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Photos, Graphics & More => Photo Challenges => Topic started by: Jeanne Lee on March 05, 2017, 04:46:18 PM

Poll
Question: NOT VOTING YET
Option 1: "Queen Nefertiti" by Chia
Option 2: "Handbags" by SnowWitch
Option 3: "All that is left" by Jackwv
Option 4: "Eskimo Birds" by PatH2
Option 5: "Books" by so_P_bubble
Option 6: "Chocolate" by    so_P_bubble
Option 7: "irvory" by  so_P_bubble
Option 8: "Masks" by  so_P_bubble
Option 9: "Duncan Miller Swans" by FlaJean
Title: Mini Challenge #83~COLLECTIONS
Post by: Jeanne Lee on March 05, 2017, 04:46:18 PM
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Here's our

Eighty-Third  Challenge for you all

suggested by junee who won the last Challenge.




"COLLECTIONS"


Details:   


  • From junee:  "could be anything such as thimbles,spoons,netsuke,china......"   


  • Use the attachment feature to show your photos in your post or link to them from your gallery or an offsite location that allows linking using the image codes.  If you have trouble, please contact a moderator (name in blue) or an administrator (name in red) and we'll help you post your photo.  If you have your photo in your gallery, please don't use the attachment feature as that puts the photo on our server twice but rather link to it.    


  • Please upload up to 4 entries per member for this challenge.    


  • If you possibly can, please tell us the camera you used to take your photo and when you took it.  But if you don't know, please post the picture anyway.  We want to see your photos.  :)  Please only enter photos taken by you.    


  • The challenge is open now and will be locked to uploads on Sunday, March 19th, 2017 and then we'll vote on them.    


  • Please put a title in your post for your photos.  We need the title for the poll.   


  • Please post only one entry per post/message. 


  • Of course, we're going to see who is posting the photos so this is not an anonymous challenge.  So start posting.  Click on the "Reply" button below and start this challenge!
    Remember, this is a fun project!
       


Thanks to junee for suggesting this topic.  She was the winner of our last Challenge entitled "HEIRLOOM/KEEPSAKE APPAREL AND JEWELRY".  Thanks junee!

Title: Re: Mini Challenge #83~COLLECTIONS
Post by: angelface555 on March 05, 2017, 05:10:05 PM
Thank you, Junee and thanks Jeanne Lee. This will be an interesting challenge!
Title: Re: Mini Challenge #83~COLLECTIONS
Post by: June Drabek on March 06, 2017, 08:36:08 PM
I eagerly await postings...so far I can't find my way in.
Title: Re: Mini Challenge #83~COLLECTIONS
Post by: jackwv on March 07, 2017, 08:37:42 PM
Should be interesting.  Just checking in.
Title: Re: Mini Challenge #83~COLLECTIONS
Post by: Chia on March 08, 2017, 09:07:57 PM

Queen Nefertiti

(http://i826.photobucket.com/albums/zz181/domas_bucket/IMG_0124_zpsgtuxbfls.jpg)
Title: Re: Mini Challenge #83~COLLECTIONS
Post by: Chia on March 08, 2017, 09:16:14 PM
This is the head of Queen Nefertiti who ruled Egypt alongside her husband The Pharaoh during the 14th century BC..My Mother had it for many years getting it from a now defunct store, Brentano's in N.Y.and passed it on to me..It has a few nicks here and there, but in my eyes has not diminished its beauty over the years.
I took the picture with my Iphone model SE..
Nefertiti means "a beautiful woman has come" and aptly named...
Title: Re: Mini Challenge #83~COLLECTIONS
Post by: PatH2 on March 10, 2017, 07:34:03 PM
Aptly named indeed, Chia.  Thanks for sharing.  Her beauty is timeless.
Title: Re: Mini Challenge #83~COLLECTIONS
Post by: SnowWitch on March 18, 2017, 09:54:59 PM

Handbags

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v28/SnowWitch/15c16b51-2b76-4dfc-bf68-48117f745283_zpsencevvcv.jpg)

