Official Team Velocity Photo Contest Thread!

[Fonzico]

Ok, I know some of us kind of discussed this, so I'm just going to go ahead and get the ball rolling!

 

So the idea is that we take pictures of our walks each week - hopefully nature walks, but obviously that's not always possible, so I would say if you take a pretty picture in the city, it still counts.. as long as you were on a proper walk!

 

Every week, submit your best photo in this thread, and someone who's smarter than I am can set up a poll to vote on the best. You can't vote for your own picture. And you do have to be on Team Velocity. Sorry, lurkers. Hopefully this will inspire us to make the effort to go on some really great walks!

 

 

Also, feel free to add to or edit my 'rules'... they were just off the top of my head

 

 

Go team Velocity! We rock!

[Fonzico]

So, Imma get things started off here!

I took this last night. I only had my phone with me, so it's not very good quality, I promise to do better next time It was pretty though. The sky was funky colours, and you can see the skating rink on the left side there. You can't really tell, but that was some seriously deep snow I was tromping through, it was a good workout! I did a little body weight workout on the playground behind the rink.

[Pookie]

 

 

This was in Bostall Woods which is near to us, we hadn't been before, had a nice walk round!

[Heranje]

Those look great, guys! I'm having a really hard time choosing a picture from the ones I took on my walk yesterday... are we just doing one each a week?

 

Anyway, here are some horses I came across standing in the snow:

 

[Ordimoi]

This struck me as pretty cool. Recently it got extremely warm (40 degrees) and the river melted then froze again before all the ice chunks could melt. I found it pretty interesting. 

[Fonzico]

Whoo, the competition is strong here!

 

And I don't know about the multiple picture thing... I don't see why not, but I think maybe it would be simplest if we then vote for people rather than individual pictures? Like if Heranje posts two, you'll vote for her if you like either of hers the best... Did that make any sense? Does anyone else have an opinion? I'm totally not trying to be the boss of the photo competition, or anything! Haha it just looks that way

 

Plus, if you can post multiple pictures, you'll have to go on more walks! It's win-win Maybe we should have some kind of limit, though? Or maybe one picture per walk you took? I don't know. Someone else?

[Jo2926]

WOW your photos are lovely!

 

I have two entries - one from my windmill hike on sunday and one to keep in with your snow themes from my yomp today!

[Jo2926]

[Pookie]

This is from my walk on Saturday, so technically my first photo was week 1, this is from week 2!

 

This is Danson Park, very close to us, can't tell from the picture but this is surrounded by, well, London! We are towards the outskirts, but this picture looks lovely and wild even when its really not!

 

[Fonzico]

Ok, the voting for Week One is active! You can find it here.

 

Good luck everyone!

[Jakob Kopfeld]

So even though I sadly don't get to vote, I'd like to share my thoughts about some of these photos, as I'm a huge Photography nerd. Also I really love the Idea of taking pictures of walks. Sadly I can't quote the pictures I wanted to talk about. 

 

 

WOW your photos are lovely!

 

I have two entries - one from my windmill hike on sunday and one to keep in with your snow themes from my yomp today!

 

The Windmill

Definately my favourite Picture from this thread thus far! I like it alot because it has a certain simplicity composition-wise. It's also executed very well, except for a little white clipping in the topleft corner. But thats really hard to avoid without a polarizer when photographing sky. The slightly more lit area just above the horizon really gives this picture it's soul.

 

 

 

This is from my walk on Saturday, so technically my first photo was week 1, this is from week 2!

 

This is Danson Park, very close to us, can't tell from the picture but this is surrounded by, well, London! We are towards the outskirts, but this picture looks lovely and wild even when its really not!

 

The frozen Lake

This picture has a really nice motive. I'm just a sucker for frozen lakes I guess. This is in London? Wow I have a hard time believing that there is such a nice place in such a big city. You really got a nice shot there. The trees in the background seem a bit blurred, but I'm guessing that is the wind riffleing them. Quicker shutterspeed and this is easily number one

[Fonzico]

It's great to have a professional eye! We are just having fun and trying to get out for more walks, but I love the technical critique. Welcome, substix!

[Jakob Kopfeld]

Thanks for the warm welcome!

I just love talking about photographs, if it isn't appreaciated I'll just lurk this thread an appreaciate the awesome pictures. Glad you like what I got to say though

[Jo2926]

No very much appreciated! Thank you for your kind words. 

[Jakob Kopfeld]

You're Welcome!

 

Great, if you like it, I'm definately gonna be around to talk about some of your pictures.

