I have been lucky enough to get a few photos on the PP page, but this hasn't happened for a few months......
The last 3 photos of mine that got on the PP page had the same subject matter and guess what....the photo I posted yesterday has made the PP page.....and it is of the very same subject, yes you have guessed it - a SWAN !!!
All my swan photos are different from each other....so I think I have cracked it !!!
Hey no fair, my swans didn't make it to pp!, although I have not done badly on other subjects..................................:0) well done on pp Sharon
haha well done! Magic Monkeys seem to like the London underground too - I've had 6 photos appear on the PP in total and THREE of them were taken in underground stations!
have been on the pop page a number of times now but only once for a swan shot, statistically for me my photoshopped selfies make up the majority of my pop page hits
I've had two. One was cherry blossoms and the other was a sepia shot of an alleyway. I think where I went wrong was opting for ducks and pigeons instead of swans.
Maybe the surefire success photo would be a sepia picture of a swan on the London Underground. I'm just not sure how to work blossom into the picture, at this time of year.
@carmel Perhaps the swan could be carrying or wearing the blossom? Sounds like a great processing challenge - should we include a pretty child and a kitten too? - I love crowd shots! Lol
@kittikat@filsie65 OK, so it's to be a swan on the Underground, with a small kitten-carrying child strewing cherry blossom petals over it, some of which turn into small butterflies? Backdrop, a poster with a huge full moon on it.
dagnabit! well into my second year here and still haven't been featured on the PP page. Now I know what I have been doing wrong all along... now, to go take a photo of a swan. Do glass swans work? LOL! Great thread!
Birds in general, I see more robins than Swans, and maybe kittens. At the other end your most likely not getting a picture on if its film instead of digital, and if its people
I've had a waterfall, a marble, a spider, a succulant shot in sepia, coffee mugs and some ears of corn make the PP, but haven't posted a swan shot. And I didn't expect a single one of them to make there- so it was a huge surprise and honor when they did! Congratulations on your swans!
Selective color, sunsets, sunrises, beach, sailboat, selfie... hummmm I think even a flamingo and a seagull made it, but I don't think my swan made it to PP. I have even had one hit the PP and then a few hours later it got booted off...LOL
I posted swans on the weekend - two parents and five gorgeous babies - but they have failed the pp. Your swans must be extra special and have a magical quality to make it to the pp. :) oh and congrats!
I don't believe swans exist in Seattle. I KNOW Flying fish do, as does the Sasquatch... Hell, we may even have the Missing Link marchin' around our streets somewhere. Here's what we DO have: We got Moss, Coffee, Mt. St. Helens ash and an earthquake waiting to happen. Oh, and we got a new ferris wheel. I'm screwed!
You all are hysterical!!! Thanks for the good laugh and once i thought i had thoses magic monkeys all figured out!! I thought the dial was stuck on my name!!! Now its someone ele's turn!! :) Congrats to all who have made the P.P. and to those who havent yet....You Will i think it goes in Alphabetical order!!! LOL!!
@limpet365 thanks - this thread has really made me laugh, glad I started it. I'm looking forward to some of the challenges, especially you trying to find a swan on the underground !!
@lorraineb I wonder if you could get the swan to carry the cherries in their beak? I noticed a new swan shot on the PP page today - those swans do the same pose everywhere don't they ? And like looking at themselves in the reflection !
@sharonaddison They do mostly do the same pose, but somewhere at home I've got a shot of a swan doing yoga and tying itself in a knot. It doesn't look a whole lot like a swan (unless you're used to pictures of swans doing yoga) but I'm prepared to swear to it if necessary.
@sharonaddison I think one of my best shots ever was a macro of an assassin bug with this "sword" coming out of his face....and those "ugly bug" macros never make the PP...and sometimes they are my best work. In my bug shots collection, I have had levitating lady bugs, tightrope walking damselflies, bumbleebee hovering in mid air with soft pink background, etc.. all make the PP, but usually my "ugly bugs" no way. I think my mating flies macro did make it...a miracle. and a spider, but he was small in the pic and his web was sparkly and pretty. So my theory is "ugly bug pics" just cannot make the PP. Haha I am now going to figure out a Swan/bug shot to post soon. Funny thread. Thanks for starting it!
@carmel You beat me to it!! Ok..so there's no underground where I live. There's a river. And I don't have any swans but I had a dove. And this is the cherry center of the universe..but do I have a cherry blossom in my project? NO! So you get a rose. No dragonflies..but I had a tick! And no sunsets...no WONDER I'm not on the PP. But I did have a moon.. A super one at that. And a cat. And a fire that kind of looked like a sunset AND was handheld so it's not in great focus. I should add a baby or child.... I've got those! But my son wants the computer.
you guys are sooo funny - still....... just in hope for that PP....... one day....... am gonna go on the lookout for swans and good-looking bugs, large tomatoes.....
@carmel@m9f9l Inspired and totally bonkers!! I shall look forward to seeing these two marvellous creations on the PP for many weeks to come. All the right ingredients (or variations thereof) and beautifully set out! Fab!!
all I know is the Magic Monkeys HATE me. over a year and half on this project and never once have I made the PP. I have decided I hate the PP. so there :P
You guys SUCK! I only have 3 fav's! This thread was such a waste of time! Bwaahaaahaaaa! @asrai That is brlliant! @espyetta I'm still waiting to see yours :-)
@m9f9l I am afraid I may have zero time. Darn. I am taking the kids on a weekend trip to Savannah and today, getting ready and packing and printing directions/things to do/places to eat so I will be organized. And I built something with my nephew (mostly I did it ...he got t ired of it and played video games) for my album cover challenge entry (second one) and I need to shoot that and edit it today if I am going to get it in ..not sure when the deadline is, but don't think I may make it...argh
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Maybe the surefire success photo would be a sepia picture of a swan on the London Underground. I'm just not sure how to work blossom into the picture, at this time of year.
I think this has legs.
Either way, it's a dead cert for the PP :)
Perfect. . ..what a hoot!
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@filsie65 You got it!
Thanks to those that did.
You could be right! :oD
Thanks for making me have a good laugh !
Ok this weekend, gotta find swans!
Brilliant. Best swan I've seen in a long time.
think thats everything :)
Let's see what happens!
(still waiting...........................)