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Weekly challenge #266: Lifting The Mundane
Posted By: smf, 11-27-2013, 09:03 AM

Thank you very much, Tess (tessfully) for the honor of hosting this new challenge and for your excellent hosting of last week's challenge! My designation as the winner greatly surprised me. The other submitted images are excellent!

This new challenge and its title are inspired by part of "The Photographer's Mind," a book by Michael Freeman. (ISBN: 978-0-240-81517-6). Some of the subjects of photographs in that section are a crumpled beer can, a pair of shoes, a shop window, noodles, and plastic-wrapped bales of hay.

Please interpret the theme as you wish.

You might wish to experiment with lighting and point of view.

I am reminded of an exercise in which a photography student is asked to look for subjects within a small circular area she or he designates.

Many or all of the entries in this challenge likely will far surpass this image of part of a steppingstone peeking through snow.

I hope you enjoy the challenge.

Best wishes!
Stu


This challenge will run through Thursday, December 5, and close by midnight GMT (which is EST +5, CST +6 and PST +8).

Rules are as follows:

1. Post one photo (max 1024 X 1024).
2. The photo must portray an interpretation of the theme.
3.Post your single photo in this thread. If it's not obvious, explain what motivated you to submit the photo and how you feel it represents the weekly theme.
4.The challenge is interactive. Any response is welcome.
5.The judge will pick the winner, who will then host and judge the next week's challenge.
6.The challenge closes after seven days.This allows a day for the judge to pick the winners.
7. Any Pentax (or Samsung) DSLR is acceptable.
8. Photos can be from any time frame, not just the week of the current challenge.
9. In case the winner of a challenge is unable to become the judge of the next week's challenge, the winner will PM the #2 winner and pass on the baton to that person to host and judge the next week's challenge

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11-29-2013, 05:12 AM - 3 Likes   #16
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"Here there be fairies"
Frost on the grass, backlit by a rising sun. Taken out of focus to bring out the specular highlights. What I wasn't expecting was the different colors, they weren't noticable in the view finder, My guess is that the sun was hitting the ice chrystals at different angles, creating the prismatic effect, and the light was too bright for me to notice in the VF, but I had dialed in about 1 stop of EV and the colors came out when I opened the shot on my computer. This shot was taken early Christmas morning last year.


NaCl(great theme! the camera can sometimes make the mundane magical)H2O

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Nice theme with many fine entries.
These are poppy plants (not sure if they're getting ready to flower or if they are getting ready to seed).
Without their flowers they might seem very ordinary without the right light and from the right perspective.
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Why have I only just started with these weekly challenges? Here's an ISO12800 shot of some cobbled paving stuff, I admittedly messed with it a bit to make it look like hot coals but hey ho...




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Teapot, though neither short nor stout.

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Going with a lined composition for this one: 'Getting Up There'
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Some great photos in this thread, although I think that "neither short nor stout" teapot is, in fact, a COFFEE pot!
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Lovely images everyone!

I've been out having fun photographing everything from hydro poles to barb wire, ….

So I have decided to stay closer to the idea of "the mundane" and switch my entry.

Hydro Wire at Sunrise


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Stu, you have really got your work cut out for you on this one. Can't remember when I have seen so many really wonderful images.
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