*** WINTER PHOTOGRAPHY CONTEST - ROUND 2***

[blueraven95]

Poll question: *** WINTER PHOTOGRAPHY CONTEST - ROUND 2***

NOTE TO MODS: Skinner has authorized this contest to be run in GD.

The subject for this contest is SCENES OF WINTER.

The top four finishers in each round will advance to the finals, along with the next two highest vote-getters overall.

The preliminary round will run until 12:00 P.M. E.S.T. on February 10th.

Don't forget to vote and please feel free to share your comments!

The other poll can be found here.


A cold day




Winter's Kiss




Nice Ice!




Downed Cabin




Snow on the Octoraro




St. Andrei's, Kiev




Waiting and watching




Ice Crystals, Zugspitze




Who'll Stop The Rain?




nerves

[blueraven95]

1. kicking back to the top

:kick:

[Cobalt Violet]

2. K & R

As with round one, I haven't decide which to vote for yet. They all do a good job of showing some aspect of winter.

[bigbrother05]

3. kick

[CrazyOrangeCat]

4. k&r

all very good stuff.

think i like the snowy river the best, tho. very evocative . . .

[The Backlash Cometh]

5. This is like, no fair. Us Floridians are at a disadvantage.

And how do we know that this pictures aren't pre-Global warming photos?

[Change has come]

6. Once again

Beautiful Pictures! :kick:

[blueraven95]

7. kicking

:kick:

[JeffR]

8. Kick!

:kick:

[Nicole]

9. Kick

[Straight Shooter]

10. For photography acumen, I chose Nice Ice. Never seen anything like it.

But I have to say, the "Nerves" photo is intriguing and very cleverly titled.

[alfredo]

14. Knocked my socks off too.

[jannyk]

11. Oooh really tough choice! kick

[tinfoilinfor2005]

12. Damn! Where's my sweater???

Living in the Florida Keys, I only see ice in my cocktail.

Love the Nice Ice. Looks like fine Waterford Crystal.

Kick...

[Blue_In_AK]

13. Kick.

[Morgana LaFey]

15. NOT FAIR

Too hard to choose. TOO hard to choose. :cry:

[qanda]

16. These are just wonderful

The pictures seem to keep getting better and better. Good work everyone.

[NV Whino]

17. kick

[fishwax]

18. kick

:applause:

[Cobalt Violet]

19. Kick.

[KittyWampus]

20. Artists- Cold Day is very powerful,

Nice Ice is a great shot and good, playful photo but not as thematic

Snow on Ontario is so atmospheric

Ice Crystals is interested, would have liked an ever closer crop (it looks focused enough)

Who'll Stop the Rain is good but too much of the picture is in a dull light (right side). It's fun to have the leaf, but it would be interesting to have cropped this at the vertical middle (you'd have a diagnol dark/light line going from top left to bottom right corners.

Nerves is a great take on the theme and a great title.

[blueraven95]

21. kick for morning

:kick:

[neweurope]

22. I like them all - but "A cold day" I like best.

I can hear the wind howling by looking at it. There seems to be a lot of movement in it even though the objects are still, and composition and light are great.

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Remember Fallujah

Bush to The Hague!

[Whoa_Nelly]

23. Left Coast AM Kick

[JeffR]

24. Kickin' time

:kick:

[Mz Pip]

25. Kick

:kick:

[CC]

26. kick

[blueraven95]

27. kick

:kick:

[DemExpat]

28. "A Cold day" really grabs me. Superb winter image

which invokes real sensations of coldness/starkness along with a wonderful vista in the distance of frozen, timeless space.

DemEx

edit: runner up for me is "Nerves"!

But piece by piece I enjoy them all very much. Thanks, photographers! Lovely.

[HCE SuiGeneris]

29. Great work from all...

A cold day indeed... :applause:

[Blue_In_AK]

30. Kick

[JeffR]

31. Kick!

:kick:

[blueraven95]

32. kickeroo

:kick:

[confuddled]

33. BR-R-R-R-R-R-R-R!!!!! Pass the brandy, please.

[blueraven95]

34. kick to front page

[JeffR]

35. Time for another kick

:kick:

[regnaD kciN]

36. Time to make like a chorus line...

:kick:

[MissHoneychurch]

37. European kick

:kick:

[regnaD kciN]

38. It's time for a "back to page one"...

... :kick: .

[MissHoneychurch]

39. kick

[blueraven95]

40. lunchtime kick

[JeffR]

41. Kick!

:kick: :kick:

[alfredo]

42. kick

[Blue_In_AK]

43. Kick.

[Blue_In_AK]

44. Kick again.

[Ms_Dem_Meanor]

45. Kicked!

[malaise]

46. Beautiful photos

Kick!

[blueraven95]

47. wheeee! back to the top!

[ConsAreLiars]

48. kick (n/t)

[blueraven95]

49. only 8 hours left

so vote now!

[blueraven95]

50. only one hour left!!!

vote now!

[donsu]

51. what a hard pick! I finally decided to vote for Nice Ice but I really also

liked A Cold Day, St. Andrei's, Kiev, and Nerves

[blueraven95]

52. Polling is now closed

Thanks everyone and please keep an eye out for the final round.

[Fenris]

53. Locking.

OP request.