+Simply Paul Posted March 1, 2010 Share Posted March 1, 2010 Thanks to Happy Humphrey I'm judging this time, so please get your photos posted on this thread before the 1st of April. A reminder of the rules (the latest version from the original January 2010 thread); 1) The only hard and fast rule is that the photo must be cache related and to do with a specific cache, caching series or caching trip. There should be a hyperlink(s) to the cache(s) in the post. The cache(s) must be from the UK or Ireland. 2) Two photos per cacher per month (give or take). 3) A new thread is started each month, with the OP stating these rules. 4) The winner each month is decided by the winner from the previous month - the new winner starting the thread for the subsequent month. They may set a theme if they wish. 5) Photos should be recent if possible. (No debates as to what recent means! This rule is flexible.) 6) The competition runs from the 1st of the month, until a date specified in the OP by the previous months winner. This should give sufficient time for the winner (or other person if necessary) to start the new thread. As this is 'just for fun', I'm not going to be strict about rules 2 or 5, although rule 1 will have to be adhered to. However, if there are several good photos to choose between, I might be tempted to pick one that was actually taken in March 2010 and even more tempted if it's associated with your own caching log! And is the photo is REALLY old, it might only get recognition for Historical Interest. Obviously, this is going to be highly subjective, so don't get disheartened if you thought your photo was better than the eventual winner. Please keep on trying - especially as the judge will change monthly. If you haven't already uploaded a photo, a good tip might be to upload to one of your log entries (it can just be 'post a note'). Then, display the photo and copy the URL to provide a link to the post. If it's not actually relevant to the cache you've used, delete the note and the photo - the URL will still work. Quote Link to comment
+keehotee Posted March 3, 2010 Share Posted March 3, 2010 On the way to the Severn Bore Earthcache yesterday morning... Quote Link to comment
+The_Street_Searchers Posted March 3, 2010 Share Posted March 3, 2010 Yesterday evening at Prince George Lock (Multi-cache) Taken on my iPhone but I thought it presented an interesting view of the power station at night. Quote Link to comment
+Jenny&James Posted March 3, 2010 Share Posted March 3, 2010 Taken near 'CC1 Roundtop' GCP3XF Quote Link to comment
+Alibags Posted March 4, 2010 Share Posted March 4, 2010 Taken close to the start of GCHQCT earlier this year when it was all frosty. Quote Link to comment
+Guanajuato Posted March 4, 2010 Share Posted March 4, 2010 Taken close to the start of GCHQCT earlier this year when it was all frosty. Bit of fiddling the arty filters in Photoshop/Gimp to turn it into an 'oil painting' or 'watercolour' and you've got a victorian Christmas card there. Quote Link to comment
daveindeal Posted March 4, 2010 Share Posted March 4, 2010 GC10G1M - Chapel In The Ferns Here is my Found it Log: After a the third set of root canal was unsucessful, back in folkstone at the dentist's. I Arrived in the lane and got funny looks from the two builders in the graveyard as i sat in the car coughing blood and holding a muslin gause where my tooth use to be!! after a short wait they left and so onward to GZ. thinking of seeping sap i went straight for the tree, then when it wasnt there a look around and the only other place it could have been the cache was in hand. in the log i said that i left a coin, but being a little light headed and not able to feel half my face i still had it in my pocket when i got home. Uploading a picture of the church taken on my blackberry and also a image to show you what tooth i had pulled to make my great smile greater and my two images listed with the cache: The church from GZ taken on my blackberry My great smile made Greater Quote Link to comment
+The Blorenges Posted March 4, 2010 Share Posted March 4, 2010 Very good... That's the first entry this month to include a "Grin". MrsB Quote Link to comment
