My muse decided to visit a mere hour before rollover. Another rushed entry. the red cape and cap is from a screaming slingshot monkey I bought on Woot.com, the "Wolf" is a happy meal toy from the "Kung-Fu Panda" Promotion. The Wolf's night cap is made from a baby sock.
Pre-challenge notes:
I am going to get sooooo creamed in this challenge! Hoping to pull in a lot of good comments for the humor, and my continuing submission of shoehorns when I am at a loss for a genuine creative idea.
[Oct. 11th, 2008 05:33:15 PM]
This is interesting. As expected, the average is fairly low, with just a handful of people that appreciate my humorous entry. What I find interesting, is that I think my photography of this is actually pretty good, but I'm still getting hit with mostly 4's. This is averaging lower than other shoehorns I have done which were not nearly as good. I suppose gag entries, even when good, come in pretty low on the broad appeal scale. I'm having fun with this one, though. Getting some good comments.
Post-challenge notes:
Finally got that elusive brownie, and I wasn't even aiming for it this time! I knew this would score low, my shoehorns normally do. I'm a little perplexed by this one however, as I have had some of my shoehorns that were not nearly this good that scored way higher. Perhaps there was a larger percentage of people that didn't get the gag voting in this challenge, or it was more bizarre than I thought.
For the benefit of the people that left comments along the lines of "I don't get it..." here is the explanation:
As you may or may not already know, a contest entry that does not really meet the theme, but is forced to fit the subject (usually with the use of a clever title) is called a "shoehorn" entry.
I decided to literally do a series of shoehorn entries when I don't have any genuinely good ideas.
Thanks for playing!
Statistics
Place: 81 out of 82 Avg (all users): 4.0890 Avg (commenters): 4.6875 Avg (participants): 4.0556 Avg (non-participants): 4.0968 Views since voting: 2109 Views during voting: 401 Votes: 191 Comments: 28 Favorites: 0
This isn't really a shoehorn, the subject of the photo is an obvious attempt to meet the challenge via little red cap/little red riding hood imagery. As one of your fifteen two votes, I can assure you that meeting the challenge is all that kept it from getting a 1 based purely on technical quality lol. Gag shots score well sometimes if they are well shot. I have proof.
I guess you just don't like "shoehorns" because I've seen other shots do so much better and have NO focus! Dancing Chicken Legs (Ballroom Blitz) was one....way back...gotta go look up that challenge again. It wasn't a shoehorn and it was not well shot. Yet, it did much better.
Ya know...this was excellently photographed! It made me laugh. I think that the Grimm's challenge was a low scoring challenge to begin with. This certainly didn't deserve The Brown....but, hey......a ribbon is a ribbon! Take it with pride!
This isn't really a shoehorn, the subject of the photo is an obvious attempt to meet the challenge via little red cap/little red riding hood imagery. As one of your fifteen two votes, I can assure you that meeting the challenge is all that kept it from getting a 1 based purely on technical quality lol. Gag shots score well sometimes if they are well shot. I have proof.
Grandma, what big pecs you have... Completely missed this in voting, not sure how, but would have given you kudos for the humor. Must be hard to carry her basket without arms, though. ;) You know, you might actually be the highest-scoring Brown in quite some time. I would not have thought a 4+ was brown-worthy.
Nice win (I guess). Not sure how an nicely composed, well lit, and in focus photo finishes last. It wasn't even that much of a shoehorn, considering it had a shoehorn in it. I guess I need to start voting more.
Umm, er, well .. yes, it's a shoehorn in a red capeish object with a wolfie sort of action figure. More creative than anything I came up with (which was nothing at all!).
Looks like that shoehorn has been used as a screwdriver a time or two. :-) Yep, it's a shoehorned entry (kinda)...probably will score better than a handful out there. Good luck.
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