Third Photography Competition

Contrasts:
textures, subject matter, shadows, colours, make of it what you will!

Anything suitable from your archive would be acceptable, if you don’t have time to dash out and compose a new one!

Please add them to this thread. If you don’t know how to do this, instructions are available here

Please remember to reduce the size of your images before you upload them to the Media Library; I can probably correct any HTML errors but I can’t reduce the size of your images!

Entries to be posted before 8pm GMT on Ist of February 2011.

PS:

Just a reminder, which I must admit I forgot to include, only one entry per person.
You are more than welcome to post more here; it’s great to see all your photographs, but would you just let me know which one you would like to include in the competition.

Thanks.

Here’s one I prepared earlier, just to start you off!

112 thoughts on “Third Photography Competition”

  2. Hi, Bearsy.

    I hope I don’t sound too stern. I don’t want to put folks off; I’d like them to give it a try, even if they get it wrong occasionally!

  4. Yippee – that’s meant to be on the subject of light and shade! Taken in August 2006 in Tema, Ghana. Adults and children chilling out one Sunday afternoon. (Thanks Bearsy and Ara.)

  6. Nice one Ara, I’ll start browsing the collections.

    On seconds thoughts, Papag and CWJ have made an impressive start, excellent lads.

  11. Thanks for this Araminta, and for putting links to the ‘how-to-do-instructions’. I think you summed it up beautifully ‘I’d like them to give it a try, even if they get it wrong occasionally!’. We can all pile in and help if people make the attempt!

    I’ve got my camera on stand-by, batteries recharged – but what’s the betting that when I see ‘that picture’ the camera will not be with me! Still I’ll have a go!

  13. Thank you, Boadicea.

    Yes, it’s all a learning curve, and we all have to start somewhere.

    I look forward to your photograph. 🙂

  14. Thank you, Jan, it is one of my prize-winning photographs; Kate Day liked it too!

    Anything suitable is most welcome; the weirder the better. Brownie points for thinking outside the box. 😉

  19. Whoops, missed the caption. This splash of colour is from a market stall in Agogo, Ghana. I thought the smile would brighten the day! The caption was “Salsa Tomatoes”. I thought it was a big jazzy what with the zebra stripes.

  22. Oh soddit Soutie, come out, come out, wherever you are, I’ve overlapped again.
    It has been difficult resizing this, as I took it panoramic style, wide angle lens. Plus I’ve had difficulty getting anything on here today, I keep having to log in, three times already.

  27. Thought I’d try shadows and colours.

    It’s a shot of the Great She-Wolf’s birthday flowers

    Oh God! I’ve read all the tutorials so I hope this works. I’ve already won a photo comp AND I’ve ruffled Bearsy’s fur.

    OZ

  32. Hello Pseu

    I have no idea what Ara meant “textures, subject matter, shadows, colours,”

    All above my head I’m afraid, but I managed to get them all in (notice the lad’s green shorts!)

    To me texture is ‘feely stuff’

    😉

  35. Cheers PapaG. I took the picture several years ago on a rare sunny day on an even rarer visit to Blighty. The background grey is the carpet of the Great Wolves’ cave and the shadows are provided by one of those vertical Venetian blind thingys that they have across the patio doors. Pity WordPress doesn’t support smell-o-vision; the scent was better even than the look. 🙂

    OZ

  38. PapaG and others.

    Just a reminder, which I must admit I forgot to include in the post, only one entry per person.
    You are more than welcome to post more here; it’s great to see all your photographs, but would you just let me know which one you would like to include in the competition.

    Thanks.-

  39. Ara thanks. I will stick with my first entry which has nothing to do with textures, more about light and shade. (It was enough for me to post a picture first time into a comment on this site.)

  41. Thanks, PapaG.

    I think they are both relevant to “contrast”, and I love the colour and vibrancy of the second, but I will include your first.

    I’m not saying much about any of them at the moment; that will come later, but I’m extremely impressed by them all.

