Christmas Season Competition ....TWO

[Maggi Young]

Here's another teaser for you over the festive season:

 An end of year Forum Photo competition.

There will be four categories:
best flower or plant; best scenic shot; best animal or bird shot. and best Forum photo

You may enter by posting a photo of your own in the first three categories and by citing your favourite pic, already posted in the Forum (from a posting in this calendar year )for the final category.

Erudite and learned judges will be appointed and there may even be REAL prizes ! OOOOHH!!

[ranunculus]

I don't wish to be pedantic Maggi but are you limiting the number of entries per person per class and are you putting an upper limit on the file size?

I may as well be the awkward one and ask the questions that others will ask themselves....!

[Paul T]

Cliff,

There'd have to be a maximum size of 300Kb wouldn't there?  As that is the largest pic we can't post here isn't it?

Maggi,

Should be just award the bulk of the prizes to Cliff now?  He does post the most amazing pics!! 

[tonyg]

Yeah - My first thought was to go and look up some of Cliffs pics!  There was one I saw recently of a pulsatilla - just fantastic.  Really appreciate the pics Cliff and the memories that some of them evoke.  Thanks mate!!

[Rob]

Ok I'll enter by posting my best plant, best scenic shot and best bird.

The best plant isn't really appropriate, but it just looks bright and sunny.

The scenic shot is the Elan Valley, Wales

And the bird is Muscicapa striata, a young Spotted Flycatchcher. It was at the local country park, but is wild rather than tame.

It was only because the bird was a juvenile that I was able to get close enough for the photo

[Martin Baxendale]

Three brilliant pics, Rob! The kniphofia's really cheered me up! 

[David Nicholson]

Nice pics Rob, been through the Elan Valley many times it's a lovely place.

[Maggi Young]

Excellent, Rob, that's just what we're after. I really think the size is good, too, no scrolling needed, which I know drives lots of us crazy...so, this brings me to answer Cliff, multiple entries are greatly encouraged and photo size of not more than 700 x 580 pixels, (subject to usual Forum file size regs.) is best.

We can have more categories.... Garden shots etc....


 For nominations of photos already on the Forum, please incldue Post No. as listed, along with the url for the page....
for example : Re: Crocus March 2007
« Reply #17 on: March 05, 2007, 02:47:50 PM » Thomas Huber Second pic.titled 2007-03-04-69
http://www.srgc.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=299.15  As I get around to it, I'll repost the pix in your  posts for you...

......your only limit is your imagination, Friends... get to it!

[David Nicholson]

I don't have any pictures of my own worth putting forward but I would like to make a nomination for the Best Forum Picture category.

It is really difficult to select just one picture from the many hundreds of absolutely stunning shots in all categories that have been seen on the Forum during this year and the choice I have made is based purely personal instinct.

The picture is of a place I have always enjoyed reading about and is a place I shall probably never visit. It is a place that, were I to visit it, would fill me with great fear and some dread, and I speak as one of those who can feel dizzy two steps up a ladder!

The picture is by Ian McEnery from his trip to Bhutan and is of Mount Everest standing above cloud cover. It can be found in the Alpine pages in the Recent Trip to Bhutan thread topic 558.0 as below:-

 http://www.srgc.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=558.0

pic added by M.

[ranunculus]

As David has so eloquently put it

'It is really difficult to select just one picture from the many hundreds of absolutely stunning shots in all categories that have been seen on the Forum during this year...."

My choice (from a list of many by some excellent photographers) would be Anthony Darby's stunning portrait of Meconopsis horridula that can be seen on the following page.....

http://www.srgc.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=519.15
pic added by M.

[mark smyth]

here is the photo that David would vote for

Isn't it easier to repost your favourite here instead of a link

[Maggi Young]

I can repost the pix as they are nominated, Mark, I think that will be easiest for most folks

[mark smyth]

easy when you know how!

[Gene Mirro]

Here are a few of my favorite travel photos.  All were taken with a cheap Toshiba M61 digital, 2.1 megapixel resolution.

1.  Bluff Creek Road, northern California
2.  Bugaboo Road, Oregon Cascades
3.  Mines Road, east of San Francisco
4.  Yosemite valley in Winter
5.  Mt. Shasta taken on an airline flight

[ranunculus]

LOVE the Mt Shasta shot Gene!  Many thanks for posting.


COME ON FOLKS......POST, POST, POST......A photograph is not just for Christmas....it's for Maggi.