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This is the place to submit and vote on photos for the week of 1 Oct 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 October 1st at 9:30pm EDT (UTC-4) :.

NOTE: Due to the lag in moderators getting the winner up for the last weeks contest, we will be exhibiting their win through the next week. This contest will be for the week after that. Apologies for the delays!!

There is no theme this week

Submissions may be added any day of the week until voting closes. The winning image (with the highest votes) as of the close of voting will be exhibited on the main site.

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Feel free to include a concise description that explains the image, the emotion behind them, etc. and perhaps some explanation of gear and exposure settings, etc.

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  • \$\begingroup\$ Why don't we have a fall theme next time? \$\endgroup\$
    – Jakub Sisak GeoGraphics
    Commented Oct 2, 2012 at 14:02

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Big Sand Lake

Big Sand Lake

D7000, 10-24mm at 10mm
0.6s, f/16, ISO 100

LEE .9 Hard Grad ND

See on flickr here

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  • \$\begingroup\$ You have to win! :) \$\endgroup\$
    – garik
    Commented Sep 26, 2012 at 7:34
  • \$\begingroup\$ I would love to! I think I've taken 2nd the last few. And when I posted my Owl picture, it got almost enough but landscapes kept beating it...now a bird is going to beat the landscapes :P. so it goes :-) \$\endgroup\$
    – camflan
    Commented Sep 26, 2012 at 15:36
  • \$\begingroup\$ Perhaps, but perhaps not! :P I'm surprised my Chickadee received as many votes as it has. Well, here's to the battle for the win! :) \$\endgroup\$
    – jrista Mod
    Commented Sep 27, 2012 at 2:29
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    \$\begingroup\$ Haha! I jumped in front somehow. I like a good battle :-) good luck! \$\endgroup\$
    – camflan
    Commented Sep 27, 2012 at 5:05
  • \$\begingroup\$ great atmosphere, +1 \$\endgroup\$
    – ElendilTheTall
    Commented Sep 28, 2012 at 19:50
  • \$\begingroup\$ my congratulations \$\endgroup\$
    – garik
    Commented Oct 2, 2012 at 18:27
  • \$\begingroup\$ Congrats on the win! :) \$\endgroup\$
    – jrista Mod
    Commented Oct 2, 2012 at 20:26
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Black-Capped Chickadee

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See full size (slightly different frame)

An energetic chickadee in my back yard that was storing seeds under bark for winter gave me the prime opportunity to get some frame-filling photographs with the Canon EF 300mm f/2.8 L II IS lens and my Kenko 1.4x PRO 300 DGX teleconverter a couple weeks ago. This is one of the many shots taken with my Canon 7D and the 300mm rental lens. A 100% crop (only the top was chopped off to fit the site header.)

Gear:

  • Canon 7D
  • Canon EF 300mm f/2.8 L II IS
  • Kenko 1.4x TC PRO 300 DGX

Exposure:

  • 1/800 second
  • f/4.0
  • ISO 800
  • -2 EC (Av mode)
  • 420mm
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    \$\begingroup\$ Great capture! Personally, I think this frame is more interesting. \$\endgroup\$
    – Jakub Sisak GeoGraphics
    Commented Sep 21, 2012 at 15:12
  • \$\begingroup\$ Thanks. :) I guess we'll see if people are interested in seeing a bird on the home page. (Seems landscapes are historically the favorite picks...but I thought I'd throw in something new and different to see how it went.) \$\endgroup\$
    – jrista Mod
    Commented Sep 21, 2012 at 17:22
  • \$\begingroup\$ It would be a refreshing change. Personally, I don't take bird/animal pictures but I do appreciate them. \$\endgroup\$
    – Jakub Sisak GeoGraphics
    Commented Sep 21, 2012 at 17:40
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A Gorge

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Magic Fountain

Tivoli, Copenhagen, Denmark. Larger version here.

Beautiful colors and well-maintained. Looked out of place in northern Europe :)

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On the river

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Larger version here

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Near Point Reyes in California. Canon 400D with Canon 28-135mm IS USM lens.

Shipwreck

Larger version

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    \$\begingroup\$ What software did you use to resize the image? The edges of the boat appear distorted. Maybe try resizing again? \$\endgroup\$
    – Leah
    Commented Sep 21, 2012 at 3:24
  • \$\begingroup\$ Fixed. I had resized it with the wrong setting for extreme shrinkage. \$\endgroup\$
    – Michael Nielsen
    Commented Sep 21, 2012 at 9:39
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Leysin, Switzerland

Swiss mountains and a few trees.

EOS 30D, Sigma 10-20 @10mm

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Sunset by the bay

Sunset by the bay

Location : Mumbai, India

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Spring

Spring

I had some problem with the resizing and sharpening of the flowers hopefully it came out ok. Larger

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