March 2011 - Black and White

[scouse smurf]

We've been running these Challenges on the flickr group for a few months now, so decided to give the forum members the same opportunity.

Each month, you can post two photos that fit in with the selected theme. They must be taken by you and preferably somewhere in the Merseyside area (include a location so we all know where it is). The winner gets to choose the following month's Theme and winner, unless they'd prefer not to, in which case that task falls to the site administrators.

Photos can be added upto and including the 30th March and the winner will be selected the following day, in time for choosing April's Theme. So get posting your photos.

Don't forget, it's only a bit of fun

[Oudeis]

Is there a monochrome angle Smurfy?

[Kev]

Here's two of mine:

1) Town
2) Duke Street Area

[gregs dad]

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5096/5499355337_bebf71620b.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/exacta2a/5499355337/)
Happy snappers on the steps of Christ the King cathedral

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3121/2884366959_b612d3c5ab.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/exacta2a/2884366959/)
Percy Street

[az_gila]

Albert Dock - an old photo of mine from when the weather map was floating in it.

Not sure of the date - late 90's perhaps?


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[Kev]

Nice to see this one getting off to a good start :)

[scouse smurf]

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5097/5502464952_c566af4245.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/scousesmurf/5502464952/)
Albert Dock taken last year on the Liverpool Docks Boat Tour (http://www.flickr.com/photos/scousesmurf/5502464952/)

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5176/5501964639_567fd2d8ae.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/scousesmurf/5501964639/)
Peter Pan Statue, Sefton Park (http://www.flickr.com/photos/scousesmurf/5501964639/)

[Leon]

Can I join?

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[scouse smurf]

It's open to all members Leon.

I'll bump the thread up once a week to give everyone a chance and so it doesn't get forgotten about

[Billy D]

LIVERPOOL 1
Shopping
http://i1239.photobucket.com/albums/ff513/w-b-c-d/LIVERPOOL212-1.jpg

At rest
http://i1239.photobucket.com/albums/ff513/w-b-c-d/LIVERPOOL25-1.jpg

[Kev]

These really are fab pics :) Many thanks all :)

[scouse smurf]

Two weeks left to get you photos added to the challenge

[corky100]

Memorial and Liver Building

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5135/5419755143_9421006c51_z_d.jpg



Hector Zamora, Mann Island. B&W works so much better with this image!

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4107/5190819748_c2041ed6a9_z_d.jpg

[Ged]

Looking down Eldon Street from Eldon Grove flats and the Steble Fountain, Willaim Brown Street.


http://img6.imageshack.us/img6/476/10799484.jpg (http://img6.imageshack.us/i/10799484.jpg/)

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http://img607.imageshack.us/img607/2442/10799562.jpg (http://img607.imageshack.us/i/10799562.jpg/)

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[Spike]

Tue Brook House

http://img339.imageshack.us/img339/7189/yo2dv.jpg (http://img339.imageshack.us/i/yo2dv.jpg/)

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Albert Dock

http://img215.imageshack.us/img215/2589/yo1co.jpg (http://img215.imageshack.us/i/yo1co.jpg/)

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[wsteve55]

Looking down Eldon Street from Eldon Grove flats and the Steble Fountain, Willaim Brown Street.


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Eh Ged,that's 2 of my old addresses you've shown,this week!! I lived in the 3rd house down,in pic' 1.

[Spike]

Ged The Stalker :ninja:

[wsteve55]

Ged The Stalker :ninja:

:nod:

[Ged]

Ha ha - what a coincidence.

I'm just outside yours right now. ;)

[ItsaZappathing]

Cracker pics all.:PDT11

[scouse smurf]

Cracker pics all.:PDT11

Ah, but which one will be picked as the first winner of the Yo Photo Theme Challenge or is that photo still to be posted ?

6 days left to add your potential winning photo with the opporunity to choose the theme for April

[robbo176]

St Georges Everton
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5309/5564963299_0472871a9b.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/mandy-robbo/5564963299/)

St Stephens Gateacre
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5178/5565536942_3d05b9e351.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/mandy-robbo/5565536942/)

[scouse smurf]

Only two days left to add your best two black and white photos.

Come on, plenty of members still to post, especially all you girlies :)

[lindylou]

An old pic of the Everton tower.

Also the remains of an wall and spring Blossoms.

[GeorgePorgie]

My camera is away for servicing and should be here for tomorrow? that means I have one day to find a composition that should win. lol

Seriously anyone with none point and shoot camera? there should be a setting on the camera to switch to B&W from colour,or you shoot colour and discard colour in paintshop pro or a paint program you use? or the program you usually get with a new camera?

[scouse smurf]

Post processing it exactly what I did, George

Last day to add you photos, winner will be announced tomorrow

[Ged]

My topic is nudes if I win. You're all safe then I guess.

