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Photo Forum / General Photo Topics / Australian Photography / March 2007PELICANS ACTUALLY LOVE AUSTRALIA !
Oh the shame of it all. A bloody Yankee moving in on Aussie's 15th greatest asset... Pelicans! What was I to do? Confined by the thought he might steal a valuable work of mine whilst needing to prove Aussie Pelicans are better flyers, better looking and all round cuter creatures... Oh hell, what a dilemma. Then like a rush of wind through the ears of a Pelican banking to land, it happened! PNG 8 bit images... They show the essential detail whilst absolutely making the thing worthless to steal! Hooray for Open Source developers! I can preserve the illusion of being the world's worst Photographer and still occasionally (not too often of course) prove I'm not! http://www.annika1980.com/D-Macs/high-in-the-sky.htm Oh, yes... My new Portfolio is ready for stealing ...Err... viewing, I meant Bret... http://www.brisbaneweddingphotographers.com/portfolio Douglas http://www.annika1980.com/D-Macs/high-in-the-sky.htm Oh boy, another dead link! > Oh, yes... My new Portfolio is ready for stealing ...Err... viewing, I meant > Bret... http://www.brisbaneweddingphotographers.com/portfolio The Return of Bridezilla! I see you made the pics tiny enough to keep the laughter down to a mild chuckle. Pretty smart move as it keeps all those dust spots and JPG artifacts from being noticeable. And now when somebody mocks your lousy pics you can say, "I meant to do that! It was only a thumbnail!" >Oh, yes... My new Portfolio is ready for stealing ...Err... viewing, I meant >Bret... >http://www.brisbaneweddingphotographers.com/portfolio Nice web site Douglas. RP© >>Oh, yes... My new Portfolio is ready for stealing ...Err... viewing, I meant >>Bret... [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > > RP© I haven't seen a weesing series with a bride taking a shot on a pool table before! kosh >>>Oh, yes... My new Portfolio is ready for stealing ...Err... viewing, I meant >>>Bret... [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] >I haven't seen a weesing series with a bride taking a shot on a pool >table before! There's worse to come. Whoever loses at the pool table has to bite the heads off three live chickens. It's the type of custom they have in that part of Australia. >>>>Oh, yes... My new Portfolio is ready for stealing ...Err... viewing, I meant >>>>Bret... [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > >It's the type of custom they have in that part of Australia. Well... It's true that Queensland is the Australian equivalent to the Deep South in the USA, but it's not /quite/ as bad as you're making out. OTOH, I'm old enough to remember the traditional penalty for anyone losing a game by seven balls (ie; without sinking a single shot), which was to drop their pants to their ankles & hobble around the table three times. This was a custom that got /way/ more entertaining in the 80's, when a lot more women started playing pool.  SignatureW "Some people are alive only because it is illegal to kill them." . | ,. w , \|/ \|/ Perna condita delenda est ---^----^--------------------------------------------------------------- >>>Oh, yes... My new Portfolio is ready for stealing ...Err... viewing, I >>>meant Bret... [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > > kosh Nontraditional portraits are popular now Kosh. Last year (not one of mine) a portrait featuring the bride walking up a beach with a skateboard under her arm got rave reviews in New York. Mine only get "ravers" reviews in Tennessee ! Douglas >>>>Oh, yes... My new Portfolio is ready for stealing ...Err... viewing, I >>>>meant Bret... [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > > Douglas sorry to say, but I was being facicious..... commenting without being err umm blunt.... or even subtle. Something others in this group gave away long ago. non-traditional is popular now... yes, unflattering... no. I am also a true lover of the game of pool... but I would not chooe to be in one as a wedding portrait...nor to shoot it for that matter.... but then again things are a wee bit different in Brisbane after all! kosh > non-traditional is popular now... yes, unflattering... no. I am also a > true lover of the game of pool... but I would not chooe to be in one as > a wedding portrait...nor to shoot it for that matter.... but then again > things are a wee bit different in Brisbane after all! dude, this is the Great Australian Pool Room tradition! (you've seen The Castle, haven't you?) ;-) >>Oh, yes... My new Portfolio is ready for stealing ...Err... viewing, I >>meant Bret... [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > > RP© Thank you Rich. Douglas > Nice web site Douglas. At last we finally get to see "the boys on the boat." http://www.brisbaneweddingphotographers.com/portfolio/Albums/Album1/Large/Trevor _mate.jpg > Oh the shame of it all. > A bloody Yankee moving in on Aussie's 15th greatest asset... Pelicans! [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > > Douglas I'm turning...nice site Doug. > Oh the shame of it all. > A bloody Yankee moving in on Aussie's 15th greatest asset... Pelicans! [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > > Douglas PS, the kids look great..I just love to see children smile. >Oh the shame of