February Photo Competition: Animals

[Firky]

Is it me, or has the standard of entries being going up and up lately?

I've got a wicked one of a donkey, but I can't find it on my webspace

 

[Robster970]

Is it me, or has the standard of entries being going up and up lately?

I've got a wicked one of a donkey, but I can't find it on my webspace

yes, i think it is but it might be because the monthly theme's have been getting more accessible and less tricky, leading to more people entering, who have more source material, etc, etc

 

[girasol]

I've just had a look at the thumbnails and I have a smile on my face. The entries are so very good!

For the people scared of entering, please don't be! Most months I don't even get any votes, but it's nice taking part.

Tanky's rhino pile-up:

 

[Onket]

For the people scared of entering, please don't be! Most months I don't even get any votes, but it's nice taking part.

Exactly. I plan on entering but Christ the competition is good this month!!!

 

[Flashman]

Is it me, or has the standard of entries being going up and up lately?

I've got a wicked one of a donkey, but I can't find it on my webspace

Just take one of your cock Firks.

I'm sure I've got a decent cow one somewhere, must check.

 

[Paul Russell]

Second entry

Dog in wheelchair

 

[Negativland]

Just the one:

http://img100.imageshack.us/my.php?image=spookyponies4ab.jpg

 

[bluestreak]

i've never entered the photo contest before, but i think i need to this time.

this is my entry

http://www.flickr.com/photos/londoninflames/84458242/in/set-1803335/

 

[Firky]

Just take one of your cock Firks.

I have a shit load of photos on my HDD not sorted what so ever, and some more on a pen drive. I'll check there too

 

[girasol]

Just the one:

http://img100.imageshack.us/my.php?image=spookyponies4ab.jpg

That's very striking , did you do anything to the photo, or is this exactly how it was?

in short: tell me more about how you took it, which techniques you used (you dont' have to, but it'd be interesting if you did)

 

[Negativland]

It's an unusual process but not really modified: Taken on very high speed B&W film in an SLR, developed and then scanned directly from the negatives on a standard flatbed scanner, muck, scratches and all. In Photoshop I just used curves, and inverted it of course.

Here's some others, not for the comp, which I took at the same time in Barnsley:

http://img150.imageshack.us/my.php?image=church15jv.jpg
http://img150.imageshack.us/my.php?image=path4ds.jpg
http://img137.imageshack.us/my.php?image=walleeeo7hn.jpg
http://img137.imageshack.us/my.php?image=harshshed6me.jpg
http://img96.imageshack.us/my.php?image=alleymid8us.jpg

hope you like

 

[Tank Girl]

I love that last one Negativland

 

[girasol]

Negativland

Like them a lot, especially the path and shed ones. Thanks for sharing the photos and technique!

 

[Addy]

Entry 1 - Errrkkk!
Contrast adjusted in Photoshop ( a bit too much )

 

[Firky]

http://img96.imageshack.us/my.php?image=alleymid8us.jpg

hope you like

Tehre is a photocrit thread...

 

[llantwit]

Cool - so far I really like the Horse, the bee, and (sorry, but) the dead rat... although there's loads of cool photos here. It's been a real treat reading this thread.
I've never entered before (well, I once entered some totally inapprpriate photos while pissed and stoned one night - sorry, won't happen again), so here goes...

Contemplative Monkey, Pushkar, India.
Holy Cow, Pushkar, India.
Tandoori Lobster, Goa.

 

[mauvais]

Here's my first one: Swans

Since I got my camera full of mud after falling down a hill, I'll have to trawl the archives for any more of mine - back to the mothership time

 

[maes]

cow and bird

birds on a string

stray kitten

 

[Biddlybee]

stray kitten

Has he got something in his mouth or is that a little goatee?

 

[maes]

He was chomping on a dead bird, it's a bit of feather

 

[Biddlybee]

yum

 

[girasol]

He was chomping on a dead bird, it's a bit of feather

And there i was thinking the cat had huge buck teeth!

 

[Yokohama]

Ok, first time I've ever done this and mine are not even close to being any good but I thought I'd share them anyway cos I just loooove the theme...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/71527092@N00/97545812/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/71527092@N00/97545814/in/photostream/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/71527092@N00/97548200/

 

[pineapple]

Here's my entry, shot with an old Russian Zenith camera. The lens was standard kit, 50mm, but as sharp as a knife.

Pussycat pussycat

 

[Negativland]

Here's my entry, shot with an old Russian Zenith camera. The lens was standard kit, 50mm, but as sharp as a knife.

Pussycat pussycat

Wow, that has a wierd slightly unreal quality to it, it looks like a fashion model

 

[girasol]

Here's my entry, shot with an old Russian Zenith camera. The lens was standard kit, 50mm, but as sharp as a knife.

Pussycat pussycat

that's purty! I'm loving the depth of field control, dahrling!

 

[pineapple]

Thanks - amazing what glass and film can do. It seems like an unreal image. All of the photos I took on that camera came out with similar clarity. I'm hard put to get the same effects with ease on my digital cameras..

 

[Paul Russell]

BTW, hope to catch up doing the thumbnails over the weekend. Bit busy today and tomorrow...

 

[Firky]

3] Southsea Swan (click centre of pic for full view, otherwise its a bit cack)

 

[Biddlybee]

That's a stunning pic mate.