Treasure Hunt 4
 

Round 4!

You have until 11:59 on Tuesday, 16th of Feb, to take and post one picture in each of the following concepts/categories. No archived pictures allowed.

Then we'll vote on the best in each category. One point scored for each favorite pic.

The person with the most points sets the next treasure hunt. In the event of a tie, the oldest poster gets the honor.

1. portrait
2. macro
3. landscape/scenic overlook
4. forced perspective
5. motion blur


Take and post one picture in each of the above concepts/categories. No archived pictures allowed.

Everyone is encouraged to vote. Posting ends 11:59 on Tuesday, 16th of February, Cellar time, and voting begins when monster else gets around to creating those voting threads.

If you wanted to join in last time around, but didn't, this is you chance now.

um.... what does forced perspective mean? I feel like I woke up in art school and realized I was nekkid!

oh, OK, I wiki'd it

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forced_perspective

...by portrait do you mean a portrait or portrait as opposed to landsacape, or can i interpret as I please?

sorry to be so needy, but but but......

......If I ever win I swear I'll get you back with categories like "poop" and "whatevah"..... :p

Both of those things. Yes. Mostly A portrait though...

Thank goodness I have a digital camera for idiots.

oh! take mah pickcher wiff it den!

Aw c'mon! They are way easier words than Youtube ffs!! And you won that one, so stfu and take some pictures.

I was gonna do "red barn" as one of my words so we could all submit our entries to that contest too...
then I decided I didn't want the competition. I want to win that damn meat.

I have NFI what you're talking about, but as it's snowing here, I'm glad there are no color categories that aren't white. :lol:

for those of you too lazy to wiki.....here is a cool example of forced perspective:

http://www.jonco48.com/blog/forced_20perspective.jpg

wait, I don't see how that is forced perspective -is that not a guy holding a barbie doll? and if not, then surely some shopping is involved as I doubt she was just floating in front of the camera with no background?

No, it's some chick further up the beach.

edit: salt flats?

Oh I see. although it still looks false, even knowing that.

thanks.

Motion Blur: Making Pizza

Yup, pizza is being made right now, in our house :D

I took some macros of snowflakes too, but they were crap and I got cold.... I need better quality snow!

Sweet!

Beest is cool

and yet hot at the same time.... ;)

you should totally bang him

yup.

I was in Utah last week skiing with the family.

Landscape (looking from the top of Snowbird, at around 11,000 ft.)
http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f8...n/P1010094.jpg


Portrait (my older brother and his girlfriend got engaged during the trip)
http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f8...n/P1010149.jpg

Motion Blur

Macro

Tell me about the macro. It looks like a couple mutant snowflakes on a sand dollar.

Those are the "doves" from inside a broken sand dollar. Found in OBX.

google

Cool. I never heard of doves.

A friend showed me when I was a kid and ever since then I'd wanted to find a sand dollar. Since we always went to crowded beaches in NJ and MD when I was growing up, I never even found an unbroken clam shell...
Then we stayed in 4wd area at OBX the first time... I parked the jeep (on the beach), stepped out, and immediately found a perfect sand dollar. I was so excited! Started telling the kids what it was and how psyched I was to find it and Jim's all like "Oh cool. And look, here's another one".

Not to display my ignorance, but, what (where) is OBX?

Outer Banks, NC

Forced Perspective
 

Probably not quite IT. I hope the way the yellow letters stand out in relief makes it almost forced and the glasses too.

Taken with a camera phone.

Scenic
 

Another cell phone shot.

It was way more beautiful than my camera phone was able to capture it but it's a submission such as it is. It's fun.

Macro
 

Princess Zoie

Macro
 

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Landscape scenic overlook
 

Yah yah of course it has a dog in it! ;)

Can't see the forest thru the trees...

Ah. (Makes perfect sense.)

Thx, btw.

macro

A powerful first entry.

Landscape? The tree over my house. A 200 yr old Old Growth Oak or aka Live Oak.

Macro. Petrified Dragonfly covered with baby spiders from the garage.

Doesn't your oak ever lose it's leaves, then, Merc?

Nope. It just drops acorns and sheds the Spanish Moss.

From Wiki.

cool, thanks.

That tree is awesome Merc.

oh you guy's photos are awesome.
This one will be a hard call except those crayons are just about perfect and the perspective of the tree is dizzying but that dragonfly is cool. :)

You're off to a good start Nirvana! Like those rings!

I was about to say it's Texas' state tree too... but it turns out we chose the Pecan. Which is nuts (...get it?,) because there are way more live oaks around here than pecan trees.

Live oaks are especially great for climbing, because their trunks are all twisty and often they turn back down towards the ground, so they have great crooks to perch in.

Portrait

Scenic/landscape

Forced Perspective

Macro

Landscape.

Portrait.

cool perspective shot, glatt.

jinx, is that Hopewell lake?

Landscape ( ;) ) and Forced Perspective

Shame I already posted a Motion Blur entry....


just took these:


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mah portrait, I is ready for it. Don't give me a double chin.

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