PF Photo Contest - You're So Cold, You're So Cold! (8/9-8/15)

[ZapperZ]

You're So Cold, You're So Cold!

A few weeks ago we had a photo contest to depict the epitome of summer. This time, we go the opposite direction. The photo contest this week requires a photo which (i) makes you feel cold, (ii) leaves you with a cold feeling, or (iii) gives you the chills! So this contest is highly subjective to the feeling of the individual viewer. Note that the picture need not depict wintery or cold scenary, so use your imagination.

Contest Rules:

1. Any digital photo or digitally-scanned photo relevant to the theme will be accepted within the contest period. In case there's a grey area, or you're not sure if the picture is suitable, check with me first.

2. Please resize your digital photo to no more than 650 x 490 pixels. You may also crop your picture if you wish. But other than that, any form of picture editing or modification is not allowed. This is a photo contest, not a picture editing/special effect contest. You may add a watermark or your name/nickname to the photo for identification purposes.

3. Upload your photos to any of the photo servers such as imageshack. Then post it the relevant contest thread and link your picture using the img command. PM me if you do not know how.

4. Only ONE picture per member per contest.

5. At the end of the contest period, I will open a poll and every PF member can vote for the picture they like best.

6. Note that in case we have a large number of entries, I will do the polling in more than one thread. If that's the case, you can vote in each of the polling threads. The photos will be assigned in the the polling threads in the order they were submitted.

7. These pictures must be something that you took, not something taken off someone else's photo albums or taken by someone else. I have no way of checking if you did this, so we'll go by the honor system.

8. You can use a picture only once. Once it is used in a contest, it cannot be reused in another contest.

9. Please post only pictures meant for submission in this thread.

Zz.

[Astronuc]

Would this picture qualify?
http://www.physicsforums.com/showpost.php?p=550954&postcount=1508

Although, it's not very cold. :biggrin:

[ZapperZ]

Would this picture qualify?
http://www.physicsforums.com/showpost.php?p=550954&postcount=1508

Although, it's not very cold. :biggrin:

If you're asking for the "technical" aspect of it, it depends on who took it if that's a picture of you. If it was done by someone else, it doesn't qualify. If you used a tripod, then it does.

As for if it qualifies, or relevant to the contest theme, that's up to the people who will be voting for it. Since you admitted it wasn't very cold, then you have to hope that the picture sends chills through the spines of people who viewed it!

<ZapperZ runs and ducks> :)

Zz.

[turbo]

This is my neighbor's dog Jaxx, when he returned from the vet's after being "fixed". I didn't even know he was broken, but maybe that's why the glum expression and why he's got his butt planted in the snow. :rolleyes:

http://img301.imageshack.us/img301/22/jaxxfixedqq2.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

[rocketboy]

This is the fridge after stocking it at my friends cottage.
http://i112.photobucket.com/albums/n167/rocketboy55/fridge.jpg

[Mk]

:rofl::rofl::rofl:
:rofl::rofl::rofl:
:rofl::rofl::rofl:

[JasonRox]

This is the fridge after stocking it at my friends cottage.
http://i112.photobucket.com/albums/n167/rocketboy55/fridge.jpg

I like it. :biggrin:

[Mk]

What is in there? Beer, sausage, and mustard?

[rocketboy]

What is in there? Beer, sausage, and mustard?

haha ya, we hadn't put the steaks and burgers in at that point (wasn't much room left)

[Chi Meson]

This is the fridge after stocking it at my friends cottage.
http://i112.photobucket.com/albums/n167/rocketboy55/fridge.jpg
Contest over.

[Gokul43201]

Maybe we should judge this round more objectively - say, based on the lowest temperature attained by the subject of the picture! :devil:

[ZapperZ]

I think you guys are getting this contest all wrong. These are not pictures that are supposed to leave you with warm, cozy, and "content" feeling (isn't that what you feel when you see a fridge full of beer?)! :)

Zz.

[Mk]

Then again a close friend might have been an alcoholic.

[rcgldr]

That Oklahoma faked picture of a dismembered motorcyclist would give most the chills, but I didn't take it, and it is a fake (pretty good one though), and I don't have any pictures I've taken worthy of rotten.com or similar sites. Oh well, will have to dig through the archives for winter pictures.

[GeoMike]

Rime encrusted trail sign and Krummholz along the Appalachian Trail:

http://www.mcschell.com/img_0254sm.jpg

-GeoMike-

[larkspur]

Rime encrusted trail sign and Krummholz along the Appalachian Trail:

http://www.mcschell.com/img_0254sm.jpg

-GeoMike-

That is a great one!

[rocketboy]

Rime encrusted trail sign and Krummholz along the Appalachian Trail:

http://www.mcschell.com/img_0254sm.jpg

-GeoMike-
I love it man, awesome pic.

[Janus]

Multnomah Falls last Winter.

http://home.earthlink.net/~parvey/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/falls.jpg

[Astronuc]

Rime encrusted trail sign and Krummholz along the Appalachian Trail:

http://www.mcschell.com/img_0254sm.jpg

-GeoMike- Cool! :cool: :tongue2: :approve: :rofl: :biggrin:

[Moonbear]

At last, a thread where I can use my sheep in snow picture! Except...dum dum dum...as I went to get it out to scan it (the old scan I have is pretty crummy, so I think I can get a cleaner scan now), I realized I have not one, but THREE sheep in snow pictures! I can't decide which to use. :cry: I think I've narrowed it down to two (one has big spots on it from where the lens got wet from the falling snow). One is prettier scenery surrounding the sheep and better focused, but the other definitely looks colder.

