COMMENT THREAD - January Contest **WATER (RGB or B&W)**

[tabatha]

[alfredo]

1. And away we go!!!

Richard D, that is lovely. You might have scared off a lot of people with that image.

[Richard D]

2. I hope not!

I did want to get the first wave in though.

I'm expecting to see the usual (and phenomenal) plethora of genius displayed in this contest

[Swampguana]

3. Its definitely an intimidating first photo

Absolutely beautiful and powerful. Great choice!

[alfredo]

4. I can't wait to see what is to come.

[handmade34]

11. I thought your picture looked familiar...

then I saw the artist... good choice! Oh, I miss Northern Vermont!

[alfredo]

5. We are mostly water. I expect to see some beautiful entries because it

Isn't just an essential for life, it is us.

[Richard D]

7. So true

[alfredo]

10. I tried to do something others probably won't do.

I have a snowball's chance in hell, but I wanted a different hand held, low light, low tech type of image.

I used IR emulation and tweaks to WB and curves.

[Mira]

6. WHOAAAA = phenomenal and varied photos coming in.

This will be a heckofa contest I can feel it in my watery bones.

Richard: I'm so glad you posted "one of those" from Hawaii.

[Richard D]

8. Thank youj

I thought about it for, oh, about a millisecond.

[JeffR]

37. Just saw yours and... WOW!

You have some heavy-duty competition here, but that's a winner in my eyes. Glorious.

[Mira]

43. Thank you! I saw yours and said out loud:

"I think entering this contest is becoming futile".

I LOVE it. I wish I stood beside it right now. In about 60 degrees or above.

[Cassandra]

39. Your entry is GORGEOUS!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!

just saying.

[Mira]

44. Oh GIRL! I admire yours a lot - a whole lot - and wonder just how you did that,

gorgeous colors, and perfect pos and neg space.

Mine: It's Lucas. A dog whose owners in Marathon in the Keys take him there every evening at sunset, and he stands in the water motionless like that.
ONCE he caught a fish.
Once.

Honestly, I had posted it to hold the space. I figured nobody but me would love that picture as much as I do. I was going to go through maybe 7 more that were still left over to chose from. I just LOVE water and I swim several times a week after work.

Now I think Lucas stays. You convinced me.
Maybe I post the others when the slots are filled.

[Cassandra]

45. It was in the tropical plant section...

at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. They have some hanging plants as you walk in and some water dripping over them into a pool. The pool is too dimly lit to get an interesting shot so I took some shots of the leaves and gradually extended the time the shutter was open until I got a few I liked and this was the best of those. Like a waterfall but smaller.
BTW, I'm a sucker for a beautiful sunset.

[bluedigger]

55. Glad your keeping it!

I like it!

[bluedigger]

9. Wow! We're off and running!

Great shots so far! :applause:

I better go look through my inventory before this closes tonight.:rofl:

[Mira]

12. And so you did, coming back with a startlingly beautiful photo and

a very special tribute!

[bluedigger]

13. Thanks, Mira!

The title was by default, really. I considered a generic "Landscape from Yosemite" or some such, but that didn't do much for me... I tried to figure out which specific waterfall it was, but couldn't identify it for sure... I hate titles!:rofl:

[alfredo]

14. I guess calling you Sir Bluedigger is out of the question. I love the image.

[bluedigger]

38. As we used to say in the ranks...

Don't call me "Sir", I work for a living!

(Well, when I have a job...:eyes: )

I'm glad you liked it! You are putting some good stuff out there, too!

Everybody is, as usual, of course! :hi:

[alfredo]

42. A second Louie was the lowest of the low. I wouldn't want

to be confused for one, especially a ROTC.

[alfredo]

15. Check out Saphire's entry. Lovely.

[Solly Mack]

16. I agree. I like it very much.

[alfredo]

21. Really a strong field this time.

I forgot my photos of kids playing in the fountain. That might have been a good source of water pictures.

It isn't just water, it is how we react to it.

[Mira]

22. These are all so great. I only know the second one.

I could not pick a favorite, though I'm trying.

