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Title: Portrait on Horseback

Photographer: Georgia Martin

Date Submitted: November 3, 2008

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Oh my GOSH!!  More good news on this image.  YEA!!  I entered this in Cowboys and Indians Magazine, and received an E-Mail just this moring, asking me to send them a large resolutions of Eric on his horse, and three other images I submitted for their contest.  They said that they are in the grading process, what equine catagory.  Which was my favorite.  You have commented on all of them,  I think but one.  I thank you ever so much.  Your critiques helped my decisions on which ones that I sent in. 

The cigar was given to Eric from the wranglers congatulating him on his new baby girl as he was heading out for the evening horse round up.  I was happy to get this one.

Three Runners Up Images:

Bowling Ball: Nov 19

Tom Crouse 

Lime Light: Nov 24

Snap Dragon 

Union Station: Nov 29

Bill Debley 

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Title: North Lake

Photographer: Bill Debley

Date Submitted: October 23ed

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Thanks Jim,
What an eye! You caught me; I was to lazy to tote my pack around the lake and realized that I should have brought my 1-1/2 stop Cokin ND Grad filter and holder (they were in my pack)! Nevertheless we had a great time at North L., Mono L., and Bodie. On the way back we stopped in Lone Pine and shot the Alabama Hills. And yes, we found the famous arch.
For those of you that have not visited the Eastern Sierra, it’s a landscape photographer’s playground.

Three Runners Up Images:

Roy Allen  

Stone Sky: Oct 6

Georgia Martin  

The Flutist: Oct 3 

Pat Ching  

In the Fall: Oct 13 

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Title:  Guard Parlament

Photographer: Hal Endlich

Date Submitted: August 18, 2008

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I had fun taking this image in Athens of one of two sentries in process of changing of the guard. They march very precisely in sync with each other. They are trained to take this procedure very seriously and that is reflected in the serious expression on this man’s face.  They are not permitted even a sidewise glance which can
lead to their dismissal.

Three Runners Up Images:

Darrel Priebe:

All Aglow:  Aug. 2 

Bill Degley: 

Black&White:  Aug. 2 

Darrel Priebge: 

Scream:  Aug. 4

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Title: The Finger of God

Photographer: Steve Maguire

Date Submitted: June 11, 2008

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This picture was taken in Sierra Vista, Az. on September 9th 2007.  It was our last real monsoon thunderstorm of the year and my last chance to get a real good lighting photo.  The storm came across the valley at 6:30 to around a little after 7:00 that evening.  There was a lot of action going on with this storm.  Off to the left the clouds were breaking over the Huachuca Mountains and behind me there was a rainbow forming.  The settings were .40  of a second, f/2.90, ISO 200.  This shot was a little bit hard with the lighting changing as fast as it was.

Three Runners Up Images:

Connie Fore:      

‘One Thousand Rays’  June 30  

Roy Allen:

‘Yellow Tulip’  June 30  

Georgia Martin:

‘Wayward’   June 16 

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Title: Eye Drops

Photographer: Connie

Date Sumitted: May 20, 2008

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Thank you for judging my photo . I have a fasination with free falling water drops & what I can capture in them . I have not had much luck in finding others who have profected this type of waterdrop photography . I would very much like to find others who are interested in this type of macro photography . Lighting for this type of photography can be a challange .while interested in other areas of photography water drop photography is the one I have put the most work into . This photo was taken in my kitchen sink , a photo as a back drop for my water drops to capture . A fast shutter speed ,Timming , good lighting ,timming & luck all factor in . choosing the right backdrop, the comp ,& the DOF in my water drop photography . When doing a shoot like this one I will do maybe 100-200 shots & end up with 3 -4 but only one with a ,for me wow factor . I was not sure others would be as interested in this type of photography & find I have little to compare my work with . Most water drops I have come across are either still & refracting or falling or bouncing but not refracting images in them . Does anyone know of a photographer who does this type of water drops . Thank you , Connie

Three Runner Up Images: 

(We had a three way tie for the next image, listed by date entered.)

Jorge

‘The Cleaning Cloths’ May 12th 

Georgia

‘On the Wings fo Childhood’ May 17 

Roy

‘Dahlia’ May 27 

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Title: Susie

Photographer: Roy Allen

Day Sumitted: April 26, 2008

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First the data: 50th of a sec @ F6.3 - 2/3 exposure comp. iso 1000 I had my camera set before I entered the hogan so all I had to concentrate on was shooting. There was a large shaft of light about 8 feet to her right. So I dropped down and was flat on the ground between her and the shaft of light. It was all over in about 2 minutes.

Two Runner Up Images:

Al Unger

‘Blow Me a Bubble’ April 28th

Rachel Allen

‘Lucy Eyes’ April 8th

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Title: Leo Carillo Ranch 

Photographer:  Andy Devendorf

Date Submitted:  March 27, 2008

Posted Under: Abstract 

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 This was taken outside one of the ranch houses at the Leo Carrillo Ranch in Carlsbad, CA–around noon (1/125 f/5.6 ISO400, 28-80mm @ 80mm, Canon Rebel XTi, “processed” in Lightroom). Unfortunately, there was a lot of dirt on top of some of the leaves(petals?) on the lower half that I had to crop out pushing the bright spot lower into the composition than I would have liked. My favorite aspect of the image is definitely the glowing edges, which I didn’t even notice until I got home and went through my shots!

Two Runner Up Images:

‘Big Sur’

Georga Martin  March 15th

‘Tulip with Due Drop’

Roy Allen March 29th

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Photographer: Georgia Martin, Baker

Date Submitted: February 17, 2008

Title: Balboa Partk

Location: Landscape

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The exposure was 1/500 sec to catch the falling leafs at f2.8 70 mm 400 ISO Canon Mark 2 using 8 frames per second. As you can see I removed the larger tree stump that was too centered after I cropped it.

Two Runner Up Images: 

‘Eagle on the Wind’ 

Ken Cook Feb 17th        

‘123 Nut Cracker’ 

Norman Schwartz Feb 25th 

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Photographer: Georgia Martin, Baker

Date Submitted: January 27, 2008

Title: Sun Rider

Location: Digital Coalesce

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Photographer’s Comments:

“After reading your critique I was simply astounded.  One would think you were hanging right over my shoulder in the making of this.

I added some details like the falling leaves on the ground.  I selected them from the trees and used the transfer tool to warp the leafs to bend or go flat.  Then I dragged and dropped them where I thought they would add a little more realism to the collage.”

The worthy contenders:

A.      B.      C.      D.         

E.       F.      G.       H.      

I.       J.      K.     L.     

M.      N.      O.      P. 

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Photographer: Al Sheppard                      

Date Submitted: Dec 7, 2007

Title: Rhode Island Church

Location: Rhode Island

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“The photo was shot in Nantucket, between rain showers. I removed the wires, straightened the image and increased the contrast and made the doors more red. I held the camera very low, almost touching the ground. Also cropped and removed the debris from the walk.”

The worthy contenders:

  A     B    C    D  E     F      G       H   I    J      K      L                   

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Photographer: Desert Dave

                        (Dave Smith)

Date Submitted: Nov. 25, 2007

Title: Oro Valley Sunset

Location: Tucson Arizona

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 Photographer’s Comments:

“I was standing on a roof top observation deck. The camera was hand held. The only processing was a noise            reduction filter for large image reproduction. The ISO was 400. Fstop 5.6 The exposure time was just over 1 sec.    Sometimes it all just clicks.”

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