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This is the place to submit and vote on photos for the week of 18 June to be featured on the main site. This contest should showcase your best quality work, demonstrating at least moderate skill with a camera and a general understanding of the artistic aspects of photography. Remember, the selected photo will be displayed on our main site header for a week. Submit something that you and the members of our site will want to look at and admire for seven days!  This contest is for the community to choose what they LIKE (not what they dislike), with the most liked being displayed on the main site header for a week. 

.: Voting Closes on June 18th at 9:30pm EDT (UTC-4) :.

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    \$\begingroup\$ Last weeks competition appears to have ended in a tie. Doesn't that usually mean that this weeks competition should run for two weeks, to allow each of the pictures a week on the front page? \$\endgroup\$
    – forsvarir
    Commented Jun 4, 2012 at 21:41
  • \$\begingroup\$ @forsvarir yup! fixed \$\endgroup\$
    – rfusca Mod
    Commented Jun 4, 2012 at 22:59
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    \$\begingroup\$ I thought we had agreed to a rule that allowed downvotes, but only for cat pictures? \$\endgroup\$
    – dpollitt
    Commented Jun 5, 2012 at 23:35
  • \$\begingroup\$ @dpollitt — that was for the idea of a cat theme in general. I think you're going to have to out-compete the cat picture here if you want something else. :) \$\endgroup\$
    – mattdm
    Commented Jun 6, 2012 at 3:38
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    \$\begingroup\$ I'm pretty anti-cat - if the cat photo wins, I'm not sure I can post it in good conscious ;) \$\endgroup\$
    – rfusca Mod
    Commented Jun 6, 2012 at 4:18
  • \$\begingroup\$ @rfusca: I'm GMT, but it seems like maybe this should have closed by now? \$\endgroup\$
    – forsvarir
    Commented Jun 19, 2012 at 18:18

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Winter in Provincetown

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I live in a tourist town, Provincetown Massachusetts to be exact. It is crowded in the summer and pretty empty in the winter. My girlfriend and I had been out night shooting and stopped by our local for a drink. She headed off to the ladies' room and I looked to my right. The place was almost completely empty. So I grabbed my gear (and Susan's Sigma 8-16mm ultra wide), laid the camera on the table and snapped off three shots of 4/5th, 3.2, and 13 seconds at f4 on a Canon 40D crop body, ISO 100. Tone mapped using Photomax Pro.

Click here for a larger verion

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    \$\begingroup\$ I like how relatively subtle your HDR work is. You have some very nice samples in the gallery you link to. I really liked "Richard and Arnold". You should submit it as well - maybe next week? \$\endgroup\$
    – ysap
    Commented Jun 6, 2012 at 4:12
  • \$\begingroup\$ Thanks, I do appreciate it. \$\endgroup\$
    – Paul Cezanne
    Commented Jun 6, 2012 at 10:40
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The Remnants of a Glorious Past

The Remnants of a Glorious Past

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  • \$\begingroup\$ Wow. Thank you all for all the votes... \$\endgroup\$
    – Jakub Sisak GeoGraphics
    Commented Jun 15, 2012 at 13:57
  • \$\begingroup\$ great work indeed. \$\endgroup\$
    – gsharp
    Commented Jun 16, 2012 at 8:45
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    \$\begingroup\$ Thunder Bay, sweet! \$\endgroup\$
    – dpollitt
    Commented Jun 19, 2012 at 1:10
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    \$\begingroup\$ I don't get it. Do people really want to look at such a grey and depressing picture for a whole week? \$\endgroup\$
    – Martha
    Commented Jun 19, 2012 at 13:59
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    \$\begingroup\$ It's that or an empty bar... :- ) \$\endgroup\$
    – Paul Cezanne
    Commented Jun 19, 2012 at 14:16
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    \$\begingroup\$ Oh, I think this is a fantastic picture! Look at those colors. And the texture in the clouds. Jakub captured the mood of an overcast day perfectly. I would love to be there (well, maybe somewhere similar, a lot farther west), just walking around and taking it all in, whenever I see this picture. \$\endgroup\$
    – user2910
    Commented Jun 19, 2012 at 16:37
  • \$\begingroup\$ Thanks @drewbenn! much appreciated. Usually, we are one of the sunniest places in Canada but this year it's more gloomy than ever. After all the flooding we've had I must be the only person who looks out the window in the morning and says: "stormy skies, great!" I am very happy i was able to capture the mood of what I was seeing in an image. ..and yes, grey and depressing were some of the feelings I wanted to invoke with this... \$\endgroup\$
    – Jakub Sisak GeoGraphics
    Commented Jun 19, 2012 at 17:03
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Family Of Four

FamilyOfFour

This was taken at Leadenhall Market in the City of London. You can see the fullsize image on Flickr.

