***PHOTO THAT CAPTION CHALLENGE - DEC 3 THROUGH 9***

Its a new week and time for a new challenge. I've decided that the little flame by the thread lends distinction so snap away!

WEEK 2

New Challenge:
"What is that thing?!?"


This is challenge series based on creativity. Everything and anything is okay as long as it is loosely based on the caption and is your own work (and doesn't break any DU rules). Other than that, have fun and get your imagination pumping. As discussed extreme processing is allowed. Also, feel free to post multiple pictures.

Discussion is heavily encouraged.

Required legal stuff:
CHALLENGE LICENSE:

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An entrant can disclaim this Challenge License and retain all rights to the photograph. If an entrant wishes to disclaim the Challenge License they must include the following statement in the post containing their photograph; "I disclaim the Challenge License, and reserve all rights to my photograph" Any photograph submitted by an entrant with this disclaimer statement will not be copied and displayed in Demopedia and/or any linked Gallery.

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in that fountain thing Hobbs was drinking from? :shrug:

exactly!

Guess that was an easy one ...saw a glimmer of him - the fishie- when I was looking through the shots from that day...cropped him down...i think it is really neat!

"interesting" but probably not edible...

sticking out of the water, but the goldfish-looking-thingy in the water makes me think not.

Mz Pip
:dem:

:rofl:

Sorry. I cheated.
:spank:

I'll post the rest of the story on Dec 9th!!! :-)

(And you will all think I am crazy for sure...)

Mz Pip
:dem:

but I'm curious about the bottom part of it...?

This looks like a close-up of maybe the bottom of a wine glass or a piece of jewelry... :shrug: Something crystal like...

Mz Pip
:dem:

It's not jewelry.... hint: it's a pic of the SIDE of the object.

The side of something has me really baffled.

Mz Pip
:dem:

it's a really nice image. Christmas ornament?

but I'm still recuperating from food poisoning, so I'm not up to my usual razor-sharp standard:eyes:

No cheating, please, but I can tell you it involved the Persid meteor shower. :evilgrin:

I guess no one cares what mine is. :cry:

But I remember when you took these... and the meteor shower that never got snapped. If I'm remembering correctly.

The meteors were nowhere to be seen and, having dragged myself to Tiger Mountain summit at insane o'clock, I had to photograph something...

right?

It's hard to tell one flabby rightwing gasbag tub of guts from another, after all.

Actually think of a popular song by meatloaf!

hmmm

Dashboard... of course taken while driving quite accidentally.

were doing on your dashboard!

It's beautiful. Looks like an abstract painting.

Mz Pip
:dem:

but I kind of liked the way it looked. :)

this morning, not so much.:P

I love the face.

I see the eyes, it is some kind of lizard.

but the lizard quality jumped out at me. I've shot a couple of rolls on this fence. There's always something new to see.

I'd be pretty surprised if anyone figures out What is that thing?, but maybe it's really easy and I just think that it is difficult. :crazy:



blueraven95.... don't me too discouraged by the lack of participation. I think this is a great idea you've come up with. It's just that things like this and the Roundtable have limited appeal.

Psychedelic lasagna? Cannelloni?

Geez, I'm hungry.

between work, some personal stuff, and a cold I can't shake...I've been a little busy this week.

Is it algae?

Though I did get hungry for pasta after JeffR mentioned it... which is what I had last night.:9

It is not fotochopped. It is an actual pixie with only minor tweaking done. A clue.. the approx. real width of the pixie is about 2 to 2 1/2 feet.

:hi:

Hey... this thread might break 1,000 views!!!

I was going to enter this as my tis the season thing but I figured the meaning would be lost on those that don't live where it snows.

My snap above is through the window of the F'mobile during the tri-color foam cycle when all this strange stuff gets dumped on your vehicle. You basically had it nailed with "suds"... sorta' kinda'.

I have a nagging feeling that I've posted this recently in here and revealed what it was, so in case I did, here's my backup "What is it?" shot:

as to what they are...:shrug:

second one looks like broken soda bottle(s) shot with different background colors

The first one is a sculpture at the Smithsonian. I stood in the middle and shot upward. Here's what the sculpture looks like from the outside:



The second is actually a piece of stained glass at Chicago's Navy Pier's stained glass exhibit. It's made from broken soda bottles. The title of the piece? "Pop Art." :)

:rofl:

Can't blame them for being unable to resist that temptation.

Great shots.

:o

cool

that were popular on Flickr a while back, where you set your camera for a slow shutter speed, click, then throw your camera in the air. Not doing that with mine!!

But as I look at it more, it looks first of all like it's sideways, and then the rings appear to be fire, but the source of the fire I don't know.

it a deep, dark secret? A camera toss it is not, though I'm mystified how this shot came out this way. Totally unplanned, I might add.

:shrug:

The pic is turned sideways, yes? I see what looks like a person holding one of the "fire rings".

Am I close?
:dunce:

distinguish the person even though I took this recently. A young man had fire at the end of two ropes at night and was swinging them for all he was worth. I was trying to capture motion as I'm very new at this; I may have turned the camera for a different perspective. Here's another fellow at the same venue-he was running an electric sander over a metal chestplate to produce this effect:

???

.... in a glass?
:shrug:

Maybe a crack in the window.

I was just playing around one day, took an empty bottle of tequila (Chinaco Añejo, of course!) because it's hand-blown and curvy. Set it in front of a window, set the blinds so that just little slits of light shown. Set my Olympus compact camera on macro setting and took a few shots.

In Photoshop I cropped way down to just this one sliver of light, converted to black and white, and increased the contrast quite a bit.

What possessed me to do this, I don't know. Maybe it was the tequila!

Since this one has drawn only 2 or 3 desultory responses.
:rofl:

as soon as I'm home from work. Sorry for the delay. (But at least it meant I got my flamey thing! :evilgrin: )

"What is that thing?!?"



:rofl: :rofl:

:spray:

awesome!