Foo - February 2012 Foo Photo Contest - We have a winner!

We had two winners in December and since the double theme went well last month, I've decided to do it again.

Theme #1, chosen by December co-winner Crazydad: Speed
Theme #2, chosen by December co-winner DannoXYZ: Your best picture, ever

Rules:

Themes: see above
- You must be the photographer
- You may submit one photo for each theme
- Try to make the photos recent (an exception will be made for "best picture, ever")

Good luck everyone!

Speed
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7157/6763750527_555f48f846_b.jpg

One of my Faves.
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7147/6436576511_da5ddaaae5_b.jpg

Best Ever:

http://i1220.photobucket.com/albums/dd444/arkansasgal/This%20and%20That%20in%20the%20Arkansas%20Ozarks/027-1.jpg

sorry boys and girls was busy last month

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Speed
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v214/lamplightsg/Nature/IMG_4692cropsmall.jpg

Best
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v214/lamplightsg/Bellingham/_MG_2372copy.jpg

^ ^ Hot damn, nice sunsets from both lamplight and arkansasgal. Going to have to dig deep in the archives to find something to compete with those.

For "speed", I always liked this one:

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7063/6866215671_ff5f20e5bf_b.jpg

One of my favorites for "best":

http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5220/5396890685_6e0815f406_b.jpg

Here's a couple...


http://i143.photobucket.com/albums/r152/crankyolddude/July%202010/IMG_0271SX20.jpg

http://i143.photobucket.com/albums/r152/crankyolddude/September/IMG_0139SX20.jpg

*bump*

Speed:

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-txvpGmso0bk/T0LZQeebdJI/AAAAAAAAFCw/uiHKqrPvZcU/s800/IMG_2413-1.jpg

Best (and wow was this harder than I thought it would be):

https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-kap2CcLRqrs/TxL0AdgehOI/AAAAAAAADuA/MTj9kR0JDfo/s800/IMG_2550crop1.jpg

Speed...Night launch
http://i1202.photobucket.com/albums/bb377/tizeye1/MISC/NightLaunch.jpg

Best ever...the next photo I take as it still hasn't been taken. :D
One of my favorites...The Mirror Challenge...keeping myself and the camera out of a head-on shot.
http://i1202.photobucket.com/albums/bb377/tizeye1/MISC/Mirrors.jpg

Here's my best ever. Mainly because I achieved what I set out to capture in an image.

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7063/6916786419_3d6cf8f66e_b.jpg

Best photo:

http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k218/BeaverTerror/2010-06-16-Guangxi-806.jpg

The context:

http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k218/BeaverTerror/2010-06-16-Guangxi-801.jpg
http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k218/BeaverTerror/2010-06-15-Guangxi-780.jpg

It's China, by the way.

Here's my entry for speed. It's all relative:

http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k218/BeaverTerror/2010-05-30-Hunan-023.jpg

My entry for both categories. Slow is a speed, right?
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7032/6544931847_e4bc142a25_b.jpg

this is about (slow) speed ...

http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6062/6031443415_7da8a1cedc_z.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/40275249@N04/6031443415/)
Lighthouse Peninsula Marken (http://www.flickr.com/photos/40275249@N04/6031443415/) by macfred64 (http://www.flickr.com/people/40275249@N04/), on Flickr


one of my favorites ( the best hasn't been taken ) ...

http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6025/6206527747_191e2a69a1_z.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/40275249@N04/6206527747/)
laundry day #3 - autumn is here to stay ... (http://www.flickr.com/photos/40275249@N04/6206527747/) by macfred64 (http://www.flickr.com/people/40275249@N04/), on Flickr

Best ... or at least one of my favourites ...

http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2029/1519679035_72ffe20031_z.jpg?zz=1 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/machka-bb/sets/72157602324692010/detail/)



Speed ... at the local speedway ...

http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5300/5479858979_5be4fb5a19_z.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/machka-bb/sets/72157626022993915/with/5479858979/)

