The Rules:

* The competition is open now and will close on Nov 30th at midnight.
* PM me your submissions.
* ONE photo per user, however you may CHANGE your submitted photo at any time up to the due date by sending me a PM.
* There is no maximum or minimum image dimensions, we are not here to discriminate against hardware.
* Only very light editing is allowed. Adjustment of Levels, Colour Correction, Contrast, Sharpening and Cropping is allowed.
* This thread will be closed at the specified time (end of the month). No extra entries will be accepted, except under special circumstances.
* Entries breaking these rules will not be entered.
* The forum policy on images and content must be followed.
* If you wish to remain anonymous even after voting has finished, then please let me know when you are submitting your image.
* Ensure you enclose a title and please make sure whatever host you use I can download the pic.

The Process:

* Please keep the image size to less than 1.5Mb

* Go out and take a photo, fitting in the theme and rules.
* Post your entry to me by PM, I will host it and post it.
* When the due date passes, the entries thread will be closed, and a voting thread created to determine the favourite.
* You will not be able to vote for your own entry.

The Tips:

* Think laterally, not literally. Makes for an interesting piece.
* Try to make everyone think about what they're looking at.
* Do what YOU think is right. Art is very subjective. What's great to you, sucks to someone else, etc.
* Title your work, it will make your choices more obvious
* This is nothing serious, have fun while you're doing it.

Voting:

* Voting occurs for one week from the 1st Dec until midnight on 7th Dec.
* After voting has finished the winner chooses the next theme within a couple of days.
* Once the new theme has been chosen entries may be submitted at any time up to midnight on the last day of the month.

Good luck


The Entries:

Changing Hues


Fall


This Is Not Right


Metamorphic


All Change At The Next station


Shrapnel


Parking Change


Change In Opacity

Three worthy winners already!

+1

Love it already!!

Nice to see some inspiration after the last slow couple of months. May it continue!

Do you need a special camera or lense to take photos that close up? I'm guessing a normal compact just won't cut it.

My compact can get really close in macro mode - literally touching the lens front close.

Don't think mine had a macro mode. My old one did, but my new one is crap.

A lot of compact cameras funnily enough are able to close focus much better than the type of 'kit' lenses you get with DSLRs. My old Samsung could focus down to 1cm IIRC and my current Fuji isn't half bad either.

Reminds me of Kodak EIR

I just tried my idea....... It didn't work.

I wonder who did that? It wasn't me, and there aren't too many geologists round here.

I'm not a geologist but I do work at the British Geological Survey. That said it's still not me.

I know you can't bump a sticky, but *BUMP*

Midnight tonight for any final entries folks. Five entries so far is still better than the three we managed for October, though.