Well, I didn't have much time to work on my IRTC entry for this round (I
expected to... but, as is the way with life, things came up, and I ended up
having far more to do than I ever could have expected :) but I decided to
enter my image in anyway.  It came out alright, there are about 50 billion
things that I wanted to do with it but didn't get around to... (or my
computer simply couldn't handle for that matter!)  This is my second entry
in to the IRTC Stills competition and I think this image is a vast
improvement over my first image (lbsetup.jpg if anyone wants a laugh ;)

I finally decided on the name "Anastasia's Nightmare", and while I tried to
make the image visually contrasting, most of the real contrasts are in the
themes of the image (Natural/Artificial, Life/Death, Heavens/Earth,
Polluted/Clean).

Anyway, enough about me, hehe, how did everyone else go?  :)

I think this will be visually a great round, I can't wait to see what
everyone else did!  :)

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Lance Birch wrote:
> 
> Anyway, enough about me, hehe, how did everyone else go?  :)

I clocked a lot of hours in the first two weeks of November, but then
Life hit me and almost could not touch it for a full month.  I started
working on it again in mid December and, last week, I was litterally
coming in the office late because I was doing last minute tweaks and
starting a render before leaving for work.  (That's ok, there was hardly
anyone working anyways).

I gave up around lunch time yesterday and submitted mine even though
there were still things I was not pleased with.  Any more work on it and
my girlfriend would have had to put me in a straightjacket.

Since this is my first entry, here's a question to the others:  Is it
always like that?

> I think this will be visually a great round, I can't wait to see what
> everyone else did!  :)

Same here.

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Francois Labreque wrote:
> I gave up around lunch time yesterday and submitted mine even though
> there were still things I was not pleased with.  Any more work on it and
> my girlfriend would have had to put me in a straightjacket.

LOL, I think I would have put *myself* in a straightjacket, hehe.  We just
celebrated New Years (and of course the new millennium, hehe ;) and to get
down to the beach in time, I literally just compressed the JPEG, went to the
web submission page, entered the files and pressed the submit button,
leaving out the door hoping it would submit by the time I got back!  :)

> Since this is my first entry, here's a question to the others:  Is it
> always like that?

From experience with my first stills entry, my only animation entry, and the
entry for this round, yes :)  I think that's supposed to be the "fun" of it
;)

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Lance Birch wrote:
> Since this is my first entry, here's a question to the others:  Is it

> > always like that?
>
> From experience with my first stills entry, my only animation entry, and the
> entry for this round, yes :)  I think that's supposed to be the "fun" of it
> ;)

Yes, it is always like that :)
For some reason, people seem to want to punish themselves.  Athletes ignore
doctors warnings and compete when injured, book worms burn dinner because they
have to finish "one last page", and POV artists are always going for one last
render :)  For my part, though, I set an artificial limit of 2 days *before* the
official deadline.  (I don't want any last-minute submission problems).  In a
way, though, it makes it worse, because then I have two *more* days of sitting
and waiting, which is almost as bad for my nerves as uploading the file on New
Years Eve!
...Chambers

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On Sun, 31 Dec 2000 09:33:54 -0800, Ben Chambers wrote:

>Yes, it is always like that :)
>For some reason, people seem to want to punish themselves.  Athletes ignore
>doctors warnings and compete when injured, book worms burn dinner because they
>have to finish "one last page", and POV artists are always going for one last
>render :)  For my part, though, I set an artificial limit of 2 days *before* the
>official deadline.  (I don't want any last-minute submission problems).  In a
>way, though, it makes it worse, because then I have two *more* days of sitting
>and waiting, which is almost as bad for my nerves as uploading the file on New
>Years Eve!

There are special support groups for people who punish themselves like this.
And you need one. 

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>
> always like that?
>

Yep,  Mine is a pretty quick, off-the-cuff effort, decided to enter it late
last night and thus was waiting for a final render, pacing around the
upstairs bedroom, and watching from the gabled window as the father-in-law
staggered around in two feet of snow, setting off fireworks in the backyard.

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Francois Labreque <fla### [at] videotronca> wrote:

> Since this is my first entry, here's a question to the others:  Is it
> always like that?

Mostly, yeah.  I am *never* completely satisfied with my entries either. 
Part of the time limit thing, I think, and also burn out on the image.

Geoff

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