This is a monthy photo competition, with each month having a set category. During the final week of the month, a voting thread will be put up so you can vote for your favourite images.
Unfortunately the winner will not recieve any prizes, because it is just a bit of fun.

The winner will be mentioned and congratulated by Xeract on the homepage. 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 by personal message, and we will try our best to answer your question.

!!!!!THE COMPETITION DEADLINE FOR THIS MONTH IS 24/5/2008!!!!!!

The Categories for the year are:
January - Birds in Flight
February - Birds of Prey
March - Waterfowl
April - Insects
May - Landscape
June - Sunrise/Sunsets
July - Snakes and Reptiles
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: 11-04-2008 01:29 PM by Jamie Wade.

Ok then, I will get us underway. This is a landscape of the River Crouch in Essex. I warmed up the photo in Adobe Elements 6.0.
Landscape is the photography I prefer doing, and I would enter more images if I can, but someone called Jamie says you can only enter one photo!
This photo also got full marks on the photography competition at my camera cub.

The Photo is entitled, "Warm River Crouch"


Photo Information

Flash Used: No
Focal Length: 169mm
CCD Width: 7.69mm
Exposure Time: 1/160
Aperture: f/6.4
ISO : 100
Whitebalance: Auto
Metering Mode: Matrix

This post was last modified: 24-04-2008 12:08 PM by Jamie Wade.

My very first entry into a photo competition. Here it is - the beautiful coast of Looe in Cornwall

Re: May photo

Blaven, Isle of Skye

Easter, 2008

ISO 400
f6.3
1/400s
48mm on a 24-70 mm lens

This post was last modified: 30-04-2008 09:34 PM by peter_hallam.

Three brilliant photos already!

Wow, three photos on the first day! Can I just say something, the competition opens once the thread has been made, not on the first day of the month.

The view from Crich Stand Derbyshire
(first time i have entered too)

Here is my entry for this month.
Leighton Hall, Lancashire.
Four pictues stitched together.
Canon 350D
18-55mm, zoomed at 38mm
1/15sec, f22
ISO 100

Here is my entry:

Wicklow:

Andy, when you are shooting panorama's, is the setting on your camera, or do you take the photographs and stich them in a Photo Editing software programme, such as Adobe Photoshop?

Jamie, i shoot the pictures separately and then stitch them together, i use a program called Autopano Pro. There are many different programs out there you can use. i really liek doing Panorama's i have done one which was 18 pictures, if you were to print it 20cm high it would be over 2.5m long, needless to say i haven't had it printed yet, i dread to think how much it would cost.

Quite a lot I would say!

I use Adobe Photoshop Elemts 6.0. I absolutely love Photoshop; you can do so much with it!

Cliffs at St Cyrus national nature reserve

The shingle bank at Cley Next the Sea

Wow thats a great photography Mr Goob! Are you a professional photographer or something along those lines?