Weekly Challenge Sep 9 - Sep 16: "Large"

"LARGE" - @wornish 's Choice

Large....... What more do you need to know? How big of something can you fit in the frame and still be artistic??? Let's see how creative you can be! Color, B&W, HDR...anything goes!

DO NOT SHOOT OR POST IMAGES UNTIL WEDNESDAY Sep 9
This early announcement of the topic is to give a little think time, before the challenge begins. Photos must be taken and submitted between 00:00 UTC of the start date and 00:00 UTC of the end date.

BIG GUN


The Rules

1. Photos must be captured with a Nikon and appear in the thread with EXIF info in order to be considered for the challenge. If the forum EXIF viewer does not show for any reason, listing the camera and capture date/time below the photo is acceptable. Listing exposure info, lens & focal length is encouraged so others can learn.

2. Any photo submitted for a weekly challenge must be taken during the dates specified in the challenge thread.

3. Only one photo entry per member for each week, unless otherwise noted.

4. All regularly active members of Nikonites are allowed to participate, including moderators and administrators.

Voting

During the submission & like periods, please click the Thanks/Like button to vote for your favorite images. You can vote for as many as you want! At the end of the week, you will have the opportunity to vote again for the top 3 photos for this challenge!

There will be no cash or prizes awarded for the Weekly Photo Challenges, unless specifically noted by the site administrator.

Any photo will be accepted for the challenge. Edited or straight out of the camera, it does not matter. You are left with complete freedom to do whatever genre of photography you wish to do, and your own interpretation of the challenge subject.

This one is almost 3 hours old. Where's them LARGE pictures at??

Road Virus Heads North


From a rabbit's point of view this can be quite large.

The Constellation Orion.

I'm not even going to try to figure out the size of the entire constellation.

My main thoughts are with that reddish star, near the left edge of this picture. That's Betelgeuse. It may not look like much, in this picture, but it is one of the largest stars known, and one of the brightest as it appears in our night sky. It's approximately a thousand times the size of our Sun.

The three stars in the middle of the picture, in a line, comprise Orion's belt. If you were to follow that line downward, it points to the single brightest star in our sky, other than the Sun; though at the time I took this picture, that star was below the horizon. It's important that you never make jokes about that star, though. It's Sirius.

Bob Blaylock said:

The Constellation Orion.

I'm not even going to try to figure out the size of the entire constellation.

My main thoughts are with that reddish star, near the left edge of this picture. That's Betelgeuse. It may not look like much, in this picture, but it is one of the largest stars known, and one of the brightest as it appears in our night sky. It's approximately a thousand times the size of our Sun.

The three stars in the middle of the picture, in a line, comprise Orion's belt.

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And hanging from the belt is a line of three fainter stars usually called his sword. With a good telescope, the middle star in the sword is easily distinguished as two stars and a nebula. (Search Orionid nebula.) The nebula first just looks like glare in your telescope until you realize you are actually looking at a giant space cloud.

The most interesting thing about the star Betelsguese is that, if you put it where our sun is, the Earth would be inside the star!

Blade Canyon said:

And hanging from the belt is a line of three fainter stars usually called his sword. With a good telescope, the middle star in the sword is easily distinguised as actually two stars and a nebula. (Search Orionid nebula.) The nebula first just looks like glare in your telescope until you realize you are actually looking at a giant space cloud.

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You can even see that with a good set of binoculars*. I even have some pictures I took with my camera, where the nebula is discernable. Not so much in this one, as it was very low in the sky, and somewhat lost in the light pollution.

Blade Canyon said:

The most interesting thing about the star Betelsguese [sic] is that, if you put it where our sun is, the Earth would be inside the star!

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I wouldn't say that that's the most interesting thing about it, but it is interesting. It's a rather odd star in quite a few ways.



* Such as this well-worn pair that I've had since the mid 1980s. [NOT AN ENTRY!]

Pittsburgh "Gotham City" last night because Pirate pitcher A. J. Burnett was pitching. His nickname is Batman

I pulled off yesterday for my lunch break, (shot some landscapes) and walking back to the truck I realized that the "large" challenge entry was staring me right in the face.

Eyelight said:

This one is almost 3 hours old. Where's them LARGE pictures at??

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This site is almost to a crawl. "Large" pictures won't upload. :indecisiveness:

Got out yesterday to the Chiricahua National Park, which is a hidden (not well known) national park that is missed by many. It has some wonderful rock formations, one set which is called the Organ Pipe Formation for the towering pipe organ type rock formations. This is a series of four vertically stitched handheld photos that still do not really do justice to the area/formation. You really can't get much larger that this. Ha!

This one is all over, 'cept for the likin', so like 'em while you can. Get's you likes in.

Blacktop said:

This site is almost to a crawl. "Large" pictures won't upload. :indecisiveness:

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Is that a Ford Ranger or something?

Went up to the Wichita Mountains today in attempt for some wildlife photos.
I didn't expect to see this when I got there.