2010 - Arty category.

[wattie]

Jacob's post is brilliant...........we ain't stopped laughing.....you gotta read it 2 or 3 times to fully appreciate it.

Wattie and Kel 

[Jacob Potts]

Soooooo . . .

I see wattie's image, try to interact the best I can with it, and then, on another thread, I read this:

Two beautiful things...Kel my wife and the Atom 3.

Oh. No.

Before I read the other thread, I thought the equation was:

[list][*]Anonymous Professional Photographer = A

[*]Anonymous Professional Model = B

[*]Anonymous Professional Atom = C[/list]

A + B + C = Polished Image submitted in Arty category

But NO!  The calculus is actually:

[list][*]Tremulous Actual Atom-Owning Photographer = A

[*]His Darling, Beloved Wife = B

[*]Their Only Child, the Atom, named "Ickle Dinkums" = C[/list]

A + B + C = HUGE RISK to put out there in public

And I slash the image to bits, wife and child included--with nary a care.  It reminds me of the English professor tearing the girl's paper to pieces in the film Up the Down Staircase.  

I have fairly, publicly, put my foot in it, haven't I?

[wattie]

[quote="Jacob Potts"]
Soooooo . . .

I have fairly, publicly, put my foot in it, haven't I?
[/quote]

Not at all, TBH Jacob when we first read your post we thought "Wow, that's a bit of a slating"....but like Wasp - thought it was tongue in cheek. Then we read it again and thought it was a brilliantly subtle and very funny post sayiing "get her kit off" ....for arts sake.... yeah right! 

Now, frankly we're quite chuffed that you thought the picture was professionally done..... we were just messin about the best we could with a little Sony T100.

Perhaps we'll post something Arty using some of your pointers a liitle later.....I have an idea.....

Cheers Wattie and Kel

[wattie]

Just where do you think you're going!!

[wasp]

Eek!!!

Mind that Heel on the paintwork

Cheers,

Stu

[julian]

Brilliant photos Wattie, about bloody time, you get my vote if I had one. 

More please. 

[DarthChicken]

Oh I really like that one.. artistic, and something we can all relate to 

[Gage]

[quote="wattie"]
Just where do you think you're going!!
[/quote]

I think that is an automatic win.

[Driver]

Still a long way between now and the end of the year before JL has to pick the winner..... IOTW, hoping to see a lot more strong contenders.

[Ged]

Ahhh now I know what you mean about heel/toe!

[Jacob Potts]

[quote="wattie"][quote="Jacob Potts"]Soooooo . . .

I have fairly, publicly, put my foot in it, haven't I? [/quote]

Not at all, TBH Jacob when we first read your post we thought "Wow, that's a bit of a slating"....but like Wasp - thought it was tongue in cheek. Then we read it again and thought it was a brilliantly subtle and very funny post sayiing "get her kit off" ....for arts sake.... yeah right! 

Now, frankly we're quite chuffed that you thought the picture was professionally done..... we were just messin about the best we could with a little Sony T100.

Perhaps we'll post something Arty using some of your pointers a liitle later.....I have an idea.....

Cheers Wattie and Kel[/quote]
Wow! This is unexpected.  Also, I don't understand a lot of what he wrote.

Hmmm . . . (paging through my "English-to-American Dictionary")

"chuffed"  adj. Quite pleased.  Syn. "delighted"

As well you should be, wattie and Kel: you all made a good photograph, of professional quality!

[quote="wattie"]TBH Jacob when we first read your post we thought "Wow, that's a bit of a slating"[/quote]
Okay . . . (more thumbing through the "English-to-American Dictionary")

"slating" 
1. (Miscellaneous Technologies / Building) the act or process of laying slates
2. (Miscellaneous Technologies / Building) slates collectively, or material for making slates
slating2
n.
Informal chiefly Brit a severe reprimand or critical attack

Severely criticize (criticise) you? No!  Remember what I first wrote about the image:  [quote="Jacob Potts"][quote="wattie"]Beauty and the Beast............[/quote]Wattie: this is good . . ."[/quote][/quote]
Good.

GOOD.

So, above all, remember, the photograph is good.

It was so good, I thought the photograph was a professional production!  Only because I thought it professional, did I venture a more detailed critique.  Only the photographer need to make small corrections to the image to bring it up to snuff.  The Atom owner, the model, and the Atom, all of them, were safe from all criticism.

I did not intend to severely attack anyone.
[quote="wattie"]Then we read it again and thought it was a brilliantly subtle and very funny post sayiing "get her kit off"[/quote]

Okay . . . (more thumbing through the "English-to-American Dictionary")

"get her kit off" - "To disrobe"

Whoa, now!  Wait a minute!

Kel is your wife.

I am not going to ask anyone to tell their wife to disrobe, photograph her and put her on the Internet, just for the sake of exposing her to every drooling voyeur in the world.

Of course, it's easy to write that.  Notwithstanding my protestations otherwise, I could be your standard drooling Internet voyeur . . . if I were not who I am.  How do you know?  All you need do is ask.

Whom should you ask?  Not me!

1.  Ask the women who attended AtomFest I.  Ask the women I interviewed as part of my job there: Ask Jules, ask Barbara Simons.  How did I comport myself with them?

2.  Ask the men who attended AtomFest I.  Ask Ben, Alec, John Lloyd and El Presidente Bruce Fielding:  did I jump aboard the big pick-up truck that transported Atomites to the local bars?  Where was I during the infamous "wet T-shirt" contest there everyone commented so much about?  How did I comport myself at AtomFest I?

More later,

Jacob

[wattie]

Jacob there seems to be some breakdown in Anglo-American communication and humour going on here! 

To be fair, Kel and i should have immediately realised this having seen one episode of the US "Office".

No offence was taken or intended so as they say in the US "Forgetabatit"

Cheers wattie and kel

[Bruce Fielding]

[quote="wattie"]
No offence was taken or intended so as they say in the US "Forgetabatit"
[/quote]

I believe it's pronounced "fergedabahdi"

[wattie]

[quote="Bruce Fielding"]
[quote="wattie"]
No offence was taken or intended so as they say in the US "Forgetabatit"
[/quote]

I believe it's pronounced "fergedabahdi"
[/quote]

Which perfectly illustrates the point.... breakdown in Anglo-American communication   

[Jacob Potts]

[quote="wattie"]Jacob there seems to be some breakdown in Anglo-American communication and humour going on here! 

To be fair, Kel and i should have immediately realised this having seen one episode of the US "Office".

No offence was taken or intended so as they say in the US "Forgetabatit"

Cheers wattie and kel[/quote]WHEW!  I am SO relieved.  And forgetting about it already! :-)

Thanks, wattie!  Thanks, Kel!  You're the best!

Very relieved,

Jacob :-)