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28 November 2006

Let's figure out a Photo Friday theme for this week. Any cool ideas? (There's always the wiki list, but I think those are pretty well picked over...)

post by: BoringPostcards at: 11:11 | 20 comments

I think we should do a holiday themed one, but it's still probably too early - still, how about doing that in mid December?

Also, we have a lot of new people, what about doing baby/little kid pics again? Those are always awesome.

posted by mygothlaundry 28 November | 11:28

What about collections of things? It could be anything from collections of things you own or maybe collections/groups of objects placed together (if that makes sense)

posted by TheDonF 28 November | 11:34

Architecture.

posted by matildaben 28 November | 11:36

I keep suggesting faces where there are no faces, but I get politely ignored every time I mention it so I guess I should stop bringing it up.

posted by iconomy 28 November | 11:37

I thought that one had been done, iconomy? If not, we need to do it. And all of these... they're all great ideas. (I agree we should leave the holiday one for a couple of weeks, to let people get more decorations up and get pics of same.)

Anybody have a preference for one of these to be this week's idea? Or have more ideas to toss into the mix?

posted by BoringPostcards 28 November | 11:45

Favorite holiday pics?

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 28 November | 11:52

Or maybe, picture of yourself that you feel best captures the you you want others to see?

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 28 November | 11:53

I thought that one had been done, iconomy?

Er....maybe? That would be pretty funny.

Maybe it would be a good idea to go back through all the Photo Friday threads and add their urls to the wiki for future reference - I'll see if I can do it.

Also, I like the idea of going out and taking photos specifically for the theme, rather than just go find photos already taken to post, but I think I'm in the minority on that one.

posted by iconomy 28 November | 11:53

Also, I like the idea of going out and taking photos specifically for the theme, rather than just go find photos already taken to post, but I think I'm in the minority on that one.

No, I'm that way, too. That's why I hope to get a theme nailed down early this week. :)

posted by BoringPostcards 28 November | 12:03

I'd like to suggest "Christmas Scenes you can use on your handmade xmas cards."

Every year I make my own xmas cards. I'm assuming that some other bunnies do this, but possibly not. It's a pretty mad thing to do.

Anyway, I thought it'd be nice if the people who did this could share favourite xmas scene photographs reasonably early. If this was done quick enough ~~I would~~ we could have some kind of sharing thing going on where we each used each others christmas photos to make our xmas cards with.

It's an out-there idea and I'm acutely concious that it sounds like I'm just asking you all to do a bunch of work for me, but I thought I'd throw it out there anyway.

Maybe I should make a different thread for this....

posted by seanyboy 28 November | 12:09

Everywhere I go, different faces I see

posted by TheDonF 28 November | 12:10

Ha, TheDonF...

Am I the only one who sees faces in floor tiles and cable sweaters? Did we really do the faces theme already??

Seanyboy, do you have photos of any of your cards? I'm intrigued.

posted by iconomy 28 November | 12:17

There's a bunch of Flickr groups for found faces, and I used to participate in a Fotolog group for the same thing about 3-4 years ago. It's a pretty popular theme.

posted by matildaben 28 November | 12:27

Maybe I'm thinking we did the faces idea because I've seen it done on Flickr and the like...

I like TPS' self-portraits idea, also.

posted by BoringPostcards 28 November | 12:28

Not on me this minute. I'll see what I can do about posting them, but the last few themes were....

Random Xmas images from the web.

Merr Chris Mass (I do have an online copy of this)

"Santa Eats Kids" (Gold spraypaint with template on black card - based on graffiti I saw)

"Badly Drawn Reindeer" (You'll have to imagine this one)

posted by seanyboy 28 November | 12:32

BP, you're probably thinking of Found Alphabet, which we did do.

"Badly Drawn Reindeer" - heh. Love it.

Chris-Mass...clever!

posted by iconomy 28 November | 12:35

Man, I love the word pareidolia.

posted by Eideteker 28 November | 12:43

I had no idea there was such a thing! So cool to put a face to it :P

posted by iconomy 28 November | 13:07

Is that what happens when Badly Drawn Boy records a split EP with The Reindeer Section?

posted by matildaben 28 November | 13:12

≡ Click to see image ≡

posted by seanyboy 28 November | 20:31

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