davidd's A DOLL A DAY 2026

[Alliecat]

Holy cow, how many mega giga peta fazillia-bytes do you have??? You must have very large photo files. I back up each batch as I go now. I don't know how long is "normal", and it would depend on individual systems. Sounds like you need to put it on overnight and go off to bed!
I recently had to reinstall Adobe Reader, the "simple" free one, and it took something like 2.5 hours to download it. Is THAT normal? That's how bad my internet is, at any rate. I finally gave up waiting and walked to the grocery store. Still wasn't done when I got back.
Maybe get the Smart Dolls on the job!

[davidd]

Holy cow, how many mega giga peta fazillia-bytes do you have???  

There were about 1300 GB, which is suppose is 1.3 terrabytes. It's done now, finally.

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19 January - A Doll A Day 2026:

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Pullip Zappa

[Alliecat]

That’s a lot of big photos!!
What a pretty shot. I love the blue and gold lighting, and how the gold in the background complements her outfit.

[davidd]

... and how the gold in the background complements her outfit.

The color coordination was a fortunate effect of the late afternoon sun.

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20 January - A Doll A Day 2026:
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Plonk

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Bratz Yasmin got volunteered to demonstrate plonking, or dolly plonking, on a frozen lily pond.

"Plonk" means to unceremoniously set down or drop something. "To put something down heavily and without taking care" says the Cambridge Dictionary Online.

The term "plonk" or "plonk shot" has come in to use among wristwatch photographers on Instagram who post photos carefully staged so as to appear casual and random. "Nice plonk" is the standard response to such shots.

In this photo, Bratz Yasmin has been "plonked" on to a frozen pond.

#dollplonk or #dollyplonk should become Instagram hashtags, don't you agree?

[Alliecat]

OK, I don’t care about Instagram, but I thought upon reading the first sentence that Dolly Plonking needs to be a wider challenge!  

[davidd]

21 January - A Doll A Day 2026:

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Pullip EOS

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[Alliecat]

She looks ready for wilderness adventures. Another nicely saturated not-wintery-looking photo!
Are you in the path of the snowpocalypse I hear they're forecasting or are you too far west?