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Adjudication



This was a tough competition, there were many really fantastic photographs and it was very hard to choose.
First, some Honorable Mentions:
“Valleys Animals,” by Mab Jones, for its excellent portrayal of another kind of animal.
“Hungry Swans,” by Alison McDonald, for being a composition that communicates the insolent and fearless character of hungry swans.
“Small Bug,” Peter Lewis, for whimsy, pathos and texture.
Also wonderful shots were:
“Coppery Headed Emerald” by Neil Hughes - this was beautifully crisp, perfectly captured, lovely color and good light, a really excellent shot of a beautiful subject.
“Fox,” by Jay Taylor, had wonderful color and composition, the subject and his/her exquisite face were wonderfully framed.
“Grey Squirrel” by Karen FIsher, this was a nice close up and great composition, nice color and good contrast in limited color palette.
“Wings” Mab Jones, had great contrast and color, shot at perfect moment to catch subject in unusual pose and motion, normally would say prefer subject in right or left third of photo but the contrast of the light and color in the background, separated at either side of bird made this composition perfect.
We had a very, very hard time choosing the number one shot. There were four absolutely stand out photos, all of equal beauty and quality, each deserving the number one spot and it really came down to an almost impossible and arbitrary choice to pick any above the others. The following three photos were really fantastic and all four described below were amazing:
“Short Eared Owl” by Neil Hughes was perfectly composed and framed, with beautiful contrast, excellent framing on subject’s face and eyes, motion captured just perfectly, an absolutely amazing shot.
“Grey Wolf” by Neil Hughes. A gorgeous picture that really created a character and a personality of its subject and empathy in the viewer. The focus and composition are perfect with the eye framed in the center, pulling the viewer’s attention straight into the subject and its story. Light in the green in the upper center background provided color contrast and framed the subject below.
“Red Tail Hawk” by Brett Hull was the closest competition to the photo we finally chose as this competition's winner.  It has gorgeous light, motion and immaculate focus, it's so perfect it almost doesn’t seem real.

For the winner for this competition, we chose:
“A Curious Little Lamb” by Karen Fisher
This photo edged just a hair above the other three in its composition.  The lamb’s body sits in right third but its head breaks the rule of thirds and imposes itself into the center, like the nosy little critter it belongs to, imparting character, emotional depth and personality to the subject of the shot. The touch of green in the upper left corner compliments the lit pinkish red in the lambs ear. The most amazing thing is the light: a circle in the background center of the shot, framing the head and wonderfully lighting the ear and the lamb's right side, as though back and hair lights had been set in a studio.  The temperature and depth of field are excellent, popping out the subject and centering the viewer's attention.


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One of the best theaters in the world


John Berry April 6, 2014 at 7:13pm





Indeed a very beautiful building. Any thoughts as to how feasible a bicycle trip to Georgia through Ukraine will be in About June 2014, anyone?






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Comment by mona everett on October 9, 2010 at 10:05pm



Crescent moon over Yellowstone











Comment by mona everett on October 9, 2010 at 10:03pm



Contrail over South Dakota











Comment by mona everett on October 9, 2010 at 10:01pm



Idaho Falls











Comment by Peter Lewis on October 8, 2010 at 6:11pm



Very simple and poetic image. I like it very much Dai.








Comment by mona everett on October 8, 2010 at 5:18pm



 I think it is a very creative take on an old-fashioned pinhole camera. Very cool photo! Thanks for posting it.








Comment by Dai Williams on October 8, 2010 at 6:44am



This is Venus passing the sun, I have a small telescope, which I set up with the view aimed at a peice of paper, I then took a photo of that.

What do you think?










Comment by Andrew Pierce on July 13, 2010 at 7:37pm



Shwmai, I hope that some of you may get a chance to check out some of my photos. Here is the link to my business site. Let me know what you guys think. http://www.wix.com/shutterspeedphoto/ShutterSpeed










Comment by Tam Ryan on July 11, 2009 at 5:08pm



Anyone out there heard of the Gigapan? One of our new members, Peter Mason, recently told me about it. Here's the YouTube Tutorial on how to use this device with a digital camera. I will certainly be checking this out more closely when I have more time on my hands.








Comment by Tam Ryan on August 12, 2008 at 1:01am



Hi Scott,

Thanks for sharing the links to your photos. I took a look at them and enjoyed all of the nature photography. I do mostly scenics, but getting close-ups of flowers, birds, butterflies, etc. are other interests, as well. Your photos are excellent.

Tam








Comment by Scott Peden, Pyper on August 11, 2008 at 11:42pm



I have a variety of Olympus cameras, 2 of them DSLR's, the E-500 and a E330 with live view and super macro focusing. Most of my photos are flowers, small stuff and lowlight, in the redwood canopy.
My online photo's are located here.
http://scottpeden.smugmug.com/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/55838750@N00/
http://www.picturetrail.com/bigbasin







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My son and daughter outside Caerphilly Castle last Easter.


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I've never used filters before, I mostly do photography to create web objects for sites and use a digital camera and do everything post in Photoshop but this last week I got my first filters and tried out the first one this morning quickly, a graduated neutral density filter - half of the filter is clear and the other half is neutral density - it reduces or modifies intensity of color.  Just did this really fast on way to daughter's school with camera on tripod on hood of car as she yelled at me that we would be late.  I also got a remote shutter release, a switch to take pix while not touching your camera so it reduces chances you'll shake it.  Planning to drag Ceri and kids out to the high desert to learn to use all these wonderful things next week!



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I ended up sending the filter set back that I got, they weren't really good quality, and exchanging them for another set on Amazon.  This morning I dragged my hapless middle child out with me to try them as we've had fantastic rain and I was hoping for dramatic skies.  The first photo is the top of the hill in our neighborhood and the second is looking east over the city from the top of another hill near the hospital.  Next I'm saving for a telephoto lense suitable for a beginner.

I got some rainbow lense flare on the right but I love how this came out, the wisps of mist leaving the valley floor and the silhouettes of still empty hedge branches -


This is where I'd love that telephoto but I might try painting this - love that it got the reflection of the headlights in the road surface on the bridge, that was totally unexpected -



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I also have a big chinese paper lantern to make a China ball, I used it once  to light this but I want a higher lumen cool bulb for it as it was so muted. Someone gave me a bunch of little paper lanterns, too, haven't done anything with those yet.
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