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• This topic was chosen by Kevin aka mybcjazz, who won our  last Challenge.  The subject of the next Mini Challenge is "Natural Landscape, 2009".  Kevin says, "I thought it would be nice for us to get out and enjoy the beauty of God's creation for this next Challenge, Natural Landscape, 2009!  So for this one, natural landscape, an image taken this year is what I'm looking for."
  
  What do I mean by landscape for this challenge?
  
  
  • The mountains, the beach, the forest, the field, the desert, and similar images (shot in 2009)!
  
  And in this Challenge, there should be...
  
  
  • NO people pictures, unless they are a speck in the distance and not the theme, and don't distract from the theme, Natural Landscape 2009!
  
  
  • NO pet or other animal pictures, unless they are a speck in the distance and not the theme, and don't distract from the theme, Natural Landscape, 2009.  For example, I won't have a beach shot with Jazz, our border collie, leaping to catch a frisbee.
  
  
  • NO close-ups or "macros".
  
  
  • NO "city-scape" shots, although that would be a good one for a future challenge!
  
  
  • NO photos with Scripture as part of the entry.
    
  
  
  • SO...Please post ONLY a title, and the kind of camera (and lens) used below the entry, when posting your entry. 
    
    Please do NOT post explanations about how or why it was taken.  Please let your photo stand solely on its photographic merits!
    

• Use the attachment feature to show your photos (see directions above in the link to "How to Use This Board") in your post or link to them from your gallery or an offsite location that allows linking using the image codes.  If you have trouble, please contact a moderator (name in blue) or an administrator (name in red) and we'll help you post your photo.  If you have your photo in your gallery, please don't use the attachment feature as that puts the photo on our server twice but rather link to it.  It's best if your photos are at least 500 to 600 pixels wide so that they are easily seen.

• Please upload up to 4 entries per member for this challenge.    

• The challenge is open now and will be closed to uploads on March 22, 2009   and then we'll vote on them.    

• Please tell us the camera you used to take your photo and when you took it.  Please only enter photos taken by you.    

• Please put a short title above your photo.  We need the title for the poll listing.  If you want to tell us a bit about your photos, please do that in a separate post so that every post ONLY has the Title and then the Photo and that's all.   

• Please post only one entry per post.  . 

• Of course, we're going to see who is posting the photos so this is not an anonymous challenge.  So start posting.  Click on the "Reply" button below and start this challenge!
  Remember, this is a fun project!  

Through the Trees



Kodak DX4330

Toward the Inland Sea


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Canon EOS 40D w/EF-S 10-22 F3.5/4.5

"Winter Wonderland"

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Nikon Coolpix S52.

Twilight Time

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Father's Pool

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On Top of Babbs Mountain



Nikon D80

Silhouetted



Olympus SP-570UZ

Babbling Brook

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Nikon D80 on Auto Focus

Sunset from Pine Island, Florida



Canon Rebel XT/135mm lens

Becky

"The Rain is Coming"

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DSC-W150 Sony 

Horse Head Rock

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Nikon D70

Curled Wave

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Nikon D70

Cat Wave

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Nikon D70

Avoca Coastline

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Nikon D70

Fog in the Hills

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Oak Hickory Forest

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fuji finepix 8000fd

"Over and Under"

"Frost and Formations"

A Winter Walk

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Nikon D80 Auto Focus

Mountain Lake

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"Owyhee Mountains"

A New Dawning

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Canon 20D
EF-S17-85 f/4-5.6 IS USM

Lets Go Fishing

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Canon 20D
EF-S17-85 f/4-5.6 IS USM

Spring At Last

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Canon 20D
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Into The Sunset

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The "SON" is shining

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The sun is peaking out into the darkness

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Oncoming Thunderstorm

Skyline Drive, VA



Nikon D80

Skyline Drive, VA was taken on Friday, March 20 while driving down the Skyline Drive south from Front Royal, VA.

What views we had!

Sarge, I got an email saying you posted a photo!

But I don't see it.  If you need help, just put it in and I'll correct it.

I picked my choice of the best 5 of all the entries. Congratulations everyone for the beautiful photos.
Sorry, I was not able to join the excitement of competition. The cold and miserable weather
we have up here, where I live did not allow me to snap a fresh photo worthy of the challenge.

Happy Easter!!
Laughing Peppers

I voted. That, in itself, is a challange!!   I love all the efforts presented here, and congratulate each one of you for your great photos.   

