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Title: MONTHLY PHOTO COMPETITION GALLERY - JUNE 2011
Post by: Dowser on June 09, 2011
THIS MONTHS THEME IS "The River"

Please email your entry for the Monthly Photo Competition to here: photocomp@ni-wild.co.uk

Please do not post in this thread until the photographs have been displayed, then the chat can begin.

For fairness, submitted entries will not be displayed until after the closing date.

All entries need to be submitted by Midnight on Thursday 30th June and will be displayed here shortly after.

The Monthly Photo Competition is open to NI-Wild Members only.  Please remember to include your NI WIld Username when submitting your entry.

P.S.  Your entries do not have to be taken in the current month of the competition.  If you have an awesome shot lurking in your back catalogued on a long forgotten hard drive then email it in and try and grab some votes  ;)

Title: Re: MONTHLY PHOTO COMPETITION GALLERY - JUNE 2011
Post by: Dowser on July 01, 2011
Please have a gander at this months entries and cast your vote for your personal favourite.  You may want to hold back on casting your vote for a day or two because it's the norm for a couple of late entries to drift in.

Voting will remain open until the 8th July 2011

Entry 1
(http://i.imgur.com/19ttp.jpg)


Entry 2
(http://i.imgur.com/ojq87.jpg)


Entry 3
(http://i.imgur.com/lnDot.jpg)


Entry 4
(http://i.imgur.com/S1i76.jpg)


Entry 5
(http://i.imgur.com/JLfFg.jpg)


Entry 6
(http://i.imgur.com/9c358.jpg)


Entry 7
(http://i.imgur.com/5CCJx.jpg)
Title: Re: MONTHLY PHOTO COMPETITION GALLERY - JUNE 2011
Post by: Dowser on July 07, 2011
If you haven't cast your vote yet for this months Photo Comp could you please run your eye over the above entries and pick your fav.

Voting closes tomorrow.

Thanks

 8)
Title: Re: MONTHLY PHOTO COMPETITION GALLERY - JUNE 2011
Post by: Dowser on July 08, 2011
CONGRATULATIONS
TO
REDSPUD

This months winner of the NI-Wild Monthly Photo Competition

Redspud, this means you have the privilege of picking this months theme and I'm looking forward to hearing what it's gonna be.

Photographers for this months "The River" shots were:

Entry 1 - Chunk
Entry 2 - Hiker2010
Entry 3 - wrh51
Entry 4 - Dowser
Entry 5 - Landyliam
Entry 6 - Redspud (Winner)
Entry 7 - Oisin

Well done everybody... I really liked Redspud's entry and it definitely deserved to win.   I know it got my vote  ;)  

The only thing I would done to enhance Redspud's photo is remove the branch in the foreground but other than that I think it's a great shot:

(http://i.imgur.com/KW1M3.jpg)

Title: Re: MONTHLY PHOTO COMPETITION GALLERY - JUNE 2011
Post by: LennyJ1 on July 08, 2011
Well Dowser you got my Vote. Where was it taken? is it the Lagan? Like Number 3 as well.

Number 5 was poo. (only messing liam Angela really liked it)
Title: Re: MONTHLY PHOTO COMPETITION GALLERY - JUNE 2011
Post by: Dowser on July 08, 2011
Well Dowser you got my Vote. Where was it taken? is it the Lagan? Like Number 3 as well.

Number 5 was poo. (only messing liam Angela really liked it)

My shot was taken from the bridge going over the Quoile River on your way into Downpatrick.  It's a lovely river with a nice walk along it and seems to be very popular with those that fish.

Thanks for the vote Lenny  8)
Title: Re: MONTHLY PHOTO COMPETITION GALLERY - JUNE 2011
Post by: whoRya on July 08, 2011
Photographers for this months "The River" shots were:

Entry 3 - Whorya

As much as I'd like to claim the credit for that one, I didn't actually enter this month!
Title: Re: MONTHLY PHOTO COMPETITION GALLERY - JUNE 2011
Post by: Dowser on July 08, 2011
Photographers for this months "The River" shots were:

Entry 3 - Whorya

As much as I'd like to claim the credit for that one, I didn't actually enter this month!

