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10/24/2016: Winner of the top prize, Wisconsin Historical Society's National Historic Preservation Act 50th Anniversary Photo Contest!
photo by Mark Adsit
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"Cloud Gate" by Anish Kapoor
Chicago skyline Reflection in "The Bean"
Millennium Park, Chicago, Illinois
The 110-ton Cloud Gate sculpture is forged of a seamless series of highly-polished stainless steel "plates" that create an elliptically-arched, highly-reflective work with Chicago's skyline and Millennium Park itself as a dramatic backdrop. Visitors fully experience the majestic nature of the work by literally walking through and around, as it was designed for public interaction. Inspired by liquid mercury, the sculpture is among the largest in the world, measuring 66-feet-long by 33-feet high.
For more information see: www.millenniumpark.org/artandarchitecture/anish_kapoor.html
1st Place winner on Beautiful Capture's "Eerie Shots" Contest Aug 29, 2013: www.flickr.com/groups/beautifulcapture/discuss/7215763511...
Red Shouldered Hawk (Buteo Lineatus) image captured in St. Louis County, Missouri.
1st Place winner in Digital Photography School's "Rule of Thirds: Objects" contest on May 19, 2014: digital-photography-school.com/forum/digital-photography-...
(Explore: 462 on Tuesday May 22, 2007)
Tied for second place in Macro Stuff in An Awesome Shot on July 13, 2007.
FMX Air Show at '08 US Open of Surfing, Huntington Beach, California.
Published in September 2009 edition of D.P Photography
A rare delight to see a nice flock of Sandhill Cranes. This image from Sauvie Island, Oregon near Portland.
First Place winner in the 2012 Oregonian newspaper Travel Photo Contest in the "Celebrating Oregon" category. Also selected by the Environmental Defense Fund for a permanent curated collection at their offices in Washington, D.C.
Image awarded "Admin's Choice of The Week" in NATURE'S PRIME for February 26, 2012. www.flickr.com/groups/natures_prime/
Most sandhill cranes live in freshwater wetlands. They are opportunistic eaters that enjoy plants, grains, mice, snakes, insects, or worms. Both the gray adult and the brown immature can be recognized by their very large size and uniform coloration. Note the bare red cap of the adult.
Best viewed large, on black. Press "L" on your keyboard to view large.
More of my images can be viewed at Gary Grossman Photography - www.garygrossmanphotography.com or ggman.zenfolio.com.
and now a break from regular photostream postings
Yes, you are correct if you think you have seen this image in my stream before.. This is definitely a repost.
And just why am I reposting? Well because this image helped me be the 2011 GRAND PRIZE WINNER of the New Mexico Magazine Photo Contest..
I have known since November and it has been one of the hardest things of my life to keep my mouth shut. Just received word this morning I can shout it to the rooftops. SO THIS IS ME SHOUTING.. I WON!!
3rd place winner in the Digital Photography School "Color" contest on July 14, 2014:
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2nd place winner in the "Beautiful Capture of Orange Flowers" contest on August 25, 2014: www.flickr.com/groups/beautifulcapture/discuss/7215764643...
It was a very foggy day around the lake and the fog was just lifting when this shot was taken. To me this image symbolizes the beauty and harmony so often found though all of Asia.
This is a roller coaster called Millenium Force at Cedar Point Ohio...the best Amusement park in the world, and my favorite place. This is a completely unaltered photo. The light show on this first 310 foot hill of the ride is spectacular.
This shot really goes back a long ways.
Back then, before John Shaw gave me my first roll of Fuji Velvia, I was shooting Kodachrome 64ASA slide film.
The grain was more pronounced then Velvia.
After, I switched to Velvia,
I never went back.
I entered this shot in Alaska's Fish & Game photo contest.
The contest was judged by Art Wolf.
I won first place! :-)
If you look on the middle left side, and use your imagination, there appears to be a "ghost bears face"
There was a poster made and to my dismay, I had to be at REI, meet people and sign the posters.
I am not a people person and would have much rather been facing a grizzly bear.
Anyway, the composition could have been better, but, it happened so fast.
Please view large.
This brings new meaning to the phrase, "find your light".
A bit of a break after a long hike and a snapshot of why I do what I do. Hiking in the PNW. Having early morning fog helps.
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First Place - MOMPC - Macro
I woke up yesterday and saw an ant biting my knee. Lucky my other macro gear was within reach so i took a few snaps.
