August Photo Competition

[shuggee]

There are some real qualities entries here this month - it just keeps getting better and better.

[LeeKay]

Number Two:-

18th August - Just on the border of getting soaked! Double Rainbow.

[AtlanticFlamethrower]

Wibs, I'm still trying to work that one out. Incredible photo.

LeeKay nice double rainbow - you can really see how it's darker on the outside than on the inside of the rainbow.

[LeeKay]

Thanks x2 Atlantic Flamethrower (a belated one from my other pic!)

[John Cox]

great rainbow photo leaKay,

Lovely foreground interest

[LeeKay]

Thanks John, had the new cam for 2 months, still experimenting. I seem to find the simplest shots are the most effective!

[tugmistress]

ok been a bit busy with other stuff but was out taking pics last night of a cruise ship leaving and took this one for here :blush:

[Blackie]

Lovely shot there Tugmistress. I love silhouetted cliffs, and was lucky enough to get something similar at the Cliffs of Moher in Ireland a couple of years ago. I can't enter them here of course, but they are on my website.

As Shuggee says, there is some outstanding quality for August's entries. Mark's wave cloud (looks like leaping ethereal dolphins to me) is stunning, as is the other sunrise photo with the yacht and golden-tinged cloud. And I love some of the other entries as well. This is going to be even harder than July to pick a winner! :blush:

I got some shots in my garden at lunchtime yesterday which I posted on the photography area. Some nice translucent altocumulus (I've always called it mackerel sky). Nowhere near as dramatic as some on here. But I may enter one or two. How do you post photos into a thread like MPP, rather than have them as thumbnails?

[tugmistress]

i just host them on my own site, then right click on thepicture, copy 'properties' and paste that url into the box that appears when you click on the image box under the full reply setting ... did that make sense?

[Blackie]

Thanks Paula. Yes, I can see now when I right click on your pic and those from Mark (Multi Cellular) and click properties. I may give that a go myself when I get a moment as I would need to put them on my site first. I thought you could simply add pictures into a post.

Peter

[John Cox]

Hi cjefferz

Great photo.

Love the B&W . Very effective

Edited August 23, 2006 by John Cox

[Ross B]

Sun setting over the Isle of Arran

Nice one, thats a favourite photo spot of mine though

[Blackie]

OK, three from the ones I took in my garden a couple of days ago (and posted in the Photography area).

1. Altocumulus with irridescence and grapevine.

2. Altocumulus and jet with con trail.

3. Altocumulus and seagull.

Peter

[spodocomodo]

Hello everyone,

Here's my first effort (and my first ever post) taken last week sometime around 5am, of the hundred or so shots taken only this one came out.

Regards

Mr S

[tugmistress]

Hello everyone,

Here's my first effort (and my first ever post) taken last week sometime around 5am, of the hundred or so shots taken only this one came out.

Regards

Mr S

hi,

welcome to the forum posting, soon may you be hooked

fabulous piccy to start with! well done

[Rustynailer]

Here is my number one. From the Isle of Wight looking North, towards the Metropolis for intrest i have added the non-comp' full sized version, below.

Edited August 24, 2006 by Rustynailer

[desperately seeking]

OK here goes.

I'm sure they don't match up to what has gone before but here are a few snaps from my recent trip to Scotland:

I was experimenting with my new camera and I found the black and white option (plus a little simulated red filter to go along with it!):

This next one was a result of mucking around with the exposure and a good bit of timing with the cloud cover:

Thirdly - who says it's always windy in Scotland?

For interest's sake the first two were taken in the Findhorn Valley near the Cairngorms and the third was looking across Loch Na Keal on Mull..

DS

[VillagePlank]

Taken today

Edited August 27, 2006 by Wilson

[Hurricane Debby]

Taken today

I love autumn and i really love this pic

[stormchaser1]

took these over the weekend whilst i was in Boston lincolnshire

Nigel

[Jane Louise]

Here is my 3rd photo taken today.

[rob-lancs]

Bit Sheepy this but worth a try.

Pendle Hill looking towards the South: (Inspiration for George Fox setting up the Quakers, The dark happenings on Dartmoor in Hounds of the Baskerville, which was written under the hill's shadow (as was The Lord of the Rings at Stoneyhurst College). It apparantly inspired JRR Tolkien to come up with the Misty Mountains in LOTR. The latter two see the darker/mythical side of the hill because of the hill's most famous residents, the Pendle Witches. These have recently inspired Yvette Fielding to scream loudly and now we have lots of tourists causing gridlock on the hill.) The point is you know its worth a vote

Sheep on the Ribble Valley. The Otherside of the valley visible in the background:

Hungry Sheep:

[stormchaser1]

The lancaster just about too take off for another air show ,these was taken at RAF Coningsby on Friday just gone

and one of the spitfire about too take off too

nigel

[NL]

My first attempts...

[Paul Sherman]

Not Much to Show for August so here is my 3 entries

- 28TH August 2006 - So Close To That Illusive Storm

- Taken in Oxfordshire Mid August whilst Chasing

- This Photo Says August to Me, Long Shadows on A Summers Day

Regards

Paul Sherman