Welcome to Mini-Challenge #164! The theme of this challenge will be Juxtaposition.

Juxtaposition is defined as "placing close together or side by side, especially for comparison or contrast." My family helped me brainstorm ideas for this mini, and this is one of several ideas that resonated with me. I am interested in seeing photos that naturally show a juxtaposition of two subjects/objects in a way that compares or contrasts them. Images may show an unexpected combination of subjects or a more subtle juxtaposition. Another approach would be to look for images - or take fresh images - with a surprising element, something that is unexpected or seems out of place, or an inherent contradiction.

I am hoping that these parameters will give folks plenty of room to have fun with this! Please focus on images with natural juxtapositions rather than forcing a composition or combining two or more images. Your title can suggest the juxtaposition or you can let the viewer discover it. Thanks!

This challenge starts now and will close at 11:59 PM (Eastern Time) on Saturday, May 18, 2013.

Enter here:

http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=234538

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Entries, Winner/Finalists#101 "Black and White" won by Ray F
Entries, Winner/Finalists#102 "Medieval" won by Korandoke
Entries, Winner/Finalists#103 "Two is a party, three is a crowd" won by Davev
Entries, Winner/Finalists#104 "Pink Floyd song titles" won by ghinson
Entries, Winner/Finalists#105 "Post Processing" won by JAG
Entries, Winner/Finalists#106 "Animal Attitude" won by StueveShots
Entries, Winner/Finalists#107 "Autumnal Colors" won by dlscott56
Entries, Winner/Finalists#108 "Food or Drink" won by photo-bug
Entries, Winner/Finalists#109 "A Place in the World" won by doingcool
Entries, Winner/Finalists#110 "War" won by bf2015
Entries, Winner/Finalists#111 "Winter Scenes" won by davev
Entries, Winner/Finalists#112 "Top 500 songs" won by JAG
Entries, Winner/Finalists#113 "Close ups or Macros" won by Cuong
Entries, Winner/Finalists#114 "Parade" won by ChrisJ
Entries, Winner/Finalists#115 "Machines" won by KevXman
Entries, Winner/Finalists#116 "The Lone Sentinel" won by Froch
Entries, Winner/Finalists#117 "Flight in Sport" won by KevXman
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Entries, Winner/Finalists#119 "Stormy Weather" won by ghinson
Entries, Winner/Finalists#120"May Flowers" won by Billseye
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Entries, Winner/Finalists#123"Rods, Reels & Relaxation" won by DsrtVW
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Entries, Winner/Finalists#125"Road trip" won by gecko0
Entries, Winner/Finalists#126"Pan baby Pan" won by SimpsonBrothers
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Entries, Winner/Finalists#131 "Story Time" won by bdcolen
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Entries, Winner/Finalists#150 "Backlight" won by Syncopation
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Entries, Winner/Finalists#163 "Sense of Place" won by Sapphire73



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The following is a thread by Sherstone (Sean) our fearless DGrin Challenge moderator:

Quoting Images

In an effort to enhance the original entries and keep the quoting looking cleaner some of you may have noticed that I have gone in and edited your replies with quoted images to have smaller versions of the pictures posted.

This does two things it keeps the entry thread cleaner, and identifies that the post is feedback vs. an entry. This makes it much easier to look at the original entries.

It is easy for anyone quoting to do the same thing themselves by editing the quote before posting.

if the original post has a picture like this


the url looks like this http://photos.sherstone.com/Creative...3661385_tuhyM-S-1.jpg

to make it a smaller version just change the bold part S-1 or S to this

http://photos.sherstone.com/Creative...3661385_tuhyM-200x200.jpg

that way the images will then look like this


Hopefully this makes sense and will make the thread easier to read.
HINT: use the "Preview Changes" button to make sure your edits worked.
(This will only work for pictures posted that are hosted on SmugMug)
Thanks for keeping us clean Sean!

