"Fall" photogroup contest COMMENTS thread...

[Blue_In_AK]

Post your comments on the excellent fall photos below

[ET Awful]

1. Ooooo Honeychurch, I like it :)

Very cool shot.

[MissHoneychurch]

2. Thank you

yours is fantastic also. I have the feeling that will become a very tough contest again :)

[ET Awful]

3. I forgot to say that Blue in AK's is great too, I especially like the

silhouettes of the branch/leaf showing through the backlit one :).

[Blue_In_AK]

4. That's actually InTheFlow's shot...

She's off-line in Mississippi and sent it to me before she left so I could post it for her.

[ET Awful]

5. D'OH . . . I KNEW that and I still screwed up :)

Ah well. It must be Tuesday. I never could get the hang of Tuesdays.

[Blue_In_AK]

6. This is off topic, ET

but I see in your profile that your hobby is snowboarding. Have you heard of the extreme snowboarding competitions that take place up here near Valdez?

http://www.valdezalaska.org/photoGalleries/winterActivities/home.html

You ought to try it sometime -- me, I'm too old and too chicken.

[ET Awful]

7. That just a little too hairy for me :)

I'm more of a mellow, cruising and carving style rider than a "let's see how many limbs I can break, or failing that, how many teeth I can loosen" type rider :).

[bvar22]

8. I wanteds to do something different,

but finally posted a "colored leaves" picture.

If this had been a better photo, I would have used this one.


I took it from some distance (wide angle)in low light, and lost too much detail in the cropping. (I love the expression on the dog's face, and Fall means WORK for urban residents.)

The enties so far are outstanding!!!
I love the IR "Spirit Tree".

[HeeBGBz]

11. I like that picture

Something about it pleases me. It's comfy.

[Blue_In_AK]

13. Is this your home?

It looks really cozy.

[bvar22]

16. Thanks.

Not my home, but my home city Minneapolis/St Paul.

I like the picture too, but the cropping and slow shutter really hurt the clarity. It was cropped from this "hip shot" while I was looking for "pretty trees" in one of our city parks.


I didn't know this guy and his dog, but later asked if I could take their pictures. I was using a tripod, but shooting with available light and long exposures on a dark day (looking for something different like a neat light glowing through fall foliage).

I love the pumpkin glow that a 1 sec exposure produced, but people and dogs can't hold still for a crisp picture at that speed.
This was shot from much closer.
I also have 2 new friends.

[Blue_In_AK]

9. A suggestion from the host(ess)...

Could somebody make Kitchen Witch's photo of the lone gull a little bigger? I'm afraid it will get kind of lost in among all the larger pix.

[KitchenWitch]

10. I can fix that...

I believe the original is HUGE so I can resubmit it...

I will get it up later tonight!

[Blue_In_AK]

12. Thanks, Kitchen Witch

I just want to make sure you get noticed. :)

[Blue_In_AK]

14. Mogster, I love your fog shots SO MUCH.

I'm really glad you decided to use one in this contest.

[Ms. Toad]

17. Me too!

...And it probably eliminates whatever small risk there might have been that I would win and accidentally post the contest in the Motorsport group, or some other obscure forum (there's only two posts there) where no one would ever find it }(

[mogster]

25. Heh-heh, oh no, Ms. Toad

I think your berries and leaves rock! :-)
Potential, that's for sure.

A lot of awesome photography in this contest - I kinda like them all ;-)

[mogster]

24. Thanks, Blue_In_AK

I really like a lot of the photos submitted to this group, and the nice comments too :D

There are obviously good photographers hanging out at the DU, and I hope to pick up some of your tricks :-)
I like you backlit leaves - good choice.

[Blue_In_AK]

27. It's InTheFlow's backlit leaves...

I'm not entering this time because I "won" the contest last month and am now hosting. Hosts sit out the contest.

[mogster]

26. Erm... I have now read the comments further up and...

.. realize my error ;-)
*Whispers: great shot, InTheFlow*

I understand now that you're hosting this contest, and are not submitting your own.

