Vote for the December Challenge

[Alan Beastall]

It is traitional to open your Christmas presents on Boxing Day and for me today all the boxes opened 'December Challenge' have been a great suprise for the excellent quality of all the images. It as been very difficult to pick the 10 finalist shown below from the 77 images entered. 

 

You have until Midday on the 30th December to cast your vote as I'am away on New Years Eve

 

Alan.

 

 

1) Michael Ventura   KCTADE   Lonely Wheelchair

 

2) Abiyoyo    DJJY11   CDG Paris

 

 

 

 

3) Wiskerke   FP46J3  Chicage O'Hare

 

 

 

 

4) Inchiquin   F68EYT   Footbridge, Feltham 

 

5) Matt Ashmore   MA9A7A   Paddington Railway Station, London

 

6) Lynne   ACYC5B   Olympic Agora Athens 2004, Games Greece

 

7) Arvy777   PP3FAJ   Caterpillar Tale, Snowdonia National Park

 

 

 

 

8) Doc   A5DNTJ   Pigeons and Cable Car

 

 

 

9) TeeCee   AG8CE1

 

 

 

10) MDM   MONKNF   Avon Gorge in Bristol

 

[MDM]

Hi Alan, thanks for choosing one of my pics. It is not particularly important as it is the image itself that counts here but, just for correctness, it is actually the Avon Gorge in Bristol and not the River Suir which was another of the pics I submitted.

[Michael Ventura]

Honored to make the short list.  Some mighty photos to pick from!!

[Alan Beastall]

MDM, thank's for the correction. Just changed it.

 

Alan

[Cecile Marion]

All are fabulous choices. So hard to pick just one!

[wiskerke]

Oh wow! Thank you for including mine!

Good images!

 

wim

[Matt Ashmore]

Thank you for including one of mine!

 

Matt

[NYCat]

I want to know how Wim made all the people disappear in O'Hare Airport. Spooky. I know he is magic with a camera but..........

 

Paulette

[Ed Rooney]

 

He just asked them to please over to the side, Paulette, but in Dutch that sounds like a threat. 

[wiskerke]

LOL!

It was in the middle of the night with very few passengers. And it's a 15 or 30 sec shutter speed. So the one that's there is like a ghost.

 

wim

[Abiyoyo]

Thanks Alan for selecting one of mine.

[MDM]

5 hours ago, NYCat said:

I want to know how Wim made all the people disappear in O'Hare Airport. Spooky. I know he is magic with a camera but..........

 

Paulette

 

4 hours ago, wiskerke said:

LOL!

It was in the middle of the night with very few passengers. And it's a 15 or 30 sec shutter speed. So the one that's there is like a ghost.

 

wim

 

Superb shot Wim. It is a really excellent example of this long exposure technique for removing moving people from an image in camera with no tricks. And the symmetry is just about perfect. 

[Doc]

HI Alan,

 

Many thanks for the inclusion - feeling honoured!

 

Kumar

[Allan Bell]

13 hours ago, wiskerke said:

LOL!

It was in the middle of the night with very few passengers. And it's a 15 or 30 sec shutter speed. So the one that's there is like a ghost.

 

wim

 

Spot the ghost.

 

I think the ghost is near the end of the righthand walkway.

 

Did you take this image with a RX100 mark (??) model?

 

Allan

 

 

[wiskerke]

1 hour ago, Allan Bell said:

 

Spot the ghost.

 

I think the ghost is near the end of the righthand walkway.

 

Did you take this image with a RX100 mark (??) model?

 

Allan

 

No RX100. The old Canon 1DS 2 or 3 with a 12-24. I've re-visited the same place a couple of times with different gear though: with a 24 and a 17mm shift lens. But not yet with Sony gear.

The shadows that are in this image are in the same place as in this one:

So I don't think they're really visible. Sometimes the reflection will give them away though.

This is 3 images shifted and stitched from a 17mm with some people removed.

 

wim

[TeeCee]

Alan - thanks for choosing one of mine!

:-)

Tony

[Allan Bell]

On 27/12/2018 at 12:04, wiskerke said:

 

No RX100. The old Canon 1DS 2 or 3 with a 12-24. I've re-visited the same place a couple of times with different gear though: with a 24 and a 17mm shift lens. But not yet with Sony gear.

The shadows that are in this image are in the same place as in this one:

So I don't think they're really visible. Sometimes the reflection will give them away though.

This is 3 images shifted and stitched from a 17mm with some people removed.

 

wim

 

 

I see. Thank you wim.

 

Allan

 

 

[Marianne]

Tough choice voting  Lots of excellent photos!

 

Hope everyone enjoyed the holidays.

 

Have a very Happy New Year!

 

[Alan Beastall]

Last call for the December Challenge. Just 24hrs. to go to cast your vote.

 

Alan

[Sally]

7 hours ago, Alan Beastall said:

Last call for the December Challenge. Just 24hrs. to go to cast your vote.

 

Alan

I think that there is a pretty obvious, and well deserved, winner.

[Alan Beastall]

Sally, its never over until the last vote is cast. There may be a last minute rush. You may be right but lets wait and see.

 

Alan

[Alan Beastall]

 And the winner for the December Challenge goes to Wiskerke and his image of Chicage O'Hare. Many thanks to all those who entered the challenge and voted. I've very much enjoyed the whole process. So over to you Wiskerke for the first of the 2019 challengers.

 

Alan

[TeeCee]

Congratulations Wim - cracking picture!
And a big thanks to Alan for a really intertesting challenge too.

[wiskerke]

1 hour ago, Alan Beastall said:

 And the winner for the December Challenge goes to Wiskerke and his image of Chicage O'Hare. Many thanks to all those who entered the challenge and voted. I've very much enjoyed the whole process. So over to you Wiskerke for the first of the 2019 challengers.

 

Alan

 

Thank you Alan! And thank you for a good and challenging challenge!

And everybody thank you for voting! Not just for me.

My vote was the single vote for one of the single vote images. It was not strategically placed, for I was one of the first to vote.

 

Now let's see if I can come up with something interesting for the New Year.

 

wim