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Title: Personal Best - CHAT thread for week 24th August- 31st August 2014
Post by: jinky on August 23, 2014, 05:35:33 PM
CHAT THREAD

This week's theme is Personal Best

I just want to see your best / favourite shot of the week that you have taken. Simple as that - anything goes and you can process it any way you like. No excuse for not entering - the difficulty will be in the judging across a broad theme that amounts to best in show.


Pictures to be taken between posting time  Saturday 23rd August 2014 to 23:59 Sunday 31st August 2014.
Pictures to be posted in the entries thread no later than 23.59pm Monday 1st September 2014.
Poll will be up Tuesday 2nd September 2014.
Winner to be announced Saturday 6th September 2014.

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 date at which the new topic is set xx to Sunday xx
Title: Re: Personal Best - CHAT thread for week 24th August- 31st August 2014
Post by: Oldboy on August 23, 2014, 10:11:34 PM
Might be difficult as my personal best is always my next shot!  ::)
Title: Re: Personal Best - CHAT thread for week 24th August- 31st August 2014
Post by: DigiDiva on August 23, 2014, 11:36:07 PM
No excuses for no entry then this time. Great idea. Might get the numbers up
Title: Re: Personal Best - CHAT thread for week 24th August- 31st August 2014
Post by: jinky on August 23, 2014, 11:47:49 PM
Quote from: Oldboy on August 23, 2014, 10:11:34 PM
Might be difficult as my personal best is always my next shot!  ::)

Easy - go out Monday to take your best planned shot and then enter  Tuesday`s.
Title: Re: Personal Best - CHAT thread for week 24th August- 31st August 2014
Post by: Reinardina on August 24, 2014, 07:14:50 AM
Can't remember, if the previous 'Best in Show' competition attracted more entries than normal. Will be a varied bunch though.

Have nothing really planned yet, so, if I take the camera out, it may have to be the best of the usual run of the mill things.
Title: Re: Personal Best - CHAT thread for week 24th August- 31st August 2014
Post by: Oldboy on August 24, 2014, 08:24:11 AM
Quote from: jinky on August 23, 2014, 11:47:49 PM
Quote from: Oldboy on August 23, 2014, 10:11:34 PM
Might be difficult as my personal best is always my next shot!  ::)

Easy - go out Monday to take your best planned shot and then enter  Tuesday`s.

That's no good, as it might be raining and dull Tuesday!  :'(
Title: Re: Personal Best - CHAT thread for week 24th August- 31st August 2014
Post by: ABERS on August 24, 2014, 09:00:17 AM
Quote from: Reinardina on August 24, 2014, 07:14:50 AM
Can't remember, if the previous 'Best in Show' competition attracted more entries than normal. Will be a varied bunch though.

Have nothing really planned yet, so, if I take the camera out, it may have to be the best of the usual run of the mill things.

Ten entries for Best in Show last time and 20 votes, a little above the average of late.

"Usual run of the mill things"??!!. Could be a good title for a discussion thread. :legit:

http://cameracraniums.com/forum/index.php?topic=3529.0
Title: Re: Personal Best - CHAT thread for week 24th August- 31st August 2014
Post by: Reinardina on August 24, 2014, 09:52:56 AM
Quote from: ABERS on August 24, 2014, 09:00:17 AM
Quote from: Reinardina on August 24, 2014, 07:14:50 AM
Can't remember, if the previous 'Best in Show' competition attracted more entries than normal. Will be a varied bunch though.

Have nothing really planned yet, so, if I take the camera out, it may have to be the best of the usual run of the mill things.

Ten entries for Best in Show last time and 20 votes, a little above the average of late.

"Usual run of the mill things"??!!. Could be a good title for a discussion thread. :legit:

http://cameracraniums.com/forum/index.php?topic=3529.0

Start one Alan!

Unless I go out to photograph something specific, I take my camera when out and about, and just shoot what I come across. Often people.

It's not everyday, I have the honour to meet someone really special, but it happened on Friday.

An old man, but what an old man!

(http://cameracraniums.com/gallery/albums/userpics/11140/normal_Hero_detail_res.jpg) (http://cameracraniums.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pid=16443&fullsize=1)
Title: Re: Personal Best - CHAT thread for week 24th August- 31st August 2014
Post by: DigiDiva on August 24, 2014, 10:03:26 AM
reinardina he's fantastic
Title: Re: Personal Best - CHAT thread for week 24th August- 31st August 2014
Post by: Reinardina on August 24, 2014, 10:06:39 AM
Quote from: DigiDiva on August 24, 2014, 10:03:26 AM
reinardina he's fantastic

