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I vote 3. Fellfrosch. Because local beer is my weak spot.

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Well...
Spring is in the air here...
At the house the noise is deafening at night...
From the lake below...
It is frogs croaking so loud all at once...
And...
The turkeys have become a hazard.
I almost was covered in turkey on the way home yesterday morning.
A flock of them running and parading and prancing and showing off ...
The males going nuts...wings out...colours ...feathers splayed...
With a tremendous noise of " GOBBLE! GOBBLE! GOBBLEGOBBLEGOBBLE!!!" ...doing their ritual of intimidation of the other males and attracting the females...
They were everywhere!

My life flashed before my eyes...
And I could see my obituary and the news headline...
" He died as he lived ...with a turkey up his ***..."

Wild turkeys everywhere....
After I plowed through them...on my electric motorcycle ....and they scattered ...
I stopped turned and took a couple of pictures of the only one left ...
He was still doing his dance...
I think it was for me...
Either he saw me as a rival...
Or he thought I looked cute.
https://i.postimg.cc/KjKGNSNZ/IMG-20190322-072357.jpg
https://i.postimg.cc/Px0x05NL/IMG-20190322-072405.jpg

And he was a small one.
Most of them are above 40 pounds of bird a piece.

They are not indigenous to the west coast...
But between the wild turkeys and the wild peacocks...
Running roughshod over everyone...
Well...
With no predators...and a mild year round climate...
They multiply rapidly...
And they are fearless....
We have had to put up turkey crossing signs everywhere...
You have to shoo them off the road...
Thick as ticks.
It would be easy to walk one home to the roaster...
Mmmm....turrrkeeeey...
They declared the gabriola wild turkey as "officially on the menu" ...and are a part of the hunting season...
To try to bring their population under control...

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Is the fooxl picture a local attraction or was it from a trip to Austria? If it is local then I vote that cause I would really love to be in that picture. If it is not local then my vote goes to eson. Just would like you would find some convenient use to that small cottage. It really deserves it.

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Well, unofficially it is my garden shed. I store a small amount of older garden tools in there. Just enough to make it feel useful. :rolleyes:

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Ahhhhh .... voting time again:

I think @endsormas is late and two pics are not allowed. Otherwise my vote would go to him. Just because turkey is a perfect fitting for a good beer. ;)

But for the told reasons my vote has to go to someone elese. And this time I vote for @robthebold Can't tell you why. For me it's just a nice and inviting picture for a relaxing evening stroll.

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Why thank you Fell,
I wasn't really expecting a vote of any kind...
I was late..
just had to share my close encounter of the fowly kind.

mmmm turkeyyyyy....
beeeeerrrr....

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I vote for no. 7 fooxl. I think for the snow being used for goodness instead of evil. And the pretty blue sky.

I also was especially fond of all the green grass and moss and willow in mosen's entry.

(I realize I forgot to give the specifics of my pic. It is the stock Sailfish camera running on Sailfish X, no additional processing.)

Thanks to all for sharing your local attractions.

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Number 5, robthebold.

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I will vote... soon.... but not yet... have to think very carefully... so many options... and very good pictures!

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I always read robthebold as rothlebod and think is as an dungeons and dragons character, a small creature with stealing and tinkering skills.

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I once had a pair of fuzzy D20's hanging from my rear-view mirror ;)

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First little analyze for all pictures

1. eson... Great one, did You took it from my backyard? Only negative thing is cropping, dimensions are not photographic... Anyway, I could live there!

2. maemish... Poor dog. I hate people who handle loveones like that. And I also don't wan't to live in a city... anymore... - Story behind this is so sad. I like dogs more than cats. That's true!

3. Fellfrosch... mmMMMmm Beer mmMMMmm. Like Your place. Picture is maybe overexposed but who cares mmMMMmm

4. me... well, picture is not sharp and Volvo's hood is dirty... Maybe the idea was ok but implementation sucks...

5. robthebold... When I first look this I felt myself Antman... Great colors and what a view!

