She's now going to have to subsidize Bret's Photoshop habit with
all new Nikon gear now that the D700 is on the scene! D40?!?
Plastic piece of sh.t!

What would your wife say if she caught you accepting expensive
gifts from a stranger you met on Usenet?  Be honest...

This crossed my email this morning. Shades of things to come
bret gets to do iris images of Spike's eyes from 50 feet.
Similar in numbers to the Dalsa imagers used in the Mars
rovers.

"The way you stalk these newsgroups is embarrassing and
downright strange."
Hey-Oh!! Embarassing as, say, the constant fawning over ordinary
snapshots rescued in Photoshop? The piece that is so "embarassing

http://www.douglasjames.com.au/art-photos/galaha.htm
gallah
Australian Slang for an idiot.
Comes from the bird of the same name, native to Australia.

I've written before that I judge my own success with an SI submission based on
three criteria.
First, the image must meet the mandate.  That doesn't mean for someone else's
submission I must understand how or why, or even that I like it at all.  Just

Fireworks, Lightning and a Comet in the same pic?
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0807/mcnaught3_kemppainen.jpg

http://www.pbase.com/coaster/image/97567759'
Now _this_ is a good picture of a hummer. Brett's blurry,
out-of-focus, underexposed, garden variety shots are sh.t.
But you wouldn't really get it, would you, you f.cking dried

Though I like her style. And her photography blows the Scammer
out of the water - not her bullshit joke shots she posts here,
but the Flickr stuff is truly good.
Anyway, you butt-sniffers should know by now that Rita has no

For Eric:
http://www.pbase.com/bret/image/99986831/original
http://www.pbase.com/bret/image/99986830

Ms. Draco sez:
"You have done nothing but create a climate of foul, miserable,
threads that no one wants to even read."
Except, of course, you and Helen! I get you every time, fool!

Shoot-In submissions for Frauds, Flim-flams, and Shams are due by Friday the
11th.
http://www.pbase.com/shootin/fraud