PF PHOTO CONTEST - Things Are Looking Up (4/5-4/11)

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The discussion centers around a photo contest themed "Things Are Looking Up," inviting participants to submit digital photos that reflect this concept. Key rules include submission of original photos only, resizing to specified dimensions, and restrictions on editing beyond brightness and contrast adjustments. Participants can submit one photo each, and after the contest, a poll will determine the winner. The thread also features members sharing their experiences and thoughts about looking up at clouds, with some expressing nostalgia and appreciation for the beauty of the sky. As the contest deadline approaches, excitement builds over the quality of submissions, with members anticipating a competitive voting process.
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Things Are Looking Up

This week, it will be all about things that you can typically see only by looking up!

Zz.

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 gray 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 or 490 x 650 pixels. You may also crop your picture if you wish. You are also allowed to adjust the brightness and contrast of your picture but these should not dramatically alter the look of the picture. But other than those, 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. Once a picture is posted, it cannot be changed other than a total withdrawl by that member from that week's photo contest. Exceptions will be made for modification to comply with the rules, such as resizing.

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 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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matthyaouw said:
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The mast/lamp of the Spurn lightship
That's beautiful!

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chased after redtail and pointed lens up at it
And I'm a sucker for birds.
 
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alex caps said:
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I like this because sometimes I'll lay on my back on the grass and look up at the clouds. They seem like they are impossibly far away if you hold your hand out and try to touch them. This picture gives me that same feeling.

Another nice thing is to watch the clouds go by when your laying on your back. You don't realize how fast they move until you try this. They go upwards of 30KTS sometimes.
 
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~christina~ said:
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chased after redtail and pointed lens up at it

nice---but it's not-a-goshawk
 
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Guess Where?

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Cuernavaca?
 
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Cape Town :smile:
 
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matthyaouw said:
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The mast/lamp of the Spurn lightship

Wow, that's awesome
 
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Experimenting with 100-400mm zoom.
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My Popcorn clouds
 
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Oy... I don't think I have a chance against these amazing pictures, but here's mine anyhow. It's one of the African Masai shields chandelier at Animal Kingdom Lodge. You really have to look vertically up to get this view.

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Zz.
 
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Holy cow!

The voting for this contest is going to be brutal!

Zz.
 
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You have less than 2 days left to look up and submit a photo for this contest - if you dare! So far, the pictures submitted have been outstanding.

Zz.
 
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!So Close!
 
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1 more hour?! Watch someone post the best photo you have ever seen.
 
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Cyrus said:
I like this because sometimes I'll lay on my back on the grass and look up at the clouds. They seem like they are impossibly far away if you hold your hand out and try to touch them. This picture gives me that same feeling.

Another nice thing is to watch the clouds go by when your laying on your back. You don't realize how fast they move until you try this. They go upwards of 30KTS sometimes.

i agree with cyrus, i like how the clouds part in the very middle
 

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