Lochnar: Interesting story about that monkey, actually... I took that picture while I was out in the Nicaraguan equivalent of the boonies. There was a very nice man who had two monkies, a cat, and a dog. As I am taking a picture of the other monkey on the roof (Contemplating Life), the Mischevious Monkey swings towards me on his rope and grabs my hair. Duly surprised, I whirl around and grab his arm. He doesn't like this, and grabs onto my shirt with his feet. Now I am in a real mess. I carefully set down my camera and try to figure out to unlatch the monkey from my head. I try pulling, no luck. I try pushing, no luck. The monkey's owner is laughing at me now. As you have have surmised, the monkey has another arm, which he now uses to grab my hair also. I have had quite enough of being a monkeyhead, so I push him away as hard as I can. This seems to work, but as the monkey is flying backwards, he grabs my arm and bites my pinky finger. Ouch! Anyone else been bitten by a monkey?
You have also hit my head on the nail. I do like macro shots, probably more than is healthy. When I was a tot I used to read a kids magazine called Highlights. In some issues it would have several macro pictures and you were supposed to guess what they were. In a way, I think I am trying to reproduce that but with a more artistic and emotional slant. You wouldn't believe some of the guesses I have gotten for some of my shots (it seems no one EVER reads the captions). One unnamed Lurker guessed that Ice Crystal was an, erm, appendage of an Ice Elemental. <_<
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Munkay: I certainly hope you were not involved with coordinating the monkey attack. You and your kind...
Anyway, thank you very much for the compliment. I used a Nikon Coolpix 4500 for all the pictures on my website. Hopefully within a few months I will be able to upgrade to a Nikon D70 (having an SLR with easy manual focus will be like dying and going to heaven after the 4500).
Yes, the thumbnails are the same. Thanks for pointing that out! I will fix that pronto. Currently I am writing a content management system in PHP to handle all that stuff. No more Zip errors :)
Edit: Spelling, grammar, and I am dumb
You have also hit my head on the nail. I do like macro shots, probably more than is healthy. When I was a tot I used to read a kids magazine called Highlights. In some issues it would have several macro pictures and you were supposed to guess what they were. In a way, I think I am trying to reproduce that but with a more artistic and emotional slant. You wouldn't believe some of the guesses I have gotten for some of my shots (it seems no one EVER reads the captions). One unnamed Lurker guessed that Ice Crystal was an, erm, appendage of an Ice Elemental. <_<
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Munkay: I certainly hope you were not involved with coordinating the monkey attack. You and your kind...
Anyway, thank you very much for the compliment. I used a Nikon Coolpix 4500 for all the pictures on my website. Hopefully within a few months I will be able to upgrade to a Nikon D70 (having an SLR with easy manual focus will be like dying and going to heaven after the 4500).
Yes, the thumbnails are the same. Thanks for pointing that out! I will fix that pronto. Currently I am writing a content management system in PHP to handle all that stuff. No more Zip errors :)
Edit: Spelling, grammar, and I am dumb
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