I was actually looking for photo contests one day, and this particular site came up. I registered and I bookmarked it, didn't really look at it, but then about 3 months later I found the bookmark, looked and said, hmmm that looks interesting. So here I am. I have recommended this site to so many of my photo cronies that I bump into, but am not sure they have signed up. Lots of interest with everybody from work, to my family, to my daughters friends.
I was looking for pictures of the Salt Lake Temple and pulled up one in dwterry's portfolio. I started looking around the site and was convinced by the opportunity to sell prints. About 2 weeks later, I tried a challenge, thinking I was pretty hot stuff.
I got hooked with the honesty of the voting and comments, then the people and never did get to posting any prints for sale.
... got fired, crashed my car, finally got home, saw my camera. Found some whiskey. Got drunk. Found my bathroom. Got sick. Stumbled into my office. Got a phone call. Got a new job. Found some beer. Got drunk somemore. Passed out on my computer keyboard.
I woke up with a huge hangover and the impression of a keyboard on my face, and there was DPC challenge, and my camera stareing at me.
While googling for information on macro lenses, I found shutterblade.net, which is Tom_Robbrecht's website. I liked his pictures, and saw that he'd just won a couple of ribbons at some place I'd never heard of called dpchallenge.com, so I checked it out.
After buying my first digital camera, a nice little point 'n shoot Canon S50 in September '03, I found RAW Canon (now defunct) on the web. But I was still a film SLR camera user. Then, someone mentioned DPC in the RAW Canon forums. I checked it out, I joined that day, and yes, the rest is history.
Was going to D.C. and was looking for some places to get some shots - Posted a question and I think slippy or ken (whatever his name is now) or someone similar said to jump the whitehouse fense and take the pics :-)
If I remember correctly, it was rated as Top 100 sites by PC Mag or something like that. I am always a sucker for "Best of" lists. Eventually picked up a camera and remembered the site....
Was going to D.C. and was looking for some places to get some shots - Posted a question and I think slippy or ken (whatever his name is now) or someone similar said to jump the whitehouse fense and take the pics :-)
Hey, I remember that - it was me. ...and we didn't hear back from you for quite some time... :)
I used to regularly read a msn blog of someone who is aka xianart. Well, one day she mentioned having found this place, so I checked it out. I'll never forgive her ;)
Worst thing is, once she came here she quit blogging, so now I have to spend that time here that I used to spend reading her stuffs!
My ISP sends out a Best Of the Web newsletter & in it are sites that other customers reccommend. dpchallenge was one of those. So back around June/July '04, I discovered dpc & my addiction has grown ever since.
