Mini Challenge #159 - Windows and Doors
billseye
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Ok... let's peek into some windows and knock on some doors. Two ubiquitous architectural structures that have some magnetic draw for photographers. I'm interested in photos where the door or the window is either the primary subject or where it frames the subject and becomes part of the composition.
This challenge will close at 10 PM (PST) Wednesday, March 6, 2013 or as soon as I get home from work that night - could be a late one!
OUR UN-OFFICIAL GENERAL RULES
1. Have fun sharing and seeing what others share!
2. The host supplies a topic and you post 1-3 images. The host judges the winners (1st, 2nd and 3rd) and is not eligible to enter. The 1st place winner becomes the next host, chooses the next topic and becomes the next judge.
3. Any photo you’ve taken is eligible, regardless of when taken or camera used.
4. Any amount of post-processing is allowed. However, it is helpful if you list your camera and lens along with your photo.
5. You may comment on other contestant's images. If you want someone to leave you some critique or criticism, just ask within your post.
6. The winner has up to three days (72 hours) to begin a new mini-challenge, or the honor goes to the #2 finisher and so forth.
Guidelines:
1. Enter 1-3 photos and put them in a single post.
2. Either embed your image in the thread or, if you must, supply a link to it. Keep in mind, however, most people don't want to click to open photos hosted elsewhere (i.e. on your website).
3. Also try and resize your photos prior to posting so they're sized appropriately for viewing without having to scroll (~800 pixels on the longest side works best.)
4. Give each image you enter a title.
5. Enjoy discussion with members about their images, don't let this just be an entry thread!
6. When quoting a post, change the IMG urls to a 200x200 size picture so it is clear your post is feedback and not another entry. (See here for help).
7. Don't be hesitant; share 'em and enter!
Mini-Challenge pointers:
1. Upon winning a mini-challenge round, your first step is coming up with a new theme and starting a new thread using the same format as others have used.
2. Make sure to notify the admin of this thread to update the main thread links with your entry thread.
3. Feel free to watch the thread as it grows or wait to the end time and look at all the entries all at once.
4. After the time/date has passed, then officially close the thread with a single post notifying everyone of the fact.
5. After you're finished judging, start a new thread (again using the prior formats) and post your Winner and runners-up. It is important to have runners up in case the winner does not show within the 72-hour window.
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8. Remember, if you're the Winner, you run the next mini challenge!
Here are some samples for your perusal:
Cabrillo Lighthouse, San Diego, CA
Bodie, CA
Peterson's Donuts, Escondido, CA
Leo Carillo Park, Carlsbad, CA
Bodie, CA
San Diego Museum of Art, Balboa Park, San Diego, CA
This challenge will close at 10 PM (PST) Wednesday, March 6, 2013 or as soon as I get home from work that night - could be a late one!
OUR UN-OFFICIAL GENERAL RULES
1. Have fun sharing and seeing what others share!
2. The host supplies a topic and you post 1-3 images. The host judges the winners (1st, 2nd and 3rd) and is not eligible to enter. The 1st place winner becomes the next host, chooses the next topic and becomes the next judge.
3. Any photo you’ve taken is eligible, regardless of when taken or camera used.
4. Any amount of post-processing is allowed. However, it is helpful if you list your camera and lens along with your photo.
5. You may comment on other contestant's images. If you want someone to leave you some critique or criticism, just ask within your post.
6. The winner has up to three days (72 hours) to begin a new mini-challenge, or the honor goes to the #2 finisher and so forth.
Guidelines:
1. Enter 1-3 photos and put them in a single post.
2. Either embed your image in the thread or, if you must, supply a link to it. Keep in mind, however, most people don't want to click to open photos hosted elsewhere (i.e. on your website).
3. Also try and resize your photos prior to posting so they're sized appropriately for viewing without having to scroll (~800 pixels on the longest side works best.)
4. Give each image you enter a title.
5. Enjoy discussion with members about their images, don't let this just be an entry thread!
6. When quoting a post, change the IMG urls to a 200x200 size picture so it is clear your post is feedback and not another entry. (See here for help).
7. Don't be hesitant; share 'em and enter!
Mini-Challenge pointers:
1. Upon winning a mini-challenge round, your first step is coming up with a new theme and starting a new thread using the same format as others have used.
2. Make sure to notify the admin of this thread to update the main thread links with your entry thread.
3. Feel free to watch the thread as it grows or wait to the end time and look at all the entries all at once.
4. After the time/date has passed, then officially close the thread with a single post notifying everyone of the fact.
5. After you're finished judging, start a new thread (again using the prior formats) and post your Winner and runners-up. It is important to have runners up in case the winner does not show within the 72-hour window.
6. PM the winner with this info above and let them know they have 72 hours to set up the next mini-challenge.
7. If the winner does not show/start the next mini-challenge after 72 hours, notify the next runner-up and post a message on the Winner thread of the fact.
