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Pet Canvas
Pet Canvas
Your Name: Lindsay Payne
Website: http://lindspayne-purlieu.blogspot.com/
Photo Story About Experience: I house and pet sat for a couple who I was referred to by my boss. I met them, for the first time, 3 days before my 7 day live-in adventure and was given the responsibility to take care of their 2 dogs, 7 cats, 3 birds, a turtle and their huge gorgeous house. During my time there I started photographing the pets and emailing them to their owners so they knew they were ok. I love animals so I think they are all so lovely but these pets were so affectionate also and would get so close to you and sit on your lap and shoulders that I began to see them from an abstract angle and saw them as artwork. So during lounging time, I caught one of the white cats in full relaxation mode. He let me get so close him, I didn’t even use my full zoom for this shot. I adjusted the lens to focus and used natural, back, sunlight from the window behind him. No flash needed! Such a beautiful creature! (I think I submitted one before this on accident. Disregard that one, Â sorry!)
Country of Photo: United States of America
Camera Equipment: Nikon SLR D3000 18mm-55mm (starter lens)
Nice place for a chat
Nice place for a chat
Your Name * Andrew Place
Website http://www.andrewplacephotography.com.au
Photo Story About Experience * The swell wasn’t pounding, but it didn’t stop these two from enjoying a chat off Nobbys Beach in Queensland
Country of Photo Australia
Camera Equipment Nikon D5000
Moving to Smugmug…
PhotoLord.com has moved to a different platform for the daily photo contest. We’re trying out SmugMug.com The main reason is that I like how it works for larger quantities of photographs. It also has some excellent presentations for photography. Check out this layout design for photos. Smugmug is also easier to upload and more flexible for galleries. WordPress simply can not compete in this department. I’ll give Smugmug a try, and then reassess. If I can free up more of my time, then I think that is a plus. On the downside is the lost subscriptions as well as lost social interaction. I think with the new features WordPress has been rolling out, Smugmug is behind in interacting. Again, I’ll have to see if this will be too much of a compromise.
On another note, we’re going to start offering new submissions the chance of having their photograph featured in our new photo contest magazine. If you have any suggestions, ideas, and experience with magazine publication, let me know. I’m thinking it would be so cool to have the best photographers show off their work so others can appreciate it as well.
Thor’s Well
Title of Photo: Thor’s Well
Your Name: Kevin Brown
Website: http://adventurefirstphotography.com
Photo Story About Experience: Located near Cape Perpetua, OR. I have said before and continue to insist that this is probably the most dangerous photo I have ever taken. To achieve the best effects required the right combination of medium-high tide, big surf, and of course good lighting. This all meant that in-between pictures I was getting hammered with waves while frantically trying to protect my camera and keep it dry. Meanwhile I’m standing about 150ft off shore surrounded by jagged rocks and uneven footing. Needless to say I was relieved when I was back on shore with my equipment and body still in one piece and functioning.
Country of Photo: USA
Camera Equipment: Sony Alpha 35
Email: brownkev22@gmail.com
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Oxybelis Aeneus Dining on a Lizard in Panama
Title of Photo: Oxybelis aeneus dining on a lizard
Your Name: Spencer Woodard
Website: http://www.anthropogen.com
Photo Story About Experience: I saw the snake’s tail emerging from a hole in the ground. Curious, I gave it a gentle tug and out came this shocking scene. The species can grow up to 1.9 m (6.2 ft.). This was taken a number of years ago, just found it in my photo archives. I don’t recall what camera I was using at the time.
Country of Photo: Panama
Everest Yaks
Title of Photo: Everest Yaks
Your Name: Steve McDonald
Website: http://www.backpackology.org
Photo Story About Experience: It was early morning when we ascended into the Himalayan village of Chukhung, in the valley next to Everest. In the early morning sun, the warm, rising clouds slowly overtook us, until we were shrouded in haze. Occasionally, the clouds would break, revealing fleeting glimpses of grazing yaks, or frozen mountain summits. And at one point, for a few fleeting seconds, we caught a glimpse of both…
Country of Photo: Nepal
Camera Equipment: Canon ELPH, fixed lens
Devonport Lighthouse, Tasmania
Title of Photo: Devonport Lighthouse, Tasmania
Your Name: Sue McBratney
Website: http://www.smcbphoto.com
Photo Story About Experience: I had taken some shots of this lighthouse against the setting sun, and of the sun sinking into the sea below it, when I turned around to the East and saw it silhouetted against this gorgeous pink sky.
Country of Photo: Australia
Camera Equipment: Canon 550 D, EF-S 17 – 55mm f/2.8 IS USM, 1/60 sec f4.5, ISO 200
Email: susanmcb@bigpond.net.au
Sunny Portland Evening
Title of Photo: Sunny Portland Evening
Your Name: Jake Horttor
Photo Story About Experience: My wife and I recently spent a weekend in Portland, Oregon, and while walking downtown, we came across this building lit up with the setting evening sun. I had to take this photo. I took several photos on the walk, which you can see on my own blog page (see link below), but this is one of the most striking shots I have ever taken of this type of object or environment! Enjoy.
http://bigmediablog.wordpress.com/
Country of Photo: USA
Camera Equipment: 1/4000 sec. @ f/5.6, ISO 400 Shot with my Canon T3i and my 28-90mm EF lens
Email: surrealjake@gmail.com
Approach to Snow Hill Station, Birmingham, England
The picture is of the approach to Snow Hill Station, Birmingham, England.
Camera – Nikon D200
Lens – 18-70mm Nikon at 48mm
ISO 100
F/4.5, 1/350s
Photoshop and Nik Silver Efex Pro 2
Adrian Pym
www.adrianpym.wordpress.com
Kristina
Title of Photo: Kristina
Your Name: Andrew Place
Website: http://andrewplacephotography@hotmail.com
Photo Story About Experience: This was taken at an ad-hoc shoot put together in minutes for a visiting friend who is a videographer. Whilst he set up his mountain of gear Kristina and I snapped away.
Country of Photo: Australia
Camera Equipment: Nikon D700, Nikon70-200/2.8, 2 x SB600 speedlights triggered by Phottix Atlas Email: andrewplacephotography@hotmail.com
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Zuiderkerk
Title of photograph: Zuiderkerk
Monsoon in the Panjab
Title of Photo: Monsoon in the Panjab
Your Name: Steve McDonald
Website: http://www.backpackology.org
Photo Story About Experience: I awoke around 5AM to the pounding of tablas and the cries of Sikh bhajan singers, on a hard, pillow-less mattress in the Golden Temple of Amritsar. The singing was so loud that falling back asleep was out of the question, and so I willed myself out of bed for an early morning stroll around the temple.
As I circumambulated the man-made lake, I saw one of the temple guards leaning on his wooden spear and calmly staring out across the water, as the roiling, black clouds of the monsoon rolled in from Delhi in the south. Before it even occurred to me to take a picture, I stood there for a long moment, watching the encroaching storm slowly blot out the rising sun, casting everything in a pale, bluish light, except for the guard’s vibrant orange shalwar kameez, which slapped about his legs in the sticky-hot breeze of the Panjab monsoon. Country of Photo: Panjab, India
Camera Equipment: Canon G-12, fixed lens
Amphitheater at Arlington National Cemetery in Washington, D.C.
This is my first submission ever to a photo contest of this nature. I have only been doing photography seriously for 4 months now. I received the Canon Rebel T3i for Christmas and I spend nearly every day practicing, reading, learning, practicing, practicing, practicing. Recently, I spent several days in Washington, D.C. and 1 of the photos I took stood out to me so, I figured, “Hey, why not?” So, here it is.
Photo taken on April 13, 2012 by Laura Lynch
Place: Arlington National Cemetery Amphitheater in Washington, D.C. in the United States
Camera: Canon Rebel T3i
Lens: EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 IS Type II Lens
ISO 100 / 28mm / f/4 / 1/1000Hope to hear from you.
Thanks for the opportunity to enter.
Laura Lynch
Oilseed Rape
Title of Photo: Oilseed Rape
Your Name: George Rice
Website: http://georgeerice.wordpress.com
Photo Story About Experience: For 2012 I’m trying to take a photo every day. I’m gradually getting better. The sky was beautiful as a i drove home. I stopped the car next to this tree. And it all came together.
Country of Photo: United Kingdom
Camera Equipment: Nikon D40x, 18-55mm lens
Fresh
Title of Photo: Fresh
Your Name: Katie Austin
Website: http://woopig.wordpress.com/
Photo Story About Experience: Recently the daisies here have begun blooming, and they are literally everywhere you look. I discovered that the vacant lots I run by every day on my morning runs were covered with them, and so I set out one morning to photograph them covered in morning dew. What I thought was just a 20 minute session actually turned out to be 90 minutes in the field. I guess time really does fly by when you’re out having fun.
Country of Photo: United States
Camera Equipment: Nikon D7000/85mm f 3.5 macro lens
Email: kateaustinphotos@gmail.com
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Easter Hamper
Title of Photo: Easter Hamper
Your Name: Sarah Drummond
Website: http://www.littledotphotography.com
Photo Story About Experience: I took this photo of my beautiful daughter. Who wouldn’t want one of these in an easter hamper!
Country of Photo: United Kingdom
Camera Equipment: Nikon D40, ISO 200, 50mm, f2.5, 1/100
Blue Spheres
Attached is a photo from my Apple iPhone camera (standard camera) of blue spheres in a jar by my kitchen window. I live in the San Francisco Bay area. My blog, Satin & Sand, can be found at www.satinandsand.com
Thanks so much!
Joan Currie
Bird, Beach, and Clouds
Title of Photo: Bird, Beach & Clouds
Your Name: Tisha Clinkenbeard
Website: http://foundroundandabout.com
Photo Story About Experience: While visiting the Cannon Beach, Oregon area I happened upon this photo of Haystack Rock as the mist/fog rolled in for the evening. I was pleasantly surprised to find the seagull also in the photo.
Country of Photo: United States
Camera Equipment: Nikon P90
Mudbath
Title of Photo: Mudbath
Your Name: Richard Cooper-Knight
Website: http://ckponderings.wordpress.com
Photo Story About Experience: One of literally hundreds of elephant photographs taken during a trip to Kenya in 2007. The family made their way to the watering hole by the lodge we were staying at, took their fill of water, then cooled off in the way only they knew how to! Country of Photo: Kenya
Camera Equipment: Canon EOS 400D / Tamron AF 55-200mm
Resident Leopard Drinking at Moringa Waterhole
Title of Photo: Resident Leopard Drinking at Moringa Waterhole
Your Name: Mario Fazekas
Website: http://www.kruger-2-kalahari.com/
Photo Story About Experience: This leopard was a challenge to capture on camera. He doesn’t have a routine and could appear at anytime. For the first few years we visited Halali camp in Etosha National Park, Namibia we were either too early or too late to see him but eventually in 2011 we got it right.
Country of Photo: Namibia
Camera Equipment: Nikon D3S and 600mm f4 lens with SB900 flash
Email: mario.fazekas@gmail.com
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Night Falls Over Johannesburg
Title of Photo: Night Falls Over Johannesburg
Your Name: Heather
Website: http://2summers.net
Photo Story About Experience: I took this photo just after sunset from the observation deck of the Carlton Centre — the tallest building in Africa — in Johannesburg. The Carlton Centre is 50 storeys and 223 meters tall. Read more about my experience here: http://2summers.net/2012/04/12/sunset-from-the-top-of-africa/
1/13s
f3.5
28.0mm
ISO: 500
Country of Photo: South Africa
Camera Equipment: Canon EOS 60D, Canon 28-135mm lens
Venice Flowers
Title: Venice Flowers
Camera Equipment: Canon 5d Mark II; Canon EF 70-200mm f2.8L
Guards
Title of Photo: Guards
Your Name: Taylor-Gabrielle
Website: http://www.flickr.com/photos/chrisdmoyer
Photo Story About Experience: A rushed trip to Gyeongbok-gung, a palace in Seoul, happened to coincide with the changing of the guards. I love how bright their uniforms are!
Country of Photo: South Korea
Camera Equipment: Canon 60D, 18-135mm
The Perfect Daisy
Title of Photo: The Perfect Daisy
Your Name: Rainey
Photo Story About Experience: While vacationing in Nova Scotia, I spotted this little beauty growing beside the road after a rain. Daisies are beautiful in their simplicity.
Country of Photo: Canada
Camera Equipment: Nikon CoolPix L100
Cool and serene…
Title of Photo: Cool and serene…
Your Name: Joel Randymar P. Arreza
Website: www.joelrandymar.com
Photo Story About Experience: Just driving from my city to a neighboring city and I passed this beach just on the side of the highway and took various photos of it. I am always amazed and fascinated by nature… Country of Photo: Philippines
Camera Equipment: NIKON D3000
Americana Backroads
Jim Seiler
http://reliesphotography.com/
Photo taken – Hershey, Nebraska, USA
title of photo – Americana Backroads
Camera – Canon EOS7D
Story – I was going fishing and I came up on this turn in the road and thought it looked good.
Hidden
Title: Hidden
Taken on 3/17/12
It was very overcast and literally raining while I took the shot! Dangerous for my camera but I had to have it! : ) There is a park near my house where I walk my dog several times a week. This time of year there are always tangles of orange plant life clinging to the bushes, I have no idea what it is but it looks like spaghettti squash. When I looked closer I could see hundreds of little rain drops hung on and between these orange threads.
I used my Nikon 55-300mm with a raynox M150 adaptor 5.6 1/180 ISO 400 to capture the hidden world inside one of these tiny raindrops.
Michelee Scott
~Creative Tails Told~
www.asqew-creative.com for high quality prints and wall art
Twitter: @AsqewCreative
“Blossom Puffs”
Title of Photo: “Blossom Puffs”
Name: Ninali Sanchez
Website: http://ninalisnap52.wordpress.com/
Photo Story About Experience: Settings: f/3.5 ss1/160 ISO100 18mm
I was having a terrible day snapping photos outside, very frustrated with everything that I seemed to be getting, making me question if I REALLY knew what I was doing or not. I had some 200 snaps and felt like had nothing but garbage. As I was walking back to my car to give up, I saw these beautiful trees with these puffs of blossoms growing on the trunks. ‘Dare I try to snap after such a discouraging couple hours?’ I did, and am so glad. Sometimes even in the most discouraging uninspired times you can find beauty.
Country of Photo: USA
Camera Equipment: Nikon D60; AF-S Nikkor 18-55mm 1:3.5-5.6G; Tiffen Circular Polarizer Filter; Tiffen UV Protector Filter
1935 Mercedes Kompressor
Subject: 1935 Mercedes Kompressor
Portland Art Museum July 7, 2011 Portland Oregon
Samsung Cell Phone
At a rare showing of some of the most exotic, rare and expensive cars in the world no camera with flash were allowed. My option was to use my handy cell phone. Getting photos without signs and people to distract from the auto was not possible. So the people, signs and furniture have all been transformed into streaks of color that are reminiscent of wind blowing past.
I hope it is worthy of consideration in your photo competition.
Shezphotoz
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