Mini Challenge #25~PORCHES

LadyLiberty · October 13, 2008, 08:41:35 PM

Guarded Porch

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Hi all,
I finally found another Porch.
This one is Called
Guarded Porch.

LadyLiberty

shutterbugmom · October 14, 2008, 01:00:05 PM

"Fall Porch"

My last entry is one of my favorite porch photos. I took it with my Canon AE1 program when I was first studying photography. I didn't have a digital file of it, so I scanned it. It is a poor and scratchy scan, (my scanner is not good) and the photo has lost much of it's sharpness, luminosity and clarity in the transition, but I really wanted to include this porch image in the contest. I hope you all enjoy it anyway.

Pat · October 15, 2008, 12:55:28 AM

WE'RE VOTING!

Please vote for your top FIVE (5) entries.

Voting closes October 25

I've removed all posts that did not contain an entry. You will find them all HERE

I've made all titles Bold and Size 14pt so that all are the same and two lines above the photo.

I've put all other text below the photo so that it doesn't take away from the entry.

mybcjazz · October 15, 2008, 01:45:07 AM

This one REALLY made me homesick. Lots of porches in southwest Louisiana, but here in Japan...

Voting was lots of fun. Thanks to all who submitted entries!

In His Grip,
Kevin

Gabriel · October 15, 2008, 11:21:19 AM

Another one where I narrowed it down to 25 and then just closed my eyes and pointed my finger randomly at the screen.

Great job by everyone!

jona · October 15, 2008, 12:15:39 PM

It's been a while since I've explored CP. It's so encouraging and exciting to see all of the awesome photography. The photo I've uploaded is one that I took while doing homework for classes I took at the southeastern Center for Photographic Studies in Daytona Beach. It's of a man on a porch at a bridge over the St. Johns river in Florida. I love the photos everyone's posted. They each tell a great story of the life porches can have. It brings back memories of porches from my past. One that brings me back to the time when I was little and stayed at my grandma and grandpa's old farmhouse. The porch was awesome. I remember playing on the porch when it would rain and catching the rain as it poured off the old tin roof. That's one of those great memories that takes you back to a time when life was so free. Oh the simple little things that bring so much happiness.

jona · October 15, 2008, 12:19:34 PM

This photo is my granddaughter keeping the critters out on the porch. She was so funny with the caterpilars. She had named it Gary. Every time she saw another, it was Gary too. lol

jona · October 15, 2008, 12:25:18 PM

So many things happen on beautiful porches. This was a wedding I shot this summer.
The second photo is of the porch/deck of a log cabin that a friend of mine has in the mountains.

Jim D · October 15, 2008, 08:04:39 PM

Ok, I voted. Easy to narrow it down to only five, NOT!

Good job, everyone!

Loreen · October 15, 2008, 10:58:39 PM

Cliff House Inn......in the Ozarks of Arkansas. A wonderful little place to spend the weekend.
A little bit of heaven on earth.

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Gabriel · October 16, 2008, 12:02:01 AM

If voting was not closed, I would have voted for that one!

Marilyn · October 16, 2008, 10:02:35 AM

Me too It is an awesome photo. I love those colors.

Fotobirder · October 19, 2008, 08:27:10 PM

Hi Loreen. Would you believe that Louise and myself have stayed at the Cliff House Inn at least 2 times. That's a great picture of it. You don't want to be close to the Restaraunt when those big buses pull up. Brings back good memories.

Steve
Fotobirder

Pat · October 19, 2008, 09:01:10 PM

Loreen, I can't even imagine that!

Is that porch being held up by those two pieces of wood? My goodness!

What a great photo! Thanks for sharing with us.

TomJ · October 23, 2008, 09:55:56 PM

This was my grandmother's house in western Kentucky as it looked in December of 1972. The people on the porch are my uncle, Roy, and my grandmother.

I spent summers there in 1957, 1958, and 1959, when I was 8, 9, and 10 years old. The house was situated on a one acre lot out in the country and was surrounded by farms. It was a wonderful place for a little boy to spend his summers.

You can see the outhouse in the background. When the new room was added to the house in the early 1960s, a bathroom was included, but in those days when I spent summers there, there was no running water in the house, and the outhouse was being used. We drew water from a well just behind the house. The cooking was done on a coal burning stove. Baths were taken in a #3 washtub with water heated by building a fire under a black iron kettle in the back yard.

The house was torn down sometime during the 1980s, and a new house was built on the site.

Tom

Nita · October 23, 2008, 11:03:03 PM

Tom, what memories. Don't you sometimes wish we could go back........just for awhile, and learn to really enjoy the slowness and simplicity of those days?

TomJ · October 24, 2008, 02:08:25 PM

Quote from: Nita on October 23, 2008, 11:03:03 PM
Tom, what memories. Don't you sometimes wish we could go back........just for awhile, and learn to really enjoy the slowness and simplicity of those days?

Oh, Nita, you'd better believe it! I would go back to those days in a heartbeat.

It sounds like you are the type of person who might enjoy some of my essays about those days. Have you been to my website? I have links on the home page to the left of my picture that lead to some things I have written about my memories from my summers at "Vicks Crossing," which is what we called my grandmother's place.

