Mini Challenge #228: a rose is a rose...
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Mini Challenge #228: a rose is a rose...
Ever since I've owned my first SLR I've enjoyed taking pictures of flowers and foliage of all sorts but I consider the rose in all its varieties and colors the prince (or princess) of flowers. Its character runs from simple to opulent and the colors run the gamut of the spectrum.
For this challenge I'd like to see pictures of roses taken out of doors in their natural environment with available light. Please no studio shots or cut arrangements. Closeups of one flower or shots of groups of flowers are both acceptable, what I am looking for is an interesting composition that brings the beauty of the rose(s) to the forefront.
This challenge will run for 2 weeks - from today until Wednesday, June 22, 18:00 (6pm) Central European Daylight Time.
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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 re-size 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!
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Examples:
I'm looking forward to seeing many entries!
--- Sara
Ever since I've owned my first SLR I've enjoyed taking pictures of flowers and foliage of all sorts but I consider the rose in all its varieties and colors the prince (or princess) of flowers. Its character runs from simple to opulent and the colors run the gamut of the spectrum.
For this challenge I'd like to see pictures of roses taken out of doors in their natural environment with available light. Please no studio shots or cut arrangements. Closeups of one flower or shots of groups of flowers are both acceptable, what I am looking for is an interesting composition that brings the beauty of the rose(s) to the forefront.
This challenge will run for 2 weeks - from today until Wednesday, June 22, 18:00 (6pm) Central European Daylight Time.
################################################## ##########################
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 re-size 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!
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Examples:
I'm looking forward to seeing many entries!
--- Sara
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Roses are not something that I typically take photos of - most of the good photos of roses that I have were taken by Bob or are of roses in arrangements (like flowers my kids gave me on Mothers Day). So given the parameters of the challenge, the first photo I thought of was this one.
1. Elizabethan
This is the Elizabethan Garden on Roanoke Island NC - this was the QEII rose ( a rose sent by H.M., Queen Elizabeth II, from the royal rose garden at Windsor Castle.)
The photo was taken in 2004, and I did not think I had any other photos of roses.
Then I remembered that back in the late 60s, my dad told my mother that he wanted either chickens or roses in the yard, and my mother picked roses. Subsequently, they became really involved with irises and I have many many photos of irises - my mother had over 300 varieties of them in her garden and even had one named for her. But I went back to my photos of her garden that I took after she died in 2006, and I found this one.
2. Climber
It is a climber on the fence between her house and the house next door, which has been painted a most inappropriate (for suburban Baltimore Maryland) PURPLE. (although when I gave people directions, I only had to say that it was the house next to the purple house)
Then I thought maybe I would have some good rose photos from the Leu Garden in Florida - they have mostly camellias and roses. But all the close-up photos were taken by Bob, and all mine are just general photos of a mass of rose bushes and the roses are just blobs.
But while I was looking I found this last one which I took in 2014 when I came home from respiratory therapy at the hospital on my scooter.
3. Leonardtown
I regard it as an unexceptional pretty photo.
But it is all I have.
--- Sara
1) Passing by a beautiful garden in Placerville, Ca. Stopped to get some shots of a beautiful Pink Dogwood tree and found this rose as well. A first bloom for the bush - the X was an added bonus from a neighboring tree.
2) A shot from about 10 years ago. Not my favorite, but I still remember the smell of the delicious rose.
3) This is a white rose - I couldn't resist the BW processing to bring out the clarity of the rain drops.
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2. Spanish rose
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1. This rose bush is actually on the other side of a trellis and poked-through a couple of blooms - I like the red-green combo.
2. A ruffled rose
3. The life-cycle of a miniature rose.
1: In our back-yard
2: Wild rose in our front yard
3: On my mother's grave
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an open one
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I gave him a rose from the ground and took the green away
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I haven't joined the fun before... not sure what I'm doing but here goes
The rose bush outside my back door often presents me with fragrant flowers
--- Sara
1. I took this one in one of the gardens at The Biltmore near Asheville, NC.
2. Another one.
3. I loved the coloring on this particular rose, but couldn't get a good comp on it. Still love it though.
This one isn't an entry since it doesn't meet the requirements for this mini since it's a cut flower, but I still thought it interesting. While on a visit to NYC, our group walked across the Brooklyn Bridge. Someone put their boutonniere on one of the bridge's cables. I wondered about the story behind it.
Sherry