**** Mini Challenge 290 –REGIONAL BEAUTY****

Jacek Dolata

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Thank you, thank you, thank you, for letting me host the 290th mini challenge!

Yes, I won 1st place in the Parades mini challenge and I have this great idea for the next mini challenge.
I want you, ALL people to show me your REGIONAL BEAUTY!

I do believe that you do not have to go on the other part of the WORLD in order to capture a beauty.

In this challenge I want you to use your imagination and show me a Beauty of your region.
The contest begins today and ends on Tuesday January 15, 2011, US Eastern Time.
Sample photos will follow.

You may use post processing to enhance your pictures; if you do please share the treatment you applied. If you're familiar with extracting exif-data, let us know camera model, shutter-speeds, f-stops and ISO-numbers, others may be able learn from that!

THE RULES
1. The host gives you a topic of interest and you get going.
2. You may enter up to three competition images.

3. The host chooses the winner after the challenge closes. The decision of the judge (the host) is final. The judge is not eligible. The winner then chooses the next topic, runs the challenge, judges the winner, and passes on the baton to that person.

4. If you submit a photo, please check in when the winners are posted. The first place winner is expected to host the next challenge. If the first place person cannot host, it moves to the 2nd place, etc...?
5. Any picture you've taken is eligible regardless of time taken and camera.

6. Please reply to the FIRST (ORIGINAL) post if you are submitting an entry and please remember to change the Subject of your post to display your name or picture titles. This way, when someone comments (i.e. replies), it will refer specifically to you. If all entries read "Re: Mini Challenge #289"... it would be very boring to scan the list.
7. Please (!) Try to put your entries within a 'single' post.

8. Please give a title to each photo - this makes it easier to differentiate when giving comments.

9. Feel free to comment on other contestants' images. If you want someone to leave you a piece of constructive criticism, put an asterisk * next to the title of the image.

10. Unlike most other hosts/judges I try not to comment on submissions as they’re made because I think I get too attached to particular photos in a way that probably skews my judgment and objectivity. Don’t take it personally – I’m not ignoring you – I’m trying to ignore everyone until I look at the shots all at once!

POSTING GUIDELINES

1.Please embed your image in the main thread. Also please re-size your photos prior to posting so they're sized appropriately for viewing without having to scroll (approx. 800 pixels on the longest side works best.)

2. As a show of courtesy, and to save bandwidth, please remove the original post when replying, so you don't bring back any previous photos.?

List of previous CTF Mini Challenge topics and winners thanks to blademeister:
http://homepages.peakpeak.com/~blade/minichallenge.html

The main rule and general guideline is -- Have fun!!
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"I walk, I look, I see, I stop, I photograph"-Leon Levinstein 1955
http://jacekdolata.zenfolio.com/
 
As I live in the Minneapolis Minnesota "region", it took me some time to find something truly regional.

And since "regional beauty" doesn't necessarily imply landscapes to me, here are three beauties as I see them:

1. Autumn on the Plains



2. Bear at the MN Zoo (He could just as well as been in northern Minnesota)



and last, a
wood duck who was in a tree just next to our house



Jim
 
All locales have beautiful places, but for me it is the people.



Canon PowerShot G10
Focal length: 6.1 mm
Shutter speed: 1/320 sec
Aperture: -
ISO: 80
Exposure comp.: -0.33 EV



No EXIF



Canon PowerShot G10
Focal length: 6.1 mm
Shutter speed: 1/100 sec
Aperture: -
ISO: 80
Exposure comp.: ±0 EV
 
I live in a small town way out in the Philly exurbs, with lots of very nice agricultural land within an easy bike ride. So I ride my bike a lot and try to bring a camera. These are three somewhat different looks at it, but all within my typical biking range...

-Ray





 
Wow, these are gorgeous scenes
 
Thanks. I live in the Bluegrass region of Kentucky. We have more than our share of lovely vistas, but it is the people that make this region.
 
Nice! What part of the world is that? It looks like midwest US.
 
With all the snow, the deer are on the move during the day trying to find food to eat.
We have 2 that have taken up residence in the trees behind us.

This one came in close late this afternoon to nibble on a branch that the wet snow brought down a couple of months ago. He heard me and looked up .



(flash assisted)

Jim
 

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