[alfredo]

23. Yeah, that session changed the way I approach subjects.

They would have been better vote getters than what I have entered, but that's OK.

Our relationship with water is so primal. If there was a god, it would be either the sun or water. Both gave birth to and sustain us. Feeling water on the skin is communing with God.

The character in "The Secret Sharer" was not really swimming, he was deep in thought. He was immersed in thought as the swimmer was immersed in water.

Feeling the water on my hand made me pick up my camera yesterday. I wasn't sure I could make visible what I was feeling.

The Water is wide- Karla Bonoff
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7EfHZtCKJGY

The water is wide, I cannot get oer
Neither have I wings to fly
Give me a boat that can carry two
And both shall row, my love and I

A ship there is and she sails the sea
She's loaded deep as deep can be
But not so deep as the love I'm in
I know not if I sink or swim

I leaned my back against an oak
Thinking it was a trusty tree
But first it bent and then it broke
So did my love prove false to me

I reached my finger into some soft bush
Thinking the fairest flower to find
I pricked my finger to the bone
And left the fairest flower behind

Oh love be handsome and love be kind
Gay as a jewel when first it is new
But love grows old and waxes cold
And fades away like the morning dew

Must I go bound while you go free
Must I love a man who doesn't love me
Must I be born with so little art
As to love a man who'll break my heart

When cockle shells turn silver bells
Then will my love come back to me
When roses bloom in winter's gloom
Then will my love return to me

[handmade34]

49. very nice!

Water is the best of all things. -Pindar


If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water. -Loran Eisely

[alfredo]

50. “Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it” Lao Tzu

[Celebration]

25. Ha, I remembered your fountain photos

I thought you would enter either a closeup or a fountain photo! Both are good choices. Of these I think I like the third the best...........what an expression!

[alfredo]

28. Her expression says so much about her.

I might have entered them if I hadn't been seduced by the feel of water on my hand, then the light on the surfaces. Personal, not pretty.

[Solly Mack]

26. I love those! The connection is there...as you say.

[Saphire]

35. I love the third one...lol, that girl is on a mission.

[alfredo]

41. I bet she is one cool little girl.

[bluedigger]

56. Those are great!

I liked the first one best!

We should do a portraits theme again soon.

Here's a kid standing in front of a mister that yours reminded me of:

[alfredo]

57. Love the look on his face. Red heads are disappearing from

the human line. Too bad.

[Earth_First]

27. I really admire this photograph...

So crisp, so vibrant; I feel like I am actually there viewing the subject in person.

Great shot, Saphire!

[Mira]

17. Ahhh - the Ponte Vecchio in Florence. A classic shot.

Did you buy any jewelry?

[MissHoneychurch]

34. No, it is way too expensive there

but I love Florence

[Mira]

36. I was on the Ponte Vecchio one time, I was 16 years old,

and there was nothing I could do but drool.

[Richard D]

18. Earth_First . . .

OK, What is that?

[Earth_First]

19. Water balloon subjected to the forces of gravity... n/t

[Richard D]

20. Wow.

Good timing.

[WhiteTara]

24. I just posted my photo

and I'm not sure I have the size right. Let me know.
Thanks.

[Richard D]

29. Wrong size

Your image is 819px × 1,024px

The longest side should be 600px.

Do you need help in doing that?

[WhiteTara]

30. it looks that way. thanks

[alfredo]

31. After the re-size she can send the new image to the page

where it is parked. The page will ask if she wants to replace the old image with the new. As long as she doesn't change the file name she won't have to repost. It will automatically re-size when she refreshes the page.

[WhiteTara]

33. hey! thanks for that too! n/t

[alfredo]

40. You're welcomed. We're here to help each other.

[Blues Heron]

46. It can be up to 800 pixels no? n/t

[alfredo]

53. Yes. I do my images 800X600. I try to keep them under

200k. You can do any configuration as long as it is no longer than 800px on any side.

