***Comments or Questions about the Winter Contest***

[CaliforniaPeggy]

Please post your questions or comments here!

Please don't post your questions or comments in the Submission Thread!

Here is the link to the Submission Thread: https://www.democraticunderground.com/103698175

[Tom Kitten]

1. well whaddaya know

I'm actually the first to enter! Must be some kind of planetary alignment.
Mine is of Mt. Shasta, taken in February a few years ago.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. I was very pleased to see your stunning photo, my dear Tom Kitten!

It's just plain gorgeous!

I think I'll go ahead and enter mine now too. Gotta get this ball rolling!

[Tom Kitten]

14. Thank you Peggy!

I'm glad you like my photo. I was lucky the weather was so dramatic when I went by it, there had been a blizzard that closed I-5 a couple days before and had just re-opened but there was so much snow everywhere.
Your photo is stupendous! It would make a nice mural. Quite a bit of snow on the San Gabriels! Did you take it from Griffith Park vicinity?
And thanks for your effort running another fine contest! I love the entries so far!

[CaliforniaPeggy]

15. Your photo took my breath away! Wonderful capture.

Thanks for your lovely words on my San Gabriel shot. I was shooting from the Kenny Hahn Wilderness Park on La Cienega in the Baldwin Hills.

That particular spot is where all the professional photographers go when they need the city skyline in front of those amazing mountains, especially when there's snow!

I've seen them there with their gear, and then soon after there are photos of this very view in the Los Angeles Times.



And thank you for the compliment! I appreciate it a lot. It takes a certain effort, but I'm retired and I have time to be here to run the contest.

We do have some absolutely amazing entries!

[Grumpy Old Guy]

7. Great shot Tom!

Shasta is amazing.

[mnhtnbb]

3. A pair of doves

which had been coming to eat in my courtyard, perched on garden furniture, which was one of very few places not covered with snow during one of our snowstorms this winter.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

4. You saw your opportunity and you took it! Nicely done.

And it's something we don't always see.

[mnhtnbb]

6. I'm sitting out in my courtyard right now.

Two pair of doves have come to feed and sit in the 80 degree sun. Only have my phone out here. But in a while I'll go inside to take a look at my phone shots.

[Walleye]

5. Don't often see bluebirds when there is snow on the ground

They are pretty far away down by the road but I got my long lens out and tried a shot. Luckily got him in midflight and all his blue gloriousness

[CaliforniaPeggy]

9. That is a wonderful shot, my dear Walleye! Very well caught.

And yes, his blue is glorious!

[LakeArenal]

16. I think yours is the winner.

[Walleye]

17. Thank you

[Grumpy Old Guy]

8. Aaarrrgghhh!

I had a hard time making my final decision. I'm hoping we get a second entry.

I wasn't sure I would have any good entries since I moved away from the cold nearly fifty years ago.

I still might change mine.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

10. I happen to think, my dear Grumpy, that your shot is exceptionally great. So there!

Of course you can change it if you want to, but if you do, please just put the replacement in the same slot. It does make it easier for me.

[Grumpy Old Guy]

13. Of course my dear Peggy.

I would just cut and paste into the same message.

[Grumpy Old Guy]

18. I changed my image.

I liked the previous photo, Mount Thompson, but I felt the foreground was cluttered. It wasn't my favorite image.

Instead I've posted "Hiking Peekabo Canyon."

Wish me luck!

Grumpy

[CaliforniaPeggy]

19. My dear Grumpy! I love your new entry a lot. It's just stunning. Thanks! n/t

[Walleye]

11. Spectacular scenic shot!

[Grumpy Old Guy]

12. Thank you! 😊

I dropped my camera that day. It turned out to be a very expensive photograph!

[Solly Mack]

20. Mz Pip! Haunting beauty!

All wonderful entries!

[Callalily]

21. Yes, I absolutely love Mz Pips entry.

Additionally, wonderful entries in this contest. I really like to see everyone's take on the theme.

[Solly Mack]

22. We had a few really cold days here but no real winter.

No ice. No snow. Green pine trees. Heck, even my flowers were blooming well into January.

[mnhtnbb]

23. Changed my entry

to get some more color in the contest.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

24. There is a lot of seasonal color in your beautiful photo! I can see why you chose it. n/t