Panasonic Lumix FZ70
Title: Re: Mini Challenge #83~COLLECTIONS
Post by: SnowWitch on March 18, 2017, 09:56:57 PM
I've been collecting handbags for years.....I finally decided I must thin them out soon. (They are in a bit of a mess) trish
Title: Re: Mini Challenge #83~COLLECTIONS
Post by: Marilyne on March 20, 2017, 10:54:46 AM
SnowWitch:  Yay . . . Vera Bradley!  I can't resist those beautiful patterns.  Yesterday I ordered a Scottie Dog messenger bag!
Title: Re: Mini Challenge #83~COLLECTIONS
Post by: jackwv on March 20, 2017, 06:03:24 PM

All that is left

(http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z28/Jackwv/to%20post_zpsuvvwct3m.jpg)

               Panasonic Lumix
Title: Re: Mini Challenge #83~COLLECTIONS
Post by: jackwv on March 20, 2017, 06:05:40 PM
Have been downsizing for 19 years.  Just a few remaining piece, including a 12 piece china set, not used for years.  Every visit I give my daughter something to take home. 
Title: Re: Mini Challenge #83~COLLECTIONS
Post by: June Drabek on March 20, 2017, 08:03:28 PM
Jack, I have given away almost everything of value, and it gave me a feeling of freedom. I have a few pieces of Hummel that were gifts but they are there for the taking if someone in the family shows an interest. I'm glad you have a daughter that would appreciate your things.
Title: Re: Mini Challenge #83~COLLECTIONS
Post by: PatH2 on March 20, 2017, 09:51:47 PM
Are we locked to uploads already? if not, I have something I could work up tomorrow.
Title: Re: Mini Challenge #83~COLLECTIONS
Post by: junee on March 21, 2017, 05:24:28 AM
Was pleased to see some entries as was afraid I had made a bad choice.
PatH2 do not think it has closed.  Hope not.
Title: Re: Mini Challenge #83~COLLECTIONS
Post by: Vanilla-Jackie on March 21, 2017, 06:08:50 AM
Just wish I could participate but...the only collection I have now is of, collecting dust... :D

...Jack.....just spotted your Teddy Bear sitting proudly in the centre... :)

...SnowWitch.....quite a collection of colourful handbags, if it was mine, I wouldn't know which ones to keep nor the ones to get rid of...

...Chia.....do you also have " The Pharaoh? " as for Nefertiti, she is beautiful...
Title: Re: Mini Challenge #83~COLLECTIONS
Post by: PatH2 on March 22, 2017, 02:05:01 PM

Eskimo Birds

(http://i239.photobucket.com/albums/ff125/PatriciaFHighet/IMG_0803%20eskimo%20birds.jpg) (http://s239.photobucket.com/user/PatriciaFHighet/media/IMG_0803%20eskimo%20birds.jpg.html)

iPhone6
Title: Re: Mini Challenge #83~COLLECTIONS
Post by: PatH2 on March 22, 2017, 02:09:41 PM
And a couple of seals.  They're about as big as your hand, and very smooth and pleasant to hold.
Title: Re: Mini Challenge #83~COLLECTIONS
Post by: angelface555 on March 22, 2017, 02:20:53 PM
PatH2, you have lovely Northern soapstone pieces. The talc amount in soapstone gives it that soapy feel. The more talc such as in Chinese soapstone which is very soft to the harder, less proportional amount of talc in northern soapstone. I worked in an import/export store for twelve years and we sold a wide variety of soapstone pieces and carvings.
Title: Re: Mini Challenge #83~COLLECTIONS
Post by: PatH2 on March 22, 2017, 02:32:54 PM
So that's why, angelface.  I didn't know what made soapstone feel like that.

There used to be a bookstore/art gallery in D. C. that would have an exhibit of Cape Dorset carvings every year shortly after my birthday, and I would spend my birthday money on them.  They were affordable way back then, probably not so anymore.
Title: Re: Mini Challenge #83~COLLECTIONS
Post by: angelface555 on March 22, 2017, 02:39:12 PM
Unfortunately, I no longer am familiar with many items as the owner died of abdominal cancer in 1993 and his wife sold the stock and closed the business. It was called, Alaska House and Xanadu, a truly magical place in time. Cape Dorset and Alaskan examples

http://capedorset-inuitart.com/

https://www.google.com/search?q=alaskan+soapstone+inuit&rlz=1C1CHBF_enUS736US737&espv=2&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjigMfC4urSAhVGabwKHSQHDeoQsAQIGQ&biw=1366&bih=638
Title: Re: Mini Challenge #83~COLLECTIONS
Post by: PatH2 on March 22, 2017, 04:24:04 PM
Those are nice.  They're more elaborate than mine, but I see I was correct about price increases in the last 50 years.
Title: Re: Mini Challenge #83~COLLECTIONS
Post by: so_P_bubble on March 24, 2017, 04:39:53 AM