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Entries, Winner/Finalists #1 "BIF's" won by Jwear
Entries, Winner/Finalists #2 "Birds" won by davev
Entries, Winner/Finalists #3 "Treasures" won by Justiceiro
Entries, Winner/Finalists #4 "All That Remains" won by JAG
Entries, Winner/Finalists #5 "Playing With Light" won by davev
Entries, Winner/Finalists #6 "Black and White" won by Rhommel
Entries, Winner/Finalists #7 "Self Portrait" won by shatch
Entries, Winner/Finalists #8 "The Every Day Mundane" won by paulthomasmckee
Entries, Winner/Finalists #9 "Abstract/Minimalism" won by dlibrach
Entries, Winner/Finalists #10 "Texture" won by AaronNelson
Entries, Winner/Finalists #11 "What Time Is It?" won by DaddyO
Entries, Winner/Finalists #12 "Rusty Old Things" won by JeffMeyers
Entries, Winner/Finalists #13 "A View From Above" won by VisualXpressions
Entries, Winner/Finalists #14 "Portraits with Soul" won by Flyinggina
Entries, Winner/Finalists #15 "Light and Shadow" won by micalngelo
Entries, Winner/Finalists #66 "All About Music" won by Richard
Entries, Winner/Finalists #67 "Humor" won by Benjer
Entries, Winner/Finalists #68 "Home" won by Coscorrosa
Entries, Winner/Finalists #69 "Lyrics" won by Grimace
Entries, Winner/Finalists #70 "Long Exposure" won by cj99si
Entries, Winner/Finalists #71 "ACTION" won by Derosaphotography baton-ed to Jrnylst
Entries, Winner/Finalists #72 "Urban Wildlife" won by Coscorrosa
Entries, Winner/Finalists #73 "Curves" won by JeffMeyers
Entries, Winner/Finalists #74 "Dogs" won by Fad2blk
Entries, Winner/Finalists #75 "A Childs Joy" won by AirThom baton-ed to AaronNelson
Entries, Winner/Finalists #76 "Unexpected" won by MissB
Entries, Winner/Finalists #77 "Reflections and Refractions" won by Kevin Cox
Entries, Winner/Finalists #78 "Loss" won by Karrie McD
Entries, Winner/Finalists #79 "A Message Within" won by nightpixels
Entries, Winner/Finalists #80 "Trees" won by thapamd
Entries, Winner/Finalists #81 "Cityscape" won by Don Albonico baton-ed ghinson
Entries, Winner/Finalists #82 "Summertime" won by dseidman
Entries, Winner/Finalists #83 "Nighttime" won by sdways01
Entries, Winner/Finalists #84 "Architecture" won by NeilL
Entries, Winner/Finalists #85 "It Takes Two" won by Lizzard_nyc & adbsgicom
Entries, Winner/Finalists #86 "Preparations" won by Patti
Entries, Winner/Finalists #87 "Celebrate" won by adbsgicom
Entries, Winner/Finalists #88 "Triptych" won by Redlesh
Entries, Winner/Finalists #89 "Water" won by Davev
Entries, Winner/Finalists #90 "From The Park" won by JerryBarton
Entries, Winner/Finalists #91 "Three Quarters" won by Kinkajou
Entries, Winner/Finalists #92 "Down Low" won by ghinson
Entries, Winner/Finalists #93 "HDR" won by JAG
Entries, Winner/Finalists #94 "Patterns" won by bf2015
Entries, Winner/Finalists #95 "Panorama" won by Cj99si
Entries, Winner/Finalists #96 "Eyes" won by lizzard nyc
Entries, Winner/Finalists #97 "SP" won by Wil Davis
Entries, Winner/Finalists #98 "Right Place, Right Time" won by DsrtVW
Entries, Winner/Finalists #99 "Weathered" won by AaronNelson
Entries, Winner/Finalists#100 "Photog" won by Davev

Just noticed that we lost challenges #16-65 in the above list.

Originally Posted by ghinson Just noticed that we lost challenges #16-65 in the above list.

The number system was changed starting at 16 because the number count up till the change was the same as the DSS challenges and made it confusing to some to some folks.

Ahhhh!

Joyce - thanks for answering! I thought I screwed up and lost a batch when I moved them. I can breathe now.