Weekly Challenge May 24 - 31: Stairs or Stares

cwgrizz

Senior Member
Challenge Team
"Stairs or Stares" - (wthorson)'s Choice

It's all in the spelling. Use either "Stairs" or "Stares" or both. Going up or down the stairs or just watching intently. Capture it and submit it. Let's see how creative you can be! Color, B&W, HDR...anything goes!

DO NOT SHOOT OR POST IMAGES UNTIL WEDNESDAY May 24
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.





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.





 

Fortkentdad

Senior Member
The Look DSC_6937+garden work -0026.jpg

I'm in trouble now

(yes I did ask permission - I'm not that reckless)
 

cwgrizz

Senior Member
Challenge Team
Probably not OSHA approved, but hey they do have a sign saying that only employees may use them.

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Bob Blaylock

Senior Member
Probably not OSHA approved, but hey they do have a sign saying that only employees may use them.

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Definitely not in compliance with OSHA rules, nor any basic safety standards. Not even for employees only. Under no circumstances is it acceptable to have objects on stairs, as depicted in this picture. Wherever this is, they could be in serious trouble if an OSHA inspector should see this. Or if someone tripped on these stairs, was injured, and sued the company.
 
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Bob Blaylock

Senior Member
Seeing the subject, playing on similar words, made me think, for some reason, of set theory, and of the intersection between the two sets of letters represented by those words. What if you take “stairs” and “stares”, and keep only those letters that appear in both? You get a third word, “stars”.

So, here are some stars, seen around and through some stairs. Yes, those are real stars in the background, out of focus because the lens was focused on the stairs, and shaped by a star-shaped cutout on the front of the lens.

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Bounce

Senior Member
These are the Stairs from the model of Hogwarts Castle/ School of Magic, (Harry Potter Films) they lead from the top of the Castle to the bottom to the Church, Warner Bros Studios

HDR stairs.jpg
 
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"CHRIS"

Senior Member
Having tough time with the EXIF data, sorry........so here it is:
D5200
5/28/17
1/2S
f9
0.00EV
ISO 100
11mm
Tokina 11-20mm
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cwgrizz

Senior Member
Challenge Team
Dang, missed it, ... actually didn't double check the date, have to remember to do that.

Shoot it again. You will probably get a better stare after asking your wife to pose again and this time it will be the real thing. Just have your camera ready. :rolleyes:
 

Fortkentdad

Senior Member
Shoot it again. You will probably get a better stare after asking your wife to pose again and this time it will be the real thing. Just have your camera ready. :rolleyes:

I choose carefully the hills I die on and well I'm going to let this pass.

Besides a fake stare would never be that good.
 
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