2015 - Image of the Week #24

Welcome to TDP forum's "Image of the Week" competition. Each week photographers may submit their images to compete for the title of "Image of the Week." Weekly winners will then compete on a monthly, quarterly and finally in an annual poll for the title of "TDP Image of the Year."

There will be only one weekly winner.

• This entry period for Week 24 will be from Monday June 8th through/including Sunday June 14th
• Please supply a title for your image.
• This is an open competition for landscape, portrait, architectural, macro and any other appropriate photographic style.
• Images should have been either recently taken or processed.
• Enter as many times as you would like.

This week will be judged by Neuroanatomist

Good luck!!

"Old Rally Road"

When my parent were young they went here to see rally races all around those beatiful hills in Tuscany. The place is behind Badia a Passignano, in the hearth of Chianti.

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Old Rally Road by Andrea Magnelli, su Flickr

Tree Swallow

http://joeleadephotography.zenfolio....40632139-5.jpg

[IMG]https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/556/18...5a1867bc_b.jpg4A3B8243 by Danny Watson, on Flickr[/IMG]

"Sunset"

http://www.alderimages.com/img/s1/v21/p1246100247-5.jpg

First crack at shooting hummingbirds...this was at Devil's Lake State Park in Wisconsin.

Devil's Lake Hummingbirds 1
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Devil's Lake Hummingbirds 2
https://c1.staticflickr.com/9/8831/1...baf01d45_c.jpg

"graduation"
my little girl graduated from college this week . as you can tel she is a little happy and so is her dad .
https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/549/18...a20f5718_b.jpgCollege Graduation by Stuart Edwards, on Flickr

"Ready for camping season."
https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/299/18...d3f5ca42_o.jpgReady for camping season. by Dave Bennett, on Flickr

A bit of a new direction for me lately.

Riverside
http://community.the-digital-picture...tid=2431&stc=1

Water Fountain
https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/509/18...6d72d8be_c.jpg

Stuart - Congratulations... that sucking sound coming from you wallet may finally quiet down a bit. But seriously, it is difficult to get a good shot of a graduate amongst the crowd, but you managed to do it quit well.


Here is my submission for the week. It has been a while since I have shot a sunrise or sunset. It was really nice to get out again.

Manistee River Sunrise

https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/423/18...5b1c9f32_c.jpg
Manistee River Sunrise-1627 by Pat Conroy, on Flickr

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"Ready for camping season."

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What is the purple thing???

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What is the purple thing???

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What is that orange thing with the white thing popping up from the top??????? :)

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Originally Posted by Busted Knuckles

What is the purple thing???

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I can only speculate, it must be some sort of magic elixir to induce euphoria, with possible short term memory loss.

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Originally Posted by neuroanatomist

What is that orange thing with the white thing popping up from the top??????? :)

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Another contraption to induce euphoria. Owning/driving one can be fantastic, and create longterm lasting memories... or if you are in a rush and need all the comforts of modern living, it is a divorce inducing device.

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Here is my submission for the week. It has been a while since I have shot a sunrise or sunset. It was really nice to get out again.

Manistee River Sunrise

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Beautiful.

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Originally Posted by sedwards

"graduation"
my little girl graduated from college this week . as you can tel she is a little happy and so is her dad .

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Having 4 daughters, two in college and two that just graduated "I feel your pain" and joy. As a dad to 4 daughters, I did notice the gender mix :).

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Originally Posted by Kombi

Beautiful.

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Thank you

Its great seeing my images on the same page as all the other beauties, like Manistee River Sunrise. Gives a newbie something to look up to!

Great images, everyone! The nod goes to Pat for Manistee River Sunrise, lovely image.

Congratulations Pat! Great shot.....

Great shot congratulations!
Love the colour and composition. Only thing I might change would be level the horizon.

Nice colour in that. Does this mark a return to those early misty morning shots?

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Originally Posted by neuroanatomist

Great images, everyone! The nod goes to Pat for Manistee River Sunrise, lovely image.

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Thanks. It was a nice morning and a great sky. My trusty Canon gear and Lee filter had adequate DR shooting into the sun.:p I had to throw the DRoning in for you. :):):)

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Originally Posted by Kombi

Great shot congratulations!
Love the colour and composition. Only thing I might change would be level the horizon.

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Thanks.
I see what you are talking about, but I did use the electronic level in the camera... so it was level with the world, but the curving river and tilted tree line over the river does make it appear off a bit. If a picture is level to the world, I seldom try to fix it to the perceived level anymore because in the past when I tried to do that it always looked worse. Now days, I try to use the electronic level for all my landscapes. I am usually right on, but some times it can be a bit off, and it is difficult to crop right without loosing the composition.

The one thing I wish I would have done though is to zoom in more. I had taken the majority of my shots at a wider focal length than what I posted here, and intent was to go wider. However, in the end I ended up liking the zoomed in shot better, but when playing around with it some in post, I came to the conclusion I should have zoomed in more - then the fog would have played a bigger part in the composition. Live and learn I guess.

Pat

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Originally Posted by jrw

Nice colour in that. Does this mark a return to those early misty morning shots?

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I hope so.

By the way... a lot of people would kill for a wedding shot like that.

Congratulations Pat.