*sigh* I really need to start paying attention :-o

[Blue_In_AK]

28. "oops...I should have read your next post." [[whispers]]

[alfredo]

15. I made my choice. For once I rejected the dark and

mysterious closeup world of a 9 year old, opting for a more romantic image.

[DS1]

18. Even though I think I can already pick out the winner

( not that there's anything wrong with that )

How many entrants are you accepting for this round?

[F.Gordon]

19. Where's your entry? I don't see it

:shrug:

You must have one Fall photograph.

"Winning" is subjective. I see it as being anyone who takes the time and effort to actually enter a photo to be layed out in the Lounge for all to see. But that's just me. :crazy:

[DS1]

20. Still deciding

I like my photos, until it's time to pick one, then Mr. Scrutinous comes out to play

[F.Gordon]

21. I'll pick your entry if you pick mine

I've narrowed it down to 18 snaps.

Just close your eyes and pick one. Me? I'm looking for an eighteen sided coin. :crazy:

[Ms. Toad]

22. Narrow it down to 12

and use one of these:

http://www.korthalsaltes.com/dodecahedron.html

I'd be glad to mail you as many copies as you would like - I've still got stacks of old ditto copies from the day before Christmas when I had to have some math related exercise available for 100% of my munchkins to do, but couldn't realistically expect more than 1/3 of them to show up for math class. They make nice tree ornaments, photo display devices, dice, etc.

[ET Awful]

30. Or you could use a 20-sided die as used in role-playing games

and just discard a result of 19 or 20 and re-roll :)

[DS1]

34. eh, I decided to go the complete opposite direction

of my original choices

we'll see what happens :shrug:

[F.Gordon]

37. Yea, making decisions can be tough

This "opposite direction" thing? I completely understand where you're coming from. I actually kinda' like it. Appreciate you exposing me to this new form of "artistic" expression. It's interesting on so many levels.

It removes the outer shell that most people see and allows one to see inside the "art"... to see it for what it really is.

This place is great. I learn something new here everyday.

Thanks again. I feel.... enlightened.
:hi:

[Blue_In_AK]

23. Thirty or sometime over the weekend, whichever comes first.

[MissHoneychurch]

29. WOW

all the entries are great.

This is going to be more than tough on our friends in the Lounge to decide :evilgrin:

[Blue_In_AK]

31. Rabrrrr, glad to see you showed up on time. :-)

[Rabrrrrrr]

33. Thanks!

I thought I had more digital fall shots, but come to find out, I have very few - they're almost all film. And I have no scanner, so, well, there ya go. :-)

[BamaGirl]

32. Wonderful entries y'all ;)

[regnaD kciN]

35. No kidding...

I've been going over the entries, playing my usual game of "guess which ones will make the finals." The problem is that, this time, I can already count eleven that should make the final ten :shrug: , with possibly five more entries still to come.

This is going to be a tough one!

[lakemonster11]

36. I'm never right about which ones are going to make the finals.

Usually the ones that I think are the best get very few votes. It's highly perplexing. :shrug:

[ET Awful]

38. ACK! Puppy picture . . . .

They always say never to go up against animals or kids. :P

WOOF

[Mutley]

40. No kidding!

I almost took a few shots with my dogs playing in the leaves but I didn't think it would be fair. x( I should've done it. :D

[DS1]

42. Well, it's a flagrant violation of the rules, too

Dunno if they are going to be enforced or not

[Ms. Toad]

43. Are you talking about size?

Usually what happens is the host resizes, or someone points it out to the contestant and s/he does it.

[Blue_In_AK]

46. Jhain, perhaps you could resubmit your picture,

just a little smaller, or maybe one of you other wizards out there can fit it into the proper size category. I don't know about everybody else, but on my monitor, the puppy spills out over the side.

[F.Gordon]

47. How bout' a dunce?

:dunce:

?