Books

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- a passion of mine
Title: Re: Mini Challenge #83~COLLECTIONS
Post by: so_P_bubble on March 24, 2017, 04:41:42 AM

Chocolate

[attachimg=1]


, an addiction.
Title: Re: Mini Challenge #83~COLLECTIONS
Post by: so_P_bubble on March 24, 2017, 04:43:12 AM

Ivory

[attachimg=1]

- memories from my past
Title: Re: Mini Challenge #83~COLLECTIONS
Post by: so_P_bubble on March 24, 2017, 04:46:45 AM

Masks

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-

from different places, some made especially for me by my children when young.
Title: Re: Mini Challenge #83~COLLECTIONS
Post by: Vanilla-Jackie on March 24, 2017, 06:25:39 AM
Bubble, I can help you with your addiction...I can relieve you of one or two bars... :eat:
Title: Re: Mini Challenge #83~COLLECTIONS
Post by: angelface555 on March 24, 2017, 01:26:53 PM
Bubble, very impressive and cosmopolitan. Collections like yours and PatH's give us a window into a person's personality.
Title: Re: Mini Challenge #83~COLLECTIONS
Post by: Shirley on March 25, 2017, 03:46:41 PM
Love the collections!  I have missed a lot lately between a couple rounds of flu and trying to "catch up" with life after each.  Thanks for the ride over on the link, Bubble~  Good job, everybody! 
Title: Re: Mini Challenge #83~COLLECTIONS
Post by: PatH2 on March 25, 2017, 09:25:36 PM
Bubble, after Vanilla-Jackie has relieved you of your excess chocolate, I will be happy to relieve you of your excess books, since we seem to have the same taste in science fiction.  No chance of excess masks, or I would ask for  the man with the spectacles and cigar.
Title: Re: Mini Challenge #83~COLLECTIONS
Post by: so_P_bubble on March 26, 2017, 04:17:55 AM
Shirley, post something! even a collection of cats...

PatH - that man in tarbush comes from Turkey.  He is made from molded stiff leather. He is one of the two I have from that country.
The colored pastel woman is from Venice.
The two facing top ones are from Thailand.
The green malachite one is from Congo'
The Chinese one is made out of a horn
The colorful bottom one is from Sri Lanka.
Title: Re: Mini Challenge #83~COLLECTIONS
Post by: angelface555 on March 26, 2017, 01:27:55 PM
Bubble, I wish I could send you an Alaskan mammoth or mastodon ivory mask or one from whalebone, hair or stone.

http://fishcreekalaska.com/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=118
Title: Re: Mini Challenge #83~COLLECTIONS
Post by: FlaJean on March 28, 2017, 11:24:22 PM

Duncan Miller Swans

(http://i1070.photobucket.com/albums/u493/moorefeller/DSCN0281a_zpsowewwpcl.jpg) (http://s1070.photobucket.com/user/moorefeller/media/DSCN0281a_zpsowewwpcl.jpg.html)
Title: Re: Mini Challenge #83~COLLECTIONS
Post by: FlaJean on March 28, 2017, 11:52:08 PM
I thought the entries were closed on the 19th, but then I read Bubbles note so I posted.  The above is part of my glass collection.
Title: Re: Mini Challenge #83~COLLECTIONS
Post by: so_P_bubble on March 30, 2017, 06:00:15 AM
Angel, your link is not working :(

I love those glass dishes!
Title: Re: Mini Challenge #83~COLLECTIONS
Post by: angelface555 on March 30, 2017, 10:33:15 AM
Hmmmm, it works for me?