Canon 60D + 100 L + Raynox 250 + on-cam 580EXII
ISO 200
f 16
1/200s
100mm
flash on ETTL
Baby Ormsby's final resting place in a small cemetery nestled in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Image won Honorable Mention at the St. Louis Camera Club Travel photography contest on December 7, 2016:
www.stlcameraclub.com/index.php/competitions/photo-travel...
Dear Flickr Friends,
I want to thank all of you who voted for my photograph "Grand Haven Spectacular" in the Spring 2010 "Pure Michigan" photo contest.
The photo was selected as the contest winner!
Also thanks for all the views and faves which sent it to Explore's Front Page for awhile!
A rock dove eating seed out of a boy's hand.
Won a 4th place ribbon at the 2007 Salt Lake County Fair.
Pier 39, San Francisco
Contest Winner:
The Diogenes Club: Contest #5 : CRYSTAL or PORCELAIN My first contest win on flickr
Gold Star Award: Front Page Contest #51
Secured 17th Place in Statue Challenge on www.dpreview.com with 2484 votes.
2nd Place winner in the St. Louis Camera Club 2015 Rookie Color Print contest on April 27, 2015:
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Image won 2nd place at the St. Louis Camera Club Projected Image contest on September 7, 2016: www.stlcameraclub.com/index.php/competitions/projected-im...
Visited Overstreet area early day, found several of these birds flying back and forth. Using Sigma 150-500mm OS HSM, handheld!
©2011 Cindy Bryant
*** Photo selected by & can be viewed in: EXPLORE
*** Photo also selected in: Birds Birds Birds, by admin as "Photo of the Day" on June 21, 2011.
I was following the bird and I shot directly into the sun....boy was I surprised.
Location: Robert Mondavi Vineyard, Napa Valley, California
Contest Winner:
20th Place, Wiki Loves Monuments 2012 in Czech Republic
Old Town City Hall, Old Town Square, Prague, Czech Republic
(Explore: 123 on Saturday, June 2, 2007)
Tied for second place in Macro Stuff in An Awesome Shot on July 13, 2007.
A much improved version of this shot is available for sale.
Contest Winning photo and my pic with the most views at over 100,000 clics
I'm Feeling Good to ;o)
It's not the camera , it's not the photographer , it's the Dog.......
This is my Winning Cover photo for Vermont.coms- Vermonts Fall Foliage Facebook page from last year. It was the cover photo for Vermont Fall Foliage all year.Now a new contest is open for this year and they are using my photo to gain contest entries.
It was just blogged by Vermont.com letting people know their contest is open again for this year.
htttp://blog.vermont.com/2014-vermont-fall-foliage-photo-contest/
Please don't use this image on websites, blogs or other media without my explicit permission.
© All rights reserved. All photos/images are digitally watermarked with Digimarc.
Desert Wine in front of the fire place, Robert Mondavi Vineyard, Napa Valley, California
Explored: #147, Dec 29, 2008
Contest Winner:
As most of you guys probably know by now since I've been too excited to shut up about it, I won Sony's photography contest called "Taylor Swift Close Up" to be Taylor's personal photographer and star in a Sony commercial... and win the Sony NEX 5R!! Taylor was SO nice and funny and easy to be around. I also got to meet Nigel Barker who was super friendly and helpful, and I got to watch him shoot with Taylor which was amazing!
Anyway, here it is!! It aired on XFactor last night and will continue to do so. Sony is releasing a high res version on their YouTube account by the end of the day, so I'll update with links then!
This was the most incredible experience, and I have you guys to thank for supporting me and helping me get here!! THANK YOU!!! :) This weekend Sony's sending me to be an on stage assistant to Joseph Gordon-Levitt for his HitRECord.org tour... CRAZY!!!
Not to mention I now have this AWESOME CAMERA which is PERFECT for traveling/taking nice pics when I don't want to lug my dslr around... I did not have to act one bit for this commercial hehe! I'm in love!
I am SO BLESSED and I can't tell you how much all your support and love means to me!! :)
website: emily-tebbetts.com/
facebook fan page: www.facebook.com/pages/Emily-Tebbetts-Photography/1735861...
