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Weekly Photo Contest: April 27 - May 4: Serenity
- Thread starter AlexH
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Santa Monica
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Shoreline in CT
I lived over in Stamford for a year while working over in the US. Lovely neck of the woods. Used to drive Route 22 to work each day. I miss CT.
I took this picture on a warm day in March, Wisconsin River
Yes, I'm sure it should have finished by now, but I was keeping quiet and putting off the awful moment
Cheers
Hugh
Well …. this was to be expected … Alex was probably judging the entries and all the serenity, peacefulness, and/or relaxing calm in the entries put him to sleep . Should wake up soon .
Sorry guys, all this "serenquility" really put me to sleep...
I had a bunch of real life snags this week, but I'll have the results up this evening.
I had a bunch of real life snags this week, but I'll have the results up this evening.
I apologize for the delay, everyone, I've had a crazy week! A lot of stuff going on beyond my control. I have a few minutes, so I'm going to name the winners, and then hopefully this evening I can return with a proper commentary on the entries.
There were some great images this week.
Third place: CE3 - beautiful image.
Second place: MacRy - very simple, relaxing, and pleasing image.
First place: lharvest - you captured the theme beautifully! Well done!
It's all yours, @lharvest!
There were some great images this week.
Third place: CE3 - beautiful image.
Second place: MacRy - very simple, relaxing, and pleasing image.
First place: lharvest - you captured the theme beautifully! Well done!
It's all yours, @lharvest!
Wow! Thanks for the honor. There were a number of really nice images in this thread.
I'll get the next one started as soon as I can think of a theme.
Thanks again!
I'll get the next one started as soon as I can think of a theme.
Thanks again!
Well done everyone. Some loverly images.
Congratulations to the winners.
Congratulations to the winners.
Thanks for the second place. Congrats lharvest a worthy winner.
Congrats lharvest . I also really liked yours. Overall great pictures !!
Congratulations on a well-deserved win @lharvest, that's a wonderful image. Congrats also to MacRy and CE3 for two more outstanding images and to everyone for a great contest.
Would you mind providing a link to a larger version? I totally won't disgrace it by using it as my desktop wallpaper while stressing over finals.
Some lovely images this week, and thanks to @AlexH for a terrific topic and for trying to come up with winners.
Personally, I was absolutely blown away by @CE3's stunning image - had I been judging this would have been my winner, which just goes to show how subjective and personal some of these contests are. But superb image - colour, composition, context - to my mind, they are all first rate in this stunning picture.
Now, I love astronomy (though in my part of the world, clear skies are a rare blessing rather than a nightly wonder), so, @anotherscotsman's lovely night-scape also appealed to me, awesome, awe-inspiring, and wonderfully thought-provoking as to our precise place in this universe.
Others that I really liked included @MacRy's ethereal and moody shot, and the shot submitted by @Alexander.Of.Oz - though I'm not sure I'd class this particular picture as something resembling 'serenity'.
However, @lharvest's shot did convey a sense of 'serenity', and would not have been out of place on a fantasy, or scifi, book cover - say, something along the lines of 'The Mists of Avalon'.
Some really great images, beautifully composed and shot; very well done one and all.
Personally, I was absolutely blown away by @CE3's stunning image - had I been judging this would have been my winner, which just goes to show how subjective and personal some of these contests are. But superb image - colour, composition, context - to my mind, they are all first rate in this stunning picture.
Now, I love astronomy (though in my part of the world, clear skies are a rare blessing rather than a nightly wonder), so, @anotherscotsman's lovely night-scape also appealed to me, awesome, awe-inspiring, and wonderfully thought-provoking as to our precise place in this universe.
Others that I really liked included @MacRy's ethereal and moody shot, and the shot submitted by @Alexander.Of.Oz - though I'm not sure I'd class this particular picture as something resembling 'serenity'.
However, @lharvest's shot did convey a sense of 'serenity', and would not have been out of place on a fantasy, or scifi, book cover - say, something along the lines of 'The Mists of Avalon'.
Some really great images, beautifully composed and shot; very well done one and all.
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Or even a murder mystery novel called The Lake or The Sound of Death.. i agree.
Thanks for the kind words. It was a much more mundane location. I'm not from CT, but was there for my son's soccer game. I decided to wake up early the morning of the game and drive around the local area to see what I could find. The morning fog lying on the shores of a waterway off the side of the road caught my attention.