Picture of the WEEK game over in Campfire

[Redman]

One of my other farm animals pics.

but I thought would be too similar to what others might have.
Is a unique sitaution of graseing area right next to the road, and overlooking the valley and the river.
Other shot I have of this scene, I stepped back across the road so have the road in the frame, and capture a sport bike streaking past (and it is streaked in the photo), and the cows stil just graseing away.

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[Spyder]

^^^^^ That one is better than your submission this week ^^^^^ Although the story behind the other picture is pretty good...

[Redman]

^^^^^ That one is better than your submission this week ................

yah just never know

[Redman]

........ ........ ........... ......... ...... if someone can ride into and get pictures of anything within the Louvre, I would be greatly impressed and ready to vote for you immediately

Glen Dorkburger and I did ride to the Louvre. I tried to ride in first, but got stopped by some guys in black uniforms, but then Glen tried it at another door and he did get in, and right up to the Monna Liesa.
See

[Redman]

Photo from when I stopped there a few weeks ago.
Took picture for no real good reason, other than maybe to use if "mural" were to be a topic-subject-theme of the week.

THe shadows from the building ribs I thought was a bit of a distraction.
And I thought would be better if the main subject could fill more of the frame.

THen when "art work" did become the topic, I went back at a time closer to noon to minimize the shadows of the ribs. But could not think of any better way to pose things, other than to bring the bike more in the foreground.

[Redman]

For Aviation, the only thing I can think I would have access to is the plane on static display at municipal airport nearby.

This view includes the hanger and the light tower

Was thinking this was fairly mundane. Tried another pose.

This gets bike closer in the foreground.

Ah... tried another pose

Here tried to get plane in a straight profile, but then the light tower is behind the plane, and the fenced area is distracting

Trying to think of an other pose..
Moved bike...
Walking around... heard some ruffling sounds overhead... saw some parachutist.... trotted around to where could include a couple of them



Still kinda mundane, but includes something of an interesting element.

Had a little bit of fun challenge trying to find a good pose.

[Redman]

Was going bye there again today, thought to pull in since today was sunshine and blue sky, not usually the best for photos, but was about noon.

Maybe a better pic for "airplane and bike", but not for "aviation" since other pic has the hanger and airport and stuff.

[Burque73]

That's a beautiful picture.

I love the thunderbirds. Saw them all the time as a kid living on Air Force bases.

[Redman]

That's a beautiful picture.

I love the thunderbirds. Saw them all the time as a kid living on Air Force bases.

Yah, brite sunshine can be good for pics, but only if situation is such that shadows are not a problem.

Was going past there again mid-afternoon, and searched for an perspective that had minimum shadows, then found position to include the bike (opps, divulging my secret tatics).
With the sun direction, and the way the plane was tilted, I found this pose.

And then said, Oh, Yeah, this is what I was looking for.

So made some other poses (Welcome to my weirdness.)

And I had more fun looking for more poses.

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C:



D:



I Will admitt that I somewhat used some other ideas that some other GSR-Pic-Of-The-Week regulars have used (previous weeks).

Okay, Okay, Yah, Okay...... I downright copied others poses that I have seen others uses multiple times.
Perhaps you can identify which is a tribute to who.

>>> And after sunset

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[Baatfam]

For anyone interested, we have a list of all this year's themes, with post numbers to the winning photo.

Here ya go:

Date	Theme	Created By	Winner	Winning Post #
1/21/2018	Low Light	Burque73	dorkburger	4
1/27/2018	Interesting/peculiar roadside attraction	dorkburger	Burque73	37
2/3/2018	On the border	Burque73	Mrs. Steve	65
2/10/2018	Slightly less than perfect riding weather	Mrs. Steve	Jedz123	?
2/18/2018	Bikes of GSR Rallys	Jedz123	Burque73	141
2/24/2018	Sports	Burque73	trevor	159
3/3/2018	Playing with sunlight	trevor	Redman	194
3/10/2018	Reflection	Redman	storm 64	232
3/17/2018	Motorcycle packed down	storm 64	Sandy	257
3/24/2018	Something twisty	Sandy	Steve	278
3/31/2018	Water	Steve	Baatfam	310
4/7/2018	On or near a bridge	Baatfam	Redman	371
4/14/2018	Lonely road	Redman	Burque73	409
4/21/2018	What's up?	Burque73	Redman	469
4/28/2018	Outstanding In a Field (or at least in view)	Redman	Sandy	509
5/5/2018	"Special Effect"	Sandy	Gustovh	558, 574(big)
5/12/2018	"...something different that includes a part of your bike…"	Gustovh	dorkburger	598
5/19/2018	your bike casting a shadow	dorkburger	Burque73	653
5/26/2019	Downtown	Burque73	Jedz123	693
6/2/2018	Live Action	Jedz123	kerrfunk	721
6/9/2018	Picture with a passenger	kerrfunk	Trevor	749
6/16/2018	"…your bike with some form of 'Heavy equipment'."	Trevor	Redman	794
6/23/2018	Bike at the water	Redman	Jedz123	809
6/30/2018	Mountains	Jedz123	Trevor	867
7/7/2018	Sunset	Trevor	gustovh	895
7/14/2018	Field repairs	gustovh	Baatfam	948
7/21/2018	Out in the rain	Baatfam	Burque73	988
7/28/2018	"…one or more farm animals…"	Burque73	cowboyup3371	1016
8/4/2018	"...your bike with any art."	cowboyup3371	Burque73	1037
8/11/2018	"…and interesting or really old church."	Burque73	Steve Murdoch	1072
8/18/2018	"...your bike with a flag."	Steve Murdoch	Storm64	1139, 1140(big)
8/25/2018	Aviation	Storm64	wacky941	1175
9/1/2018	Monumental	wacky941	Redman	1233
9/8/2018	"Bike In Unexpected Place"	Redman	Charlie G	1272
9/15/2018	"Places of Spiritual Meaning"	Charlie G	Downs	1319
9/22/2018	"...with a piece of emergency equipment."	Downs	Baatfam	1353
9/29/2018	Gigantic animal	Baatfam	Charlie G	1406
10/6/2018		Charlie G
10/13/2018
10/20/2018
10/27/2018
11/3/2018
11/10/2018
11/17/2018
11/24/2018
12/1/2018
12/8/2018
12/15/2018
12/22/2018
12/29/2018

[Burque73]

Imported part of the discussion from the Campfire thread...

Picture of the year is a good idea but I think that; everyone nominates, everyone votes from the pictures submitted in 2018. Winner chooses topic of New Year, same thread as picture of week. Actually, the origional poster of this thread should have the final say so for the direction of this thread........cg

My first thought was all weekly winning photos get considered for the best of the year, then all GSR members who choose to vote can do so.

I like it...But elaborate on the "everyone nominates" part for me. I am not clear on how we could do that.

Should we create a new thread to hammer out the details?

Seems like two threads on the one game are plenty. No need for another, IMO.

Any member of GSR can choose (vote) a picture from the pictures submitted to "Picture of the Week" (2018) and nominate(vote) it for "Picture of the Year". Maybe a seperate thread for discussion might be best as not to distract weekly topic.

[Baatfam]

Imported part of the discussion from the Campfire thread...

Great! Thanks!

My first thought was all weekly winning photos get considered for the best of the year, then all GSR members who choose to vote can do so.

That was my first thought also, but that is 49 photos, and I think we would be luck to get 40 votes even if we open it up. Could be one big, one vote tie.
I dunno...
My second thought was just have each winner pick their favorite winning pick, which would give us 17 pictures, as of right now, according to kerrfunk.
If we open the voting to all who played, which is 24, we may get enough votes to pick a winner. Or we could let everyone pick 2, or even 3?
Again, I dunno...
Lucky we have a few weeks to figure it out.

Seems like two threads on the one game are plenty. No need for another, IMO.

You are correct.

[Redman]

.............
My second thought was just have each winner pick their favorite winning pick, which would give us 17 pictures, as of right now, according to kerrfunk.
If we open the voting to all who played, which is 24, we may get enough votes to pick a winner. Or we could let everyone pick 2, or even 3?
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Yah, I agree, if concider all the entries (4-5 hundered?) or even all the wining entries (like 49) that is way more than the number of voters. Then probably have ties between those getting maybe two votes.

Howz about each winner selects one of thier winners, and winners with 3 or more wins gets to submit a second entry. That would be a number of entries about 20.

All past participants get to vote, (Kerry said how many that would be.)
Maybe each participant gets to vote two votes.

Other thing to discuss:
Are we to include the original catagory-theme-subject along with the submission?
...and.... are we to vote based on which picture best meets its original catagory-theme-subject?
I suggest not, that would be too difficult to do, and a lot of folks have not been voting that way anyway.
So, my suggestions are:
- a winner can elect to include the original catagory-theme-subject if wants to when enters the submission.
- but we dont consider the the original subject-theme-catagory when voting, and dont have any criteria other than Best Picture.

lets have a few more suggestions.

Lets let Roger Burque and/or Bob Baatfam ponder this for a while, and let him/them decide. And let him/them publish the procedure.
We dont need to make a Congressional Hearing out of it, but lets discuss further, then let him/them decide.

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[Baatfam]

Heads up everyone. Today is voting day over at the Pic of the Week game, over in the Campfire forum.

We've had good turnout for the second half of the year, and several new players.

Entries for 2018 are averaging about 10 a week.

[Baatfam]

Bump to the top.

The 2019 version is just beginning. Great time to get in the game. This really is a fun one.

https://www.thegsresources.com/_forum/showthread.php?250413-Pic-of-the-week-game