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Conjoined Twins: Our Neighborhood Scandal!
Conjoined Twins: Our Neighborhood Scandal!
klstover


Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: The Hidden City (Basic Editing)
Camera: Panasonic DMC-FZ8
Location: Calgary, Alberta
Date: Dec 20, 2007
Aperture: f/4
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/250
Galleries: Nature, Animals
Date Uploaded: Dec 21, 2007

 This was literally taken in my backyard. I live in a house in the suburbs and the most amazing thing is that since I've been here I keep seeing deer in the yards.

I think it fits the challenge well enough...
It doesn't say "city" but the description does include towns. And it doesn't really look like a zoo, does it? Since there are deck chairs and the like in the background...

Okay, I'll admit it! It was a snapshot that I just so happened to take during the challenge. I wouldn't have submitted unless I thought it fit, but I will say I was certainly not thinking along these lines when I saw the description and would have loved to take a different type of shot altogether had I had the time and, most importantly, the energy.

I will stop rambling now. ;-)

Compression just killed all the detail in the grass and the texture of the deer and it kind of looks now like I applied some color pencil filter to it or something. Oh well.

post-challenge reply:
Sorry, I didn't mean to be insensitive with the title. I wasn't trying to be funny but I see it seemed like I was.
Took 83 captures and this one unfortunately was the best for the challenge... Well, maybe next time :-D

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 01/02/2008 01:35:04 PM
the truth is that everything is real enough that we shouldn't laugh at anything!

Perhaps when you are as old and wise as some photographers you'll stop laughing and perhaps smiling all together!

o brother!

The nice thing about deer becoming so acclimated to man is that we can get really close and take great photos now!

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etc. So now I'm looking forward to seeing more of these from you too! :-)

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 01/02/2008 02:03:51 AM
Well I thought I pretty interesting take on the challenge. I wasn't offended by the title, though I did think it was kinda funny. Made me smile, anyway! Nice that you have such lovely visitors.
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 01/02/2008 12:40:29 AM
hehe great title. I do find it amazing that the deer are just hanging out in the neighborhood like this. Here, they keep getting moved out of their area because the trees are all being torn down to make way for project homes that no one really will care for. Lovely isn't it?

Funny catch - I like it!
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
12/30/2007 08:15:34 PM
Pausing for a moment or two for these beautiful animals to move might have yielded a nice shot of two deer in an urban/surburban setting. Although they overlap in this image, the title is an awkward stretch and unfortunately not funny. Perhaps I should not be so literal, but the truth is that congenital deformities are real enough to not be a laughing matter.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 12/29/2007 03:05:59 PM
not real
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 12/29/2007 01:08:49 PM
Just isn't working for me.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 12/26/2007 08:00:42 PM
Comedy take on the subject!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 12/26/2007 06:59:14 PM
O, Deer! :}:} LOL!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 12/26/2007 04:54:39 PM
Another shoehorned entry
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 12/26/2007 01:23:57 PM
Technically, several overexposed areas and busy background. Subject is not appealing either.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 12/26/2007 12:43:32 PM
at least it's not the other end LOL
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 12/26/2007 03:53:01 AM
Hmmmm. Dont really know what to say about this shot. Interesting, but the main subjects face is way overexposed
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