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Yappy


Yappy
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Copyright: Silke Force (Silke) Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 2853 W: 255 N: 5966] (23647)
Genre: Places
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2004-08-23
Categories: Humorous, Architecture, Artwork
Exposure: f/4
More Photo Info: [view]
Photo Version: Original Version, Workshop
Theme(s): Hallowe'en, Gargoyles & Grotesques [view contributor(s)]
Date Submitted: 2006-10-24 3:48
Viewed: 566
Points: 16
[Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note
Hey you! What are YOU doing here? I thought my friends told you that we don’t WANT to be noticed. We do a good job keeping evil spirits away from the doors and water away from the walls.
And these walls need a lot of protection, let me tell you!
From the earliest days of Christ Church Cathedral, it has had trouble staying upright! When it was only 60 years old, the steeple was leaning four feet to the south because the ground under us was actually too soft. It looked as if we were going to be living on “The Leaning Tower of Montreal” for a while there. In 1987, thirty-three hollow cylindrical steel piles were driven down 45-50 feet below ground into the bedrock around the Cathedral walls and under the central tower. The whole church looked as if it were standing on stilts for a few months. And then that was all filled in again, not with earth but with two storeys of retail shopping malls! Imagine that!
With all of that going on under the ground, we have our paws full up here keeping the building safe! So, please. Go away and let us get back to our jobs, or else I will get my bulldog cousin after you! If you look in the workshop, you'll discover that he lives directly below me on this wall, so you know I can get his help if I want it!
Now tell Silke that I don’t care that she used a Sony Mavica, on loan from McGill, or that she cropped the original photo by about 10%, resized it, framed, sharpened it, and reduced the sharpen tool by 50%.
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To PierreFrigon: runny noseSilke 1 10-24 12:41
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Hello Silke.
Thanks for the story. Nice reading it. Nice looking picture too.
Jan

Now be nice or I'll get Jonas on your case.
I like the picture with the icicle in the WS.
Looks like he had one hell of a runny nose ;-)
Well done
Pierre

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  • Emma Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 1397 W: 6 N: 1920] (10153)
  • [2006-10-24 11:13]

Hallo Silke,
hey Du, hörst Du nicht oder was, soll ich Dir noch mehr Zähne zeigen? ein fantastisches Bild von der Figur und eine klasse Geschichte die Du uns hier erzählst, gratuliere sie ist super.
Schöne Grüsse
Eva

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  • jan515 Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 2529 W: 56 N: 3945] (17752)
  • [2006-10-24 11:37]

Hallo Silke,
Deine Serie ist fantastisch, sie gefällt mir sehr, und Deine Geschichten die Du zu den Fotos schreibst sind klasse ein super Bild mit guten Farben und Details, gratuliere.
Schöne Grüsse
Janusz

Hi Silke
This guy looks mad, the one in the workshop actualy looks scarred of something, did you have something to do with that? I like Pierre comment about the runny nose, the worst I think he about to release that icycle on to someone. Good informative notes and excellent portrait of Yappy. TFS

Paul

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  • juanjo Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 437 W: 53 N: 58] (3367)
  • [2006-10-24 16:22]

Hello Silke

very good photo of this striking sculpture, plenty of details with a good POV and sharpness
and special texture

may be you should focus on the head of the beast

nice explanation too

regards

jjo

Do I have a lot to catch up to, Silke, so I start with this one: the whole series is just super! I love Gargoyles, since they look something like me in the morning! Your pic in the WS is too funny, and I like Pierres's comment on it.
Great note - hope the building is stable now, but again, the leaning tower of pisa lists worse than that and stood for hundreds of years!
Cheers
Otto

Hello Silke,
Good textures and detail in this architectural shot!
Well framed, and with a nice story to go with it!
Greetings,
Pablo -

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