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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Bob Blaylock" data-source="post: 415559" data-attributes="member: 16749">The times I've become ornery, or close to it, have been times when I thought a theme was being interpreted too strictly.  Most prominent, the “Nifty Fifty” challenge, where<a href="http://nikonites.com/monthly-assignments/24077-nifty-fifty-assignment-lens-discussion.html" target="_blank"> I was arguing that I thought I should be able to use my 28mm lens</a> on my D3200.  I think that's the only one I ever actually raised any fuss about; though I did feel rather put-off when I learned that the 16×9 weekly challenge was only going to allow horizontal orientation.  About the only way I could really think of to be creative with that theme was, at the very least, to orient it vertically (which someone else beat me to, spurring the discussion in which it came out that this was disallowed) or to turn the whole thing to some crazy angle, like I did with <a href="http://nikonites.com/monthly-assignments/26641-november-assignment-square-format-b-w-post378840.html#post378840" target="_blank">this entry</a> in the “Square format B&W” monthly challenge.  Interestingly, the current monthly challenge theme is one that I am inclined to interpret more strictly than the vast majority of other entrants so far have done.  Aside from my one entry so far in that challenge, there are only two other entries that I think fits the theme as I would interpret it.  My reason for thinking of the fog machine is that I have an object in mind to use for an entry in that challenge, but expect it otherwise to be difficult to photograph it in a way that fits my interpretation of that theme; and I a have an idea of how a well-placed bank of artificial fog might help.</blockquote>

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