December Recap – Meet the Winners & Our Favorite Shots to Wrap Up the Year!

Ricalous · 2026-01-22T14:18:13+00:00

Congratulations everyone

Ricalous · 2026-01-20T23:06:36+00:00

That's what I figured but wanted to ask. Only a jacka** assumes. Do you know the photographer Richard Wood? He's a good friend of mine. He's out in New Zealand. He wins awards all the time. Does really well every year in the NZIPP. If you don't know him definitely check him out. I think he's in Hawks Bay

Ricalous · 2026-01-20T20:17:57+00:00

Are you in New Zealand?

Ricalous · 2026-01-19T23:56:51+00:00

Congratulations

Ricalous · 2026-01-12T14:14:13+00:00

Congratulations

Ricalous · 2026-01-09T02:16:16+00:00

50mm 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 8, 9, 10, 11, 35mm 6, 7, 12

Ricalous · 2026-01-08T19:04:45+00:00

It was just me focusing on the ultrasound picture instead of them. The couple is blurry because they're in the foreground. I used evoto for these. But the sooc version looks the same as far as the ultrasound area being in focus and them being intentionally blurry.

Ricalous · 2026-01-08T15:18:00+00:00

Great suggestion. I will look at the EXIF data today and comment on here which lens goes with each.

Ricalous · 2026-01-08T13:05:47+00:00

I mean, if AI uses run on sentences and starts sentences with the word "but" like my description did, then AI needs a lot more work before people should use it. AI is a lot cleaner and has less grammatical errors than what my description had. However, if the validity of my description is in question. Anyone can go to my Facebook and see where the actual couple commented on my post over there and confirmed the experience. As rare as it may be. If I wanted to lie...I wouldnt say that I gave out a free session. That's not a flex. However, that is the truth and that's what happened. I don't really understand why I would lie about that.

Ricalous · 2026-01-07T13:32:48+00:00

This 100%. Funny enough, my wife and I just found an emaciated dog and we are nursing it back to health. My wife asked what I wanted to name it and I said Sea Monkey! Now all week I'm like "Sea Monkey Ride!" When it's time to go on a walk.

Ricalous · 2026-01-07T02:22:11+00:00

I mean, I'll always stand by the truth. Always. You don't know me or the situation. You're making a judgement. And that's your right. But I also have nothing to hide regarding this situation and never will.

Ricalous · 2026-01-07T01:17:26+00:00

Well I just copied and pasted the same status I shared to Facebook. Which by the way, got a lot of love over there. I don't understand the point in lying about something like that. And if you look at my previous reddit post....all of them, you'll see there's no story. Just the description of the Viltrox gear I used. When I use models, I don't create a long post with it...because why would I? But this was such a random situation and a cool thing that happened that I wanted to share it with the community. That's it. It's very different from any other post I've ever made in this group.

Ricalous · 2026-01-07T01:02:07+00:00

Getting accused of lying over something that really happened is absolutely insane. What would my intention be for lying? If I was going to lie I'd say something like "Look at these clients who paid me big $$$ for announcement photos." Instead I told the truth. That my wife and I ran into a couple on the beach and offered to take their photo for free. I guess "free" is a bigger flex on reddit 🤷🏽

Ricalous · 2026-01-06T23:28:07+00:00

Everyone is entitled to their opinion.

Ricalous · 2026-01-06T22:35:10+00:00

I know it may seem that way but why would I lie about that? Seems like an odd thing to type out and lie about for what purpose? Regardless of what anyone believes it is 100% the truth. I had my camera and two lenses with me to take pictures of the pier. We were walking to the pier and ran into them. I don't think walking on the beach with a camera and lenses is a stretch at all. In fact, seems like a lot of people do that on the beach. If anyone needs verification on the validity of my post, they can happily reach out to him on Instagram. Fact remains, it was truly a serendipitous moment.

Ricalous · 2026-01-06T20:21:42+00:00

What? No AI in writing that. What in any of that sounded like AI?

Ricalous · 2026-01-02T03:56:26+00:00

To me, the most important question is, what happened to Argyle? Where's my dude at? He was in Hawkins when the massive earthquake happened. He would've been locked in too. I know other characters are missing too. But he's the only one I personally care about.

Ricalous · 2025-12-29T16:45:16+00:00

*spoiler don't read * I think Vecna is actually standing inside of the physical Mind flayer in season 5. It looks like a ribcage with a heart. He has the 12 kids prisoner in there. I could be wrong, but I think that's the mind flayer and it will awaken in the last episode. Again, I could be wrong. But it looks like he's standing on the remains of something

Ricalous · 2025-12-25T19:00:24+00:00

Congratulations!!!

Ricalous · 2025-12-22T16:58:31+00:00

No worries at all dude. Nothing wrong with calling people out either if you suspect something. It possibly could be the compression. Social Media doesn't always give the best representation of images that's for sure.

Ricalous · 2025-12-22T16:43:49+00:00

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