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*** Challenge 53 - Architecture - Beyond the Ordinary

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The typo is that it began April 27th as our challenges begin on Fridays, so the start was April 26th, although I don't think we had a topic yet.

Lonnit
Jim B (MSP) said:
Challenge Begins: Saturday April 17th 2004 0:00GMT
Challenge Ends: Monday, April 26th, 2004 - 23:59 GMT

The voting booth will open here when the challenge ends. Vote Here.

Voting Begins: Tuesday April 27th, 2004, 00:01 GMT
Voting Ends: Thursday April 29th, 2004, 00:01 GMT
Mark Webb said:
Here is my proposal for Challenge 53

Architecture - Beyond the Ordinary

Everybody normally works and lives in very ordinary and common
structures that you give little notice to. There are times, though
that you pass by a building or structure and something about it
stirs up an emotion, be it a feeling of power, beauty, calm,
disgust etc. The purpose of this challenge is to try to capture
those structures that are built by man, be it either buildings,
bridges, gardens (landscape architecture), windows, doors or water
features that bring up those feelings that are beyond the ordinary
structures you see on a daily basis. Even negative feelings can be
included. You can name the photos anything but it would be nice to
have some sort of description as to why you feel this form of art
creates something special for you. The features can be related to
color, textures, lighting, patterns, form or any of the various
tools the architect uses to create his unique expression to the
building. There are also no restrictions on whether the structures
are urban or rural, modern or historic.

The gallery is located at

http://www.pbase.com/ctfchallenge/c53_architecture
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Mark Webb said:
Here is my proposal for Challenge 53

Architecture - Beyond the Ordinary

Everybody normally works and lives in very ordinary and common
structures that you give little notice to. There are times, though
that you pass by a building or structure and something about it
stirs up an emotion, be it a feeling of power, beauty, calm,
disgust etc. The purpose of this challenge is to try to capture
those structures that are built by man, be it either buildings,
bridges, gardens (landscape architecture), windows, doors or water
features that bring up those feelings that are beyond the ordinary
structures you see on a daily basis. Even negative feelings can be
included. You can name the photos anything but it would be nice to
have some sort of description as to why you feel this form of art
creates something special for you. The features can be related to
color, textures, lighting, patterns, form or any of the various
tools the architect uses to create his unique expression to the
building. There are also no restrictions on whether the structures
are urban or rural, modern or historic.

The gallery is located at

http://www.pbase.com/ctfchallenge/c53_architecture

RULES AND GUIDELINES

The Canon Talk Forum Challenges are open to everyone so please
participate. You don't win anything (the eligible entry winner
picks the next challenge topic and sets up the galleries and
moderates the challenge), but it can be a fun way to practice your
photography and get some feedback.

Eligible Gallery entries must taken with a Canon digital camera and
be taken during the specified time period.

Exhibition Gallery entries can use any camera and be taken at any
time.

You may post a maximum of 3 photos in each gallery.

Photo by photo, please share your comments with your fellow
participants. Challenges reach their full potential when the
dialogue becomes as important as the photos themselves.

Those who enjoy more plainspoken and critical comments on their
work should mark their title(s) with an asterisk ( )

THE CHALLENGE

Challenge Begins: Saturday April 17th 2004 0:00GMT

Challenge Ends: Monday May 3rd 23:59 GMT

Go to the desired gallery, eligible or exhibition, and edit the
gallery. Use browse to locate and upload your picture. Be sure to
add the required information below.

Help pages for the CTF challenges are located here:
http://www.pbase.com/ctfchallenge/ctf_faq

If you are new and do not know the userid and password, please
e-mail [email protected] Please allow a few hours to receive that
information.

IMPORTANT: Please respect our Pbase bandwidth and ensure that your
photos are no more than 150K in size.

Photos have no limit on dimensions, but bear in mind that the most
popular screen size is 1024x768 so try to present your picture to
fit accordingly. Viewers are more likely to appreciate your work at
its original size without the use of scroll bars!

If you have problems or concerns uploading add a post to this thread.

Each submitted photograph should include...
1. Your Name
2. Picture Title
4. Camera Used
5. Date of Picture (for Eligible Gallery only)

Optional information that's always appreciated is...
6. Description and Comments
7. Photography Tips
8. Post Processing Details

Note: Pictures too large or missing any of the required information
will not be allowed. Please do not send off-topic entries. The
moderators have the final decision on uploading or deleting
pictures.