[Heranje]

Welcome, substix! Great to have someone giving feedback on our photos, even though we may not be experts in composition.

 

I had a really great walk in the woodlands today, so I'm now excited for this week's contest! Didn't bring my camera, though, so all my pictures are from my sub-par iPhone cam.

[Fonzico]

Grrr, yes, my goal for this week is to actually take pics with the good camera! We did do one session last week, but none of them turned out very interesting - hubby was just playing around with his new polarizing filter Definitely excited to take some better ones this week though.

[Ordimoi]

Substix- Thank you for the comments! And lurking is always fun *grins mischiefisly* 

I'm probably going to take a long walk on Wednesday in the woods.... because Wednesday is when supposedly I won't freeze my bum walking *gives shifty eyes* But I don't trust weather forecasts, there is a plot in there somewhere to rule the world. Yay for pictures! 

[Jakob Kopfeld]

Welcome, substix! Great to have someone giving feedback on our photos, even though we may not be experts in composition.

 

I had a really great walk in the woodlands today, so I'm now excited for this week's contest! Didn't bring my camera, though, so all my pictures are from my sub-par iPhone cam.

Thanks for you kind words

First time I looked at your picture I somehow managed to miss the horses. The big dark branch totally makes them hard to spot. Definately my fault, very nice picture though!

 

 

 

Substix- Thank you for the comments! And lurking is always fun *grins mischiefisly* 

I'm probably going to take a long walk on Wednesday in the woods.... because Wednesday is when supposedly I won't freeze my bum walking *gives shifty eyes* But I don't trust weather forecasts, there is a plot in there somewhere to rule the world. Yay for pictures! 

Lurking is fun but striking a nice conversation with strangers who I share interests with is waaay better

May I ask about your picture, are those natural colors or is there some kind of filter on it? Something about the ice floes seems off to me. Or are those rocks? I can't tell.

[Ordimoi]

*chuckles* I have no filter but it was getting slightly dark when I took the picture. Also, it should be noted, it is ice but since it was in a river that melted for a little bit the area was full of mud and dirt that had frozen over. *chuckles* So the ice looked odd, probably why I took a picture. I love odd things. 

Striking up conversations are quite fun indeed! 

[Jakob Kopfeld]

Wow natural colors. Quite the image you got there. Dirt probably explains the they weird colors on the ice. When you say slightly dark, was it dark enough for your camera device to think it's actually night and switch to nightmode? Cause that would explain the funky colors of those plants aswell.

 

Pictures of odd things, especially in places where you can't expect them to be (for example perfect symetry in a chaotic place like a bar or nightclub) are always worth at least a snapshop, if not a fully set up photograph

[Pookie]

It was pretty dark, the skies where really heavy with cloud and the camera was insisting on attempting longer exposures and had to force it not to. Was a bit annoying as some neat shots of ducks on the ice came out awful because of the exposure time.

 

Thanks for your comments! I agree its great having your comments and ideas in our thread.

[Heranje]

Just to check: pictures for this week go in this thread as well, yeah?

[Jakob Kopfeld]

It was pretty dark, the skies where really heavy with cloud and the camera was insisting on attempting longer exposures and had to force it not to. Was a bit annoying as some neat shots of ducks on the ice came out awful because of the exposure time.

 

Thanks for your comments! I agree its great having your comments and ideas in our thread.

I'd love to see the picture of the ducks  

The problem with longer exposure times (.5s and upwards for me) is that it gets really hard to keep the camera stable. Sometimes that makes it tricky to get a good shot off. I usually hold my breath and hope for the best, or just use a tripod if I got one on my at the time. Sometimes it is necessary to settle for a not so perfect image. For me it just makes chasing perfection more fun!

 

 

 

Just to check: pictures for this week go in this thread as well, yeah?

I hope so, would make keepin track of all the great pictures easier

[Pookie]

@Heranje, My lake picture is week two of this mini event, so I'm assuming so!

 

These are NOT my entries! Just sharing additional ones!

 

This is the ducks! The whole shot just ended up blurry as we where under trees in the swampy bit, so was even darker than out near the lake.

 

Danson Park is fairly big, and it edged with trees and we haven't got many tall buildings on the skyline, its terribly suburban middle-class area, so no high rise.

 

And the swan was hilarious, she walked to there, then sat down and used her legs out behind herself to scoot across the thinner ice until getting into the water, no photo of the scooting as we where laughing too hard!

 Thats whats great about digital as well you can forgive taking 10 pictures of "that bee" until its right!