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Feather Duster

Your subject this week is on "Feathers". The main subject of your photo must be either on feathers, or something with feathers. This might be a bird, or a hat, or a feather duster. It must show a clear indication that the subject has feathers. And it must be real feathers, not fake ones.

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 800 x 600 or 600 x 800 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 or photobucket. Then post it the relevant contest thread and link your picture using the img command. PM me if you do not know how. Alternatively, you may simply upload your image file to PF, and then have the full image displayed in your post.

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. The photo of the subject must be something that you took directly, not via in intermediary medium, and not taken by someone else. Unless otherwise noted, a photo of another photo, painting, print, etc. does not qualify.

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. Photos not meant for submission must not be posted in the contest thread. Posting of more than one photos by a member may result in an automatic disqualification from the week's contest.

Zz.
 
What I particularly like about this pic is the subtlety of seeing in the reflection the red feather undercoat that you can't see directly. Also the way the large feathers come together at the tail end explains exactly why a particular hair style in the 50's was called a DA.

Male mallard duck with glossy green head and yellow bill swimming on rippled blue water, its reflection visible beneath it.
 
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phinds said:
What I particularly like about this pic is the subtlety of seeing in the reflection the red feather undercoat that you can't see directly. Also the way the large feathers come together at the tail end explains exactly why a particular hair style in the 50's was called a DA.

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Why is the viewing area an oval?

Zz.
 
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ZapperZ said:
Why is the viewing area an oval?

Zz.
I had already cropped the pic that way in my files due to having used it on a web page many years ago.

EDIT: Hey ... that page is still there. I had pretty much forgotten about it:

http://phinds.com/misc/pics/index.htm

It has enormous versions of the duck and other fauna pics
 
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YoungPhysicist said:
Woah! You have a website of your own name?
Why would I want to use someone ELSE's name? :smile:
 
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phinds said:
I had already cropped the pic that way in my files due to having used it on a web page many years ago.

Technically, this photo has been modified beyond what is allowed for this contest. However, I'll let it stand (unless you want to change it to something else) and will include a note that the shape of the picture should not be used as a factor in the photo's favor.

Zz.
 
ZapperZ said:
Technically, this photo has been modified beyond what is allowed for this contest. However, I'll let it stand (unless you want to change it to something else) and will include a note that the shape of the picture should not be used as a factor in the photo's favor.

Zz.
OK. Sorry. Didn't read the rules since I've been participating in these for a while and thought that I knew them. I'll poke around again and see if I can find the rectangular original but I'm pretty sure it's gone.

EDIT: found it, fixed it.
 
A peahen foraging on gravel in the foreground while a peacock behind it displays its fanned tail of eyespotted feathers. The timestamp reads 16 07 2010 18 19.
 
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A group of vultures is called a "committee" if they are just assembled. If they are feeding, it's a "wake". In this committee it's clear who the chair and who the late comer are.
Several black vultures perched on a fallen tree trunk and on the grass in a wooded enclosure, with a chain-link fence and tall dry reeds behind them.
 
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Photo of a green and red lory parrot with a black and blue head and an orange beak, perched on a metal rim.
 
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I encountered this colorful little creature years ago at the San Diego Zoo, as I recall. I'm sorry, but I don't remember the exact species.
 
Rubidium_71 said:
I encountered this colorful little creature years ago at the San Diego Zoo, as I recall. I'm sorry, but I don't remember the exact species.
Well, "bird" will have to do :smile:
 
I think he could have possibly been a little parrot of some type, but again I'm not 100% sure, it was a long time ago. In a way I'm doubling down on this one, because my avian avatar is backing him up. :wink:
Risking a non-feathered remark: your avatar looks like a Samoyed dog and I think they're great. I had one growing up and I think about him every time I see one of your posts. He was a good dog. :)
 
Rubidium_71 said:
I think he could have possibly been a little parrot of some type, but again I'm not 100% sure, it was a long time ago. In a way I'm doubling down on this one, because my avian avatar is backing him up. :wink:
Risking a non-feathered remark: your avatar looks like a Samoyed dog and I think they're great. I had one growing up and I think about him every time I see one of your posts. He was a good dog. :)
Nah, I'm a Great Pyrenees. The Samoyed's are real lightweights compared to me but they do look very similar.
 
A white, fluffy feather lying on dry straw and green weeds on the ground, with dead brown leaves at the top right.
 
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On the Millet Bowl this morning
Dark grey pigeon with a red-orange eye perched on the rim of a metal bucket, with snow on a windowsill and a white wall behind it.

(at this shot, the Model got scared away for I forgot to turn off the shooting sound of the remote-controlled camera)
 
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Young common chaffinch.

A small brown-grey bird with white wing bars standing on dry pine needles and bare soil, facing right.
 
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