  43. Araminta,

    A great post with clear instructions for everyone to follow and, most importantly, a clearly defined subject to post on. 🙂

  45. tocino :

    Araminta,

    A great post with clear instructions for everyone to follow and, most importantly, a clearly defined subject to post on. :-)

    Thank you, Toc.

    Judging by Soutie’s comment #32, he may well disagree about the “clearly defined subject”, but I hope he’s not entirely serious. 🙂

  47. Thank you, Jan.

    I cannot fault your HTML, and it is of similar proportions in the Media Library, but I can’t access it. 😦

    It’s awfully long, is this how it is supposed to be?

    Help, Bearsy!

  48. Hmm!

    Jan has uploaded an image which is 244 x 600, and then blown it up here to 600 x 1,475.
    I am guessing that she mixed up (misinterpreted, misunderstood) her x and y axes, and should have uploaded an image 600 x 244, which would have rendered that way here. But perhaps not.

  58. Thanks, Bearsy. I clicked on the MG pic to get a url; copied it and pasted here but it just got X!

    She is 8 months old and, trust me, you wouldn’t want a full-size version here! 😮

  63. Thank you Pseu, I will look now.

    Ara. Would you be kind enough to delete the image #21 (red Arrows)? I would like image #60 to be my entry please.
    Thanks very much.

  64. Hello, Val.

    I’m happy to take your image #60 to be your entry for the competition, but I’m more than happy, if you are in agreement, to leave your Red Arrows photo on the thread. It’s a stunning image! 🙂

  69. Araminta – Apparently an aspirin crushed into the water also helps, or is that for tulips?

    Val – I have a vague memory (most of them usually are these days) of some empty white Crocs on a beach. Was that you too?

    OZ

  70. Empty white Crocs OZ? Doesn’t sound like me; I assume you do mean crocodiles? If so it ain’t me darlin, we have all sorts of things on our beach, but Crocs ain’t one of them 🙂

  73. Val – ‘Crocs’ is a kickin’ phrase wot I picked up from the Grandcubs, innit – some sort of in-fashion beach shoe, apparently. I’m glad the Dead Sparrows are staying too.

    OZ

  74. Evening Araminta and Bearsy et al. So sorry about the sizing thing. Can I delete and start again or will you swizzle it around for me Bearsy? I was very tired but determined to post something. Don’t remember consciously doing anything with me axes… That’s the correct way up but it works horizontally too. 🙂

    S’not oil Toc!! It’s shadows and light. Ane fule no that. 😀

  75. Jan -Give Toc a break. When I first saw your photograph I got the scale all wrong in my head and assumed you had posted a satellite image of an unidentified part of the coast of South America with jungle, sand-bars, sea and all, but then I thought, “Naah, it’s shadows and light as any fule kno.” 🙂

    OZ

  76. janh1 :

    Evening Araminta and Bearsy et al. So sorry about the sizing thing. Can I delete and start again or will you swizzle it around for me Bearsy? I was very tired but determined to post something. Don’t remember consciously doing anything with me axes… That’s the correct way up but it works horizontally too. :-)

    S’not oil Toc!! It’s shadows and light. Ane fule no that. :-D

    Hello Jan.

    Phew, I’m glad you’re back. I can certainly delete your long photo, but I think swizzling is a bit more tricky. We don’t have much to work with.

    Forget the techo stuff, for the moment, I think we need to start again. There are not enough pesky pixels to do justice to your picture. So, what about posting it on your own site in a blog? Then I can see exactly how it should look. I can pinch it and post it here, or even post it in a comment on your own site and you can press edit on the comment and copy the HTML?

    I think that would work. Let me know how you want to proceed, I’m free at the moment or tomorrow AM!

  77. Evenin’ OZ 🙂 Ho ho ho. That’s precisely why I like it. You can see anything in it. Shadows and light, oil slicks, or a satellite pic of S America. Anyway I have messed up royally, once more. Doh. But as Pope said, to err is human, to forgive, divine.