Believe it or not, years ago (mid '80's) this photo of a Pacific Loon won me Grand Prize in National Wildlife's Photo Contest. This is a scan from a slide and isn't as good as it could be. The slide is quite a bit better. I had talked my wife into letting me buy Canon's "new" L Series 400mm F2.8 lens. I had to take a loan out at the Credit Union to pay for it. She told me that I had better use it and sell some of the photos taken with it to help pay for it. I said, I would try. :-) Anyway, I was out early one morning before sunrise in my raft with my new lens. The lens was mounted on my monopod. The base of the monopod was sitting in my sneaker to keep it from ripping a hole in the raft. Not a very stable platform, but, it works and I still shoot waterfowl using the same method. I saw this Pacific Loon and was rowing over to it. It started to swim towards me. Back then we all shot film. Before digital.... The lens was manual focus. WOW! how did we ever do it before auto focus. Makes you wonder. The shutter speed was 1/60th of a second shooting Fuji Velvia. So, loon swimming towards me. Manual focus. Slow shutter speed. 13 pound plus lens sitting on a monopod in a moving raft. Sounds like disaster. I fired two shots. Sent my film in and waited. Slides came back. The first was bad. Second one wasn't tack sharp, but, to good to throw away. So, I put it back in the box and there it set. Nearly two years. Then one day I showed it to a friend of mine that publishes books, calendars, all sorts of things using wildlife. He told me that I should enter it in a photo contest. Probably didn't want to hurt my feelings by turning me down. ;-) So, I did. The weeks slowly went by. We had picked up our mail and my wife was opening it. She said, you have something from National Wildlife. I said, probably a "sorry dude", try again next year, thank you for entering letter. She said, no, they say you are the Grand Prize Winner. Man, if I hadn't had my seat belt on, my head would have probably went through the roof of the car. So, to make a very long story shorter, they gave me the cash equivalent of some very nice camera gear since it was Nikon and I already had some quality Canon gear. Then people started asking if they could get prints of it. I sold a bunch.
One morning the phone rang as I was getting ready for work. Jan said, someone wanted to talk to me about my loon photo that won in the NWL Photo Contest. It was the Springer Foreign News Agency and they wanted to use it in a magazine called Horzu. I asked when they needed it and they said, if I could send it out today that would work. I told them that I was on my way to work and it would have to wait till tomorrow. They said, we will pay you $1,000.00 for the use of it. I said, okay it will be sent out today. I called my boss and told him I would be late. :-).
All told, this one shot has made me about $6,000.00 - $7,000.00 dollars. More than twice paid for my lens.
I LOVE LOONS!!! Is there any wonder.
PS: Here is a link to my setup for photographing loons:
www.flickr.com/photos/alaskafreezeframe/5262778292/in/alb...
Buck Creek, Helena, Al . The color comes from lights that shine on the falls, I actually bumped the saturation down a bit to get rid of some of the blue. Check it out big, if you have nothing better to do.
Here is a cool shot from Titlow Park in Tacoma, WA. A long exposure photo on the South Sound. As I processed this image, I wanted to keep it all a pastel color to match the sky.
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Shot during a Hasidic Kaparot ceremony in Williamsburg, New York. The older men and women were teaching the children, who tended to the chickens, how the ceremony was performed. Kaparot, meaning 'atonements', is a ritual deemed by those who practise it as a transfer of the sins of the past year on to the chicken. After the ceremony, the chicken is ritually slaughtered and often the meat is distributed to the poor. The ceremony is very controversial with animal rights groups. PETA was present in Williamsburg attempting to dissuade against the use of chickens, giving out money as a substitute.
Winner of the People category in the Popular Photography Readers Contest 2014: www.popphoto.com/photos/2014/12/2014-annual-readers-photo...
Featured on National Geographic Online: yourshot.nationalgeographic.com/stories/unexpected-discov...
from my archives.
I made this along with other images in October of 2009, primarily as a gift to our wedding guests.
This image was also featured as a full page spread in Manila Bulletin on January 26, 2010.
Harlequin Flower Beetle
Gymnetis caseyi
Found in South Texas, it was about an inch long. Never seen one before. I got a bunch of shots before it flew away.
Taken with my Raynox DCR-250 macro adapter with a CCRRFD MiLC ring flash diffuser.
One of the winners of the Member's Choice Theme in Closer and Closer Macro Photography.
Tied for Third Place in the Anything Yellow macros contest Amateur Macros.
(Explore: 281 on Saturday, May 12, 2007)