+the pooks Posted March 8, 2010 Share Posted March 8, 2010 I quite enjoy following this topic, but the previous months are already becoming a little difficult to find. I wonder if a link to a list of rounds would not be in order. Here are the first few. 201001Start http://forums.Groundspeak.com/GC/index.php...239694&st=0 201002 http://forums.Groundspeak.com/GC/index.php...t&p=4211067 201003 http://forums.Groundspeak.com/GC/index.php...t&p=4244333 Quote Link to comment
markandlynn Posted March 8, 2010 Share Posted March 8, 2010 GC1RBZ8 Ford and Far between yesterday in sunshine ! had to crop the sun from the top left leaving a nice panorama. Quote Link to comment
+Lydford Locators Posted March 9, 2010 Share Posted March 9, 2010 (edited) http://www.geocaching.com/seek/limage.aspx?imgid=7653736 Creature Comforts - Freddy Frog GC24FPV (Sorry not techi enough to make the photo show up here.) Edited March 9, 2010 by Lydford Locators Quote Link to comment
+keehotee Posted March 9, 2010 Share Posted March 9, 2010 http://www.geocaching.com/seek/limage.aspx?imgid=7653736 Creature Comforts - Freddy Frog GC24FPV (Sorry not techi enough to make the photo show up here.) Your link doesn't seem to work - -try this one instead... Quote Link to comment
+Lydford Locators Posted March 9, 2010 Share Posted March 9, 2010 http://www.geocaching.com/seek/limage.aspx?imgid=7653736 Creature Comforts - Freddy Frog GC24FPV (Sorry not techi enough to make the photo show up here.) Your link doesn't seem to work - -try this one instead... Thanks Tim, I did try. x Quote Link to comment
+Guanajuato Posted March 10, 2010 Share Posted March 10, 2010 Isn't that just crying out for a cache! Quote Link to comment
markandlynn Posted March 10, 2010 Share Posted March 10, 2010 Theme for the month appears to be trees Quote Link to comment
Cmc401 Posted March 15, 2010 Share Posted March 15, 2010 (edited) Hey, sorta new to this so sorry if the images are a bit big or anything. Both were taken on a caching trip near GCN643 Edited March 15, 2010 by Cmc401 Quote Link to comment
+NickandAliandEliza Posted March 15, 2010 Share Posted March 15, 2010 Anyone else having trouble uploading photos to the gc.com site? I keep getting the message; Server error 500 - Internal server error. There is a problem with the resource you are looking for, and it cannot be displayed. Quote Link to comment
+The Blorenges Posted March 15, 2010 Share Posted March 15, 2010 Anyone else having trouble uploading photos to the gc.com site? I keep getting the message; Server error 500 - Internal server error. There is a problem with the resource you are looking for, and it cannot be displayed. Yes, I've just got the same when trying to add some pics to cache logs. MrsB Quote Link to comment
+Simply Paul Posted March 15, 2010 Author Share Posted March 15, 2010 Hamster has a sore throat and a sniffle. Only half way through the month, so lots more time to upload your favourite caching snaps of March. Please keep them coming. When you're able Quote Link to comment
+NickandAliandEliza Posted March 15, 2010 Share Posted March 15, 2010 Doesn't do the event justice, but thought I'd be different.......... Had genuinely planned to find GC179PB, but sheer weight of numbers coming off the M4 would have made it difficult. Quote Link to comment
+Smithbats Posted March 15, 2010 Share Posted March 15, 2010 Spring was in the air on Saturday, we came acroos these little'uns while on the way to GCWN7Y Quote Link to comment
camjocotem Posted March 15, 2010 Share Posted March 15, 2010 This was near the Reas Wood cache on a particularly rainy day (GCN643) Quote Link to comment
+dino-irl Posted March 15, 2010 Share Posted March 15, 2010 This was near the Reas Wood cache on a particularly rainy day (GCN643) Oh....like that one a lot Quote Link to comment
+Haggis Hunter Posted March 18, 2010 Share Posted March 18, 2010 Got the following pictures of frogs (or maybe they're toads I dunno) whilst walking to the Unseen Heroes cache. A piggy back - is the larger one the female? Leap Frog gone wrong - or are they just having a ???????????? I also got one of a Roe deer, who allowed me to get fairly close. Quote Link to comment
+Guanajuato Posted March 19, 2010 Share Posted March 19, 2010 From a failed attempt at GC1J1H4. Not really up to the standards of other pictures on here, or my usual standard. It was quiet beautifully lit really, but the phone camera wasn't really up to catching it. Upping the levels has got the details, but at the expense of a very strong yellow cast. It won't win, but it just shows that there are some nice places round Warrington. Quote Link to comment
