2016 - Image of the Week #12

[Kayaker72]

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 12 will be from Monday March 14th through/including Sunday March 20th.
• 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 DavidEccleston
Good luck!!

[jamsus]

"In dreams"


Bird, Flowers by Andrea Magnelli, su Flickr

[Sean Setters]

Danielle's Engagement Ring by Sean Setters, on Flickr

[Jayson]

Reflections

[Kayaker72]

"Nubble Sunrise"

Small-7939 by kayaker72, on Flickr

[cls]

Spring has arrived in southern Sweden.

Common snowdrops by cls-70, on Flickr

[DavidEccleston]

I'm going to go with Kayaker's "Nubble Sunrise" for the fantastic sky gradient in addition to the lighthouse silhouette.

cls, the shot is nice but the slightly OOF grasses in front and back make it a bit too busy for my tastes. Love the bug up top though.

Jayson, this is one of the "landscapes I don't get" shots (which is 95% of landscapes!). There's a nice clear reflection, but the nearly overcast sunrise/sunset isn't doing anything for me. The rocks are a leading line, leading to... a generic shore. The log up front isn't prominent enough to be a foreground itself, it's just something that's there. I see a lighthouse and boat masts in the distance, but they're not prominent enough to be the subject, and the water looks more like a shallow river or pond than anything that would belong with the lighthouse and boats. I just don't get it. Sorry.

Sean. Technically good. Nice and sharp where it matters with thin DOF. I don't get what the wedding ring on old rusted railroad spikes is trying to symbolize. It doesn't look like a good omen for the bride, unless, perhaps she's marrying a railroad engineer.

Jamsus. I'm jealous that you've got spring, but the bird is too obscured by branches to see much detail.

[Sean Setters]

Sean. Technically good. Nice and sharp where it matters with thin DOF. I don't get what the wedding ring on old rusted railroad spikes is trying to symbolize. It doesn't look like a good omen for the bride, unless, perhaps she's marrying a railroad engineer.

Actually, she is marrying a railroad engineer. :-)

Congrats Brant!

[DavidEccleston]

Actually, she is marrying a railroad engineer. :-)

Oh, well in that case, I *did* get the symbolism, I just didn't realize it. Guess that means it was a pretty good shot, I just lacked some context.

[Sean Setters]

Oh, well in that case, I *did* get the symbolism, I just didn't realize it. Guess that means it was a pretty good shot, I just lacked some context.

I can see how the context was lost here in the forum. The explanation was in the caption on Flickr, though. You can read the story below:

Amanda and I just got back from Wichita, KS where we were visiting with Amanda's best friend Danielle and her new fiance, Kamron.

While I was there, Danielle asked if I could take a picture of her ring which paid homage to Kamron's job as a railroad engineer. The request proved tricky for a couple of reasons.

First, photographing on an active railroad is not only dangerous, it's illegal. And second, I had left my macro lens at home.

We tackled the first problem by finding a large pile of unused railroad spikes near an abandoned railroad station platform. The rails there might still be used (I'm not sure if they are or not), but the pile of spikes was positioned well away from the tracks thereby eliminating any danger.

In lieu of a macro lens, I used the EF-S 55-250mm f/4-5.6 IS STM mounted to my 7D Mark II to capture the image. The compression at 250mm and reasonable minimum focus distance allowed me to frame the scene adequately for this particular ring shot.

All well and good, though. Brant had a good shot this week and was well deserving of the win. ;-)