Glow

For Photo Friday. I posted this way back when I was at D-X, but I never tire of looking at it. This was taken on our way home to Perth from Margaret River.

[Edit: Also for Photo Friday's "Divine" challenge, September 16, 2005.]

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At Photo Friday, you can vote for your favourite photos every week. No prizes for the winner(s), but the entries with the highest number of votes get placed on a "Noteworthy" list, which is nice.

I don't know if anyone else has a mental flowchart when they do the voting, but originality's at the top of my list. This means that if the theme for the week is "Ghostly," I generally skip through all the photos that have been deliberately blurred for that effect; because they're not ghostly, they're just... blurred.

I am quite easily impressed by ideas that I didn't think would pop into my mind, which is why I end up voting a lot. But my other rule is that I go through the photos in chronological order in which they are posted. So for the week of "Faces," the first one who posts pictures of masks, I will vote; subsequent photos of the like, I skip through.

If there is any description of the photo (in a language that I can comprehend), I do generally take the time to read, because a photo is not really just a photo. I enjoy the stories behind them.

Those are the general rules that I play by, although it must be said that it's always difficult to skip through pictures of babies without voting for them. ;) Half the time, I'll admit, that I throw out these rules and vote from my gut -- irrational as it is.