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 10/24/2011 06:58:24 AM · #26
Originally posted by giantmike:
Is it just me that reads the title/description and notices that we are NOT required to have fall colors. The challenge is simply scheduled now, but has no requirement of the foliage being fall oriented.


And I guess the foliage doesn't have to be on the tree, as most of our trees are bare.
 10/24/2011 02:46:02 PM · #27
Originally posted by Art Roflmao:
Originally posted by Cuttooth:
hmmm...this challenge will truly be a challenge.
no fall colors here.



LOL, that's hilarious...but might be what i have to resort to doing. it did work for an apple.
 10/24/2011 04:18:20 PM · #28
Originally posted by Art Roflmao:
No fall colors required. Who knows what the voters will do.

They will *probably* vote highest for examples of broadleaves (e.g. maple) in the orange/red/yellow range.

I suppose you could shoot in/convert to black and white, and then make them any color you want in a duo- tritone image ...
 10/24/2011 06:02:37 PM · #29
erm foliage..... wonder how this would be recieved...



from a finca in the middle of majorca, that some hippy friends of mine have its a nice place to relax for a week (also before anyone pipes up. its legal there for their own use)
10/24/2011 06:32:59 PM · #30
yeah i'm commin to your friends place give me directions!!
 10/24/2011 07:09:27 PM · #31
Originally posted by herfotoman:
Fall? Fall! We're the fall guys, that's what. The only thing fall-ing will be our scores. Fall is 6 months away here. Soooo.... a 6 months challenge for us then, or who's paying for my ticket from sunny South Africa to the Everglades?


Heh, you will probably want to choose a destination other than the Everglades.... Sawgrass and palmtrees make for shitty fall foliage. ;)
 10/24/2011 07:32:00 PM · #32
Somebody has got to do a pot plant! (not a "potted" plant)
 10/24/2011 07:55:12 PM · #33
yeah but it would have to be going up in smoke not turning brown hhahahah
 10/25/2011 07:23:54 PM · #34
Places to go in the U.S.
 10/25/2011 07:37:09 PM · #35


No places near me... :/
 10/26/2011 04:31:24 PM · #36
I'll join in with the complainers. It's hard to dispute that if you want quintessential fall foliage that New England is the place to be. Unfortunately fall foliage peaks in early October in northern and central New England. Yeah, I know that the challenge doesn̢۪t exclude green foliage but it̢۪s clear that timing is chosen to coincide with color. For the second year this challenge is too late to include some of the most beautiful foliage that can be seen anywhere in the world.

If there is a Foliage III please consider running it for a longer period of time and start it in late September.

ETA - Not to be too much of a whiner I don't think you can define Oct 24th - Nov 6th as "A two week challenge during the height of the fall foliage season."

Message edited by author 2011-10-26 16:39:12.
 10/26/2011 04:34:44 PM · #37
Well as long as we're complaining, babies and toddlers happened about 16 years too late for me :)

But it always happens...I went to shoot Foliage in Rickets Glen and the Catskills last week. That was peak in Ricketts Glen anyway.
 10/26/2011 04:39:37 PM · #38
Just took this the other day as well, right before the challenge was announced!

10/26/2011 05:01:00 PM · #39
so not fair everything around here went from green to brown and now i have to rake it.....
 10/26/2011 06:18:14 PM · #40
LOL, I might be able to find some leaves still on a tree somewhere, but most of them are down here. Problem is, timing all depends on where you go. In Napa valley, color was just getting started last week, probably not peak for a couple weeks yet. On the eastern side of the Sierras, lots of aspen color. In the lower elevations of the Front Range near Fort Collins, CO there was plenty of color last weekend, but up in Estes Park, way past peak. In Wisconsin, way past peak.
 10/26/2011 06:22:59 PM · #41
Where are the d***ed DNMC literalists when you need them? The challenge is "foliage" -- which means leaves or the leafy parts of plants. There is nothing about Fall/Autumn, colors, deciduousness, or anything else like that ...
Originally posted by Dictionary.com:

fo·li·age — noun

1. the leaves of a plant, collectively; leafage.
2. leaves in general.
3. the representation of leaves, flowers, and branches in painting, architectural ornament, etc.
 10/26/2011 08:59:11 PM · #42
Originally posted by GeneralE:
Where are the d***ed DNMC literalists when you need them? The challenge is "foliage" -- which means leaves or the leafy parts of plants. There is nothing about Fall/Autumn, colors, deciduousness, or anything else like that ...

This is what's throwing people:

Originally posted by Foilage challenge description:
A two week challenge during the height of the fall foliage season. Scheduled with apologies to the southern hemisphere.
 10/28/2011 01:39:10 AM · #43
I agree with ya Art.

My question is though.. Abstract or landscape..
 10/28/2011 10:38:45 PM · #44
Originally posted by Covert_Oddity:
Just took this the other day as well, right before the challenge was announced!



Wish I had an abundance of lovely leaves like that down here in the U.S. ...but made do with what I could find and what I have.

Message edited by author 2011-10-28 22:39:35.
 10/28/2011 10:42:20 PM · #45
I wish I'd gone out this week, we're getting a Nor'easter here tomorrow and there might not be any leaves left when it's over.
 10/28/2011 10:59:34 PM · #46
Originally posted by DJWoodward:
ETA - Not to be too much of a whiner I don't think you can define Oct 24th - Nov 6th as "A two week challenge during the height of the fall foliage season."


Which is why I made an early suggestion before the challenge was even announced that the shooting period be something like the October 1st to November 1st to allow shots we had already taken during the varying peak periods where we live. I guess it wasn't considered. We had our first snow late yesterday and throughout the evening. Not much accumulation, but I doubt I'll have a chance to get anything better than what I took during the real peak color days. Busy working so unfortunately I might be able to enter this one, and I was looking forward to it.

Dave
 10/28/2011 11:56:22 PM · #47
Originally posted by Kelli:
I wish I'd gone out this week, we're getting a Nor'easter here tomorrow and there might not be any leaves left when it's over.


We went out today, drove a couple hours, to utterly no avail; just no usable swathes of color on the cape yet, and perhaos will not be this season after the NorEaster has its way with us. Try again Sunday.

R.
 10/29/2011 09:27:40 AM · #48
Originally posted by Bear_Music:
Originally posted by Kelli:
I wish I'd gone out this week, we're getting a Nor'easter here tomorrow and there might not be any leaves left when it's over.


We went out today, drove a couple hours, to utterly no avail; just no usable swathes of color on the cape yet, and perhaos will not be this season after the NorEaster has its way with us. Try again Sunday.

R.


I'm going to try Sunday as well. How much snow are you expecting Bear? We're only forecasted for 1 to 2 inches, but heavy rain first (which is happening now) and possibly high winds.
 10/29/2011 10:04:32 AM · #49
The storm moving through New England now is the same storm which clobbered northern Colorado on October 26. It's a mean and evil spirit. Two cars of family members were totaled during the event by falling trees. It was a war zone. Our beautiful fall foliage peaked around October 1. However, I'll see what I can do with vestigial vegetation.

Message edited by author 2011-10-29 10:08:37.
 10/29/2011 10:45:45 AM · #50
No snow expected here but the forecast for Sunday morning is for winds at 40-45 mph with gusts of 75-80 55-60 mph.

ETA: Latest forecast is not as bad!

Message edited by author 2011-10-29 12:23:50.
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