I agree. It was very hard to vote.  Those last entries were great and really made it tougher.

Have a blessed day
Steve

Oncoming Thunderstorm




Hope it works Pat.

Well, I see that your Oncoming Thunderstorm got posted after all, Sarge and it's in the poll so that's great!

It truly is a lovely photo!

Well, I voted!

It was indeed very difficult!

Wow.  These are beautiful.

And I didn't see any by you, Gabe! 

I'm sorry! 

That's because I live in the middle of the city and am not old enough to drive.   



LORD willing, I'll be a farmer one day, and then I can take pictures of nature to my heart's content.

Awwww...  Gabe, I sure wish I lived close to you and I would have driven you to take some photos of nature for this challenge.

Maybe next time we'll have a topic that will be suitable for you.

Study hard with your school work my friend.

Why thank you, Ms. Pat. 

Hi, There are many nice shots, But I think for the nicest, completed,and finished photo, I think it's "A Winter Walk".

If no on e minds, I'm going to put on my Professional Photographer's hat, and my Photo Professor's hat...:

Many of the entries have great elements to them, your eyes have perceived them, but for some, the element becomes the photograph, and I think that the element might be more roundly incorporated into a bit more of a developed image.  This may include more scenery, a foreground element to contrast with the faraway, or something to bring more depth or leading lines.

I have deliberately been vague about individual pics, Just to give ideas...   Pardon the overdose of smilies, my four year old is fascinated by them, so I give a few...   
                                    

Paul Kiler
www.kilerphoto.com

Paul, did you vote?

I voted too! Once again, it was difficult to narrow down to only five. There were a few others that I could have voted for just as easily. 

Quote from: Art-as-Servant on March 28, 2009, 04:11:29 PM
Hi, There are many nice shots, But I think for the nicest, completed,and finished photo, I think it's "A Winter Walk".Paul Kiler

I'm not a professional photographer by any means, but I agree with your point, and would include Winter Wonderland in that category also. My only problem was that, since these were supposed to be restricted to "natural landscape" only, I wondered if, because the wooden walk in W. Walk and the red barn in W. Wonderland were "man made" creations, that necessarily caused them to be outside of the narrow parameters that were set for this contest? 

Anyway, I won't say what my conclusion was, but I deem both of them worthy of framing and hanging on my wall (as were a few other entries)! 

Yep, I voted

Thank you so much! 

I've had a good look at your websites! 

They are all so good that it could be considered a crime to vote for only five, since a vote for some is a vote against others!  Wow! to all of them!

My goodness!

Close voting in here!

And I think we have 24 more hours!  Fingernail biting time!  

Sarge wrote:

QuoteHope it works Pat.

I have no idea what you meant by that but it must be working. I see you are in the lead.

Great photo.

Don

Sarge's photo didn't show at first.  There was a glitch and so he put it in again 'hoping it would work'.

Seems it has! 

Now, we wait for Sarge to tell us what the next challenge topic is!  (Please send a description as to how you want the topic interpreted too.  Thanks!!!)

Way to go, y'all!     Congratulations to each and every one of you.  It was really a difficult decision here to only pick five.  You all did a fantastic job and I am proud of the fact that I voted for (most of ) the winners. 

Congratulations Sarge on the win. A great photo that met all the challenge requirements. A well deserved win!

Congratulations to all the runner ups and to the ones that didn't win a place. They were all great photos.


Don

Well, this was a very difficult challenge to vote in--for me!

And to see the first and second place photos see-saw back and forth was certainly something!  I just think that that Winter Walk by fotobirder was also just a big winner too! 

So, Sarge, we now await your Personal Message saying what the next challenge will be all about! 

Kind of exciting to think about, don't you all agree?

And by the way, thank you for all of your votes on my Blue Ridge Skyline Drive photo as well.  Much appreciated.

Everyone has posted such beautiful photos, All were wonderful.  I had a difficult time voting.


Don yours was a wonderful challenge.  Way to go!

Sarg looking forward to the next challenge!

Congratulations to sarge and the other winners. I personally felt that His picture captured the theme of the Challenge best. The Blue Ridge Mountains was a great entry by  Pat. I think we might have set a record on the amount of people who voted. Now! On to the next challenge.

May the Lord bless & keep you
Steve

Just a little Clarification Judy. This was Kevin's Challenge and not Dons.