Speed. Del Mar Beach, Camp Pendleton, Ca

http://i898.photobucket.com/albums/ac183/pgjackson/_1020601_2.jpg

My best ever. Pensacola Beach, Fl

http://i898.photobucket.com/albums/ac183/pgjackson/_1030410_2.jpg

http://www.aadhilshiraz.com/images/Nature9.jpg

I don't have a "best ever" shot...because I'm always improving and working on my technique so I can always find something I'm not crazy about. I have a shot that is kind of a fusion of the two themes...it's not recent, but I'll post it up anyway. This was taken straight from the camera with no pp'ing (heck, I didn't even have photoshop back then).

http://i668.photobucket.com/albums/vv42/midgetmaestro/cleveland_shoot3.jpg

Chris- That shot is really awesome!

Yan- Any idea what the purpose of that machine is?


Best Shot Ever


http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7049/6782624134_7a379194a2_z.jpg



Speed


http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7180/6782627236_f18396d1c7_z.jpg

Speed - a bit too much!

RedRider, that is an absolutely fantastic shot. Making me miss the mountains.

nice speed shot red rider

Thanks! That first pic was taken at Emerald Lake, Yoho National Park, BC! An absolutely stunning place, especially in comparison to the boring landscape of SE Wisconsin.

http://i668.photobucket.com/albums/vv42/midgetmaestro/cleveland_shoot3.jpg


great catch !! :thumb:

Here's my speed shot. Just took it, trying out a new technique, not very happy with it.


http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7065/6786247208_86bd60d1c0_b.jpg

Panning? It certainly requires a perfect shutter speed and a lot of trial and error.

great catch !! :thumb:
Thanks! This was shot by Lake Erie. :)

Panning? It certainly requires a perfect shutter speed and a lot of trial and error.

That speed shot of mine in the first post was panning... My first try at it actually... Shot at f16 45mm lens.

Panning? It certainly requires a perfect shutter speed and a lot of trial and error.
Not panning, an automotive rig.

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7060/6932379999_61fdf52163_b.jpg

From the Panerai Classic Yachts Challenge in Newport Rhode Island
http://verone.zenfolio.com/img/s10/v16/p757072528-5.jpg

Not panning, an automotive rig.

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7060/6932379999_61fdf52163_b.jpg



OOOOooooOOOO, Now I am jealous! Nice job PSing it out of the pic- the shadow on the tire is the only thing that might blow your cover to somebody with a trained eye.

No offense, but the Dakota is not the coolest car in the world. Are there other cars your plan to use it on?

Last day to post photos!

Speed:
http://img829.imageshack.us/img829/8531/img8998vi.jpg (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/829/img8998vi.jpg/)

Best/Favorite:
http://img707.imageshack.us/img707/123/img2059nt.jpg (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/707/img2059nt.jpg/)

Time to vote. List your three favorite photos. Please list as "username - speed" or "username - best" so I can tell which photo you're voting for.

Votes will be counted on March 5.

arkansasgal - best
RedRider2009 - best
lamplight - best

court - speed
spock - best/ fav.
cuda2k - speed

Speed: Macfred
Speed: Red Rider
Best: Pgjackson

pgjackson - best
RedRider2009 - best
vstudio

cuda2K – Speed
arkansasgal – Best
RedRider2009 – Best

Speed: redrider
Best: Chris...

Best: PGjackson
Best: RedRider

Speed: RedRider

Speed - Spock
Best Ever - midgetmaestro

Best: lamplight
Best: cuda2k
Speed: macfred

Best: Chris
Speed: Cuda

This was tough.

Crazydad - speed

chris - best

RedRider2009 - toss up so the coin says -speed; but what a knock out landscape!

Yan- Best
Macfred- Best
Chris- Best

artkansasgal - best
crazydad - best
macfred - best

best - macfred (how did you process it to get that painting look?)
best - arkansasgal
speed - redrider