Photo Challenge Rejects!

[Erin99]

Wow! No, I'd not heard that tale. Blimey, the cottage even looks creepy! The poor woman, though, watching her husband die and being driven mad!!!

I wonder if it's real. We have a cottage just up the road that's left boarded up and graffiti-ed, and apparently it was the site of a murder. A man escaped an asylum and sneaked into the house to hold a woman hostage. Her husband came home, struggled with the man, and somehow the couple got shot.

Every time I pass the house, I think of what they must have felt...


And so I'm on topic... Here's another I rejected this month. It was a very difficult place to shoot, with the dismal sky and the bright parts poking through. I rejected it because the sky is overblown and the scene is more "Scotland" than "Dundee":

 

[Wybren]

Uh WOW! That is beautiful!

 

[Hilarious Joke]

I agree with Wy!

What is that path?

 

[Erin99]

Thanks. The path is actually a riverbed, but we've had a hot summer for a change, so the rivers mostly gone. Theplace is called Killiecrankie. Very beautiful in all seasons, especially autumn.



Sorry my posts's a bit lifeless. Having a satruggle atm, as I wrote in my thread in the Lounge. Just had even worse news this morning, just when I thought things were maybe improving.

 

[Hilarious Joke]

Haven't logged on in a while - hope things have gotten better since that post Leisha!

 

[Erin99]

Mrrrrph. I'm just about to update the thread on my aunt. It's not positive news.

But thanks for the well wishes. Always appreciated! I hope you're keeping well.

 

[Alex The G and T]

Cheatham Grove was one of several redwood groves filmed as backdrops for the battle of Endor.

Starwars Fans may remember this particular fallen log featured in a certain speeder-bike chase scene.

 

[hopewrites]

ah.





the explosions.

 

[Alex The G and T]

It was so.... quiet... when I was there last week.

 

[hopewrites]

Do you know how tempted I am to drive my soon to die van down? I bet I could get it to die on me just about the time you would have to come rescue me and take me in.

You like stray kats dont you?

 

[Mouse]

At the same wood where my door pic was taken. They've put more doors up out there! Wish I'd used one of these instead. Taken today.

 

[hopewrites]

what's that fairy made of? soapstone? something more eatable?
she's adorable.

 

[Mouse]

I have no idea! She's only just appeared there. I'd say plastic, but she must be quite heavy as she's not blown off the stump.

 

[hopewrites]

I debated for ages about using this one rather than the view from the front porch.

 

[Erin99]

This month's reject, a 30-second exposure at f22:

Plenty more rejects, but I can't be bothered to sort through them to resize.

 

[Mouse]

Didn't really take this for the challenge, I just wondered what it'd look like with a short exposure (fast shutter speed) instead of a long one:


And this'n is a reject because Beau is obsessed with water and had to stick his head in the shot:

 

[Juliana]

I love the Beau photo bomb. Priceless!

 

[Mouse]

Ha, thanks! He loves any water like that, keeps trying to bite it.

 

[hopewrites]

I think he gives more life to the water in the photo.

 

[Mouse]

If I could've fast shutter speed photographed him, so he wasn't blurred, and slow shutter speeded the water it would've been cool.