[GeorgePorgie]

Last day to add you photos, winner will be announced tomorrow

The Month ends on thursday night at 3 minutes past twelve,Smurfy. tsk! Amatuers.

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Works like this.....

Closing day for March is 31st and judgement takes place on the 1st of April.

Meanwhile April 1st thread is started also.

[lindylou]

My topic is nudes if I win. You're all safe then I guess.

:lol:

[ChrisGeorge]

The Month ends on thursday night at 3 minutes past twelve,Smurfy. tsk! Amatuers.

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Works like this.....

Closing day for March is 31st and judgement takes place on the 1st of April.

Meanwhile April 1st thread is started also.

Will the winner be an April Fool? :002:

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http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4047/4669965956_9e16076829.jpg

Ancient Monks' Well, Wavertree, Liverpool, with a couple of scallys thrown in for good measure.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3269/2692320193_422ec353de.jpg

Poverty Nook, Oglet, 1965. A seventeenth century cottage, now demolished unfortunately.

[scouse smurf]

The Month ends on thursday night at 3 minutes past twelve,Smurfy. tsk! Amatuers.

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Works like this.....

Closing day for March is 31st and judgement takes place on the 1st of April.

Meanwhile April 1st thread is started also.

George considering the winner gets to pick April's theme, how can we start the April challenge when Marchs winner hasn't been chosen ?

The reason why it's the 30th, is to give us time to arrange with the winner the theme for April. If they can't be contacted by the end of the 31st then admin will select the next theme

[scouse smurf]

The winner of this months challenge is Corky100 with the following photo


Memorial and Liver Building

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5135/5419755143_9421006c51_z_d.jpg

Very well done to Corky. Will set up next months challenge by the end of the day

[Kev]

Well-done Corky and to everyone who contributed this month, bring on next month's theme! :handclap: Does Corky now choose next months theme and judge it?

Kev

[GeorgePorgie]

The winner of this months challenge is Corky100 with the following photo

Not a complaint but....who got to judge and how was it judged to win the March submissions?

[Spike]

What !! I never won !!! :shock: What a fix man.

Only kiddin. Well done Corky :handclap:

[scouse smurf]

Well-done Corky and to everyone who contributed this month, bring on next month's theme! :handclap: Does Corky now choose next months theme and judge it?
Kev

Correct Kev, as long as Corky is happy to do it. If not it reverts back to the management ie you :)


Not a complaint but....who got to judge and how was it judged to win the March submissions?

First month winner is chosen by me and future months are chosen by the winner of the previous month. It's one of the rewards for winning.
and it's judged on personal preference

[Billy D]

good shout Corky:PDT11

[Ged]

A deserving winner imho. :handclap:

[GeorgePorgie]

fit in with the selected theme

How do ya mean.."selected theme",this like the "Go and take a picture of"thread?

Thought it was B&W of anything in Liverpool?

[Ged]

It was. The selected theme for March was Black and White.

[lindylou]

:handclap: Great picture Corky

[GeorgePorgie]

It was. The selected theme for March was Black and White.But that ain't a theme,choosing between B&W & Colour is a Grade not a theme.
A theme is a proposed gender of pics ie a building an obstacle an monument a doorway ect,ect

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Oh and another ting. :)

What if the months winner selects a theme for the following month and ends up in hospital near the end of the month and Kev goes on holiday...who decides the winner for that month? :002::unibrow:

[Oudeis]

Clearly George we all wish the very best to Corky and wish him too the very best of health and ask him not to dwell on the double-edged-sword aspect of what is the monthly prize.
[not that I am attempting to influence anybody into making "health, wealth and happiness" next month's theme] :)

[Ged]

Bloody hell George - are you a glass half empty kinda bloke or what?

[GeorgePorgie]

I'be taken B&W photies and can't turn them into colour,Gedro. :) pmsl

[scouse smurf]

George, Ged is an admin so the task would fall to him.. if Ged has unfortunately fallen head first into his drum kit at the same time as the other two event have happened then since I came up with the challenge idea, I'll pick the winner and theme.

If I've also encountered some tragic event then there's a good chance the world has possible ended and we won't care about the challenge for next month

But thanks for getting me to clear up that issue, as I'm sure others were worried about it too

oh and one of the many definitions of the word Theme is subject: the subject matter of a conversation or discussion; I would think that in this thread instance black and white would come under that definition

[corky100]

well regardless, thanks for choosing mine,, and thanks for the comments :)

I've given Smurfy the theme for April, and it should be quite easy for anyone to find something that would fit ;-)

I will try not to fall off the ferry, in front of a bus or run into the road during the school run - that way theres a chance i can still be around to try pick a winner for next time :D. Assassination attempts however are another thing.... :D

Thanks again, good luck to Aprils entrants!

[robbo176]

well done Corky :)

[ChrisGeorge]

A deserving winner imho. :handclap:

I agree. Great photo, Corky. Bravo.

[Kev]

Have we got an April Theme yet?

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just seen it :)