Mini Challenge #231: Oceans, Lakes, Rivers and Streams

sapphire73

Mini-Challenge #231 ~ Oceans, Lakes, Rivers, Streams

I enjoy photographing water, especially large bodies of water and water flowing in rivers and streams. For this challenge, I'd like to see photos taken by streams, rivers, lakes, or oceans. (Bays, gulfs, straits, and such are also welcome. In past mini challenges we have focused on water, fountains, and water reflections so I wanted to take this another direction while keeping it broad enough to encourage lots of participation.) The body of water can be the setting or the focus of your photo.

I had several more creative ideas in mind but wanted to post this challenge quickly since I'm heading out of town for a few days. (I didn't have time to find and post examples for the other themes just now.)

Looking forward to seeing your photos!

This Mini will run for two weeks; from today, Thursday, August 4th, 2016 to Thursday, August 18th, 2016 at 11 pm EST.

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Examples:

1. Admiring the Sunset on Captiva Island


2. Malibu Creek State Park


3. Along the Rhine River at Sunset


4. Near Hilton Head Island


5. Another Sunset on Captiva Island

travelways

Wonderful theme and examples Gretchen!

sapphire73

Thank you, Tatiana. Hoping to see lots of entries!

travelways

sapphire73 wrote: »

Thank you, Tatiana. Hoping to see lots of entries!

Well, I have a few tons of them only by myself... hard to decide which ones to post

travelways

I'll start

Please disregard these entries for the judging

1. Pool and Ocean in Cancun, Mexico



2. Dows Lake in the Fall (Ottawa, Canada)



3. Late November morning by the lake in Prince Edward County (Ontario, Canada)

sarasphotos

Nice shots, Tatiana!

sapphire73

Beautiful entries, Tatiana! Thank you!

travelways

sarasphotos wrote: »

Nice shots, Tatiana!

Thank you Sara

travelways

sapphire73 wrote: »

Beautiful entries, Tatiana! Thank you!

Thank you Gretchen - oh, I have so, so many...

CCoop

Water Play at Ft Lauderdale Beach
Water Play at Ft Lauderdale Beach

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sarasphotos

Since so many of our vacation bike tours take place while riding along rivers I have decided to limit my choice to pictures of rivers. I've selected three of my favorites.

1) The river Lot (SW France) and the town of Puy-l'Évêque




2) The Loire river at Candes-St.-Martin




3) The Sile river near the town of Casale Sul Sile, Italy (Province of Veneto)

Cavalier

Great subject. Here are my three entries:

1) How about a Spring? This is Fern Spring in Yosemite National Park. I can't help myself but stop each time I'm in the park to get another shot of Fern Spring.



2) But then I have to post a color shot of Fern Spring too




3) And then on the Calif. Coast - a misty Morro Rock.

grandmaR

Since we cruise and sail, this was really difficult for me to figure out what 3 things to pick. I wanted to post a photo of the glassy swells in the Gulf Stream that reflect the sky, with an occasional flying fish jumping out, but apparently I did not take any photos of that and the image is only in my mind. So back to the drawing board. I found that most of my photos of water rely on the sky for effect. So I eliminated all those and also the photos that were of something and the water was incidental. I wanted an old pre-digitial photo, so I picked this one

1. Mediterranean - 1964



which was taken from a tour bus someplace along the Amalfi Drive in Italy

Second I wanted a photo of the water where the water itself was unusual.

2. Steaming Atlantic



This is the Atlantic where the warm Gulf Stream meets the cold air off Cape Hatteras - Taken in January 2011

3. Boiling Caribbean



Pyroclastic flow coming down the slopes of Montserrat is boiling the Caribbean at the edge of the island. (We were in a helicopter)

sapphire73

Wow! Great to see so many beautiful entries here!

CHANDLERJA

1. No stars for you tonight :cry



2. Come on in. The waters fine :eek1



3. Here fishy fishy :eat



Extra Credit: I like to imagine he actually got away :yikes
(even though I have 5 more shots that says he didn't :cry)

Earache

Very nice theme Gretchen, and some great entries posted!

I'll go dig-around for something watery...

GSPeP

I live at the river Schelde (Scheldt, Scaldis, Escaut) which starts in the north of France, goes through Belgium via ghent and Antwerp, and ends in the North Sea in the south of Holland.

1. Sunrise (Practically in front of my door)



2. An early traveler



3. Going fast

sarasphotos

Wow, lots of really great entries!

pegelli

Great subject Gretchen, and very good entries so far.

I have so many wide water scenes on my hard drive and didn't want to choose. Since we visited the Belgian coast for a few days over the last weekend I decided I would only use shots from these 4 days as my submission. Call me lazy for not wanting to plough through my hard drive, but it gives a special mood for shooting when you have a mini challenge like this one in mind.

So here they come

1: Sunset from the balcony



2: Kites galore


3: Brewing storm (that soaked us 15 minutes later)

travelways

pegelli wrote: »

I have so many wide water scenes on my hard drive and didn't want to choose. Since we visited the Belgian coast for a few days over the last weekend I decided I would only use shots from these 4 days as my submission. Call me lazy for not wanting to plough through my hard drive, but it gives a special mood for shooting when you have a mini challenge like this one in mind.

This is how the Big challenges used to be - all the photos had to be fresh taken in the 2 week period of challenge - it was a lot of fun

... but I also like these Mini's which make us dig into the archives and revise older photos and memories...

Earache

travelways wrote: »

...all the photos had to be fresh taken in the 2 week period of challenge - it was a lot of fun

This was challenging, fun, and a good motivator to get-out and click!

@ GSPeP ... Peter, I really like your entries!
#2 is one of those 'print large and hang' beauties...

sapphire73

Great to have so many fine entries here. It will be difficult to judge this mini!

Meta4

Freshwater Wetland


The Southern Ocean at Cape Bruny on a rare calm day.
(12 image aerial panorama)


A loaded container ship taking a bend in the shipping channel at speed

Earache

This must be what they were talking about in; "from sea to shining sea" ~ Coronado Islands from Point Loma, San Diego, CA



Escondido Creek



Nugget Falls at Mendenhall Glacier, Alaska

pegelli

Fantastic entries again, Meta4's Cape Bruny is near the top of my list and I think indeed Gretchen will have a hard task!

GSPeP

pegelli wrote: »

Fantastic entries again, Meta4's Cape Bruny is near the top of my list and I think indeed Gretchen will have a hard task!

Thinking the same here. Seen already some great entries Seems to be a very photogenic theme

grandmaR

I love getting the sparkles on the water like the Coronado Beach one. Sometimes the waves will make little stars of light on film (and even digital)

DonRicklin

1) American Niagara Falls



2) Quiet Pond at the EcoTarium



3) Pier at Walker's Cove



Don

sapphire73

pegelli wrote: »

Fantastic entries again, Meta4's Cape Bruny is near the top of my list and I think indeed Gretchen will have a hard task!

No doubt about it! This is going to be hard! And we still have a week to go until this mini closes....

travelways

Meta4 wrote: »

A loaded container ship taking a bend in the shipping channel at speed

Love this one!!!

sapphire73

grandmaR wrote: »

3. Boiling Caribbean



Pyroclastic flow coming down the slopes of Montserrat is boiling the Caribbean at the edge of the island. (We were in a helicopter)

GrandmaR, I am curious about the year this photo was taken? My husband and I traveled to Montserrat in 1978 before the volcano became active.