July 2010 Photo Challenge

[Culhwch]

CyBeR's chosen theme for this month is:

GUARDIAN

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The usual rules apply:

- only two photographs per participant
- do not use photographs already posted around the site
- voting begins on, or around, the 27th of the month
- the winner must post a new challenge within a couple of days
- all Chrons members may vote (including those who do not enter the competition)

In fact, we would love it if more members from around the site would help us choose a winner each month! (We'd also like more of you to get your cameras out and take part, of course.)

And just to clarify:

- the photograph must be one you have taken yourself (perferably one you have taken for the challenge, but posting old photos is fine as long as YOU took them)

Best of luck!!

 

[Foxbat]

Hmmm. Not sure what to make of this challenge. However, I took this photo at Le Mans and I think it has a monolithic quality to it (some might say sentinel.....or even guardian). A tenuous link perhaps but it'll do for me. Without further ado, here's my first entry for this month's challenge.

 

[Talysia]

I wondered what I could do for this month, until I remembered a photo that I took last year. It's a statue in the Nene Park in Peterborough, carved out of a single tree that fell in one of the storms (I think- it's been a while since I was in the visitor centre there) and showing several aspects of the park, like its wildlife and its history. I thought it looked about right for a Guardian.

 

[J Riff]

This guy was the guardian of a scrap metal yard somewhere in the valley.

 

[Mouse]

My fearsome guardian. He may look cute, but he'd have your face off! (ok, no he wouldn't really.)

(I promise my second entry won't be dog-related.)

 

[Vertigo]

OK I'll dip my toes in the water and open myself to ridicule This is Horus from Edfu, Egypt taken a few years ago (I'm a newbie I get to cheat a little). I'll see if I can't come up with something new for a second entry. I should maybe mention (though aritistically irrelevant) that this was a monochrome image printed and toned in the darkroom and later scanned - none of this modern photoshop stuff!

 

[TheDustyZebra]

Ok, I'll try this one for starters:

He's a guardian just up the road from us.

 

[HoopyFrood]

So, I've lived here for all my life (somewhat more intermittently in the last four years) and if you had asked me if there were angel statues in the graveyard, I would've said a definite yes. Closer inspection today, with an intent of getting a particular picture, proved otherwise. There was only this small angel standing guard over an equally small grave...

 

[The Procrastinator]

"Looking Out For the Missus"

 

[Culhwch]

Damn you, Hoopy, you stole my idea!

 

[HoopyFrood]

Hah, you know, I actually thought to myself when I was planning it, "I know Cul's taken pictures of graveyard angels, I wonder if he's planning similar..."

Apologies!

Of course, you could go and take a stonking photo that just out-classes mine anyway (which I'm sure you could easily do!)

 

[Culhwch]

I don't know, that's a pretty striking shot you've got there!

That's cool, it'll make me be more creative. And I have one other idea to have a tilt at...

 

[Ursa major]

Or you could think upon "Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?"

 

[Culhwch]

Okay, my first shot. This is actually the first idea I had, before I thought of the stone angels that Hoopy beat me to this month. I quite like how this one came out, actually...

 

[AE35Unit]

Well, playing around with one of my photos last night I produced this!

 

[Sephiroth]

My God, it's full of stars!

 

[AE35Unit]

My God, it's full of stars!

Indeed
BTW this is the original photo I used to make the monolith:
http://fc05.deviantart.net/fs34/f/2008/237/f/b/Across_the_sky_by_Stumm47.jpg

 

[Ursa major]

So you weren't using a prop, then?

 

[AE35Unit]

So you weren't using a prop, then?

ha,very punny

 

[BookStop]

Toured a lovely little battleship today, the Battleship Texas. My hubby's old highschool friend is kind of the guy in charge, so we got to tour the belly of the beast as well. It was a pretty sweet day!