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Welcome to the June 2014 Photography Forum Challenge

** **Back to a letter this month - 'd'.
Ducks, darkness, directions, door, demure, drinks, dove, dog...

Just some of the suggestions that
we saw in the gallery last month.

Do display digital shots!

**Please remember:
**Two images per member per week.
Image size: No larger than:
800 pixels X 600 pixels
and 200KB

 

Here is my first easy 'D'...  three dogs in the car - Brady is the driver, PlayDoe the passenger and Kaitlyn the backseat driver.

 

Ha Clive what a great opening to this new month with your funny dogs. It looks like a funny scene of a movie to me.

I will do my best for this 'D'-challenge, my friend.

Bye, bye (Dutch: 'dag, dag'!)

Reallt great opening of the D month, CLive :-)))

Thanks Clive!  I'll start thinking.  :)

"If your pictures aren't good enough, you're not close enough."  ...  Robert Capa

How about...

 

Delicious!

 

:-D

"I reject your reality and substitute my own" - Adam Savage

OHH YUMMY! That is inDeeD Delicious, Rod :)))

DAISY !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Delightful Daisy - love the color!

"I reject your reality and substitute my own" - Adam Savage

DUNES !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

D is for Double.

Great manip, Steve :-)

D is for DIVA

My word - what delightful "d"s we already have posted! Very creative all!

Great one Clive!

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"To me, photography is an art of observation. It's about finding something interesting in an ordinary place... I've found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them."

Elliott Erwitt

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Delicious Double Dune Diva Daisy!

 

 

D is for 'Discarded' ...

 

What flies and takes great bird's eye view photos??

A "Drone" of course! Bill & Tara, I'll bet you saw this one coming! LOL

My Phantom getting some shots from above the trees

"I reject your reality and substitute my own" - Adam Savage

Dust

"If your pictures aren't good enough, you're not close enough."  ...  Robert Capa

Ducks

And doors

OH Man, it goes fast in here an look what cool shots we see :-)  Superb shots :)

Depressed donkeys!!!

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"To me, photography is an art of observation. It's about finding something interesting in an ordinary place... I've found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them."

Elliott Erwitt

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Argh, Yes, they look indeed depressed. Excellent shot.

Dove Nesting on Top of Arbor from Below.

Where's my dinner?

Dooms

Love the dog waiting for dinner!!!

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"To me, photography is an art of observation. It's about finding something interesting in an ordinary place... I've found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them."

Elliott Erwitt

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D is for "Derelict"

Looks like mad moon stayed there Steve, his penchant for wrecking things eh?   :)    Excellent shot BTW!

Some great pics here, I will have to have a sort out now my PC is running again.

Glad to know you are all fixed up again Jeff.

Just awesome Steve!

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"To me, photography is an art of observation. It's about finding something interesting in an ordinary place... I've found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them."

Elliott Erwitt

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Took this at Rosemoor Gardens  this week.

Another taken at Rosemoor Gardens  this week.

Nice dragon and droplets Jeff!

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"To me, photography is an art of observation. It's about finding something interesting in an ordinary place... I've found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them."

Elliott Erwitt

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Dynamic

Thanks Carin, I realize now that I forgot to put in the 'D's' but you have done it admirably.

 

Well done Ron your shot is excellent.

Great images! Congratulations to you all! :-)

 

A **d**ahlia for you! :-)

Beautiful emmec,

your dahlia is superb emmecielle

Thanks Jeff glad you like, and your two are super too mate. 

There are some fabuloso shots in here already, and there is a ton of the month to go.

Think you got a real winner with this theme Clive :)

Love the dahlia Maria!!!!

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"To me, photography is an art of observation. It's about finding something interesting in an ordinary place... I've found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them."

Elliott Erwitt

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Quote - Dooms

This was supposted to be the "Domes of Zandu". This is a house in south Sedona, Az. Go to this link http://www.monolithic.org/stories/feature-home-arizona-xanadu for more information.

How about a Drain

A drain suits this pic fine.

D is for Don

"If your pictures aren't good enough, you're not close enough."  ...  Robert Capa

Diving

Grandson diving at Region VIII Sectionals.

A great bit of diving Jim.

That's some seriously fine, work, Jim!

"If your pictures aren't good enough, you're not close enough."  ...  Robert Capa

Thank you.  This was a challenging composite.  The image would have been easier to build if I had done the layers from 6 to 1, in order instead of 1 to 6.

