that!

[mnhtnbb]

31. OK! We have a lion and a bear...who has a tiger?

[Recursion]

32. This is my favorite picture from a buffalo series I did

Something about how they're looking at each other just speaks to me

[2naSalit]

33. That's a unique picture

I like it, there's a lot of wonder in it, I like pictures that make me spend time observing and pondering over the image.

[2naSalit]

34. I'm in!

I like all the kittehs!

[Recursion]

54. Wow I love that one!

Was that a koi he's eating?

[2naSalit]

61. A spawned out

Yellowstone Cutthroat. It's at Trout Lake in Yellowstone NP, NE quadrant. There were two otter families there that year, last year there were none. Must have been low fish population, there have been fishery management actions in that area the past year.

[Blue_In_AK]

36. I still don't have my computer back,

so I had to grab something off my PhotoBucket, not the one I was going to use.

I hope it's not too obscene. LOL.

[mnhtnbb]

37. Oh, Blue!

That is funny. I'm sorry. Can't stop laughing.

Consider it a place holder. Spaces are filling up fast. Do you think you'll get your computer back this weekend?

[Blue_In_AK]

38. I really don't know.

I think my guy is working alone in his shop and he looked fairly busy, so I have no idea. This contest was filling up fast, though, so I figured I'd better get in.

It IS kind of a funny picture, though. The bull was funny - his nose was in the air twitching before he homed in on "the spot."

[mnhtnbb]

40. Well, it looks like we might hit 30 today.

I have asked several people to resize submissions and I'm also thinking
that if we do hit 30 before the weekend, I might let it 'sit' for 24 hours
in case anyone changes their mind about their entry. After that I'll go
ahead and put the preliminaries up.

[Blue_In_AK]

41. It's a popular topic.

I like these ones where we get 30 entries.

[bluedigger]

48. That's a "Don't tuch the butt" shot if there ever was one.

[Blue_In_AK]

49. And right out in front of God and everybody.

LOL.

[Shadowflash]

39. Haven't done one of these in a while

So why not?

I'm in!

[mnhtnbb]

43. Room for 2 more entries!

PLEASE read the rules before submitting!

Thanks!

[Adsos Letter]

45. im taking mine out to make room for someone else.

Happy to do it.

[mnhtnbb]

46. No!

Please put it back in---or another one-- if you wish.

If we get to 30 entries before next Wednesday, I'm going to give everyone 24 hours to settle.

[Adsos Letter]

47. No, it's ok.

You are getting some really good entries, and as Blue noted, animal topics are popular.

[Solly Mack]

44. Wonderful entries!

Beautiful, CC!

[CC]

52. TY

I had to find something. Noon day sun, a flock of sleeping Flamingos and shade equaled one lucky capture out of I don't know how many tries.

[Blue_In_AK]

50. Mr. Lucky gets around.

Playing in the snow, lazing in the hammock. A cat for all seasons.

[womanofthehills]

56. He does get around

About 10 yrs ago, he appeared at my place. I live way out in the country so he must have traveled far. He was very feral at first but now is my baby.

[Recursion]

53. Wow Lily is a handsome cat! (nt)

[mnhtnbb]

55. We have room for ONE more entry!

[Turborama]

57. I added one just now but I'm not sure if the quality is good enough.

It's a scan of a photo I took using a manual 35mm film camera when I was in the Borneo jungle 14 years ago. The photo itself is in very good condition and the subjects are in focus and sharp, but it seems my Canon scanner didn't do it justice.

I may try scanning again if you think the quality is too bad...

[mnhtnbb]

59. I've sent you a PM.

[mnhtnbb]

58. SUBMISSIONS ARE CLOSED, please read

We have the delightful problem of having one too many entries. The last two were posted within a minute
of each other and happened when I was away from my laptop.

I would like to give everyone until 5 PM EDT today to make any edits on their entries. Two entries need to be resized and
those photographers have been contacted to do that. I will post the preliminaries this evening.

Thanks to everyone! We have a great group of entries!

[pinebox]

62. Dang it I was gonna enter :(

Maybe it's time to kill the limit?

[mnhtnbb]

63. Too bad...

The Photography group has set the limit at 30 entries--makes a max of 3 threads of 10 items each (due to polling constraints of DU itself)--
for the preliminaries.

It's been quite a while since we've hit the 30 entry limit for any of the contests. But, you could suggest it in a separate thread and see what
people think.

[pinebox]

64. That's an idea