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tabatha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-02-11 12:02 PM
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January contest theme
Hi,

Meant to post this yesterday, but there was a family wedding (yep, the groom can never forget the anniversary date!).
Here are some ideas .... please add more .... I don't know if any of these themes have been used yet:

Water - in all of it forms
Warmth - warmth of emotion, warm scene, etc
Winter
Weather
Time pieces - clocks, watches, etc
By design - human designed elements

Happy New Year to everyone!









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Elfin Yeti Donating Member (623 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-02-11 01:46 PM
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1. Thanks Tabatha!
Here are a few ideas:

heartfelt
blown away
muscle power
bad behavior
disconnected
faithful

Happy New Year to all! :party:
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alfredo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-02-11 02:51 PM
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2. Warmth is a good theme for this time of year.
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NV Whino Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-02-11 03:15 PM
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3. Good heavens
I think a friend of mine attended the wedding. Can't be that many weddings in CA on New Years.
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elleng Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-02-11 04:27 PM
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4. Logical, but Saturday VALUABLE wedding day.
I'd bet there were quite a few.
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Mz Pip Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-02-11 04:39 PM
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5. We'll be doing
the seasonal "Winter" contest next month so maybe not that.

The rest are certainly good possibilites.
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Celebration Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-02-11 06:34 PM
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6. Wedding????
Great photo!! I love that spread. We have something in common--family wedding over the holidays. We just spent over a week in redneck Riviera, where my middle daughter got married in a rented beach house New Year's eve. She refused an event planner, a florist, and a photographer (eke!), just had a caterer-- so I don't have any photos like yours, because they just don't exist. But here is a photo, complete with bird. And who do we have to thank for this arch???? Our landlord, who looked at my pitiful attempt with pvc pipe that was too short, and about to fall down, and rounded up bamboo that people had left behind. After he met my son in law, who is six feet four, he rounded up TALLER bamboo, a post hole digger, and put this in the ground. When the bird landed, I snapped a picture.



Oh, a monsoon started just a few hours after this (mostly) outdoor event occurred. I need to defrag from this extended beach party in mostly moderately high wind, complete with sparks flying from a bonfire. I missed taking any pics from that because my camera was lost in the sand. Later another son in law found it, thankfully.

Happy New Year everyone!!

At this point I could care less about the theme this month, unless someone wants to suggest beach weddings in mid winter!
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tabatha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-02-11 06:40 PM
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7. I took that photo and many more.
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Celebration Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-02-11 07:02 PM
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8. oh, I know, and kudos to you
My time was spent trying to light candles outside in 25 mph wind! (unsuccessful) and trying to find my camera buried in the sand after I tripped over 1/2 cord of wood on the extremely dark beach. My daughter had ideas about the wedding that involved way too much hands on amateur efforts by her mom and others. Only a few people noticed that there were tons of unlit candles outside. The photography efforts on my part were way down the list of things to do. Here is an earlier pic though. I will probably get my winter entry from a beach pic!



One thing I did learn from all this is that there is some sort of app that I can get that makes the cell phone act like a flashlight. I could use that! I still don't know if that camera works from all the sand in it, but at least the camera card was undamaged.

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tabatha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-02-11 07:47 PM
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9. That was funny.
Hope the camera works.

Nice photo - I love the color of water at sunset/sunrise.

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handmade34 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-02-11 08:14 PM
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10. I agree with alfredo
that "warmth" is a good subject for this time of year (as I find it difficult getting any...)

but any that you choose will be just fine
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HappyCynic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-02-11 09:52 PM
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11. Great ideas
Hope you don't mind a couple more suggestions:

Red
Backlit

I know we've a couple colour-based themes very recently so I don't know if you'll want to give Red much consideration.
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tabatha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-02-11 11:02 PM
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12. I had hoped for more suggestions.
Thank you - maybe there are two polls worth.
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HappyCynic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-02-11 11:32 PM
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13. In that case...
Here are a few more...

Contrasts
Metal
The Future
Retro
Illusion
Contrast

You could do a couple polls or just pick 10 you like for a single poll.
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Mz Pip Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-11 12:22 AM
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15. We did Red not too long ago
but Backlit sounds pretty cool.
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HappyCynic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-11 01:51 AM
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16. Looking at my list...
It looks like Red was done Feb 2009. No wonder I didn't remember it. I started hanging around this group around early summer 2009 (with my first contest Green in Aug 2009).
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Celebration Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-04-11 06:57 AM
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21. Oh, I love backlit
If not this month, then sometime.
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ohheckyeah Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-11 12:15 AM
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14. How about
black and white as in all photographs are in black and white.
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Earth_First Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-11 06:19 AM
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17. +1
I like the idea of warmth as a theme as we are all looking towards Spring.

However, I feel black and white is more mood appropriate for January...

Just my .02
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ohheckyeah Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-11 01:24 PM
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18. I always find it interesting
to see how others see the world when you take away the color.
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alfredo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-03-11 10:08 PM
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19. Black and white is fun.
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maheanuu Donating Member (135 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-04-11 05:31 AM
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20. Winter, Spring or Fall
Sorta leaves me and the peeps from Hawaii SOL (Not Sweet On Lucy). Black and White along with Water rings my bell or trips my trigger...

I am going to watch and read and lurk and no matter what it ends up being, I am going to figure out how to make the theme fit our islands and our climate...

Here is a shot in downtown Papeete on Christmas Eve day... (sort of a graphic illustration)

Reflections


Aroha, and IaOrana Ma'a Tahiti Api!
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