HINT:  Notice the 5 people in the water and the 6 people on the bleachers in the composite and the originals.  

Jim

Love the drain, the diving and Don!

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"To me, photography is an art of observation. It's about finding something interesting in an ordinary place... I've found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them."

Elliott Erwitt

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**D** is for **D**imples...

 

I see you have a couple too Clive.

LOL @ Jeff - yes he does have a couple Jeff! Love the dimples C

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"To me, photography is an art of observation. It's about finding something interesting in an ordinary place... I've found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them."

Elliott Erwitt

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DOMINATION

My grandson DOMINATES this 400M Individual Medley [100m Butterfly, 100m Backstroke, 100m breaststroke, & 100m freestyle] at the swim meet this weekend.  Photo is video capture.

Good for him Jim. Nice shot.

 

Great to see, Jim!  Next the Olympics...?!

 

**D** is for **D**ocks...

Simon's Town that is...

 

Beautiful Clive!

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"To me, photography is an art of observation. It's about finding something interesting in an ordinary place... I've found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them."

Elliott Erwitt

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You have hidden those dimples Clive !!

 

The days when I still had hair....!

 

Must have been the 1980s.  :)  Great avatar!

"If your pictures aren't good enough, you're not close enough."  ...  Robert Capa

 

1986!

 

I remember it like it was yesterday!  LOL!

"If your pictures aren't good enough, you're not close enough."  ...  Robert Capa

Drops?

DO NOT!

DRAGON

Hair today gone tomorrow eh Clive?  I know that one mate!  1986 hmm the 80's are years I would prefer to forget, I was married LOL!

 

Welcome love to the challenge darling, and rising to it I see :)

Attached Link: http:// Challenge

Three beauts Denise.

 

 

Oh Clive - how sexy!!!

Wonderful pics Denise! Welcome to the fun!

 

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"To me, photography is an art of observation. It's about finding something interesting in an ordinary place... I've found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them."

Elliott Erwitt

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Cool stuff, Denise!  I love those drops.

"If your pictures aren't good enough, you're not close enough."  ...  Robert Capa

What fun here, you all have such original idea's. Bravo!

Here are my entries (at the end, it's rather busy here, I forgot the first week of June to drop something here)

DRAWER('S).  btw: In my english dictionary is that this is a name given to a pair of underpants.

This are not my dols, I saw them in a kind of museum

Good ones Mies.  That's right underpants are called drawers, but that is usually applied to women's knickers,  These type of men's underwear you have shown are also known as "combinations" or "Long Johns"

Two more great pics Jacomina and I love the 'drawers' !!

Have been trying to post a pic here for several days but I seem to have lost the ability to do so !! Where am I going wrong ???

**"Dove Babies"** The mama Dove of my previous posts has two babies.  Although Mama has shades of tan, brown, gray, black, and white. I was surprised to see the little ones were only shades of gray and black.

Thanks for viewing and your comments. Posted in larger [but still reduced] resolution in my Gallery.

Jim

A very nice pic Jim.

 

D is for Dragon boat race.

Splendid action going on Steve.

Jeff - make sure that your images conform to the size. Remember they need to be NO LARGER than 800pixels x 600pixels and no larger than 200KB.

There should not be any other reason why you cannot upload here.

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"To me, photography is an art of observation. It's about finding something interesting in an ordinary place... I've found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them."

Elliott Erwitt

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Just tried again Carin - no success. My pic is at 146 kb.

As you know, I have posted here many times so I just don't know what I am doing wrong !

Jeff it shows me that you have deleted the post. I'm not sure why.

Apart from the KB size, is it equal to or smaller than 800x600 pixels?

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"To me, photography is an art of observation. It's about finding something interesting in an ordinary place... I've found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them."

Elliott Erwitt

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Hi Carin,

I deleted because the pic did not appear and this seems to be the problem.

 

Jeff.

@ Jeff:  Your text appears with no picture, right?  Sometimes if I link to a forum thread via a bot, I can't get my picture to post.  Try getting here "manually."  Go to the forum page, open the photography section, click on this thread ... and try again.  It's the only way I've found to get a picture posted when that happens.  Hope this helps!  If that doesn't work, you can start a thread in the Community Center forum and get Tina to work on it for you, or see if you can directly contact that aliens that live in our computers and ask them nicely if they'll quit screwing around with you.  :P

"If your pictures aren't good enough, you're not close enough."  ...  Robert Capa

Attached Link: Double Decker.

Double Decker.