Oops... My mistake!!!  Came from an email address beginning "wrhyah" and me and my dyslexia jumped to conclusions  :-[

Fixed now  :P
Title: Re: MONTHLY PHOTO COMPETITION GALLERY - JUNE 2011
Post by: Spud on July 08, 2011
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Well done everybody... I really liked Redspud's entry and it definitely deserved to win.   I know it got my vote  ;)  

The only thing I would done to enhance Redspud's photo is remove the branch in the foreground but other than that I think it's a great shot:




Thanks Dowser, I am well chuffed to win, I will have to put the thinking cap on for a theme! Good work with removing that branch, I think it looks better without it too!
Title: Re: MONTHLY PHOTO COMPETITION GALLERY - JUNE 2011
Post by: twentyclicks on July 08, 2011
Great entries again everyone! Seems I'm too late to vote, but was undecided between 4 and 5.
I could just fall into #1, even if it looks a bit bigger than a river (although I guess, to quote Billy Joel, "we all end in the ocean, we all start in the stream, and we're carried along, by the river of dreams")
Title: Re: MONTHLY PHOTO COMPETITION GALLERY - JUNE 2011
Post by: cerbera147 on July 08, 2011

The only thing I would done to enhance Redspud's photo is remove the branch in the foreground but other than that I think it's a great shot.


I was thinking the same thing :)

I thought No. 5 the best ;D
Title: Re: MONTHLY PHOTO COMPETITION GALLERY - JUNE 2011
Post by: LandyLiam on July 08, 2011
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I thought No. 5 the best
Many thanks Mr C, that pic was taken on the Isle of Man over 8 years ago with a mere 2 megapixel camera (hey, it was good at the time  :) ) technically its actually a lake (at least it wasn't an ocean like chunks pic  :D ) but it was very hard to get a good river pic from my back catalogue, i've plenty of landys driving through rivers that would have been good but they are on my other pc which is currently broken   :(

and Lenny  >:( , i only plied you with free beer (1 whole bottle)  on sat night as you said you would vote for me! does this mean i can't trust you again or i that i just have to give you more beer next month  ::)
Title: Re: MONTHLY PHOTO COMPETITION GALLERY - JUNE 2011
Post by: RedLeader on July 08, 2011
Congrats guys, some superb piccies there.
Title: Re: MONTHLY PHOTO COMPETITION GALLERY - JUNE 2011
Post by: MG1 on July 09, 2011
I voted for Liams it looks a scene from a dodgy horror movie.
Title: Re: MONTHLY PHOTO COMPETITION GALLERY - JUNE 2011
Post by: LandyLiam on July 10, 2011
come on redspud, the thinking cap must have come up with something by now  ;D i've got an itchy trigger finger and i want to get shootin asap   :)
Title: Re: MONTHLY PHOTO COMPETITION GALLERY - JUNE 2011
Post by: LennyJ1 on July 10, 2011
come on redspud, the thinking cap must have come up with something by now  ;D i've got an itchy trigger finger and i want to get shootin asap   :)

agree
Title: Re: MONTHLY PHOTO COMPETITION GALLERY - JUNE 2011
Post by: Spud on July 10, 2011
alright lads, sorry to keep ye waiting, but sure it just heightens the excitement! lol  :P the theme I choose is "northerly shores", go forth and snap at will!!!!
Title: Re: MONTHLY PHOTO COMPETITION GALLERY - JUNE 2011
Post by: Rumblebum on July 10, 2011
Northerly shores? what the hell does that mean?
Title: Re: MONTHLY PHOTO COMPETITION GALLERY - JUNE 2011
Post by: Spud on July 10, 2011
Northerly shores? what the hell does that mean?

beaches, rocks, sandcastles, lighthouses, fishing, sunsets at the beach, boats, shots of shorelines, sunsets over the water, etc etc?  Didnt really think it was that hard to understand???  ???
Title: Re: MONTHLY PHOTO COMPETITION GALLERY - JUNE 2011
Post by: LandyLiam on July 10, 2011
i thought we had to stand on the beach with a compass  ;D
Title: Re: MONTHLY PHOTO COMPETITION GALLERY - JUNE 2011
Post by: Spud on July 10, 2011
i thought we had to stand on the beach with a compass  ;D

thats an idea, its all open to interpretation! You could do a kayes catalogue pose lol ;D
Title: Re: MONTHLY PHOTO COMPETITION GALLERY - JUNE 2011
Post by: Rumblebum on July 10, 2011
lol im only messin with you man, im in the lighthouse appreciation society so im happy.
Title: Re: MONTHLY PHOTO COMPETITION GALLERY - JUNE 2011
Post by: Kayakgirl on July 10, 2011
i thought we had to stand on the beach with a compass  ;D

