April Photo Contest Subject - Best Shot Ever
 

A couple months ago during the discussion about lack of participation in the monthly photo contest I mentioned that while one objective is to get people to go out and shoot, maybe we could generate more interest buy having a "Best Shot Ever" contest. We did this a couple years ago and got a lot of entries and participation increased for a while at least. So...

For April, go through your archives and post up what you consider to be your best shot ever or better still, go out and take your best shot ever.

Rules:

- Cannot be a previous monthly contest entry
- Feel free to edit with your choice of software but no photoshopping in elements that weren't there. Ex: No giant full moon when there was none, no replacing the sky with a shot from another photo, etc.
- Post just one photo in this thread - I will start a "Almost my best shot" thread in the Picture Perfect section and encourage everyone to post their 'runner up' shots there.

When we did this before I think we had ~20 entries, so everyone participate. Next month we can go back to winner's choice.


[Edit] Feel free to add a description, backstory, location, along with your photo.

I'll play - Near Havasu Falls

http://m2.i.pbase.com/u36/davidburne....Sidefalls.jpg

Yellowstone

I was about 10 feet from him

http://i275.photobucket.com/albums/j...Day-5%2047.jpg

Dallas skyline at dusk taken from the Edgefield Bridge over I-30.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...pswgbct13y.jpg

Ross Sea runway, June 1994, mid-winter airdrop, self portrait.

Was it cold?

about -35F, not too bad. i had been outside for about an hour at this point.

Yeah, Um... f that :)

when the wind picks up, then it gets really cold from the wind chill. like -75F to -105F wind chill. then it's time for goggles and extra warm mittens.

i normally wear glasses, but just couldn't most of the time down there outside. they just fogged up and then you couldn't see anything. :faint:

I was at -40°F in Korea in 1989. -105°F :nonod:

I took this with a Kodak point and shoot ( my first digital camera ). This is actually the second shot.

The island is Wolf Island on Charleston Lake in Ontario Canada. A major storm had just gone thru after soaking the entire East Coast from NC thru Ontario. I took this one while trolling for lake trout.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v7...2.jpg~original

Smokey Mountains National Park.

http://www.kilmer-family.com/temp/snap5.jpg

Not sure I can compete in this months as I really don't use any software programs. Great shots so far and don't want to look lame lol.
I'll dig and see what I have but far from what I am seeing.

mine was taken with a crummy little point and shoot, later scanned to digital.

it's not the best picture, but it's the picture with the best story behind it for me.

left the States in October 1993, was in Antarctica until Jan 94, came home to gather more supplies for Winter-Over, returned 2 weeks later, last plane departed in late Feb 94, did my work everyday (56 hour weeks, only Sunday off), and the next plane we saw only flew over head in June to drop supplies. finally came back home in Oct 94. so you have to put up with a lot to get that picture in the middle of winter. you don't just fly down for the weekend and then come home.

anyway, that's a brief backstory.

IMO, the shots you put in in the February contest, especially the first one, stand with any posted so far. I like the seashell shot from August even better and your family sunset shot from July is just outstanding. You could sell it.

Post 'em up! :seasix:

Darn....I lost all my old shots I converted to digital when my old hard drive went for a crap. :(
And my scanner's out of commission as well....I've had some beauty shots over the years.

The only software I use is Photobucket for cropping.

Post up one that looks good in your eyes. :yesnod:

Morning sunrise sunshine on snow.

Nice! Where was it taken?

I live near Eugene Oregon. It was early in the morning, the frozen white trees are Oregon Hazelnut.

Beautiful! I did some work in Oregon several years ago and drove along the Willamette River late one evening. I'm from Oklahoma originally and live in Texas now... we don't have trees like that in either place!

I think you mean "-F " that. :lol:

Very hard to pick out what you might think is best being that we have entered in contests already....well here goes....
Short story is on the beach,next to our deck we had a butterfly bush that attracted butterflies every year. Well Super Storm Sandy took the deck.bush and most of our home too. Here is an entry as well as a picture of "our" backyard.
Too many good ones here,I expect to be more of an observer this month and rightly so !

Two weeks left to submit a picture for this contest! :beadist:

I had over 60 folders of pictures on my laptop, now I have only 2. I have no idea where they are. :cuss:

welcome to my world

Luckily I saved most to my desktop HD. :party:

http://i63.tinypic.com/33eppqc.jpg

Taken at Spring Mill State Park.

http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d1...psxl162y3k.jpg


Holcomb Valley, CA

Carrabelle, Florida

Might use this one.

Some kind of moth....:island14:

Nobody posts?


Bugs in a cucumber flower:

2 more.

Wow....excellent Monarch and purple flower photo. :seasix:

Tomorrow evening I plan to post up the voting poll in this thread. If you have more than one pic let us know which pic you want as your entry, otherwise I will go with your first pic. Thanks and Good Luck!
:seasix:

Butterfly photo.

Duck.

Entries So Far
1) Ol' Timer - Near Havasu Falls
2) PLRX - Yellowstone Bison
3) TripleBlack - Dallas Skyline a Dusk, Edgefield Bridge
4) DAB - Ross Sea Runway Self Portrait
5) JRD77VET - Wolf Island, Ontario Canada
6) Uncle Meat - Smokey Mountains National Park
7) Crowvet - Morning sunrise sunshine on snow, Eugene Oregon
8) 04 commemorative - Butterfly on Butterfly Bush
9) 78SA - Spring Mill State Park Duck
10) chinaski - Holcomb Valley, CA
11) Olustee bus - Carrabelle, Florida
12) C5SilverBullet - City Scene at Dusk
13) Strats-N-Vettes - Moth
14) carlton_fritz - Monarch Butterfly on Purple Flowers

Posting up poll later tonight!

Butterfly will be fine thank you.

Poll added to this thread. Time to vote open for the next 3 days! ^ VOTE :hurray:

Good Luck Everyone! All are very awesome shots! :seasix:

TTT Vote! :hurray:

Man, wish I hadn't been so distracted by work. Had a few I could have posted up from before the April 2011 tornadoes of barns that are no longer around... dammit.

Lotsa great photos in this thread though!

So many great shots!!!

Vote! Thanks ^

:seasix:

Too many pics and not enough voters for a definitive majority. Maybe next time have 5 runner ups and then a final?.....:bilmem:

UM's 'fluffy water' with a live subject is hard to capture well. Need a slow shutter speed so the water is 'time lapsed', so the model must stay still for that. It had to have been pretty dark where you shot that.

Kudos on a great shot.

Lighthouse reef, right beside the Blue Hole, Belize. Approx 30 ft from the surface.

Did you use the "hell mother f'k no" filter on your camera?

Last day to vote if anyone has not voted! :seasix:

Circa 1980. Not my best, but maybe my luckiest!
http://abe.midco.net/barondeau1/Vettes/Corps1.JPG

2 hrs left to vote! :seasix:

Congrats go to Strats-N-Vettes and his Moth Photo submission!

Jimmy go ahead and post up the May Photo Contest Subject.

Thanks to all for entering your awesome photos. :seasix:

Great shot Strats-N-Vettes :seasix:
A good win ! :shake:

Lots of nice shots this month. Thanks to all for the participation.

Congrats Strats-N-Vettes! Nicely done. :cheers:

Thank you, thank you.
I owe this award to all the people that got me here.

I'd like to start off by thanking my parents who, without them I wouldn't be born.
I'd like to thank all my fans.....
.

all these photos are incredible!:popcorns: