Ufoureah :
I am so unbelievably inspired by all the beauty around us and hope to not inundate you with my flower photography. I am still learning and believe it or not every flower has its difficulty for me. so bare with me ... Sorry for those who are sick of the "boring " flowers. T'Is the season... soon you will get photos of all my hiking and backpacking adventures. Danielle
ducilla : It is indeed the season to commune with nature! With a camera in tow of course!...
April 30 at 3:43PM
Ufoureah : everywhere I go... craziness
April 30 at 7:48PM
Delia1111 : I never tire of your photos. I have learned so much from your reviews of my work and from watching your lovely photos, whatever you're shooting ;) I have missed you recently, hope I'm not one of the folks in the dog house :), but no, I could'nt be, because I don't go for the points either, just the learning, and it is so good on this site! Good to see your healthy and happy !
May 26 at 4:35PM
Ufoureah : I am healthy and happy. no not in the doghouse. just stepping back to let some pass me by. Thank you checking in Delia email me your private email address
May 27 at 11:52AM
francz_s : Just read your bio and found it interesting and very pertinent to our son who recently became certified as a respitory therapist. He is sitting for his exam to be registered in Utah and looking for a job. Any hints for him?
June 1 at 6:54PM
Ufoureah : always do the right thing, the more experience you can get in every age group of the field the better for him and get a job where they have autonomy and protocols. I am getting out of the field after 25 years I am starting my own business now, but he can make a great living. good luck and congratulations
June 4 at 1:44AM
Ufoureah :
This week I am 2 months on FAR and I can say that because of all of your criticisms and reviews I feel that my eye and the way I take my photographs has improved significantly and I thank each and every one of you. I hope to start learning how to use Photoshop and learn the proper ways to edit and enhance photographs on a minimal level. My goal is to stay as natural as I possibly can and keep learning as much as I can. This has been my goal since day 1. What I have also learned is that if you have a lot of member dollars on your photographs you have many people who come by to review you. If you do not, nothing happens. And this is what I see has been the trend here. There is only 1 way to make that stop. I am outspoken and I am sorry if I offend anyone. but today I have decided to stop reviewing anyone who consistently does not review my work. I have picked 50 people whose pictures I enjoy and I will review your pictures first, even if you have 2 cents on them, because that is why I am here. to learn, to teach to enjoy. It would be nice if you did the same for me. Today I will add the ones I have not added yet and that is who I am reviewing from now on. I will add more as I come across great photography and artwork. If you only come by because I have member dollars on I know you are not here for the right reason. I am not here to be the best, because I know I am not. I am honestly here to learn Danielle
Echo7 : Glad your enjoying it. Yeh theres certain people who only review for member dollars. However i tend not to boost my photos but still recieve alot of reviews. I thank all the people who do that...there the real guys.
March 19 at 12:48PM
Ufoureah : Thank you my dear. your work is exceptional and I appreciate your offer.
March 19 at 1:38PM
Badger : Out spoken is good, very good but are you not in danger of creating a mutual appreciation club for yourself with your proposal? And unless I misunderstand your last sentence, none of us was born the best at anything (except me), if we do not strive to be the best we possibly can at WHATEVER we do in life we are in grave danger of drowning in a sea of mediocrity. <--! End deep Badger mode and return to flippancy //-->
March 19 at 3:41PM
Ufoureah : I will never be mediocre, at anything I do. I strive to be one of the best, always if I put out to do something.
March 19 at 3:59PM
foureyes : First, I see nothing wrong with the policy of reciprocity you are proposing. (I assume I am on your list of 50; I have reviewed 11 of your pics in my last 20 pages of reviews written.)
