Shpg Posted February 7, 2018 Share Posted February 7, 2018 This month’s Challenge theme is “Winter Activities”. With a good load of snow this year in Europe, I want to see your best shots of professional / amateur sportsmen or kids and families taking part in all sorts of winter activities. Usual rules apply: 3 pictures per person from your Alamy portfolio. The Challenge will close at midnight on 28th February. A few samples: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jill Morgan Posted February 7, 2018 Share Posted February 7, 2018 My first entry Having fun using a dog sled as a toboggan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bryan Posted February 7, 2018 Share Posted February 7, 2018 Nice one, for those of us who have to suffer the stuff! Penshaw monument snowball fight Santa Special, or North Pole Express, Tanfield railway Hardy girls cross country race Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lynne Posted February 7, 2018 Share Posted February 7, 2018 Snowman and snowbaby with a trolley full of snowballs. Whilst mum is being hit in the face with a snowball during a friendly family snowball fight! Winter hillwalking in the Scottish mountains Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sally Posted February 7, 2018 Share Posted February 7, 2018 My three entries: Walking and taking photos of an Icelandic waterfall A glacier walk Enjoying the ice rink in St Andrews Square, Edinburgh (I love the envious expression on the other child's face) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spacecadet Posted February 7, 2018 Share Posted February 7, 2018 Porto, Praca da Liberdade Mummers, Boxing Day, Odiham This is a winter activity- of course it is! It's also a frequent seller this time of year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allan Bell Posted February 7, 2018 Share Posted February 7, 2018 1 hour ago, Bryan said: Nice one, for those of us who have to suffer the stuff! Hardy girls cross country race Hay! Bryan! I used to know the Hardy girls, how are they getting on? Allan Sorry, just can't help myself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bryan Posted February 7, 2018 Share Posted February 7, 2018 20 minutes ago, Allan Bell said: Hay! Bryan! I used to know the Hardy girls, how are they getting on? Allan Sorry, just can't help myself. They look a tad young for you bonny lad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Ventura Posted February 7, 2018 Share Posted February 7, 2018 My Three for winter activities: 1) Dog sledding in Banff, Alberta, Canada 2) Ice Skating in Williamsburg, Virginia USA 3) Ice Carving Art, Banff Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Mitchell Posted February 7, 2018 Share Posted February 7, 2018 Vancouver winter activities -- walking in the fog or rain and drinking hot coffee Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doc Posted February 7, 2018 Share Posted February 7, 2018 SHPG - congrats on your win! Here's my entries: 1. Riding out on Newmarket heath on a frosty winters morning: 2. Ice skaters in Bruges, Belgium: 3. Child and mother sledging, Leysin, Vaud, Swiss Alps, Switzerland Kumar (the Doc one) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colin Woods Posted February 8, 2018 Share Posted February 8, 2018 For an instant this morning I thought that "Quandary" was the topic. Then I looked further and saw that it was "Winter activity", which is fine because here in Quebec we get winter, lots and lots of it. My three then My son and daughter sledging on the first snow of the year. Back country ski-ing in gorgeous conditions in the Parc de la Gaspesie My boy, who considers a day without accumulating a bruise a day wasted, jumping on his sledge. Seriously, the things he gets up to. And his sister slips on grandma's carpet - and breaks her arm. Colin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gvallee Posted February 8, 2018 Share Posted February 8, 2018 Husky sledding in Lapland - Finland Reindeer Sledding in Finland Drilling a hole through a frozen river for ice fishing - Finland Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allan Bell Posted February 8, 2018 Share Posted February 8, 2018 First one. Earth mover shifting snow to clear driveways. Well it is a winter activity isn't it? Second one. Blackbird feeding on berries. (He actually tossed that one in his beak away it being too old and wizened.) Fauna winter activity. Third one. Learning to ice skate on temporary ice-rink. (Yeh! one with human activity.) Allan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gruffydd Posted February 8, 2018 Share Posted February 8, 2018 Three from me: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wiskerke Posted February 8, 2018 Share Posted February 8, 2018 Taking a cheap plane to the sun. Kinderdijk (near Rotterdam) in winter. Amsterdam in winter. wim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simon Evans Posted February 8, 2018 Share Posted February 8, 2018 Taking a walk along the seafront on a winters day People watching in the cold Taking a cold shower Take a cold shower Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allan Bell Posted February 9, 2018 Share Posted February 9, 2018 21 hours ago, wiskerke said: Kinderdijk (near Rotterdam) in winter. wim This image is great, reminds me of a certain Dutch artist but can't think who at the moment. Allan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spacecadet Posted February 9, 2018 Share Posted February 9, 2018 I'm seeing Breugel in my head (far out, man). Probably the younger. Can't actually find ice and windmills in the same painting, though. It's a stunning image. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vincent Lowe Posted February 9, 2018 Share Posted February 9, 2018 7 minutes ago, Allan Bell said: This image is great, reminds me of a certain Dutch artist but can't think who at the moment. Allan Hendrick Avercamp perhaps? The figures remind me of Lowry. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hendrick_Avercamp Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allan Bell Posted February 9, 2018 Share Posted February 9, 2018 5 hours ago, spacecadet said: I'm seeing Breugel in my head (far out, man). Probably the younger. Can't actually find ice and windmills in the same painting, though. It's a stunning image. Looks like the style I am thinking of particularly this image. Although no windmills. Sure I have seen skaters and windmills together though. 5 hours ago, Vincent Lowe said: Hendrick Avercamp perhaps? The figures remind me of Lowry. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hendrick_Avercamp Pretty sure it is not Hendrick Avercamp although one of his pictures does have one windmill with skaters. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cecile Marion Posted February 9, 2018 Share Posted February 9, 2018 It’s a beautiful photo. Made me think of Van Dyke. All the pictures in this thread are absolutely fabulous, particularly for Floridians who know little about snowy weather. This month will be another difficult challenge for the voters, I’m sure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wiskerke Posted February 10, 2018 Share Posted February 10, 2018 11 hours ago, Vincent Lowe said: Hendrick Avercamp perhaps? The figures remind me of Lowry. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hendrick_Avercamp It was a deliberate attempt to create my own Avercamp including the slightly elevated viewpoint. Which I have since used a lot for images here. This one was my initial reference. The winter scene with ice skaters is a distinct Dutch 17th C genre because of the Little Ice Age. @Brueghel the Elder/Younger - One of the most copied of all ice skating paintings is the one that started it all. Text explains it all. Do have a look at the lovely Avercamp sketch books (2). If you look at 2 or 3 or more Avercamp paintings at one point you'll start recognizing people: the Carnival bunch; the hockey players; the boy and girl; the man urinating; the older couple figure skating; the sleighs; toboggans; the sunken boat where people put their skates on and so on. He copy pasted long before photoshop! And they're all in his sketches: his street/ice photography ;-) Because it was all done from life. Not his oil paintings though: these were done in his studio in summer. His panorama's also were bits and parts - not an existing landscape. Most of the parts are more or less recognizable though. E.g. the towers of Deventer and Kampen. The genre lasted well into the 19th C with hundreds of painters trying their hand and their luck. And now me. wim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colin Woods Posted February 10, 2018 Share Posted February 10, 2018 Its a gorgeous photo Wim, and yes it qualifies as Fine Art (as mentioned in the other thread). Does it sell on POD? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Crean Posted February 10, 2018 Share Posted February 10, 2018 Here's a trio from Winter 1986! Archival uploads shot on 35mm Fuji 100 slide film. Phil Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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