August 2010 Photo Challenge

Hurrah! Found my camera . . . well, to be more precise, my son found it in a Peppa Pig purse, where I now recall I put it to keep it, and the spare memory card, together.

No time to take the particular photo I wanted, so here are my offerings:


:eek::eek:


Arrgh - Flickr has changed things and nothing I try is uploading the images I want.

Can anyone suggest another/better site?

Have now tried with Snapfish, and no more luck. Guess I'm sitting this month out :(
 
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You've got another twenty or so minutes, StormFeather. If you've still got your photos on Flickr, go to the image, go to Actions > View All Sizes, pick the size that you want, right click on that image once it has loaded, and either click 'Copy Image Address' or go into the Properties and copy the image address from there. Then paste that into the image box here! Simple! Trust me, it works - it's how I do it.
 
Okay, a little more than twenty minutes. Got sidetracked. But entries are now closed.

The rules for the voting are as follows:

Any member of the Chrons may cast a vote, even if they did not enter a photo for the challenge

Please do not vote for yourself

You may only cast your vote once

The poll will end at 11:59 pm on Tuesday, August 31st (GMT)

The winner will decide the challenge theme for September!

Good Luck Everyone!!!

TO VOTE, FOLLOW THE LINK:

August Photography Challenge - THE SAME BUT DIFFERENT - Poll | Polldaddy.com (poll 3680974)​
 
For some reason I find it so much easier to decide on votes in the photo challenge than I do in the 75-word story challenge!

Lots of great photos this month, but to me it was a runaway for Vertigo's ice/water shot. Fabulous picture!

I did especially like Moonbat's signs, too. :)
 
Tough decision, some very good shots, but in the end I voted for Vertigo - that water/ice shot was just beautiful. However is it just me or is AE35Unit missing from the poll?? I almost wanted to vote for him because of his cameras, they looked so cute and "eye-like", Dave...and while I was making t'final decision, I noticed I couldn't find him on the list...am I blind? (very possible)

Other standouts for me were Culhwch's Brownie, Leisha's red mineral wonderland, CyBer's lovely mirror shot, and Mouse's fuschias.
 
A tough decision for me, too - there were some really good entries again this month. I loved all of the different camera shots, Moonbat's mixed up signs, and TDZ's hummingbirds were lovely, as was TP's flower and Vertigo's water/ice shot. Still, my one vote for the month went to Mouse for the beautiful fuchias.:)
 
I loved the entries this month - some really creative interpretations!

I love photography and thought I would pop in my own comments and some crtiques/suggestions on the entries. Obviously just my own thoughts and meant to be constructive :). I had produced them anyway to help my decision so thought I would post them. If anyone thinks this is inappropriate (after all this is a challenge not a critique thread) I will avoid doing so next time.

Talysia - great idea with the keys - I never would have thought of that one. And even better idea with the pennies and a great shot too - I loved the simple composition.
Mouse loved the Fuchias - I might have upped the contrast and saturation a little - the second shot was perfect for that but shame you couldn't have squeezed out a little more depth of field. I don't know what camera you used but if it was one with a close up setting (usually a picture of a flower) and with a landscape setting - you would bizarrely enough probably have done better using the landscape one for this shot. The cameras usually go for low depth of field on close up and high depth of field for landscape.
Moonbat - loved the quirky themes of your entries
TheDustyZebra - I'm just blown away by you catching the Hummingbirds; I have tried before and failed with just a blurred mess (no patience I guess). I'm guessing that is a special Hummingbird feeder
Procrastinator - I loved the tones of the bowls, I felt I could almost touch them and wanted to - I would have loved to have been able to see a little more of the lovely wood grain though. Your smiling flower was perfect - focus, saturated colours... magic.
TheAce - great idea with the cameras - and you were first in with it too!
Cyber - so dark, so moody... lovely, I always seem to struggle to get those kind of shots right - need to practice them more!
Rosemary - lovely simple idea - I might have tried using just the light of the candle alone but that might not have been enough then to capture the flame without it blurring... hmm.
Mosaix - I just loved the saturated blue and yellow fish with no other significant colours cluttering it and the match to the theme was perfect, I might have tried to photoshop out the fish coming in from the top left. Really liked your skyscrapers too, again great match to the theme. I might have rotated the image a little, you have converging verticals naturally but the left one is vertical making the image look like it is leaning to the left.
AE35Unit - Nice shot of the cameras particularly with the diagonal composition. I really liked the sceond shot of the grasses (is bamboo a grass? - dosen't really matter though :)). I liked the contrast in textures; so different.
Cul - loved the Brownie (my mom used to have one when I was a kid), must admit I was tempted by an old bellows camera I have of my dad's from the same era.
Leisha - two lovely shots with gorgeous colours and another entry that I wanted to reach into and touch.

