Lately my dogs are tilting at windmills in the early morning hours when I’m trying to sleep. I’m the windmill in that scenario.
Yesterday morning I was on Flickr, uploading some images to add to the Shutter Sisters groups and happened to notice that I had an email notification. Someone added me as a contact and I had no clue who they were, so I went to check out their profile. They had no images uploaded and around 2700 contacts. All named Toni. While I was scrolling through the contacts, about 300 more were added. I was totally creeped out. I checked again last night and this person was no longer active – Flickr must have kicked them off. Thank goodness!
Love this windmill image! Such a perfectly simple composition.
Good thing you were “on your toes” regarding the Flickr situation. We get a little complacent, then something like that jolts us back to realizing that the Internet does have some “strange birds” out there.
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This is a great shot Toni. I like the power and the zen and how it is felt at the same time.
Flickr has changed so much and not what it used to be in the beginning. I find myself blocking more people than I add as contacts. The internet, go figure.
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A fine windmill shot. One of my strong memories from my “boy” days on the farm is the sound of a windmill turning, the pumping and the splash of cold water in a stock tank.
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Love this image of the single windmill. As for the whole flickcr ‘contact’ thing – it’s all a little creepy too me.
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This is such a beautiful photo. Thanks for stopping by my blog yesterday (via shutter sisters). I have to tell you how funny it was to visit your website and realize that you are from Connell. The very same small town I grew up in before moving to Seattle where I currently live. I have wonderful childhood memories of swimming at the Tumbleweed motel, lol.
What a small world…
Andie
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Toni: Love this one too! Great shot. Mom
Love the sepia tones. Reminds me of my childhood, too. You’re right to stay alert about who is following you!
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I love the pure simplicity of this image and the sepia tone works perfectly here.
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excellent details on the windmill and as well, excellent daily vignette too! =D
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Love the vignette here, so serene.
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These last three images have been especially nice Toni. This one gives a feeling of serenity and solitariness that I like.
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Yikes.. that is creepy!! I find that I get some real weirdo’s adding me lately too.
This picture is gorgeous!!!
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Wonderful shot Toni! timeless…
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Gorgeous shot! I love the vignette. That’s so weird about the Flickr person. Makes me glad I have an obscure name! I’m glad they got kicked off.
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That’s too weird about the flickr incident. You realize they’re still out there…(sorry). Your image is superb. The composition, clarity, and perfect sepia.
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There are so many weirdo’s out there in the blogosphere, Toni. I have encountered a good few during my time. Some are harmless and weird, others destructive and some down right evil. So many people I know have had unpleasant occurances on Face book and similar sites, and I simply will not even contemplate joining such groups, the horror stories I could tell you.
Even on AM3 I have had a couple of extremely unpleasant instances with people so nasty, that you wonder how they sleep at night.
This is a wonderful photograph, perfection in mono, and such a fabulous location to walk and take images. Off to work now, have a great day
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that’s a lot of Toni’s! hey .. I was just looking through the wp themes to find one for my wellness blog and noticed that they had a theme called Toni.
great shot!
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Yeah, I’ve seen that Toni theme. I feel guilty for not using it!
That means 3000 odd people added a contact and had no idea who they were adding. It amazing me people don’t check. I think this would have creped me out too.
I think this photo is beautiful.
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What a wild story. I guess I am glad my name is not Toni!
Oh, and like the photo!
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This is an absolutely perfect image Toni — perfect. The composition, the clarity, and your processing with that toning is excellent.
I am really leary at Flickr and always block anyone who makes me a contact if they don’t have photos, or photos ‘available to me’, or I see that their contacts are a bit weird by the ID photo. Good thing you were careful with that one.
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Perfect processing for this shot! Beautiful windmill.
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This is one of my favorites. Marvelous tonalities!
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This is one of my favorite of your shots. Wonderful composition in its simplicity. Superb tonalities. Jack
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Hey Mom. I really like this image. I think this is one of the strongest you’ve taken yet. I don’t care for the vignette (i think it competes with the openness of the field) or the sepia (i prefer B&W) but the composition/contrast is perfect.
n