Monthly #132 - Flaming June! Competition

Description
Title	Monthly #132 - Flaming June!
Judge	drofmit
Closing Date	30/06/2023
Opting Out	If you'd like to enter but not keen on creating and judging the following competition you have the option to opt out. If you're selected as the winning photo simply create a report saying that you'd like Admin to take over and we'll do the rest.
Try and capture the weather that gives rise to the name "Flaming June". All entries must be shot this month on Pentax or Pentax related cameras and the Exif must support that. Sorry about the delay, we have had problems that took longer than we thought to solve. Good luck... looking forward to seeing what you come up with!! And don't forget that "flaming" can also be used as an expletive!!

Winning Photograph

Menace - threat

by Francisbd

Competition Entries

Photographs uploaded to the Monthly #132 - Flaming June! competition.

Plus Member drofmit drofmit

61 posts
17 years
Touraine du Sud,
[Indre-et-Loire],
France

Posted 02/07/2023 - 14:14 Link

Monthly #132 - Flaming June! Competition

Firstly, thank you all for entering...

Flaming June by John Riley
In for a red picture makes the world on fire.... and the orange of the clouds increase that feeling.
One large step to the right, I feel, would have made the left side of the doorframe appear and balance the centre... my eye keeps getting pulled to that and my eye doesn't really like it! But, looking at the edges of the path, there was probably a "Keep off the Grass" sign.

Flaming June by Sue Riley
So much for sitting out with everything now soaked.
You cleverly focused on the last of the rain pouring down the window...
But the sun is out now and the barbecue can start..... unless... that looming darkness is a second wave... headed your way!?
A rather nice picture of grotty conditions, the sharp streaks rain contrasting with water softened garden.

Menace - threat by Francisbd
Yes, those North Coast storms.... I have been watching those, coming onshore from Finistère to Caen, Le Havre and beyond and watching them peter out before reaching our drought struck garden!!
Beautifully composed shot... M over W... light dark light at the top.... dark light dark at the bottom....
altogether a lovely composition!

Wet and windy Wales. by davidwozhere
Wet Welsh Wales in all it's peak holiday glory.... the advert said "You can see Ireland from the garden!" Feel sorry for the plants in pots!!
Lovely leading line in the curve of the beach and the succession of promontories and then a lovely set of greys to bring your eye back down to the beach... lovely composition...

Tis the dry season by Noelcmn
A spot the ball / bird competition....
Thank goodness for shadows... it was the only way I spotted that lapwing!!
June is your Winter and we had an exceptionally dry January up North.... which after a drought all summer meant that the millstream behind the house looked like this in February.
Yes.... unseasonable weather... droughts... rains that we cannot harvest.... flash floods that take what we want to harvest out to sea along with the topsoil!
WE are just going to have to live with it.... hopefully.
A nice, documentary picture.

No Mow June by Nigelk
Lovely bokeh in this picture.... more White Campion?
Lovely late afternoon sun on the pinsharp plant....
Very nice, restfull picture.... I also have had an enforced No Mow June... the big ride-on mower wouldn't start... it has just come back!! A good job that I decided to just cut access paths, the orchard and the veg patch... but, I have had to find the paths!! I have just cut a load of white campion down manually... so that we can reach the sitting outside area!!

Well, a winner and a coveted second and third equal for everyone else....

Menace - threat by Francisbd in pole position... a lovely composition that lives up to the title...
coveted second place goes to Flaming June by Sue Riley for capturing the frustration of outdoor eating plans destroyed....
and third equal to everyone else... it has been a hard one to judge!!

Edited by drofmit: 02/07/2023 - 14:15

Francisbd Francisbd

11 years

Posted 03/07/2023 - 17:19 Link

Bonjour et merci d' avoir choisi ma photo " Menace " comme vainqueur du concours Mensuel #132 .
Félicitations aussi aux autres participants et participantes qui méritaient eux aussi d' être en tête : toutes vos photos sont très belles et originales, bravo !

Comme le veux la coutumes c' est donc à moi de désigner le prochain thème ...

Thème du concours mensuel #133 : Contre - jour

Bonnes photos à toutes et tous !

Francis

Hello and thank you for choosing my photo "Menace" as the winner of the Monthly contest #132.
Congratulations also to the other participants who also deserved to be in the lead: all your photos are very beautiful and original, bravo!

As is customary, it is therefore up to me to designate the next theme ...

Monthly Contest Theme #133: Against the Day

Good photos to all!

Francis

Francis - èfbé -