The Winter Contest

[Johnny Noshoes]

The winter contest will start this Saturday March 1st. It will be open submissions not blind submissions.

The submission thread will close at 5:00 p.m. PST on March 4th or whenever thirty photos have been submitted, whichever comes first.

Preliminaries will be posted in GD March 5th - 9th With Finals to follow.

[Hoppy]

1. How do I post a photo? I have my photos on Picasa.

[Solly Mack]

3. Here's a link on how to do it.

Here is a link explaining how to post your entry to DU.

Should work the same with Picasa. Copy photo link and paste it into "Message text" of a post. Put the title of your photo in the title space. Try it now with a photo to see how it works.

[Solly Mack]

2. Thanks!

[ohheckyeah]

4. I guess I'm going to sit this one out.

I have no winter photos because basically I hate winter, snow, and ice.

Good luck to those who enter!

[mnhtnbb]

5. If it hadn't been for our two February snows--which are unusual here--

I wouldn't have had ANYthing worth entering.

Hmmm...does winter HAVE to include snow and ice?

[ohheckyeah]

6. No, not really, but

it just looks barren here without it.

[mnhtnbb]

7. I agree.

But people dressed in winter coats...the bleakness of brown landscape and leafless trees...
isn't there something you could shoot to signify winter?

[ohheckyeah]

8. I probably could but

I like to pretend it isn't winter.

[mnhtnbb]

9. I hear ya

[ohheckyeah]

10. This is the coldest winter we've had

in a long time.

[NCarolinawoman]

15. Andrew Wyeth preferred painting scenes in January and February, but mostly without snow.

Something about the starkness of shapes, deep shadows and his preference for a very limited pallet. I don't think he painted very many blue skies, either.

[mnhtnbb]

16. Funny you should mention Andrew Wyeth.

My mother used to say there was a distant family connection to Andrew Wyeth--
she was born in PA 10 years before Wyeth--but I never saw a family tree connecting
them.

[NCarolinawoman]

17. When I was in school in Philadelphia, I went out to "Wyeth country",

It's Bucks County, Pa. I was studying art (painting/illustration). There were always raging arguments going on about whether or not Wyeth was an artist or an illustrator. It was during the eighties and "the art community" was coming around to the fact that he was, indeed an artist. Edward Hopper was already considered to be both---why not Wyeth? Timberlake of North Carolina has had to endure the same scrutiny.

For myself, I have always been influenced by all three. I do find myself drawn to winter, particularly leaden skies, with a hint of pink or gold on the horizon. I also love the slanting golden rays of sun which begins to hint that autumn is coming-- or it's already here. I love mid to late November when the different shades of oak leaves are the last ones left standing--mahogany/deep Burgundie/ butterscotch, ,etc. I never really appreciated the beauty of oak leaves as a child.

By the way, I do not consider myself much of a photographer, but I love this site and am inspired and enjoy so much of what I see here. I know I speak for a lot of the "non-photographers" at DU.

[handmade34]

11. I'm headed to Brooklyn tomorrow

maybe I'll feel good enough to get my camera out (up to 8 inches of snow Monday)

[elleng]

12. Looking forward to seeing what you get.

Say hi to my hometown!

[handmade34]

13. any suggestions?

I will be staying at a place near Prospect Park... will be working so I can't spend much time looking for the right spot but you may be able to recommend photogenic sites?

[elleng]

14. Wish I could,

but haven't lived there since I was 9 years old!