Reading mode: Light Dark

News Reviews Articles Buying Guides Sample Images Videos Cameras Lenses Phones Printers Forums Galleries Challenges

'How Green Was My Valley'

Challenge #122 in the Life in the Natural World series. Hosted by RuthC.

Challenge has finished

This is the title of Richard Llewellyn's book, which was subsequently made into a film, then later a television series. Here, I'd like to see examples of (would you believe?) green valleys. Tell us the location of your valley, if you know it. SIZE: 1,600px MAXIMUM on the entry's longer side.

Show full rules

Announced:

Saturday, 18th October, 2014 (GMT)

Submissions:

Saturday, 25th October, 2014 – Friday, 31st October, 2014 (GMT)

Voting:

Saturday, 1st November, 2014 – Friday, 7th November, 2014 (GMT)

Processing rules:

SIZE: Longer side of entry, MAXIMUM 1600px.
Full colour only.
No glaringly obvious HDR or extreme post-processing. If it hurts my eyes, it's out! Please let the greenness of the valley appear natural, so don't over-saturate it.
TITLE: Give your entry a title or name, not just a file number.
NO watermarks or forms of identification, or personal website references.

Capture date rules:

No restrictions.

Additional rules:

Photos from previous DPR challenges can be entered in this challenge, but no photos which have won previous DPR challenges, please.
Two entries per person, but they should be a different subject.
PLEASE vote on other entries, to counteract the sandbaggers.
Entrants who cheat by sandbagging, vote manipulation, or with multiple DPR accounts will be banned from my challenges.

Maximum number of entries per user:

Maximum number of entries in challenge:

100

submission
phase has

ended

88 entries

voting
phase has

ended

1317 votes

Voting results: 88 entries Slideshow of 7 1 Page: 4 Rows:

1^st

(winner)

2^nd

(runner up)

3^rd

(runner up)

4^th

5^th

6^th

7^th

8^th

9^th

Entry has been withdrawn

10^th

11^th

12^th

13^th

14^th

15^th

16^th

1 / 7

Sample entries

These entries were provided by the challenge host(s) as samples and cannot be voted on. Upload sample image.

Keyboard shortcuts:

p previous n next

Challenge comments

All (3)

Most popular (0)

Editors' picks (0)

DPR staff (0)

Oldest first

Auntie Ginzy

Sorry, have to ask.......what is a sandbagger?

Nov 7, 2014permalink

RuthC

A sandbagger is someone who selects the best entries in a challenge and deliberately gives them votes of #.5 or #1 in order to reduce their chances of doing well in the challenge.
DPR is aware of the problem, but won't do anything about it. I as a host don't know the identities of any of the voters, so I'm unable to remove these votes.
The best solution is for more members to vote, and thus dilute these low-life sandbaggers.

Nov 8, 2014permalink

Auntie Ginzy

Ahh... thanks

Nov 9, 2014permalink


Nightgown by darub from Cotton, linen, wool, silk, leather, rubber.	Wedding dance by konreu from A favorite wedding shot	Boiling the Billy by Zol Straub from Camping	Great blue heron with a sculpin by JEO126 from A Big Year - birds	Ken & Bieser by richardsealane from - Man : Dog's Best Friend - (Full Coloured Portrait)

101	Film vs Digital
89	PART 2 This Week Through your m4/3 2018.07.21
57	Real world applications for the 33mm f/1?
53	* The Weekly Image Thread 18 07 22 #318 *
52	Equivalence - dpreview should clarify once for all
49	Weekly X Series Photo Thread 22 JUL - 28 JUL
46	The center focal point of a photo ?
43	Only one prime for trave photography?
38	Excellent, Great?
38	Best use of Dynamic range
34	2 lenses for travel with G85: 14-140mm and which second lens?
32	Is background blur purely a function of field of view and aperture, with distances being equal?
29	How I use an iPad when traveling
28	Nikon D850 ISO bracketing
27	Sold My 2470GM; Tell Me Your Desert Island Primes!
27	Best backup body for E-M1 Mk II?
27	Sony A7III vs Fujifilm X-T2 would be an interesting shootout .....
26	I can't get Sony RX100VI to output in HLG
25	Some little birdies through a little telescope
24	Do you carry your best camera during travel?


	Voting results 88 entries My entries Login required My votes Login required