****APRIL Photo Contest Comments Thread****

[mnhtnbb]

Please use this thread to make comments about photos or ask questions about the April Contest.


The Submissions Thread is here: https://www.democraticunderground.com/103657709

[mnhtnbb]

1. I've posted an announcement about the contest in The Lounge

Please help keep that thread kicked and visible.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/1018940582

[alfredo]

2. I'm in. It was taken during a bicycle race in Asmara Eritrea.

Gigante was a local hero. He had just returned from the Mexico City Olympics where he finished 51th. That might not seem like a good result, but he wrecked once, had two flats, but still had a good result. He might have not won a medal, but he won a warm up race beforehand, and that caught the eye of an Italian pro team.

He was hired by the Italian team and became a big hit with the Eritrean/Ethiopian diaspora in Europe. They would show up at races where he competed. They wore their native clothes, and treated the race as a celebration. There was drumming and dancing.

This shot was at a Race after the olympics. What you see is Gigante being handed a peeled orange. BTW, he won by a huge margin.

[Solly Mack]

3. OK

Music-Fest. Downtown. Very crowded. Always one though. Someone shy, someone uncertain, someone scowling, and always someone willing to pose and preen when you turn a camera on those turning their cameras on others. No matter where you are in the world.

And for the most part, the crowd doesn't really care. Individuals, yes...but the crowd? Not so much.

[mnhtnbb]

4. Checking in from France and I'm not seeing Solly Mack's entry or Callalily's

Anyone else with that problem?

Is it me here alone?

[Solly Mack]

5. Bummer. Photobucket could be down.

Hope you're having fun!

[a la izquierda]

6. I had the wonderful opportunity...

to visit Bolivia back in March, to see my students who were there on a service semester abroad project for Amizade. I loved every minute of Bolivia, but it really is another world. This photo is from a private preserve called Las cascadas, along the road from Santa Cruz to Samaipata. From the highest points in the area, you can see the difference in geography and vegetation as you look from the Andean cordillera over to the Amazonian lowlands.

[Mira]

7. Photo friends and country men/women

I have internet for a day or so, and I like what I see with the contest developing and suspect I'll have a contribution
I'm in South Africa, I've seen and photographed things I hope to be showing you (no downloading til I get home)
I can't begin to tell you what all I am experiencing and seeing and taking pictures of. But if you bear with me, over time, there will be posts with tales and photos.
I think this is one of the two most exciting trips of my life and I hope to stay nice and safe and make it through the trip home (24 hours Johannesburg -
Washington) so I can maybe take apart segments of it and tell you about it if you like. My fortunate situation is that I'm traveling with and around supportive natives, that even can take me into places like the townships of Apartheid, the slums, the places Americans would call the projects, and one took me into the depth because she lives there and served me tea in her hut from boiled bottled water, where she bathes in a tub twice the size of a dishpan and has no toilet. Here, without being in those protective hands you don't have an assurance to come out alive. But I am in a situation where I'm able to see a segment without worry.
My measly perception of Apartheid, then and now, is undergoing a serious education process.
So - save me a space in the contest - and if not, expect to hear from me with travelogues maybe worth looking at.

[elleng]

8. Great to hear you're having such good experiences, Mira.

[Callalily]

9. Can't wait to see your photos!

South Africa is on my visit list!

[CaliforniaPeggy]

10. My dear Mira!

So good to hear from you! I am glad you're safe and seeing many incredible sights.

I'm pretty sure there will be a space for your photo!

[mnhtnbb]

11. I'm watching the contest submissions from France, Mira

and will put in a 'placeholder' for you if needed.

Still having photobucket problems on my laptop--not seeing several entries--and I've been unable to get photobucket to load
on my laptop here. Have reported it to photobucket.

[Solly Mack]

12. Mira! Miss you! Looking forward to photos and more about your experiences!

[mnhtnbb]

13. I am now seeing all the photos-LOVE the entries--

although I still can't get signed in to my photobucket account. Le sigh.

[mnhtnbb]

14. We need some more entries!

Please! Take a look in your archives if nothing has appeared to you recently!

[mnhtnbb]

15. Opening the contest to allow a second entry for photographers.

If you have entered under the "no place like home" concept, please consider entering one from an adventure that blew you away.
Likewise, if you entered something from a wild adventure, please consider entering something that made you glad to be home.


It would be fun to have one photo of each concept from each photographer who has entered, but you aren't limited to that. If you have two of
adventures, go for it. If you have two of something that gives you the grins to live where you do, go for that.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

16. OK! Sounds like a plan. I will see what I have.

[elleng]

17. Will REsearch for my first!

[Solly Mack]

19. OK. :)

[askyagerz]

18. No place like home.... (Goonies famous) Astoria,OR

Drove up and visited Astoria, OR a few months ago and watching the cargo ships come in and out really makes you appreciate how long those people are away from their families. I used to work on the road when my girls were younger and it killed me to be gone a week. Driving home would just stretch out forever. Definitely wasn't any better place then home when I finally pulled in the drive.

[Atman]

20. I threw one into the mix.

I wish it was MY home! A pic from our trip to Thailand. If it wasn't for kids and grandkids here in the states I'd move there tomorrow.

[Solly Mack]

21. Mira's in!

[elleng]

22. I'm in.

Finally found an oldie, old trip (2000,) old camera (Nikon slr, long gone.)

[mnhtnbb]

24. You can put in a second one. Why not one of your fabulous sunset river vews?

[elleng]

25. Will do, if you'd like.

Bon retour!!!

[mnhtnbb]

23. I will be closing the April contest for submissions tomorrow--April 25th--when we get home

from our trip.

We have a lot of wonderful entries! If you want to get in, hurry! There are still some spots left.

[mnhtnbb]

26. SUBMISSIONS ARE CLOSED--PRELIMS COMING TOMORROW!