*** WINTER PHOTOGRAPHY CONTEST - FINAL ***

[blueraven95]

Poll question: *** WINTER PHOTOGRAPHY CONTEST - FINAL ***

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

The subject for this contest is SCENES OF WINTER.

The final round will run until 9:00 P.M. E.S.T. on February 13th.

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




Who'll Stop The Rain?




A Winter Enigma




St. Andrei's, Kiev




Deer Creek on a Late Afternoon




Snow on the Octoraro




Turnagain Pass




Nice Ice!




Seven Geese




A cold day




Rainier Sunrise

[varkam]

1. Those are some really excellent photographs

Really remarkable.

[rep the dems]

2. I voted for Rainier Sunrise, but wow! They are all incredible. nt.

[liberal N proud]

3. Pictures like Who'll Stop The Rain are the ones that just happen

I have a few of these, just standing there and you look down and think, what would that look like on film.
I have one I took very similar to that one last fall, near Falling Water, PA.

Great collection.

[wildhorses]

4. i want them all

everyone:bounce:

[calimary]

65. Yeah, me too! BEAUTIFUL photographs. Just BEAUTIFUL!!!

Thanks for taking and posting these, guys!

:toast:

[qanda]

5. Nice Ice is just awesome

I did have a hard time choosing because I also loved Turnagin Pass. Good job all.

[rubberducky]

6. They are all just beautiful!!

[nolies32fouettes]

73. I can't just pick one! They're all incredibly gorgeous.

[BlooInBloo]

7. To all: clapclapclapclap!

[proReality]

8. Nice Ice is like blown glass...

All of the photos are wonderful. It was hard to make a choice.

[Bluebear]

9. I like them all, but the desolation of "A cold day" makes me shiver

[conscious evolution]

42. Same here.

It was the only one that gave me a visceral reaction.
I actually shivered when I saw it.

[WiseButAngrySara]

10. Ranier Sunrise is my fav, but they're all great! ....n/t

[WiseButAngrySara]

11. KNR. ....n/t

[Lost-in-FL]

12. OMG!! Those are so beautiful!!

You guys are da bomb!!! OMG, OMG, OMG!!! :wow: :wow:


























OMG!! I am so OMG!!! :o :o :wow: :wow: :loveya: :loveya:

[Rhythm]

13. so many beautiful views...

you've really all outdone yourselves.

Congrats to all of the finalists.

[Eurobabe]

14. Gorgeous group of photos everyone, you make the final decision tough!

[Nite Owl]

15. So hard to choose

This group is really, really, really great!

[JeffR]

16. A kick for two reasons:

1) These photos are great.

2) Anything to get the new Lieberman thread bumped down the page...

[Whoa_Nelly]

17. Kicking for the Late Nighters in GD!

:hi:

[MissHoneychurch]

18. European Sunday kick

:hi:

[Karenina]

24. And another!

The only fair way to choose is shut my eyes and click! :-)

[Auggie]

19. "A cold day" just makes me feel... cold. It captures

the winter concept best, IMHO

[Hoping4Change]

32. i second that however it was very difficult to choose just one.

[Alamom]

20. These are all so great. My first choice made it to the finals, however, there are no losers here.

You are all great photographers.

[Cobalt Violet]

21. !st thing in the morning (pre-coffee even) kick.

:kcik:

[soup]

22. Congratulations and thank you to the finalists

and to everyone who shared their scenes of winter!

It takes a lot of guts to allow something you've created to be shoved out into the world to be judged.

Naturally, the tremendous monetary rewards have to be taken into consideration as a 'hugh' factor in that decision, too.

"What!?" ... "No!?" ... "Really!?" ... :rofl:

After living in, and rarely traveling beyond, Florida, for over 20 years, what I consider true winter is a distant memory. I really appreciate you all taking the time to photograph and share these beautiful scenes.

I haven't left home, yet in the past few days, I've had a chance to see St. Andrew's Cathedral in Kiev under a blanket of snow and a Mt. Rainier sunrise. I've spent time deep in wintry woods, flown over Mount St. Helen's, enjoyed having my nerves jangled in black and white, and been delighted by geese and cats and ravens. I've experienced freshly plowed roads and abandoned buildings sinking into the winter scape. I've been chilled by and sucked into a winter's enigma. I've marveled at the beauty, clarity and imagination that went into nice ice, ice crystals and a winter's kiss. I've gotten shivers just viewing the blizzard of 93 and a windswept cold day. I can only hope that no developer sees the breathtaking view of Turnagain Pass and decides to pepper it with winter retreats for the wealthy.

Thank you for sharing your beautiful photos and allowing me to travel with you.

A final tip of the hat to blueraven95 for the work that went into hosting this. You make it look effortless, and we all know it isn't.

Well done, everyone! Well done.

I have to pick just one? How can I possibly do that?