 

This Double Decker is being used to transport some of the school leavers, in my second grandsons year, on their proms day.

 

Have had a lot of trouble trying to post this and I thank Carin and Tara for their assistance in guiding me.

 

Jeff.

As you can see - no picture.  I give up!!

Oh, I forgot about this!

Great shots everyone.

 

D is for Discarded or Dumped...

 

What a shot!  The reflection is excellent, and really messes with my mind.  :)

"If your pictures aren't good enough, you're not close enough."  ...  Robert Capa

WOW, what great idea's again for this 'D'-challenge.

@ Jim, I've never seen young dove's such close.

@ Garageland, I can see on their faces, it really was a dragon-race.

@ Ronny, Thank you for your explanation with regard to the English underwear. Long John's, yes, now that you mention it, I had heard this name before, but never seen, an Englishman with legs (and what else?) in it. :)

@ Jeff, What an unlucky person you are, my friend. And we here too, because we miss your grandson, and the double decker.

And regarding Clive's last post....:
The only thing that I need to do is making several pictures from the garden of my neighbour. Oh well, one would be enough to frighten you all! :ohmy:

This is an old device, for wringing water from wet clothes.

This a a detail of an 'Overland' oldtimer.

"@ Jim, I've never seen young dove's such close."

Sadly I have to report that one of the babies didn't survive a storm the other night.  I found it on my deck about 20 feet away.  I haven't seen the mother or other baby since then.  They are no longer in the next even though the nest survives.

I chose not to photograph the Dead baby Dove for this challenge.

Jim

I'm so sorry Jim, this happened. We have no control over the nature, huh?

Jacomina

D is for Dancing!

"If your pictures aren't good enough, you're not close enough."  ...  Robert Capa

Yay!  I finally got a D....  Desert Sunset :) 

D is for Deer

"If your pictures aren't good enough, you're not close enough."  ...  Robert Capa

decoy (work in progres)

minder is meer

D for Dutch... as in the Dutch Airforce :)

Haven't had much time to visit the forum lately. I've been so busy I barely have time to myself.

What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies. - Aristotle
-= Glass Eye Photography =- -= My Rendo Gallery =-

Lovely shots everyone!

die hangars ken ik niet... Woensdrecht?

minder is meer

Gilze-Rijen :)

What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies. - Aristotle
-= Glass Eye Photography =- -= My Rendo Gallery =-

The D for Dark:

A few weeks ago in the afternoon, there was bad weather with us, with lots of lightning and wind.
The air became suddenly terribly Dark.

Wow!  That's a lot of bad weather all in one place!

"If your pictures aren't good enough, you're not close enough."  ...  Robert Capa

Hi Tara, while I photographed there was a lot of lightning, I do not know, I believe it is not visible in the picture, right?

D is for... Dalmatian Dog.

A beautiful photo, bakapo.

This is not a beautiful photo, it's Dirt.

I had told you about the garden of our neighbor. Now, here is an example of a small portion of his very large garden.
This man is notorious in the village, guess why?

d= Duck

The D is for drinkwater, the houses is Sweikhuizen, the little village where I live.

The D for Dogs.

Two sisters and their dogs, waiting for daddy who is in a shop.

 

D is for Dead in the Desert :/

We were Driving through the Desert, when I said "stop!  I need to take a photo here."

Oh boy, the 4 wheel drive got stuck in neutral, we weren't moving at all!  Eeeek, a little bit of panic, no cell service, we were probably about, 6 miles from the highway and it was about 102! The only good thing ..we did have water.

My husband says, "We're screwed (language cleaned up...lol)"  and I said, "You can fix it".   So, my husband finds some big rocks, blocks the tires, and crawls under the jeep to look around.  After a couple minutes, I hear "oh I see the problem". Some stupid cable pin thing jiggled out and the shifter cable became unhooked.  I hopped in the driver seat, to move the shifter around, and my wonderful smart handy dandy husband fixed the cable :)

And that is my MisAdventure of the week :)

Great story, Melinda!  :)  Glad you got out all right!

"If your pictures aren't good enough, you're not close enough."  ...  Robert Capa

**D**reamy **d**oll

One of my old doll... poor girl now she is in a bad state. I should take her to the hospital of dolls! :(

Congratulations to all for the nice and interesting added images! 

Hugs from Sicily! :)

 

 

 

 

So beautiful, Maria

Thank you all for your submissions for the fun in June!

I have started the July Form Challenge thread titled The Letter 'M'.

Meet us there!