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Hmmmmm.....








... You decide!

This is what happens when you fuck a stranger in the ass!

I wonder where that T-shirt has gone...

I'd check John Goodman's wardrobe.

I ask for interest's sake, but has anyone actually ever sen Grim... and John Godman in the same room at the same time?

Hmmmm?

I thought not.

That would be me. And Curiosity, there are a couple of D4s in there!

richardgaywood, I liked your one, but I think it would have benefitted from a narrower depth of field, so that only the red ...thing, whatever it is, was focused, and the background was blurred. You can do this by using a larger aperture (smaller f/number).

I'm also interested in what 7 is.

Do you make jewellery from the dice, Cathy?

No, I collect them, though I can't honestly claim to use them very much any more. I think I have somewhere around 500 now.

I have foam dice, bouncy dice, electronic dice, glow-in-the-dark dice, glittery dice, neon dice, jade dice, steel dice, big dice, small dice, and very very small dice.

You should put them all in a tall, straight clear vase or something. They'd make an interesting decorative object.

I want to see how small the very very small die is.

I have quite a few very very small ones. I'll put up a photo later.

Yes, I know My technical grasp of photography far outstrips my aesthtic.

However what you can't tell from that pic is that the red thing (which is a quite famous sculpture on the river in Newport called The Wave, later I will upload a much wider angle shot) is only about 80 feet away from me there, the blue building is 250ft back, and the green copper dome on the tower a hundred or so feet further back again. I did mess about but anything that blurred the background clutter lost too much detail in the green and blue elements of the frame.

Plus, at the time, I was standing on a tiny little bit of pavement on the side of a dual carriageway onramp which was the only place I could compose the shot from, with cars wizzing past not very far away. This was a little distracting. I risked life and limb for that shot

You can see how I put the shot together here on Google Maps.

I do seem to remember when I first met Grim..., we took the piss out of the way he'd got matching trainers and bag - and was proud of this.

Glad to see the tradition of Mocking Grim...s footwear continues.

You're all just jealous.

Grim and all - isn't that milk float in a bar, though? It's just that Grim... looks like he is drinking from a can. A can of something evil like Carling, at that.

They sell cans of Red Stripe in there.

I was, of course, going for the sophisticated option of drinking glasses of wine.

Which is why my head hurt so much the next day.

How clever! It would definitely have received a vote from me in the new Eurovision format.

Beautiful.

Not the un-blurred version, though. That's hideous, heh. What a transformation!

Good effort, AceAceBaby! I updated the photo on the gallery with that note. (I am using the gallery as scratchpad space for notes for when I put this contest on the site, see).

Oh, I have a load of those little dice too, for reasons I can no longer remember.

I bought some of the red ones in a shop, most of the rest from DealExtreme, and some (not in the picture) came from a constructible strategy game called Pirates of the Spanish Main.

Mine was #4 - the crappy pencil pot on some coloured towels. The background is just me holding up a flannel. It's out of focus because I am crap at photography, but wanted to enter, and used the iPhone's camera to do so.

There's no scale in that dice picture - how big is the blue one?

The big one is the size of a normal one, that was in for scale. The small ones are about 3mm across.

Cathy, don't look at these

Let's see, if I skip eating for the next month...

Mine was number 8. The blue and red bits were my son's wooden blocks that iI was building a mahoosive and complicated tower out of, but I couldn't find a way of making a good shot out of it. So I just did a macro of a few of them as I liked the colours. I can't begin to explain the thought processes behind the stick man - he's only about 5mm tall, bless.

I loved yours. The colours were so bold. It'd definitely be one of my eurovisions.

Thanks! What I lack in technical skills and an eye for composition I make up for with massive mounts of blue.

I was a bit worried as I spent ages making sure they did, and then hen I looked at it on here on my work PC they looked too dark. I then realised I'd fudged up the colour/brightness/contrast settings on the monitor.....

This made me lol muchly.

No-one has owned up to 13 or 14 yet. Anyone...?

If anyone is interested, I present below the wider angle shot which shows the shape of the sculpture. The shot I submitted was deliberately zoomed in to make the structure ambiguous.



It's called The Wave, and was constructed in 1990 to celebrate the history of steel making in South Wales. It's about fifty or so feet high at the top of the circular section. Every so often some drunk kid runs up it and falls off from the top, which doesn't usually end well.

Darwin begs to differ.

Edit: Interesting sculpture. Not to my taste, but why or why do we Brits insist on putting interesting bits of art in inaccessible places?

It looks like it is supposed to be viewed from further towards the bank where that woman is standing, or from the opposite side of the river.

Mimi is right, it's not inaccessible at all -- you can walk all around it, e.g. this pic on flickr. If you look at the Google Maps link from earlier it's on a sort of promenade on the river front. My difficulty was I wanted to compose the shot with the green copper roof of the dome in the middle of the loop of the sculpture, and that meant being in a certain place, and then I had to get high enough to get clear of some trees and fencing. So I ended up on the dual carriageway.

Ah. OK.

Who did number 14????

Yes! Inquiring minds want to know!

There have always been some photos that nobody claims at the end of the competition. Whether people just forget or don't want to say, I am not sure, but it's fair enough. I think it less important than the fact that they have taken time to take part, and certainly nothing stipulates that you must say which photo is yours if you do enter, though I do agree that number 14 is particularly lovely and do wish to congratulate whoever took it on their shot, it looks like a gentle watercolour.

is exactly where I'm coming from. Well, well done, whoever you are!

It looks a bit like Shewolf's style, from what I've seen of her deviantArt, but I could be wrong. Her latest journal entry said she'd be pretty hectic about now, so maybe that's why she hasn't posted. Or it isn't hers, and she has no reason to.

Either way, no.14 is the one I voted for, and I'd like to know who took it and a little more about it.

I have them! They're in the picture above. I'm getting about seven weeks pay in a week and a half, I wonder how many dice I could buy with that...