So funny Liam lol
Title: Re: MONTHLY PHOTO COMPETITION GALLERY - JUNE 2011
Post by: Rumblebum on July 10, 2011
i have to agree kayak, liam was quick off the blocks with that one.
Title: Re: MONTHLY PHOTO COMPETITION GALLERY - JUNE 2011
Post by: Greyfox on July 10, 2011
Do you just put your photo here or where do you place it?

GF
Title: Re: MONTHLY PHOTO COMPETITION GALLERY - JUNE 2011
Post by: Kayakgirl on July 10, 2011
Lighthouse appreciation society..? How do you get membership for that lol..
Title: Re: MONTHLY PHOTO COMPETITION GALLERY - JUNE 2011
Post by: Spud on July 11, 2011
Lighthouse appreciation society..? How do you get membership for that lol..

Im a great fan of lighthouses too!
Title: Re: MONTHLY PHOTO COMPETITION GALLERY - JUNE 2011
Post by: LennyJ1 on July 11, 2011
I thought you ment go the the north coast not northern Ireland.  ::)
Title: Re: MONTHLY PHOTO COMPETITION GALLERY - JUNE 2011
Post by: Rumblebum on July 11, 2011
Ok, this is how the membership works, Il give you the details to my off shore bank account,  where you will have to lodge £80 in to it, ( NO CHEQUES), on receipt of payment a couple of big guys wearing dark sunglasses will arrive at your door with a shoebox.

When you open the shoe box you will find it contains a lightbulb, an A4 sized certificate (possibly laminated) and a badge that flashes with either 18, 21, or 30 on it, i will endevor to get it in purple for kayak.
Title: Re: MONTHLY PHOTO COMPETITION GALLERY - JUNE 2011
Post by: LandyLiam on July 11, 2011
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Il give you the details to my off shore bank account
is that a northerly off shore account  8) 
Title: Re: MONTHLY PHOTO COMPETITION GALLERY - JUNE 2011
Post by: Kayakgirl on July 12, 2011
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Il give you the details to my off shore bank account
is that a northerly off shore account  8) 
Lol once again..
Seriously Liam.. You should be on stage..
Title: Re: MONTHLY PHOTO COMPETITION GALLERY - JUNE 2011
Post by: pablo on July 24, 2011
hopefully the next batch of pics will actually fall within the category this time.

how anyone would call the winning entry ` the river` is a mystery to me.

if it was `the waterfall` or `the stream` id understand . there were only 2 pics that came close to approximating the category in my opinion.

maybe a crisp packet on the beach will win the next one as the title is a little on the nebulous side ::)
Title: Re: MONTHLY PHOTO COMPETITION GALLERY - JUNE 2011
Post by: LennyJ1 on July 24, 2011
hopefully the next batch of pics will actually fall within the category this time.

how anyone would call the winning entry ` the river` is a mystery to me.

if it was `the waterfall` or `the stream` id understand . there were only 2 pics that came close to approximating the category in my opinion.

maybe a crisp packet on the beach will win the next one as the title is a little on the nebulous side ::)

Wow. Bit harsh. Were not entering the photo of the year are we?
Title: Re: MONTHLY PHOTO COMPETITION GALLERY - JUNE 2011
Post by: pablo on July 25, 2011
 :P
sorry about the rant there lol, guess i took it a little too seriously indeed.

i wasnt criticising the `quality` of the pics, but rather the interpretation of the category.

actually i might just indeed take a snap of a crisp packet on a beach.....
Title: Re: MONTHLY PHOTO COMPETITION GALLERY - JUNE 2011
Post by: specimanYak on August 12, 2011
Entry 1 is absolutely sublime, very abstract and different from the rest, it gets my vote.