oh em gee. did you go out and shoot a picture?

Ana,
You last remark appears, to me, to be spiteful and/or mean spirited. Did you intend it to be? If so, then it is hypocritical behavior on your part.

Nope, sincere question, King.
Nothing but sincerity and seriousness from Miss Ana.

Ana,
Then it is an igorant question as five of my featured images were shot especially for the theme and many of the non-featured images as well, including four out of the five I have submitted prior to this one.

You are being disingenuous, in my opinion, and obviously so.

Am I being defensive? Sure. I don't appreciate snide remarks any more than anyone else. I have gone out of my way to be supportive of you in the past, but you are becoming irritating from my point of view.

sbuzz,

This is pretty much how the Kodachrome slide looks. I was impressed with the ferocity of the sunset and that's why I stopped my car to take the photo.

Thanks for your comment.

I can't remember at the moment, but this may have been taken after the eruption of Mount St. Helens...when sunsets like this were not uncommon in Texas.

Just posted by Ana on the W.S. Google group, and copied here in support of my argument that Miss Ana is being disingenuous:

"I've been zipping my lips for weeks because of you, your ranting, your whining, your posting of your shots and begging for ratings.

You (of all the people here) have been the most mean to me, and now you're calling ME on it?

Quit complaining and learn. "

You've been supportive to ME?? I'm not in the mood to go searching around this site for all the times you've been rude, mean, downright infantile and crude to me.

The sad thing is, I actually liked and respected you. But you've drug yourself down into the same place that Andrew is standing. It's a place in which this is all important (raings and features) when the reality is...it's just not.

I tried to work this out with you in private, but you not only ignored my emails, but made a point of them in public. That shot your intergity down from the low 3 it was already at, down to a 0.

Like I said, I don't do tricks.

If that comment I made was from [insert croanie name], you would have giggled and laughed and had a grand old time talking about the history of your shot.

I give up trying to fix this, King.

What an insult to Andrew (psychodudu)!

The last e-mail I got from you told me that you didn't want to hear from me again (approximately what you said last, above), so I didn't write back. Before that, you had sent me 72 e-mails beginning shortly after I joined W.S. Shall we go into an open history of that correspondence?

You are so angry and insulting and I am certainly a big and convenient target. I find it easier to communicate with you when you are being openly hostile and vindictive, so I encourage you to keep it up.

That you don't like me is one thing. For me to be so important in your life, and the roller coaster relationship you seem to desire, is not something that I desire in return.

What are you going to do if I don't either go away or comply with your rules for how folks should behave on WeeklyShot?

For you to lecture me is absurd.

I'm sorry for that second comment. It was meant as an honest tickle at you.

I stand by what I said in my first comment..it's a great shot that really tilted the theme a bit. I like it a lot.

again, I'm sorry.

It sounds like a domestique dispute between lovers... now, go ahead, kiss each other.

kiss, kiss.

How perceptive you are, philippe. Ana and I have had our ups and downs. On some level, we respect and admire each other. On another, there's some kind of sibling-like rivaly that drives us to make petty remarks.

Ana,

Okay. I'm tickled that you explained your second comment and I still appreciate your first comment.

Folks,

Would anyone like to join me in a conversation about one of these topics?:
1. Going "out" to find and shoot images for a theme as opposed to posting a shot from one's archives;
2. Creating images, such as in a studio or via montages or composites, as opposed to finding shots and capturing them exquisitely (i.e., the "good eye" combined with high technical competence); or
3. How to make jokes on W.S. that cannot possibly be misinterpreted. LOL!

Everything is fun.

jfka

Merci beaucoup!