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Posted on 19/04/25 11:18:25 PM |
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Ben Boardman
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Re: Challenge 1050: Small Furry Waiting Area
Thanks David. Stephen Irwin (22 February 1962 – 4 September 2006), known as "the Crocodile Hunter", was an Australian zookeeper, conservationist, television personality, wildlife educator, and environmentalist. He achieved international fame in the late 1990s from the television series The Crocodile Hunter, an internationally broadcast wildlife documentary series that he co-hosted with his wife, Terri. They also co-owned and operated Australia Zoo, a 700-acre zoo, founded by Steve's parents in Beerwah, Queensland about 1/2 hour from where I live. On 4 September 2006, Irwin died from an injury caused by a stingray while filming an underwater documentary in the Great Barrier Reef. |
Posted on 20/04/25 00:42:51 AM |
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lwc
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Re: Challenge 1050: Small Furry Waiting Area
Lot's of fun furry critters and snakes to deal with... nice work everyone!  |
Posted on 20/04/25 00:44:01 AM |
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lwc
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Posted on 20/04/25 07:42:34 AM |
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dwindt
Realism Realiser Posts: 871 Reply |
Re: Challenge 1050: Small Furry Waiting Area
Good one for Easter Lloyd. Happy Eater everybody. _________________ The grass is greener on the other side of the fence because there is more $hit there. |
Posted on 20/04/25 08:54:44 AM |
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Mariner
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Re: Challenge 1050: Small Furry Waiting Area
Ben, I remember Steve Irwin's TV shows very well. What a guy! I have missed him. |
Posted on 20/04/25 08:55:59 AM |
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Mariner
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Re: Challenge 1050: Small Furry Waiting Area
Thanks Dennis. Happy Easter to you too. |
Posted on 20/04/25 11:49:57 AM |
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Ben Boardman
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Posted on 21/04/25 11:07:15 AM |
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lwc
Hole in One Posts: 3121 Reply |
Re: Challenge 1050: Small Furry Waiting Area
I am always amused to see pets and owners when they resemble each other… In this case, I suspect that the vet does the dental work for both. 
People37 & People167 courtesy of photoshop.london |
Posted on 21/04/25 11:53:22 AM |
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michael sinclair
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Re: Challenge 1050: Small Furry Waiting Area
I believe the chief administrator used the words " Small furry" 
An experiment: 
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Posted on 21/04/25 3:14:59 PM |
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dwindt
Realism Realiser Posts: 871 Reply |
Re: Challenge 1050: Small Furry Waiting Area
Dog's best friend: puppy's first day at the vet Good entries everybody. I exercise my "HOTCHIPS rights!...lol. 
_________________ The grass is greener on the other side of the fence because there is more $hit there. |
Posted on 22/04/25 09:41:05 AM |
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lwc
Hole in One Posts: 3121 Reply |
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Got a big smile out of this one Dennis... nicely done! |
Posted on 22/04/25 12:46:57 PM |
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GKB
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Re: Challenge 1050: Small Furry Waiting Area
A "furry" is someone who is interested in anthropomorphic animals (animals with human characteristics) and the furry fandom, a subculture of fans and artists who share that interest. Furries often develop a "fursona," an alternate persona based on an animal, and may engage in activities like creating art, writing stories, roleplaying, or wearing elaborate costumes called fursuits. They hold conventions around the world but mainly in the USA and Japan. This is real. They live among us. 
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Posted on 22/04/25 1:17:30 PM |
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DavidMac
Director of Photoshop Posts: 5551 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 1050: Small Furry Waiting Area
I was fascinated to read about 'fursonas' too when I went looking for ideas. I didn't know about it all. I won't be participating any more this week due to an eye infection. I have to cut screen time down drastically for a while. Fun entries from all this week. This is definitely not one to get too serious about. _________________ The subtlety and conviction of any Photoshop effect is invariably inversely proportional to the number of knobs on it ....... |
Posted on 22/04/25 1:50:26 PM |
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GKB
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Re: Challenge 1050: Small Furry Waiting Area
Hope you get over your eye infection soon. My introduction to ‘furry’ aficionados came while watching ‘Morning Joe’, an American streaming news channel on MSNBC. One of the hosts, Mika Brzezinski, was introducing an ‘news’ item on Furries. After a very short time she was completely unable to contain her laughter and had to abandon the item and literally ran off the set leaving her husband, Joe Scarbrough, to try to carry on as best he could. Needless to say, as soon as I saw the sign about a furry waiting room I knew what I had to do. _________________ Whatever you do in life do it with the enthusiasm of a 4-year old in a Batman suit. |
Posted on 22/04/25 2:52:56 PM |
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lwc
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Re: Challenge 1050: Small Furry Waiting Area
"Fursona" 
That's a new one on me. I do have a vague memory of doing that though... but then I was only three to four years old at the time.
