Mini Competition #1168

[Cambridge in Colour]

This is an open-themed competition that is open to all CiC members.

ENTERING. Add your image in a new post below. Make sure to change your post title to a name for your picture (click the "Go Advanced" button). Only one entry per person. For help posting images, go here.

VOTING. When this competition reaches 10 entries, a poll will be automatically added and any member may then vote. After 2 days, voting ends and the winner is determined.

Once voting begins, a new competition will be automatically started.

Good luck!

Notes: Please do not request feedback or comment on other images until after voting has closed, as it could be unfair to other entrants. Photos must be your own, and never entered into one of our prior competitions. We also ask that only recently taken or edited photos be used as entries (in the spirit of motivating everyone to continually improve).

PS: Make sure to also vote on the previous competition here.

[Jan]

[elfbob]

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[Trina]

[timmy]

[pinakibaidya]

[reijot]

[bhurley]

[Machka]

[kaneohebud]

[freedy50]

[light112]

I would label this intriguing.

[bhurley]

Thanks everyone, I thought all the photos here were good!

A couple of things about my photo (Paddle to the Sky):

1. This came straight from the camera; the only post-processing was in the camera itself (because I took the photo as a JPEG instead of RAW...I have to get out of that habit!). I don't have Photoshop but I do have Lightroom; I used Lightroom only to save the file down to a smaller size for uploading to the Web. I took this one morning after spending the night with some friends who have a cabin near Craftsbury Common, Vermont. I woke up early and walked outside to find the pond as smooth as a mirror, and when I saw the clouds reflected in the water by the canoe I ran back inside to get the camera. I took six or seven photos, including this one, which gives the best impression of the canoe and dock seemingly floating in the sky.

2. The camera itself was nothing special: a Canon G9, which has the same tiny sensor as a point-and-shoot camera but has full manual control and ability to shoot in RAW, etc. The G9 was my only camera from 2007 until earlier this year, and I was generally impressed with the quality of the photos (except of course in low light conditions).

[Trina]

Brad, That is a stunning shot... Nice capture!

[bhurley]

Thanks, Tina!

Here are three of the other photos I took that morning, none of which were as effective as the one I chose, but they show the amazing mirror effect of the pond and the incredible light that made me run back inside to get the camera.

Here's the first one I took, walking toward the canoe:


Then this one, which is similar to the one I chose but not as well framed:


And then this one, also not a great composition but you see more of what's going on in the sky.