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I've had one of those weeks where you get up on a Monday, there's a blur in the middle, then suddenly it's Friday evening and all you can remember is that the bits between the start and the finish were stressful and not much fun. Things were looking up this evening – curry, bottle of wine, crappy TV – but I've just been playing with the cat and it managed to get about the first quarter of an inch of one of its claw stuck in the end of my index finger ... which was painful. It's not been a great week.

Anyway, the net result of all this is that I've been scraping the chromasian barrel again, the inside of which is now totally devoid of content.

And yes, I did clone out the strings.

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comment by Andrew at 10:43 PM (GMT) on 2 June, 2006

Is that a kite? Nice bright colors to it.

Hopefully you'll have a better week next week. I'm currently counting down the hours until I'm released from work for the weekend. Got an airshow to go to this weekend and I'm hoping to get some nice captures with my camera.

comment by miklos at 10:45 PM (GMT) on 2 June, 2006

First miles, now you, soon we'll have hundreds of floating wireless objects in the photoblog world!

I'll go create a flickr group now to beat someone to it! :)

Anyway, hang in there man. We can tell you're not having a good time for sure.

comment by djn1 at 11:05 PM (GMT) on 2 June, 2006

Andrew: they were hanging from a pole, and good luck with the airshow.

miklos: lol. I prefer miles' attempt to mine ;-)

comment by ps at 11:06 PM (GMT) on 2 June, 2006

I like it, except sky, it's strange and unreal...

comment by djn1 at 11:07 PM (GMT) on 2 June, 2006

ps: it's been a strange and unreal week :-)

comment by ps at 11:09 PM (GMT) on 2 June, 2006

djn1: yes, i agree :)

comment by croz at 11:44 PM (GMT) on 2 June, 2006

A symbolic shot it capsulates how I'm feeling too ... a little tired and out of control...Your mood matches mine.. Bad, rainy weather here in Germany has not helped .. the improved weather today and time shooting in Bielefeld has lifted me .. A little sunshine goes a long way.
all the best.
Croz

comment by BigA at 11:50 PM (GMT) on 2 June, 2006

Wow Miles and now you. This must be the latest craze. Nicely done.

comment by Ben at 12:32 AM (GMT) on 3 June, 2006

Great shot!
Love the vibrant colors.

comment by sylvainman at 01:36 AM (GMT) on 3 June, 2006

i like the colors of the kite and of the sky. very humoristic shot, the best for long (for me).
i wish you a better week-end than your week.

comment by Ricardo Mateus at 02:13 AM (GMT) on 3 June, 2006

I must say I am a great admirer of your work. Your pictures are perfect and quite original. I am a great fan of photomanipulation and edits and I find your shots quite inspiring. Please keep on the good work. Wish you the best

comment by Molly at 02:44 AM (GMT) on 3 June, 2006

i know the feeling

comment by David Grundy at 03:37 AM (GMT) on 3 June, 2006

Good fun!! Thanks for posting this one and making me smile. Miklos is obviously right: when I saw it I immediately realised I should have a go too. The result is here:
http://www.pbase.com/patterns/image/61206533
[Sorry, I don't seem to be able to make this into a link.]

comment by frisky? at 03:41 AM (GMT) on 3 June, 2006

cool. i like this.

comment by Jen at 03:54 AM (GMT) on 3 June, 2006

this made my night.
i had finals this week. i feel wonderful now that they are over (the sky) however i felt like the little men all week.
thank you.

comment by Bob at 06:42 AM (GMT) on 3 June, 2006

If this is an example of the "bottom of the chromasian barrel", then your barrel is like a chef's skillet with all those tasty bits left when all the great ingredients carmelize. This is a very nice deglacing, I'd say.

comment by Fellow Eskimo at 06:57 AM (GMT) on 3 June, 2006

Should have kept the strings!

comment by mooch at 10:59 AM (GMT) on 3 June, 2006

I like this image. I like the vibrancy and it is amusing.

comment by jgarcía at 12:05 PM (GMT) on 3 June, 2006

I like much the composition and the color.

The curved line that defines the subjects guides the spectator to cross the image horizontally.

The background is superb, David.

Congratulations!

comment by Isabellnecessaryonabicycle at 01:08 PM (GMT) on 3 June, 2006

LOL - Which boy band has been strung up? :D

comment by Marinus at 01:40 PM (GMT) on 3 June, 2006

i like the composition, the colors and the feeling of this picture, but agree with ps about the sky, unless you ment them to jump into the world (looking from a cloud above and blue suggest ocean)

comment by Thomas Solberg at 03:49 PM (GMT) on 3 June, 2006

Now there is something you don't see every day. I really like this shot, mostly because of the colours but I find it quite funny as well!

comment by lee at 07:49 PM (GMT) on 3 June, 2006

i would of left the kite strings intact, nice colours though.

comment by Moodaholic at 09:14 PM (GMT) on 3 June, 2006

There is something totally "glasnost" about the photo, must be the hats. It's good.

comment by djn1 at 09:37 PM (GMT) on 3 June, 2006

Thanks everyone.

comment by m at 05:35 PM (GMT) on 4 June, 2006

:-), it's fun.

comment by Dazzz at 01:19 PM (GMT) on 5 June, 2006

The kites will be up in blackpool again on the 8th and 9th July when its Blackpool airshow...

comment by Sysagent at 05:53 PM (GMT) on 5 June, 2006

Heh amusing shot :-)