The Written Word

The Written Word is the title of Septembers challenge. To learn more and to see some examples look at the last post titled "Lets Get This Party Started".

Photoman

Let's Get This Party Started!

O.K. so I am back and I have decided that it is time to get this challenge going again. So I am going to give you a little twist to the challenge. I am going to say our next challenge will be for the month of September. This challenge will be a bit different than past challenges, it will involve the written word as well as photography. I am giving you an extra month to figure this challenge out so don't be scared. How it works is simple, each of us are to find a specific phrase from a song, poetry, quote or book. Once you have chosen a phrase the challenge is to then go out and shoot an image that speaks your phrase. Here are a couple of examples to help you with the challenge.

"what if a much of a which of a wind..."

"...soft fists insist on heaving the needles, the leafy bedding...."

Mother And Babe I SEE the sleeping babe,.... Walt Whitman

Hopefully this helps you, if not just let me know and I will try to explain it better. When you post your image the title will be the phrase that you chose for the image.

Good hunting and Happy shooting,

Photoman

Start Again?

If the rumers are correct I think photoman is back in town. Should we start back up? I'd like to if anyone else would too.

Regarding Hmm!

Sorry, but I am out of the country at this time and my internet connection is going to be sketchy if I am lucky, so I cannot be certain that I can be in charge for a while. Those of you who want to continue this challenge in my absence please do. Feel free to make up your own challenges and have fun. Who know maybe you will do a better job than I did. I will keep an eye out and if you have a challenge and I can work it in I will try to participate, if I have internet where I am going.

Just remember photography should be fun so have fun with whatever you do!

Photoman

hmm

I miss this.

December P&S Reflections of Christmas

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December Challenge

O.K. everyone here we go again, it is time to announce the next challenge. Remember that we now have the entire month to post an image for the challenge. It is now time to judge the entries for Nov. If you have not already voted don't forget to choose your favorite DSLR and your Favorite point & shoot image and put the word VOTE in the comment section. Please try to vote by Dec. 8th so that I can announce the winners. Now to this months challenge. Well it is December and that means it is Reflections of Christmas" so let me see your best photo of "Reflections of Christmas" .

Photoman

Welcome to the newest photogs Lucille and Dawn, and Michelle from Nov.

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Noveber P&S Round- new one

It may be a stretch for round I don't know, but my bubbles didn't turn out too well. This is my actual post.

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An Extension

I am granting an extension to the challenge well to be honest, I am going to extend all challenges for the entire length of the month. I just forgot to tell everyone. From now on all challenges will be for the length of the month. I will try to post the new challenge on the 1st of the month but if I forget, let me apologize ahead. Sorry, I may forget or get to busy. Also we have a new entrant who I just found out about and she has not been able to upload so I am publicly saying that I am granting the extension now to all. If you have already uploaded and would like to upload another you may. Only one entry though you will have to choose between the one you have now and the new one. So everyone has another 10 days. Happy shooting.

Photoman

Noveber P&S Round

Michelle

Michelle I just saw your comment, in order to submit an image I have to add you as an author. In order to add you as an author I need your email address. I will send you an invitation once you accept the invitation you will be able to submit images. You need to have a google account in order to join so if you don't already have one you will need to go to Google.com and sign up for a free account. Once you have done this you can accept the invitation. If you leave your email as a comment to this post I will send you an invite. No one will see your email besides me as I will not publish your comment so you can feel safe leaving your email address as a comment.

Photoman

November_DSLR_Round

November_DSLR_Round

Next months challenge!

Well I said that I would keep this challenge going so I am going to give it a try. I will only promise another 3 months after that I am not sure that I can do it any longer. I am leaving for Africa in January tentatively on the 29th and will be gone for 6 months God willing. So I may not be able to finish out the month of Jan. as I will be very busy with finalizing all of the details of the trip. I am not sure what I will do but I think I am going to find someone to run the challenge for me while I am gone. Who knows maybe I will have time to enter it while I am gone. I have decided that the challenge needs more competitors to make the challenge more interesting. So I am opening the challenge to those who shoot with any digital camera. I would like to keep the point and shoot images separate from the DSLR images. So those of you who use a DSLR will need to title your images as follows for each month November_DSLR_Wildlife if you are a point and shoot then you will need to title your images November_P&S_ Wildlife. November is the month of the Challenge, DSLR and P&S are the type of camera you use and Wildlife would be that months category. So for the month of November the challenge is Round. There you have it let me see your best rendition of Round. No stipulations other than it has to be shot between the 1st and the 20th of November.

Aplogies and Promises

I promise I will keep the challenge going if the person who commented anonymously will promise to continue to follow the blog and comment about the images. After reading my first response to their comments I realize that I came across a bit condescending and did not intend to. One thing I hate about the written word is that it often comes across harsh. It is often taken the wrong way, a voice fluctuates when a person speaks and adds life to the word said that a pen and paper often steal leaving the message cold and hard. I apologize for not reading my post before posting or maybe I could have tried to make myself not sound so cold.

Photoman

Anonymous

I appreciate that you take the time to follow the challenge and that you are close to two of the challenge participants. I did not mean to imply that I want you to stop commenting on the challenge, please do not. It is encouraging to see that people are following the challenge who are not participants. So feel free to comment in the future if the challenge continues to exist. I will make a decision soon as to the future of the challenge.

Photoman

Anonymous Response to last post

So I had 2 quick responses from the 2 photographers who are here each month submitting images for the challenge and I have added their responses to the end of the post for all to read. I have also received an anonymous response from someone who is very familiar to the workings of the challenge who feels it is imperative that the challenge continue. I am wondering why this is so important to them if they are not ones who participate on a regular basis. Please no anonymous responses to my last post. If the blog is important to you I would like you to share your identity otherwise your comment does not hold much sway in my decision to concerning the future of the challenge. If you would like make yourself known I will post your response along with the others.

Photoman