21 and under - Photo and Story Contest winners!!!!

Canon EF 85mm f/1.2L II USM

12/31/2005 03:05:13 PM · #1

Check out the original thread Here.

And now....For the moment you've all been waiting for!

The winner of the Short Story contest is......

OdysseyF22!!!

Your story created such a sense of being there and feeling the feelings that the main character felt. It was quite amazing, I must admit. Great great work...pretty much blew my mind. Congradulations.

*edit* - Here's a link to the story; here

And now...for the winner of the Photo Contest...

Nightshy!!!

Here is her picture:

I love this picture. The child facing the mountains in the distance, it's as if he is about to take on the biggest challenge of his life so far. The fence running between him in the mountains adds that much more symbolism to it. He is so small...yet the mountains are so big. Even then, he is about to set off to conqure them, to explore them, and to see what life has in store.

That's what I see when I look at this picture. Technically wise, it is fantastic as well. Great composition with the child and the mountains on the and the very dramatic sky on the right, and the fence, although not very noticable, helps to bring the image together. The sky looks amazing, and the way it looks dark and forboding over the mountains yet it looks bright and peaceful on the left.

Congrats on a wonderful picture.

I also wanted to give honorable mentions to the following users:

Riot:

Arsenal:

modgethanc:

art-inept:

You guys all did a wonderful job on your photo's as well. Thanks for taking part in this contest! I had a great time looking at all the pics (over 20...) and reading the stories.

Both of the winners will recieve a framed 8x10 print of one of my photo's. So, if you two will please email me your addresses that would rock.

Overall, I think this contest was a success. I hope that I was able to bring the younger part of the DPC community a little closer together, as that was the goal of this whole deal. I hope that us younger ones can keep taking great photos and keep improving upon our talents.

I want to leave you with this quote by Anatole France:

"To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe."

Message edited by author 2005-12-31 15:36:06.

RobotBanjo

Canon EOS-5D Mark II

12/31/2005 03:15:31 PM · #2

Awe shucks :)
Congrats Brent! You deserve it for sure.
And good job everyone else, there is some serious young talent around here.
Thanks Caleb, it was really fun.

Nikon AF Fisheye-Nikkor 16mm f/2.8D

12/31/2005 03:26:35 PM · #3

Aww, wow! This is really exciting!
Thank you Caleb for hosting this, it was an awesome idea. I'm really glad that you enjoyed my story so much!
Katherine, your photo is incredible! Congrats to you too :D
We under-21-ers do have a lot of talent, and it was good to see it like this.

modgethanc

Nikon D90

12/31/2005 03:30:25 PM · #4

Yay! Those are some sweet photos. Congrats to you two for winning :3

Thanks, Caleb :D You should share the winning story as well....

12/31/2005 03:31:55 PM · #5

Originally posted by modgethanc:

Yay! Those are some sweet photos. Congrats to you two for winning :3

Thanks, Caleb :D You should share the winning story as well....

By all means, if there's a way to share my story so everyone can read it, please do!

12/31/2005 03:32:57 PM · #6

I'm not sure If I want to post it on here...since it is kinda long.

I'll try and upload it to a host and then post it.

12/31/2005 03:39:12 PM · #7

Originally posted by stare_at_the_sun:

I'm not sure If I want to post it on here...since it is kinda long.

I'll try and upload it to a host and then post it.

Yeah, I wondered about putting it here because of it's size. I was tring to think of a place to link it to, but all I have is my sports blog...and it doesn't quite fit in there. ;)

Nikon AF Nikkor 50mm f/1.8D

12/31/2005 03:40:05 PM · #8

I got the link up there...it should work.

Cool cool...

wavelength

Nikon D300

12/31/2005 03:46:16 PM · #9

you dern youngins and you're awesome talent!!

hehehe, good job all. :OD

downtherabbithole

Canon EOS-30D

Canon EF 28-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM

12/31/2005 04:07:42 PM · #10

dang it. I didn't see this thread in time....

modgethanc

Nikon D90

Nikon AF Fisheye-Nikkor 16mm f/2.8D

12/31/2005 04:49:11 PM · #11

Is freefileupload permanent? If not, I can host it or something.

//no-leverage.nerdnet.org/misc/fog--brentp.html

Here, I made it browser-readable. Uh, it's in the default template that all of my written stuff is, too :o

12/31/2005 04:51:44 PM · #12

Originally posted by modgethanc:

That's so cool, my story has a link. You rock! :D

art-inept

Olympus C-5060WZ

Canon EF 35mm f/2.0

12/31/2005 08:26:32 PM · #13

darn i didn't win. but that was fun anyhow. thanks for hosting this caleb :)

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

01/01/2006 09:58:53 PM · #14

I wanna bump this... Tell me what you guys think of the whole idea, even if you are over 21:P

pidge

Canon EOS-7D Mark II

01/01/2006 10:25:01 PM · #15

Like the pictures you chose as winner and honorable mentions...

Haven't had time to read the story yet, but I will try and get to it ASAP.

Nice job!

justin_hewlett

Canon EOS-1000D Rebel XS

01/01/2006 11:00:27 PM · #16

Nice photos everyone! This was a great idea, thanks for doing this Caleb.

Nightshy, what happened to your XT?