[blueraven95]

25. and with a big thank you to regnaD kciN

whose help with the technical details has been incredibly helpful - allowing me to make this look easy - and whole created the seasonal contests to begin with.

[JeffR]

27. Nicely said, soup

:toast:

[jhain]

23. Get back up there!

The weather people are spasing about a possible blizzard on Tuesday/Wednesday here in the Mid- Atalntic. Guess I will have some of this scenery soon!

[brook]

26. Looks like

we're all pretty much in agreement...Hardest. Decision. Ever.

This is one glorious set of pictures. Thank you all!

[Mz Pip]

28. Back to the top

:kick:

[Olney Blue]

29. All of these are amazing!!!!!!

[JeffR]

30. Kickin' it back up

:kick: :kick:

[NV Whino]

31. Kick

[Catbird]

33. YAK

Yet Another Kick

[Mz Pip]

34. Once more

:kick:

[MzNov]

35. Thank you for these beautiful pictures. It's so hard to pick a favorite.

[JeffR]

36. Looks kickable, so:

:kick:

[qanda]

37. kick

:kick:

[Laurier]

38. Some stunning photos there, tough to choose

But I voted for Rainer Sunrise.

[DemExpat]

39. Most enjoyable and hard to pick out one - but Cold Day

still intrigues me and sparks my winter senses the most.

Congratulations to ALL of the Finalists with your wonderful shots!

:kick: :kick: :kick:

:toast:

DemEx

[Pool Hall Ace]

40. Kick

:kick:

[sce56]

41. Humm how about these Excutive Order 9066

notice the rig in background for the Toyota Tundra commercial for the superbowl

Cemetery at Manzanar Ca.

trying to restore the old housing old units were sold to locals after closing the camp.

Last standing guard tower along US 395




Never forget it did happen here we put the Japanese Americans in concentration camps.


Manzanar was the first of ten relocation centers established for "national security" purposes by the United States government in 1942, following Japan's bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, and America's subsequent formal entrance into World War II. Removed to these centers were some 117,000 U.S. resident Japanese Americans, approximately one-third of whom were law-abiding Japanese aliens (Issei) denied U. S. citizenship and two-thirds U.S. citizens (preponderantly second-generation Nisei, but also some third-generation Sansei and even a few fourth-generation Yonsei). Located in barren desert area of Owens Valley in eastern California's Inyo County, the Manzanar site had been utilized by the Paiute and Shoshone Indians for centuries. During the late 19th and early 20th centuries Euro-American settlers had moved into the area and established ranches, and during the period roughly spanning the years between the early 1910s and the mid-1930s a small Euro-American fruit-growing settlement named Manzanar (Spanish for "apple orchard") had been established.

The Manzanar camp was established initially by the U.S. Army as an assembly or reception center and managed by the Wartime Civil Control Administration (WCCA) as the Owens Valley Reception Center from March 21 through May 31, 1942. On June 1, 1942, Manzanar was transferred to the War Relocation Authority (WRA), and renamed the Manzanar War Relocation Center. As a WCCA unit, Manzanar had one project director (Clayton Triggs) and two acting directors (Solon Kimball and Harvey Coverley).

In its relocation center phase, extending to its closure on November 21, 1945, Manzanar's two directors were Roy Nash (until November 24, 1942) and Ralph P. Merritt. The overwhelming majority of the camp's peak population of 10,121 (nearly equally divided between male and female with one-quarter of them school-age children) were drawn from prewar Japanese communities in Los Angeles County particularly the City of Los Angeles.

Situated on some 6,000 acres of land leased from the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, the evacuee living area consisted of nearly one-square-mile expanse dominated by 36 blocks of tar-paper barracks, most of the residents living in spartan conditions in 20-foot by 25-foot overcrowded apartments. This area encompassed communal mess halls, laundry facilities, and latrines for each block, as well as considerably upgraded living facilities for the WRA appointed personnel. Additionally, it contained a hospital, school, church, recreational, and cultural facilities, a cooperative store, and other necessary amenities found in a "normal" American city of comparable size. Also in this central evacuee living area were war-related industries (e.g., a camouflage net factory), an experimental plantation for producing natural rubber from the guayule plant, various shops that produced a variety of goods, and a Children's Village orphanage.

Immediately outside the evacuee living area were agriculturally developed lands, enabling Manzanar to become largely self-sufficient in vegetables, meat, and poultry products, augment the other WRA camps' food supplies, and generate limited revenue for the Manzanar center in open-market sales. The camp's core evacuee living area was surrounded by barbed wire and overlooked by eight guard towers manned by military police, who were quartered a half-mile south of the Manzanar center.

