Friday Night
by choklat_thundr

Comment:
At least on my monitor I find the brightest lights to be a little too bright, and take away from the overall mood.

LighthouseDigestDarkLight1.jpg
by LtHousLady

Comment:
Luckily you don't have to paste on one of those ugly mailing labels. Well done!

Slammin'
by karmat

Comment:

Originally posted by scalvert: Good idea, but wouldn't the flames be trailing an [upward] moving ball? Just turn the ball upside down before shooting and rotate the image 180 degrees to get the effect. A low-speed fan on the flames would really give the impression of a meteor.

If anything, I'd rotate it clockwise, so the flames trail horizontally. As someone pointed out, a common baseball term for a fastball is "heater."

Sea Level
by ChrisW123

Comment:
Beautiful interpretation of a "classic" image. This image would also take well to having "painting" filters run on it.

Interstate Abstract
by Firstrich1

Comment:
Your ramps sure did better than mine have in the past -- congratulations!

3... 2... 1...
by GeneralE

Comment:
I think I must have had this lyric in mind when I took this.

Black Butte (8x10 ratio)
by GeneralE

Comment:
Why thank you both ... I use the larger borders sometimes to fill out the print size, so I don't have to resample the image and introduce any more noise or blurriness (I'm starting with less than 2MP). I figure people can trim/cover it if they don't like it, but someone can also just tack/tape it to the wall if they can't afford to frame it and have it look "finished."

This image was taken one-handed through the windshield, so I have no quality to spare ....

3... 2... 1...
by GeneralE

Comment:

Originally posted by ChrisW123: General, you are tied with Jacko (Mudane challenge) for the Brown Ribbon reward. :) Did you do it on purpose like he did?

No, it seems I can do this without trying! Too bad, I just missed getting two in a row.

I'm concerned that people may think I'm deliberately "thumbing my nose" at the challenge topic with an off-beat interpretation like this. Really, I am also trying to work within the the limits of the technology and time I have at hand. With my camera, I could have lit enough matches to smoke up the Los Angeles basin and never gotten a capture like the winning one.

Luv Da Yanx!
by GeneralE

Comment:
I guess I should have added my subtitle, "License Plate." I take a lot of pictures of personalized plates, so they are a pretty mundane object to me ... and I thought that the one rectangle among the light trails (and the colored trails themselves) was enough of a clue as to the main subject.

Interestingly, this is a transplanted baseball fan -- it was shot in California.

Wine Angel
by Geo_Griffin

Comment:
Isaac (age 7) says it should be a wine devil ... I'll go along with your interpretation though.