Challenge 10: Old MacDonald had a farm..- Winner Chosen

[aster]

Dear Harveyzone, you're marvellous!

You are a 'farm saver'! Such beautiful new farm members with character indeed!

Thanks very much,

Yildiz

[Elisha]

[aster]

Hello Ladies and Gentlemen!

Wishing you all a happy Sunday and a nice Father's Day to the masculine majority of the forum! Don't forget to get advantage of this special day.....

Due to the colourful participation by the invaluable members of the forum, Challenge 10 is now concluded with some lovely photos awaiting your votes.

Please name your winner and include a couple of lines of commentary as to why you selected the artist's work. Commenting on all the other works by other participants is also a very welcome contribution.

Last day to cast your votes: 26 June 2009

Thank you all for your contributions!

Enjoy,

Yildiz

[aster]

Since the decision of making someone a moderator who insulted and used abusive language to my person, I decide never to be part of this forum in anyway.
His first moderation decision being deleting a post of mine that stated that this new development in the forum was also the one that finalized my my decision.

Not even able to face a fact of his own doing...

There is no point in staying around any longer.

Thanks to those who were of the better kind and goodbye for good.

To seeing you all at other places.

Yildiz

[bossel]

There is no point in staying around any longer.
Thanks to those who were of the better kind and goodbye for good.

Oh no! Can you please rethink your decision? You've been a great contributor, writing nice articles in a pleasant, entertaining and often humerous way. I am sure I am not the only one thinking so.

[harveyzone]

There is no point in staying around any longer.
Thanks to those who were of the better kind and goodbye for good.

Oh no! Can you please rethink your decision? You've been a great contributor, writing nice articles in a pleasant, entertaining and often humerous way. I am sure I am not the only one thinking so.

Hear hear.

Without wanting to pour oil onto a fire, please reconsider any hasty decisions made in anger.

[aster]

Callenge Still Open!

Dear contributors and members;

Since I know some of our respectable members were preparing to join with their photos for this challenge I duely announce that this challenge is still open to submissions until 07 September 2009, Monday.

I wish to thank Harveyzone, bossel and all other contributors for showing interest and making this a fun challenge.

Good luck to everyone!

Yildiz

* Last day for submissions: 07 September 2009, Monday.

[01af]

After having been ridden, 18-year-old 'Enrico' enjoys wallowing in the warm sand on the paddock.


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Sony A900, Sony SAL 70- 400 mm 1:4-5.6 G SSM
400 mm, f/5.6, 1/800 s, ISO 320/26°, hand-held
Horizontally cropped to 4,370 pixels (out of 6,048 so the field-of-view is equivalent to
that of a 550 mm lens on the full frame), then cropped vertically to get the 16:9 aspect
ratio. Resized and sharpened for web.

[aster]

That's one horse that's having fun, Olaf!

And your cropping method is interesting, resembling the method you described in Javelin's thread.

Thank you for your contribution.

Yildiz

[Ossie]

Here come the cowboys! Well not quite as they were herding horses.

DSC07626_Camargue Cowboys.jpg

A100 Sigma 105mm 2.8 DG EX

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[aster]

Hi Ossie,

Very stylish horsemen, all the attire are appropriately intact! Nice patterned shirts and hats....
I like the spotless white of the horses. A special kind of breed no doubt.

Our farm thread is inreasingly turning into a horse farm with your contribution.

Thank you,
Yildiz

[Birma]

Great shot Ossie - I really enjoyed your views of the Camargue here and even the "problem" shot in the other thread. Really classic images. I'd love to see more of the horses.

[Ossie]

Yildiz.

With the exception of the "boss" all the riders wore red patterned shrits. The patterns varied and I don't know if this was just tradition or badges of rank or status.

Our farm thread is inreasingly turning into a horse farm with your contribution.

To try and even-up the balance of animals, here is a cow (it might be a bull but with those horns I wasn't going to check!) but it is certainly bovine.

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Birma.

........I'd love to see more of the horses....

Thanks for your comments. It was a great experience but keeping the camera dry with all that water splashing about was a problem. One of our group a N**on user (a top end model I believe) was unlucky and his camera stopped working. Never found out if it was terminal or not.

I have yet to process most of the images I took in Provence but there are a few more on my Flickr site. I will send a separate post in "Give it your best shot" with the links. However for me posting to a forum is a little like trying to set-up the video recorder hopefully the links will work.

[aster]

Impressive cow and must say that that's a fine composition!

I'm glad you submitted a cow, not because we are anywhere near to being overwhelmed by horses but because that IS an interesting and relaxed one with a 'personality'.

And we're only happy to see the galloping horses...

Thanks.

Yildiz

[Elisha]