Although relative peace generally prevailed within the center, evacuee resistance to unpopular administrative policies — manifested as work slowdowns and strikes as well as through cultural political action and non-compliance with regulations — was not uncommon. The most dramatic incident of resistance occurred on December 6, 1942. Sparked by the jailing of the Mess Hall Workers' Union's head (Harry Ueno) for beating an evacuee (Fred Tayama) prominent in the Japanese American Citizens League (JACL), whose leaders were widely assumed by evacuees to be informers and collaborators with the WRA administrators and federal investigative and law enforcement agencies, the "Manzanar Riot" climaxed in the death of two evacuees and the wounding of ten others by military police-firearms. Its aftermath involved the roundup and ultimate imprisonment (without formal charges or hearings) of Ueno and other suspect "pro-Japanese" advocates and camp "troublemakers" in isolation centers in Moab, Utah, and Leupp, Arizona, and the "protective custody" consignment to the abandoned Cow Creek Civilian Conservation Corps camp in nearby Death Valley National Monument of JACL and allied "pro-American" spokespersons and their families.

A more pervasive and protracted show of resistance was set in motion two months later, in February 1943, when the Army and the WRA imposed a mandatory registration on the adult population of Manzanar and the other centers for the joint purpose of establishing eligibility for leave clearance and securing volunteers for a special Japanese American army combat unit. At Manzanar, only 42 persons (approximately 2 percent of the eligible citizen males) volunteered for military service, while approximately 50 percent of all male citizens and 45 percent of all female citizens either answered "no" to the so-called loyalty questions on the registration questionnaire or refused to answer the questions. The latter situation led to the transfer of nearly 2,200 evacuees from Manzanar to the WRA's newly-established Tule Lake Segregation Center in northern California during late 1943 and early 1944.

With the departure of its "disloyals" to Tule Lake (along with expatriates and repatriates to Japan) and an increasing number of its "loyals" entering the military (following the reinstitution of selective service for Japanese Americans in January 1944) and resettling throughout the United States as war workers and college students, Manzanar became a community largely of elderly and youthful residents. Notwithstanding limited self-government and an improved physical appearance and social ambience, Manzanar retained constant reminders of forcible confinement. Its residents were not free to leave, its newspaper (Manzanar Free Press) was censored, and its barbed wire boundaries patrolled by armed military police.

[regnaD kciN]

45. You should have entered one of those in the contest...

[sce56]

48. Did not know anything about the contest!

[regnaD kciN]

52. Then visit the Photography Group...

We're currently taking entries for the monthly contest -- theme: Bridges.

[texpatriot2004]

43. They are beautiful. Thanks for sharing nm

[blueraven95]

44. kicking for the night people

:party:

[CC]

46. kick

[Raffi Ella]

47. oh wow, they're all so gorgeous

I can't decide which one I like the most.Great work you guys. B-)

[Broken_Hero]

49. Great pics, that ice one was great, I've never seen

a pic like that before.

[Decruiter]

51. Nice Ice is a stunning piece.

Nice Ice will probably be one of my most favorite photographs ever.

The light shooting through the crystals, the colors, the illumination, it's just beautiful.

[regnaD kciN]

50. Late night...

... :kick: .

[Doondoo]

53. nice work!

[blueraven95]

54. kick

:kick:

because I can.

[MissHoneychurch]

55. Back to page one

:kick:

[Patiod]

56. They're all so good I thought it would be closer

and I thought my favorite "Deer Creek" just resonated with me for some particular reason. Evidently not.

[Blue_In_AK]

57. To the top. n/t

[blueraven95]

58. kicking for lunch

[regnaD kciN]

59. Time for a mid-afternoon...

... :kick: .

[fishwax]

60. kick

:applause:

[blueraven95]

61. kicking right before heroes

kick.

[JeffR]

62. Kick!

:kick: :kick: :kick:

[regnaD kciN]

63. Kicking right during Heroes (Pacific Standard Time broadcast)

:kick:

[MissHoneychurch]

64. Kickin it to the top again

:kick:

[Robeson]

66. All those pics are winners....

...:thumbsup:

[regnaD kciN]

67. Another late night...

... :kick: .

[blueraven95]

68. kick

8 1/2 hours to go - vote now!

[blueraven95]

70. so obviously I can't count and meant to put...

11.5 hours left. At 9:30.

Now its more like 8.5 hours.

That's what I get for trying to be smart.

[MissHoneychurch]

69. The contest is coming to an end

PLEASE VOTE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[regnaD kciN]

71. Midday kick...

:kick:

[Pierre.Suave]

72. I like them all

but I had to vote for Turnagain Pass.

[Kerrytravelers]

74. It is impossible to pick!

[blueraven95]

75. Only 1 1/2 hours left to vote

so do it now!!!

[regnaD kciN]

76. One last...

... :kick: !

[JeffR]

77. Kick while there's still time!

:kick: :kick: :kick:

[blueraven95]

78. 9 minutes left!

If you were saving your vote for the end, this is it.

[blueraven95]

79. the polling period is now over.

Thanks for voting!!!

[wakemeupwhenitsover]

80. I'm going to lock this since the

voting time is over.

Good luck everyone!

best,
wakemeupwhenitsover
DU Moderator