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August 22, 2007

Double My Fame!


Yep, that's right; one of my photos is going to be featured (AGAIN - woohoo!) on the KVII News at Five and is featured on their website home page. (also in the community section archives)

I'm nearly famous, huh?

When you submit a photo, you can also submit a caption and it is read by the news anchor doing the photo of the day commentary. I put this with the pic:

Groom Cross through a thin thicket of thistles thirsting for last Thursday's thunderstorm

If they can read that without stumbling, then they're probably ready for a larger market, maybe even Des Moines.

The way I got it figured, if I can get them to publish 58 more pictures, I'll have my fifteen minutes of fame in fifteen second increments.

6 comments:

Mike said...

They JUST had it on, I am so chuffed.

Not that they published my photo, but that the anchor mentioned my alliteration.

I'm an alliteratin' fool.

Barb said...

Way to go!

Mike said...

I sent another one, the pic of the windmill in Miami. I've still got goats to send and I've not busted a grape on the horse/mule pics. I sent the grinning horse in, but they ignored it. I can't believe that, that's one of the best photos of the lot!

Denise * KKL Primitives said...

Awesome Mike! Congrats!

garazon said...

Way to go you alliteratin' fool! lol But it's nice too to have your photos selected! You should submit some of them to Panoramio too! I'm sure you're familiar with them if you use Google earth. They have a layer on the program that maps photos from places around the world. I had a look at Groom and the surrounding area. There are a few already of the cross, but there is only one so far been posted of any of the statues and none of the Angel at all, well last time I looked anyway. I did see the leaning tower too had been posted, but other than that there isn't a lot from the top of Texas at all, same here in my area, so the are is wide open as far as getting there first so to speak. When Alison was here we took trip to my hometown of Edenton, NC which is really a quite historic little town. Well I couldn't believe there wasn't a single picture posted at all from there, so I created an account and uploaded a few I had, and placed them on the map for submission. Well sometimes it takes a couple of months for them to go through all that have been posted to select the ones they are going to use as they have to look at each one and make sure it follows their guidelines, but in this last update I had 6 that were selected and are now showing up on Google earth!(you have to have the"Geographic Web" layer visible though) Ok it's not as much fame as a TV promo, but it is nice to see your work selected. And you have some really great photos from there in your area. Well really the whole of the US is lacking in pics except for the really hot tourist spots, but I like to go to these out of the way places and small towns and see what it looks like too. It's funny as I have probably been to Cyprus a thousand times now and seem so familiar with it I could probably find my way around! Well enough to find Alison! ;) lol

Oh while I'm on the google earth subject, when I was viewing your area and nearby places I wanted to ask you what those "circles and pac-man" looking things are on the terrain? lol looks to be either some form of farming, or maybe some type of mining? Oh I have no clue, probably something obvious I'm missing.. I do that a lot! lol

Hey wanted to say I loved the Angel post. That really is a magnificent shot, the one I said I liked earlier. I'd have it on my desktop, if I didn't already have my beautiful Cyprus Angel already there! :)

love ya dude

G

Mike said...

I doubt they have many submissions, to be honest. Still, they probably get a lot from people who are pretty good photogs, but can't keep putting their pics on each and every day.

That's the reason I'm thinkin' they're not posting all of mine, anyway. *wink*

I wasn't familiar with that Panoramio, but have the GoogleEarth software. I haven't used it much except to goof around and then I put a post in about touring NYC when my sisters and their families visited there this last summer.

The circles are pivot irrigation systems; I've got some far-off photos of them, think they're under "sunrise sprinklers" or something like that. I don't think the reply feature allows for hyperlinks, sorry. (never have made them work, anyway)

I'm not so sure they're really efficient; think it depends on how they're used. The wind blows here so much I think that much of what gets sprayed goes up in evaporation. I don't think flood irrigation was much better; believe it wasted water, but I'm not an irrigation hydrologist.

There's a family who has a farm on the old road out to where I grew up and they don't do as many of the other farmers do and just "waste" the corners of the field but plant veggies in them.

I was out that way not long ago and some farmers are growing some sort of feed (haygrazer, milo, not for sure) and it sure looks good, some of the stalks are eight foot tall.

I've got a funny story, a good "revenge is sweet" type thing about those pivot systems.

Thanks for posting, love ya too!