This topic is designed to challenge your powers of observation in identifying peculiar, amusing or unusual signs that you come across, good hunting.
Come on Happy Snappers, surely someone else has seen something worth taking a picture of!
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Rocks (this can include rocks of any size, so includes particles as small as sand & as big as mountains)
The Judging results are in for Rocks.
1st - No.4, for it's unusual formation, the folds in the rock, and the contrast between the rough surface and the delicate plants.
2nd - No.3, again for the contrast between the rock itself and the plant with it's fruits.
3rd - No.5, which seems at first to be dominated by the bone in the centre, but the enlarged picture shows more rocks, good colour & texture.
Special merit to No.7's rugged peaks, again better in close-up; No.8 for a rock being put to good use; No.12 for capturing the unusual formation.
Well done to all competitors; this was a very close contest.
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No. 13 (unlucky for some...)
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Entries are invited for the new topic on modes of transport. Transport (any kind as long as a human being can get in, on or otherwise attached to it). Special merit to unusual forms that are NOT the usual mode for that particular location.
Well, Happy Snappers, the moment you've been waiting for. The judging was done at the same time as for our two previous topics, but unfortunately the text all got lost in the editing process. So the train never really left the station, as someone famously said. This was a pity, as your learned judge had prepared a lengthy and detailed summing up. The jury, however, are long gone, and we have a briefer results page. For more information, competitors can contact the judge outside the courts, with a little something to loosen the tongue.
The Verdict: in reverse order,
No.4 - unusual, but not unusual in the location (lots of empty trolleys in view)
No.8 - not something you see every day on your way to work, or even your way around the world. The judge can't help thinking, however, that this must be the only way to travel on that route.
No.5 - 'My car doesn't go' This has to be the winner for the picture of utter dejection on the face of the owner, and the distinct air of the car failing to be anyone's pride and joy. And there are some alternative means of transport in the shot.
No.7 almost sneaked in, as first place, as it fits the topic notes, and is an unusual form of transport to/from work, although it is fairly standard in Cuba, and quite frankly preferable to some other local means - if your knees can take the bouncing in and out of the ruts and potholes. So, this perversely gets the special merit.
No.10 - Nice trainers, and good reflections, but can itbe allowed for the topic? Well, the judge likes it, so it gets a special merit too.
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As everyone congregated on Ramsbury over Christmas the village and any views from within the village boundaries was nominated as the topic for the competition. This competition saw the first photos from a new entrant to the competition.
The winner was No. 8, with No.2 coming second and No. 10 coming third, a special mention goes to Nos 3 & 9
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