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

The theme for September is Architecture, chosen by July's winner, pgjackson.

Rules:
Theme: Architecture
- You must be the photographer
- One photo per person
- Try to make the photo recent

Good luck everyone!

St. Catherine's at Bell Gable Chapel, taken March 2012, and converted to sepia. Gothic style, with stained glass windows and doors from a church in Finland. Construction started in 1986, and was completed 12 years later. The man who built the church fell 35 ft. to the concrete and survived after months of recovery.


http://i1220.photobucket.com/albums/dd444/arkansasgal/stcatherinesforbeatifulozarks-2-1.jpg

How recent are we talking here? Recent being relative and all.

How recent are we talking here? Recent being relative and all.

When I asked that question about the sunrise contest, I was told to just post up your picture and not worry about it. I even got some votes, though didn't win. :D

How recent are we talking here? Recent being relative and all.

If it's a good photo and you took it, go ahead and post it. The "recent" rule is to try and inspire people to get out and take more photos.

Basilique Notre Dame, Montreal

http://tuxbailey.zenfolio.com/img/s2/v59/p302646778-5.jpg

65' dome and stairs inside the grand entrance of a foreclosed home I was selling. Had to lay on the marble floor to get that shot even with an ultrawide angle lens.

http://i1202.photobucket.com/albums/bb377/tizeye1/Homes/GreensEntry.jpg

I will try this for the moment ... Hong Kong ...

http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5454/7432967510_dd373f2bde_z.jpg

The new student center at Northern Kentucky University.

http://i303.photobucket.com/albums/nn148/xjken99/nkulights.jpg

Notre Dame Cathedral, Paris, France.

http://i898.photobucket.com/albums/ac183/pgjackson/P1050930-1.jpg

Great photos this month! Keep them coming.

The old movie theater downtown


http://i111.photobucket.com/albums/n147/chrisa62401/IMG_2617.jpg

St. Catherine's at Bell Gable Chapel, taken March 2012, and converted to sepia. Gothic style, with stained glass windows and doors from a church in Finland. Construction started in 1986, and was completed 12 years later. The man who built the church fell 35 ft. to the concrete and survived after months of recovery.

Do the Finns know they're missing some pieces, and how did someone steal them and get them all the way there unnoticed?

http://i1129.photobucket.com/albums/m503/IINIIHII/67390021-1.jpg?t=1347376741

http://i1129.photobucket.com/albums/m503/IINIIHII/67390021-1.jpg?t=1347376741

Wow, is that a cool shot. Where/what is that?

Wow, is that a cool shot. Where/what is that?

Thank you... It's Acosta Bridge. Jacksonville, Florida.

https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-otMWjXa6RO4/UFDLOHsJFfI/AAAAAAAARmM/ulLy_bFeJX8/s912/P1070510.JPG

Not a great picture with regards to clarity or composition, but I suppose a skyline has lots of architecture in it, no? Significant to me because the smear in the right middle is an airplane taking off from Logan airport yesterday 11 years after two other planes out of Logan were used as weapons showing that we still go on.

Obviously, I'm a crappy photographer because it was actually fairly dark out when I took the picture but for some reason I always overcompensate for the dark and things shot dusk and after come out looking like they were taking mid-afternoon with a crappy sensor and lots of noise rather than like they were taken at night time. Here's another example (not to be entered in any contest about architecture unless it was an attempt to make an architect sick to his stomach) taken an hour or two later at night though you wouldn't know it:
https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-ApE0Nk0ELsU/UFDLV4d9-KI/AAAAAAAARos/S9okHdxEX6k/s912/P1070530.JPG

Don't usually care to shoot buildings & such, but I did snap some today that might be alright. Still deciding between 2, though...

http://i256.photobucket.com/albums/hh187/10wheels/Fred%20in%20TN%20June%202012/TDCIndy2012246.jpg

http://i256.photobucket.com/albums/hh187/10wheels/Fred%20in%20TN%20June%202012/TDCIndy2012246.jpg

Thank you... It's Acosta Bridge. Jacksonville, Florida.

Now I see it. I was looking at it from a top down perspective wondering what it was, very futuristic.

The irony is, I am distantly related to the person it is named after. (St Elmo Acosta's wife was my great great grandfather's sister).

Meh, this one I guess.
http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b140/Flatrat/Other%20Stuff/Mallneon1.jpg

Now I see it. I was looking at it from a top down perspective wondering what it was, very futuristic.

The irony is, I am distantly related to the person it is named after. (St Elmo Acosta's wife was my great great grandfather's sister).

That's pretty cool (Acosta folks)... Thanks.. At first I thought it was the Fuller Warren bridge (hence the edit), which has almost the same structure but longer and it's the next bridge over, and then I remembered where I was :).. Yes, I was just under it where there is a nice Riverwalk thingie going on.

http://i939.photobucket.com/albums/ad239/hemipode/IMGP5056W.jpg

Haven't shot a lot of architecture pics recently, but this one from just a couple of month's back.

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8032/7996262776_72619b08c5_o.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/yospiff/7996262776/)

i'll try this one ...

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8001/7586107412_07ca2e98e8_b.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/40275249@N04/7586107412/)
Schloss Nordkirchen (http://www.flickr.com/photos/40275249@N04/7586107412/) by macfred64 (http://www.flickr.com/people/40275249@N04/), on Flickr

*bump*

With my arm in a sling, I'll have to use an older photo this time around.

https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-kkDySBtm28A/T2pczK96XaI/AAAAAAAAFqc/KYe7BvcPh3I/s800/DSCN1091-1.jpg

Approximately early 1900th century farmhouse - Hartsel, CO

http://i205.photobucket.com/albums/bb256/asrick/P1020231a.jpg

One more day to post photos!

Time to vote! List your three favorites.

Spock
tuxbailey
cuda2k

Spock
Yo Spiff
xjken99

macfred
tuxbailey
tizeye

bigbenaugust


uhh... I was out of town for a 3-day weekend and I show up on this list?!

spock
yo spiff
chris

uhh... I was out of town for a 3-day weekend and I show up on this list?!
oops, that should be spock

oops, that should be spock

I was a little confused myself. I misread something along the way and thought this was the "people you miss" thread :P

But while I am flattered to be nominated as Foo photog of the month, a) I didn't submit anything, and b) all of my photos are crap.

Yo Spiff
Tuxbailey
Colorider

cuda2k
pgjackson
machka

Here's mine - Too late to be included in the contest but I thought Id share anyway:

http://i247.photobucket.com/albums/gg128/steppinthefunk/EXTERIOR-DAY-NIGHT.gif

Chris

Arkansasgal

colorider

- cuda2k
- spock
- nondes

But while I am flattered to be nominated as Foo photog of the month, a) I didn't submit anything, and b) all of my photos are crap.

WE have a WINNER...oh wait, we're still voting. :)


Spock
Machka
Tuxbailey

tuxbaily
chris...
cuda2k

spock
tizeye
tuxbailey

Last chance - votes will be counted tomorrow.

arkansasgal
tuxbailey
cuda2k

cuda2k
pgjackson
colorider

And the winner is ... tuxbailey! Congratulations, you get to choose the theme for November.

Tie for second & Third goes to Spock and cuda2K.

Great job everyone!

I won?! Thanks for all the votes. Let me think of the subject for November.