March 19 at 7:17PM
Ufoureah : you make some great points are you a Virgo? thank you my dear... I have asked to be your fan.. so there. thank you for reviewing my work
March 19 at 8:00PM
bpzzr : Over the few years I have been a member, the reviewing has always caused comments. The ideas to improve are many. I am a member on a few other reviewing and posting sites and still come back. Not because this site is better, in many ways it is not. But it is a Great start up site. Once you get so far though, there are other sites which challenge you more, unfortunatelly they do not seem to get as many commennts on the pictures. I personaly view a lot of the pictures, and unless I can help, or praise I do not review. SOme pictures, i am afraid, just leave me cold and rather than review to get the monney I just leave them. I also do not review when in the past I have taken time to examine, comment, suggest and teach. then all I get back is "thanks".
March 20 at 10:18AM
Ufoureah : I would love it if you did my dear. Sometimes I do not know what to say. My photography lingo is now expanding and I do not really know if my suggestions will be taken or I will be muted because I suggested a bit of a crop to someone. Its a catch 22. yes do please send me the links I would appreciate that alot. Danielle
March 20 at 10:41AM
skarn1 : You do make some good points here. I also sometimes wonder who and how some of the contests are judged as well.
March 20 at 2:32PM
Ufoureah : Like I said, not member dollars on your work, hardly any reviews. I think I made my point what now?
March 20 at 7:43PM
ducilla : Hi Danielle... I have been away for a week so am a bit late to this discussion...I could be one of those that does not review a lot.I am not picky but my time is limited and a good review takes more than a minute or two to produce.it requires that much time just to try and see what the artist is trying to say,then to express that conversation in words can take a lot longer.It is very time consuming and for that reason I only post a few photos.(maybe two or three a month on average?.).. Your solution sounds fine if it works for you. everyone has their own set of accepted guidelines. I mainly review off my "friends" list first and then I look for interesting images after that. It keeps my reviewing list down and seems to fill my available time completely.
March 20 at 8:32PM
Ufoureah : Thank you Dennis for your positive work. I just see alot of problems and I am problem solver. so I will take your advice and do just that. I am already looking at alternative sites for more high quality work. thank you for that Dennis
March 20 at 8:45PM
pzoette : Well I'll join in here. I was happily reviewing your work because I admired it so, and have been your fan since the first day I saw it. Now, I do review lots of work, but yesterday I also gifted some people. It was like giving out flowers.
March 24 at 4:22AM
Ufoureah : huh? Pzoette, this has nothing to do with you at all. wow
March 28 at 12:48PM
ManipulART : I am one that will make use of member dollars...(that I buy not that I earn from reviewing work) to get my work back out there to be seen and reviewed. The 3 or 4 that you reviewed of mine you would have never seen without the boost of member dollars because they got their 2 reviews and got shelved...and I don't have the following that many of the artists on this site do, so only a handful of people that graciously follow my work get notifications that I have anything new posted...I am a novice at best here and look for feedback from more experienced artists...expesally those that are mixed media so I feel that on this site(sadly)I have to add incentives for my work to be reviewed.
April 18 at 3:18PM
Lndslmn : Been reading your profile posts. Interesting things you say and do. I guess tats why I'm not on your 50's list.
May 30 at 9:25PM
Ufoureah :
Question of the day? How does one have 6 photographs promoted at once without reviewing one single picture? am I missing something?
Ufoureah : and should I not be asking that question?
March 18 at 11:26AM
Badger : Having arms like an orangutan and very short pockets helps.
March 18 at 11:41AM
Clyde B. : Evidently this person spends for real money for member money.
March 18 at 12:27PM
NinaDd : Yes, you can buy member dollars with cold hard cash and promote as many pictures as you like. If you're rich enough to do this, then you don't have to treat reviewing like a part-time job or even review at all if you don't want to. :P
March 18 at 3:27PM
Kelli Lauck : like i said before - pretty much sucks that some have paid for their ranking....lots of false pretenses....
March 18 at 10:21PM
truckie : Just reading this as arelative newcomer and agree with all your comments
March 19 at 4:38AM
Ufoureah :
Do people on this site really want to be reviewed for their art or do they want to review themselves? What if you get attacked for a review you have honestly given? Just wondering...
