DG Site Updates: It's that time of year again! The 2006 DG Photo Contest!, 0 by htop

htop wrote:
OOOPS, there were 2 post before mine ... I don't type fgast. Thanks, Dave and Reference; my last post ;;; I was just kidding there. I like my 2 photos and hope that, even if people decided not to vote for either of them because they are not totally the original photo, that someone enjoyed seeing them. That's all that counts to me. I viewed every entry in every category last year and enjoyed each and every photo whether they were "good" or "bad". I appreciated the time and effort that everyone put into entering the contest and for sharing their photos with me.

I had an interesting photo I wanted to enter this year, but it was unfocused in one sectiont. I was afraid someone would think, "why would anyone enter a photo that was partly blurred in a photo contest". A photo doesn't need to be perfect to have value and provide information.

Linthicum, my father was a profeesional "spot news" photographer In his day, there no 35mm nor digital cameras nor computers with which the photo could be touched up (that is to the extent that is available today). He had to take a "good" photo the first time. But, he also did alot of adjustment in the darroom as well. Thanks for your comments ... I thought of him as I read them. I often think that he is in heaven looking down at me and laughing as I take many, many digital photos in the hopes that I at least took one "good" one. I wished that I had allwoed him to mentor me in photography ... sure would save me a lot of time and disappointment.

Patti, I am looking forward to seeing your photos. o:) To some people, photography IS their passion, their joy and their love. Growing and learning about plants plus viweing and sharing photos of them is min. What wonderful and amazing gifts have been bestowed upon us. You will see how far I have lightened up below.

stellapathic, I am glad that you had fun with some of your photos .. can barely wait to see them. I started to enter the photo (without the insert) below in the Trees and Shrubs category (as "Aliens standing in front of one of their planet's native trees". Howevert, I concluded that there wasn't enough of the tree in the photo to qualify it as a photo of a plant. It is fun to do weird things to photos. I used Paint Shop Pro to create the "aliens'' photo.

bluegrassmom, I think as soon as the voting is ready to begin, when you click on the link to the photo contest, it will change so that you are able to vote. I don't know when that will be.

Here is my alien tree photo that I was going to enter:

This message was edited Dec 1, 2006 9:26 AM