+Simply Paul Posted March 23, 2010 Author Share Posted March 23, 2010 Just over a week left on this -bump- so please keep the best of your caching photos coming! Some great shots to pick from already... I'll pick my favourite on the night of March 31st as I've an evening event in London on the 1st and may well be tied up with plans ahead of it. Quote Link to comment
WorcesterDan Posted March 23, 2010 Share Posted March 23, 2010 some great photos so far Quote Link to comment
+hobgoblinkiteflier Posted March 23, 2010 Share Posted March 23, 2010 It was a lovely sunny spring Saturday when we did the multicache, Duddingston Details, GCPXVG. I took this near the final location: This was the view between The Innocent Railway and Duddingston Details: Quote Link to comment
+Ian1959 Posted March 23, 2010 Share Posted March 23, 2010 After a full days caching I arrived at Nice Beach in Conwy just as the sun was setting, what a fantastic way to end the day. - Ian Quote Link to comment
+cachensfun Posted March 23, 2010 Share Posted March 23, 2010 On the way to the Severn Bore Earthcache yesterday morning... Looks like a Honda cloud. See the wings? Quote Link to comment
+Je5ter Posted March 24, 2010 Share Posted March 24, 2010 (edited) Got the following pictures of frogs (or maybe they're toads I dunno) whilst walking to the Unseen Heroes cache. Are you sure you weren't at Fratton Park?!! Nice pics btw. My favourite so far is the first one - I'm fascinated by the Severn Bore! Hope to add some of my own soon - when I get the hang of all this! Edited March 24, 2010 by Je5ter Quote Link to comment
+ivanidea Posted March 24, 2010 Share Posted March 24, 2010 Muggles at 7 o'clock! Just off the coast of Portsmouth. The RN use the ferries (with their permission) as part of their training to match course and speed and mock landings. Quote Link to comment
+keehotee Posted March 24, 2010 Share Posted March 24, 2010 Windy Post - GC13YPJ ... and my last entry with a point and shoot, as I finally got myself a new camera at the weekend Quote Link to comment
+veedub-girl Posted March 24, 2010 Share Posted March 24, 2010 (edited) taken from the seat near the cache site, at sunset over millock beach and penhalt cliff, bude cornwall. GC189KT Edited March 24, 2010 by veedub-girl Quote Link to comment
+Haggis Hunter Posted March 25, 2010 Share Posted March 25, 2010 Are you sure you weren't at Fratton Park?!! I reckon this one has a closer resemblance? Quote Link to comment
+Alibags Posted March 25, 2010 Share Posted March 25, 2010 Here's a photo I took this month at the virtual cache "Leg's Cross" GCEE34 Quote Link to comment
+metal-bijou Posted March 27, 2010 Share Posted March 27, 2010 1) The only hard and fast rule is that the photo must be cache related and to do with a specific cache, caching series or caching trip. There should be a hyperlink(s) to the cache(s) in the post. The cache(s) must be from the UK or Ireland. 2) Two photos per cacher per month (give or take). OK so I'm going to fail to win due to the first rule. And I've chosen two photos for two caches, well you did say give and take. Mount Sinai (Earthcache) Sunrise Camera capturing sunrise (no, not the photo above) Sharm El Sheikh Naama Bay - 2 (Traditional Cache) Underwater – MP’s peanut captured this, I’m uploading more as I think it’s wonderful. bird bath – suppose fresh water is limited so I don’t blame this LBJ (little brown job) Quote Link to comment
Siplumb Posted March 29, 2010 Share Posted March 29, 2010 Photo number 1 On my way to 'stag(ering view)' we found this fella basking in the sunlight... stag(ering view) Photo number 2 Waiting for the muggles to leave whilst searching for 'park up' park up hope those links work... TFTC (thanks for the competition).... Quote Link to comment
+Simply Paul Posted March 29, 2010 Author Share Posted March 29, 2010 The links above as pictures: Keep 'em coming folks. Wednesday is the cut-off remember. Quote Link to comment
Siplumb Posted March 29, 2010 Share Posted March 29, 2010 thank you for that.. a lot easier to see than the links! Quote Link to comment
+FuzzyBears Posted March 30, 2010 Share Posted March 30, 2010 Phone pic with a little digital tweaking from near GC23JWJ Quote Link to comment
