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Bluelight Weekly Photography Contest : Round 228 : Shadows and silhouettes

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Shadows and silhouettes (as suggested by Bearlove)

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 3 days (12am Sunday - 12am Wednesday).

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: April 17 - April 23
Voting: April 24 & 25

Next: Multi-colored [April 24-April30] (suggested by n3ophy7e)
Then: Insects [May 01 - May 07] (suggested by Bearlove)
Followed by: Spots [May 08 - May 14] (suggested by cletus)
Followed by: Walkways [May 15 – May 21] (suggested by ocean)
 
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This is my first photo entry. Great submissions btw.

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I made it! This another I had the perfact thing in mind.

Black and white film
400iso.
telephoto lens.
Canon AE1

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^ I'm putting my money on Cable Beach in Broome, Western Australia. The sunset camel rides on the beach are pretty famous there.


Stunning shot, oxy :)

Goddess - I really dig your entry as well. Sunset or sunrise?
 
^ I'm putting my money on Cable Beach in Broome, Western Australia. The sunset camel rides on the beach are pretty famous there.


Stunning shot, oxy :)

Goddess - I really dig your entry as well. Sunset or sunrise?

Spot on this was at cable beach. Funny thing was I was actually on a moving camel and took this shot one handed holding up my dslr aiming at another camel train and it tuned out to be one of my favourite photos!

North of Western Australia is an amazing place to visit. Great weather, people and beaches. And yeh that photo has no post processing, straight from the camera (does have camera settings applied to it though). Thanks for comments people! Really encouraging, I'm keen to enter more of these photo threads now :)
 
I hate to be over-critical, but I'm confused. Is that water on the under side of the horizon? I don't see any foot prints (which would come as a result of water making sand "printable"); however, sand is not reflective at all on its own. Where is the reflection of the sky coming? I think it looks gorgeous. However, I need some clarification on the physics. I only see a waterline in the distance.
 
The tide at cable beach is massive (about 9-10m) if I recall. When it goes out, it exposes a massive amount of sand, which seems to keep a thin film of water across it (hence the reflection). I've been there and can vouch for the reality of oxy's shot.

The sunsets there are epic. I've seen countless untouched photos of the beach and the camel rides that just look unbelievable, but it's just mother nature at her best :)


This is one taken from the ocean side from when I was on the camel train. No sunset, but you can see the reflection effect.

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