it all. >A bloody Yankee moving in on Aussie's 15th greatest asset... Pelicans! [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] > >Douglas My goodness Doug, I have never looked at your wedding photos before. I went to the gallery and looked at the first two. I could go no further. I hope it gets better. That first one with the open mouth moron in the background is a shocker. I can't believe that you would actually take that , process it and sell it. > My goodness Doug, I have never looked at your wedding photos before. I > went to the gallery and looked at the first two. I could go no > further. I hope it gets better. That first one with the open mouth > moron in the background is a shocker. I can't believe that you would > actually take that , process it and sell it Look for Douggie to respond that he always puts bad photos in the front of the gallery to discourage those damned Chinese image thieves. They look at one or two and move on before they get to the really good stuff like Bridezilla or the one-legged groom. > Look for Douggie to respond that he always puts bad photos in the > front of the gallery to discourage those damned Chinese image > thieves. They look at one or two and move on before they get to the > really good stuff like Bridezilla or the one-legged groom. How about the one where the groom is hanging on to a tree trunk for dear life, while the bride tries to prize him off it by breaking his little finger? Isn't that capturing the essence of the traditional marriage? > PNG 8 bit images... They show the essential detail whilst absolutely making > the thing worthless to steal! Pardon me? An 8-bit png is effectively the same as an 8-bit JPG - why are they of 'less value'? Yes, images at normal web-sizes are basically worthless for anything but tiny (or crappy) prints, but it's not because of the 8-bits. Weren't *you* the one posting a 64-colour image just a day or so ago? How many bits in those 64 colours, Doug? C'mon, you can do it!!! (Hint, it's *not* a 2-bit image, even though it may have looked like one...) Ahhh, STOP PRESS! - I have just read your 'explanation' of your new, low quality posting regime here: http://www.annika1980.com/D-Macs/image-look.htm .. of your use of PNG images *in 32-COLOUR mode*!!??!!!! Doug, that *isn't* 8-bit.... Sigh. > Oh, yes... My new Portfolio is ready for stealing ...Err... viewing, I meant > Bret... Ok, I know you are being jovial here, but it still astonishes me that you think wedding photos and portraits are of any value to anyone other than the couple and their families, especially when posted at web size. And if someone did pilfer them to promote their business, why would you not just name and shame them - and then bask in all the extra publicity and kudos of someone thinking your images were worth stealing? Nobody loses except the thief... Yes, I know you claimed many times that I thieved your stuff, but you never actually managed to show an example, other than my reposting of your withdrawn images (always with credit)... >http://www.brisbaneweddingphotographers.com/portfolio This is *much* better, Douglas. By keeping the images small, you have hidden any minor faults (O;, and for some inexplicable reason, you have actually processed these images much better - they are generally sharp, not too badly exposed, and none of your trademark blown highlights or jpeg artefacts. Bravo! Did you get someone else to do the processing, perchance, or have you just taken all the advice we gave..? (O; The only beef I have is the strangely cropped thumbnails - they look a bit daft when you chop someone's mouth off.. But seriously, that gallery actually looks reasonably good. (And yes, it *is* me!) However, *please* re-do this one. The burnt stuff really grates, and you could tidy up that awful background a bit, although there's not much you can do about the doorway - that was just a bad location.... http://www.brisbaneweddingphotographers.com/portfolio/Albums/Album1/rach-1.htm Anyway, well done on that gallery, Doug. Maybe this could be the start of a new Douglas? (O; : >http://www.brisbaneweddingphotographers.com/portfolio : This is *much* better, Douglas. By keeping the images small, you have [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] : you could tidy up that awful background a bit, although there's not : much you can do about the doorway - that was just a bad location.... http://www.brisbaneweddingphotographers.com/portfolio/Albums/Album1/rach-1.htm : Anyway, well done on that gallery, Doug. Maybe this could be the : start of a new Douglas? (O; Mark is really going to get you for this... You know he doesn't say nice things about other people. How did you get the keys? Be careful whoever you are, he'll be back sooner or later. That portrait is now part of a legal case, Mark. It's not about to altered anytime soon. Actually Mark... My workstations are hooked into a printer network of wide format and digital printers. Even a home use Epson Stylus Pro inkjet can print a wider gamut and contrast range than a monitor displays. What you see as blown highlights or filled shadows only looks like that because I use a quaint process to convert pictures embedded with "Pro Photo" ICM profiles for first class printed results, when publishing them to the 'net so I can maintain the printing quality. To get the portfolio