Pictures that do not adhere to the guidelines will be moved to the
pending gallery, where the owners will have time to put them right
and move them back to where they should be.

Most pictures that end up in Pending are over 150k. See the
tutorials for help.

Post-Processing -- Do whatever you like to your photo and the
voters will decide if it's too much.

VOTING

Voting Begins: Tuesday May 4th, 2004, 00:01 GMT

Voting Ends: Friday May 6th, 2004, 23:59 GMT

That gives us 2 days to vote.

Please vote at...
http://www.liteserv.com/ctfvotebooth/

Current GMT time is displayed on the voting page. If there is a
discrepancy between the voting times on the gallery page and the
voting page, the voting page time will be considered official.

BANNED --
1. Anonymous voting.
2. Voting for your own entries.

WELCOMED --
Reasons why you voted for a particular image.

Thanks for being patient, I finally got this going, and good luck
!!!!

Mark

http://pbase.com/mwebbco
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97% of the previous challenges have run for only 2 weekends, with one week in between.

The time we did 3 weekends & 2 weeks, the majority of the respondors to a "poll" opted to keep all the challenges at 2 weekends.
That's all we are trying to do here.

It's true we may have lost one day, but in the end we believe most people will be happier. This change will keep us on a regular schedule. It also keeps us out of phase with the DSLR challenge.

Jim
lonnit said:
Mark Webb said:
Here is my proposal for Challenge 53

Architecture - Beyond the Ordinary
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I'm all for the change, but I was annoyed (ok, not making a huge deal of it, it's just a friendly little game we play) but I didnt' get to shoot and I had plans to, and went out, only to discover the date was changed and I couldn't submit anything. We've always played the rules thru to the end of a challenge and then made the change for the next challenge. I really don't think it was fair play to change the date at the last moment like that. I bet many of us got cut short. :(

Lonnit, bummed

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Aaaah, don't worry, Lonnit. There's always the next one.

I think the challenge got shortened by the late posting of the topic. The voting ends Friday mornings here in Australia, and the topic is usually posted by the evening......that gives me a night to think it over and a full weekend to begin shooting for the challenge. Then another full weekend to catch up!

This time around, the topic wasn't posted until halfway through my weekend, and I'd already made plans which didn't include shooting buildings. The following weekend was raining....plus it was Anzac Day and we attended the parade and memorial service. No buildings there either!

Aaaah well.....I don't think architecture is ever gonna be my strong suit....right along with bridges.....so I'll just wait til the new challenge.

Gayle
lonnit said:
I'm all for the change, but I was annoyed (ok, not making a huge
deal of it, it's just a friendly little game we play) but I didnt'
get to shoot and I had plans to, and went out, only to discover the
date was changed and I couldn't submit anything. We've always
played the rules thru to the end of a challenge and then made the
change for the next challenge. I really don't think it was fair
play to change the date at the last moment like that. I bet many of
us got cut short. :(

Lonnit, bummed

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like and what you don't. I welcome all opinions. :)



WARNING: 10D-itis is contagious!!!!!!!
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Gayle said:
Aaaah, don't worry, Lonnit. There's always the next one.
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I'm not worried, just annoyed b/c I didn't get to participate, especially since I like shooting architecture.
Gayle159626 said:
I think the challenge got shortened by the late posting of the
topic. The voting ends Friday mornings here in Australia, and the
topic is usually posted by the evening......that gives me a night
to think it over and a full weekend to begin shooting for the
challenge. Then another full weekend to catch up!
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Yes, it was shortened on both ends! It started late and then it was supposed to end on May 3rd, but then that was shortened. Just annoying, that's all.

Warmly,
Lonnit
 
Going by the usual formula, the challenge finished only a day early.

Usually, the new challenge begins one minute after voting has closed on the previous challenge....whether the topic has been posted or not.....then runs over two weekends, to end mid-week. 12 days to upload pics, 2 days to vote, then we begin again. In this case, the date of May 3rd should not have been posted as the closing date, as that would have taken it over a 3rd weekend since the close of the previous challenge.

Am I making sense? It's not actually up to the host to determine the length of time over which a challenge runs.....it's already a set formula, unless it's an unusual circmumstance such as at Christmas. And it was a majority decision at Christmas to make it longer for that challenge only.

But I have no idea why the voting booth opened a day earlier than it should have. Going by previous challenges, it should have opened only 3 hours ago.

