"Metallus", from the fake Latin for metal
"Loscorus", from the fake latin for low scoring
I haven't done a shoehorn in a while, but inspiration finally flirted with me. I put together the "shoehorn fly" Monday evening, but decided I needed something more bug-like than the original googly eyes. I found some round amber colored magnets an an office supply store.
Got home Tuesday with only a few minutes before dark to shoot it. If I'd had more time, I would have reshot it to improve the DOF, I was concentrating on getting a blurry background with a compact. My shoehorns don't score high anyway. The success of this one will be measured in comments.
Anticipated critiques: -DOF could have been better
-DNMC
-Bits of hot glue still hanging off
-DNMC
-At it again Steve, eh?
-DNMC
-LOL
-DNMC
-WTF?
[Dec. 9th, 2009 01:04:08 AM]
Wow! Pulling in the mid-6's after 15 votes! I don't think this will keep up, but it would be awesome if it did stay over a 6 and I could cross a goal off my list for '09.
[Dec. 13th, 2009 10:56:38 PM]
Especially considering I expected a low 5 at best, this performance is surprising the heck out of me. Didn't drop lower than a 6.32 after my earlier post, and running at 6.64 right now. Looks like this is on track to being the #2 shot on my profile page. I'm quite pleased.
Post challenge notes:
Wow, this really performed far beyond my expectations!
-A top 10 entry for me, and it wasn't even a real bug. A shoehorn on several levels. Not the highest scoring shoehorn ever, but certainly the highest scoring real shoehorn!
-Crossed off one of my major DPC goals for 2009: "Get a 6 with a humorous entry in a non-humorous challenge"
-Made my #2 highest scoring entry, pushing my rusty car down to #3.
-A new personal record for in-challenge comments. 36!
-A new highest rated entry for the Powershot S5 IS. Again pushing my rusty car down a notch.
It's been a good week for me on DPC. Thanks for all the fun comments and good votes. I enjoyed this one.
Statistics
Place: 8 out of 49 Avg (all users): 6.5984 Avg (commenters): 7.7000 Avg (participants): 5.2759 Avg (non-participants): 6.7767 Views since voting: 4263 Views during voting: 518 Votes: 244 Comments: 56 Favorites: 6 (view)
Holy Mackerel! A top-10 and a 6.59 for one of your shoehorns! You can die happy now, right? And this baby's gonna be on your profile page until the end of time... Wonderful! Got a 7 from me, BTW...
TOTALLY EXCELLENT .. loved it during voting and hoped it would do well .. congrats on 8th place in the challenge and second place on your profile page .. brilliant sense of humour .. :)
Incredible detail. What an unusual looking bug. I have never seen anything remotely like that. It's wings look almost look like they're made of glass and it's eyes are amazing....like they are filled with some kind of fluid. I can see why it's called a Shoehorn Fly. I am sure it's related to this insect:
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that is one very, very cool bug...it almost looks like a shoehorn...hmmmm oh, my it is a Shoehorn Fly...lol You my friend have way to much time on your hands...lol
OMG!!!! I freaked for a second thinking is that thing really out there somewhere...? said to myself "is there a such thing as a shoehorn fly"...then I looked again...LOLOL...great job! (no vote)
doesnt look common at all .. more like totally extraordinary ... its an amazing shot .. those eyes look like lightglobes ..
is it even real .. ? .. anyway i'm just looking thru the challenge .. not voting .. :)
few minutes later .. this had me really going .. i googled metallus loscorus and nothing .. and then shoehorn fly .. nothing .. wotever .. whether its real or not its a fantastic image ..:)
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