Alphabet Game
 

Take pictures of the unintentional letters you see in life. Like the Js I see in today's IotD. Enter as many times as you like for each letter (but only one pic of each scene). If there are too many entries for a given letter and you have a zillion, I will ask you to choose your top entries.

I will not cheat and use the pics I have from my Alphabet City Focus Study. :D

Archive pics may not be used. Pics must be taken from this point on.

Deadline is Halloween. Polls posted sometime during November. Guidelines for judging: 50% similarity to written letter; 30% originality; 10% composition; 10% discretionary. Some dwellars use cheap cellphones, some have cameras that cost $1Ks. All are welcomed and encouraged. Please do not judge based on blurry, low res or other camera quality issues.

Scores:

1st place: 10 points
2nd place: 7 points
3rd Place: 5 points
4th place: 2 points
5th place: 1 point

Prize: Bragging rights.

Are we going in sequence?

Extra points for tough letters like Q?

Do they have to be unintentional?

: epic eyeroll :

EXIF or it didn't happen.

no, sequence not required, yes unintentional, no extra point Q is not tough, trust me -circle with a line through it?

V, I'm cool with trusting people, don't be a dick.

What does unintentional mean? You mean the letter just looks like a letter and isn't really one, right? We can intentionally take a picture of it, right?

Oh, I would add:
No Photoshop except for cropping, resizing, and rotating.

yes sorry unintention means you can't arrange the object to form the letter. of course you take the picture intentionally. i'm an idiot.

Already done there : Google Maps Alphabet

Already done in many places. But that's pretty cool. It's fun to find your own, though.

And let stick to the english alphabet. 26 polls is all I can cope with. upper and lower case will be lumped together.

In fact, let's eliminate I, O and L because they are too easy and that takes it down to 23 which is a great number.

I guess we coul dget rid of X too, but 22 is a shitty number.

you could, but there's a catch...

Dammit.

Dammit, twice.

I'm still not clear on the rules. Are Digger's pics OK, or are they arranged too much? For example, he clearly didn't move a bunch of pebbles into a J shape, but it sure looks like he spread out a nice clean sheet and put that pistol down for the "studio shot."

I was assuming we had to go out and shoot things in their native locations?

Doesn't matter to me, but we should all play by the same rules.

The gun and pick seem iffy because it looks like he put them in place, but if we are voting (are we voting?), then if someone came up with a more natural picture for those letters, then his might lose.

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They were good, and depending on what the rules are, you might want to resubmit them.

I think what you're saying is:

Well, dammit one more time, just to make a complete set.

Ok.

ps, for extra grins, watch it with "transcribe audio" enabled under the closed captions button. bwahahahahahaha

i don't see the pics, is that the deleted post? In their natural environment is kind of the idea, but if the gun, for example, makes a nice Q shape with the trigger, then that would be OK IMO. But if you set up the gun and another object so together they formed the letter, then no, that would count as intentional. is that any better/clearer?

and har har har at the catch 22

My brain, my ears, and my eyes are all outta sync now.:D

DAAAAAAAAAMN!!!!!! (w/a side order of damn.)

Q

nice one

Yes, right on the mark.

I took loads of pics yesterday. Well at least half a dozen. just have to download resize..... my Q wasn't that good....

It is a wonderful Q.

It has bluetooth. It's an iQ.

OK, Here we go. A B C D

E J K(two entries)

Q r R X

Entry from Hector
 

B

I promise to make mine smaller in future. Seems on my new editing software, the first number is width rather than height. :o

i love that R

thank you :)

two version of A. I like them both and can't decide which I prefer.

i like the iron one

B
this is a detail of the wrought iron fence outside historic Franklin School.

P
door hook, and wrought iron gate detail. I like both, but I think I like the door hook better.

Z

v

So only 3 polls needed. Glatt wins IMO. Let's make these things "challenges" rather than comps with voting. If anyone wants to post a poll at the end they could, but I can't be arsed for this one. I enjoyed the challenge of looking for letter pics I hadn't already used for my focus study and I loved seeing Glatt's pics.

This was fun. I mostly forgot about it but a couple days there, I was really looking around as I was going about town.

I wish more people had joined in.

And monster, I didn't mention anything at the time, but I really enjoyed yours too.

...ooh-eer, mrs.....

I would have played but somehow missed the thread until now.

Wasn't out and about much, and nothing here at home would cooperate.