[Physics_wiz]

At last, a thread where I can use my sheep in snow picture! Except...dum dum dum...as I went to get it out to scan it (the old scan I have is pretty crummy, so I think I can get a cleaner scan now), I realized I have not one, but THREE sheep in snow pictures! I can't decide which to use. :cry: I think I've narrowed it down to two (one has big spots on it from where the lens got wet from the falling snow). One is prettier scenery surrounding the sheep and better focused, but the other definitely looks colder.

Post both of them anyways then say which one you want to be counted in the contest.

[Moonbear]

Post both of them anyways then say which one you want to be counted in the contest.
Zz would banish me from the Disney thread if I dared break that rule! :biggrin:

[Moonbear]

Eeenie meenie minie moe...
Okay, I went with this one. Sheep in Snow (plus one llama).

http://img208.imageshack.us/img208/2263/sheepinsnowuz8.jpg

It didn't scan in as nice as the original looks, and looks a bit greener than the original too. :frown:

[GeoMike]

Multnomah Falls last Winter.

http://home.earthlink.net/~parvey/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/falls.jpg

That's awesome! Do the falls ever freeze up completely?

-GeoMike-

[PRodQuanta]

...

http://img208.imageshack.us/img208/2263/sheepinsnowuz8.jpg

...looks a bit greener than the original too. :frown:From the green tint in the picture, it looks like the sheep + llama came straight out of the Matrix...:surprised

It does exist...

Paden Roder

[Moonbear]

From the green tint in the picture, it looks like the sheep + llama came straight out of the Matrix...:surprised

It does exist...

Paden Roder
:rofl: Sometimes it felt that way being out there in that kind of weather too!

[SpaceElf]

What sort of a place is that???!??!!! Looks scary cold!!! How do those woolly guys roam in there...and for what? You don't get lichen there in so much snow, do you? Brrr!!!

[Moonbear]

It's a sheep farm in MI, and just out of view of the photo are the large troughs where their food is handed to them. And those are all woolly gals...the woolly guy is in the other photo in the "Disqualified" thread, standing off to the left by himself, begging the gals for a date. :biggrin:

[star.torturer]

i didnt notiuce the sheep at first, i thought it was nearer the front olf the picture, i thought it was sposed to be hard to find!!! lol, how wrong i was!

[Janus]

That's awesome! Do the falls ever freeze up completely?

-GeoMike-

We have a pretty moderate climate so it doesn't generally stay cold enough for a long enough time for that to happen.
Quite a few decades ago, however there was a cold snap that actually froze up the Columbia river, so I'm going to assume that the Falls froze solid too.

P.S. Here's a story on the freeze:

http://www.columbian.com/history/Disasters/columbiariver.cfm

[larkspur]

Since I live in the South, I don't get to see much cold. This is the coldest shot I have. It was taken in while at a conference in Keystone Colorado this past March. It doesn't come close to Geo Mike or Janus. http://home.comcast.net/~larkspur2020/cold.jpg

[Mk]

Geomike's reminds me of those cartoonish pictures with an actual North Pole in them.

[matthyaouw]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v257/matthyaouw/CNV00017.jpg
Trees in the frost.

[Chi Meson]

Here's one from my prior life. ( Note the lack of children in it). This is 16,000 ft up the West Buttress of Denali (That's Mount McKinley to some of you). This is a crevasse at a place called "windy corner." This is a photo of a Cibachrome print, so some of the texture of the glacier ice is lost. Oh to be that cold again (The next morning was 40 below zero, I can't remember if that was Celcius of Faranheit).

Edit: Oh, forgot the picture!
http://i58.photobucket.com/albums/g254/brichid1765/Denali.jpg

[scorpa]

Awesome pic Chi Meson, that looks just amazing! Oh and I could be wrong but I believe 40 below is the same in both celsius and farenheight.

[Chi Meson]

Oh and I could be wrong but I believe 40 below is the same in both celsius and farenheight.
Yes, that was the joke.

I just noticed you can see a little bit of our floor at the lower left corner of the shot. Try to ignore it.

[Ivan Seeking]

No Zapper, the real one. :biggrin:

http://img87.imageshack.us/img87/5513/matterhornbb9.jpg

Atop the mountain at Gornergrat (3,089 m), which is about as close to the middle of nowhere as one can get, there is an observatory, and a restaurant [really just a snack and coffee shop I guess] for those who take the gear driven train up the mountain from Zermatt. In the restaurant, we were helped by a girl who grew up about forty miles from us here in Oregon. She married Swiss and now lives at the top of the Alps.

[ZapperZ]

No Zapper, the real one. :biggrin:

You mean this one has no rollercoaster winding in and out of it?

How boring!

:)

Zz.

[Rach3]

Yes, that was the joke.

I just noticed you can see a little bit of our floor at the lower left corner of the shot. Try to ignore it.

Why is there a floor in the snow on that mountain? :uhh:

[larkspur]

Why is there a floor in the snow on that mountain? :uhh:
He took a snapshot of a photo he printed. Easier than scanning it.

[Gokul43201]

The delivery port on a liquid nitrogen dewar, just after a transfer.

http://img95.imageshack.us/img95/1869/img2599ns4.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

[Chi Meson]

Oh that's a good one.

Brr!

[Gokul43201]

Thanks, Chi!

It was hard to pick one for this round. Most anything in my lab is associated with pretty low temperatures - 77K is actually the hottest cryogenic temperature commonly seen in the lab - but I figured it would take a very selective audience to "feel cold" when looking at a He-3 cryostat.

<waiting for Zz's pic of scary Disney ride>

[ZapperZ]

Just a reminder that you have less than 2 days left to submit a picture for this contest. Brrrr......

Zz.