8. Remember, if you're the Winner, you run the next mini challenge!
Here are some samples for your perusal:
Cabrillo Lighthouse, San Diego, CA
Bodie, CA
Peterson's Donuts, Escondido, CA
Leo Carillo Park, Carlsbad, CA
Bodie, CA
San Diego Museum of Art, Balboa Park, San Diego, CA
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I believe I have many doors/windows to choose from in my archive files, but... let's see what new one's I can find here amid the Asian alleys and temples of Luang Prabang, Laos...
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One of the best things about the mini challenges, is that I get inspired to browse my library of over twelve years of digital photos each time. It clearly shows the progress I've made on my digital journey since the days of my 3 megapixel P&S. For some reason the museum shot didn't come to mind or memory when I was contemplating POV. It was part of an alphabet A to Z project. 26 photos in a day - each with a subject matching a different letter of the alphabet. This one was E for Entry. Here's the full set.
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Illumination
Red, White, and Ew!
The Traveler
Thanks for looking.
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Nice start to the challenge, Kevin!
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2) Church Detail
3)Door abstract: Copper Door and Pull
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Beautiful examples! ... and btw: congratulations on your win
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1. MCAS Tustin North Blimp Hangar
2. Through the glass
3. Abandoned
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Pullman's Faded Luxury
Behind the Green Door
Setting for Four
I think i can post one or two
From the Kingsley Plantation Ruins
An ode to Lee Friedlander's "America by Car".
One of these days I'll have to figure out what my "style" is..
Anyway here are my three
This one was taken because the building we were touring forbid photos inside. So I went outside and took photos through the windows, and this is one of them. Generally if the subject is windows, I want to see a window in it, and of course you can't see the window I'm taking the photo through. But I think maybe the door makes up for it. This was a digital photo originally, taken in 2004 in Miami.
This is an older one
of the windows of a Citroen 2CV - my husband is in it looking at a map - film photo taken in 1964 in the south of France
And this is also a film photo taken about 3 years later in California. Both pictures taken with a Kodak Retina Reflex and Kodachrome.
2. miskheta monastery, republic of georgia
3. into the casbah - rabat, morocco
1 "Welcome Home"
2 Enter the rabbit warren
3 Windows galore
When you come to a door... walk through it.
If it's locked... find an open window.
One of these days I'll have to figure out what my "style" is..
2.The Oldest School House in the US--St Augustine, FL
3.Glass Block Window--Chipotle, Rochester, MN
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"You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus." Mark Twain
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1) Mongolian ger door (my fave of all 6)
2) Great Wall of China peek-a-boo (taken w/ f.i.l.m. shortly after China reopened its doors to foreigners after Tienanmen, 1990).
3) View from the lighthouse window at Half Moon Caye, Belize
But... I'd also like opinions on these three others as possible replacements:
This one for color...
This one for sheer architectural beauty (I mean, you can hardly go wrong w/ a Guggenheim skylight, yes?)
And this one - purely for the "awww, cute" factor...
Seriously, any and all thoughts on how best to hone it down to three, most welcome.
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...from the Rocks, Sydney NSW AU
Personally, I do not have a lot a windows and doors on my photo libraries... But here are a few. I have updated them since the first time a wrote that post.
This first one is not an entry for the challenge but I hope the sign makes you smile.
Here are my entries:
1. Interesting tiles
2. Round door
3. I love my place!
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1. Aruba
2. Arizona still life
3. Green shuttered windows, Bahamas
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Thanks TravelnLass.
I have lived in Sydney, Australia for 3 years and a half and now I live in the middle of the Black Forest. This is a dramatic change in temperature!!! But I enjoy living in both places equally
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Welcome to Bag End:
Note that at Hobbiton is basically the front of the hobbit holes only, with only small diggings into the hills. The filming inside the holes was done in studio.
Hobbit Hole:
Sir Peter Jackson is a stickler for detail, and all the holes have props and gardens, which have been left onsite. They seem to be weathering well, considering all are open to the elements.
Inside the Green Dragon Inn:
Again, the level of detail on the set is amazing. The Inn is available for use for private functions - I wonder if they have any theme nights as would be good to get shots when full of hobbits, dwarfs, elves!
I really like the green shutters but I think I would like it better without so much palm frond foreground.
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2. Door to a Garden in Lilliput (in our front yard
3. Door to Nowhere (in Winchester Mystery House, San Jose, CA)
#2 Senegal
#3 Cuba
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Just a reminder to TravelinLass, Shooting Star and Juano... I'll need to know which three images you want me to consider for the grand prizes of fame and fortune I've been authorized to dream of giving out.
Deadline is late on March 6 (PST) at least 10:00 p.m.
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Sorry, got carried away... 1, 2 and 4.
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