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Outdoor Activities => Photography => Topic started by: LandyLiam on March 19, 2014

Title: ideas on future photography competitions
Post by: LandyLiam on March 19, 2014
To encourage more entries I will be choosing the monthly theme ahead of schedule to give people a bit more time to seek out that elusive winning shot, so post any themes you would like to see, or indeed any ideas for improving the competition. Just because its been used before doesn't mean I won't use it again.

Here's a list of previous theme, I will be publishing a winners gallery in due course.


2011

on the street
water
landmark
action
stunning view
the river
northerly shore
the wild wood
outdoor self portrait
outdoor
fun
autumn is here
snow has fallen


2012

outdoors freestyle
wall, gates and doors
ruins
shadows
footprints
animal antics
industrial heritage
messing about in the river
movement
lights
extreme
brubaker (food & drink)


2013

favourite (freestyle)
high
fire
snow
young at heart
ouch
inspire me
landscape
majestic
green
water
forces of nature


2014

long exposure
favourite moment of 2013
sunset or sunrise
Title: Re: ideas on future photography competitions
Post by: LandyLiam on April 02, 2014
next months topic will be "The Summit" so start clicking  :)
Title: ideas on future photography competitions
Post by: clairebear on April 03, 2014
How about 'sweat and tears'?
Title: Re: ideas on future photography competitions
Post by: FairWeatherCamper on April 03, 2014
'Deceptive Scale' or something to that effect? Where we don't know if we are looking at something tiny or huge. Or something that is actually tiny appears huge, or vice versa.
Title: Re: ideas on future photography competitions
Post by: LandyLiam on April 03, 2014
Good ideas there folks, keep them coming. While i'd like to stick to fairly generic titles as this tend to encourage more entries, with enough notice people should certainley be able to come up with something a bit more technical, and I personally prefer the technical ones   :)
Title: Re: ideas on future photography competitions
Post by: RedLeader on April 04, 2014
I've been toying with the potential for a day/afternoon/night out once a month to take photos for the photo comp. We could get together and go somewhere relevant to the topic and take pics / eat sausages / shoot the breeze / generally enjoy the outdoors.
Title: Re: ideas on future photography competitions
Post by: ranger rob on April 05, 2014
An afternoon would be great, put faces to names and learn so photo skills
Title: Re: ideas on future photography competitions
Post by: LandyLiam on April 05, 2014
I like this idea, and maybe have a sub-photo comp going for each event, in fact we could do a wee photo comp for each of our bigger overnight meets.
Title: Re: ideas on future photography competitions
Post by: LandyLiam on May 03, 2014
advance notice:

The subject for May will be "The Campsite"

(http://www.starling-travel.com/wp-content/uploads/Extreme-Car-Camping-300x224.jpg)


and June will be "Small, Far Away"



Title: Re: ideas on future photography competitions
Post by: LandyLiam on July 04, 2014
Advance notice:

July subject will be "relaxing in the sun" (so lets hope we get some)

August will be "in the air" (should tie in nicely with the festival of flight)