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Something just doesn't look right. Wonder what it could be. Time will tell. The things people do sure amaze me sometimes.

-Bill
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Updated list as of: 10/20/03
2.2.3 D. azureus
1.2 D. ventrimaculatus 'yellow' (22 tads in the water)
3.3 D. tinctorius 'cobalt'
0.0.3 D. tinctorius 'patricia'
0.0.1 D. tinctorius 'giant orange'
0.0.1 D. tinctorius 'citronella'
0.0.2 D auratus 'zwartgroene(black)'
0.0.5 D. auratus 'green/black' (tads)
0.0.3 D. imitator 'Alex Sens line' (very soon)
0.0.2 D. reticulatus (soon)

Well falconblade, some of us have held strong and not been pushed into voting for the popular opinion. Your vents rule, but kyles imitator is mighty fine.
I think it will be "The Battle of the Thumbnails"
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Nate
1.1 alanis tincs
0.0.2 imitators(looking for sens and horn line frogs)
0.0.2 Azureus
0.0.3 green pumilio(On waiting list that puts the waiting in waiting list )

"The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries."
Sir Winston Churchill

Iv checked them out. I would vote for homer's if the picture detail was a bit better (no offence homer). Its not just about the frog, but the angle of the picture, the detail, the contrast! lol Im still thinking of who i am going to vote for.

But personally I think a thread asking which picture is best shouldnt be allowed next time. It should be up to the photographer and his photoshop to enter it (i still need photoshop ) once again nop offence if any one took me the wrong way.

good luck yall!
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kungfu28181: My god. You are insane. -Mon Jun 30 21:41:05

I appreciate the compliment as to the composition and color. Don't worry about offending me on the detail of my pic . . . I know it's not the best around.

I'm still using a freebie 1.3 megapixel Argus point and click without an LCD on the back. 1) it just won't be as clear as the others because it cannot possibly have the clarity that the cameras of Kyle and Bill have, and 2)I cannot adjust the focal length of the camera, so geeting the pic in the sweet spot is sometimes a crapshoot.

That said, I enjoy the pic, and I enjoy seeing the great detail that can be displayed by those of you using the latest and greatest devices. Hey, this is just all in fun, so let's not take it too seriously.
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Homer W. Faucett III, esq.
Purveyor of Trivialities and Fine Nonsense

I agree with you all on Kyle's pic. It was great in that he had a detailed close up of the imitator sitting on the flower. The blackening of the background really sets it off too. II'm still getting used to my Nikon Coolpix 4300 and have finally figured out how to adjust the white balance and the -/ exposure adjustments. I've ordered a step up ring that should have been here by now as it was on back order for a while. Next week, I'll be picking up the Hoya close up set from a local photo store that got me a good deal on the set ($25.00 NIB). Hopefully that will cure my trouble with focusing on the macros which is my favorite form of photography. Keep up the good work Kyle and hopefully you can help me out when I get the closeup lenses.

-Bill J
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Updated list as of: 10/20/03
2.2.3 D. azureus
1.2 D. ventrimaculatus 'yellow' (22 tads in the water)
3.3 D. tinctorius 'cobalt'
0.0.3 D. tinctorius 'patricia'
0.0.1 D. tinctorius 'giant orange'
0.0.1 D. tinctorius 'citronella'
0.0.2 D auratus 'zwartgroene(black)'
0.0.5 D. auratus 'green/black' (tads)
0.0.3 D. imitator 'Alex Sens line' (very soon)
0.0.2 D. reticulatus (soon)

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>>But personally I think a thread asking which picture is best shouldnt be allowed next time. It should be up to the photographer and his photoshop to enter it (i still need photoshop ) once again nop offence if any one took me the wrong way.
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Some members are more photograph happy than others and with one entry per person allowed, they are bound to ask others which might be the better one of their selection to choose. Nothing wrong with that at all (unless it turns into a fight or flame war).

The actual winner of the contest is not based on member popularity anyway - member popularity in these contests are only helpful in deciding who gets to be put into the lottery for the final voting for a winner. In otherwords it works to trim down the number of entries that the PetHobbyist staff will eventually be presented with to vote on. Some of these contests will have a large number of entries so keeping the number of 'finalists' to an easy to work with number is necessary (I'm so dreading the day I finally open a contest up to the leopard gecko folks and the k.com beardie folks). Unlike the members who get to vote for more than one entry (ie if they liked them all they can vote for them all or just some of them or just one of them), the pethobby staff who participate in the voting are each only allowed a single vote so they need to chose wisely. This was the fairest way I could make the voting be that both allowed for popularity and objectiveness to work against/with each other.

These contests are not intended to be serious contests - they are FUN contests where anyone can have the opportunity to win. It is not something where only the most professional looking photos are going to win all the time. Many of the PetHobby staff voting on these photos are from the non-herp sites (doghobbyist, cathobbyist, etc.). They are expected/encouraged to simply vote for what personally looks nice to them from the few photos presented to them as the finalists. It is not something where the voting is going to be based simply on perfect composition, lighting, etc. Some of the nicest photos I've seen are those that were not taken from a 'professional' or a 'by-the-book-photographically-acceptable' stance.

There is also no rule that photos cannot be enhanced or even 'photoshopped' if someone wants to get creative (a prime example of a photo-shopped entry on the canadian bearded dragon contest here). In otherwords if someone wanted to take their green frog and turn its cheeks blue and call it 'frog holding his breath till he's blue in the face' then hey why not go for it! Photography is just another type of artform and people can be creative with artform in many different ways and not always in the normally perceived/accepted ways.

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