2014 - Image of the Week #25

This entry period for Week 25 will be from Monday June 16th through/including Sunday June 22nd.

Only two categories of images will be judged:

1. Portraits -- Anything with eyes; people or animals
2. Landscape -- Country, town, city, sea, abstract, things (water drops, smoke, flowers, candles, and so on)

Each category will have a single winner each week. This week will be judged by Denise (ddt0725)

Please supply a title for your image and which category it is entering. Enter as many times as you would like, old or new images.

Good luck!!

Landscape
Title : Lonely.

https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3908/...2109e1b1_b.jpg
Flower within a Log. by DSLR Newbie, on Flickr

portrait

"Peek a boo"
http://images6.alphacoders.com/514/514307.jpg

Landscape: "Full of Hot Air"

https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2910/...afb2c451_o.jpgSmall-7214 by kayaker72, on Flickr

landscape

"kerrville's hills"
http://images.alphacoders.com/516/516332.jpg

A first for me...an entry to the Portraits category.

Canon EOS 5D Mark III
Exposure	0.005 sec (1/200)
Aperture	f/4.0
Focal Length	99 mm
ISO Speed	160

Ragazzo

https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2914/...67b415ea_c.jpgBambino in Lugano, SWI by ernogy, on Flickr

Landscape: Touch The Sky
View from Top of The Rock

https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3859/...b6616058_h.jpg
skyyBW by jerrytech1, on Flickr

Portrait Entry - Looking for Trouble


http://www.alderimages.com/img/s5/v129/p115189725-4.jpg


A recent family session photo. This little guy was all over the place. I spent most of the session chasing him around trying to get him to sit still for a minute or two. I had to lay on the bridge to get him to do the same. All in all, it was a lot of fun!

Portrait: Can you hear me now?

https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3865/...80855353_h.jpg
oldmanBW by jerrytech1, on Flickr

I checked the sky one more time before I went to bed last night, and it had finally cleared up. The sky was very clear and the Milky Way was showing up really well. So I grabbed my camera, tripod, intervolometer, and the 24mm f/1.4 II and headed to a nearby lake where I could get the Milky Way over the lake (and it was only 5-10 minutes away). Unfortunately, in the short time it took me to get there, it clouded up and I missed my chance for getting stars. So I tried to make the best of it and actually ended up liking the colors that were coming of the clouds and the reflection.

Landscape Title: Cloudy Evening at Stony Lake

https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2914/...23f0ea73_c.jpg
Cloudy Evening at Stony Lake -3806 by westmichigan, on Flickr

jerrytech1

Love that pic! (Can you hear me now?) It tells a complete story. You can see the brain spinning trying to figure out what that thing is doing right in the picture.

You guys really know how to make it tough on a gal! Really nice shots here in both categories!

Thank You!

Landscape: Western Canada Violet
Canon 5D3 with 180 mm f/3.5 macro

Attachment 2237

Landscape - Destruction

http://www.alderimages.com/img/s12/v...66270117-5.jpg

Saturday I had the opportunity to travel by Pilger, NE and see the devastation from the 2 EF-4 tornados that scoured the earth. They still have most of the highways closed off and are only allowing volunteers into the town. I stopped along some of the section line roads to take a couple pictures before moving on. This is the from the 2nd tornado that struck the feed lot. I attempted a panorama of 14 images to try and capture all of the damage as this moved across this area. The fire on the right is them burning the wooden debris from the trees and homes. Moving from left from the little road to right in the frame, you can see the path of dirt the tornado left as it ripped all the corn from the field.

It was really tough narrowing it down to one winner in each category!

Landscape:

Winner: Conropl - "Cloudy Evening at Stony Lake". To walk away with this grand of a shot when it wasn't what you originally intended to capture is brilliant! Love everything about this shot!

Honorable Mention: Kayaker72 - "Full of Hot Air". Perfect composition, DOF and exposure. This is a really beautiful shot!

Portrait:

Winner: jerrytech1 - "Can you hear me now?" A true classic shot and the b&w processing is perfect! Very nicely done!

Honorable Mention: Jayson - "Looking for Trouble". With all you went through to get this shot, you captured the boys personality perfectly in his facial expression and the title says it all! Man, can I see my son and grandson at that age in this!

Congrats everyone!!!

Thank You!!

Congrats Jerry and Pat....great shots.....

And thanks Denise for both judging and the honorable mention.....

good going everyone and congrats to the winners!

Thanks Denise, Brant, and Zach.

Congrats winners!