Gayle
lonnit said:
Gayle said:
Aaaah, don't worry, Lonnit. There's always the next one.
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I'm not worried, just annoyed b/c I didn't get to participate,
especially since I like shooting architecture.
lonnit said:
I think the challenge got shortened by the late posting of the
topic. The voting ends Friday mornings here in Australia, and the
topic is usually posted by the evening......that gives me a night
to think it over and a full weekend to begin shooting for the
challenge. Then another full weekend to catch up!
Click to expand...
Yes, it was shortened on both ends! It started late and then it was
supposed to end on May 3rd, but then that was shortened. Just
annoying, that's all.

Warmly,
Lonnit
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Gayle said:
Going by the usual formula, the challenge finished only a day early.
Usually, the new challenge begins one minute after voting has
closed on the previous challenge....whether the topic has been
posted or not.....then runs over two weekends, to end mid-week. 12
days to upload pics, 2 days to vote, then we begin again. In this
case, the date of May 3rd should not have been posted as the
closing date, as that would have taken it over a 3rd weekend since
the close of the previous challenge.
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Yes, which would have been fine had the date been originally posted for that. It wasnt' though, it was posted as May 3rd. :(
Gayle159626 said:
Am I making sense? It's not actually up to the host to determine
the length of time over which a challenge runs.....it's already a
set formula, unless it's an unusual circmumstance such as at
Christmas. And it was a majority decision at Christmas to make it
longer for that challenge only.
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Gayle159626 said:
But I have no idea why the voting booth opened a day earlier than
it should have. Going by previous challenges, it should have opened
only 3 hours ago.
Gayle
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I guess it all just got off to a late and rocky start kept muddling up! LOL!

Lonnit
Gayle159626 said:
lonnit said:
Gayle said:
Aaaah, don't worry, Lonnit. There's always the next one.
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I'm not worried, just annoyed b/c I didn't get to participate,
especially since I like shooting architecture.
Gayle159626 said:
I think the challenge got shortened by the late posting of the
topic. The voting ends Friday mornings here in Australia, and the
topic is usually posted by the evening......that gives me a night
to think it over and a full weekend to begin shooting for the
challenge. Then another full weekend to catch up!
Click to expand...
Yes, it was shortened on both ends! It started late and then it was
supposed to end on May 3rd, but then that was shortened. Just
annoying, that's all.

Warmly,
Lonnit
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'We don't make a photograph with just a camera. We bring to the act
of photography all the books we have read, the movies we have seen,
the music we have heard and the people we have loved.' Ansel Adams



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I don't know what happened with the voting beginning one day early. Caught me by surprise, too. I think because some people were/are traveling in other countries, the dates were thrown off by mistake.

Does the below sound right? I'm sooooo confused.

Voting ends on Thursday the 29th at 12:00AM GMT.

The next challenge begins on Friday the 30th at 12:01AM GMT. The challenge runs through Tueday May 11th at 12:00AM GMT.

Voting begins on Wednesday the 12th at 12:01am GMT running to Thursday the 13th at 12:00PM GMT.

Paul
Gayle said:
Am I making sense? It's not actually up to the host to determine
the length of time over which a challenge runs.....it's already a
set formula, unless it's an unusual circmumstance such as at
Christmas. And it was a majority decision at Christmas to make it
longer for that challenge only.

But I have no idea why the voting booth opened a day earlier than
it should have. Going by previous challenges, it should have opened
only 3 hours ago.

Gayle
lonnit said:
Gayle said:
Aaaah, don't worry, Lonnit. There's always the next one.
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I'm not worried, just annoyed b/c I didn't get to participate,
especially since I like shooting architecture.
Gayle159626 said:
I think the challenge got shortened by the late posting of the
topic. The voting ends Friday mornings here in Australia, and the
topic is usually posted by the evening......that gives me a night
to think it over and a full weekend to begin shooting for the
challenge. Then another full weekend to catch up!
Click to expand...
Yes, it was shortened on both ends! It started late and then it was
supposed to end on May 3rd, but then that was shortened. Just
annoying, that's all.

Warmly,
Lonnit
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of photography all the books we have read, the movies we have seen,
the music we have heard and the people we have loved.' Ansel Adams



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Paul, you've just confused me even more......LOL! but that's not hard to do when it comes to world times.

Now that we are back on standard time, the challenges usually end at 10am on a Wednesday and the voting begins right away. The voting ends at 10am on Friday and the new challenge is started immediately. That's in south eastern Australia of course.....GMT means not a thing to me!

