February 2024 Monthly Assignment: Something You Love

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February 2024 Monthly Assignment: Something You Love (Cindy's choice)

Since February has the holiday Valentine's Day, choose anything you love. It doesn't have to be a romantic type of love. It can be a vehicle, pet, person, a scene you love to see, food, etc. Or you can opt for the traditional subject of a heart-shaped box of candy, flowers, etc.


Images can range from macro, street photography, sports, landscape, portrait, night photography, etc.

Be creative and the most important part is to have fun and show us your work.

IMPORTANT TO READ THE FOLLOWING:

Let's get shooting! CREATIVITY/TECHNIQUE rules in this challenge, but there are a few guidelines:

1. Any photo submitted for a monthly assignment must be taken using a Nikon Camera! All submissions must be taken during the month specified in the assignment thread and taken by YOU including all images used in composites!


2. If the EXIF does not show using a browser EXIF app, listing the camera and capture date/time below the photo is required. Listing exposure info, lens & focal length is encouraged so others can learn.

3. Other than that, it's all up to your interpretation of the theme. Any photo will be accepted, SOOC or edited, doesn't matter.

4. Photos must be posted in this thread to be considered. Links to photos will not be considered an entry (In other words, no Flikr, Photobucket, or similar links)


5. Only THREE entries per member for each assignment. Please post entries separately (1 photo per post) and number the entry.

6. Entries will be judged by the number of likes received.

7. The top 5 shots will be displayed in a separate thread and will be displayed in no particular order.

8. This is intended to be a FUN challenge. No critiques unless specifically asked. Also, please limit posts to just photos and brief
descriptions/titles. Any comments/discussion should occur elsewhere, PLEASE.


As listed in other challenges, please note: NO CASH OR PRIZES will be awarded for this Monthly Assignment.

HAVE FUN!

*To clarify time for start of the assignment, it is 0000 UTC/GMT the first day of the month (similar to the weekly challenges) and ends at 23:59 UTC/GMT the last day of the month.
 
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Bob Blaylock

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First entry…

Three things that I love, from back to front…
  • My wife, @Seanette (married since 13 April 1995)
  • Our older cat Allie (who joined us over the thanksgiving weekend of 2011, at a stated age of 13 months)
  • Our newer cat, Buddy (a former stray for several years, who, in April of 2022, decided that he's our cat)

I seem to be on a bit of a compositing kick, lately. A grand total of ten (10) different shots went into this image, stitched, focus-stacked, and manually pasted together in various combinations, to finally produce this one image, covering a wide angle and a great depth. EXIF data are in the attached text file, but they are from the final image, which, like the image itself, is probably a composite of data from the different files.

All the images were taken using my ancient 50mm ƒ/1.4 lens, with a heart-shaped cutout on the front that reduced the effective aperture to ƒ/2.4; at 1⁄10 of a second, ISO 400.

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Woodyg3

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Someone gonna' post the top 5 for February? :) This is from someone who forgot to put the new January sticker on my license plate until today.
 
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