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Second Photo Fun Challenge: Vote!

By LinDze (Tue Feb 06, 2007 at 07:42:31 PM EST) photos, photofc (all tags)

The Second Photo Fun Challenge has come to close.

See inside for links and a list of entries.

Everyone can vote for up to three photos and the polls will close on Feb 13 2007.

The entries, in submission order:

The submission diary, with entrant comments, is available here.

The submission are all really fantastic. Im quite anxious to see who will emerge victorious.

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Second Photo Fun Challenge: Vote! | 36 comments (36 topical, 0 hidden) | Trackback

Who is trebuchet? by debacle (4.00 / 1) #1 Tue Feb 06, 2007 at 08:39:01 PM EST

That's a very nice picture.

"I'm very responsive to certain stimuli, and pain is pretty much at the top of that list." - BadDoggie

: I am by trebuchet (4.00 / 4) #3 Tue Feb 06, 2007 at 10:44:55 PM EST

I lurk, and post very infrequently.
I'm glad you like the picture. Thanks.

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dammit by joh3n (4.00 / 2) #2 Tue Feb 06, 2007 at 09:49:43 PM EST

I should have payed attention to see there was a photo challenge. That way, I could have entered and lost! Nicely done folks.

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I knew about it, but didn't by Metatone (4.00 / 3) #4 Wed Feb 07, 2007 at 02:51:48 AM EST

get myself together to post a certainly losing entry. Ah well, next time.

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Indeed by Phage (4.00 / 2) #6 Wed Feb 07, 2007 at 06:36:45 AM EST

I saw that pic of the flying duck and just thought I'd not want to humiliate myself again.

Founder member Golgafrinchan 'B' Ark
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It doesn't take time by Herring (2.00 / 0) #15 Wed Feb 07, 2007 at 01:38:43 PM EST

Just balance the camera on the piano, disable flash, self-timer and assume the normal position.

Not sure why I put it in. Possibly slightly drunk.

I'm English, and as such I crave disappointment. - Bill Bailey
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You have three votes by cam (2.00 / 0) #33 Sun Feb 11, 2007 at 10:18:24 PM EST

you are a champion!

cam
Freedom, liberty, equity and an Australian Republic
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I get the no-pants vote [n/t] by Herring (2.00 / 0) #34 Mon Feb 12, 2007 at 04:01:46 AM EST

(I apologise if anyone was eating there)

I'm English, and as such I crave disappointment. - Bill Bailey
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: Eating their what? by ambrosen (2.00 / 0) #35 Mon Feb 12, 2007 at 05:15:28 AM EST

Pants?

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Hey! by bob6 (4.00 / 1) #5 Wed Feb 07, 2007 at 03:09:17 AM EST

You made me believe the ProgrammingFC results were out!

Cheers.

Teh voyts by TurboThy (4.00 / 3) #7 Wed Feb 07, 2007 at 08:21:24 AM EST

stark, nullo, glamorgan.

Stark: Nice colours. Have you considered submitting this to sxc.hu? I can see many people wanting photography like this for use on sane terms.

Nullo: Ex. Qui. Site. Timing. My clear favourite.

Glamorgan: I love the AC exhaust plumes lending an aethereal quality to a very nicely lit and framed scene.
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IAWTP by Phage (4.00 / 1) #10 Wed Feb 07, 2007 at 10:55:15 AM EST

What (s)he said.

Founder member Golgafrinchan 'B' Ark
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Ahem by TurboThy (4.00 / 1) #16 Wed Feb 07, 2007 at 04:46:15 PM EST

He.

Btw - it's a shame (okay, not really) that old photos were not eligible for this PhFC ...

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: Wow by glamorgan (4.00 / 1) #17 Wed Feb 07, 2007 at 04:49:27 PM EST

Very nice shot! The light reflection on the water is great.

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stark and nullo by wiredog (4.00 / 2) #8 Wed Feb 07, 2007 at 08:31:11 AM EST

Most of the others were, well, fairly standard "Cityscape At Night" or "At Home At Night" type pictures. Sort of the "Dogs Playing Poker" of the photography world. Done tons of those myself (which may be why I find them, well, so standard.)

But the Piccadilly Reflections is very well done, and the Duck required a good eye and good timing to get.

