That is very impressive. Many thanks for sharing it on here.

I was taught “When tights come down, you might get lucky”.

I wonder if our geology teacher was a bit of a perve?

P.s. I think what we call “tights” in English is what Americans call “pantyhose”.

Minion: “Sir, we’ve got you this box of dietary supplements which should help with your… digestive issues”

Trump: *takes box and starts to loosen belt*

Minion: Sir, you’re meant to open the box and take the sachets out, they’re for adding to your food, sir"

Trump: “Who’s the President?”

Minion: “You are, sir”

Trump: “I’m President, so I know how to use these”

Minion: “Yes, sir, putting the whole box down the back of your pants is definitely the correct way to use them, sir”

Yeah but it’s going to be awesome and fully worth it :)

As of January 2025, in Britain, Mar-a-Lago was renamed “Gulf of Paedophiles”.

You really can do it - but it’s hard to not be disheartened from a rejection letter - but in the long run, it’s a lot better to apply for things and get rejected from some, than to not apply at all out of fear.

For example, if you apply to 10 exhibitions and get rejected from 9, you get hurt 9 times, but your work actually gets exhibited at an exhibition.

If you apply to 0 exhibitions because you’re scared, you get hurt 0 times, but also have 0 exhibitions.

Anyway, everyone gets rejection letters. You’re in good company:

Here’s some rejection letters to Sylvia Plath, Kurt Vonnegut and Andy Warhol: openculture.com - rejection letters

They look ace. Really nicely framed as well :)

Sorry to hear you didn’t get into this one. Don’t lose confidence over it though - it just means one selector from one exhibition one year didn’t pick them.

These are still really strong works amd definitely worth exhibiting.

You should be sending them off to as many open call exhibitions as your self-esteem and bank balance will allow.

Keep an eye out especially for any exhibitions opportunities with themes or subgenres which this work matches - if there was an exhibition looking at toys, imaginary worlds, miniature worlds, Japanese culture etc, you’d have far better odds than a fully “open” exhibition, where there’s landscape, portrait and nature photography as well - and the selectors may only like a particular genre.

These are definitely good enough to exhibit publicly.

Yeah, that sounds familiar to me too.

Pretty much - you put moss in a blender first, then mix it with yoghurt, then paint it on stuff, then assuming it’s the right kind of moss for that environment, it will grow into new moss, in the shape of what you painted.

It depends exactly how you’re sharing things - I use “pCloud” for online storage, which allows sharing links to files and folders.

You can either share folders of things which can be previewed/downloaded within the pcloud website, or put them in the “public folder” which should allow direct linking to the files. It has no comments/social media style stuff tacked on - just files.

Their servers are in Switzerland, and they are considered to have good privacy.

However, they’re not open and it does cost money.

You can pay a one-off payment instead of monthly etc, if that makes a difference. I think when I got mine it was something like £200 for 2TB permanently, though that was quite some years ago now.

Note that they appear to be in a perpetual state of “special offer! 50% off!”, though the discount varies, I think it’s probably never “full price” - but if they’re presenting the price as “unmissable, limited time only”, I assure that it is “missable”.

That’s sounds weird to me. In the UK we pronounce it like “glearn”, but with a silent “g”.

Back in my teenage years, when you used to change TV channel by walking over to the TV and physically pressing a button, myself and two friends (likely all a bit stoned), sat on a sofa opposite the TV, invented a ~3 metre long “TV prodding device” from gaffer tape and “anything we could find within arm’s reach”.

I think we spent about half an hour building this device, rather than any of us standing up, taking a few steps forward and physically pressing the button.

The device succeeded.

It fell apart after a few uses.

Exterior building Painter final boss

There’s a bit of missing punctuation, perhaps - Epstein’s banker’s daughter.

The daughter of one of the people who dealt with Epstein’s finances.

Now you’ve both got wood.

You should absolutely go for this, and don’t let yourself be disheartened if it doesn’t work out this time or in this specific opportunity - that competition is open to “all photographers on the planet Earth”, and from those submissions, will select a couple of hundred finalists. Those are pretty hard numbers to work with (for both the submitters and selectors).

Framing rejection letters is a pretty good way to let yourself laugh at it if it doesn’t work out.

Remember that you’ve got some interesting, fun and beautifully shot photographs, and that there’s many similar opportunities around - which you should also go for, regardless of how well this particular one goes :)

Are you trying to upset Captain Picard?

If you want a quick fix before reframing, you should be able to fit some small angle plates (screwfix - angle plates) to the corners for a bit of reinforcement. I’d suggest doing the other corners in the same way.

You can put a little sticky felt bumper pad on the back if you want to avoid the edges of the metal scratching the wall.

Younger than most Lemmy users?