Monthly photo competition October - bad weather
Discussion
Billy Connolly once said something like "there's no such thing as bad weather, just the wrong clothes".
I freely admit to being a bit of a fair-weather 'tog. I don't mind cold, crisp mornings and I actually quite like a bit of snow, but wet, grey, rainy, drizzly weather results in the camera staying firmly in the bag. I just can't be bothered getting wet / muddy and the light is (usually) awful.
So - as inspiration for lightweights like me, this month's subject is ‘bad weather’ - post up your inspiring shots from when wimps like me stayed at home...
The photos taken must be your own work
The competition will run from the first to the last day of the month.
The winner from the previous month decides on the topic for following month and judges it at the end of the month
Entries and discussion on a single thread, please.
All entrants acknowledge that they may indeed win and that their adherence to convention ensures everyone else's continued fun.
Winners should update the Competition Wiki (it's easy)
Photos entered can be as large as you like, although bear in mind if too large, it may not be possible to see the whole image on some screens. Links to larger versions are permissible.
If after 7 days of a competition ending, either a winner has not been declared, or the winner has not created a new thread, a new thread should be started, with the topic set as whatever the topic was 10 years ago, based on this wiki.
I freely admit to being a bit of a fair-weather 'tog. I don't mind cold, crisp mornings and I actually quite like a bit of snow, but wet, grey, rainy, drizzly weather results in the camera staying firmly in the bag. I just can't be bothered getting wet / muddy and the light is (usually) awful.
So - as inspiration for lightweights like me, this month's subject is ‘bad weather’ - post up your inspiring shots from when wimps like me stayed at home...
The photos taken must be your own work
The competition will run from the first to the last day of the month.
The winner from the previous month decides on the topic for following month and judges it at the end of the month
Entries and discussion on a single thread, please.
All entrants acknowledge that they may indeed win and that their adherence to convention ensures everyone else's continued fun.
Winners should update the Competition Wiki (it's easy)
Photos entered can be as large as you like, although bear in mind if too large, it may not be possible to see the whole image on some screens. Links to larger versions are permissible.
If after 7 days of a competition ending, either a winner has not been declared, or the winner has not created a new thread, a new thread should be started, with the topic set as whatever the topic was 10 years ago, based on this wiki.
Edited by Nigel_O on Friday 4th October 11:41
And one to kick it off... In my defence, the weather was pretty good until about 5 minutes before this was taken, otherwise I probably wouldn't have been there at all...
...and then it rained by Nigel Ogram, on Flickr
...and then it rained by Nigel Ogram, on FlickrLimaDelta said:
I have so many options for this one. I need to have a think and decide weather I'm going to go for the worst weather, even if the photo isn't the best, or a better pic of not-so-bad weather.
...or wait (likely not long) until the weather does its usual at this time of year, and go out and take a new photo! 
To be fair, although this is my intention right now, I may well end up looking through previous experiences near the end of the month!
Arrival of the Dementors
Taken overlooking the Bay of Messinia in Greece. This huge squall moved in creating cloud shapes I've not seen outside of apocalypse movies. Cherry on top was the sailing yacht in the middle of the bay, it had been trying to outrun the storm but by the time I took the image it had battened down hatches. Colours are straight out of camera, only a touch of contrast was applied.
Taken overlooking the Bay of Messinia in Greece. This huge squall moved in creating cloud shapes I've not seen outside of apocalypse movies. Cherry on top was the sailing yacht in the middle of the bay, it had been trying to outrun the storm but by the time I took the image it had battened down hatches. Colours are straight out of camera, only a touch of contrast was applied.
This was at Port Stewart, Northern Ireland, taken earlier this year in mid-August (aka high summer...). We actually stayed reasonably dry on the beach, but the wind was bitterly cold and there wasn't a great pay off for the surfers in the form of decent waves. Looked dramatic though!
Ok, this is the one I decided to go for. Not the best technically, but really shows the massive (and I mean massive) thunderstorm about to hit us. That spec in the distance is one of our helicopters racing the storm to the beach landing site. The photo doesn't really do it justice, but the sky was apocalyptic that afternoon.
I'd just gone to take the bin out and I saw this !
Rushed back in to get my camera which had a manual lens on it at the time.
I managed to catch not only the dramatic clouds but a bit of a rainbow as well. Very weird !
Winter Clouds over Musselburgh - Brightin Star 35mm F0.95 by Kevin W, on Flickr
Rushed back in to get my camera which had a manual lens on it at the time.
I managed to catch not only the dramatic clouds but a bit of a rainbow as well. Very weird !
Winter Clouds over Musselburgh - Brightin Star 35mm F0.95 by Kevin W, on FlickrThe hardest part about these little competitions is not coming up with a subject, but picking a winner out of a wide variety of interpretations of the subject.
Every image is excellent in its own way, but I guess judging is always going to be subjective, so here we go with my top three…
In third place, a scene that many of us will have seen before, but it was only when looking closely that the scale becomes apparent as I realised the object in the bottom right is a boat:
In second place, simply because the sea looks so damned cold and the people looked so damned miserable, and made better (worse?) by using B&W:
And this month’s winner is LimaDelta with frankly scary-looking clouds with amazing definition. At first, I thought the tiny spec in the image was a sea bird and I was going to suggest it should have been cloned out, but the back story of it being a helicopter added yet more drama.
Over to you, LimaDelta…
Every image is excellent in its own way, but I guess judging is always going to be subjective, so here we go with my top three…
In third place, a scene that many of us will have seen before, but it was only when looking closely that the scale becomes apparent as I realised the object in the bottom right is a boat:
In second place, simply because the sea looks so damned cold and the people looked so damned miserable, and made better (worse?) by using B&W:
And this month’s winner is LimaDelta with frankly scary-looking clouds with amazing definition. At first, I thought the tiny spec in the image was a sea bird and I was going to suggest it should have been cloned out, but the back story of it being a helicopter added yet more drama.
Over to you, LimaDelta…
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