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Posted on 23/04/25 00:46:23 AM |
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lwc
Hole in One Posts: 3121 Reply |
Re: Challenge 1050: Small Furry Interminable Waiting Area
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Posted on 23/04/25 7:47:09 PM |
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Ant Snell
Specular Specialist Posts: 557 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 1050: Small Furry Waiting Area
If I remember correctly, didn’t Steve dabble at this once?  |
Posted on 24/04/25 03:07:05 AM |
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lwc
Hole in One Posts: 3121 Reply |
Re: Challenge 1050: Small Furry Waiting Area
The scale being quite small through the window needs a description… hummingbirds around the flowers, red bird on the birdbath, and a meerkat walking by. 
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Posted on 24/04/25 2:10:30 PM |
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Mariner
Renaissance Mariner Posts: 3006 Reply |
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Posted on 25/04/25 08:40:50 AM |
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Steve Caplin
Administrator Posts: 6990 Reply  |
Re: Challenge 1050: Small Furry Waiting Area
First to take a furry pet along this week was lwc, with an entertaining view of a woman dressing her dog up with rabbit ears. Star of the show, though, is the much-missed moose walking past the window (and that’s one hell of a big moose). I greatly enjoyed seeing Harvey, in classic pose with James Stewart. Interesting shadows on the windows. I like the missing teeth in the pet owners entry! And the subtle wafting of the web in the spider entry is very satisfying. Maybe that should be a dead plant in the corner. Lots going on through the new window in the meerkat entry, and thanks for the description. Good use of the monkey selfie image. A huge range of antipodean animals from Ben Boardman, artfully arranged in the space. I particularly like the bats hanging in the window. Who’d have thought there were so many from down under? And RIP Steve Irwin, although the image seems unnaturally devoid of crocodiles. Thanks for the Easter card! Plenty of cute furry beasts from Frank, my favourite being the cat on crutches. Good keeping the window reflection on the new sign. The man on the chair does seem rather small, though. I don’t know why DavidMac has had such difficulty posting, but it was worth the wait: a clever snake gag, and it’s great that you used the same woman from the posters. I don’t usually comment on your wanton and excessive use of apostrophes, but “Mr Tiddle’s”? Really? Another approach to the hungry snake issue from GKB, this time having consumed a meal somewhat larger than a hamster. In fact that bulge is significantly larger than a rabbit as well, assuming that’s who you’re referring to as Flopsie. That bulge is more vet-sized. I’d make the snake much smaller for realism, and for subtlety. I did enjoy the fursona entry, with its cast of cosplay in fursuits. I hadn’t heard of this trend before, but it turns out fursona is a real thing! Heaven help us. A horrific image from michael sinclair where did you find those green-screened rats? It could so easily be Birmingham. I think the image would be stronger if the rats matched the space – they appear a foot off the ground on the right, ignore the chairs, and disappear into an empty corner. A disturbing entry from dwindt, with animals taking their human pets in for treatment. It’s an intricate and nightmarish image, artfully created. The baby on a leash is particularly impressive, as are the new wall posters. The far side of the cot in the corner should be transparent, surely? If you can’t heal ’em, stuff ’em… Ant Snell is absolutely right, I did once attend a three-hour evening class with the title Anthropomorphic Mouse Taxidermy (and with a title like that, how could I have turned it down). But I had nowhere near the successes shown in this image – the fox table is particularly, er, interesting. I like the weeping man in the chair, the hideously-stuffed deer on the wall, and the huge lion. Now that really is thinking out of the box! A refreshing new approach from Mariner, with the room now turned over to fans of Bugs Bunny. A perfect cast of characters in the audience, and even a shadow of the TV cord on the wall. I like the view through the open doors, but have just the one reservation: could a shadow cast from outside ever converge like that? I suspect not. |
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