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General Subjects => General Forum => Topic started by: Maggi Young on December 21, 2007, 04:17:12 PM
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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!!
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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....!
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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!! ;D
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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!!
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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
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Three brilliant pics, Rob! The kniphofia's really cheered me up! :)
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Nice pics Rob, been through the Elan Valley many times it's a lovely place.
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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!
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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
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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
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here is the photo that David would vote for
Isn't it easier to repost your favourite here instead of a link
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I can repost the pix as they are nominated, Mark, I think that will be easiest for most folks ;)
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easy when you know how!
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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
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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.
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yes great photo. Do I see a crater?
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Okay
I posted some of these on the old forum--there is even one in there for you Cliff.
Cheers dave.
Dolichoglottis hybrid Mt Burns 2006-01-28.JPG
Gentians sps .Mt Burns 2006-01-28.JPG
Ranunculus buchananii.Mt Burns Fiordland NZ.2006-01-28.JPG
Mt Burns 2006-01-28.A reminder that all this climbing is just not for the plants.The views are terrific as well.Shot of the access road and electricity pylons..JPG
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what pylons?
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Thought you were eagled eyed Mark ---Big smile.
A very close look and you can just make out some the pylons ----the first one appears as a white cross towards the bottom of the pic immediately next to the left of the road edge--the next one,( straight up the pic), is near the river along the edge of the cleared vegetation--the rest follow in a zigzag down the valley into the distance.
Cheers Dave.
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Mark, you want to see a serious volcanic crater? Here is Mount Saint Helens, taken from a place that is well within the "kill radius" if the evil thing popped its cork again. Check out the wisps of steam. It's not to be trusted. I took my photos and got out of there.
Note that this is not a range of mountains in the photo. This is just what is left of Mt. St. Helens, which used to be pyramid-shaped. You are looking directly into the caldera, or crater. During the eruption, the mountain lost 300 meters of height. The photo shows that the mountain is rebuilding a "dome" in the center of the crater.
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Here are a couple of my favorite Penstemon photos, taken near Mount Rainier in Washington state.
For some stunning photos of Mt. Rainier, check this out:
http://www.pbase.com/jimsthiel/wild_flowers_and_mount_rainier (http://www.pbase.com/jimsthiel/wild_flowers_and_mount_rainier)
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Oh Gene, are you trying to drive me to chocolate :P :P :P don't just say these are your favourites tell us which ones they are. I can see all my pre-New Year Resolutions going up, sorry down my throat with the suspense.
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I'm not good at identifying Penstemons. Any penstemaniacs out there?
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Ed Alverson thinks that the upper picture might be P. cardwellii, and the lower picture might be P. davidsonii v. menziesii. No guarantees.
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I am an avid canoeist and have done several trips in the Canadian Arctic and near Arctic. These pics are from the Stikine River which starts in the Rocky Mountains, northern British Columbia and ends on the Alaska coast. It goes by several glaciers – hence the icebergs.
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Here are the rest of the pics
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Cool! 8)
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Wonderful pcs. I love the fungi. :P