My mother had those glass pieces only in lavender. I don't know what became of them as she began to hide many things as her Alzheimers progressed.
Title: Re: Mini Challenge #83~COLLECTIONS
Post by: so_P_bubble on March 30, 2017, 11:05:38 AM
The fishcreekalaska.com page isn’t working

fishcreekalaska.com didn’t send any data.
ERR_EMPTY_RESPONSE

This is what I get...
Title: Re: Mini Challenge #83~COLLECTIONS
Post by: angelface555 on March 30, 2017, 12:23:51 PM
I'm sorry that link isn't working for you. Let me see if I can find another one.

http://www.thealaskahouse.com/2015/06/12/welcome-to-summer-at-the-alaska-house-art-gallery/

http://www.artshopgallery.com/alaskan-ivory-native-crafts/
Title: Re: Mini Challenge #83~COLLECTIONS
Post by: so_P_bubble on March 31, 2017, 08:18:25 AM
Beautiful! The ivory of course are superbly carved and priceless of course;  the baskets are very similar to South African local weaving;  my favorite masks would be those hanging on the window pane.  Are they skin/leather?
Title: Re: Mini Challenge #83~COLLECTIONS
Post by: angelface555 on March 31, 2017, 01:01:03 PM
Bubble, those are moose or caribou hide masks with moose hair trim. The ones looking like dried paper are sealskin and the ivory is mastodon. The only ones allowed by law to work with these materials and to sell them are verified Alaskan Natives.

The baskets are made of birch, brown. Or by whalebone, black; or by seagrass which has to be woven entirely underwater to ensure no grass breaking.
Title: Re: Mini Challenge #83~COLLECTIONS
Post by: Joy on March 31, 2017, 01:49:52 PM
Jean,  I love your beautiful glass swans.   I think pretty glassware, of any kind, are my favorite.  I like pretty china, also, but I think anything glass is still my favorite.

Joy
Title: Re: Mini Challenge #83~COLLECTIONS
Post by: FlaJean on March 31, 2017, 03:29:22 PM
Thanks, Joy.  Most of my glass collections are still packed in boxes in the garage and will probably stay there for the foreseeable future.  :(
Title: Re: Mini Challenge #83~COLLECTIONS
Post by: so_P_bubble on April 01, 2017, 03:50:41 AM
Jean, any more photos of the glass collection?  They are lovely.
Title: Re: Mini Challenge #83~COLLECTIONS
Post by: so_P_bubble on April 01, 2017, 03:54:04 AM
Angel, you mean a private person could not use those materials for his own enjoyment and make masks for his own use? I would have enjoyed trying my hand with moose hide plus hair!  Unfortunately no moose  here!  Maybe camel would be similar but where to get it?
Title: Re: Mini Challenge #83~COLLECTIONS
Post by: angelface555 on April 01, 2017, 09:47:54 AM
There are rules, Alaskan made stickers, illegal use of those stickers, undercover operations and huge fines. You have to be an Alaskan Native to work with the material, carving, etc. or to sell what you have made. You can sell it to those, not of Native origin but they cannot claim it as their work, or sell it commercially themselves.

https://www.culturalsurvival.org/publications/cultural-survival-quarterly/intellectual-property-protection-alaska-native-arts
Title: Re: Mini Challenge #83~COLLECTIONS
Post by: SnowWitch on April 01, 2017, 02:33:08 PM
Quote from: Marilyne on March 20, 2017, 10:54:46 AM
SnowWitch:  Yay . . . Vera Bradley!  I can't resist those beautiful patterns.  Yesterday I ordered a Scottie Dog messenger bag!

Yes, they have been my main handbag collectible since I first discovered them years ago. Of course, I have other favs too.
Title: Re: Mini Challenge #83~COLLECTIONS
Post by: PatH2 on April 01, 2017, 07:56:39 PM
Angel, your link worked for me, and I'm glad to meet the spirit masks.  What is the symbolism of a smaller mask in the eye of the mask?  It sent shivers down my back, and I don't know why.  Is that a place you would order from?  I was tempted.
Title: Re: Mini Challenge #83~COLLECTIONS
Post by: angelface555 on April 01, 2017, 08:20:24 PM
It is a well-known store, but it deals mainly with art from  the Southeastern Alaskan Natives that are different Indian tribes. Up North you have more Aleut and Eskimo people as well as Athabaskan Indian's art in the Interior. There are many serious rules and regulations in the state, see my link in the earlier post. There is a wide, wide variety in Alaskan Native art and I would advise looking at a good representation before purchasing.

https://www.culturalsurvival.org/publications/cultural-survival-quarterly/intellectual-property-protection-alaska-native-arts

Natives believed in animal spirits and often had animal totems or clans that were for one animal or another. Here is the description for that mask and the story behind it.  "The shaman danced...part man, part bear spirit and sang his song to the booming of the drums, the howling of the cold winter winds.

