Congrats to Ranger Joe this week! Loved your pic, and was wondering how you managed to pop flash the sign through the window? Every time I try it just bounces off the glass, so obviously I’m not doing it right 😆

Woo hoo!

Elsinore, the flash was off camera, held up against the windshield. I ran into that problem, too…and had a nice…Read more

Thanks, all.

Ravnostic…8:15, right on cue.

Kestrana….your Shenandoah shot….North District, near Mt. Marshall, or Central District, just south of Mary’s Rock tunnel?

It’s looking almost due east from the eastern flank somewhere north of Thornton Gap. Very close to where the historical marker talks about the squatters who lived in the park during the Prohibition era and Chimney trail…

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Works for me.

Do scale-models count?

Sure thing. Except you can’t put gorillas or dinosaurs on them.

/just kidding. you can. I just wanted to get Ranger Joe’s attention.

Well, crap, now I gotta use space shuttles and Jeeps again.

I suppose you could argue that a leaf is made of the same material as wood, so in a way I suppose so, though I don’t think the voters would be on the same boat.

If the leaf weighs the same as a duck…?

As an aside, Ranger Joe/Cameraflage’s winning entry was highlighted on the fark.com FB page:
https://www.facebook.com/farkdotcom

I did make a comment that it was Ranger Joe’s, because I noticed they didn’t put that in the description. I kinda wanted to tag Ranger Joe/Cameraflage’s actual FB account, but didn’t want to reveal his actual name if…

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It’s too bad they don’t allow pictures inside the U-boat, they would have been spectacular.

I’m assuming the museum sells photos of the interior…why wouldnt they let people take photos inside a captured German submarine from WW2?

I gotta get new glasses.

So the crux of hte question is, if you’d picked quotes that did, in fact, fit images you already had in your archive, would you have felt they were fair game? Or did you interpret the theme as requiring new photos shot specifically for this theme?

I think they would have been fair game, but the quotes I was pulling, even in a book about the…Read more

Fluffybunny…genius.

Ravnostic…bravo. The lighting on the first one was great.

Elsinore…you owe me a new monitor. Money shot? Seriously?

This is really fun.

This does not bode well if anyone was hoping to take first place … or second, or third 😉

And this is different from other contests how?

http://www.27bslash6.com/easter.html

Thanks gang. It’s hard to go wrong with Monument Valley. That formation is called the Three Sisters.

The banner was awesome, CauseISaidSo…thanks for including my Y.

Plush pandas at one of the gift shops at the National Zoo in DC.
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y81/cameraflage/Farktography_2011/pattern_pandaheads.jpg

Details of a jet engine turbine, from the National Air and Space Museum Udvar-Hazy…Read more

Orionid, do you realize you have $1.49 on U-Man in the last 10 bouts? It’s like that face-off movie, with you know, John Travolta and that ugly guy–you’ve transmorigraphide yourselves, even. I keep hearing Rod Serling calling, ‘The next stop!’.

//at what point do you become an ‘ultra’ photographer?

“10 + (2* contests) criteria” applies.…

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hrrm…initial indications are my ‘make it look like a retro travel brochure picture’ is a fail. Such is life. I like them, anyway. Remind me of the ones I saw when I was a wee lad, seeing the stuff in person for the first time.

I voted for your Roosevelt Dam shot, Rav…mainly because I’ve been there (travelled the Apache Trail in ’03). Have…Read more

Love the mitten shot ranger joe.

Thanks!

Ranger – I can’t figure out those fireworks either. Were they going up. Or is the white ball at the top of each the ‘boom’ and then colors fell? Naaa, why would they shoot down and not out?

This was shot towards the end of the show and I was playing around with moving the camera during the exposure. The original image is horizontal, so I…Read more

I wish I would have suggested this before…

http://www.flashesofhope.org/

They’re based out of Cleveland but I think they have branches elsewhere. They set up family portrait shoots for kids with cancer. The camera store and photo lab where I work has dealt with them.

Hey RangerJoe/Caemraflage: Regarding your 2010-11-17 08:12:53 PM, you say

Not photoshopped. Scan from a 35mm slide sandwich of a piece of Ektachrome and Ortho film…the original slide is contact printed to a 4×5 sheet of Kodak Ortho film, then the color positive and high-contrast B&W negative are aligned and taped together. Most colors get muted,…

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//has equipment envy.

I’m sure you know that it’s not the size of the lens that matters – what matters is how creatively you use it.

Oh, a thousand times this. The most important lens is the one attached to your head.

Youse guys made me dive deep into the archives of weirdness for this one.

I was torn…Read more

i’m thinking of a windmill and water tank shot i have but i’d bet there are many rural places and ranches where those are still used. in fact all the shots that come to mind are equipment that is still in use if by no one else but fan boys. reel to reel tape recorders are an example.

I had that thought as well. But I think the spirit of the theme…

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(I’ve only seen that movie once, mind you.)

Back to the contest… Would a mushroom cloud be ok?

(returns quietly to the deep underground Brilla Nucleonics Weapon Systems Development Laboratory to “tickle the dragon”…now where did I put that chunk of plutonium?)

BLM is the Bureau of Land Management, the federal agency in charge of much (all?) of the public’s land. And I’m actually kinda happy that they make it difficult to get to some places. When the general population is allowed in, then you have to “sissify” everything so that there’s minimal risk of someone who doesn’t know what they’re doing…

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