***Mini Challenge #495 - Roofs and Ceilings ***

This week's topic is "Roofs and Ceilings". There are some fascinating things to be seen if you point your lens upwards. The challenge includes not only roofs and ceilings but any decorative or functional items attached to them.

The challenge starts now and ends on Sunday January 24th, 9 PM GMT (Greenwich Mean Time).

THE RULES

The host gives you a topic of interest and you get going.

You may enter up to three (3) competition images.

Please reply to the FIRST (ORIGINAL) post only 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 you do not wish to enter the mini and host the next challenge should you win, please state your entry as "Just for Fun" in the subject line.

The host chooses the winner after the challenge closes (usually after one week). 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.

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.

Any picture you've taken is eligible regardless of time taken and camera.

Try to put your entries within a 'single' post.

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

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.

POSTING GUIDELINES

Please embed your image in the thread. 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.

You may use any post processing you like to enhance your pictures..

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!

List of previous CTF Mini Challenge topics and winners:


Main rule and general guideline - have fun!

Here are a few examples:





France roofline




Ceiling in Las Vegas casino




China roof decorations




France: Chateau de Montreuil-Bellay

Bonne chance!

National Museum of the American Indian, 1 Bowling Green, New York City. Canon SX260 HS.


World Trade Center Concourse, NYC Canon SX50 HS

Wisteria




Illusion



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Sue : )

Here's a nice roof in Glasgow, with my wife looking on:







and a ceiling in the High Museum (Atlanta):





and finally a covered pedestrian bridge, also in Glasgow:





Enjoy,

N.

A great start! Thanks to all three for your prompt and interesting posts. My own pictures tend to be of things ancient, so it's nice to see some modern textures making an early appearance. I love the wisteria (is that right?) breaking through the roof in Sue's shot and the spherical reflection of the sculpted ceiling in loose_canon's museum photo.

Ceiling shot...Basilica of the Annunciation, Nazareth, Israel

Jefferson ceiling

Downtown Seattle Bus Tunnel ceiling

Paramount Theater lobby Seattle

You have posted some really nice photos, Peter!

Randy

Great photos, I especially like your first photo with your wife looking to the city.

Randy

Outstanding photos!

Randy

2 good ones, Sue...especially the wisteria.

Randy

The ceiling in The Assembly House of Gernica

Most people remember Gernica, due to Pablo Picasso's famous painting. Guernica is certainly his most powerful political statement, painted as an immediate reaction to the ****'s devastating casual bombing on the Basque town of Guernica in 1937, during The Spanish Civil War.


Pablo Picasso's Guernica

Yours, Bjorn

I considered 'Grand Interiors' as a topic for this challenge: Randy's shot from Nazareth and Peter's of the Seattle theatre would have fitted that topic as well as this one. I'm not sure they make theatres like that any more.

I'm really enjoying the geometrical theme that seems to be emerging. As well as Loose_Canon's picture of the Atlanta museum, Peter's fisheye of the Seattle bus tunnel and Bjorn's shot of the glass ceiling at Guernica are excellent. Our forum members get to visit some fascinating parts of the world.

Thanks for entering. More, please...

RLBur said:

You have posted some really nice photos, Peter!

Randy

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Thank you Randy,

I like yours a lot as well. these challenges may not be drawing huge numbers of entries but the photos have been very good. I am enjoying them all.

Thanks, Randy

"Nothing but roof"




"Through the roof"

Main Hall, Museum of Ethnography, Budapest



--
Iván József Balázs
(Hungary)