***IT MIGHT BE A GOOD IDEA TO SUBSRIBE TO THIS THREAD, SO YOU CAN EASILY SEE OTHER PEOPLE'S ENTRIES***

A member named Riana and I have come up with the idea of posting a Photo of the Month Competition in this website.
We have been given the thumbs up from Xeract, the Wildlifeuk.net administrator to post such a competition.
The deadline for the competition will be on the final week of each month, so during the final week we can decide the winner.
Unfortunately the winner will not recieve any prizes, because it is just a bit of fun.

The winner will be informed through e-mail/personal message. The winner will also be included in a post on the thread.
On your thread, can you please give a name for your image, and if possible, include photogrpahy information, such as ISO, shutter speed etc. A new thread will be created for each month, so please be sure to enter in the right one!

If you have any further questions, then please contact me or Riana by personal message, and we will try our best to answer your question.

!!!!!THE COMPETITION DEADLINE FOR THIS MONTH IS 24/1/2008!!!!!!

The Categories for the year are:
January - Birds in Flight
February - Birds of Prey
March - Waterfowl (e.g ducks, swan geese etc)
April - (my birthday!) Insects
May - Landscape
June - Sunrise/sunsets
July - Snakes
August - Mammals
September - Aquatic Wildlife
October - Sea Birds
November - Close Ups
December - Wildlife in Frosty Conditions

Good luck to anyone who enters!!

This post was last modified: 30-03-2008 08:45 PM by Jamie Wade.

So what is this months catagory? Can you narrow it down to one catagory a month? ie Jan = 'Birds in flight'; Feb = 'mammals'; Mar = 'insects'. etc.
It would make it easier for the judges too as it would be difficult to judge, say, a landscape against a wildlife 'action' shot. Just a thought.

I agree with Paul, a 'theme' for the month would be nice. This is a wonderful idea! Thank you jamiewade94 and riana .

Kingfisher

Ok then. Thanks Paul, good idea! The theme for this month is:

BIRDS IN FLIGHT

The Categories for the year are:
January - Birds in Flight
February - Birds of Prey
March - Waterfowl (e.g ducks, swan geese etc)
April - (my birthday!) Insects
May - Landscape
June - Sunrise/sunsets
July - Snakes
August - Mammals
September - Aquatic Wildlife
October - Sea Birds
November - Close Ups
December - Wildlife in Frosty Conditions

Here's my entry for the January competition, a red kite feeding on the wing:



Taken with a Canon 300D plus 100-400 IS USM lens. 1/1600 sec at f5.6, 400 ISO.

Heres my effort. Taken in Mallorca.
   

Canon 400d with Sigma 170-500mm lense. God knows what settings! Im a point and shoot man!

All very fishy this - where did the idea come from? Did it come from us????

http://friendsofnature.createmybb.com/index.php

Lol very very fishy . . .

Skylark, i think you will find most of the bigger forums have Photo competitions, ie Bird Forum. I had never heard or seen 'friends of Nature' Forum until you put link on your post. I will be subscribing though.

Here's my entry - a male chaffinch in my garden last summer:



Taken with Nikon D70, Telescopic lens 70-300mm

This post was last modified: 14-01-2008 11:40 AM by Skylark.

Your camera records all the details of the camera and lens settings, which you can access when using a programme such as Photoshop.

By the way, there's no 'e' on the end of lens!!! (sorry to be pedantic).

This post was last modified: 14-01-2008 11:42 AM by wild canon.

All very fishy this - where did the idea come from? Did it come from us????

http://friendsofnature.createmybb.com/index.php

Lol very very fishy . . .

If you mean the idea for the Photo of the Month Competition then no. I have never even heard of your website!

This post was last modified: 14-01-2008 04:20 PM by Jamie Wade.

I can assure you Skylark that this idea was from Jamiewade and Riana several days ago, nothing fishing going on at all

Your site looks great though, some very interesting stuff on there.

And thanks a lot to Jamiewade and Riana for setting this idea up.

I can assure you Skylark that this idea was from Jamiewade and Riana several days ago, nothing fishing going on at all

Your site looks great though, some very interesting stuff on there.

And thanks a lot to Jamiewade and Riana for setting this idea up.

Thank-you Alex! Very well said!

I wasn't being unkind . . . please don't get me wrong Jamiewade - plus I've posted a photo in this comp as well as I love photo comps! lol

Friend's of Nature has been running since last July - it was the JellyBistro to start off with, but it was changed after the end of SpringWatch on the BBC & has grown & grown & grown!