From snapshot to portraiture - Is it possible?

[solitear]

Craig..... your rendition is beautiful, thank you! And I'd like to respond to your comment about thinking I'd ever make up something...... after I declared my love and everything......... oh, the "humanity".........

(play like I'm Emily Dickinson when you read this)....

Could I e'er mislead you
Yes, of course I could
When all the grains of sand are counted
Yes, that is when I would....

Could I crush the one I love
Yes, in fact, tis so
When the Malabar Thrush has lost it's song
Yes, that is when you'll know...

Could I forgive rejection
Yes, for I've known that
But a slight for cause of homeliness sake
And that'd be Numbat's !

Mike and I laughed thinking that it looked like God put a big ol' too-heavy-at-the-hem, striped sweater on him ...... then, as He was making a plain old tail, right at the end thought..... naw, I'll hurry up and put a puff there.... and it must have been getting late cuz He just used some leftover regular ears He had laying around.....

Oh yeah, Mike said I get to keep you........ ....... man, I always get goofy when it's this late/early ......

oxoxo
Beth

[Kraellin]

beth, thank you

well, you'll have to forgive me. when i first read 'emily dickinson' i was thinking 'emily post' and thought you were correcting my grammar or etiquette and i couldnt quite figure out what a numbat had to do with manners. i think i've got it now, though. nice poem!

actually, when you stop and think about all the oddball animals in australia, i think God was either playing a large joke or quite drunk. or maybe that's where he practiced. it does sort of remind me of some of my work in psp.

well, not having ever spoken to mike, i can still say that i think you made a good choice

oh, and have a look in the restoration forum. cj has posted a piece to work on that is apropo to this thread

[solitear]

Craig, too funny...... Emily Post....... not your fault but rather the result of me being punch drunk. . . And Mike is still surprising me even after 34 yrs. of married life...... what a hoot, huh!

CJ was kind enough to email me some links that are helping me with the photography side of things...... I'll go take a look at that thread, thanks. This just opens up a whole new batch of photo phun!

oxox
Beth

[Kraellin]

beth,

excellent... on all points mentioned

[gvardich]

Hi,
From snapshot to portraiture is possible!!!
Check this out:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...5731&rd=1&rd=1

[Bojin Taylor]

Yep! .99 cents

seems a little high

[solitear]

gvardich, thank you for the link ....... I liked the darker toned photo of the woman with her profile flipped and fainter in the background....... I would never have thought ebay to be a viable way to reach customers but.... why not..... thanks!

Bojin, hehehe...... I'd have to cut back on the "cherry pull-apart" candy I've grown quite fond of....... but I'd probably have to go into a rehab place that deals specifically with "cherry pull-apart" addiction ...... now we're talkin' thousands......

oxox
Beth

[CJ Swartz]

Originally Posted by solitear

...that'd be Numbat's !

Mike and I laughed thinking that it looked like God put a big ol' too-heavy-at-the-hem, striped sweater on him ...... then, as He was making a plain old tail, right at the end thought..... naw, I'll hurry up and put a puff there.... and it must have been getting late cuz He just used some leftover regular ears He had laying around.....Beth

Okay, now! Enough of the numbat bashing, Beth and Craig.
The first time I saw one (when Craig googled one for us), I thought it was adorable, and I am not changing my mind. And I'm not the only one -- the numbat has its own coin, it is the choice for animal emblem for the state of Western Australia, it's cuter than the Tasmanian Devil, and it eats up to 20,000 termites a day -- which can be very helpful to people (if not to termites).
http://www.westernwildlife.com.au/we...als/numbat.htm

The third image below shows its reaction to reading its erroneous descriptions here... it was too polite to say anything mean.

[Kraellin]

rofl, cj

ok, so we'll make a national numbat day or something. i'll even have my mother get out and wear that numbat stole i gave her for christmas that one year. (*duck*)

ok, all kidding aside, i agree; it is kind of a cute animal. reminds me a bit of a fox squirrel only more colorful. and please, dont send me pm's about my crude jokes. they were only jokes meant only to tease cj a bit

now, what was this thread about?

[solitear]

Oh....... after reading your post, CJ, I wish I could take it all back...... the snickering, the laughing.... the crudely worded insults......... I'm just relieved I never said some of the harsher things we thought like, it was awkward looking with it's squirrel shaped body and little pointy fox head and, now that I've seen it, frighteningly snake-like tongue........

And Craig, if we do institute a National Numbat Day, I think it should be November Nineteenth....... if your Mom wears her Numbat stole, I'll try to find my Mom's old Mootan jacket..... and I can guarantee nobody could find a picture of a Mootan......

heheheh.......

[Kraellin]

lol. were we brother and sister in another life, beth?

edit: and what in the world is a 'mootan jacket' ?

[CJ Swartz]

Originally Posted by solitear

...And Craig, if we do institute a National Numbat Day, I think it should be November Nineteenth....... if your Mom wears her Numbat stole, I'll try to find my Mom's old Mootan jacket..... and I can guarantee nobody could find a picture of a Mootan......

heheheh.......

Hmmmmphh! Now it's getting worse!!!! Mootan abuse, Mootan jackets -- so I google images of a Mootan and what do I get? Your mom wore a jacket made out of this??!! Please say it's not so! The Mootan is even cuter than the numbat...

http://plaza.air-nifty.com/diary/ima...otan062406.jpg

Originally Posted by Kraellin

....ok, so we'll make a national numbat day or something. i'll even have my mother get out and wear that numbat stole i gave her for christmas that one year. (*duck*)

now, what was this thread about?

Remember, Beth said she was thru with the original subject in this thread, so it's fair to let the numbats and mootans play with it...

[Cupcake]

A very handsome young man.

[solitear]

I'll just bet, without a shadow of a doubt, no teacher in the world would've let the 3 of us sit next to each other in class.........

CJ...... I can't believe you found that picture of a Mootan...... it's even the same color as my Mom's. . . hehehe. . . I'm tellin'....... man, that made me laugh so hard.......

And Craig, I learned in that previous post about Phyllis Diller, that we are brother and sister.......... what if the 3 of us are AND Phyllis is our real mother.....

Hey, I just looked it up and it's Mouton as in Bonmouton...... here are pictures of a mouton coat...... my Mom's was exactly like these..... I remember that it was unbelievably heavy...... my Dad was always buying my Mom presents (he was a sweetie) and he bought her this coat..... I never saw her wear it though because, in Houston, Texas, ....... enough said..... HA

[solitear]

Cupcake, I love what you've done with Caden's photo...... very creative backgrounds on each one, I would have never thought of that ...... I'm going to have to give his parents the link to see these... thank you!

oxoxo
Beth