A photo challenge starting January 5th 2009. One image only, normal size restrictions apply (1000 pixel maximum width or height recommended - if vertical we suggest 700 pixels maximum width). No followup images (comparisons) except by those who have not already posted their one image. Discussion welcome - please only repeat images in discussion posts if absolutely essential. Aster has been appointed moderator of this forum in recognition of her commitment to making it great fun. This does not prevent others from setting challenges!
Forum rules
One image only, normal size restrictions apply (1000 pixel maximum width or height recommended - if vertical we suggest 700 pixels maximum width). No followup images (comparisons) except by those who have not already posted their one image. Discussion welcome - please only repeat images in discussion posts if absolutely essential. Participants should provide basic camera data (body, lens, ISO, mode, exposure over-ride or WB settings), and details of raw processing and subsequent PP.
I hope you're all doing great and enjoying a wonderful summer/winter at your part of the world.
This particular photo challenge will be all about your selection of moments and places where and when you wish to escape all the turmoil and demands of the daily polluted world and seek some harmony, quiet, bliss, and 'enjoy the fresh air!'.
The idea is not one of mine but came from a nice person who asked me to "Enjoy the fresh air!" after a situation which was in tangles and later was resolved!
I hope you enjoy yourselves and here are the specifications:
* Places, scenes, landscapes at a particular time of the day when you think is most refreshing for you.
* Last day for submissions: 10 September 2009.
* You may submit as many photos as you like.
* The size of images should comply with forum rules set by the admins.
Here's one from a Sunday morning in Fort Worth. As I come off the night shift I like to go out and see what other people are doing with that early hour before I go home and crash in my bed.
Thank you! A fresh start and hopefully like the first rays of light that chronicle the dawning of a new day....which resets that fine-tuned clock in our brains!
I can only imagine how those cyclists feel as wind brushes their faces and limbs in the morning chill. Really refreshing...and they do say early-risers enjoy a longer and full day.
A200
Tamron 17-50 F2.8
ISO 100
Landscape (1/100th F8.0)
PP ~ Fade correction and crop
Reality is merely illusion, albeit a persistent one. ~ Albert Einstein To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge. ~ Benjamin Disraeli
This shot is by Colin Burn-Murdoch - our daughter's other half (been together ten years, own two and a bit properties, not married yet...)
I swapped out their Canon 400D kit for a Sony Alpha 350 kit and they love the colours - Colin shot this with the 16-105mm at 45mm, ISO 100. The quay is just below their flat balcony, so they can see the boats arrive, and for this North Sea oil support vessel launch the band of the Lothian and Borders Police had been hired to pipe on shore and on board. Colin caught the lads going up to the deck:
