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Photo of the Day June 2014

I entered the Toronto Star (by circulation, Canada’s largest newspaper) annual photo contest this year and was fortunate to have 3 of my owl shots make the shortlist of 326 shots for the 9 categories.

The winners were announced and I didn’t make it any further but was happy to get as far as I did.

You may recognize the shots at: Toronto Star photo contest shortlist

~ Peter
 
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Cheese&Apple said:
I entered the Toronto Star (by circulation, Canada’s largest newspaper) annual photo contest this year and was fortunate to have 3 of my owl shots make the shortlist of 326 shots for the 9 categories.

The winners were announced and I didn’t make it any further but was happy to get as far as I did.

You may recognize the shots at: Toronto Star photo contest shortlist

~ Peter
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If yours didn't win, the winning shots must be amazing! Congrats on getting as far as you did. Your owl shots are some of the best I've seen.
 
Photo of the Day June 2014

Cheese&Apple said:
I entered the Toronto Star (by circulation, Canada’s largest newspaper) annual photo contest this year and was fortunate to have 3 of my owl shots make the shortlist of 326 shots for the 9 categories.

The winners were announced and I didn’t make it any further but was happy to get as far as I did.

You may recognize the shots at: Toronto Star photo contest shortlist

~ Peter
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Congratulations Peter. You deserved to be in that short list with your awesome owl shots. It looks like the level of competence was pretty high in the competition so you was certainly in good company. You must be pretty chuffed with that and rightly so.

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The quieter end of the Northern Line...

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Cheese&Apple said:
I entered the Toronto Star (by circulation, Canada’s largest newspaper) annual photo contest this year and was fortunate to have 3 of my owl shots make the shortlist of 326 shots for the 9 categories.

The winners were announced and I didn’t make it any further but was happy to get as far as I did.

You may recognize the shots at: Toronto Star photo contest shortlist

~ Peter
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I'm glad you got shortlisted - just a shame you didn't get further - yours were right up there with the best of them. There are some superb shots in that shortlist, but there's some that I'm very surprised at too. One or two horrifically over-HDR'd pics, some with clearly skewed horizon lines (what does it take to just level out in PP?), and one or two which I would have just called average holiday snaps.

There was one in particular which caught my eye, as it was so similar to a pic I posted on here a while back - clearly the Niagara Ferris Wheel is made by the same company as the Brighton Wheel...
 

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Was shooting some random macros around the house for another thread. Saw my wife's old iPad with a black cover that she doesn't use sitting around. Thought it might make an interesting subject. Shot it macro looking at the iPad on-end. Focused on the data port and had the lens wide open. This resulted in an abstract where it isn't obvious at all that the subject is an iPad. This was my intention for the thread, but I kind of liked the image on its own and felt like posting it here too.

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Apple fanboy said:
20140621-_DSC3809 by apple fanboy1, on Flickr

Another one of my garden bug friend. Comments always welcome.
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f/4.5@1/50 sec must be a tripod shot. Very sharp in the area of focus.

I see that some don't like the field of focus being on the "false face" of the insect, but that's what interested me about the subject from the first photo you posted. Nature has a way of offering it's creatures a defense by making them appear to be larger than they really are and this is a great example of that. False eye spots on butterflies and eyespots on the back end of caterpillars have the same function and confuse the heck out of birds.

If I live long enough, I'll get around to being the biologist I could have been. Then I'll be a herpetologist and then a paleontologist. By then I'll be old enough to be studying myself...

EDIT: Hawthorn Shield Bug
The Wildlife Trusts



Dale
 
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Designer Dale said:
f/4.5@1/50 sec must be a tripod shot. Very sharp in the area of focus.

I see that some don't like the field of focus being on the "false face" of the insect, but that's what interested me about the subject from the first photo you posted. Nature has a way of offering it's creatures a defense by making them appear to be larger than they really are and this is a great example of that. False eye spots on butterflies and eyespots on the back end of caterpillars have the same function and confuse the heck out of birds.

If I live long enough, I'll get around to being the biologist I could have been. Then I'll be a herpetologist and then a paleontologist. By then I'll be old enough to be studying myself...

EDIT: Hawthorn Shield Bug
The Wildlife Trusts



Dale
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It was indeed a tripod shot. I started off handheld, but wasn't happy with the sharpness. Thought I would chance my luck and popped to the car for the tripod.
I was real surprised he was still there.
I had to google what is was called when I took it, as I had no idea.
 
Playing with the Sigma 10-20. Camera is suction cup mounted upside-down to the sunroof glass. Remote release. Wish the mount was a little more rigid but it was made for video.


Sigma meets BMW by testfahren, on Flickr
 
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