Winter Sunset: Good News / Bad news

Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 USM

02/04/2007 11:04:40 PM · #1

The good news: They just hung the 2007 Juried Photography Contest in my neck of the woods. I entered "Winter Sunset", and it took 2nd place of approximately 200 entries, winning a check for $100.

The bad news? I was beaten out for first place by a freaking SKIFF SHOT! How ironic is that? jejeje�

R.

RayEthier

Canon EOS-5D Mark II

02/04/2007 11:08:48 PM · #2

Tooooooooooooooo funny... if only they knew. This is too priceless for words. Congrats on your entry and second place.

Ray

Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6

02/04/2007 11:11:00 PM · #3

Originally posted by RayEthier:

Tooooooooooooooo funny... if only they knew. This is too priceless for words. Congrats on your entry and second place.

Ray

Actually, for YOU it's even funnier: I use the term "skiff" loosely here � the actual boat was a Beetle Catboat :-) The main thing is, it was more-or-less a perfect vertical representation of my classic skiff shot that ribboned in the first minimalism challenge, except it had a mast too :-)

R.

Kivet

Canon EOS-400D Rebel XTi

02/04/2007 11:13:10 PM · #4

Probably the ultimate "I should have entered the other shot!"

kawana

Sony Alpha a7R

Samyang 135mm f/2 ED UMC

02/04/2007 11:22:57 PM · #5

hehe i feel stupid :P What do you mean by a "skiff shot"??

Pug-H

Pentax K10D

Sigma 28-80mm f/3.5-5.6 Aspherical HF for Pentax

02/04/2007 11:29:36 PM · #6

Well, obviously you should have photoshopped a skiff into your sunset photo.

Though that may have disqualified it....

Congratulations anyway, Bear. 2nd is better than no prize at all. ;-)

02/04/2007 11:32:21 PM · #7

Originally posted by kawana:

hehe i feel stupid :P What do you mean by a "skiff shot"??

My first ribbon:

A "skiff" is, properly, a small boat, a dinghy, a rowboat, like that. I get a lot of grief from people who needle me because a LOT of my good shots have skiffs in them as compositional elements. here's another:

� That was my second ribbon, except it was right after I bought the 20D and the time/date stamp was incorrectly set. But for a little while, both my ribbons had skiffs.

Then there's this one:

and this one:

, both among my top-scoring images at the time and both flaunting skiffs...

Those last 3 all shot at the same location, btw: I got a lot of grief for that too :-)

R.

Message edited by author 2007-02-04 23:34:04.

Carl Zeiss 50mm ZE f/1.4 Planar T for Canon

02/04/2007 11:35:42 PM · #8

Originally posted by Pug-H:

Well, obviously you should have photoshopped a skiff into your sunset photo.

Though that may have disqualified it....

Congratulations anyway, Bear. 2nd is better than no prize at all. ;-)

Nah... There were No Rules! And guess what? Everything that was entered was, to all intents and purposes, a perfectly normal-looking photograph! :-)

R.

Message edited by author 2007-02-04 23:35:53.

yanko

Canon EOS-5D Mark II

02/04/2007 11:43:39 PM · #9

Congrats. Btw, why didn't you add a skiff to your Winter Sunset shot? Just too much with the birds included?

Katmystiry

Canon EOS-5D Mark II

Canon EF 85mm f/1.8 USM

02/04/2007 11:47:44 PM · #10

Congrats R!! 2nd isn't too shabby out of 200 entries!!!