***Mini Challenge #720 – Warmth With Snow ***

Warmth, both physical and emotional.

An example of physical, is warmth of a cozy room with a beautiful snowy view of yard or street at the window. And the emotional one can be again this warm room, but this time with warmth of "sweet home" in heart. Or a loving family walking in a snowy street. And of course Christmas is one hundred percent compatible with both of these!

This MC will end at 12:30 AM Central US Time on Tuesday, November 26, 2022 (6:30 AM UT, Tuesday November 27).

Some examples (not mine):

Challenge Rules:

The host gives you a topic and you post up to three images that fit. Remember, it's all about fun, sharing, and learning. Any picture you have taken in person is eligible, regardless of the time taken, camera, or post-processing used. The host chooses the winners and honorable mentions and posts those in a new thread. The host's decision is final. The winner of this challenge then hosts the next challenge, judges the winner of that one, and so on it goes. The winner of this challenge will have 48 hours to post the next challenge. If that doesn't happen, 2nd place will have 24 hours to do so, then it's up to 3rd place.

Submission Posting Guidelines:

Post each one of your three submissions in its own reply to this post. Give each post a unique Subject, please. It is best to embed an image in its post rather than linking to somewhere else. Feel free to post photos "for exhibition only" if you want to share more than three, or won't be available to host the next challenge. Try to preserve the EXIF please, so we can see which camera, lens, and settings were used.

Comment Posting Guidelines:

Feel free to post comments on the images or ask for comments. Don't hesitate to click on the green "Like" thumb on the top right of the post, so we know which images were most popular. Likes are appreciated as much as constructive criticism is. The host can make up his or her own mind without being influenced by that. I wish you all "good luck" and let's see some interesting pics.

Recent (and not-so-recent) Mini-Challenges

719: Horizontal
718: Vertical Lines
717: Movement
716: Fall Colors
715: The genuine holiday experience
714: Water, water everywhere
713: One or more of the 5 Senses
712: Look Up
711: Your Favourite Photos
710: Small
709: Eye of the Beholder
708: Old Buildings
707: Big
706: Long Exposure
705: Many Colors
704: Abstraction
703: Sunsets
702: Living Things
701: Not of the Earth
700: Nostalgia: Your Early Digital Camera Pictures
699: Picture of a Picture
698: Happy Faces
697: Music
696: Birds
695: Nature
694: Boats
693: Metal
692: There's "nothing" to shoot!
691: Favorites
690: Nostalgia
689: Winter
688: Travel/Vacation
687: Festive Lights
686: Animals
685: Plants
684: Night Scenes
683: Small machines (for work and leisure)
682: Autumn
681: Wabi-Sabi
680: Landscapes
679: One Dominant Color
678: Planes, Trains and Automobiles
677: Chocolate
676: Amusement ride
675: One lone flower
674: Food and/or Drink
673: The Road Less Traveled
672: Trees in Nature
671: Waterfalls
670: Mountains
669: Not Your Best Work
668: Speed
667: Round, or nearly round
666: Awakening of Spring
665: In the water
664: Nostalgia: Your First Digital Camera Pictures
663: Light
662: Telephoto
661: Subject
660: Vehicular Travel
659: Portrait Orientation
658: Your Favorite Shot
657: From your window, door and balcony
656: Still waters
655: Night Photography - No Flash
654: Clouds
653: The 4 Seasons
652: A Favourite Photo
651: Old Buildings
650: A Meal You Made
649: Nostalgic
648: Dark
647: Around Your House
646: Autumn Leaves
645: Landscapes
644: Walking
643: Wide Angle
642: Buildings, any part or the whole thing
641: Wild and not so Wild
640: Black and White Images
639: Mother and Child Reunion
638: Bird Close-ups
637: It’s July got snow
636: Rust

That's a very creative topic, it'll be interesting to see what's submitted. Unfortunately I have zero snow shots and living in the deep south US, there won't be any. 

This was taken 11/12/22

Yesterday, 11/29/22, it was 65 degrees.

Go figure.

Steve Thomas

This is going to be a difficult challenge for me to enter; like Len, we get very little snow.

I'll have a look though.

An interesting and tough challenge I must say. As Len and Dunlin said, I too live in a balmy climate, Southern California, though we have the luxury of living near some 12,000’ mountains if we choose to visit the cold and snow. These mountains are about 50 miles distant, and at my age are about as close as I choose to be, lol. This was taken about 10 days before Christmas last year.

My oldest grandson, toasty and warm, way too many years ago on an outing to the mountains.

Hi, sorry for late reply and for the mini challenge. I told you .

Please choose the next host and delete this thread.

Looking forward for the next MC!

dolivaw wrote:

Hi, sorry for late reply and for the mini challenge. I told you .

Please choose the next host and delete this thread.

Looking forward for the next MC!

What?

dolivaw wrote:

Hi, sorry for late reply and for the mini challenge. I told you .

Please choose the next host and delete this thread.

Looking forward for the next

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Iron Mike wrote:

I'm not sure I understand this request... (other than the closing date is weird)...

Why is the MC canceled and requested to be deleted?

-Mike

Mike,

I don't think the Challenges are very popular.

Typically, they seem to get 10-15 entries at best, while the "Show Your Snaps" thread gets 40-60 entries.

I think the Challenge threads introduce a level of stress for both the participants and the judges. We all like to take pictures and share them with other people, showing interesting places we've been and interesting things we've seen; but people seem to shy away from being judged on what they share.

The Challenge thread seems to be a feature of the Canon forums. I looked around and it seems like the Nikon forum is the only other forum to have them. They seem to get 40-50 entries at a time.

