Photography
Related: About this forumCelebrating TEN YEARS of photo contests
I was updating the list that is pinned and thought it was getting long.
Yes, the records begin in December of 2004.
Some of the early winners are still around--Blue_in_AK, CC and more.
My, how time flies--
Somehow we managed to survive the polls not being anonymous and other controversies.
Here's to the best group in DU
If anyone has any particular favorite memories of photo contests past, please post!
elleng
(130,126 posts)Have been a DUer for 10 years, enjoying this group for some time, but only had a camera for 1 year.
Long Live Photo Group, and Long Live Photo Contests!
Celebration
(15,812 posts)Found it in November 2004........for years I wasn't sure where the photo contests came from, LOL.
PatSeg
(46,773 posts)Though I'd been around before 2004 reading posts.
Celebration
(15,812 posts)One of the few sane places on the internet in that time frame.
I do think 2004 was when DU really got big.
PatSeg
(46,773 posts)or 2003. Sanity was so hard to find back then. I felt like I was in a desert. After 9/11, everything was super conservative and few questioned the status quo. Those that did usually got fired. I couldn't believe how the entire country was transformed in a very short period of time. I still find it terrifying. We live in a world of sheep.
2004 I started to react. That election was devastating.
Earth_First
(14,910 posts)This group and LBN are in the handful of things that I do first thing every day over coffee.
Glad this is here, I would miss it terribly.
Thanks for the OP!
Celebration
(15,812 posts)I remember some of your first contest entries-- a photo with a white dress in it (??)
I am grateful for everyone here.
alfredo
(60,065 posts)Henry Clay's tomb.
At that time I was shooting with a Canon S-50. Soon I moved up to a Canon G10. The G10 was pretty good as long as you kept it at base ISO. After than it got real noisy. It was a good tough camera.
I learned a lot here, and was challenged to try new things. It made me a better photographer. I most of all I love the photo community here.
Celebration
(15,812 posts)Neighbor state to mine.
This place is a great refuge.
alfredo
(60,065 posts)Blue_In_AK
(46,436 posts)alfredo
(60,065 posts)Blue_In_AK
(46,436 posts)and now I've got all the cameras I can use (Canons).
My husband has a little Samsung thing that you can put in your pocket. I'd like to borrow it sometimes, but I can't figure out how to use it. Lol.
alfredo
(60,065 posts)Loves it.
intheflow
(28,402 posts)I was in awe of it's beauty.
alfredo
(60,065 posts)handmade34
(22,755 posts)but this group has allowed me to have lots of fun with it Thanks!
alfredo
(60,065 posts)Celebration
(15,812 posts)Alfredo is right. I've had so much fun with this over the years.
Also it is a lot of fun to look at all your travel photos from your job!!
I think doing a bit of photography over the past few years has changed my perceptions and my brain. Plus I have learned to look up into the trees and find birds, LOL.
PatSeg
(46,773 posts)in new and different way because of photography. Small things that I may have overlooked before become artistic compositions. We tend to spend so much of our lives with blinders on.
Celebration
(15,812 posts)And filters, too! Photography pulls the veil away. Cameras are a wonderful tool--you can look for beauty, irony, quirkiness, love, tension, etc. A picture really is worth a thousand words, and looking for a good picture keeps one focused on the moment. To me it is all about the process. The end result of the contests, etc. is not so important.
I began to realize the the picture wasn't as important as my perception and experience. Without the camera, I might have overlooked that dragonfly or the light through the trees. I figure that was the purpose of my renewed interest in photography. Also the creativity involved keeps me grounded and relatively sane!