photos I used an off the shelf program called "web Gallery Wizard" after I converted the images to sRGB profile. You know my business is making and selling photographs, not producing the best possible computer images. I have a pretty good understanding of where my income comes from and it has NEVER, EVER relied the Internet. I see whatever I do on-line as being hobby stuff. Although it's about to become a source of revenue for lawyers. Douglas > Mark is really going to get you for this... Just because you are a 60+ identity sockpuppeteer, doesn't mean I have to be.. One Mark, one computer, one identity. > You know he doesn't say nice things about other people. You obviously never read my other posts. I say nice things about lots of people. > Actually Mark... My workstations are hooked into a printer network of wide > format and digital printers. Ok, this is believable... (O; > Even a home use Epson Stylus Pro inkjet can print a wider gamut and contrast > range than a monitor displays. Uhoh. A wider contrast range, huh? Your ignorance just flopped out again. Monitor? - at least 500:1, more likely 700:1 or greater. Paper? - lucky to drag 70:1 out of glossy photopaper, some specialist papers may just get you over 100:1. As for gamut, they are different, but printers are not necessarily better. (Although if you use a cheap LCD, which may explain some of your gaffes, the colour quality may be shockingly deficient). KNOW THY MEDIA! > What you see as blown highlights or filled shadows only looks like that > because I use a quaint process to convert pictures embedded with "Pro Photo" > ICM profiles for first class printed results, when publishing them to the > 'net so I can maintain the printing quality. What a pile of unadulterated garbage. Blown highlights are just that - LOST. Filled shadows are just that - LOST. *What you do with these images in other media is totally irrelevant*. When you display them on the web, you should make the best endeavours to make them display well, or look like a no-talent loser. Your choice. > You know my > business is making and selling photographs, not producing the best possible > computer images. So you've made that choice, goodonya mate. Not a very wise one, imo. Most folks would try to incorporate both, or DROP the webpage. But if that's your choice, then don't whine when people tell you how bad some of your images look. And it's hard not to note the hypocrisy here - one minute you are telling us how your monitor is carefully calibrated, then you admit that your prints look nothing like your 'computer images'. > I see whatever I do on-line > as being hobby stuff. But then you plaster it with silly things like how you are an internationally recognised professional. Either it's a hobby or it's not. > Although it's about to become a source of revenue for > lawyers. NO, IT ISN'T, Douglas. No-one believes your ridiculous blusterings, or haven't you noticed? Get over yourself. After reading that ridiculous tome you sent to Anni, it is clear you haven't changed, in fact it appears you are descending into madness. Enjoy the trip! : > Mark is really going to get you for this... : Just because you are a 60+ identity sockpuppeteer, doesn't mean I have [quoted text clipped - 56 lines] : ridiculous tome you sent to Anni, it is clear you haven't changed, in : fact it appears you are descending into madness. Enjoy the trip! -------------------- What did you do the cretin who's been using your PC while you were out? When you actually get your own digital print centre, get back to me with an apology. With your form that's not likely though, is it? Like every time in the past, you make assumptions without knowing anything. Accurately typical of Charles Stevens. You know that arsehole? The slime bag who made all those allegations and threats about me and to me? The joker who used a computer at the Youth Training and Employment department of South Australia to defame and slander me? I'm sure if you think hard, it'll all come back to you. Pretty poor form slandering me under the name of chrlz@go.com and then claim your "new identity" Mark Thomas, never did any of those things. Just who do you think you are fooling? The big news is that I actually found the archives last night. I'll take you up on your suggestion I need to post evidence of your slander... Expect it soon, Mate. Douglas > : > Mark is really going to get you for this... > : Just because you are a 60+ identity sockpuppeteer, doesn't mean I have [quoted text clipped - 90 lines] > > Douglas LOL, red pill I think Dauggie. > Oh the shame of it all. > A bloody Yankee moving in on Aussie's 15th greatest asset... Pelicans! [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > > Douglas Douglas, Most of the pelican images were quite nice. Even for low bit images. A couple needed help though. The last one seemed to be over exposed with the high lights blown out. Forgive me for not remembering all the titles, the one with a single pelican swimming. I would have cropped a bit and put the bird either a little right or left of dead center. This wolud give a bit of "movement" to the image while keeping most of the elements in. I like the wake behind the bird. Must have been a quiet day on the "pond". The image of all the birds "resting" on the breakwater was very good. Again I would have moved a bit more diaginal