Richard Glenn
Senior Member
Thanks to brightcolours for hosting the last challenge, Lets talk about cars, and for picking my family car photo as the winner, my Mom and Dad are smiling down on us.
I've always had a hard time in choosing mini challenge topics, this one being no different. I was out today noticing the strange cloud formations overhead, and thought we could do something with all the different shapes, patterns, lines and colors that are around us everyday. For me, the word abstract has a very broad, philosophical, and hard to understand definition, so let's not make this too difficult on ourselves, let's just have fun.
Animals, flowers, clouds, water, just about anything you can think of as long as it's not blatantly man-made. Aircraft contrails (which can have many beautiful shapes) are about as close to man-made as I'll accept. No buildings or statues, etc.
I'm sure we'll get many fine photos from all of our forum friends. Have fun!
Samples will follow in the next post.
This mini challenge will close on Saturday, November 16 at 9 pm, Pacific Standard Time, 5 am GMT on Sunday, November 17.
Regular Rules
The host gives you a topic of interest. You post a maximum of three images. Any picture you've taken is eligible regardless of time taken and camera.
You can do all the post processing you want. However, it is helpful if you list your camera and lens along with your photo (because we like to know).
Feel free to comment on other contestant’s images. If you want people to give you constructive criticism, ask for C&C.
The host chooses the winner, and the decision is final. No matter what you say, the host is likely not going to change their mind after the fact. Remember, it's all about fun and learning.
The winner then hosts the next challenge, judges the winner, and passes on the baton to that person. The winner has 48 hours to post the new challenge. If that doesn't happen 2nd place has 24 hours to do so, and if that doesn't happen it's up to the 3rd place winner.
Posting Guidelines
When posting your picture, change the Subject of your post to display your picture titles and/or your name. This way, when someone replies it will refer specifically to you. If all entries read "Re: *** Mini-Challenge xxx - ... ***" it would be very boring to scan the list.
Either embed your image in the thread or, if you must, supply a link to it. Keep in mind, however, most people don't want to click to open photos hosted elsewhere (i.e. on your website).
You may enter up to 3 pictures, but put them in a single post. Please give a title to each photo, this makes it easier to differentiate when giving comments.
Please size your photo no bigger than around 1600 pixels on the longest dimension. This is to let those with smaller monitors see your image at full resolution. Please limit the file size of your entries to conserve bandwidth.
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.
Some Previous Mini-Challenges
363 Public Sleeping
364 Desktop
365 Dramatic Weather
366 Red
367 On The Street
368 Shadows and Silhouettes
369 A Photograph that best Represents a Song Title or Lyric Line
370 Selective Color
371 Capture My Interest
372 Sports
373 Modes of Land Transport
374 The Blue Hour
375 Your most unique sunset or sunrise shot
376 Shared moments
377 Summer
378 Fall colors
379 Water
380 Outdoor Food
381 A Different View
382 Hidden Beauty
383 Wind in action
384 Let's talk about Cars
I've always had a hard time in choosing mini challenge topics, this one being no different. I was out today noticing the strange cloud formations overhead, and thought we could do something with all the different shapes, patterns, lines and colors that are around us everyday. For me, the word abstract has a very broad, philosophical, and hard to understand definition, so let's not make this too difficult on ourselves, let's just have fun.
Animals, flowers, clouds, water, just about anything you can think of as long as it's not blatantly man-made. Aircraft contrails (which can have many beautiful shapes) are about as close to man-made as I'll accept. No buildings or statues, etc.
I'm sure we'll get many fine photos from all of our forum friends. Have fun!
Samples will follow in the next post.
This mini challenge will close on Saturday, November 16 at 9 pm, Pacific Standard Time, 5 am GMT on Sunday, November 17.
Regular Rules
The host gives you a topic of interest. You post a maximum of three images. Any picture you've taken is eligible regardless of time taken and camera.
You can do all the post processing you want. However, it is helpful if you list your camera and lens along with your photo (because we like to know).
Feel free to comment on other contestant’s images. If you want people to give you constructive criticism, ask for C&C.
The host chooses the winner, and the decision is final. No matter what you say, the host is likely not going to change their mind after the fact. Remember, it's all about fun and learning.
The winner then hosts the next challenge, judges the winner, and passes on the baton to that person. The winner has 48 hours to post the new challenge. If that doesn't happen 2nd place has 24 hours to do so, and if that doesn't happen it's up to the 3rd place winner.
Posting Guidelines
When posting your picture, change the Subject of your post to display your picture titles and/or your name. This way, when someone replies it will refer specifically to you. If all entries read "Re: *** Mini-Challenge xxx - ... ***" it would be very boring to scan the list.
Either embed your image in the thread or, if you must, supply a link to it. Keep in mind, however, most people don't want to click to open photos hosted elsewhere (i.e. on your website).
You may enter up to 3 pictures, but put them in a single post. Please give a title to each photo, this makes it easier to differentiate when giving comments.
Please size your photo no bigger than around 1600 pixels on the longest dimension. This is to let those with smaller monitors see your image at full resolution. Please limit the file size of your entries to conserve bandwidth.
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.
Some Previous Mini-Challenges
363 Public Sleeping
364 Desktop
365 Dramatic Weather
366 Red
367 On The Street
368 Shadows and Silhouettes
369 A Photograph that best Represents a Song Title or Lyric Line
370 Selective Color
371 Capture My Interest
372 Sports
373 Modes of Land Transport
374 The Blue Hour
375 Your most unique sunset or sunrise shot
376 Shared moments
377 Summer
378 Fall colors
379 Water
380 Outdoor Food
381 A Different View
382 Hidden Beauty
383 Wind in action
384 Let's talk about Cars
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