Echo7 : Your right. The problem here is that people are so used to getting 5 stars regardless of quality. With streams of comments....wow, beautiful, wonderful, amazing. When a lot of the time there not any of the above.
March 14 at 1:19PM
Badger : I'm of the opinion that muting or complaining about an honest review by another member speaks volumes of you. As a child I was always taught that honesty is the best and only policy and that people will respect you for your honesty even if they don't like or agree what you have to say. That has not necessarily always been my experience on FAR.
March 14 at 1:33PM
Ufoureah : I so agree with you.. I was told last night by someone I value so much and I think is probably one of the best photographers/editors I have seen in a long time. I just said I think a photo needed some cropping. seriously I was accused of wanting to keep this person away from the top of the list, when Indeed it was a bit of an eyesore to a nearly perfect picture. that was my opinion. muted and harrassed. I cannot even say why, how, because anything becaus I was muted. pretty weird. Is that how that works here? I want a true opinion and I could not give a darn about ranking, scores or anything else I am here for a few reasons and those are: to learn from my mistakes, to learn skills from others, to see other folks work and to get better at something artistic I really like because I am not artistic at all. very sad. Do I just bypass art I find horible to avoid backlash? I am sure those folks want to learn too.
March 14 at 2:25PM
Keri Harrish : Like I want to pay a yearly subscription fee to stroke someone's ego. Gimme a break. I hope that there are at least a few people here willing to give others an honest view rather than some bull crap rating. After all it is a reviewing/learning site is it not? Correct me if I'm wrong on that. This is getting stupid already.
March 14 at 2:56PM
AdyB1973 : Personally, I prefer to receive honest reviews and consider any detrimental comments as constructive criticism. I dont want an ego boost, I want to improve my technique. This can only be achieved when you accept that not all your work is going to be brilliant or inspiring. This is why I joined the site and I am very grateful of all feedback, good or constructive. I would hope that this is the view of most members.
March 14 at 3:13PM
Badger : This particular bone of contention has run for as long as I have been her and quite probably a lot longer.
March 14 at 3:41PM
Ufoureah : I am pretty new here and all I honestly want is to get better because my work is a work in progress. I know nothing about photography and have learned so much in the last 6 weeks of being here.
March 14 at 3:43PM
shallemeier : I have actually taken a step backwards and have not reviewed for the last week or maybe even two. Reasons why you might ask? Because it takes a lot of time to give an honest review and comment. this sites takes much more of my time than the other sites I am a member of and with all od the fives that are given with either negative commenting or fantastic praising is not being honest with ourselves. I think we should all quit giving fives for a month, this would force us to have to use up our 5 1/2 or 6's to only those that deserve them or a lower score with true and honest critiquing. this way we can all better ourselves and isn't that the main reason we are spending so muck time on the site? I will say there are a good handful of artist on this site that have already helped me in bettering my art and I owe them so much for this. I truly appreciate what they have taught me and will keep them in my thoughts always!
March 15 at 1:52AM
Reflections2 : I would like to see a review system for a photography site that was blind on both sides; the reviewer's identity hidden, as well as the photographer's identity. This would prevent backlash from honest reviewing, and also clique reviewing (we're buddies, stroke my ego and I'll stroke yours). Also, reviews given out of spite or ???.
March 15 at 5:28PM
pzoette : So what if you get dinged for something you said you did deliberately because someone doesn't read that piece. For example I fo not produce realism. I am clear about that. So is it an honest or hasty review? Just my opinion that it's not.
March 17 at 5:16PM
Ufoureah :
My almost 87 year old dad has broken his pelvis in his gym parking lot. I apologize for not being able to review many of your works and/or to say thank you for reviewing mine. I will try my damdest to post a picture nightly and review as many photos as I can. I thank you for sticking out with me even though I do not offer big $ for reviewing my photos. I will be back soon.
Wolfdancer13 : Wishing your father a speedy recovery, Ufoureah.
March 1 at 9:05PM
Lndslmn : Your family is more important than FAR. Your fans will be here.
