[Photography] August Contest

[I Am Luna]

Topic: Blue

I honestly couldn't think of anything, so instead I choose the first thing I saw. I have a big blue screen on my TV right now and I thought of how many people can enter something that is blue. So here it is, blue. blue anything. Anything blue. Blue emotion, blue ocean, blue sky, blue car, you name it. If it is blue, take its picture, be creative, and submit it! Hope to have a lot of people submit something different! Good luck!

REMINDER:

Submit up to two photos!
If you win, you have the option of choosing the following, following month's theme
Also if you win, you might get your photo featured in the printed Japan Update!! & win a nice prize provided by Japan Update! (This is enough for me to want to win)
The photo(s) must be taken during the month of the assignment. ( ie: this topic is for the month of August )
The assignment will be open for the entire month. The first week of the following month will be the voting period.
Voters will vote (by posting) for (3) three photos in the order that they think should be placed. ( ie: If a voter post 4, 6, 8. The voter believes #4 should be first place, #6 should be second place and #8 to be third place )
Anyone can vote and you can vote for yourself too.
Need a place to upload photos? Try the following ( I'd watermark them first ):

http://imageshack.us
http://www.imagehosting.com
http://www.picoodle.com
http://photobucket.com
Or start a flickr account. http://flickr.com
Or use JapanUpdate's PhotoPlog http://www.japanupdate.com/forum/photoplog/

If you have questions, feel free to PM me. I am quite active; at least to my standards.


Happy shooting!

[dk]

Sweet! My favorite color!

[Oceandreamer]

Sounds fun!
Now everything I look at after this thread is BLUE!

[DoctorP]

I may actually try in this one. Will blue balls count?

[Sex Wax]

I may actually try in this one. Will blue balls count?

As long as they are Racquetballs.

[Courtney]

Awsome, I know exactly what im gonna shoot. Im takin this one people...watch out! LOL j/k (kinda =)

[P_chan]

Here are my entries. They are from my last days in Montana and are of blue sky and water.

http://img142.imageshack.us/img142/5914/entry1.jpg







http://img150.imageshack.us/img150/7628/entry5.jpg

[Traveler1978]

Nice pics! I was born in montana!

[P_chan]

I have a real good one of a moose but the water it's standing in doesn't look blue because of the angle the picture was taken at so I couldn't submit it:(

[Oceandreamer]

Absolutely gorgeous!
We spent a week in Montana last spring with 8 feet of snow. Loved it!

[P_chan]

My sister lives in Kalispell MT and we were visiting for our vacation. Spent a lot of time in glacier national park and floating down the flathead on a tube while drinking beer. But those are on a disposable. As soon as I get them developed and if there is enough blue in them, I'll submit those too.

[Courtney]

My sister lives in Kalispell MT and we were visiting for our vacation. Spent a lot of time in glacier national park and floating down the flathead on a tube while drinking beer. But those are on a disposable. As soon as I get them developed and if there is enough blue in them, I'll submit those too.

I thought submitted pics were supposed to be taken in that month of the chosen topic!

[Courtney]

Very beautiful pics though! Never been to M. looks amazing! I would still like to see that moose pic!

[badkitty]

here are my submissions:

http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a21/taeisme/th_IMG00007-20090525-1133.jpg (http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a21/taeisme/IMG00007-20090525-1133.jpg)


http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a21/taeisme/th_IMG00008-20090525-1143.jpg (http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a21/taeisme/IMG00008-20090525-1143.jpg)

[P_chan]

I thought submitted pics were supposed to be taken in that month of the chosen topic!

Yes, I just got back. They were taken the final days of my vacation, 1st and 2nd of August which was in this month.

[Courtney]

My bad P... =)

[P_chan]

No problem. I didn't shoot them specifically for the contest but while going though my photos I noticed that some of the ones I took in the last two days fit the criteria. If the color was green I'd have hundreds of pictures to submit:D

[Trail]

Great pictures! I have yet to see mountains in person. Lucky! I would have loved to go kayaking there.

[P_chan]

rafting and kayaking is fun, but floating down the river while drinking beer is better:thumbup:

[ShroomSJS]

Are pics allowed to be edited with photo software?

[P_chan]

Oops, forgot that they changed it to only two entries. I edited my previous post to reflect only two entires.

Are pics allowed to be edited with photo software?

IIRC you can but it can't be excessive. No photoshopping dragons fighting unicorns over cape zanpa or anything. PM I am luna for the official word.

[gtlm2000]

I took this in Naha airport today. Blue sky, Blue ocean and Blue ANA airplane :D

http://www.japanupdate.com/forum/picture.php?albumid=10&pictureid=392

[the_wrath_of_Khan]

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2460/3838138847_cf196aac38_b.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/the_wrath_of_khan/3838138847/)

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2513/3803206222_40bcd9cd94_b.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/the_wrath_of_khan/3803206222/)

[ShroomSJS]

Here are my two. The hubby took these on his last trip to Kerama Islands.

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2513/3825789520_5b0ff5b220.jpg

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2640/3825799358_6ab84f3d68.jpg

[socalheart]

These photos remind me of the photo puzzles on the National Geographic site. Good pictures this time round! :thumbup: Perhaps a color should be the theme each month. Crayola has a box full of colors...

[I Am Luna]

Ok Nate, take this!

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2639/3847775809_d2f7919683_b.jpg

Good 'ol red, white, and BLUE!

[Aho_okinawa]

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2443/3833270188_d53914579a_b.jpg



http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3482/3840685629_968458a009_b.jpg

[canjap02]

ok see if I can get this to work The first is just some lake we come apon will driving it the canadian rockys. The second is Morraine Lake close to Baniff in the rockys.

[Jazz]

ok see if I can get this to work The first is just some lake we come apon will driving it the canadian rockys. The second is Morraine Lake close to Baniff in the rockys.

Take the people out of that second one and I'd have trouble believing it was real. Awesome!

[socalheart]

ok see if I can get this to work The first is just some lake we come apon will driving it the canadian rockys. The second is Morraine Lake close to Baniff in the rockys.

Those pictures actually make me think about maybe going to Canadia. :D maybe... :p it looks like snow up there.

[canjap02]

Take the people out of that second one and I'd have trouble believing it was real. Awesome!

Ive got lots of just the lake only but I chose one with people in it just so people dont think its fake. Its something about the algae in the water that make it that blue. Both of these pic were taken in August. Heres two with no people. *these are not entered in the contest only my first to pics. these are just to show the lakes color has not been altered*