****Summer Seasonal Photo Contest Comments Thread****

[Callalily]

Please post your comments regarding the summer seasonal photo contest.

Comments, accolades, kudos, approval, distinction, flattery, esteem and raves are most appreciated!

[elleng]

1. I'm in!

'Welcome,' summer.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. I'm in!

I suspect you won't have too many photos of mushrooms, but I could be wrong!

Thank you, dear Callalily, for all your help.

[consider_this]

9. well actually...

I'm new to participating in this (though have loved lurking over this group for a while), and I have a stunning fungi pic I just took a few days ago and was thinking to post, but not going to now since you have a super nice one here for that subject. It's great!! Maybe I will pop mine into a later month theme contest.

So hope you feel better soon!

[CaliforniaPeggy]

10. I would really like to encourage you to enter your wonderful photo!

We would all love to see it, and especially from someone who's posting here for the first time.

We love getting new ...well, members! I hope you will change your mind and enter your fungi pic.

I am doing well as long as I keep my meds and the ice on a schedule so that the pain can't break through.

Thanks for your good thoughts!



On edit: I see you have already entered the wonderful pelican photo! It's a stunner and perfect for the Summer Contest! We might need second submissions, so you can hold your fungi pic as a possible second entry. Callalily will announce it if we do.

[consider_this]

11. thank you,

you are so welcoming! - however, I did enter another pic already, so not about to jump in and hog another slot. And - I should clarify, I am not posting here for the first time - last month was my first entry, so decided, why not share again.

Best to you!!

[CaliforniaPeggy]

12. I did see your photo and it's great!

I’m so glad you decided to enter this month too.

Welcome to the Photo Group!

[Diamond_Dog]

22. Your mushroom photo is just lovely, Peggy.

[Walleye]

3. Had to go with a recent hummingbird shot.

That means summer to me this year. Thanks for the contest

[AndyS]

4. Sorry to be a downer on an otherwise cheery season

but this has been my summer.

It's finally over though and I'm working on a new slide show for the web page . . .

[mike_c]

13. That's an awesome image.

Super sharp and great dynamic range! The image transcends the circumstances.

[Trailrider1951]

26. That photo is striking.

A clear image of what is occurring in some parts of the world. Thanks for posting it.

[AndyS]

27. It's an extra from a slide show on my web page.

https://andyshanks.smugmug.com/

[Trailrider1951]

28. Thanks for the link!

[Duncan Grant]

33. If I were a serious photographer with quality equipment, I'd chase images like this.

You had a submission in early 2021 that I really liked, too. It was of a leaf in snow - a fantastic photo.

[Soph0571]

5. Do you think I could put up the picci from the other day?

[Callalily]

6. I don't see why not!

It's a great photo and I think keeps in line with the theme.

[Soph0571]

7. Yay

[mike_c]

8. I had the hardest time choosing a submission for this theme.

I went with one from four or five years ago. It was a tough choice.

[Grumpy Old Guy]

14. Waiting For A Bite

I shot this at Diaz Lake in the high desert near Lone Pine, California. This is a rare, natural lake in the California desert. I think it may have been formed by a major earthquake in the late 18th Century. I shot this with my phone at the time, an LG20, which I loved for the ultrawide lens used here. Unfortunately, the phone was unreliable, and used to get itself into endless loops, so I had to get rid of it. I processed the image with the HDR function in Snapseed.

I did not catch any fish that evening. I had a hamburger for dinner instead.

[Diamond_Dog]

18. I love your photo GOG!

My hubby, who is an avid fisherman, thought it looked like Colorado. The light in the sky reflected on the water is just beautiful.

(Of course Hubs had to put in his two cents and say, “Maybe he’d have better luck hip wading”.)

I’m thinking that probably just fishing wasn’t the whole point….
Lol. Fabulous shot.

[Grumpy Old Guy]

23. Thank you so much Diamond Dog!

I think your hisband is right. Hip waders might have helped. Going to a lake that actually had some trout in it might have helped too! LOL!

Thanks for the kind words!