[handmade34]

32. wow! so good, so many

I am trying to get out to shoot a photo to enter but work is keeping me busy.... this is the photo I want to get (I am just down the street from the hot springs) or maybe just take a dip ;-)




http://www.flickr.com/photos/23737778@N00/4246523729/

http://www.boston.com/travel/explorene/specials/spas/articles/2009/01/11/hot_springs_and_big_rivers_exhilarate_a_rockies_town/

[Celebration]

47. correct.

I think that 600 is a typo. 800 is the max.

[Richard D]

51. Oops.

Yes, my bad.

If I get a better keyboard will I type better?

[Mira]

48. Only once, but I don't remember when, have I seen a submission thread fill up

this fast. I think the subject of "Water" was long overdue.

As I see these wonders come in, one by one, and if I close my eyes, I have a premonition of the voting threads to come:
"OH MY GOD - these are all so great"
"I can't vote now, it's too hard"
"It's so wrong that we can only vote for just one"
"You all are soooo talented"
"Best photos ever"
and on and on it goes.

And we will rightfully be proud of ourselves and each other.
Actually, not since "Green" have I seen so many that resemble perfection in my estimation.

We are such a fun and talented and homogeneous group.
I'm proud to be part of it.

[Mz Pip]

52. That's the truth

This is going to be a tough one for the voters.

I've got a couple of favorites and may just decide to change my entry at the last minute - or not. I have a lot of water shots.

[Mira]

54. I believe I know a bit about how you feel. I posted Lucas Fishing with the

possibility of swapping him out in mind. Now he has struck a positive nerve I'll leave him.
BUT
I love your entry. Very much love the colors, the warmth, the arrangement of space.
It's not easy to chose, that's for sure.

[alfredo]

58. Looks like we need one more.

[tabatha]

59. Yes, athough the thread states 30 comments

there are 29 pictures - because there was a deleted post.

[Xipe Totec]

60. 30 now

;-)

[Mira]

61. Xipe my friend, we have a little problem.

It's now 31. I think I'm right.

But there is light! The winter contest just around the corner. And if you enter that photograph in that I can guarantee that I will come and look at it numerous times, and will vote for it early and often.

It is so very beautiful, words fail me.

[Xipe Totec]

62. Fair enough. I formally withdraw my entry.

:hi:

[handmade34]

63. I think we have a fight

for withdraal on our hands! Alfredo did, I did, and now you have... this is Tabatha's dilemna :-)

We could draw virtual straws

or maybe rock, paper, scissors??

http://image.shutterstock.com/display_pic_with_logo/66823/66823,1164678614,1/stock-photo-hands-forming-paper-scissors-rock-2237338.jpg

[Xipe Totec]

64. LIFO - Last in, first out. n/t

[alfredo]

65. Oh no, go ahead. I entered in part to make sure we had

the numbers. Your entry is very good and should be included.

[Xipe Totec]

66. Same here, just wanted to get the count up

I think my picture might do better in a different contest, more wintery than watery.

:hi:

[alfredo]

67. I think Tabatha has made her decision. Ultimately, it is her decision.

[Gamey]

68. Wow, that filled up fast!

It's great to see so much excitement and such talent. I haven't participated that long but it seemed like it took at least a week or two? Anyway, maybe one of these would have been my contribution?

Water On Water


Yellowstone Lower Falls (tons of derivations)

[Solly Mack]

69. I love the flower! Those are great!

When I first started coming here it could take a week to 10 days to fill the slots but lately the entries have been coming fast. The group is growing. More DUers are checking the group out and getting involved.

[Celebration]

70. Everyone can tell we have fun, and

The price of decent digital cameras are coming down.

Both are good developments.

Most of us aren't that intimidating, either.

[Solly Mack]

71. I still get intimidated by the talent in the group. :)

I feel like a poser in a group of actual photographers at times. But that's just my baggage...everyone is super nice and helpful.

I won a GE digital camera in a holiday drawing. Been playing around with it a little. Haven't really gone out to shoot yet. Just around the house and from the balcony. Got an OK shot of a pigeon in a snow-covered tree.


I'm thinking about getting some 'toy' cameras. (Holga/Diana)

[Saphire]

72. I love the flower, too. I've wanted to see a contest for "reflection".