***July Contest COMMENT THREAD***

[ohheckyeah]

Comment on the photos found here.

[Agschmid]

1. I'm in!

[ohheckyeah]

2. Great way to kick things off! n/t

[elleng]

3. Here we go!

[Agschmid]

4. Nice entry!

[elleng]

5. Thanks.

Yours too; takes me home!

[Agschmid]

6. ... Literally?

Cause the 7 train could actually take you home

[elleng]

7. Figuratively!

I was born in NYC.

[ohheckyeah]

9. Lovely photo, elleng!

[elleng]

11. Thanks, ohheck.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

8. Lookin' good, everybody!

I had a hard time choosing.

[ohheckyeah]

10. I don't know what your other choices

look like but you chose well as far as I can see. Very interesting angle, CaliforniaPeggy.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

13. Well, thank you!

[Agschmid]

12. I like yours!

I'd love to hear the story behind it...

[CaliforniaPeggy]

14. Aw, thanks!

My husband and I were on a cruise around Iceland, and these were the skiffs used to get to shore, when there wasn't any dock. We had to have waterproof clothing and shoe covers, because we had to wade through a bit of surf!

It was pretty strenuous, but we had a great time.

So there you have it!

[Agschmid]

15. Some cold water too!

Seems like it would be a good cruise.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

16. It was a very good cruise...

But omigod strenuous! We should have been in much better shape!

[mnhtnbb]

18. Cruises provide so many opportunities for interesting 'travel' photos

I looked back through my cruise photos several times for this contest. On our Baltic cruise this last
May our cabin was on the starboard side of the ship and the pilot boat came right
up next to the ship after we were out of Tallinn harbor and I was shooting away hoping
to catch the pilot hop from our cruise ship back to the pilot boat, but alas, I looked away at
just the wrong second to catch him making the jump. I would have loved to get that shot!

Can't you just imagine it? Here's the pilot boat next to the cruise ship

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[CaliforniaPeggy]

21. That would have been great, my dear mnhtnbb!

Even without that, though, this is still a fascinating photo.

Travel does bring many opportunities.

[mnhtnbb]

17. I'm in!

[Earth_First]

19. I'm in...

This is my busy season...so unfortunately I wasn't able to shoot specifically for this theme so I went to the archives.

This photograph was from last fall where we had traveled out to Letchworth State Park (Grand Canyon of the East) on a socked in misty morning.

The trestle where this photograph was taken is nearly 250' high in it's center and on a clear autumn day offers some breathtaking views of the foliage.

At any rate...hope you enjoy!

Thanks for hosting, ohheckyeah!

[mnhtnbb]

20. I love this shot! So mysterious...what lies ahead?!?

[ohheckyeah]

26. You're welcome

and I love the photo. I love mist and fog photos.

[Agschmid]

43. I love that park!

The bridge really is amazing and quite scary to be up on, great entry!

[Solly Mack]

22. Wonderful entries!

Great photos!!

Off to an excellent start, ohheckyeah!! Doing a great job!!

[ohheckyeah]

27. Thank you, Solly Mack. n/t

[alfredo]

23. Is hiking considered travel?

[mnhtnbb]

24. Why not? I know someone who spent a month in Spain this spring hiking

one of the El Camino routes. She posted fabulous photos every night when they stopped.

She titled this shot: The path doesn't always take you where you think you are going ...

[alfredo]

25. We have paths and trails all over this region.

[ohheckyeah]

28. Sure - it's moving from once place to another.

[alfredo]

31. I'm going to travel from my den to the kitchen for a cup of tea.

[ohheckyeah]

33. Some people just have to push

the boundaries. LOL

I like that in a person.

[alfredo]

36. "What does not kill me, makes me stronger." - Friedrich Nietzsche

[ohheckyeah]

37. LOL

[ohheckyeah]

29. I almost spit out my coffee

when I saw Beer and Travel Money.

Well played, NV Whino.

It's a really nice photo, too.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

30. I agree: that was very inventive of her!

A beautiful photo too!

[ohheckyeah]

32. It is a great photo.

I am due beer and travel money, and many experiences.

I'll chuckle every time I see it or think about it.

[NV Whino]

34. Thanks!

A late night inspiration that I couldn't resist.

[ohheckyeah]

35. So very clever.

[Solly Mack]

41. Me too!

Love it!

[CrispyQ]

61. It put a big smile on my face!

[ohheckyeah]

38. We have a lot of great submissions...

keep them coming!