to give it a deeper feel to the image. I like with what you had done with the image post shooting in contrast and such. Again I would have just angled a bit more. I too like you wedding web site. It has a nice feel to the images and seems to be able to navigate quite easily. Which is a plus compared to others I have seen. You use of photoshop edges and other tools are what a lot of bridal parties are looking for. Just like it looked when Grandma and Grandpa got theirs made. With the soft edges and hand papered look. It is easy to do that now with photoshop. But it isn't that easy doing the "real" way. By that I mean tradition darkroom work with hand printing of images on hand coated paper. A lot of work and fun. But not good enough for these days of "got to have it now" generation.hehe You have a good eye to capture the moment when people forget you are there and be themselves. The use of fill flash works very well. This is the only profession, hobby, passion thet needs constant training, workshops and practice, practice, practice. (worse than golf!) Draco Getting even isn't good enough. > Oh the shame of it all. > A bloody Yankee moving in on Aussie's 15th greatest asset... Pelicans! [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > Oh, yes... My new Portfolio is ready for stealing ...Err... viewing, I meant > Bret...http://www.brisbaneweddingphotographers.com/portfolio Not at all bad photos. If you want to compete with Bret do it with photographs not empty threats to sue or put your petty complaints on the local news. Take an honest look at Bert's photos and you will see that he truly does gets great captures, so try and out do him. Completion should push you to do better, not just in your photography but also in your post processing, which I think has been one of your weak areas in the past. So show us what you can do and stop worrying so much about people stealing your photos, you might notice that it has never been your good photos that have been re-posted. Show you best work and take the time to get the jpeg compression right. Or you can keep wailing at the world for all the good that it will do you. Scott : If you want to compete with Bret do it with photographs not empty : threats to sue or put your petty complaints on the local news. [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] : : Scott --------------- Without prejudice: You've lost the plot here Scott. In your usual form you make assumption with no foundation. I couldn't care less about "competing" with another Photographer. There's plenty I'd rather do that with, through competitions in my own country. This whole issue is not about a jerk criticizing my photos or me wanting to outdo him. It's about a bloke in Chananooga Tennessee who broke the law in his obsessional jealousy of me and continues to break the law, regardless of being warned of the consequences of continuing his attacks. Pretty dumb stuff, don't you think? Three others (not including you) with possibly a forth long standing antagonist decided to make a gang of it and get stuck into me for a bit of entertainment. That I can handle myself. I'm big enough and ugly enough to take them on at their own game. All of them are hiding their identity and three, have never offered any photos of their own for criticism so they are basically the "noise" you get in every group. "Same sh.t, different place". Filtering them out doesn't stop the effect they have. Exposing them for the petty cowards they really are is my response... Damned if I do and weak if I don't. The guy you refer to took bad behaviour to a new level. He not only stole my images but posted them again using my identity with insulting and defaming remarks about me and my clients attached to them. When Pbase responded and deleted his work... He just repeated the exercise again with a different twist to my identity. That's illegal. Scott. Not only that it's absolutely offensive to anyone and everyone who participates in on-line communication. If they do it to me, they'll do it anyone they choose and you could easily be their next target. Not content with this, he tried to breach the security of my eBay account and stupidly left evidence of his attempt. That, according the FBI is a Federal USA offence and currently being investigated by them under a complaint from eBay themselves and me. The idiot tried to compromise the very foundation of the biggest on-line sales forum in the world. What chance he'll get off with that one? Apart from his incessant ratings about my pictures, many of which I posted to bait him for more evidence, he can carry on his miserable life anyway he chooses, just as long as he stays within the same laws you, I and everyone else has to abide by to stop this world turning inside out... Is that too much to expect? Douglas > This whole issue is not about a jerk criticizing my photos or me wanting to > outdo him. It's about a bloke in Chananooga Tennessee who broke the law in > his obsessional jealousy of me and continues to break the law, regardless of > being warned of the consequences of continuing his attacks. Pretty dumb > stuff, don't you think? Yeah, I am really jealous of you, D-Mac. LOL! I really want to be a delusional paranoid who can't take a decent pic, who thinks that everyone is out to get him, who makes stupid statements and outright lies that he