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    \$\begingroup\$ +1 Cool title, it creates hidden relationships in the photo. It would be much less impressive without it :) \$\endgroup\$
    – Petr Újezdský
    Commented Jun 5, 2012 at 9:58
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    \$\begingroup\$ I think the rightmost one helps satisfy the rule of odds :) \$\endgroup\$
    – MattJ
    Commented Jun 6, 2012 at 2:34
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Jungle Road

Jungle Road

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  • \$\begingroup\$ This looks like a scene from Dead Island. \$\endgroup\$
    – Birdie
    Commented Jun 8, 2012 at 23:15
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Alien - Rock Hugger

enter image description here

An alien in our world.
Nicely adapted to its own.

There's a story that I'll add to this shortly, plus a link to a larger image.
We followed it for some way by its trail. Until we found it we had no idea of what we were following and were duly surprised when we found out.

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    \$\begingroup\$ Ok, so what the heck is it? \$\endgroup\$
    – Martha
    Commented Jun 4, 2012 at 22:39
  • \$\begingroup\$ @Martha - wait until I tell the accompanying story :-). To find it we followed its tracks - which were even weirder than it was :-) \$\endgroup\$
    – Russell McMahon
    Commented Jun 5, 2012 at 5:02
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    \$\begingroup\$ Nice picture, but it's a bit too weird for me to have it in the homepage :) \$\endgroup\$
    – clabacchio
    Commented Jun 5, 2012 at 9:14
  • \$\begingroup\$ It's not at all weird - just not what our brain is used to seeing. I imagine we look similarly strange to it. It's about as big as my hand \$\endgroup\$
    – Russell McMahon
    Commented Jun 5, 2012 at 11:27
  • \$\begingroup\$ It looks like a kind of crab to me. Is there more to the mystery than that? \$\endgroup\$
    – Ian Lelsie
    Commented Jun 5, 2012 at 20:18
  • \$\begingroup\$ Where's the story? \$\endgroup\$
    – clabacchio
    Commented Jun 7, 2012 at 9:38
  • \$\begingroup\$ You don't get a story for 2 votes :-) . But no, later maybe. \$\endgroup\$
    – Russell McMahon
    Commented Jun 8, 2012 at 10:48
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    \$\begingroup\$ @RussellMcMahon: I'll reverse it, and say that you won't get more votes without the story :) \$\endgroup\$
    – clabacchio
    Commented Jun 8, 2012 at 13:03
  • \$\begingroup\$ @clabacchio - I was aware of that when I said it :-). I like the picture. If it needs a story to make it more attractive than eg an (admittedly very cute and cheerful) pussycat then I've misjudged what's required :-). \$\endgroup\$
    – Russell McMahon
    Commented Jun 8, 2012 at 23:10
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    \$\begingroup\$ So where is the story that we are waiting for? \$\endgroup\$
    – Vikas
    Commented Jun 13, 2012 at 9:52
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Oh Hai

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Flickr

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    \$\begingroup\$ This is a great photo, sorry everyone is hating on it because it's a cat \$\endgroup\$
    – Jane Panda
    Commented Jun 9, 2012 at 3:28
  • \$\begingroup\$ lol, I did notice that. I do like how it came out thou. I didn't even have to edit it! \$\endgroup\$
    – Birdie
    Commented Jun 10, 2012 at 21:18
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The Demon's Paw

I've never shown any of my photos online. I guess this is as good a place as any to start. So know what happens when you are burning piles of wood from a project and said wood is pressure-treated lumber? Awesome flame colors. And the occasional fire demon trying to escape from Hell.

enter image description here Here's a bigger version.

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    \$\begingroup\$ Pretty. Don't breathe the smoke! Beware burning fibrolite sheet - it literally explodes - sometimes after a considerable while. \$\endgroup\$
    – Russell McMahon
    Commented Jun 12, 2012 at 2:52
  • \$\begingroup\$ Yes, the flames are quite toxic. The green flame comes from mercury in the wood treatment! \$\endgroup\$
    – huzzah
    Commented Jun 12, 2012 at 17:10
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Drop Effect...

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Bigger version

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How to resist to winter

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Click on the image to enlarge

I want to give a shot too :)

This is a narcissus that I found on the side of my road to work, just after sunrise. It astonished me because it was the only one and it was quite cold.

Sadly my equipment is very limited - a Nikon Coolpix 3200 - but I like to have it always with me, to not lost such things. And I try to use this limited resources to practice the composition

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  • \$\begingroup\$ I took over 12,000 images with my Nikon Coolpix 3100 before it finally gave out. Great little camera! \$\endgroup\$
    – dpollitt
    Commented Jun 5, 2012 at 23:34
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Slice of Life

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High Resolution - Denver Airport

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Amnye Machen - A Great Protector in Tibetan Buddhism. Kora (circumnavigation) of Buddhist Great Protector Mountain, Tibet

A bigger image of this can be found here.

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