Road Signs and Landscape - DPChallenge Forums

01/16/2003 11:36:17 AM · #1

Would'nt it be better to do outdoor challenges like landscape and roadsigns during spring summer and fall months?

Canon EF 28-105mm f/3.5-4.5 II USM

01/16/2003 11:39:26 AM · #2

Originally posted by Fibre Optix:

Would'nt it be better to do outdoor challenges like landscape and roadsigns during spring summer and fall months?

It's summer in Australia.... I'm looking forward to some warm weather in a couple of weeks... and like the cover of peimag shows, winter street sign pictures can be pretty effective : PEI Magazine home page

Message edited by author 2003-01-16 11:40:50.

Marklane

Fujifilm FinePix 6900Z

01/16/2003 11:49:28 AM · #3

Originally posted by Fibre Optix:

Would'nt it be better to do outdoor challenges like landscape and roadsigns during spring summer and fall months?

In hindsight, yes it would...but it's too bloody late now (LOL)! There's bits of me still thawing as I speak!

autool

Canon EOS-20D

01/16/2003 11:56:29 AM · #4

They are both out there during all seasons. After all this is a challenge, and whats wrong with giving the southern hemisphere an advantage for a change. Something that is "old hat" to you might be real interesting to those that haven't had to look at each morning on the way to work, so use the old imagination.

Go get 'em.

Autool

01/16/2003 12:06:54 PM · #5

Originally posted by autool:

whats wrong with giving the southern hemisphere an advantage for a change.

An advantage? Warm weather all year? Chicks in bikinis? Endless beaches?
All year light clothing? shoveling...............a sand castle, Snowplows...Snowplows...we dont need no stinking snowplows here, Do they even catch a cold in the south?

But then again they don't have hockey. Poor guys.

Your right Autool. :)

joshua

Canon EOS-500D Rebel T1i

Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II

01/16/2003 12:12:30 PM · #6

road signs is more independent of weather than landscape in my opinion

01/16/2003 12:13:09 PM · #7

Originally posted by Fibre Optix:

Originally posted by autool:
whats wrong with giving the southern hemisphere an advantage for a change.

An advantage? Warm weather all year? Chicks in bikinis? Endless beaches?
All year light clothing? shoveling...............a sand castle, Snowplows...Snowplows...we dont need no stinking snowplows here, Do they even catch a cold in the south?

But then again they don't have hockey. Poor guys.

Your right Autool. :)

This is about the most bizzare comment I've ever seen. You do realise half the planet is in the Southern Hemisphere, and not just one beach in Australia ?

01/16/2003 12:52:23 PM · #8

Originally posted by Gordon:

This is about the most bizzare comment I've ever seen. You do realise half the planet is in the Southern Hemisphere, and not just one beach in Australia ?

While technically the southern hemisphere in theory should be about equal in terms of weather and temperature as us in the north (simply reversed) in practical terms it's not so. There is much more land mass in the temperate and sub-polar areas of the northern hemisphere, and a much, much higher percentage of the northern hemisphere lives in cold climates. With the exception of Antarctica, inhabited by a few nutjob scientists, and altitude-related climates in South America, the southern hemisphere's landmasses are positioned largely in the subtropics and, as a result, it's beaches and babes for most of the year. Even the southernmost point of New Zealand doesn't get anything close to the weather that a good percentage of the northern hemisphere experiences in winter.

Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM

01/16/2003 01:53:28 PM · #9

To Jimmy: Your right.

To Gordon: It was just a joke.

zadore

Canon EOS-5D

01/16/2003 02:12:42 PM · #10

Originally posted by Fibre Optix:

Originally posted by autool:
whats wrong with giving the southern hemisphere an advantage for a change.

But then again they don't have hockey. Poor guys.

Hockey...now there's a challenge I would like to see on this site (during the winter...in the Northern Hemisphere).

Go Leafs Go!

01/16/2003 02:20:17 PM · #11

Zadore you da MAN!!!!!!!!!

Go Leafs Go!!!!!!

01/16/2003 02:38:37 PM · #12

Originally posted by jimmythefish:

I must have been lost when I went ski-ing then. and most of the other parts of Australia I've been to are wet and cold. It's a big place. I realise you were joking, I just haven't seen someone sterotype half a planet before - it's quite impressive.

Message edited by author 2003-01-16 14:45:50.

01/16/2003 02:53:51 PM · #13

Originally posted by Gordon:

Ever been to Winnipeg? I'm sure it hits -45C in Melbourne or Wellington all the time...not. Australia and New Zealand, while often cold and rainy, and even having the occasional ski hill, don't have anything at sea level which remotely touches what 99% of Canadians (and Americans in the north) deal with every winter.

Message edited by author 2003-01-16 14:54:39.

Sigma 24-70mm f/2.8 EX Aspherical DF for Canon

01/16/2003 02:55:38 PM · #14

And yes...stereotyping an entire hemisphere is totally uncalled for!

jimmyn4

Canon EOS-7D

01/16/2003 03:06:30 PM · #15

I'm really glad that we had a landscape challenge and a road signs challenge two weeks in a row. It got me out of the studio(house). It's not freezing here but I'm glad to take something other than a studio shot which seems to be all I have submitted(4 out of 6). I got a good idea how about a challenge on just computer screens. That way we wouldn't have to stop surfing the net and get up off are butts.

Sigma 24-70mm f/2.8 EX Aspherical DF for Canon

01/16/2003 03:19:13 PM · #16

Originally posted by Gordon:

I just haven't seen someone sterotype half a planet before - it's quite impressive.

Holy crap!!! I think I started WWIII. If I insulted or stereotyped anyone's hemisphere, I deeply apologize. I LOVE AUSTRALIA. Being Canadian I feel I can relate with my Australian brothers more than my American cousins to the south or any other country due to our similarities.

If we were attacked by aliens I would fight to the death for all my human brothers and sisters. In both hemispheres.

I hope there are no aliens participating in this forum. If there are. I deeply apologize.........

magnetic9999

Canon EOS-20D

01/16/2003 03:22:23 PM · #17

I guess you haven't see my profile picture have you?

Magnetic9999 revealed!!

Originally posted by Fibre Optix:

I hope there are no aliens participating in this forum. If there are. I deeply apologize.........

01/16/2003 03:22:43 PM · #18

i don't think anyone is being too serious here...i'm not anyways!

Canon EF 70-300mm f/4.0-5.6 IS USM

01/16/2003 03:27:39 PM · #19

Originally posted by Fibre Optix:

I'm just sore that each time I've been to Australia the weather's been crap, that's all.

STEINR

Canon EOS-7D

01/16/2003 05:05:57 PM · #20

wouldn't it be great to have a landscape challenge for each season?

Annida

Olympus C-4000Z

01/16/2003 05:55:22 PM · #21

Originally posted by STEINR:

wouldn't it be great to have a landscape challenge for each season?

Hehe, that would be great, except there ARE no seasons where I live :p

indigo997

Nikon D70

01/16/2003 08:08:07 PM · #22

Dang, Mag! It must be stunts like this running your profile view stats up. 1450!!

vjoz

Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM

01/16/2003 08:18:44 PM · #23

Hey, here (in Iceland) we've got daylight from about 10:30 to 15:45 now :)

lionelm