August Photo Challenge - Entries

[iceman]

Enter your photos for the August challenge here.

Subject: Something Red

Rules:
- 1 entry per person
- Include the date the photo was taken in your description (optional)

Comments go in the comments thread!

Thanks and happy snapping!

[Dujon]

Well, I suppose someone has to be first cab off the rank.

I give you:

"A Winter Observation"


Camera: FUJIFILM S3500

Mode: Digital - original file size approximately 1Mb

Processing: Nil - other than some inbuilt furry light scattering effects

Date: 30th July 2006

Frames: 1

Mount: Hand held

Please note: The dew heater control cable on the right mid-to-upper section of the image and the readily accessible table on the upper left - the arm rest is obvious. A well padded foot warmer will be seen in the centre of the photograph and, unfortunately not within the field of view, is a small, glass encased, stomach warmer.

[janoskiss]

Here is a photo I took of one of very few Soviet era monuments in Budapest that are still left standing in their original locations (most have been moved to Statue Park). 30 July 2006, Szabadság Tér ("Freedom Square"), Budapest. Fuji Finepix A350 compact digital camera.

Inscription reads in Russian and Hungarian:
Glory to the Liberating Soviet Heroes.

[33South]

What a shame, I had to eat them as they had started to thaw.

[Jupiter]

My first succesful effort. Taken Sunday the 6th August.

[Tamtarn]

We were sitting staring into our open fire enjoying a glass of "RED" it looked good so I thought I would take this pic.

Taken 14th July 2006

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Barb

[venus]

seems fitting for this month........

[Adrian-H]

something red automatically reminds me of i photo i took early last month in the middle of a park, im not quite sure why i took this photo but i took it just after my first 18% grey white balance.

if could go back and improve this photo i would have smaller shutter longer expose just alittle, photos like these dont work like that though now do they?

i find that most believe that taking photos that you will personally appricate has more to do with how you use the camera, i believe this to be true to a degree but i believe that it is overrated and that you gain more personal sucess in taking photos with the more time you spend with your camera and the places you take it to the more you use and experiment. as you can buy a cheap camera press a button photo take it places and it will gain more sucess then a expensive pro camera with heaps of features that goes no where.

if we take both cameras out into the field..

the pro camera may have more features but, that dosent mean it will take better photos, it will just allow more control over mechanically "how" the photos are took, while a point a shoot has this naturally set to the more comercially apealing processing.

i believe that to personally suceed in photos you must become close with your camera that you chose to use, know it well and let it be a close part of yourself and your life, and this is how i appricate the photos i take, and i find with the more time i spend with my camera, the more i get to know it, and the more i get to know it with time, my photos personally improve.

i like this photo it cause of the lighting. the suns cast tone, and personal reasons.

the red thingy dose stand out too dosent it?

im allso sure this photo relates to some of you dslr owners

[Sonia]

A red blood like waterfall at a theme park.. Taken 22nd July

[joe_smith]

I took some photos at the Holden Day at Richmond on sunday 6th Aug 2006.

"And on the eigth day god created the first Holden Ute"

[allan gould]

Well here is mine. Lumix DMC LX1 on auto Thursday 10th Aug 2006.

[sheeny]

Taken in April 10, 2006 (at 5:11pm) at Yerranderie NSW at a range of less than a metre (I was sitting at the table).

Olympus C5060WZ @ 23mm FL, 80ASA, f/4.8, 1/100 sec. Cropped, resized and saved for the web in Photoshop CS2.

Al.

[Lester]

Hi everyone,

Streaky Bay area "Hay Stacks"

Taken with Sony Cybershot in January.

[RAJAH235]

Moon in total eclipse. 12.00 am 16-7-2000. 12 second exposure. Canon AE1. No processing.
We set-up at dusk & took lots of pics, including a series of 1 sec exposures every 30 secs for about 5 hrs in total, with my video camera on the tracking platform. Just watching the shadow gradually creep across the surface & to see the varying colours was awesome.. 'Twas a very good night.. :D L.

