Photo Contest - Steel And Concrete (10/31-11/6)

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The discussion revolves around a photo contest themed "Steel And Concrete," where participants are invited to submit photographs featuring subjects made of steel and/or concrete. The conversation includes contest rules, submissions, and some informal exchanges about specific photos and their contexts.

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  • Informal exchanges

Main Points Raised

  • The contest requires photos to focus on subjects made of steel and/or concrete, with specific rules regarding photo submission and editing.
  • Participants discuss a photo featuring a Volkswagen Beetle and its context, including references to diesel engines and pollution-masking software.
  • One participant inquires about a shiny object in another's photo, speculating it might be a vacuum chamber, which is confirmed to be part of a vacuum system related to x-ray photoemission spectroscopy.
  • There is a mention of a photo that appears to be from a WWII site, prompting questions about its history and condition.

Areas of Agreement / Disagreement

The discussion includes various informal exchanges and questions, but there is no clear consensus on the specifics of the photos or their historical contexts. Participants express curiosity and share information, but disagreements or uncertainties remain regarding the details of the subjects discussed.

Contextual Notes

Participants reference specific historical contexts and technical details about the photos, but these discussions are not resolved, leaving room for further exploration and clarification.

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Steel And Concrete

For this week's contest, your photo must have, as its main subject, something that is made or steel and/or concrete. It does not need to have both in the same photo.

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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.

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.

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The Volkswagen-smashing troll that lives under a bridge in a Seattle neighborhood. Yes, that's a real VW "bug" under his left hand.

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phinds said:
The Volkswagen-smashing troll that lives under a bridge in a Seattle neighborhood. Yes, that's a real VW "bug" under his left hand.

It is a diesel WV that has that sneaky pollution-masking software? :)

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Unlikely, there were only two VW Beetles with diesel engines, both prototypes from the early fifties.
 
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It is a diesel WV that has that sneaky pollution-masking software? :)

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Nice thought but it was built WAY before the scandal.
 
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Zapper, by the way, what's that shiny thing in your photo? Is it a vacuum chamber?
 
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DennisN said:
Zapper, by the way, what's that shiny thing in your photo? Is it a vacuum chamber?

It's part of a vacuum system. The hemisphere is an electron analyzer that is the detector for an x-ray photoemission spectroscopy system.

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Final day to submit your photo for this contest.

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Borek, you must be thinking we'd never ask.

Can you tell us anything about where, what and, if you know, why that is?

It does not look WW2 vintage, abandoned but not that long ago, no damage and painted not that long ago.
 

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