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Glamorgan by Gedvondur (4.00 / 2) #9 Wed Feb 07, 2007 at 09:11:03 AM EST

Stark and Nullo were very good, but Glamorgan was the best.

The tops of the towers were like the smoke from freshly extinguished candles. Very cool. Good job, Glamorgan!

Gedvondur
"If that's not irony, I'll drink a kitten." --Fleece

Stark, nullo, ambrosen by nebbish (4.00 / 1) #11 Wed Feb 07, 2007 at 11:32:54 AM EST

Stark's is just brilliant - composition, colours, imagination, everything. A great photo.

Nullo's given us a great action shot, which isn't easy. It's very atmospheric as well.

I really like the composition of ambrosen's. I don't know if it's intentional or not, but it's the way the blocks and the church work together. I try to do this sort of thing sometimes when I take photos.

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I wanted the granite to underline the church, by ambrosen (2.00 / 0) #22 Fri Feb 09, 2007 at 07:17:35 AM EST

so that was successful. If I'd had the time, I may have tried to bend it slightly so the lens wasn't curving the edge of the block in the foreground, but I don't know how it would have looked. There were too many factors to get the lines so I was happy with them, and like I said, it was too bloody cold to hang around. There were two people who would have looked great just coming over the horizon in front of the church if I'd have arrived on scene 2 minutes earlier.

I liked your Ugly Betty photo. I'm a sucker for suburbia, and it was all very nicely lined up.

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Only thing I thought was missing by nebbish (2.00 / 0) #23 Fri Feb 09, 2007 at 07:24:15 AM EST

Was that the camera could have been positioned a little higher up. I suspect you'd have needed a tripod for that though. Still, I stand with it being great compositionally.

Oh, and thanks :) It was the dark, eerie ssuburban feel I was after.

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Yeah, by ambrosen (4.00 / 1) #24 Fri Feb 09, 2007 at 07:26:16 AM EST

I had a mini flexible tripod which gave me full choice on the angle but none on the height. It's great, and you can use it for indoor shots at night, too. Highly reccommended. £2 or £3 from ebay.

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Oh I remember those by nebbish (2.00 / 0) #26 Fri Feb 09, 2007 at 08:22:41 AM EST

Might come in handy. I'll look out for one.

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: Yeah, by ambrosen (4.00 / 1) #27 Fri Feb 09, 2007 at 08:40:54 AM EST

I was just sitting on the sofa, and fiddling around, and I took this with it, which I'm especially pleased with with the guitarist, and the movement blur of $excitable_girl in the middle.

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voted by Merekat (2.00 / 0) #12 Wed Feb 07, 2007 at 11:44:31 AM EST

stark - very pretty colours and inspired choice of subject
glamorgan - woosh!
TurboThy - I like the outside-looking-in thing

Nothing but nullo by Bob Abooey (2.00 / 0) #13 Wed Feb 07, 2007 at 11:54:43 AM EST

I'm a sucker for pictures with water in them and that's a particularly nice one. Bravo nullo, whoever you are.

Warmest regards,
--Your best pal Bob

: thx by nullo (2.00 / 0) #20 Thu Feb 08, 2007 at 01:26:56 PM EST

I'm still new at husi but probably a bit too well known elsewhere

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Damn. by ana (2.00 / 0) #14 Wed Feb 07, 2007 at 11:55:47 AM EST

I should post this when I'm actually voting.

Lots of good stuff this time. I think what I voted for were these:

glamorgen, which to my eye was the best of the cityscape at night ones. Though Driusan's Paris shot is close.

clover kicker, just cuz I think fire is hot, and I like the way he photographed it.

nullo, amazing shot of duck at twilight.

stark. Amazing, surreal almost.

Regular, or decaf abomination? --Kellnerin

Lots of great pics here, by muchagecko (2.00 / 0) #18 Wed Feb 07, 2007 at 09:23:40 PM EST

but I can't stop looking at TurboThy's photo. It's a great pic. Fantastic composition.

Druisan (gorgeous) and clover kicker (wonderfully eerie) got my other two votes.

Great photos everybody.

The only people to get even with are those that have helped you.

thx everybody by nullo (2.00 / 0) #19 Thu Feb 08, 2007 at 12:54:11 PM EST

for the kind words

fwiw I really like the canadian bridge shot with the condensation blowing diagonally off the roof

Thanks by glamorgan (2.00 / 0) #21 Thu Feb 08, 2007 at 01:57:00 PM EST

To be totally honest, the condensation was a happy accident. At the time I recognized that the bridge supports would make a good frame for downtown, and I was hoping the lighting would be good. I had no idea the condensation would stand out like it did. The 30 second exposure time had a lot to do with that, I suppose.

