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Title: Chat Thread - Flora & Fauna Weekly Comp 22 Feb - 01 March 2015
Post by: DigiDiva on February 22, 2015, 09:28:46 AM
FLORA AND FAUNA

CHAT THREAD ONLY........Entry thread is here http://cameracraniums.com/forum/index.php?topic=4272.msg49656#msg49656

Weekly competition 22 February to Sunday 1 March 2015

I wanted to choose a theme broad enough for an entry whatever the season, wherever you are. Interpret the theme as you wish.

Pictures to be taken between now and Sun 1 March 2015.

Pictures to be posted in the entries thread no later than 23.59pm Monday 2 March 2015.
Poll will be up Tuesday 3 March 2015. 
Winner to be announced Saturday 7 March  2015.

The Rules for the weekly competition are...

By entering you agree to take responsibility to:
Post a topic on, or before 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
Title: Re: Chat Thread - Flora & Fauna Weekly Comp 22 Feb - 01 March 2015
Post by: Oldboy on February 22, 2015, 04:48:24 PM
What is Flaura?  :doh:
Title: Re: Chat Thread - Flora & Fauna Weekly Comp 22 Feb - 01 March 2015
Post by: DigiDiva on February 22, 2015, 06:29:26 PM
R u referring to my typo in entry thread haha
Title: Re: Chat Thread - Flora & Fauna Weekly Comp 22 Feb - 01 March 2015
Post by: Oldboy on February 22, 2015, 06:53:51 PM
Quote from: DigiDiva on February 22, 2015, 06:29:26 PM
R u referring to my typo in entry thread haha

Err.....yes.  ;D
Title: Re: Chat Thread - Flora & Fauna Weekly Comp 22 Feb - 01 March 2015
Post by: DigiDiva on February 22, 2015, 06:55:30 PM
Repaired...haha. Sorry
Title: Re: Chat Thread - Flora & Fauna Weekly Comp 22 Feb - 01 March 2015
Post by: oggalily on February 25, 2015, 11:46:04 AM
We are still under a few feet of snow here in Boston so some lateral thinking is required. I will give it a shot though.
Title: Re: Chat Thread - Flora & Fauna Weekly Comp 22 Feb - 01 March 2015
Post by: DigiDiva on February 25, 2015, 12:17:18 PM
Yellow snow warning - you could capture a dog weeing in the snow.......
Title: Re: Chat Thread - Flora & Fauna Weekly Comp 22 Feb - 01 March 2015
Post by: spikeyjen on February 28, 2015, 02:54:38 PM
I'm learning something about trying to take photos in mid winter Canada - there are no leaves on the trees and the snow covers everything else. You get about 10 seconds to decide the image, the settings and to take the shot before you get frostbite. And as for flora, they are a couple of deer racing off in the distance. Should be a challenge for me this week.
Title: Re: Chat Thread - Flora & Fauna Weekly Comp 22 Feb - 01 March 2015
Post by: DigiDiva on February 28, 2015, 04:26:33 PM
Not taken mine yet but have it planned.
Title: Re: Chat Thread - Flora & Fauna Weekly Comp 22 Feb - 01 March 2015
Post by: Reinardina on February 28, 2015, 04:55:42 PM
Are there no flower shops in Boston or Canada, if the worst comes to the worst?
Title: Re: Chat Thread - Flora & Fauna Weekly Comp 22 Feb - 01 March 2015
Post by: Beaux Reflets on February 28, 2015, 05:14:14 PM
Very overcast all week so may have to go with this shot of  Veronica Persica

(http://cameracraniums.com/gallery/albums/userpics/11049/normal_Veronica_persica.jpg) (http://cameracraniums.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pid=17233)
Title: Re: Chat Thread - Flora & Fauna Weekly Comp 22 Feb - 01 March 2015
Post by: spikeyjen on March 01, 2015, 12:20:39 AM
OK, so this week has been a challenge, not for and absence of subject, but the cold (of which I am not accustomed to). I am also struggling using Photoshop on the laptop as I am unsure about the colors. So here is my choice - I've no idea why this word has been written, but it caught my eye.

Winter Frey
(http://cameracraniums.com/gallery/albums/userpics/11372/normal_Frey.jpg) (http://cameracraniums.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pid=17234&fullsize=1)
Title: Re: Chat Thread - Flora & Fauna Weekly Comp 22 Feb - 01 March 2015
Post by: jinky on March 01, 2015, 07:35:31 AM
Must try and get out later and see what I can find.
Title: Re: Chat Thread - Flora & Fauna Weekly Comp 22 Feb - 01 March 2015
Post by: oggalily on March 01, 2015, 01:14:52 PM
Lots of deer passing through the woods behind our house.  I'm not patient enough to sit around in the cold waiting for them to appear so the suggestion of a deer visit will have to do!
(http://cameracraniums.com/gallery/albums/userpics/10157/normal_DSC07628.jpg) (http://cameracraniums.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pid=17237&fullsize=1)
Title: Re: Chat Thread - Flora & Fauna Weekly Comp 22 Feb - 01 March 2015
Post by: DigiDiva on March 01, 2015, 05:31:33 PM
Have gone for a totally different style than my usual images. This is my soft, subtle approach to photography.

Hyacinth

(http://cameracraniums.com/gallery/albums/userpics/11291/normal_Hyacinth.jpg) (http://cameracraniums.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pid=17241&fullsize=1)
Title: Re: Chat Thread - Flora & Fauna Weekly Comp 22 Feb - 01 March 2015
Post by: Reinardina on March 01, 2015, 11:05:47 PM
Nothing all week and today, lo and behold, a flower shot!

I'm in with

Camelia

(http://cameracraniums.com/gallery/albums/userpics/11140/normal_Floral_bokeh_res.jpg) (http://cameracraniums.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pid=17248&fullsize=1)
Title: Re: Chat Thread - Flora & Fauna Weekly Comp 22 Feb - 01 March 2015
Post by: jinky on March 02, 2015, 10:45:24 AM
Afraid I got rained off. Torrential rain most of yesterday afternoon here in the free time I had so nothing from me I am afraid. Now ... where is that cat?
Title: Re: Chat Thread - Flora & Fauna Weekly Comp 22 Feb - 01 March 2015
Post by: DigiDiva on March 02, 2015, 07:28:05 PM
I once knew a cat called cooking fat............at least that's how it sounded when they shouted at it........