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Bluelight weekly photography contest Round 136 : Beauty

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RULES

1. Any photograph or variation of a photograph which has been previously submitted for one of the contest rounds cannot be used in subsequent rounds of the contest.

2. Photographs must be your original work and that has never been copyrighted or, if copyrighted, that you are the sole copyright owner of.
2a. No submitting pictures for other people, for friends, etc. Your OWN work, very simple.

3. Only one photograph may be entered per contest.

4. All photographs must be free of watermarks, signatures and borders

5. Photographs must be no wider than 700 and no higher than 700 pixels. Free resizing software - Irfanview.

6. Deadline for entries is 12am Eastern (5am GMT) on the posted deadline date.

7. Voting ends at 12am Eastern (5am GMT) on the posted end date.

8. Post your images in the appropriate thread in the form of an image, not a link to click on.

9. Don't be a dummy and vote for your own photo, try and make it fun.

Be reminded that this is a photo contest and so images which have been heavily manipulated through an image editing software will not be accepted. To put everyone on a level playing field, editing should be restricted to cropping and resizing.

Images which are not relevant to the week's theme will be automatically removed.

If you have a problem with another contestant's entry adhering to the contest guidelines, please PM the forum moderators. Do not try to begin a debate about the issue within the contest submission or poll thread! There will be zero tolerance towards any attempts to devolve a contest thread into a bash-fest or witch hunt.

We will pick the next theme and post it the night a contest ends for the next round so people have a full 7 days to take pictures and submit them. After all the entries have been posted, a poll will be added on the last night, so people can vote. Voting will take place from midnight to midnight over the following 2 days (12am Sunday - 12am Tuesday).

Those who wish to participate in sharing full versions of their entries may do so by providing a link only to the full sized version in the same post as their entry.

Thank you and have fun!
 
Please submit your photos in this thread and a mod will re-post them when voting starts in a separate voting thread.

Submissions: July 12 - July 18
Voting: July 18 - July 19

Next: 7 [July 19 - July 25]
Followed by: Funny Faces [July 26 - August 01]
Then: Psychedelic [August 02 – August 08]
Then: My City [August 09 - August 15]
Then: Gardens [August 16 - August 22]
Then: Adjectives [ August 23 - August 29]
 
this will definitely be a 'beautiful' round ~

my whole inspiration for photography is to capture natures beauty, not sure what I'm gonna choose ?
 
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Oh nice! I like that you can see the stem coming up from the water.

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D300 & 50mm f1.8. Got extremely lucky on this shot, with the sun set lit hair from behind.
Took this on Monday. One of my repeat portrait customers, they wanted shots of just the 2-year old for her birthday.
I wish I was 2 steps back further to get her whole body in the frame, it happened so fast I didnt have time.

With kids this cute and a great summer sunset to light the scene, this was just easy money.
 
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very difficult choice... had to go with this Water Lily (Nymphaea)
that is an amazing photo... but it's too big dude! please resize. you know the score by now. :)

i don't know where to even start with this one. looks like i'll have to setup the tripod for a self portrait... sigh. :D
 
that is an amazing photo... but it's too big dude! please resize. you know the score by now. :)

i don't know where to even start with this one. looks like i'll have to setup the tripod for a self portrait... sigh. :D

I dont know if I could handle that much beauty in one photo, felix! ;)
 
haha, ok then i will go with something that is actually nice looking. ;) this is a Mandarin Duck that lives near here. all on his own with some other ducks & swans (see previous entry), but none of his own species.

sympathy vote for the win :(

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not the best composition but i've wanted to enter him into a competition for ages now. it's the most beautiful bird i've ever seen.
 
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Nice pic. Is that in the UK somewhere?? :)

Sadly the Indian Mina in Australia's worst feral bird. They are aggressive and have spread across most of the country. They were brought to Australia to help the market gardeners in Melbourne keep grubs at bay. Like the Cane Toad it didn't particularly help and has become a total pest.
 
^ I'm about 98% 100% sure that it is in Cambodia, and 99% sure that it is in Southeast Asia :).

These myna birds are as common in that area as black birds are in Northern America and England.

And yes, they can be taught to mimic speech.
 
haha, ok then i will go with something that is actually nice looking. ;) this is a Mandarin Duck that lives near here. all on his own with some other ducks & swans (see previous entry), but none of his own species.

sympathy vote for the win :(

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not the best composition but i've wanted to enter him into a competition for ages now. it's the most beautiful bird i've ever seen.

i posted a similar shot (of the same kind of duck) for the "birds" round and i think i got 1 vote. i referred to it as a "raver bird" cuz it's so colorful :)

 
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