[Dave47tuc]

Its been a while since I had a go with the challange.:)

When I got my fuji S5500 I took it to work to play with a took this shot at a lunch time. It was the 3rd photo i ever took with the camera. Many since:D

[asimov]

You can get blood out of a stone ;)

Kodak easy share late 05'

Talia Caves Eyre Peninsula.

[ballaratdragons]

Our Snake Valley Bushfire in April.

A rush job with a Toucam sitting on the car boot before we high-tailed it out of there!

Yeah, terrible focus, but I wasn't going to just stand around getting the focus perfect. :scared: Oh well, at least it's 'Red'.

[TidaLpHasE]

:PThis is my cat "puss" very original name.

She is a ratbag, and shows it all the time, cracks me up:lol:

Not sure if she found the empties pile and lapped up the amber fluid before she jumped in the box doing burnouts and ripping it to bits:rofl:

[beren]

A coastal scene from Cape Naturaliste , the geology of the coastline is interesting the rockforms are red/orchre, quite a contrast from the limestone and granite found further down the south coast of WA :)

[Jonathan]

Some great photo's so far.

Here's mine, a Red Capped Robin. Taken in May this year with my Nikon F100 using a 180mm f/2.8 ED lens and Fuji Velvia 100 film.:)

[middy]

Picking apples at Stanthorpe .....

[Volans]

G'day All,

Calliandra tweedii taken on the 8th of this month.

Peter.

[RB]

Thought I'd try my luck with this one. :rolleyes:

Took this last night, trying to focus on just the single dice while the others are out of focus.
I was captivated by the look of these die when I saw them and thought it would make an interesting shot.

[ving]

changed my mind....

heres a macro ant! taken just last weekend while out mountainbiking! :D
camera = nikon coolpix p2

[spacezebra]

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"A single rose can be my garden.., a single friend my world"

Cheers Petra

[leon]

Thaought i might add this to the list of top shots.
Taken a little while ago, about 6 weeks i think, it's the sun rising early one morning, and only lasted about 30 seconds.
Taken with A Canon IXUS 50 Compact Camera, auto exposure.

Cheers Leon

[Sharnbrook]

Inspiration finally came in the kitchen last week.

"Egg and Tomato"

Canon 300D, 100mm macro lens, flash, 1/60 at f10, 400 ISO, and post processing in Photoshop.

Regards, Mike

[xstream]

Something Red, that's read!

[anna]

You can get it setting up,
You can get it looking up,
You can get it packing up,

You can get it any ol' how,

As a matter of fact, I've got it now.

[h0ughy]

OK, I will admit that this character is a pretty shady one, and that red eye just keeps following me, and chasing that curser, look where it come from. Never trust Mi.............:rofl:

[iceman]

Taken in April with the 350D + 18-55mm lens, on a tripod. 3 sec exposure, I think.

[cometcatcher]

Sunrise about 3 years ago. Nikon coolpix 2100.

[The Unbeliever]

Here is my something red, unfortunately we ate the evidence shortly after this photo was taken.
16242:lol:

[earthlight]

After too much deliberation here is my entry.

Shot taken, hand held, back on the 8th of August using my old Cannon Ixus 500.

Good luck everyone, there are some really great photos here.

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Earthlight

[jackenau]

Well thats at least what the grandkids called in. Taken last night by one of the grandkids. We all took turns and best of a bad bunch.

Ken m

[Dennis]

Hello,

Well, I finally got my act together, so here is my entry – 3 Tomatoes. Details are:

Subject: Vine ripened tomatoes. Photographed on 29th August 2006.
Camera/lens: Pentax *ist DS, 35-105mm f4-5.6 lens.
Capture details: 200ASA, 103mm, 0.5 sec, f27
Illumination: A slide projector provided the illumination.

Cheers

Dennis

[Phil]

This was taken with Cannon 300D MT Archer on fire in Rockhamton

[Mick]

Here's my effort.

[Astro Girl]

This is my sisters red doll.
I took the foto today and daddy hellped me put it on ice in space.
Thank you.