Weekly Photo Contest: Electricity (Jun 1st - Jun 8)

[Fravin]

This week's topic is electricity.

Choose your camera and let's rock and roll!



The usual rules apply:

· The photographs must be your own work.
· You may only submit one photo per contest.
· No commenting or liking photos until after the judging has taken place.
· At the end of the week, The Judge (me) will choose a 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place photo, providing as much feedback as possible.
· The 1st place Winner will start a new thread with the topic/theme of their choice, and act as the Judge for that contest. (Winner has 48 hours to create new theme, after that it defers to 2nd place).

 

[deep diver]

Also: Be sure to update the Contest Master List as soon as you post a new theme.

 

[Allyance]

The back of a rack full amplifiers for a zoned paging system I designed for a military hospital in Fairbanks AK

I know it is not a great photo, but I like to get these threads started.

 

[mollyc]

 

[deep diver]

 

[oblomow]

 

[Clix Pix]

Bright lights shining across the way from the electric company trucks trying to restore power to my neighborhood.....

 

[tizeye]

My COVID stay at home project. Rewired the entire house - one circuit at a time - converting from aluminum to copper with AlumiConn adapters and 6" copper pigtails attached to new receptacles and switches. Still have some ceiling outlets to do, but will convert individually as I upgrade the fixtures from incandescent.

 

[Fravin]

Well, judging is tougher than I supposed…



Firstly, I would like to say that photography has a lot of purposes. One of them, perhaps the most common, is to keep something under record. Photojournalism is one of the most powerful branches of photography, and probably, the one that receives the bigger investments.



Having said that, @Allyance please don’t think your picture isn’t nice. It’s perfect. It’s technically right, in all aspects of photography. It could not be as coloufull than @deep Driver’s one, but it is perfectly fine as his.



And judging those pictures are a great challenge. Because of the knowledge applied to every one of them.



So, let’s go to my findings:



1st Place: @mollyc

A cleverly taken picture. That’s not easy to accomplish and it’s perfectly done.



2nd Place: @oblomow

I loved the atmosphere you captured. It’s a lovely picture. It deserves to be in a frame on the wall.



3rd Place: @Clix Pix

Great picture, very creative one!


Thank you all.

 

[Allyance]

Well, judging is tougher than I supposed…



Firstly, I would like to say that photography has a lot of purposes. One of them, perhaps the most common, is to keep something under record. Photojournalism is one of the most powerful branches of photography, and probably, the one that receives the bigger investments.



Having said that, @Allyance please don’t think your picture isn’t nice. It’s perfect. It’s technically right, in all aspects of photography. It could not be as coloufull than @deep Driver’s one, but it is perfectly fine as his.



And judging those pictures are a great challenge. Because of the knowledge applied to every one of them.



So, let’s go to my findings:



1st Place: @mollyc

A cleverly taken picture. That’s not easy to accomplish and it’s perfectly done.



2nd Place: @oblomow

I loved the atmosphere you captured. It’s a lovely picture. It deserves to be in a frame on the wall.



3rd Place: @Clix Pix

Great picture, very creative one!


Thank you all.

Thanks for the complement, it was strictly a record shot on a final inspection of our job, only picture I had I could use.

 

[mollyc]

oh, wow, I was not expecting that! thank you!!! ?

I will come up with a new theme and post soon. ?

 

[Fravin]

oh, wow, I was not expecting that! thank you!!! ?

I will come up with a new theme and post soon. ?

Congratulations!

 

[Clix Pix]

Congratulations to Molly and Oblomow, and I am pleased to be sharing the podium....

This was sort of a different topic and not one which I would necessarily associate with photojournalism, although, yes, being there at the moment of an event (lightning strike, power failure, whatever) can indeed pull it all together.... Lightning is hard to capture and Molly nailed this one! Wow!

As for my own image, I was sitting in the dark in my neighborhood which was experiencing a power failure from some mysterious cause -- weather was fine, no issues there), when I went into the bedroom to close my blinds for the night and noticed the action going on across the road, with the electric company trucks coming-and going and apparently working on the transformer which for whatever reason had cast us all into a period of no electricity. I watched for a while and then, yeah, the inner photojournalist lurking within prodded me to grab a camera, and I did, and I started shooting through the bedroom window and its screen to the scene I was seeing across the road....

 

[mollyc]

New contest is up.