Andree also considered these other two pictures:
Andree followed his “I pick so and so” paragraph with a lengthy dissertation on MegaShark vs. Giant Octopus. Can you guess why we are friends?
There were many more contributors this week. Looks like RWPE is back on track. Here are this week’s submissions for LIGHT PLACEMENT:
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Julie Johnson of The Joy is in the Journey
Mike Vest of Waxen Media
Christopher D. Bennett
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Becky Perkovich
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Dawn Krause A of The Randomness in My Mind
We’ve been down to the basement that holds the Random Generator. After a few jerks on its ripcord it sputtered and then fired up and then settled down to a nice hum. After thinking for a small bit of time, it spit out the following theme for this week:
That is a good broad theme and one that all Cyclone fans will need this week. Oh no! I’ve given up too much information on my idea. I would think that anybody with a camera or camera phone would be able to contribute something to a theme this broad and open to interpretation. Anybody that doesn’t contribute… I’m just going to have to assume that their life is devoid of hope.
These pictures were taken on a floody night back in June after Sara and I ate at a Lebanese restaurant nearby. I need to thank her for her assistance on this night even though I definitely burned out all of her patience… and then some.
I will need to revisit this bridge in the near future, now that the water has gone down on the Des Moines River.
f-stop: f/5.6
Exposure: 269 seconds
ISO: 200
I took this series of pictures after Todd and Peggy’s wedding with Sara insisting I don’t do anything dangerous or illegal. Here are more pictures that aren’t dangerous or illegal:
I will have to revisit this concept with somebody that cares less about my safety and laws in the future.
I took the Not Sent for Slumber photos on a very beautiful Spring night after eating at Jeff’s Pizza with Shannon. It was also the same night Teresa and I found out the lineup for Stephens’ 2010-11 season. The lineup ended up being mostly disappointing, with the obvious exception of David Sedaris, but Jeff’s Pizza never disappoints.
I hope people like this style of picture because I have a few more of these in the hopper. 1 has been taken and the rest still only exist in my brain.
Here are a handful of pictures that were considered for the last two weeks’ RWPE submissions, but were passed over for various reasons.
First, Painting with Light:
Second, Strong:
I should start thinking about COLORFUL pretty soon.
Last week’s theme really fired the imagination of some contributors as multiple people submitted multiple images for PAINTING WITH LIGHT.
Mike Vest B
Christopher D. Bennett
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Carla Stensland A
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Carla Stensland B
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Dawn Krause A
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Dawn Krause B
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Justin Whitaker
Dawn Weekly Poem
Painting with Light
Oh the ache
and cold of the dark
A searing pain
has left it’s markGloomy days with
impending doom
Lead us toward our
eventual tombWait for the light
to paint the sky
Raise my spirits
and hopes to flyCradle my heart
in His warm hands
With promise of
happier lands
The Random Generator has been randomizing and it has spit out this week’s theme:
To answer the inevitable question- “No, you can’t take my picture for this theme.”
Housekeeping Note
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With the big holiday weekend there weren’t many submissions for last week’s theme – HARMONY. In fact, there were only two.
Christopher D. Bennett
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Mike Vest
The Random Generator has spoken. The theme for this week is:
This one is kind of tricky and involves a fair degree of effort. Basically the idea of painting with light is photographing an object in near total darkness, but illuminating that object. Like with a flashlight.
Here is one example:
But of course, no need to be too literal with the theme.
Here are the submissions for last week’s theme – WILD:
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Dawn Krause B
Michael Vest of Waxen Media
Christopher D. Bennett
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Carla Stensland
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Julie Johnson of The Joy is in the Journey
There were a couple of late submissions for FEET. They can be seen on the FEET post:
The Random Theme Generator has been generating and this morning it spit out the following theme:
The best definition of LEADING LINES is a photo with very strong lines in the composition that lead the viewers eyes through the photograph. A simple example would be almost any picture of railroad tracks or of a highway. A viewer will naturally follow lines through a photography, so it is a powerful compositional tool to put your subject at the end of lines.
Below are a couple of examples of LEADING LINES:
Remember, the lines don’t have to be straight. An “S” Curve in an image is a very powerful compositional tool. Of course, as always, no reason to be too literal with the theme.