[Blue_In_AK]

48. That looks good...

Do you think Jhain would object if I moved it over to the submissions thread? Jhain? Jhain? Are you out there?

[jhain]

53. thanks

usually photo bucket seems to spit them out too small not too big.
I will attempt to fix it.

[Blue_In_AK]

54. Thanks, Jhain...

If you could get it maybe somewhere in between how big it was and how big F.Gordon got it (which seemed a little small to me) it would probably be perfect. That's an awfully cute dog, by the way, and I'm not even a dog person.

[bvar22]

55. You can use this one:

I resized it.
No charge.


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just kidding.
Cute pup!
:hi:

[Blue_In_AK]

56. You're funny, Bvar.

Actually, Jhain sent me one that's more to size, so I've added it onto the submissions thread. It's still a tiny bit big, but I think it fits within the parameters.

[jhain]

58. bwahwhahwhahwhwh

Big help!

No, really, thanks to everyone for pointing out my mistake- I need to learn more about all of this- I TAKE thousands of shots- dealing with the finished product is the hard work.
Odd that every other time I have used photobucket I have been disappointed in the small results. Someday, I'll get it right. Obviously, the other times I must have cropped the originals before uploading to photobucket. I think, maybe, perhaps...
Can you tell that photography is an art- NOT a science- to me?

I'll keep hanging around here and trying to gain some more smarts. The photos are ALL gorgeous!

I have to agree that a cute dog is cheatin.! But, this was my best shot in weeks- it deserved to be submitted. This dog is RARELY more than a blur of fur and how she loves a leaf pile:

[Blue_In_AK]

39. Just a reminder, I'm cutting this thing off

at 30, so if there's anybody out there who still hasn't entered, you'd better get on it fast.

[Rabrrrrrr]

41. Isn't that what the Mohel says?

:7

[ET Awful]

44. Ouch.

I mean that from the bottom of my . . . or should that be the tip of my . . .

:evilgrin:

[Blue_In_AK]

45. I didn't mean it like THAT. lol.

[Guy Fawkes]

49. Mogster's Old Tree...

my favourite. The darkness of the fog and the sense of cold you get by looking at the tree make me remember those falls of years past... when the weather didn't act all crazy. You'd have rain and fog, progressing slowly into coldness and snow...

[F.Gordon]

50. It really sucks that only 10 can be in the finals

Lookin' em over. IMO the number of photos that should be in the final 10 goes waaaaaay between that limitation.:(

And I honestly can't pick just one that is a favorite. I have several, none of which will probably "win" because I don't "judge" a photo based on technical purity - excellent composition.... I'm attracted by the story I see or those that stimulate my imagination.

It just really sucks that only 10 can be in the final Lounge Liz Votathon. But it is what it is.

[CC]

51. Great bunch of photos

and so many different from each other. More proof of the creativity and skills of DUers. Not saying what my favorite is, mostly because I can't decide since they are all good. Wonder if someone is renting a kid and baby animals to go up against the puppy. Maybe that is where number 30 is.

[Blue_In_AK]

52. I have a great old (and I do mean OLD) shot of me

playing in the leaves that my dad took when I was about four that would sure be a strong contender. I know I couldn't enter it in a contest, but maybe someday I'll take those old photos of me and my brothers that I have hanging on my wall, have them scanned and post them here. They're really priceless. My dad was a great photographer. When I was little we lived on a farm, without even any indoor plumbing -- but we sure had a darkroom. LOL.

[CC]

57. You should scan them.

Not only to post here but to put and cd and save. And then make Cd's for the brothers to save. I would love to see them though so you would have to do some screen size. No wonder you have a good eye for photography.

[Robb]

59. Renting kids, you say...

...Hmmm. :D

Got one I'll let go cheap! :P

[HeeBGBz]

60. Who won?

I missed it.

[Ms. Toad]

61. No one

.....yet.

Go vote! http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x4334256

Mine potentially needs some help.....just kidding. All 30 were winners, but the 10 that made it to the final round are up in the lounge.