    Hi Araminta – yes delete if you would be so kind. I’ll post it on my own blog with a link or copy the html – but that’s what I did last time with a v strange result. You’re welcome to pinch it or do what you want with it. A thousand apologies for all the time-wasting messing about! 🙂

  78. OK, Jan.

    No problem. Just publish it in a blog on your own site and I will do the rest, and we can sort out later, as to what went wrong. 🙂

  82. janh1 :

    Looks better horizontal :-)

    Hi, janh1. As I very rarely tire of reminding you down at the flat end of our island, the Welsh are just not very good at vertical.

    It’s a fine picture, to be fair.

  83. Jan – ‘Tis a fine picture to be sure. There are quite a few things that look better horizontal, IMHO. Hello? Is that Sky Sports? About that vacancy…….

    Nighty night 🙂

    OZ

  85. Good morning OZ, yes I remember now, and Pseu is right, it was me who took a photograph of a pair of shoes, not those silly Crocs though 🙂 Fancy you remembering that.

  86. Morning Araminta and thanks again 🙂 It was the rotating thing wot caused the problem. I’m just trying another here, but it’s not an entry.

    Laughing here OZ. Oh yes, you could just slip into their shoes effortlessly, I think 🙂 Honestly. Does no-one have a sense of humour these days? They’d probably get disciplined for telling one of the few jokes I can ever remember: Plane’s lost all engines. Plummeting – everyone knows there are only seconds left – woman turns to man in seat next to her and says passionately “We haven’t got much time. In these last precious moments, make me feel like a woman!” He takes one look at her beautiful pleading eyes and decides “Hell YES”. He rips off his shirt, hands it to her and says “Iron this, love.”

  92. Jan @ 86 – You have also to understand it was a QANTAS flight and the gentleman in question came from the Northern Territories, the last bastion of the red-blooded male. 🙂

    By contrast, quite a few years ago now on a Quaintarse 747 from Singapore to Sydney I was woken at OFFS hrs somewhere well to the south east of Alice Springs by a lisping, perfumed steward with, “Good morning, Mr. Zangado. Can I interest you in a smoothie” How was I to know he was referring to some new-fangled (in those days), southern hemisphere yoghurt fruit drink? There was a short, unfortunate scene involving fangs and much screaming. 😦

    OZ

  93. Ooooh very light and elegant, Pseu and 14.2 megapixels. That’s just *greedy*!!! 😀

    Evenin’ OZ – yes I can believe that. I knew all those bastions had to be holed up somewhere.

    LOL OZ, totally understandable reaction from a red-blooded lupine. You were only defending yourself, after all. 🙂

  95. Ara, that’s a picture of Kojo and friends, presently on holiday in Agogo, Ghana taken Dec 2010. He is expected home next week so I should have loads more pictures. Though I am putting the caption and some descriptive stuff on the media library file whatever you call it – it sure aint coming out here. And I dunno why! Anyway folks, enjoy!

  96. Hi PapaG.

    I bet you are really looking forward to Kojo’s return.

    Lovely picture, thank you!

    I’ll have a look at your photographs in the Media Library, but unless you include them in a comment or a post, they won’t be seen.

    Why not do a post and include them in a Slideshow? Instructions are here.

  97. Ah, PapaG. I can see your post in draft, with one photograph so far.

    I can’t see the post itself but perhaps you haven’t completed or published it yet?

  100. Araminta :

    Ah, PapaG. I can see your post in draft, with one photograph so far.

    I can’t see the post itself but perhaps you haven’t completed or published it yet?

    Ara – I hope to do a slideshow in the next two weeks. I know the instructions are very clear!

  102. A bit of shadow and stony texture here. In spite of the blue sky, it was freezing.

  103. Nice pic FeEG. Semper Fi.

    Have you seen the film Flags of Our Fathers? It features the life stories of the six men who raised the flag at The Battle of Iwo Jima.

  104. tocino :

    Nice pic FeEG. Semper Fi.

    Have you seen the film Flags of Our Fathers? It features the life stories of the six men who raised the flag at The Battle of Iwo Jima.

    Yes. It was very good

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