Grumpy

[mnhtnbb]

15. Garden Visitor is a Black Swallowtail

feeding on Lantana in my garden this summer. Sometimes I look out the window and see various butterflies flitting about the blooms and I'll grab the camera off the kitchen counter and run out to see if I can get a few shots. The black ones are less common than the yellow Tiger Swallowtails and usually do not rest for long on the flower, which makes it a real challenge to get a good shot. This is a male, which has more yellow and less blue on its wings than the female.

The only edit to this shot was some cropping.

[Pobeka]

16. Lupine Light

That image was taken on the same hike from which I posted the panorama of Grand Park:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/1036105871
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We do this annual 15 mile+ hike every year when the wildflowers are blooming at Mt. Rainier. It's a fun hike, that takes you along areas of very dry rocky paths in to lush meadows, and as you can see massive parks. Some years the wildflowers (lupine, paintbrush, louseworts, sitka valerian, arnica, avalanche/glacier lillies, pasqueflower, speedwell) just knock you over.

This year, was a strange year for the wildflowers, the late snowmelt suppressed a lot, and yet there were little gems here and there like the one I found for lupine light.


Great to see all these wonderful summer photos!

[Diamond_Dog]

19. I love your photo

The light really makes it. Beautiful job all around!

[HAB911]

17. I'm in! This is the uncropped original

with the full habanero background tweaked saturation and cropped

Little known fact of my alias, HAB=Habanero (my passion), 911= E 9-1-1 system I engineered for many years for GTE and AT&T (my profession)

[Diamond_Dog]

20. I love whimsical insect closeups!

This little guy reminds me of a helicopter. Fabulous shot!

[ManiacJoe]

34. Love a good photo of dragonflies!!

[LakeArenal]

36. Great entry. Truly summer.

[Diamond_Dog]

21. I'm in with "Got ball"?

Sophie’s absolute favorite outdoor activity, paws down, is ball chase. When she was younger she used to like lying on these hay bales for some reason, and she struck this pose for a split second while I had my camera out.

[HAB911]

24. TOO CUTE!

[Trailrider1951]

25. I'm in, with a photo I took in late June, 2008

At Olympic National Park in Western Washington State. Summer is the best time to visit the mountains, which are sometimes unavailable in the winter. The park is HUGE, and the landscapes are gorgeous.

[2naSalit]

29. Okay, I'm in!

Last edited Wed Sep 7, 2022, 04:36 PM - Edit history (4)

ETA: Took this on a day drive in the Gravelly Mts. between Dillon MT and Ennis, MT. The summit is near 10Kft and is abundant with wildflowers through the summer, an amazing number of species to behold! I took this around July 8th a few years ago. Nikon CoolPix P510; Aperture setting.

[HappyCynic]

30. I'm in with False Summer Sunset

I took this a couple years ago on July 11, 2020. I intended to try to take a photo of the comet Neowise and went to a spot with slightly less light pollution than where I live (not that I can escape severe light pollution without driving for well over an hour - look at Vancouver, BC on a light pollution map). I didn't feel like driving for ages so I was still in a far too well lit area. It's a bit of a mouthful but I went to Iona Island Causeway Sunset Viewpoint and arrived a about an hour before sunset.
When doing photos of the night sky, I always like to set up my gear before the sun goes down so I still have light to see by and I don't have to use any lights if there are any other photographers present. To pass the time while waiting for night and the comet, I took some photos of the sunset. My entry was one of those photos.
In case you're wondering, I did get a few photos of the comet but nothing anywhere close to a decent shot - just barely enough to recognize that it is a comet that was photographed.

[IcyPeas]

31. O Wow, I just looked at the submissions

Seriously!!! they are all beautiful. Don't know how I'll be able to vote.

Great Job all you photographers!!

[Talitha]

32. Lovely photos!

It's going to be difficult picking favorites, they're all great.

(BTW, it took forever for the page to load - some of the photos are way too big.)

[LakeArenal]

35. Love the hotdog Smiley face.

[Grumpy Old Guy]

37. This is going to be a great competition.

So many great shots.