Nice Photos.

MDS posted:

JamieWednesday posted:

You have my vote too. Easy peasy frankly...

Likewise. 

Mike

Ditto from me, its the best photo there.

Thanks a lot STEVEE_S!

G

You have my vote too - by far the most imaginative entry.

Tim

Is Sydney Harbour ever that calm?

GraemeH posted:

I've been shortlisted as one of 5 in a national photography competition. Would I be permitted to post a link asking if any forumites would care to vote if they thought the shot merited it?

Embargo on announcing until tomorrow but thought I'd test the water on protocol here.

Cheers

G

Voted

Thanks Tim & Erich!

Please keep voting folks!

http://bit.ly/1UNp0pP

G

GraemeH posted:

http://bit.ly/1UNp0pP

I heard you the third time.

This voting business is a farce. 

I entered a photo of my pet in my vet's Christmas pic competition for a bit of fun. If I was lucky enough to win, I was going to donate the prize to a PDSA centre. The idea was the pics would go on the vet's Facebook and then everyone would vote the best. Mine was doing very well with votes, as were a few others. Then suddenly, one entry received 100 votes over a couple of days, then another 100 or so. The person was just rallying around the Facebook accounts and getting everyone to vote on theirs. That's not fun, nor was it within the Christmas spirit.  I sent a private message to the vet asking them to remove mine, as I didn't like this modern way of cheating to win. They agreed, scrapped the competition, started again with them deciding the winner. Decent vets.

Mine never won.

#justsaying  as the modern saying goes. 

count.d posted:

This voting business is a farce. 

I entered a photo of my pet in my vet's Christmas pic competition for a bit of fun. If I was lucky enough to win, I was going to donate the prize to a PDSA centre. The idea was the pics would go on the vet's Facebook and then everyone would vote the best. Mine was doing very well with votes, as were a few others. Then suddenly, one entry received 100 votes over a couple of days, then another 100 or so. The person was just rallying around the Facebook accounts and getting everyone to vote on theirs. That's not fun, nor was it within the Christmas spirit.  I sent a private message to the vet asking them to remove mine, as I didn't like this modern way of cheating to win. They agreed, scrapped the competition, started again with them deciding the winner. Decent vets.

Mine never won.

#justsaying  as the modern saying goes. 

I never "vote" in these things. It's a ridiculous system. The photos should be judged.

At sunset

winkyincanada posted:

I never "vote" in these things. It's a ridiculous system. The photos should be judged.

I take your point and in an ideal world you'd be absolutely right, but in this instance, as in many others, the organizers are trying to drive traffic to their site so they actually want people to share on facebook etc... For them, awareness of their cause/product or whatever is the point of the exercise and they would be ill-served by a judge.

As it happens I thought Graeme's was the best photo so I voted for it.

Twist & Shout

The ancient 28mm delivers a unique perspective on a DX body (equivalent to 42mm on a full frame sensor).

tjbnz posted:

winkyincanada posted:

I never "vote" in these things. It's a ridiculous system. The photos should be judged.

I take your point and in an ideal world you'd be absolutely right, but in this instance, as in many others, the organizers are trying to drive traffic to their site so they actually want people to share on facebook etc... For them, awareness of their cause/product or whatever is the point of the exercise and they would be ill-served by a judge.

As it happens I thought Graeme's was the best photo so I voted for it.

Thank you very much for that. I never read anything about the competition before flicking in an entry on a twitter feed. I'd forgotten all about it and so was quite surprised to get the notification. I do agree with Winky & Count.D...but I am where I am now.

Interestingly, Rankin is doing a live-chat via The Guardian newspaper at 1:00 on Tuesday and the text mentions his involvement with this competition so I might quiz him on the issue.

Oh, and nice pic Haim!

G

I think Rankin would find more profound competition simply paging through any of the splendid pics posted on this very thread.

No disrespect to G - great capture - but this is a pics thread, not an elsewhere social media pulpit.

Haim Ronen posted:

Twist & Shout

Made by its caption. Thanks Haim.

C.

OK - Pics only!

G

Christopher_M posted:

Haim Ronen posted:

Twist & Shoout

Made by its caption. Thanks Haim.

C.

 Shouting is an exaggeration but the wind blowing through the pine needles definitely made itself heard.

So, Tesco have apparently started supplying me with celebrity eggs.

This one is 'The Boris', or it could be 'The Trump'. I can't tell the difference.

GraemeH posted:

Well awesome!

Late night, roof window.

Northern exposure

Nice one Haim

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Nice Jamie.

G