COMMENT THREAD ~ SUMMER CONTEST

[MattSh]

Please post your comments for the SUMMER CONTEST in this thread!

Submission thread here... http://www.democraticunderground.com/103620964

Enjoy and have fun!

[Solly Mack]

1. I'm in.

[alfredo]

2. The hard rock hotel is interesting in that

at times he looks like he is sleeping on ice, or on a waterfall.

[Solly Mack]

3. It does look like ice.

Pretty cool.

[alfredo]

4. Something like that makes a photo interesting without the viewer knowing why. I like that.

[Solly Mack]

5. Yep.

Are those picnic tables to the extreme left in your photo? I use my finger to go section by section of landscape photos and such. Don't know why really.

[alfredo]

6. I think that is the playground.

[Solly Mack]

7. Cool! Thanks! I like your photo.

I keep thinking someone will come jogging down the trail on the right.

[alfredo]

8. Thanks. Most likely the jogger will be pushing a baby carriage.

[Solly Mack]

9. I can see that.

[alfredo]

10. I have, but they never appear in my photos. Weird.

[Earth_First]

12. I'm in!

Thanks for hosting!

[CaliforniaPeggy]

13. These are all wonderful, but Mira's took my breath away...

[Mira]

14. I'm in summer paradise right now

it's a bit easier to show the season off
This little one's grandma wanted her to swim but could not show her how. She asked me to and show her some strokes. I responded and said OK, except I want to take a few shots of the little one under water in return, send her the best one by email ....
sometimes we do what we can to get the shots.
Thanks Peggy, I'm glad you like it. I do too.

[mnhtnbb]

15. This reminds me of the fish portraits which my friend does.

She lives in Bonaire from October to April and started doing underwater
photography as a hobby while scuba diving. You can see her work here:

http://www.bonaireimages.com/

Great shot, Mira!

[Mira]

18. Thanks for the link. If ever I am

able to do anything like these I can easily say: My work here is done.
Phenomenal photographs, utter magnificence.

[Solly Mack]

16. Wonderful entries!

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Celebration: I love what you did with the photo. Love the soft focus. Wonderful photo!

teamster633: Cool shot!

timstephens13: Great shot! Love it!

Mira: Excellent photo! Love the tiny bubbles and the child's expression.

[a la izquierda]

17. My husband submitted his first entry ever.

It's a much better photo than mine, but I was a bit pressed for time.

Awesome entries so far!

[Mira]

19. There is something about that wonderful dahlia

I have to come and look at it often. It's the color - surely.
Just gorgeous.

[Solly Mack]

20. Marinated Meters of Meatiness reminds me of Germany.

Especially of street-fests. I miss Germany.

[Mira]

21. to libodem: about your

back yard summer photo: I want it so stay in for sure.
It's wonderfully steamy and hot, therefore ever so seasonal and summery.
I suspect that the host will take it into his hands and enter it in the approved size of no more than 800 pixels on the longest size.
When I host and a photo comes in too large, I do it as a matter of course.
Good luck with your entry. I really like it very much.

[Mira]

22. Just saw your entry - Handmade34

and absolutely love the treatment and the name and the colors and the placement.
WOW

[handmade34]

23. thank you...

I think of you when I am out in my little garden (but very big next year)... the tree stalk that you commented on... the one placed there to let the beans climb... is feeding me green beans EVERYDAY... big, green, flavorful, healthy beans

[alfredo]

24. I'm just kicking this to the top.

[mnhtnbb]

25. As a pretty new member of this group, I LOVE seeing all the photos

that people take. I am just blown away by many of them. Yet---here comes the but--
I am surprised sometimes by the distribution of votes in GD when the contests are put up for voting.

I was debating between the artsy/statement making photo--which I submitted--and another
photo which was more feel/good, summery scene of ducks on a pond with shadows/water/flowers.

It is definitely fun to watch the voting process.

[Celebration]

26. voting is interesting and odd

What is surprising to me is that sometimes there is wide variability in the voting between the preliminaries and the finals. Sometimes a feel good photo wins, and sometimes an arty one. I finally just decided to submit what I like and not try to predict the voting or what someone else will like. And since I started that I am way less attached to any sort of outcome! I truly just have fun.

So glad you joined.