One of the best.
Title: Re: Personal Best - CHAT thread for week 24th August- 31st August 2014
Post by: oggalily on August 24, 2014, 09:10:34 PM
Hmm.  I always struggle with the wide open themes like this.  I think I will take the opportunity to photograph something that's on my personal wish list...
Title: Re: Personal Best - CHAT thread for week 24th August- 31st August 2014
Post by: DigiDiva on August 31, 2014, 09:17:23 AM
Great to see an entry from you Abers. Im struggling this week as only been out once with camera. But nothing stands out from the bunch of images I took, apart from one landscape but not sure it's strong enough as an entry, landscapes not being my thing at all.
Title: Re: Personal Best - CHAT thread for week 24th August- 31st August 2014
Post by: Beaux Reflets on August 31, 2014, 04:43:45 PM
Always hard to choose your own-self personal best ,but this was a quick shot that grabbed my immediate attention for ease in processing

Mountains Timed - The art in timing the shot with a moving camera can be great fun.

(http://cameracraniums.com/gallery/albums/userpics/11049/normal_SpyingMountains.jpg) (http://cameracraniums.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pid=16486)
Title: Re: Personal Best - CHAT thread for week 24th August- 31st August 2014
Post by: Reinardina on August 31, 2014, 06:47:30 PM
It wasn't too difficult for me. Apart from some 'work' (volunteers) shots, I only took two pictures.
This one is of a decaying cabin/shed that I visit on a more or less regular basis, just to see how it is 'getting on.'
Well, it isn't getting on at all! Nature is taking over, and it is now hard to get to it.

This is it:

Haunted (by me)

(http://cameracraniums.com/gallery/albums/userpics/11140/normal_Nature_reclaims_det_lucky_mono_res.jpg) (http://cameracraniums.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pid=16485&fullsize=1)

This is what it looked like in April 2012.

(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7184/7098362697_062b0455a2_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/bPfXVK)DSC05175 We broke our Wendy house too ... (https://flic.kr/p/bPfXVK) by Reinardina (https://www.flickr.com/people/64029139@N02/), on Flickr
Title: Re: Personal Best - CHAT thread for week 24th August- 31st August 2014
Post by: DigiDiva on August 31, 2014, 08:02:25 PM
Please keep taking the images of here - its great to see the rot, decay and neglect of time.
Title: Re: Personal Best - CHAT thread for week 24th August- 31st August 2014
Post by: kerbside on August 31, 2014, 09:01:47 PM
Gone for something a bit different, HDR Bay Watch could be a "MARMITE" picture  :-\

(http://cameracraniums.com/gallery/albums/userpics/11290/normal_surf_rescue_jet_ski.jpg) (http://cameracraniums.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pid=16487&fullsize=1)
Title: Re: Personal Best - CHAT thread for week 24th August- 31st August 2014
Post by: DigiDiva on August 31, 2014, 09:44:02 PM
Here's my entry, named 'Blot On My Landscape' as locally the pylons are everywhere, being on the National Grid. I embrace them and emphasise them.

(http://cameracraniums.com/gallery/albums/userpics/11291/normal_Blot_On_My_Landscape.jpg) (http://cameracraniums.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pid=16488&fullsize=1)
Title: Re: Personal Best - CHAT thread for week 24th August- 31st August 2014
Post by: jinky on September 01, 2014, 07:57:45 AM
Not sure if my best of the week. Been touring a little and not home until late tonight. Editing on t he hoof within limits of what I have available on my tablet and as I have so many "straight" images of Sycamore Gap on th Roman Wall I thought I'd put this up.(http://cameracraniums.com/gallery/albums/userpics/10154/normal_14095540927691.jpg) (http://cameracraniums.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pid=16491&fullsize=1)

Not a Hockney iPad sketch but  a Jinky Nexus sketch ;-)
Title: Re: Personal Best - CHAT thread for week 24th August- 31st August 2014
Post by: Reinardina on September 01, 2014, 08:18:59 AM
Quote from: jinky on September 01, 2014, 07:57:45 AM
Not sure if my best of the week. Been touring a little and not home until late tonight. Editing on t he hoof within limits of what I have available on my tablet and as I have so many "straight" images of Sycamore Gap on th Roman Wall I thought I'd put this up.(http://cameracraniums.com/gallery/albums/userpics/10154/normal_14095540927691.jpg) (http://cameracraniums.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pid=16491&fullsize=1)

Not a Hockney iPad sketch but  a Jinky Nexus sketch ;-)

I like it. As it happens, I too have been 'creative' this weekend. Just about to upload something from my 'blue' period, partially inspired by old Pablo.
Title: Re: Personal Best - CHAT thread for week 24th August- 31st August 2014
Post by: DigiDiva on September 01, 2014, 08:48:46 AM
10 entries so far, thats excellent.