Have a blessed day

Steve

One other thing I'll mention. Those Snow Pictures were fabulous. I loved the Snow and Blue Sky. This challenge probably had more of the kind of pictures I love to see. Thanks to Kevin for a great challenge. May the Lord bless & keep you.

Steve

  CONGRATULATIONS EVERYONE!!!

Kevin I am so  sorry for giving Don credit for the competition.....You were the one who came up with the fabulous idea.   So sorry about that.

But Don did a fantastic job in keeping the poll updated on a daily basis and he made sure that all the titles were in the same spot above each entry and he enlarged all the attachments so Don did a stellar job too!

Thanks Don!!!

Way to go Sarge. You sure had a great picture there. Congradulations!!!

Congratulations to all of the winners and to all of the talented Christian photographers who entered their beautiful photos.

Pat, your entry is my personal top choice. I love everything about it.
Like I said before, it isn't about winning. It is about sharing our individual
talents that we all received from God.

God Bless Us All,
Laughing Peppers

Awww...  Laughing Peppers, I so appreciate your post and my thoughts are the same as yours.  It's not about winning.  It's nice to win but I just so love to come in here and see everyone's work and view the creation in our world as seen through the lens and eyes of our fellow members.

Thanks again.  (I was pleased to get that photo.  Not sure if I said that I had seen a postcard in WalMart in Winchester, VA with a similar photo on it last year and I've been waiting and waiting to try to capture a similar scene of just the rolling on and on of the distant hills.  In this photo, I was doubly pleased with the sky that seemed to have a similar pattern.)

I'm anxious to see what Sarge comes up for all of us!

Congratulations, Sarge, for a great winning photo.  I'm happy to say I voted for that one too.

And congratulations to all the gifted photographers who let us see your pictures.  I agree with the others, winning is nice, but the most important thing is just showing off what God made.    

It was a delight to see the Natural Landscape photos.

It was so nice to see all the GRAND entries.  On Pat's other photo site, the Photography Cafe, there are so many talented landscape photographers.  And all they do is present their images, without talking them up, and they never cease to amaze me.

Thus, my stringent rules for this competition.  Landscape.  Recently shot.  Standing on its photographic merits.

Well, landscape photography is one area where I want to excel, but still have quite a way to go. And I hope we all had an opportunity to lift up HIS name as we either "made" these lovely images, or just enjoyed what others presented.

No, it isn't all about winning, but it is about giving our best for the LORD, in all that we do.

In His Grip,
Kevin

ps   No worries, Judy!  

Congratulations to all who entered.  It was difficult to make a choice and I made the mistake of not reading that you could choose 5.  But I'm still pretty happy that my 1 choice came in 2nd.   

Abby

This was a great challenge.  Wow.

Hi everyone.

WOW, sorry I haven't replied to this sooner, as I have been quite busy with homework (still in school!). It has been quite hard with tests and everything!

WOW. I can't believe I won this challenge, as it was the last thing i expected!
I am so chuffed that I won, as this is my first ever photograhic win! Thankyou so much for the votes, and I think everyone else deserved to win as much as I did, as they were all superb entries. It was lovely seeing so many beautiful photos.

It may look a bit like HDR, but no I don't even know how to do that. I think it was the fact that I entered white balance settings and changed it!

Thanks, and the next challenge is on the way, which is.......You will have to find out!

I really enjoyed veiwing yours fotobirder. A brilliant entry, as was eveyone else'.
Well done everyone!
Tim

Congrats to everyone. I am so happy to see the natural photos for Natural Landscapes.
I actually thought Sarge used HDR, it looked that vibrant.
I was overjoyed to know he didn't. There are so few challanges out there that HDR hasn't snuck in.
God's blessings on all who captured the awesome beauty that our Father has created for us.

Thanks to Sarge, our new challenge has been announced!

Hope to see you all THERE.

And let's also continue in here to congratulate our winners!

How do you like the wee piccie of Sarge's on the left sidebar?  The winner of our next challenge will go there then!

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How do you like the wee piccie of Sarge's on the left sidebar?  The winner of our next challenge will go there then!

I noticed that.  Very cool idea!  I love it! 

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How do you like the wee piccie of Sarge's on the left sidebar?  The winner of our next challenge will go there then!

I saw that also and like It. I think It's a great idea.

Don

Glad you've seen the changes! 

I've added one now for this challenge.

Well Done Pat .   You make these changes and they just seem to "flow".