Weekly Challenge July 16-23: "Water"

Blacktop

Senior Member
You're gonna soooooo love that lens...

...
It's here! :triumphant: This is the first shot with it.

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Photowyzard

Senior Member
I haven't participated in a Challenge for a while. Here is my submission, a Great Blue Heron trying to spear a fish. He missed, but the attempt was dramatic enough.

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Date Shot: 2014/07/20 10:00:14.70
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Artist: Art Lupinacci
Copyright: Copyright 2014, Art Lupinacci
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Focal Length: 500mm
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Eyelight

Senior Member
Everyone who plans to submit a photo and/or review and cast your vote/likes:

The first round of this weeks challenge will end at
midnight the end of Wednesday the 23rd. There is no judging except for the likes, so to give your image a chance to be liked, don't wait til the last minute.

All the voters should review the thread and like images sometime Wednesday if you have a chance.

The Top 3 liked images will be posted to a poll for a second and final round to determine the winner of the challenge. Look for the poll Thursday morning.


 

BackdoorArts

Senior Member
That's about 15 minutes from me. Weird thing was, I had a dream about one of these loose in my yard 2 nights before the story came out.
 
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