Perhaps the Challenge thread could be replaced by a Theme thread, where people could be encouraged to submit photos based on a given theme, without any judging involved.

Steve Thomas

Interesting thought Steve.

The Sony cyber shot forum has a weekly challenge and gets a lot of entries and and a lot of exhibits.

Don

stevet1 wrote:

Iron Mike wrote:

I'm not sure I understand this request... (other than the closing date is weird)...

Why is the MC canceled and requested to be deleted?

-Mike

Mike,

I don't think the Challenges are very popular.

Typically, they seem to get 10-15 entries at best, while the "Show Your Snaps" thread gets 40-60 entries.

I think the Challenge threads introduce a level of stress for both the participants and the judges. We all like to take pictures and share them with other people, showing interesting places we've been and interesting things we've seen; but people seem to shy away from being judged on what they share.

That would make sense. Interestingly enough I recently asked if anyone would be interested in a weekly photo sharing thread on the next "higher-end" canon DSLR forum, the "Canon EOS 7D / 10D - 90D Talk" forum, and the answer was pretty much a unanimous "no".

The Challenge thread seems to be a feature of the Canon forums. I looked around and it seems like the Nikon forum is the only other forum to have them. They seem to get 40-50 entries at a time.

Perhaps the Challenge thread could be replaced by a Theme thread, where people could be encouraged to submit photos based on a given theme, without any judging involved.

If you've checked all the Canon forums you will probably have seen the CICs (Canon Image Challenges) on the aforementioned forum. They're sorta like mini-challenges. Members upload their photos (on a separate website) and after 3 weeks or so everyone judges, using a spreadsheet on Google Sheets. Then the winner is announced back here at DPR, and announces the next CIC and prepares the next one.

I know it sounds pretty complicated, but, perhaps we could try something like that (with the images hosted in a DPR thread of course). I'd be happy to co-ordinate it.

-

Then again your suggestion is probably best (simplicity is key).

Ontarian wrote:

Interesting thought Steve.

Don

D o n,

One Theme I saw recently was "Letters of the Alphabet", e.g shoot something that starts with the letter "A", etc.

apple, astronaut, alfalfa

"B"

brown, Boston, bliss,  burnt.

Another Theme was "Things you cannot see".

static electricity, wind, heat.

Another one was "Colors"

Shoot something red, etc.

Steve Thomas

stevet1 wrote:

Ontarian wrote:

Interesting thought Steve.

Don

D o n,

One Theme I saw recently was "Letters of the Alphabet", e.g shoot something that starts with the letter "A", etc.

apple, astronaut, alfalfa

"B"

brown, Boston, bliss, burnt.

Another Theme was "Things you cannot see".

static electricity, wind, heat.

Another one was "Colors"

Shoot something red, etc.

Steve Thomas

I had the same idea about the starting letter.  Don

I don’t really have any suggestions other than simplicity is probably best, but I’ll go along with whatever is decided.

Participation has indeed fallen off quite a bit. For example, Sue Anne Rush used to participate a lot but I've not seen anything from her in months.

In a larger sense that's normal. I was once a member of a Yahoo group called Digital Rebels (before YGs went belly up). In the late 2000s we had weekly challenges, our own year's four best images, etc. But there was no judging involved, just peer critique and commentary. It was a lot of fun while it lasted.

I agree the key to survival here will be simplicity. I have to say the current situation is a bit unexpected but I guess through a consensus we can do what we want. I don't know if the MCs have (had) an 'owner' in any sense, who should be involved in the decision making. I'm not pushing anything, just wondering.

From a participation standpoint, my challenge is to just shoot...

Len Philpot wrote:

Participation has indeed fallen off quite a bit. For example, Sue Anne Rush used to participate a lot but I've not seen anything from her in months.

In a larger sense that's normal. I was once a member of a Yahoo group called Digital Rebels (before YGs went belly up). In the late 2000s we had weekly challenges, our own year's four best images, etc. But there was no judging involved, just peer critique and commentary. It was a lot of fun while it lasted.

I agree the key to survival here will be simplicity. I have to say the current situation is a bit unexpected but I guess through a consensus we can do what we want. I don't know if the MCs have (had) an 'owner' in any sense, who should be involved in the decision making. I'm not pushing anything, just wondering.

From a participation standpoint, my challenge is to just shoot...

Well said Len!

My main thought is that we'll all be too polite; nothing may happen for quite a while. In a way it would be better to have a bossy owner who takes charge...

-

Things are even worse for MCs over on the Powershot forum. I agree it's probably time for a change.

If we change the MCs to something a bit too general and easy it may overlap with the weekly sharing threads run by Digramme, and that would be a real shame.

My $ 0.02 ...or € 0.019, or £ 0.016, or ¥ 2.73 

Keep it simple but not simplistic. That is, have a single theme per challenge but make it interesting. Not unattainable (e.g., blue Ferraris), just interesting. For example:

• School buses / transport
• Water tanks / towers
• Night time clouds
• Non-green plants (pretty much anything right now LOL)
• Flat open horizons
• Water faucets

...although all things concerned we need to be cognizant of not creating challenges to shoot anything that might be mistaken as illegal, questionable, etc., in a social or legal context.

Anyway, you get the picture. I'm not proposing these as actual possibilities, just ideas. Also I'm not necessarily advocating changing anything, again just offering ideas. Looking at them now, these are all objects, but they could also be more conceptual.

However I do like the idea of a theme / challenge that has no 'verdict' other than feedback from viewers (which I would encourage as a gentle 'requirement' of the challenge).

Just rambling...