However, this time the voting began at 10am on Tuesday, not Wednesday! I am assuming the voting will still end on Friday though.

And for the new host, whoever you may be.....please, please, please decide on a topic early! Those whose images are currently in the top 5, start thinking of something now, please.

It makes it difficult for those of us who live downunder if you don't announce the topic within about 12 hours of the voting being closed. We get to the weekend beofre the northern hemisphere does and if we don't know what we're to be shooting, the weekend is half over before we find out.

Gayle
Paul Sumi said:
Does the below sound right? I'm sooooo confused.

Voting ends on Thursday the 29th at 12:00AM GMT.

The next challenge begins on Friday the 30th at 12:01AM GMT. The
challenge runs through Tueday May 11th at 12:00AM GMT.

Voting begins on Wednesday the 12th at 12:01am GMT running to
Thursday the 13th at 12:00PM GMT.

Paul
Gayle said:
Am I making sense? It's not actually up to the host to determine
the length of time over which a challenge runs.....it's already a
set formula, unless it's an unusual circmumstance such as at
Christmas. And it was a majority decision at Christmas to make it
longer for that challenge only.

But I have no idea why the voting booth opened a day earlier than
it should have. Going by previous challenges, it should have opened
only 3 hours ago.

Gayle
lonnit said:
Gayle said:
Aaaah, don't worry, Lonnit. There's always the next one.
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I'm not worried, just annoyed b/c I didn't get to participate,
especially since I like shooting architecture.
Paul Sumi said:
I think the challenge got shortened by the late posting of the
topic. The voting ends Friday mornings here in Australia, and the
topic is usually posted by the evening......that gives me a night
to think it over and a full weekend to begin shooting for the
challenge. Then another full weekend to catch up!
Click to expand...
Yes, it was shortened on both ends! It started late and then it was
supposed to end on May 3rd, but then that was shortened. Just
annoying, that's all.

Warmly,
Lonnit
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--
'We don't make a photograph with just a camera. We bring to the act
of photography all the books we have read, the movies we have seen,
the music we have heard and the people we have loved.' Ansel Adams



http://shot2shot.no-ip.com
Click to expand...
--
Make photographs, not equipment lists!
Friends don't let friends measurebate
http://www.pbase.com/pauls/
Click to expand...
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but the mini challenges drive me bonkers! LOL! I don't like doing a challenge in thread format - I guess I'm spoiled by challenge galleries!

But, that doesn't mean I didn't appreciate you're being so sweet as to let me know about it! :) Thanks so much.

I'm glad you liked my car shots.

WArmly,
Lonnit
thefly said:
I am not sure if this cheers you up. But the mini challenge is
still running to the 3rd. If I recall, you had some great pictures
of cars.

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Lonnit,

I'm sorry about the dates changing, they caught me by surprise as well. I got pulled out of town and had no Internet access until Tuesday over a modem and was ready to submit pictures only to find the date had changed. Since I'm new at this and did not expect to win, I was not familiar with all the standard dates for submittal and voting. I did try to get this clarified and thought we were good with the original dates posted.

Oh well, sorry for the screwups on my part, I now have some pictures of architecture I didn't have a week ago. There's always the next one.

Mark
 
Thanks to everybody for the great shots and congratulations to all the winners.

Sorry for all the confusion on this one. I stated early on in the last challenge that I hope I did not win as I am completely a newbie on running this. Learned a lot. The only saving grace is that the ultimately the chance to shoot and create new images is still the most important to me, and to learn and improve.

Thanks for everyone's help, especially Paul's on this. I promise not to win in the future unless I know more what I'm doing.

Great shots everyone.

Mark

http://pbase.com/mwebbco
 
Hi Mark,

The dates snafu caught us all by surprise, but I think we're back on track. Thanks for the great topic!

Paul
Mark Webb said:
Thanks to everybody for the great shots and congratulations to all
the winners.

Sorry for all the confusion on this one. I stated early on in the
last challenge that I hope I did not win as I am completely a
newbie on running this. Learned a lot. The only saving grace is
that the ultimately the chance to shoot and create new images is
still the most important to me, and to learn and improve.

Thanks for everyone's help, especially Paul's on this. I promise
not to win in the future unless I know more what I'm doing.

Great shots everyone.

Mark

http://pbase.com/mwebbco
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