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Bluelight weekly photography contest Round 95: Americana

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Americana

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: September 21 - September 27
Voting: September 28 - September 29

followed by: Ephemerality [September 28 - October 04]
followed by: Boats/Nautical [October 05 - October 11]
followed by: Bar/Pub [October 12 - October 18]
followed by: Planet Earth [October 19 - October 25]
 
Making smores on the 4th of July...in Germany lol
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"Iglesia Bautista De Lake Los Angeles"

I took this way out in the desert, quite far away from Los Angeles. This is America, or at least, this is the America of the west coast....
 
changed, I love love love that shot. I'm not sure as I've never lived outside the US but those stairs, jeans, girls, colors are exactly what I grew up with when I was in high school midwest Americana. I could never capture it like you did. Props.
 
not trying to be funny, but i don't get it. :\
wiki said:
Americana refers to artifacts of the culture of the United States, the history and folklore resultant from its westward expansion.[1] Examples of this culture include baseball, apple pie, Superman, the diner, wagon trains, jazz, the music of Stephen Foster, George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue, the music of Aaron Copland (notably his Fanfare for the Common Man), and rockabilly; and American art, such as that of Frederic Remington, Grant Wood, and Norman Rockwell, all based on American folk art.
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in other words, things that are exclusively and unmistakably from the US.

i'm struggling to come up with something good here, but i've got a few contenders...
 
I just took the 'americana' thing to mean anything which was thought to be American. I've got an idea for a shot, we'll see how it comes out later.

The first entry in this thread says nothing about America for me. :\
 
Changed said:
drunkenness, christmas, and scantly clothed women... what's more American than that?
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Scantily clad? You've obviously never been for a night out in Newcastle in the north of England (just outside London to y'all Americans :\ ) Your picture shows full winter wardrobe to a Geordie lass. :D
 
CletusVanDow said:
Scantily clad? You've obviously never been for a night out in Newcastle in the north of England (just outside London to y'all Americans :\ ) Your picture shows full winter wardrobe to a Geordie lass. :D
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Ya know, England is easily the least enjoyable country I've ever visited. But, being from Ithaca (that's upstate NY, for ye olde English) I guess I have high expectations...
 
here is something a little more concrete and obvious for those of you questioning my first entry:

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"Cultural Infiltration"
Berlin Wall, 2004
 
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