Weekly Challenge 1: Reflection

[Andy Cosgrove]

I don't how everybody else feels about these kind of challenges. Even though I don't participate enough in them, I do like them. Here's one to kick it off for this week (Nov. 27 to Dec. 3).

Here's a pretty open and generic theme: Reflection. Do with it what you will. Please post a new photo, one taken specifically for this task. The purpose is to get us out shooting and thinking creatively.

As a reply to this post, include a link to your image or attach it to directly to your reply. Randy wrote a good manual on how to make sure your attachment shows up as a reply here: http://groups.google.com/group/mnphoto/msg/4b10e40b07b75842.

Now, to all of us meeting up Saturday: If someone finds a good subject, we can't all post the same photo ;)

[Andy Cosgrove]

By the way, I'm not creative enough to come up with a theme every week,
so everyone start thinking about better themes so you can volunteer for
future challenges...

[joroho]

Too bad it has to be a new photo. I took one back in September that
would fit perfectly with this theme, quite by accident, too. But I
understand the intent is to motivate people to get out there and do
some more shooting, so I'll abide by the rules. Maybe I'll get a
chance to use it some other time.

.joroho.

[Matthew Kieren]

Here's my submission for the challenge.  :)   Look at little closer at the pupil.

[Andy Cosgrove]

Nice detail there, Matthew. Thanks for the submission!

[Andy Cosgrove]

Well, this one went over like a lead balloon :)

Maybe someone else can open up a new theme?

[Joel Horn]

Andy,

Because participation was so low in this challenge, I'll go ahead and post the photo I took back in September at Heritage Lab that fits this theme.  I was actually trying to shoot the lamp when I noticed the reflection of my son and his friend in the mirror.  I thought it was a neat photo.

.joroho.

 

[Andy Cosgrove]

Very cool. Thanks for that. Maybe the next themed challenge should just
allow us to choose past photos too.

[Andy Cosgrove]

I'll just throw the old one I had in mind too, then. This is taken on the Comcast building off Robert Street. I actually horizontally flipped the image so that the reflection is what you would see looking straight at the skyline. (Hard to see, but look at the Radisson building. It reads correctly)

[joroho]

Nice effect, Andy.

[S and S Patterson]

This is from this spring, not recent.  But, when in retail, you just don't have time to do much photography now, I am sorry to say.  So I will follow others in posting "not new".  This is one of those pictures that really doesn't have much subject, but I think it looks pastoral.  And I guess landscapes are my preference.......

[joroho]

Very nice photo, Steve. Where was this taken?
.joroho.

[Steve]

This was taken in an old rearing pond....a place to raise fish....that
then was flushed with fingerlings into Lake Bemidji. It is no longer
used. Only a couple blocks from my house.....it has an old look I like.

[Eric Jorgensen]

Here's my entry.

- Eric