March 1 at 9:32PM
fila4 : Family always comes first. I hope your dad has a speedy recovery.
March 1 at 11:17PM
ducilla : Family and friends first!....
March 1 at 11:26PM
Ufoureah : Thank you so much Danielle
March 2 at 4:30AM
donkeyoatey : My thoughts and prayers are with you and your family
March 2 at 5:52AM
emeraldheart : Hope each day gets better on his road to recovery.Take care.
March 2 at 9:42AM
Natalia Kaminska : Family and friends first!!wishing your dad very quick recovery!!
March 2 at 10:23AM
kbp painter : I was wondering about you. Hope your Dad heals well and soon. If he is anything like you I am sure he will take to the physical therapy well once his bone is healed. Prayers and thoughts to that end to you both.
March 2 at 9:09PM
sandysartstudio : oh dear, take time out hope your father mends. hugs and thoughts. sandy
March 3 at 1:46AM
Ufoureah : Thank you everyone. yes I am very busy with him. my reviews have gone down significantly. so thank you for understanding
March 3 at 12:20PM
heedamarie : best wishes for your Dad's recovery, am sure having you near by will be the best medicine. Take care of yourself as well.
March 7 at 7:00PM
briansintransit : hope your father has a speedy recovery danielle,familys are more important..brian
March 8 at 1:25PM
pzoette : I appreciate every word you have taken the time to write to me. Kindness always boomerangs back, and you should take all that your supporters send your way.
March 9 at 6:07AM
Reflections2 : Hope your dad is healing well, Danielle. Your a wonderful daughter, my dear. Be kind to yourself, as well.
March 12 at 10:53AM
Ufoureah : Dad is feeling better. My bout of pneumonia/ bronchitis is now over as well after my 3rd run of antibiotics. I will continue to review as many photographs as I can possibly review and take as many photographs as I can possibly can for you to review. This site is not about scores to me at all its all about getting better art something I have had a great interest in . and all of you are helping me develop amazing skills. your works are great as are your reviews. Pardon me if I get stuff wrong call me on it so I can learn. Thank you so so much for your support in my journey and my father's healing.
March 14 at 1:44AM
Kathycarol : My prayers are eith you and your father and family . Families ALWAYS comes first!! I have always valued your opinion. Your a wonderful fan. Smile Kathy.
March 15 at 4:04AM
Ufoureah :
To all my fans. I am very new at this. I just bought my Nikon D90 I am in the process of starting to learn basic photo editing and will hopefully be able to use them later. right now I am focusing on taking the pictures as best as possible so that I do not have to edit them too much afterwards.
Echo7 : If you need any help with editing give me a shout. Happy to help there. The D90 is a great camera. I know it well. Sinbackkk has one...hes a god
February 15 at 7:09PM
Flight_of_Raven : I wanted to get the D90 really bad. Went to buy one and the girl behind the counter talked me into the D7000... sigh.. so weak!
February 15 at 10:50PM
Sinbackkk : Ahhhhh... So you do believe in me!
February 16 at 3:11PM
Kathycarol : I realty like it.
February 20 at 1:36AM
FanArtReview wrote to Ufoureah :
Congratulations! Herman Creek is the new Traditional Photograph of the Month!
fila4 : Congratulations!!!
February 15 at 12:15AM
ducilla : A beautiful image! Congratulations...dennis
February 15 at 12:15AM
emeraldheart : Congratulations!Beautiful.
February 15 at 1:33AM
ljaksha : Congratulations! It is a wonderful shot.
February 15 at 8:06AM
icnpictures : Congrats, I told you it was an AWESOME shot!! :) Cindy
February 15 at 12:33PM
bushwacker : Way to go! Congratulations on a deserving shot.
February 15 at 1:37PM
Echo7 : Congrats, Beautiful image & well worthy of the win.
February 15 at 2:39PM
Ufoureah : I am truly humbled by all of this thank you...
February 15 at 3:37PM
fotofriend : Congratulations on your winning photographic work of art!
