2021 - Image of the Week #5

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

• Week 5 entry period will be from Monday, January 25th through/including Sunday, January 31st.
• Please provide a title for your image.
• This is an open competition for landscape, portrait, architectural, macro, or 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 NFLD Stephen.

Since the weather keeps being cloudy have have time to go thru my october 2020 northern lights trip.

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...307e0c8e_k.jpgSkibotn by Kari, on Flickr

Yellow Shafted Northern Flicker

https://joeleadephotography.zenfolio...15861756-4.jpg
Canon R5
Canon RF 100-500mm @ 300mm
iso 1600
1/640 sec
f/5.6
EC 0 EV

Amaryllis

https://joeleadephotography.zenfolio...16685720-4.jpg
Canon R5
Canon EF 180mm macro + RF-EF adapter
1/100sec
f/14
iso 3200

"Is that a silent shutter?"

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...14214372_h.jpg537A9864 by kayaker72, on Flickr

"Countryside Winter"
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...1d5230ef_b.jpg
_O5A4301_1800h by cls-70, on Flickr

Tough decision since, as always, the shots here are all great. But this week goes to "Countryside Winter".

This image strikes me with the thought that the photographer had to find the perfect spot with the trees overhanging the road just enough, had to wait for the right amount of snow and right conditions for the show to stick to the trees, needed a blue sky with just enough clouds to provide interest without diluting the color or blocking the sun, had to choose the right lens, focal length, framing and settings to get the nice starburst peaking through the trees...or maybe it was just a lucky snapshot on the way to work! Either way I really like the shot and think it is more than deserving this week.

Stephen

You missed an option Stephen. It's obviously taken while zooming around a rally track, with a high shutter speed to freeze the image.

Congrats Cls!

It was obviously taken the middle of a lake with a tele lens!


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Pfffft....obviously a drone shot taken as Claes sat by a fire with a nice drink in his hand. ;)

Thanks guys, and thanks also for your entertaining "behind the scenes" thoughts:D.


This place is located in a very photogenic area close to where I live. It’s an area that’s been kept quite similar to what the Swedish countryside may have looked like in the 18th and 19th centuries. I bring the camera quite often and of course that has made me know the area fairly well. This particular shot wasn’t really planned, but I was pretty sure I would come back with a bunch of nice photos when I went there on a crisp winter’s day with a decent amount of fresh snow from the previous days.

(There was no drone, no telephoto lens or no fast shutter speed involved, just a normal zoom @24 mm, f/16, 1/60 sec ;-)