Photo Comp July 2013 "This Cannot Be Real"

[Truder]

Here's one I took 18 months ago there abouts. No editing at all just a strange fluke but makes for an interesting photo nevertheless.

[Zoot]

The prisoners have staged a jail break and have taken revenge on their mean, nasty captors....

[F-ZeroOne]

I was hoping to create an entry this month but have been distracted by computer issues and things. Heres an old photo instead; the Jumbo Machinder Garada K-7, arguably the rarest Japanese giant robot toy ever made - until a couple of examples turned up completely at random in a Bandai museum, no-one actually knew if any examples existed or not; it couldn't be "real" until then!

[RiK]

Yo Dvorak, hit us up with a shortlist dude.

[Harlequin]

The prisoners have staged a jail break and have taken revenge on their mean, nasty captors....

Pictures glorifying rape? David Cameron thinks you are sick and should be prosecuted.

[Dvorak]

Yo Dvorak, hit us up with a shortlist dude.

Oh, July already approaching its end?
Alright then.

[RiK]

Yo Dvorak, hit us up with a shortlist dude.

Oh, July already approaching its end?
Alright then.

Comps always end on the 25th. You're 2 days late!

[Dvorak]

Yo Dvorak, hit us up with a shortlist dude.

Oh, July already approaching its end?
Alright then.

Comps always end on the 25th. You're 2 days late!

In Nepal I once waited four days for a bus.
Finally it came.
Opposite direction though.

[RiK]

Shortlist:

The shortlist for July then.

"Angel/Katra" by RiK.


Angel.. by Richard Olpin LRPS, on Flickr

The Whiteness. The perfectness.
Wouldn't of course, because I'm really and totally happy with the one I love, my girlfriend. But would. Since this is a white icon, not a real person. Like she would. Which is ok. Totally ok.

"Starlings" by Stuart B.

Starlings by Gnu2000, on Flickr

If you turn up contrast until it hits the pure decision of becoming either 0 or 1 - then you leave the realm of the concrete with its endless shades, then you enter the realm of pure abstract structural beauty. Taxa surviving now for millions of years. Pure structure within time.

"Untitled (Night Light)" by GoatFoam.

Wandering around through an unknown landscape in a country that is strange to me. Lost and lonely. A cheap hotel bed waiting somewhere but forgotten. You're somewhere in the woods. There are lights.

"Untitled (The Dig) by OnlyIntruder.



There is something hidden there. I can feel it. Can't you smell it? Why does everybody turn away from it? Don't dig deeper. There is something.

"Untitled (Prisoner's Revenge) by Zoot.


Your tilt-shift macro dream of bitter-sweet revenge. Then you awake. It's cold and rainy. No-one there. Just you and your playtime memories. And some Lego bricks.

D.

[RiK]

Worth noting that Meow and F-ZeroOne almost made it too, but I had to put my foot down and point out the *maximum* shortlist was five. We don't get many votes as is so we need to be sensible about the numbers.

Sorry chaps!

[Meow]

Worth noting that Meow and F-ZeroOne almost made it too, but I had to put my foot down and point out the *maximum* shortlist was five. We don't get many votes as is so we need to be sensible about the numbers.

Sorry chaps!

I don't enter to win. I just enjoy the thinking and looking for photo opportunities on the said theme.

[F-ZeroOne]

No problem, I only offered mine up for want of not being able to get anything done this month...

[RiK]

Well if it's any consolation chaps, Dvorak had you in his original shortlist, but I asked him to thin it down to a maximum of 5 so blame me :-)

Hey, I'm always in the shit, it's only the depth that varies!

[GoatFoam]

My entry isn't really eligible as it was taken ages ago. I had a plan for something proper, but last build before release took priority

[Dvorak]

My entry isn't really eligible as it was taken ages ago. I had a plan for something proper, but last build before release took priority

Wrong. It's in the shortlist. It's entirely eligible.