February Photo Competition: Animals

[girasol]

I've had a look through the winners gallery and it seems one of my favorite subjects has been overlooked, so I'm setting it as the theme for February.

So any animal welcome! It's a simple one!

some examples:
seagull

squirrel

monkeys

flicker's animal clusters - for inspiration

The rules, as usual:

* Up to 3 pictures allowed per person.
* Post up the link, not the picture.
* All entries must be in by the last day of February.
* 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 of March and ends on 3rd of March 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.

happy hunting!

thumbnails here

 

[snadge]

great job on winning Iemanja

make sure I enter 3 this month

first entry
second entry
third entry

 

[Robster970]

great job on winning Iemanja

make sure I enter 3 this month

first entry
second entry
third entry

christ, you've set the bar high...

 

[cybertect]

christ, you've set the bar high...

Yikes! yes

The one of the horse in particular is way

 

[mauvais]

The dog in water is my favourite. A perfect match between capturing speed and retaining clarity - superb!

 

[alef]

Took this one last year, cropped and small amount of levels tweaking:
Hebrides sheep

 

[Paul Russell]

thumbnails I'll sort out soon.

Hi there.

Hiccup usually does and hosts the thumbnails.

I said I'd do and host them this month as he's away for some of the month. Then at the end of the month he'll nick the code and host them on his site.

Unless anyone can see any problems with that.

 

[kakuma]

i have a couple of cool pictures for this one as well....

 

[girasol]

Hi there.

Hiccup usually does and hosts the thumbnails.

I said I'd do and host them this month as he's away for some of the month. Then at the end of the month he'll nick the code and host them on his site.

Unless anyone can see any problems with that.

That's great. snadge told me about Hiccup earlier this evening, as I was wondering about sorting the thumbnails out (and hosting).

So, I guess that means I just have to wait for a url and then edit my original post?

 

[Callie]

Ok Ive never entered before so here is my entry (do I have to have more than one?!!)

http://www.pbase.com/calliexero/image/19563081/medium

Hes a little spotty chap I found in my parents garden...I heard him chomping leaves - he was that noisy! I believe he is a poplar hawk moth caterpillar

http://www.pbase.com/calliexero/image/12603882/medium

heres a shield bug I found dead in my bedroom once, he was pretty cool. I stuck him on a piece of lined paper and took a photo of him.

http://www.pbase.com/calliexero/image/18048544/medium

and you can have my monkey too, cos thats all Ive got left!

I havent tinkered with any of my photos - other than pressing all the buttons on my camera to see what they do!

 

[Paul Russell]

That's great. snadge told me about Hiccup earlier this evening, as I was wondering about sorting the thumbnails out (and hosting).

So, I guess that means I just have to wait for a url and then edit my original post?

OK, I'll put up a page on Sunday -- the whole voting/adding up/new topic thing seems to have happened quite quickly this time.

 

[Robster970]

ok, first entry. it's had some ps trickery done above the horizon because it was so bright. basically the levels were taken right down so it's got the strange, spooky effect.

apart from that, that's exactly how it was.

mudchute city farm

 

[girasol]

This is a very old photo, taken in 1990, at the London Zoo, I scanned it a couple of months ago, cropped it a bit and clarified using Paint Shop Pro X:

Let me out!!!

 

[girasol]

OK, I'll put up a page on Sunday -- the whole voting/adding up/new topic thing seems to have happened quite quickly this time.

Well, today was pretty much the only day I would have had time to pick a subject and I just went for the first thing that came into my head...

 

[lizzieloo]

Ist entry, one I already had

Mr P

I'll take some more...............

 

[wiskey]

entry 1: Never Forgetting taken at Dublin Zoo

entry 2: paddling in Hyde park

entry 3: you'll never fit through there! lodon zoo

i'm relying on not meeting any animals in the next month, and i keep forgetting to enter 3 so here they all are at once

wiskers

 

[pengaleng]

I take it insects are allowed?

cheeky sheepy

the sheepy has a little grin

 

[kakuma]

number 1 - girl and seagulls

http://www.deviantart.com/view/26354242/

 

[kakuma]

number 2 - gulls

http://www.deviantart.com/view/28650327/

i will add a none seagull related entry later in the month

 

[alef]

ok, first entry. it's had some ps trickery done above the horizon because it was so bright. basically the levels were taken right down so it's got the strange, spooky effect.

apart from that, that's exactly how it was.

mudchute city farm

I like it. Cows are particularly photogenic as they're large, don't move much, fairly expressive and pretty easy to find!

Here's my second entry:
The cow that fell to Earth

(Levels tweaked and lots of scratches removed from the scan)

 

[girasol]

I take it insects are allowed?

Yep, don't see why not.

 

[Robster970]

I like it. Cows are particularly photogenic as they're large, don't move much, fairly expressive and pretty easy to find!

Here's my second entry:
French cows

(Levels tweaked and lots of scratches removed from the scan)

that's really funny. it's like somebody has just dropped the cows from a great height

 

[Robster970]

ok, number 2. taken this morning. levels tweeked in channel mixer.

free billy

 

[pengaleng]

toasty locusty

 

[Biddlybee]

Great topic, I'll have a look and enter over the next few weeks... some stunning photos already

 

[Paul Russell]

http://www.pbase.com/calliexero/image/18048544/medium

and you can have my monkey too, cos thats all Ive got left!

I didn't know there was a children's zoo in Battersea Park. What other animals have they got?

 

[Callie]

Its only a very small zoo, so they only have a few animals. Its been a while since I was there last but from what I can remember they have peacocks, goaty things, a few monkeys, a horse or two, cranes.

Battersea park is really nice. Last time I was there there were loads and loads of herons nesting, which seemed really odd because they come across as such timid birds!

The childrens zoo was threatened by closure by the council about a year ago but there was a lot of resistance from those that use the zoo and local schools and the likes. They won in the end and the zoo is stil open yay!

http://www.batterseaparkzoo.co.uk/

 

[girasol]

Second entry

Dog's best friend

I did some scratch removal/clarify on Paint Shop Pro, as this is another scanned photo, taken in 1996 in Ireland. I do like the expression on both dogs' faces.

 

[Callie]

One very serious, one about to fall off the chair

 

[Firky]

1] Sam