Be Excellent To Each Other

We like nice things to look at & we like going off on weird tangents, so why don't we play with a vague theme & see what happens next.

Rules?

1. It's not a competition. You're only challenging yourselves & I won't be picking a winner.
2. Use what you've got. Your ideas & execution are more important than how good your gear is.
3. Lurkers will be frowned at, join in.
4. Funny/clever titles are encouraged.
5. Advice giving & asking for help is encouraged too. Some folk are better/more knowledgeable than others, share ideas.
6. You can tell people about this. It's not Fight club, if you know someone who'd like it let them know. After all the original photo challenge was one of the reasons I stuck around, it was something to be a part of while I got a feel for you lot
7. Really there are no rules, just try & stick with the theme.


The first theme is OOT THE WINDAE (out the window). You've got till the end of the month to have fun with this one. GO! GO! GO!

Did my wife pay you to come up with this to make me clean the windows?

It's deliberately ambiguous, read it how you like

Spooky - I took this last week.

That's excellent!

Is it worth anyone else entering now?

Utterly lovely, Trousers

Jeepers, Trousers! Make things hard for us why don't you?!

By coincidence, I watched 'Rear Window' with Jimmy Stewart for the first time this evening, so I'm up for this!

I'm pretty sure the girl is looking in through the window, not out...

The dog has eyes too /\1ß3®t, dur.

And the viewer is looking out through the window as well, dur, dur!

Funnily enough it was just the dog looking out when I thought about taking the pic. The wife was just saying goodbye to her folks out on the drive and the dog was staring out looking a bit melancholy.

Then by the time I got the camera out there was a new face at the window and the tone of the picture completely changed.

Great timing. You couldn't set that up.

You should probably get some bars put on that window, don't you know those things will leap through a normal glass window like the blood-crazed natural born killers they are, lead flashing and a nice blind arne't enough to contain nature's death-machines.

I mean, yeah, they look sweet and all with the blonde hair and blue eyes and playful nature... but they are just waiting, poised to KILL.

In the interest of keeping the thread alive and before I forget to submit anything before my hols, here's my take on "Oot teh Windae". Apologies for using a BeeXlet, I know how disgusting some of you lot find kids.

Since she's holding a duster I'm guessing that was the windae oot the windae. Did the bairn draw it herself or did you "help"?

I had a wee play around with long exposures last night, 60 seconds was about right so that'll be "A minute oot the windae" then.

Yeah it's my window out the window. There's another up on Flickr where she's holding the chalk up like she's making the finishing touches.

You sure it was a long exposure and not the lights from dealers Scoobies, Wullie?

So we now have a grand total of 3 pics... Come on you shutter bugs, pull your fingers out.

I kept trying to get a good picture today and being distracted by other things. I'll keep trying though!

Damn you both. Your chalkboard one will take some topping Zardoz.

Here's one from me. I'm hoping I can get a better effort on an expedition tomorrow...



Fly Wants In

Thanks Pete. I did have a shot through my windscreen looking up at a wiper and a lamp post that looked warped due to water drops that I was going to submit. (Can we post multiples as it's not a compo, Wullie?)

Fuck yeah, go for it

Who's that weird guy looking over the fence, Wullie?

I think he's meant to be Buddha (it was in the flat when I moved in).

Here's some windaes that I saw when I drank too much coffee while waiting on Gav shifting his arse. If you could see through my fingers & some rooftops you'd see Hampden. (We finally got away slightly later than planned)
& here's my trip home at a sensible time oot the windae.(We followed these buggers for a mile or so before they decided to block the road & get on a low-loader, this took half an hour or so. Then we got stuck behind the low-loader for several miles until we hit a straight bit & they waved us past, another 20 odd mins)
Check out that lovely bird shite smeared all over the windscreen too. I would've got out but we were stopped in that wee dark damp corner (perfect midge country!)

What way did you drive home?!

I really like the one on your flickr as well, looking out of the wee yellow house when she is running past with the cup. It's lovely.

Meanwhile..

Looking out the "windae" of the first ever Tesla in Scotland at the second ever Tesla in Scotland.

Dull photo otherwise, admittedly.

What are you holding up on the windaes pic Wullie? Is it cut glass?

Thanks Gill, almost used that one.

Exotic and historic, Kalmar.

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See also.


@Zardoz It's one of those lightcatcher things, either glass or crystal, I'm not sure which.

Ah, I thought you had been in Glasgow all day, forgot you were off galavanting.

Clicky for Biggy

Ooh, I like that. I imagine the iPod looking out going "aaaaall this is miiiiine".

My entry!

Yes I'm boring!

That's a lot of icons

That's about the same as I've got at the moment - and that was from a tidy-up last week. I'm terrible for saving everything to the desktop and then sorting it out later, usually when I've forgotten what the file was for.

My XP desktop was always like that, because the "Save As" common control dialogue only had "Desktop" and "Recently Used" as quick links and I'm lazy. In Vista and 7, "Documents" and the libraries are in there, so now my desktop is much cleaner.

I went to see someone the other day and there literally wasn't a single space on their desktop for any more icons. They'd even turned off the snap to a grid thing so that they could overlap them to fit more in.

That is awesome! Sadly I just need to delete most of them. I start so many things that don't get finished and never get around to deleting the stuff.

*puts on his best Larndan chavvy slapper accent*

AAAART DA WINDAR

Yes they are Morris dancers and yes they are highly fucking annoying slapping jingly and clacking away with their accordions

They are not Morris dancers as there are wimmins there and that makes them not Morris Dancers as Morris dancers don't have wimmins in them.

Well whatever they are they're fuckin noisy. Cool though, but noisy.

I was a Morris Dancer one, you know. It is jolly good fun.

Yeah it definitely looks a whole load of fun. I quite like the accordion too.

It sure beats Craig David being blasted out any way

There's only a 22 hour hour window to get the last of your pictures in before we start the next theme

I took this one while being chauffeur driven to the beer shop the day that Gill passed her test.

My Entry!

Unfortunately I could not get my camera phone to focus on the moth



Malc

I am so paying the £25 to be passenger in one of those this year @ Goodwood.

I wasn't aware I was taking it to Goodwood.

For some reason moths freak me out a bit

Also, the fuckers have been eating my kilt which still lives at my maw's house It's off to the dry cleaners tomorrow to kill the bastards.

first photo i took when i got my phone.