My votes went to: stark, nullo, and ambrosen. The first two pictures were imaginative and unique. Ambrosen's pictures has excellent lighting and lines that are very compelling.

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I'm glad you liked the lines in mine. by ambrosen (4.00 / 1) #25 Fri Feb 09, 2007 at 07:49:28 AM EST

I'd have liked to have got them a bit more under control, but then I'm pretty austere really.* The red down the right, the white on the left, and the high pressure sodium on the recently cleaned church do all go together, and the reflection on the granite block definitely pleased me. I'm sure a non point and click camera would have brought more out, and I'd like to try doing some HDR type of stuff. I'm afraid I like larger than life colour.

I really liked your photo, but I'm afraid I cheated and looked at the comments first, which probably put me off voting for the favourite. It was all pin sharp, and the yellow of the bridge platform looked great, and having the supports looking so much larger than the high-rise buildings was good and dramatic.

I plumped for stark's, because the lights at Piccadilly Circus, although easily outshone by those in the city centres of at least 100 Chinese cities, were always shown as if they were the UK's equivalent of Times Square, and wet pavements have far too frequently meant cold feet for me, so the whole thing was very evocative for me, whilst actually making it look pleasant. nebbish's Ugly Betty was London suburbia captured for me: Nice tidy buildings, but you can't tell whether they're full of drug addicts or millionaires if you don't know the postcode. That and the garish colours of the frankly stupid image of Ugly Betty (when will the brace and glasses come off, and the hair drop down?) contrasting nicely with the sodium orange lit street with all the wires underground and the nice detailing just seems very British. 3rd choice: Driusan, becase I never thought of Paris as being that colourful. It's probably the camera, but I enjoyed it.

*One of my girlfriends once told me "Don't be so mean, you were young once". I was 19 at the time.

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It's mostly the camera settings. by Driusan (2.00 / 0) #28 Fri Feb 09, 2007 at 03:50:05 PM EST

The sky was, to the naked eye, pretty much pitch black when I took that. The city itself isn't particularly colourful, it's just.. luminous.

FWIW, I almost voted for your photo, then decided that I didn't want to devalue my vote for glamorgan's shot and wound up just casting the one vote. After forgiving it for being of Calgary, of course.

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: Thanks ;-) by glamorgan (2.00 / 0) #30 Sat Feb 10, 2007 at 12:27:08 PM EST

A little bit'o Calgary hating?

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Personally, I liked Happy Dude's the best by thenick (2.00 / 0) #29 Fri Feb 09, 2007 at 09:11:01 PM EST

It reminded me of Douglas Coupland's Generation X, when they're telling stories about the planet that is perpetually stuck in the year 1974. Anyways, good job on that.

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My votes and thanks by stark (4.00 / 1) #31 Sat Feb 10, 2007 at 04:25:08 PM EST

I voted for:

nullo: I said it before, and I'll say it again: a beautiful, atmospheric twilight shot.

glamorgan: a really nicely done cityscape with an interesting framing. The condensation / smoke effect from the towers is the icing on the cake, intentional or not.

Happy Dude: Hugely original, and such a lovely mental image conjured up by the thought of a miniature planet. Imaginative and technically impressive (based on my efforts with panoramas and Hugin!)

Thanks for all the positive comments about my shot. I've just returned from a break away from the internet so it was pretty cool to see how well it was getting on.

I wonder if LinDze has entered under a pseudonym, like I did last time?

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U.S. Patent 5443036 concerns a device for encouraging a cat to exercise by chasing a light spot.

: nope, not this time. by LinDze (2.00 / 0) #32 Sun Feb 11, 2007 at 02:47:20 AM EST

Driusan posted a holiary for alternate submissions, and i commented in there. Basically i shot my film, just didnt have time to develop and scan it.

-Lin Dze
Arbeit Macht Frei
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THE POLLS ARE CLOSED by LinDze (2.00 / 0) #36 Wed Feb 14, 2007 at 07:08:45 PM EST

Check out the PFC Submission diary for the results.

-Lin Dze
Arbeit Macht Frei

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