Photo Contest - Water, Water, Everywhere (9/27-10/3)

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Discussion Overview

This thread centers around a photo contest themed "Water, Water, Everywhere," where participants share their photographs of water in various forms. The discussion includes contest rules, submissions, and comments on the quality of the entries.

Discussion Character

  • Contest-related
  • Exploratory
  • Technical explanation

Main Points Raised

  • Participants must submit original photographs relevant to the water theme, adhering to specific rules regarding size and editing.
  • Some participants share their entries, including images of floods, rivers, and oceans, while others express admiration for the quality of submissions.
  • There are discussions about the appropriateness of certain images, such as sparkling water and the presence of orange hues.
  • Participants express uncertainty about which photo to submit, indicating a desire to avoid similarity with others' entries.
  • Several participants comment on the impressive quality of the photographs shared, suggesting a competitive atmosphere.

Areas of Agreement / Disagreement

Participants generally agree on the contest rules and the theme, but there are differing opinions on the suitability of certain images and the subjective quality of the entries. The discussion remains open-ended with no consensus on which photos are the best.

Contextual Notes

Some participants mention technical issues with image sizes and formatting, indicating a potential limitation in the submission process.

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Photography enthusiasts, contest participants, and those interested in water-themed imagery may find this discussion relevant.

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Water, Water, Everywhere!

No, this is not a contest about Hurricane Katrina, but pictures from that do qualify. In this contest, the main subject of your picture must be water - be it in an ocean, flowing in a river, in a glass, or coming down like rain.

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.
 
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jpr0 said:
Here's mine:

http://i84.photobucket.com/albums/k29/jpr0/water.jpg

I took it with my high-res SPM :P

Please use the IMG feature of our site. If you don't know how to use it, look at the old photo contest thread and QUOTE a post that contains a picture. It will display the syntax that you would need.

P.S. Please post ONLY pictures that you intend to enter in the contest SERIOUSLY. If not, your post will be deleted.

Zz.
 
It's okay you can delete these posts, I was just making a joke :)
 
That's a $200 fine sir.
 
I don't have many pretty pictures of water (strangely enough, since I'm around water a lot), but I do have a series of pictures of too much water. This is the Kennebec River topping the southern Margaret Chase Smith bridge in the April Fool's Day flood of 1987. In the middle-right the water is topping the south side of the hydro dam impoundment - the tan brick powerhouse can be glimpsed at the far right. The brick building near the right is the fire house, located on the island and isolated by the MCS bridges. The fire department moved half of their resources to the north side of town and half to the south side. These bridges stood, but their abutments were bady damaged, and so the bridges were closed to vehicular traffic for many weeks, turning what once was a 5 minute trip across town to go shopping into at least a 20 minute trip (after the bridge in the neighboring town was pronounced safe and was opened to traffic). During this flood, we lost a discontinued heavy iron-trussed trestle that had been converted into a pedestrian bridge. That trestle had stood for well over 100 years, but this was a "500 year flood" with FEMA damages estimated at $100,000,000 in 1987 dollars. The tough part was picking which flood picture to use. The flooding was so expansive that I did many shots in "panorama" style so they could be stitched together (verboten by contest rules). By the way, this image was shot from behind a police line, because the parking lot in the foreground was being undermined and was buckling.

http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/3784/flood1987sa5.jpg
 
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Er.. scorpa! SIZE!

Zz.
 
A summertime bike ride in California.

http://www.virtualcivilization.org/alc5/images/IMG_0190.jpg

- Warren
 
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Crap...I don't know why my pictures are always so big now...this didn't happen before. I'll fix it right now.

EDIT: Ok I just fixed it how does it look now? It still looks big on my screen but last time that happened it was huge on my screen and everyone was only seeing a thumbnail.
 
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It is fine now.

Zz.
 
  • #11
Would this count as it is sparkling water? Or too much orange?
http://home.comcast.net/~larkspur2020/sparklingwater.JPG
 
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  • #12
I suppose that would count...

Zz.
 
  • #13
Taken this summer

http://home.earthlink.net/~parvey/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/water.jpg
 
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Stormy seas at Ram Island Ledge Light (Casco Bay, Maine):
http://www.mcschell.com/stormy.jpg

-GeoMike-
 
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Janus said:
Taken this summer

http://home.earthlink.net/~parvey/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/water.jpg
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wow, so there really is a stargate
 
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Oh crap! It is still the first day, and the pictures so far have been unbelievable!

Zz.
 
  • #17
Lol are you sure you guys aren't pro photographers... I am going to get owned :P Awesome entries keep it up!
 
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http://home.comcast.net/~integral50/scenery/oceanb2_600x400.JPG

How about another sea scape! A little different shore line! This was taken from Shore Acers Park near Coos Bay Or. As you can see the park is perched on a ~ 20m cliff at the edge of the ocean. On this day some waves were splashing above our heads. This image is pre digi cam so is a scan.
 
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GeoMike said:
Stormy seas at Ram Island Ledge Light (Casco Bay, Maine):
http://www.mcschell.com/stormy.jpg

-GeoMike-

Gorgeous composition, gorgeous tones.

- Warren
 
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Janus,
Is that one of the Silver Creek Falls?
 
  • #21
Integral said:
Janus,
Is that one of the Silver Creek Falls?

No, though we did go there this summer and took some pics. This is one of the Columbia Gorge falls.
 
  • #22
larkspur said:
Would this count as it is sparkling water? Or too much orange?
http://home.comcast.net/~larkspur2020/sparklingwater.JPG
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very cool pic
 
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I can't decide which photo to use! :cry: I have several really nice ones from a trip to Oregon years ago (and NOW I find a nice bridge picture among them ...I think someone else posted one of the same bridge, but I had a different view of it). I have some from one of the rivers in Portland, and some from the coast (everything is so bright blue!)...maybe I'll see what the other Oregonian's post and then pick one that doesn't look too similar. :rolleyes:

Unfortunately, the one that amuses me the most has a big ol' thumb in it. When Ember isn't sitting on top of the scanner waiting to pounce anything I try feeding through it, I'll have to post that one in the disqualified thread.
 
  • #24
Wow these photos are absolutely AMAZING!
 
  • #25
Why not,

Waves and Volcanoes, Lanzarote, Los Hervideros. Not the most scenic picture in the collection but showing one of the weirdest places on Earth.

Spot the girl.

http://home.wanadoo.nl/bijkerk/lanzarote.JPG
 
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  • #26
Here's the Mississippi River between Illinois and Missouri:

http://web.presby.edu/~jtbell/extrastuff/PICT6582.jpg
 
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Andre said:
Why not,

Waves and Volcanoes, Lanzarote, Los Hervideros. Not the most scenic picture in the collection but showing one of the weirdest places on Earth.

Spot the girl.

http://home.wanadoo.nl/bijkerk/lanzarote.JPG
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Wow I thought that place was massive until I saw the chick.
 
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  • #28
scorpa said:
Lol are you sure you guys aren't pro photographers... I am going to get owned :P Awesome entries keep it up!
There are some very talented photographers here, for sure. My flood snapshot looks pretty pitiful compared to most of these images. :cry:
 
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http://img174.imageshack.us/img174/6360/waterwatereverywehreml2.png
On my last day in Guam before I went to Hawaii I stayed at the Hyatt and waited for just the right moment for this picture. :wink:
 
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yomamma said:
very cool pic
Thanks!:smile:
 

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