July 2008 Photo Contest - Final Voting Thread

**Junior** · 07-27-2008, 03:41 AM

This month's theme was: "Reflections on a Theme"
Voting Ends: Monday, July 28

Well, we narrowed it down from 20 great submissions to five!

The winner will choose next month's theme.

Here are the Finalists:

sublime1365

GA-Mike

joe incognito

rwalshphoto

Todd RT

**Junior** · 07-28-2008, 12:10 AM

Bump for the finals!

**rwalshphoto** · 07-28-2008, 05:50 PM

bump!

**Fondy** · 07-28-2008, 07:21 PM

good luck everyone!

Joe gets my vote, its very creative! and caught my eye

**joe incognito** · 07-28-2008, 10:19 PM

Thanks for your support Fondy
Glad you liked it.

Cheers

**Junior** · 07-29-2008, 01:37 AM

Two hours left for voting!

Bumpity bump bump.

**GA-Mike** · 07-29-2008, 07:29 AM

Congrats to sublime1365

**joe incognito** · 07-29-2008, 09:29 AM

^^^ Ditto
Congratulations, definitely a great photo.

**06TB2066** · 07-29-2008, 11:03 AM

Congrats sublime1365 awesome photo!

**FreeBird** · 07-29-2008, 01:52 PM

Just FYI everyone....
Just got a PM from Sublime1365. He is air-travling for business today, but knows the results of the poll and says "THANKS EVERYONE"!!!!!
(He'll chime in ASAP, I'm sure...)

CONGRATS SCOTT!!!!

**rwalshphoto** · 07-29-2008, 02:04 PM

Congrats Scott!

**Todd RT** · 07-29-2008, 07:23 PM

Congrats man! Great job of 'setting the bar high' right from the get-go~!

Can't wait to see the subject for August!

**Junior** · 07-29-2008, 07:48 PM

It shows (at least in part) that it pays to get your submission in early, eh? Beautiful shot besides... great job, Scott.

And that goes for all the others as well! Thanks folks, for making this thing worth doing!

**sublime1365** · 07-29-2008, 09:07 PM

Hey ALL - Thank you for the votes that propelled me to be this months winner. Extra special thanks to the AZLX group for thier friendships and support. Considering the great photographers out there in our forum, I feel pretty darn lucky to have taken the winning shot. I am truely a 'rookie' when it comes to photography, so let that be some encouragement to others out there that are new to the hobby.

I had recently purchased a new camera and was inspired by some of the true shutter-bugs in our group here in Arizona that have taken countless awesome shots and have sharp eyes and incredible cameras. My shot was taken by a Panasonic Lumix Digital point and shoot camera that I have yet to totally figure out.

The winning reflection is actually of a picture that I had taken early in the spring in Sedona Arizona. It came out so well that I had it blown up to a 20 x 20 print and framed for my garage.

I then took this picture and placed it directly in front of the chrome-clad Daytona wheel and experimented with the different reflections. I kept playing with angles and light settings on the camera randomly and got the eventual shot. I simply used the edge of the picture frame to steady my shot. I changed angles by leaning the picture frame in and out. The only thing I tweaked on the picture was the sharpness...using the Picasa tool.

Here are couple of the others that didnt make the cut.

I liked this one as it reflected the wheel back against the glass on the picture frame, but not enough of the car appeared in the picture.

It was a lot of fun and I learned a lot about my camera at the same time.

The competition was tough - lots of great pictures and creativity - good luck this next month, the new theme is coming soon!!

Scott