I've just seen one of the worst DNMCs ever. I would therefore like to suggest a preventive check before submitting a picture with a very creative challenge interpretation:
Imagine giving only your picture (without the title) to somebody together with a multiple choice list of four or five challenge topics. And then ask them to guess what they think the challenge is. Your goal is to choose the other possible answers (besides the actual challenge title) in such a way that most people would choose the correct answer. If this task (choosing the other options to make sure the right one is selected) is difficult or impossible, your image does not fit the challenge.
(However, the opposite is not true: If this task is easy, your entry might still be a huge stretch...)
Just wanted to share the idea. Let me know what you think. ;-)
Imagine walking out of the hospital with a bandage wrapped around your head and a real hum-dinger of a headache.
You get home and walk into your bedroom. Without thinking, you pause in the doorway and begin slamming the bedroom door on your head. Slam, slam, slam. You just can't seem to stop yourself.
Some time later you find you've woken up in the hospital again with a nurse peering down at you tending fresh bandages on your freshly mangled head.
"Just had to get back to that door again, eh?" she asks.
Well darn, am I the only one that wants to go hunt through all the current challenges now to find this alleged worst DNMC ever? I gotta see this thing!
Imagine walking out of the hospital with a bandage wrapped around your head and a real hum-dinger of a headache.
You get home and walk into your bedroom. Without thinking, you pause in the doorway and begin slamming the bedroom door on your head. Slam, slam, slam. You just can't seem to stop yourself.
Some time later you find you've woken up in the hospital again with a nurse peering down at you tending fresh bandages on your freshly mangled head.
"Just had to get back to that door again, eh?" she asks.
"Just had to get back to that door again, eh?" she asks.
My dad used to tell me about a guy he saw downtown, standing by a concrete parking garage and banging his head against the wall. Repeatedly. Dad asked the guy, "Sir, why are you doing that? Doesn't it hurt?"
I've just seen one of the worst DNMCs ever...............
Well, I'll tell ** what I think. *** have absolutely no sense of humor. NONE! Most photogs are much more liberal than *** and allow others to think out of the "box". But noooo, not ***, *** feel a need to slam my photo in a personal comment ... and now again here in it's own special thread. Thanks buddy. I can understand the many dnmc comments I have gotten and accept them......expected them, but a few have seen the humor. Perhaps someone had a smile. We all know how to meet the challenge and don't need instructions on how to do so. Sometimes we choose not to. :)
I reject your method. A photo might fit all the entries on the list. The challenge doesn't work that way. No multiple choice. You see the photo and you know the challenge. If something sparks between them, that's all that matters. And if the title helps that spark, why not? To be honest, what I am most hungry to see is not the ability to follow simple instructions, but real photographs, surprising captivations of time and space.
Imagine giving only your picture (without the title) to somebody
OK...
I'm imagining this picture:
Knowing nothing else, what are the multiple choice questions you'd ask to figure out what this person was thinking?
"I caught one this big!!!"
"He missed me by that much!!!"
"It's true I tell you... it is that big"
"My wallet??? I don't have a wallet"
"No officer...I don't believe I can walk that line if I cover my eyes"
"Honey, put the gun down... I can explain everything"
Which challenge were you entering this in... it might just fit.
I know which picture this is referring to. I gave it a vote that I felt was appropriate based both upon its skill and relationship to the challenge. I laughed heartily, and still scored it below 5. I think the photog would love that response. Clearly the artist wasn't looking to win the challenge, but rather to bring in a sense of humor. My question is why does this warrant its own post? How has this photo deeply impacted you? How has it offended you?? You got your chance to vote. You voted (and I am fairly confident you voted it low) the photog expressed himself or herself.
Ahhh in the excellent words of a former Bond theme song,
Live and let live, and really you should Live and Let this one Die.
If the challenge is "Cats" you will likely see everything from catfish to men doing cat calls to hookers, I think that is part of the fun, just vote it the way you see it and sit back and enjoy the show! Life is way to short to try to be a DNMC nazi, you will just get frustrated.
Suppose, instead of both arms raised, only one was raised and it was thrust forward?
...ROFL, he asks what was I thinking. HAHAAA, if I had the answer to that, I would have replied with it long ago when my mother kept asking me that. :)
Suppose, instead of both arms raised, only one was raised and it was thrust forward?
...ROFL, he asks what was I thinking. HAHAAA, if I had the answer to that, I would have replied with it long ago when my mother kept asking me that. :)
I may have nightmares after looking at the little army you are forming!
