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Bluelight weekly photography contest Round 68: Pubs, Bars and Diners

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Pubs, Bars and Diners

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: March 16 - March 22
Voting: March 23 - March 24

Next theme: View From a Window [March 23 - March 29]
followed by: Broken [March 30 - April 05]
followed by: Macro Mystery (aka Guess The Macro) [April 06 - April 12]
followed by: Street Life[April 13 - April 19]
followed by: Bluelight [April 20 - April 26]
 
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^Now how am I supposed to compete with that? Its a pub, with monkeys... thats like, as awesome as it gets. And on top of that its an awesome picture! :X
 
I'm going to jump in here with my picture of an awesome family owned diner in Lake County, Florida called Soup to Nuts Diner. It's the first picture I took when I got out of the hospital and let me tell you their pot roast made me feel better than anything the doctors did.

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^^ NO!
that one is amazing in so many ways.
looks kinda futuristic but at the same time reminds me of the bazook circus in fear & loathing!
 
Penny, while that is a great picture do you feel that conveys the theme? When I vote I usually vote for the picture that conveys the theme the best over the technical aspect.
 
Damien8787 said:
Penny, while that is a great picture do you feel that conveys the theme? When I vote I usually vote for the picture that conveys the theme the best over the technical aspect.
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See, that is the thing...I think it conveys the theme well for a Diner...the neon, the stainless steel...I think it captures the essence of a Diner in a more universal and abstract sense. I think it is also more interesting than just a snapshot of the building itself. I mean, I have several pictures of the building from different, more conventional angles, but I think this one is more interesting.

The thing is, it seems like the more simple ones seem to win a lot of the time. While I think that just a regular picture of the outside of a diner is kinda boring and unoriginal, a lot of people seem to want to vote for stuff like that. Like they are thinking "well, the theme is 'Diners,' so it should be a picture of a diner. Hey look! There is a picture of a Diner. Wow! That really looks like a Diner, like the Diners I go to! I vote for that one." Whereas, when they see the one I have entered, they might think "Hmmm, that is just a bunch of weird lights. I thought the theme was 'Diners.' What a sadly misguided fool. Vote denied."

I seem to sometimes go a little too abstract for the audience, I guess. Sometimes my pictures just straight up kinda suck, so I totally understand why they might not get many votes that round, but other times I think that they don't do as well as I thought they would.

I just can't decide sometimes, and I often find myself wishing I had chosen differently. It gets frustrating. :\

Thanks for all the comments, btw. :)
 
pennywise said:
I seem to sometimes go a little too abstract for the audience, I guess. Sometimes my pictures just straight up kinda suck, so I totally understand why they might not get many votes that round, but other times I think that they don't do as well as I thought they would.
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hey, i think that too sometimes.

our genius is wasted on these philistines! :!
 
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pennywise said:
See, that is the thing...I think it conveys the theme well for a Diner...the neon, the stainless steel...I think it captures the essence of a Diner in a more universal and abstract sense. I think it is also more interesting than just a snapshot of the building itself. I mean, I have several pictures of the building from different, more conventional angles, but I think this one is more interesting.
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I agree it is much more interesting than a snap of the outside of a diner. To me it just seems like . . . Hmmmm, I don't know how to say it. I see that it says diner in your picture but to me that kind of ruins the abstractness. I feel that you are saying diner with your lights and coloring but you almost seem to throw the diner in there in such a way that is almost kind of a cop out. It seems like it should be all or none I guess. Does that make sense?
 
yeah, i thought that would be sort of a compromise. Like if people didn't get the reference, at least they would see the sign and maybe then think "oh, ok, its a diner." I always try to play to the audience, but at the same time not sacrifice my original artistic vision. lol that sounds so snooty.

w/e. As long as a few people understand it then I'm kewl with it. :)
 
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