Chat Thread Weekly Competition 29th June - 5th July 2015 - Subject - Heat

[Oldboy]

Chat Thread

As we are having a heatwave this week then the subject for the weekly competition is Heat. How you illustrate it is up to you. People eating ice creams, animals in water or hiding in the shade, boiling water or steam even open fires, the choice is yours.

No PP restrictions.


Pictures to be taken between 00.01am Monday 29th June 2015 to 23:59 Sunday  5th July 2015 .
Pictures to be posted in the entries thread no later than 23.59pm Monday 6th July 2015.
Poll will be up Tuesday 7th July 2015.
Winner to be announced Saturday 11th July 2015.

The Rules for the weekly competition are...

By entering you agree to take responsibility to
Post a topic on the Sunday following your declared win
Create an entries thread
Create a chat thread
Create a poll for that weeks comp and declare the winner on the Saturday
(if for any reason there is a problem and no subject is posted by the winner by Monday night admin will advise second place winner to post the topic asap, do the poll etc)

In case of a tie, the first entry posted wins.

Photos to be taken during the specified dates, ie Monday xx to Sunday xx

Pictures to be posted in the entries thread no later than 23.59 Monday night.

[WillyP]

This should be fun... cold and rainy here all week... 

[Oldboy]

This should be fun... cold and rainy here all week... 

You should have a nice warm log fire then? 

[WillyP]

No, but I might take a picture of my left foot, which is swollen and bright red with gout. It sure feels like it's on fire. Then again, I don't want to terrorize anyone. 

Then again, the 4th of July is coming up... on July 4th. 

[Reinardina]

No, but I might take a picture of my left foot, which is swollen and bright red with gout. It sure feels like it's on fire. Then again, I don't want to terrorize anyone. 

Then again, the 4th of July is coming up... on July 4th. 

Maybe a macro shot would do the trick? Something that would convey the heat, without showing too much detail?

I hope I'll be able to enter this time.

[Oldboy]

I hope I'll be able to enter this time.

Glad to have you back Reinardina. It's been a bit quite round here. 

[Reinardina]

I hope I'll be able to enter this time.

Glad to have you back Reinardina. It's been a bit quite round here. 

Thanks for the welcome back OB.
I have been taking photos, but did not really get a chance to do any proper editing. Got a huge back log now, and still lots of other things going on, which keep me away from my laptop. But I'm back home, so I will be able to use a spare hour here and there to attend to the back log.

[Reinardina]

Just edited an even hotter picture than my entry, so decided to change it.

This was taken at the Winchester Hat Fair, an annual festival of street theatre. In this case the flaming car was going to jump over the 'volunteers' laid out in the road. Everything went according to plan, but the 'victims' were a bit apprehensive, as you can see.
And all this was acted out in the full glare of a heat wave sun.

This is now my entry: (Click to see it properly.)

[Beaux Reflets]

Just edited an even hotter picture than my entry, so decided to change it.

This was taken at the Winchester Hat Fair, an annual festival of street theatre. In this case the flaming car was going to jump over the 'volunteers' laid out in the road. Everything went according to plan, but the 'victims' were a bit apprehensive, as you can see.
And all this was acted out in the full glare of a heat wave sun.

This is now my entry: (Click to see it properly.)

Now that's HOT  - Good to see you back in full swing 

I'm still trying to find a shot to take that describes to the brief 

[DigiDiva]

Hot wheels, hot weather, hot event, hot spectators! Nice one Reinardina.

[Oldboy]

Hot wheels, hot weather, hot event, hot spectators! Nice one Reinardina.

Nice to see you back DD. 

[DigiDiva]

Glad to be back

[DigiDiva]

Oldboy..........were u hiding in the bushes with us zoom poking through the branches?

[Oldboy]

Oldboy..........were u hiding in the bushes with us zoom poking through the branches?

Yes I was in the bushes but it wasn't a zoom poking through the branches! 

I was sitting on a bench when I spotted her from whence, I took the shot. 

[WillyP]

Well I thought fireworks would be much to photograph but someone told me just put it on bulb and hold the shutter open for a few seconds. That seemed to work pretty well and I tried holding the shutter at different timings from a couple of seconds to about ten seconds. Ten seconds was too long but anywhere from a couple to five (and even some at 1sec.) worked well. I used a tripod and a remote release. Here's some more: Gallery