[mnhtnbb]

39. I just changed the title of my photo to remove reference to place.

That's the edit history on my submission now titled: Sightseeing and Contrails

[ohheckyeah]

40. No problem...

thanks for the heads up.

[alfredo]

42. I'm really glad there are a lot of black and white entries.

I like black and white.

[Agschmid]

44. Me too!

[alfredo]

45. Yeah. Look at my OP of some black and white from Steve Huff's site.

[ohheckyeah]

46. I love B&W photography. n/t

[alfredo]

47. Once you get the hang of the channel mixer, a whole

New world of possibilities opens.

[Mz Pip]

48. Agree

It takes some time but worth the effort. Endless subtleties await those with some patience. I'm not even close to mastering it.

[alfredo]

49. It's amazing what a green filter will do for a landscape. I also tweak the

color balance between blue or yellow. This month's entry went yellow with a light lomo filter to give it an early 20th century look.

[ohheckyeah]

50. I also love the

white and black and shadows and highlights settings in Lightroom.

[alfredo]

52. I do most of my work in GIMP, but sometimes I use the open source LightZone.

LightZone gives a lot of options for Black and White.

[ohheckyeah]

53. I use Photoshop

and Lightroom. I find that I now prefer Lightroom.

[alfredo]

54. I'm waiting to see what Apple has in store for Photos. I think they are folding

Aperture into the next version of OSX. The beta screenshots points to just that.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

51. Mira, yours is both artistic and it fits the theme perfectly!

Well done!



And allow me to say, I'm so sorry about your mom...

[ohheckyeah]

55. I'll second both sentiments. n/t

[Mira]

57. Thank you.

You are doing a very fine job ohheckyeah. I think you are having fun.

[ohheckyeah]

59. Thank you....

we'll see how the preliminaries and finals postings go.

[Mira]

56. Thank you so much Peggy

for everything, especially for being YOU!
Your photo and title made me laugh. Great!

[Solly Mack]

58. Wow! Such great entries!!

I'm so jealous!!!!!

[ohheckyeah]

60. Truly -

we have boats, planes, motorcycles, bridges, train tracks, the subway, a landing strip, and beer. I'm anxious to see what else our creative photographers come up with.

[CrispyQ]

62. Corsair. I love it!

But then I love black & white checkerboard, planes & the number 5.

[ohheckyeah]

63. We're more than halfway

with submissions - keep them coming.

[ohheckyeah]

64. Only 4 days left!

We need more submissions - please. I know there are some more people here that must have some creative ideas.

[av8rdave]

65. I'm new to this group...hope it's OK to barge in with a submission...

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[elleng]

66. Sure is. Welcome!

Use the Submission thread:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/103632196

[ohheckyeah]

67. Welcome to the group!

Be sure to post your photo in the submission thread HERE

Don't forget to give it a title.

[Agschmid]

68. I'm curious to know what caused that!

[av8rdave]

73. It's an oncoming airplane, 1000' below

What you're seeing are its contrails from a different perspective. Unfortunately, either photobucket or DU dumbed down the resolution, so you can't see the aircraft itself very well. The original is much better.

[Agschmid]

74. Wow very cool.

[ohheckyeah]

75. Photobucket does that....

try Flickr....although I think they all change the resolution to 72dpi on the Internet, Flickr does a better job of keeping the color and looks better.

[ohheckyeah]

69. bluesbassman

Dog is my copilot.....clever and well done!

[Mira]

70. My whole family oohed and aahed over it.

So did I.
ADORABLE and brilliantly titled

[mnhtnbb]

72. Really, that is so cute!

[bluesbassman]

76. Thank you all for the nice comments!

My daughter had just obtained her driver license and I let her drive home from a soccer tournament so she could get some freeway time. I took the opportunity to use my camera while driving, and got this shot while going down I-5 near Stockton. The human occupant was smiling as I took the shot, obviously pleased that her copilot caught my eye. It's not a particularly good technical photo, but I thought it fit the travel theme pretty well, and title (from the bumper sticker) seemed apropos. Glad you enjoyed it.

[ohheckyeah]

71. I like dogs....

they make me smile.

[Solly Mack]

77. Loving the cute and adorable...and very creative entries!!

[ohheckyeah]

78. So many great submissions!

Callalily - that's a beautiful scene.

Richard D - the light in your photo is gorgeous.