December Photo Competition: "Weather"

[elliot]

Hi!
The competition theme for December is Weather

The winter generally throws up more interesting weather than the summer, and in the last few days there's been bitter cold, storms and blaring sunshine - even dull arse fog can make for an interesting picture.

Obvously most things in life are going to affected by the weather in some way, but the challenge is to make the weather the subject. It also means you'll probably have to nip outside, maybe even into the fresh air, so it's potentially good for you too!

here's a flickr pool if you're looking for inspiration, and I guess the forecast would be handy too.

Here's the rules I nabbed off last month's comp

• Up to 3 pictures allowed per person.
• Post up the link, not the picture.
• All entries must be in by the last day of December*.
• Only use pictures you photographed yourself.
• If you edit the picture then tell us what you did.
• Please don’t change pictures once you have entered them.
• Voting starts on 1st January* and ends on 3rd January 2006*. Anyone can vote, you don't have to have entered. Vote for your 1st, 2nd and 3rd favourites. 1st choice is worth 3 points, 2nd 2 points and 3rd 1 point -- the entry with the most points wins and chooses the next theme.
• You can use your own web space, photo.net, photobucket.com or pbase.com to host your pictures for free - or any others you choose or see fit to use.

* date subject to change due to NYE hangovers.. does anyone object to finishing on the 2nd Jan and then doing voting til the 5th?

Thumbnails are now here: http://theskyisbig.co.uk/u75/dec05/dec.htm

good luck!
elliot

 

[what]

Elliot that is to freaky I was thinking of trying to take photos along this theme only yesterday. Wierd

 

[mauvais]

Cool theme, and cool examples. For anyone thinking 'but waaaa', definitely check out the Flickr pool above - loads of variety.

I'll have a go at taking some new stuff if I can think of something clever to do with this overcast Manchester crap

 

[girasol]

Good theme, I'd imagine there will be lots of entries again!

 

[blackadder]

Hurry along the snow.

 

[sovietpop]

Inspired theme, well done.

 

[hiccup]

Finishing on the 2nd sounds good to me. Hopefully I won't be in any fit state to finish off the thumbnails until then.

 

[Firky]

I bet someone submits a photo of Olafur Eliasson's installation...good theme though

 

[sovietpop]

and a good installation - I'd love to have a photograph of it.

 

[ill-informed]

that's very wierd, the other day i thought that 'weather' would make a good theme.

 

[Firky]

and a good installation - I'd love to have a photograph of it.

meh! I'm not going to enter it though as it is another artists' work.

 

[dlx1]

Grined teeth at Firky another artists' work.

theme Weather

1st Evening Walks

 

[mauvais]

We're not due any exciting developments up here - look, here's the forecast!

I don't know if this is too weak for the theme, but I quite like it. Taken yesterday:

What's So Great?

and a second, this time from the archive:

A Very English Summer

I'll leave the third until the very end because I always find something I prefer, and regret having entered too soon

First is blended from two RAW "exposures" (hence the slight halos) with a little bit of tweaking, and the second is unedited.

 

[Firky]

1] Pissing it down at Glastonbury

 

[mauvais]

Come to think of it, I might not be about as I'm going home next week until mid-Jan; exam o'clock!

Here's my third: Foggy Paris

 

[wiskey]

oh bollox cuz i'm going to get a lot of great shots of weather from my living room huh

i shall have to search the archives.

 

[girasol]

This subject made me think of a set of photos I took in the winter of 1990/91 (I think) when London saw the worst snow fall in the 16 years I've lived here.

So I dug out those old photos and scanned them:

1)

Highbury Fields (original size), (medium size, for those with slower connections)

2)

Stalactite in Seven Sisters(large), (medium size, for those with slower connections)

This one I took a couple of weeks ago:
3)

Autumn at the park(large), (medium size, for those with slower connections)

I like large sized photos, hence me posting both sizes.

 

[wiskey]

entry 1 photosynthesis

not very adventurous i know but still i like the greens.

 

[alef]

I was back visiting New Orleans for Hurricane Andrew in the 90s but didn't take any particularly interesting pictures. Whenever I next manage to return I'm sure I'll have plenty of weather-themed shots -- even if it's years from now, sadly I think the damage of Katrina will still be evident.

Anyway, for my first entry here's an old shot I took in Russia in the depth of winter:
Siberian train station

 

[Firky]

I gotta wait model release for one of the ones I want to submit. She said her office will get back to me in a few days

 

[Firky]

2] Ignore that.... changed my mind

 

[franklin1777]

Great choice of theme here, lost of scope. Here is my first two, taken in the recent weather. Shall have to think about a third one.

1. Night Mist

2. Frost web

 

[Chorlton]

Come to think of it, I might not be about as I'm going home next week until mid-Jan; exam o'clock!

Here's my third: Foggy Paris

that is a lovely, lovely picture....

 

[Chorlton]

1) A cross section of Helvellyn


2) Striding Edge becomes Hiding Edge


3) Snowdon in Full Colour

 

[ill-informed]

Here's one i took last week.....

Snowplough

 

[Biddlybee]

blimey... they're flooding in already

 

[girasol]

2. Frost web

I like that one! Is it possible to view it in a larger size?

 

[mauvais]

that is a lovely, lovely picture....

Cheers - shot it with my shite digital compact almost exactly a year ago when I was just getting into it

Hope I end up back there to see it again

 

[disco_dave_2000]

Here are my entries this month;

1. Storm over the River Mersey

2. Rain on the West Kirby promenade

3. Mist over the Mystery Park, Wavertree

edited to say none of the above has had any photoshop alterations

 

[mauvais]

2. Rain on the West Kirby promenade

3. Mist over the Mystery Park, Wavertree

edited to say none of the above has had any photoshop alterations

Those, especially (3), are fantastic!