can't back up, who has alienated every other poster on the web who has ever commented on his pics, and who lives on a houseboat. Yeah, where do I sign up? No fool, it is YOU who idolizes me. And when the Master bitch-slapped the student you fell off the deep end. YOUR obsession with me continues, from your adopting the "Annika Hogan" screen name to your site that you set up with the intent of humiliating me. YOU are the one who couldn't even honor a gentleman's agreement. You are the one who just couldn't let it go. Who knows what paranoid freaky fantasies you'll pull out of your a.s next, but I gotta admit, it is getting tiresome, even for me. Most of the rest of the newsgroup world lost interest weeks ago. I'm losing interest now. You bore me. I did notice that you pulled many of the inflammatory pages from your annika1980.com website, especially the ones with the pics you stole from my friends that you didn't have copyright on. That's illegal, D- Mac. You know this of course and that may be why you took them down. Perhaps you are growing tired of this as well? Perhaps not. Just the calm before the next storm, I guess. Some of my friends have e-mailed me privately telling me to just not respond and to let you wallow in your own paranoid fantasies. Wise advice, I think. > Three others (not including you) with possibly a forth long standing > antagonist decided to make a gang of it and get stuck into me for a bit of > entertainment. That I can handle myself. Did someone just say something about paranoid fantasies? Damn, I'm good! Who Rules? > Apart from his incessant ratings about my pictures, many of which I posted > to bait him for more evidence, he can carry on his miserable life anyway he > chooses, just as long as he stays within the same laws you, I and everyone > else has to abide by to stop this world turning inside out... Is that too > much to expect? D-Mac, you are so transparent. I know what you're gonna do before you do it. Like when you e-mailed me a week or two ago asking if you could send me a poster. You think I didn't realize right away that you were fishing for my address? Not everyone is as dense as you, D- Mac. Next time try Google. Takes about 5 seconds. Now I wonder if I am as transparent as you, D-Mac? Can you guess what I'm gonna do next? > > This whole issue is not about a jerk criticizing my photos or me wanting to > > outdo him. It's about a bloke in Chananooga Tennessee who broke the law in [quoted text clipped - 54 lines] > Now I wonder if I am as transparent as you, D-Mac? > Can you guess what I'm gonna do next? When are you two going to realize that neither of you can win this argument????? Just end the argument now or take it to email where it belongs. : When are you two going to realize that neither of you can win this : argument????? : : Just end the argument now or take it to email where it belongs. Well Tho... Bret Douglas doesn't further his plans to dominate the second smallest (photo) newsgroup on the planet and sustain his idea of maximum effect when he has a go at me, unless he posts to a public group like aus.photo. As for me? I'm just retaliating. I'm the passive one here. Knock him out and the group goes silent again. > : When are you two going to realize that neither of you can win this > : argument????? [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > aus.photo. As for me? I'm just retaliating. I'm the passive one here. Knock > him out and the group goes silent again. I'm starting to think that you two deserve each other. Now repeat after me ... LET IT GO ... no last words ... just drop the whole thing. > : When are you two going to realize that neither of you can win this > : argument????? [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > Knock > him out and the group goes silent again. Retaliating = Passive, sorry don't get it?? Both of you, reds pills at twenty paces. : > : When are you two going to realize that neither of you can win this : > : argument????? [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] : : Both of you, reds pills at twenty paces. For a bloke claiming to filter me out... You sure have a crush on me sweetheart. > : > : When are you two going to realize that neither of you can win this > : > : argument????? [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] > For a bloke claiming to filter me out... You sure have a crush on me > sweetheart. Don't listen very well do you, told you I reset the group after you had your sixth alias change in a week, ya just keep bobbing back up no matter how many concrete blocks I chain to your ankles so what is the point. ...a bunch of BS. BTW, D-Mac, I did notice that on your EBAY auction (the one I was supposedly trying to mess up) you got exactly one bid, from a marianna4394. Not surpisingly, this person has a history on EBAY of exactly 1 day and has only bid on your one item. So tell me, D-Mac, does EBAY still get their cut when you bid on your own item? LOL! Another satisfied customer, right "One-Bid?" One wonders how many other of D-Mac's auctions were won with single bids by people who had just joined EBAY? And I'll bet all of them left glowing feedback as well. You know, I'm growing tired of the "D-Mac" name (that I gave you, btw). I think I shall now call you "Unibid." BWAHAHAAHAAA!!!! |
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