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Bluelight weekly photography contest Round 191 : Ethereal

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Ethereal(suggested by Samadhi)

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: August 01 - August 07
Voting: August 08 - August 09

Next: Impressions [August 08 - August 14] (suggested by cletus)
Followed by: Cigarettes And Coffee [August 15 - August 21] (suggested by mindtools)
Then: Farms [August 22 - August 28] (suggested by ocean)
Then : Rail [August 29 - Sept 04] (suggested by Jamshyd)
 
Of course cigarettes and coffee come up after I quit smoking............ ;)
Cigarettes and coffee used to be my air and water.......
I vote for a change over.....to something healthier.....like air and water ;)


I look forward to seeing these ethereal entries....
 
^^ Exactly! There's no rule saying that BOTH cigarettes and coffee need to be in the photo I guess :D

Doesn't pip still smoke though? You could use one of his for a photo?
 
a tough one..

definition of Ethereal:

e·the·re·al (-thîr-l)
adj.
1. Characterized by lightness and insubstantiality; intangible.
2. Highly refined; delicate. See Synonyms at airy.
3.
a. Of the celestial spheres; heavenly.
b. Not of this world; spiritual.
4. Chemistry Of or relating to ether.

image changed... since there are already lots of great pictures of sun-related images, I thought I'd submit something different to create some variety. I've always thought this photo was quite ghostly...

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This is going to be a great round.

I have a bunch of etheral photos from the session above, however I chose this photo mainly because it shows interraction between what I perceived as etherial (the entire make up of the soft lighting, sunset, painted clouds, and smooth waves) vs reality (the swooping bird).
 


Bristol, England's famous Suspension Bridge

From Wiki
In 1885, a 22-year-old woman named Sarah Ann Henley survived a fall from the bridge when her billowing skirts acted as a parachute, and subsequently lived into her eighties.

A bitter sweet story. It's painted quite a calm ethereal image in my mind, of her Victorian billowing skirts and white petticoats all helping ruffling around her as they act to save her life.
 
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Loving Thizzers entry =D

The bird makes it.

ALthough, I lurv Samadhis pic as well.
 
^ Aw crap, I won once and I can't remember which photo took the cake.
 
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