Photo Contest - It's Not That Easy (3/17-3/23)

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The thread discusses a photo contest themed around the concept of difficulty, where participants are encouraged to submit photos that illustrate something hard or challenging to accomplish. The discussion includes various interpretations of what constitutes "not that easy" and the rules governing photo submissions.

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Main Points Raised

  • One participant humorously suggests that moving a ball without drinking Coca-Cola is not easy.
  • Another participant mentions the challenge of climbing a fossilized King Kong.
  • A participant shares a personal story about a young boy learning to ride a dirtbike, emphasizing the difficulty of the experience.
  • There is a mention of the subjective nature of difficulty, with one participant stating that most would agree on certain tasks being difficult.
  • Another participant notes the challenge of blending in when camouflage is mismatched with the background.
  • One participant humorously questions which item unplugs a coffee maker, relating it to past experiences during experimental runs.
  • Another participant comments on the difficulty of bringing a lawn chair down, suggesting it may be submerged in water and references Archimedes' principle.

Areas of Agreement / Disagreement

Participants express a variety of interpretations of the theme, with no clear consensus on what constitutes difficulty. Multiple competing views and humorous takes on the theme remain present throughout the discussion.

Contextual Notes

Some participants explore personal anecdotes and subjective interpretations of difficulty, while others engage in light-hearted banter. The discussion reflects a mix of serious and playful contributions, with no definitive resolution on the theme's interpretation.

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It's Not That Easy

Your photos must show something that is hard or difficult, i.e. not that easy to do, master, perform, complete, etc. (BTW, "hard" does not refer to texture in this case.)Contest Rules:

1. Any digital photo or digitally-scanned photo relevant to the theme will be accepted within the contest period. In case there's a gray area, or you're not sure if the picture is suitable, check with me first.

2. Please resize your digital photo to no more than 800 x 600 or 600 x 800 pixels. You may also crop your picture if you wish. You are also allowed to adjust the brightness and contrast of your picture but these should not dramatically alter the look of the picture. But other than those, any form of picture editing or modification is not allowed. This is a photo contest, not a picture editing/special effect contest. You may add a watermark or your name/nickname to the photo for identification purposes.

3. Upload your photos to any of the photo servers such as imageshack or photobucket. Then post it the relevant contest thread and link your picture using the img command. PM me if you do not know how. Alternatively, you may simply upload your image file to PF, and then have the full image displayed in your post.

4. Only ONE picture per member per contest. Once a picture is posted, it cannot be changed other than a total withdrawl by that member from that week's photo contest. Exceptions will be made for modification to comply with the rules, such as resizing.

5. At the end of the contest period, I will open a poll and every PF member can vote for the picture they like best.

6. Note that in case we have a large number of entries, I will do the polling in more than one thread. If that's the case, you can vote in each of the polling threads. The photos will be assigned in the polling threads in the order they were submitted.

7. The photo of the subject must be something that you took directly, not via in intermediary medium, and not taken by someone else. Unless otherwise noted, a photo of another photo, painting, print, etc. does not qualify.

8. You can use a picture only once. Once it is used in a contest, it cannot be reused in another contest.

9. Please post only pictures meant for submission in this thread. Photos not meant for submission must not be posted in the contest thread. Posting of more than one photos by a member may result in an automatic disqualification from the week's contest.

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it's not that easy, to move that ball without drinking some coca-cola:
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Lol, хлеб, квас and Coca-Cola.
 
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Borek said:
Lol, хлеб, квас and Coca-Cola.
Well, chemically all sugar.
 
Climbing a fossilized King Kong can't be easy.

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I think, I set an intellectual counterpoint. I had a better physical (med.) motive, but I decided to interpret hard according to our daily business.

Checkmate in 200

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Pretty difficult bringing this lawn chair down here.
 

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This is a picture of a young Berkeboy when he was about 6 years old. He'd tried riding a 50cc dirtbike the year before at a Demo Day in San Jose, and had managed to crash pretty quickly. He and I agreed he should wait another year before trying again. So a year later we were at the Superbike races at Laguna Seca in Monterrey, and Honda had a set up a Demo Ride corral in the infield. Berkeboy said he *really* wanted to try riding again, and the picture below shows that learning to ride a dirtbike is not that easy!

The young girl crashed right in front of him on his first lap around the corral, and you could just see the determination on his face, "I WILL NOT crash! I WILL NOT crash!" LOL. He managed to get around her safely and put in some fun laps, and a couple weeks later I bought him his first dirtbike and we started riding together. Fun times. (He's now 6 foot something and WAY faster on a motocross bike than I am). :smile:

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Taking a corner in a monocycle race.
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'difficult' is subjective, but I'd say most people would agree this is difficult to do:

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Its not that easy to blend in when your camouflage has been selected for a different background.
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Final day to submit your photo for this not-so-easy contest.

Zz.
 
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So which one unplugs the coffee maker?

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BTW, notice what's on display on the screen, and one of the old skins that the forum used to have. This was how I used to amuse myself during the long stretches of experimental run.

Ah, the good-old days!

Zz.
 

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ZapperZ said:
So which one unplugs the coffee maker?

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BTW, notice what's on display on the screen, and one of the old skins that the forum used to have. This was how I used to amuse myself during the long stretches of experimental run.

Ah, the good-old days!

Zz.
I guess this is very much the same the MIR must have looked like at the end.
 
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Pretty difficult bringing this lawn chair down here.
It's seems to be submerged in water ...did you use Archimedes principle? You have a nice skill!
 
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