My short list was
Talysia's pennies
Mouse's second flower shot
Procrastinator's Mr Happy
Mosaix's fish

All pretty much tied for me and so, with the second shots, Mosaix snuck into first place with his skyscrapers.
 
Vertigo said:
AE35Unit - Nice shot of the cameras particularly with the diagonal composition. I really liked the sceond shot of the grasses (is bamboo a grass? - dosen't really matter though :)). I liked the contrast in textures; so different.
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It is indeed a type of grass, which is why I included it in the theme.
 
Ah well there you go, I figured you probably knew! - and me being something (though not much of a thing) of a gardener with both grasses and bamboo in my garden I really should have known :eek:. However either way it still matched the theme fine for me on a couple of levels.

Two types of grass - even if they weren't, they are both plants with the same kind of structure.
Also, dead plant sheltering a live plant growing - which I kind of liked better :).
 
Vertigo said:
Two types of grass - even if they weren't, they are both plants with the same kind of structure.
Also, dead plant sheltering a live plant growing - which I kind of liked better :).
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That was kind of my thinking when I originally uploaded the pic to devant art-nature fighting back.
 
I’ve really enjoyed the photos. Thanks for sharing. :)

They are all good, but in the end I chose three for my shortlist. I am not a photographer, but I really liked these.

Vertigo - Ice and water
TheDustyZebra - hummingbird
Mosaix - skyscrapers

And Vertigo’s Ice and water has my vote. A wonderful photo.
 
Thank you kindly for that votes :eek:

I thought I would make a suggestion similar to the one I made in the writing challenge. How about a separate thread for the challenge winners, or possibly a photo album; a new 'virtual' chrons member could be created that 'owned' the album. Again possibly first, second and third places could be added. Maybe the photographer could say a few words about the image as well (if they choose).
 
Talysia said:
Still, my one vote for the month went to Mouse for the beautiful fuchias.:)
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Yay! Thank you!

Vertigo said:
Mouse loved the Fuchias - I might have upped the contrast and saturation a little - the second shot was perfect for that but shame you couldn't have squeezed out a little more depth of field. I don't know what camera you used but if it was one with a close up setting (usually a picture of a flower) and with a landscape setting - you would bizarrely enough probably have done better using the landscape one for this shot. The cameras usually go for low depth of field on close up and high depth of field for landscape.
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Unfortunately my decent camera was the one that got nicked, so I'm back to using my Samsung, which has the crappiest macro mode ever. I did take some photos with my film SLR camera, but not used the film up yet, so photos aren't developed!

Anyway, I didn't know that about the landscape setting. Cheers!

I voted for Leisha. I was going to vote for Talysia for ages, but Leisha's pics are too pretty!
 
I had a look on the home insurance but personal items out of the house weren't covered. I thought I had insurance on the camera but can't find any info. :(
 
Okay, without a seconds thought Vertigo gets my vote this month.

It perfectly fits my interpretation of the theme: water in four different states in a single photo' - ice, droplet, splash and pool. And the photo' confirmed something that I'd heard; that a droplet is globular and not 'tear' shaped.

Slightly disappointed with his the second submission but the first more than made up for it.

Well done, Vertigo. Looks like a well deserved run-away victory. :)

I hope the theme gave everyone plenty to think about and a new way of looking at old things.
 
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