AOL Community Challenge-The Animal Within FUN ONLY!

We only had a few entries this challenge, but those who did participate really did a nice job~  Check out their entries by clicking on their links in the comment section.

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AOL Community Challenge-The Animal Within FUN ONLY!

The Animal Within~FUN Category only

This is not just an animal image, it can be a bird, fish or insects.....Post a photo of a living thing(no plants) that represents you, a self portrait, but using a photo of an animal or living thing. Be creative...Ü
This is only for the Fun category.  You have a week to enter & try to post between May 23rd through May 30th. (no old entries) Read guidelines & add your permalink, in the comments area.

Tags: Animal within, photo challenge, blogplugs

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AOL Community Photo Challenge-The Magic Hour FUN!

FUN Category
 
The Magic hour, or Golden hour is the first  &  last hour of sunlight. 
It's the 1/2  hour before the sun rises, & 1/2 after the sun rises.  It's also the 1/2 hour before sunset & 1/2 hour after.  
So with this challenge you will need a tripod  & a timer or a remote.
You will also have a month to work on this.  You can use a file photo, but I think it would be good if we can all try to get out & do this challenge with new photos.  
I plan on taking a number of photos during the magic hour to see how the colors change.  This is a personal challenge for me & I welcome all to this challenge.
This challenge starts Today May 23 & will end June 26(updated).  It will be our last JUDGED category until the fall.

More info, go here ....Magic Hour Times Two

Tags: Blogplugs, The Magic Hour Photo challenge. photography

AOL Community Challenge-The Magic Hour-JUDGED

JUDGED Category

The Magic hour, or Golden hour is the first  &  last hour of sunlight. 
It's the 1/2  hour before the sun rises, & 1/2 after the sun rises.  It's also the 1/2 hour before sunset & 1/2 hour after.  
So with this challenge you will need a tripod  & a timer or a remote.
You will also have a month to work on this.  You can use a file photo, but I think it would be good if we can all try to get out & do this challenge with new photos.  
I plan on taking a number of photos during the magic hour to see how the colors change.  This is a personal challenge for me & I welcome all to this challenge.
This challenge starts Today May 23 & will end June 26(Updated).  It will be our last JUDGED category until the fall.

More info, go here ....Magic Hour Times Two

Tags: Blogplugs, the magic hour photo challenge, photography

AOL Community Challenge-Landscapes in COLOR! JUDGED

We had a tie in the JUDGED category & many second place winners.....so I am only going to show the 1st place winners.

Congratulations to Gina & Betty~



Gina from Gina's Space



Betty from Creativity Bits and Pieces

Tags: winners color landscapes, photo challenge, blogplugs

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AOL Community Challenge-Landscapes in COLOR! FUN!!

These are all the entries up till yesterday.  I had done this last night.  For the rest of the entries, check out the "FUN"comment section, below.
Thank you all for playing~

Tags: blogplugs, photo challenge, , landscapes,

AOL Community Challenge-Landscapes in COLOR! For FUN!

For FUN Category~

Spring is here & so is the color!!!  So Our Challenge this week is easy.....
LANDSCAPES in COLOR!  FOLLOW GUIDELINES which can be found on the sidebar, must leave permalinks, also found on sidebar.  Post your NEW entry now till Friday May 16th for Judging.  If you have any questions email me or Vicki.


What is a Landscape.????......
From AOL dictionary;
1 a : a picture representing a view of natural inland scenery b : the art of depicting such scenery

From Vicki's Dictionary;

1. An expanse of scenery that can be seen in a single view: a desert landscape.
2. A picture depicting an expanse of scenery.
3. The branch of art dealing with the representation of natural scenery.
4. The aspect of the land characteristic of a particular region: a bleak New England winter landscape.

From

http://www.digicamhelp.com/learn/nature/landscape.phpDefining landscape photography
Landscape photography is difficult to define. The more landscape photography I do, the broader my definition becomes. For me, landscape photography is not so much about what is contained in the image, but what it portrays about a place. While a landscape photograph might be a wide-angle image of a pristine lake or an ocean sunset, it might just as well be a dormant plant in a winter pond. If the lake, the sunset and the dormant plant image each reveal something significant about a place, its inhabitants, or its conditions and evoke an emotional response in the viewer, they qualify as landscape photographs in my book. Grand or tiny, a landscape is not so much about the subject itself, but rather about the place in which the subject exists and the feeling the subject and place evokes.

11 Surefire Tips for Improving Your Landscape Photography

Tags: Landscapes in color, photo challenge, blogplugs

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