The shaman enacted his unusual encounter with the black bear. There in the forest he had experienced... a humanlike spirit partly concealed behind the bear's dark hair...in the area of the bear's right eye.
Collected by Edward Nelson 1899, Sabotnisky

Hand Carved In Alaska from Black Cottonwood by Dave Hendren.
Trimmed with reindeer fur.

Approx Size from top of bear head to bottom of carving: 5 1/2" inches"
Title: Re: Mini Challenge #83~COLLECTIONS
Post by: junee on April 29, 2017, 11:24:49 PM
Have really enjoyed the entries to Collections .  Just regret that it has finished in this way.
Title: Re: Mini Challenge #83~COLLECTIONS
Post by: alpiner1 on April 30, 2017, 04:06:15 PM
Quote from: junee on April 29, 2017, 11:24:49 PM
Have really enjoyed the entries to Collections .  Just regret that it has finished in this way.

Did I miss some thing ?
Title: Re: Mini Challenge #83~COLLECTIONS
Post by: angelface555 on April 30, 2017, 04:18:27 PM
The mini challenge has never closed or been open for voting on what was offered.

From the heading, "The challenge is open now and will be locked to uploads on Sunday, March 19th, 2017 and then we'll vote on them."   
Title: Re: Mini Challenge #83~COLLECTIONS
Post by: junee on August 02, 2017, 06:21:16 PM
What a shame to see this competition end like this. 
Title: Re: Mini Challenge #83~COLLECTIONS
Post by: jackwv on August 02, 2017, 06:59:14 PM
I always preferred "give me a picture of" and no need for voting.
Title: Re: Mini Challenge #83~COLLECTIONS
Post by: so_P_bubble on August 03, 2017, 06:37:08 AM
Maybe we could open that discussion again...  it was quite fun.
Title: Re: Mini Challenge #83~COLLECTIONS
Post by: Jeanne Lee on August 03, 2017, 01:30:15 PM
We can open it again if you'd all like to.  But interest seemed to have faded for that, as well.  The last "Show me... "  had been without an answer for several months before the crash.
Title: Re: Mini Challenge #83~COLLECTIONS
Post by: so_P_bubble on August 03, 2017, 01:35:10 PM
We could try to revive it.  It could replace the Computer Art discussion which never was used here.
Title: Re: Mini Challenge #83~COLLECTIONS
Post by: angelface555 on August 03, 2017, 01:56:16 PM
So many discussions are losing steam. How many will actually use it if the site for their own photos is becoming more of verbal discussion and this site fizzled out? Perhaps a site for discussing changes, wants and needs?

I am told by many that it is losing folks because of bullying and US bias.
Title: Re: Mini Challenge #83~COLLECTIONS
Post by: jackwv on August 03, 2017, 02:34:07 PM
Jeanne Lee, we might try the "give me a photo of"  letting those in the regular Photo discussions know it is open.   I do not mind the limited discussions that pop up.      
Title: Re: Mini Challenge #83~COLLECTIONS
Post by: FlaJean on August 03, 2017, 06:35:36 PM
The reason I don't post more photos is laziness.  :-[   I use my iPad almost completely for the Internet and enjoy my easy chair too much to go in the other room to the computer.  Just not able to resize to specifications on the iPad.  I exchange photos with Sato on iMessage but it is just a simple copy and send.
Title: Re: Mini Challenge #83~COLLECTIONS
Post by: jackwv on August 03, 2017, 08:29:00 PM
Jean check out    http://www.shrinkpictures.com/   I use it all the time, and just checked to find it also on the pad.   Love your videos, need your photos.
Title: Re: Mini Challenge #83~COLLECTIONS
Post by: FlaJean on August 03, 2017, 10:29:35 PM
I got the app but even at the lowest setting it is still more kb than is accepted on S&F.  I don't think you have the same control with mobile units that you have with PCs.
Title: Re: Mini Challenge #83~COLLECTIONS
Post by: jackwv on August 04, 2017, 07:04:33 AM
Sorry Jean I do everything from the desktop PC.  Note that Apple has apps. but have not tried them.
Title: Re: Mini Challenge #83~COLLECTIONS
Post by: PatH2 on August 12, 2017, 01:17:41 PM
I'm confused.  I kept checking and checking, and the competition was never opened for voting, so I gave up looking.  I think if voting had been opened, we would have voted, and started another contest.