+currykev Posted March 31, 2010 Share Posted March 31, 2010 (edited) More of a tester, as I've not uploaded before. Taken during a maintenance trip to GC1C1Y8 today. I'm now trying photobucket.....seems to work! Edited April 1, 2010 by currykev Quote Link to comment
+NickandAliandEliza Posted April 5, 2010 Share Posted April 5, 2010 And the winner is...........................? (It's almost getting to "or other person if necessary" stage..... ) Quote Link to comment
+Simply Paul Posted April 5, 2010 Author Share Posted April 5, 2010 Woops! Ok, give me a minute (I knew there was something I'd forgotten to do!) Quote Link to comment
+NickandAliandEliza Posted April 5, 2010 Share Posted April 5, 2010 Woops! Ok, give me a minute (I knew there was something I'd forgotten to do!) Sorry. I'm too impatient at times. Take your time. No pressure. Quote Link to comment
+Simply Paul Posted April 5, 2010 Author Share Posted April 5, 2010 keehotee's swans are lovely, with great contrast given it's a shot into the sun. The_Street_Searchers got a good snap with their iPhone, especially as it was dusk; you need a steady hand for that. I really like Jenny&James's icy tree; it says 'Winter', loud and clear! Alibags's take on the same theme is quite a 'sweet' shot. Add a man with a horse and cart and it'd be perfect. daveindeal shows of his teeth with his grinning church; a decent shot for a Blackberry. markandlynn's wind-swept tree shows the power of cropping a picture 'just right' - it adds a lot of interest to the shot. Combining the two topics -trees and swans- Lydford Locators' photo is striking. Cmc401's waterscapes are all about the reflected sunlight on the sea; very nice. You have to chuckle at Smithbats's lambs, all rowed up. A charming photo. camjocotem's swamped trees is amazing; almost tropical. You can hear the frogs calling to each other... Haggis Hunter's toads have something of the 50's B-movie sci-fi about them... or a rather different sort of film all together! The eerie yellow light on Guanajuato's picture of a church also has something of the other-worldly-ness about it. hobgoblinkiteflier posted two great, sharp pictures; both with a little white shed... and trees. Only one ticks the waterfowl box though... The second shot is particularly evocative I think. Treating us to a Welsh sunset, Ian1959's picture really is beautiful. I bet it wasn't as warm as the colours make it look though! ivanidea's dramatic chopper photos freeze the action of a close fly-by very nicely. Clearly something fascinating to watch. keehotee's second shot, of the weathered cross obeys the Rule of Thirds, and that sky is very cinematic. veedub-girl delivers another stunning sunset, with the rays really making the view 'pop'. A little fishing boat paint-shopped in would have sealed it! Alibags' take on keehotee's new theme lacks some of its textured feel, but has a lot of depth with that heavy sky and the road running off into the distance. Cool photos from metal-bijou, but as he notes, they're only here to be enjoyed, not reviewed Giving us a cat deep in thought and woodland close-up showing great depth of field, Siplumb's shots show wonderful composition. fuzzybears go sepia for a really dynamic shot of the tree in a building. Makes you realise just how old those walls are... currykev finishes the March collection off with a nicely framed (and posed? ) study. But there can only be one winner, and this month it is... ...Hard to pick. Thank you to everyone who took the time to post a shot or two. I love Siplumb's cat; you can almost feel the fur, and the expression has that special cat quality; detached yet cute. However, I also like the Victorian-feel of fuzzybears' ruins over-run by nature. A very effective use of a digital colour edit. But the stand-out shot for me, the one which makes me wish I could step into the picture and explore is... ...hobgoblinkiteflier's second shot, the one with the hills mirroring the V of foliage in the foreground, with the enticing white building giving a distant point of interest and focal point. The colours really work to give the whole shot a warm tonal balance, there's a framing-effect on the left from bushes to balance the house/barn 'looking' into the shot from the right and there is interesting textures, lines and shapes in the fore, mid and background. The scene has a real 'lure' so that gets my vote this month - well done! Over to you to set up the April thread! Quote Link to comment
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