My grandmother drew a Social Security check on my uncle, who had Down's Syndrome, and she may have drawn a small Social Security check on my grandfather, who died before I was two years old. My aunt, whose name was Juanita, by the way, worked as a bookeeper at an auto parts store and made what would have been minimum wage, if there even was such a thing as minimum wage in those days. To say they were poor people would not be an exaggeration in the least. I sure didn't know we were poor, though. I thought everything was great. Those days remain to this day the happiest times of my life.

Here's the link.

http://www.home.earthlink.net/~tsjay54/

God bless.

Tom

Nita · October 24, 2008, 06:44:02 PM

Thanks, Tom. I've bookmarked it. I know what I'm doing later tonight.

I really appreciate your writing style. It sort of lands softly and often brings an "Aha" of recognition. Not in the particulars maybe, but the feelings.

And I'd go back in a heartbeat too. My husband used to say he wanted to go back to the 1800s. I think he meant it. Nita

TomJ · October 24, 2008, 09:11:13 PM

I should have explained that my Aunt Juanita was divorced and lived there with my grandmother and Uncle Roy. I had a cousin, Aunt Juanita's teenage daughter, Beverly, who lived there also.
Tom

Fotobirder · October 24, 2008, 09:17:27 PM

Pat. About the Cliff House Inn. The top part is actually the Restaraunt and maybe a couple suites. The part below where we stayed is the Lodge Rooms. They wake you up with free Coffee and you just sit and take in that view. I'm going to have to plan another trip. It's actually located in Jasper, Arkansas. A very nice place to stay and enjoy the Mountains and enjoy great views of the Buffalo River.

Steve
Fotobirder

Pat · October 25, 2008, 01:00:09 AM

HELP US CONGRATULATE THE WINNERS
OF
CHRISTIAN PHOTOGRAPHERS'
TWENTY-FIFTH
PHOTO CHALLENGE

Thank you to everyone who entered the 25th Christian Photographers Photo Challenge, and thank you to everyone who voted.

Here are the results of this challenge entitled:

"PORCHES"

FIRST place

"Boulder Porch"
by mossphoto

SECOND place

"Kingsbury-Day House Porch"
by shutterbugmom

THIRD place

"Fall Porch"
by shutterbugmom

FOURTH place

"Piano & washing machine wouldn't fit"
by doughass

Congratulations Everyone!

Congratulations,mossphoto!!! Now we await to hear what the next topic will be, so would you please send me a Personal Message with the topic of the next challenge. Please send a little description of how you want the title interpreted.

jocelynaz · October 25, 2008, 02:52:13 AM

Congratulations to the winners and all the participants!! And especially to mossphoto for your first place photo. What a beautiful shot!!

I missed participating in this challenge, but hopefully will be able to get in on the next one.

Blessings,
Jocelyn

Loreen · October 25, 2008, 09:20:04 AM

Congratulations all! Wonderful work. I really enjoyed this topic. I'm looking forward to the next one.

mybcjazz · October 25, 2008, 09:26:17 AM

Congratulations to the winner and all those who placed!

Fotobirder · October 25, 2008, 12:39:02 PM

A Great group of winning pictures. I'm happy to say that I voted for the winner.

Since I love Fall, I was attracted to the fall Porch. I think a great variety of Photos were represented. Congratulations to all the winners.

Steve
Fotobirder

PS. Maybe Vic can choose the subject but not be allowed to enter.

Marilyn · October 25, 2008, 01:48:04 PM

Congratulation to all the winners those are the ones I voted for.

Nita · October 25, 2008, 08:15:53 PM

Congratulations to the winners!!

Jim D · October 25, 2008, 08:33:02 PM

Kudos to Vic and the runners up as well!

All of the photos were enjoyable to look at and most adhered to the stated subject nicely, which is the first thing I always look for in these contests before I go on to judge their esthetical and technical qualities.

I'm looking forward to see what Vic's theme for the next contest will be.

Jane Walker · October 26, 2008, 02:26:17 AM

CONGRATULATIONS
to
EVERYONE!!

All y'all have done a fantastic job .... I congratulate everyone!!

LadyLiberty · October 26, 2008, 07:30:25 AM

Quote from: Jane Walker on October 26, 2008, 02:26:17 AM
CONGRATULATIONS
to
EVERYONE!!

All y'all have done a fantastic job .... I congratulate everyone!!

Great Job everyone!! Congratulations All !!
My first time in. It was fun. Thanks again to Pat for her help with posting.

Can't wait for the next.

LadyLiberty

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Mini Challenge #25~PORCHES

Vote for your top FIVE (5) favorite entries!

LadyLiberty

shutterbugmom

Pat

mybcjazz

Gabriel

jona

jona

jona

Jim D

Loreen

Gabriel

Marilyn

Fotobirder

Pat

TomJ

Nita

TomJ

Nita

TomJ

Fotobirder

Pat

jocelynaz

Loreen

mybcjazz

Fotobirder

Marilyn

Nita

Jim D

Jane Walker

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