February 15 at 4:00PM
helvi2 : Congrats my friend! I told you that moss was special and unique! :o)
February 15 at 5:57PM
EricHcpa : That is a well deserved win. Outstanding photograph!
February 15 at 7:00PM
Zilyram : Truly well deserved, excellent work. :) Mary
February 15 at 7:01PM
Shakeadog : excellent job!!
February 16 at 5:01AM
avmurray : So well deserved. Congratulations !
February 16 at 5:47AM
mariposaland : Great Photo. Hearty congratulations to you.
February 16 at 6:41PM
Ufoureah : Thank you all for my congratulations It was not expected t all. and thank you for your generous reviews also
February 17 at 10:55PM
Kathycarol : Congratulations to you too. Good job.
February 21 at 10:28PM
Kathycarol : Congratulations..
February 24 at 1:09AM
Reflections2 : If I can stop giggling for joy long enough, I'll type in my congrats for this win! Your photograph is STUNNING girl! Well deserved win. I couldn't be happier for you.
March 12 at 11:00AM
Ufoureah :
I need all the feedback I can possibly get Spring is right around the corner and your comments good and bad make me a btter artist so thank you
icnpictures : It is nice to review for people with good attitudes like yours- (there are so few of them) haha!! You have some excellent photos and with that good attitude, I am certain you will do well! Cindy B
February 4 at 8:06AM
Ufoureah : Thank you much. Iam so excited about photography and to be among so many amazing folks who have so much talent and experience. I value everyone's honest reviews.
February 4 at 7:26PM
Ufoureah : Thank you Cindy I am crazy about my camera
February 20 at 2:13AM
Ufoureah :
I am not using any photo programs. Iam researching which one to get. Any recommendations and why... Price is not a factor
cen12964 : I have used both Corel Photo-paint and Adobe Photoshop Elements. I find I can do a lot more with PhotoShop.
January 20 at 9:38AM
Charlie Nitro : Get photoshop elements or free gimp. Then go to school on youtube. Good luck. Charlie Nitro.Com
January 22 at 5:43AM
Ufoureah : thank you so much. Just downloaded gimp 2.6, printed the user manual and off to youtube I go
January 25 at 10:50AM
sarnewfie : I recommend CS3 photoshop. personally i did not care for gimp at all. :) All personal choice though, just like opinions on how to raise kidlets. Photoshop is a well rounded program and you can adjust your DPI for the size that you cropped your picture down from. :)
January 29 at 1:11AM
FindingJoy : Have you researched PhotoScape? Not a ton of options comparitively, but user friendly and easy to learn. Just a suggestion.
January 30 at 2:36AM
Ufoureah : thank you kindly
February 2 at 2:20AM
JDbs : Aperture or iPhoto?
February 2 at 7:21PM
icnpictures : I think photoshop is very complicated (but I am not very knowledgable in these softwares) I would like to be, but need a class or something, I dont know how to do it on my own without making a BIG mess of my photos! haha! :)
February 4 at 8:10AM
Mitcham : That's the best way to learn by your mistakes. I found the video tutorials on Adobe TV a great help.Classes are fine if you have a good memory, but with the video's you always have then to hand. Mitch
February 5 at 8:13AM
pzoette : Just looking at this now. I use 3 (after trying many) depending upon what I want to do. I like Serif Photo Plus...liked the X4 better than the X5 which seems to be a little buggy with some of the new functions. It is not that expensive. I used to like Ulead but it was bought by Corel and now that takes up so much memory. When PhotoPlus freezes up I go to the free Elements that came with my Wacom.
March 9 at 6:20AM
pzoette : Just looking at this now. I use 3 (after trying many) depending upon what I want to do. I like Serif Photo Plus...liked the X4 better than the X5 which seems to be a little buggy with some of the new functions. It is not that expensive. I used to like Ulead but it was bought by Corel and now that takes up so much memory. When PhotoPlus freezes up I go to the free Elements that came with my Wacom.
March 9 at 6:20AM
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