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Of Christmases Past
Of Christmases Past
klkitchens


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Challenge: Ghosts (Expert Editing)
Camera: Pentax K-5
Lens: Sigma 18-50mm f/2.8 EX DC for Pentax
Date: May 10, 2012
Galleries: Digital Art
Date Uploaded: May 10, 2012

[May. 11th, 2012 01:00:04 AM]

Slow start... 3 votes in the first hour.

So here are the Christmases included...

2011 - Last Christmas
2011 - First Christmas after 9/11
1993 - My son's first Christmas
1990 - My daughter's first Christmas
1989 - My wife and my first Christmas married
1988 - My wife and my first Christmas after engaged one day (Christmas Eve)
1984 - The first Christmas after I graduated High School
1981 - The first Christmas with Ronald Reagan as president.
1976 - The Christmas after the USA Bicentennal
1971 - My wife's first Christmas
1966 - My first Christmas

[May. 16th, 2012 03:14:38 PM]

This is not doing anywhere near so well as I would have expected.

100 votes was at a 5.35.

I guess people only want to see "evil spirits" or "dead people", not other forms of the word ghosts. Oh well, took a shot. I personally don't believe in ghosts except as demonic angels appearing in that form to lead people from Christ.

Yes, the calendar dates are all real. I setup a PS template and laid them out in 3x3" and got six per page on a sheet of general inkjet "Photo Paper", which is like a thick paper or thin cardstock. I printed them in B&W on my laser, cut them out and then wadded them up like they'd been thrown out. Then I took shots of each of them on a bluescreen and cropped them out with the magnetic lasso tool. Converted them to sepia and layered them against the busted ornament photo.

Statistics
Place: 42 out of 63
Avg (all users): 5.3852
Avg (commenters): 6.5000
Avg (participants): 4.9063
Avg (non-participants): 5.5556
Views since voting: 504
Views during voting: 285
Votes: 122
Comments: 5
Favorites: 0

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AuthorThread
 05/18/2012 02:39:08 AM
Aw I thought this was very cloever and well done - gave you an 8.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
05/17/2012 09:16:35 AM
I like this one because it meets the challenge and it doesn't have a creepy person lurking around, unless there is one and you hid it well.
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 05/17/2012 06:14:32 AM
Love the take on the challenge. The do seem to go faster and faster
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 05/13/2012 07:14:23 AM
Very sharp, very detailed. Great idea.
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 05/11/2012 10:38:18 AM
interesting concept. :)
as with some others, hopefully you've taken the pics of all those calender dates during the challenge window, be a shame to see this dq'd.
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