6. levone1... Very beautiful sky, very... Cropping is not perfect but who cares if weather is fine.

7. fooxl... I really like Alps but living there is maybe not my thing... Great colors and mood, thanks!

8. mosen... Is that Your restaurant? Almost perfect picture, colors does not look real... maybe cause here is still only snow and ...snow ;)


Oh, and voting.... 1. eson - that place look just where I live...

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My vote goes to... mosen!

If nothing else then for nostalgic reasons. That castle reminds me of our family tradition from when I was a child. The ZOO we used to go every May was on the grounds of a castle that looked almost like that.

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I vote number 7.

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My vote goes to levone1 though robthebold killed it from the photographer skill side. Very good!
If it was not for levone1s pic reminding me of my childhood weekend vacations when the sea was only some km away.

Reminder, voting ends at 20:00utc (in ~ 3,5h from this post for all daylight-saving-switch-impaired).

Everyone is still invited to look at the runner-field and influence the current line-up.
Come on, your easy chance to be an Influencer :D

fooxl (Pentona, robthebold, Maemish)
robthebold (imaginaryenemy, Fellfrosch)
mosen (pichlo, Macros)
levone1 (mosen)
Maemish (Dousan)
Fellfrosch (eson)
eson (catbus)

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If I am still in time my vote goes to levone1
and second to mosen, eson, fellfrosch and all

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Gentlemen, that was great fun. Thank you very much for participating!

Final results are:
fooxl (Pentona, robthebold, Maemish)
robthebold (imaginaryenemy, Fellfrosch)
mosen (pichlo, Macros)
levone1 (mosen, peterleinchen)
Maemish (Dousan, juiceme)
Fellfrosch (eson)
eson (catbus)

@fooxl is our winner for the march competition!

Congratulations and a kind of selfish wish for a good hand in selecting the Theme for April!

Please fooxl, go ahead as soon as possible and open a new thread with your chosen topic so we can all go shooting again.

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1. eson (Sailfish X on Sony Xperia X and stock photo app)

Nice outhouse at backyard, seems to be on the edge of a larger piece of woods. Center composition of the main subject in square format pleasant but the slight left tilt of 2.6 degrees is a bit disturbing.

2. maemish (N900 stock camera app)

Very touching subject, poor dog waiting patiently for her master out in the cold. Composition is all the way broken but it does not matter as the emotional content is overflowing.

3. Fellfrosch (No idea what gear)

Darkish main subject on a light background, a bit difficult capture condition as obviously to get the subject exposure balanced the background burns through. No matter though as this gives nice glow to the content of the bottle.

4. catbus (N9 with stock software)

A bit odd capture, is this reflection on a puddle of water on the ground? Massing is nice but the image is overall a bit unclean looking.

5. robthebold (Xperia X)

Extremely nice and balances capture, nice perspective. Background almost perfectly symmetrical and the foreground shuttlecock is placed just right.

6. levone1 (Sony Xperia X Compact, Sailfish 3.0.2)

A bit too small image for my taste, cannot make out the detail that one would want to. The anchor is vit underexposed and not distinct enough of the underparts of te bridge. Very nice gradient on the clear sky.

7. fooxl (Xperia X, Sailfish OS, stock camera app)

Absolutely beautiful curving leadlines with the ski tracks, interesting airplane tracks on the sky. good composition and massing, and detail enough on the snow which is pretty difficult to expose correctly.

8. mosen (Xperia XA2 with Piggz Advanced Camera)

Very pleasant castle, lots of interesting detail in the picture. The trees obscure the main subject a bit too much to my taste. Sky is burned through, too bad

Final verdict;
There were lots of very good pictures, and compositionally my favorites are @robthebold and @fooxl.
However this time I'lll let my emotions rule and go for the most touching image and that sure is the sad dog by @maemish!

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Bummer, I was 20 minutes too late :(

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It is never to late if your vote does not change the winner :D
Thanks for your detailed write-up. Always a pleasure to read!

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Holy shiiiiii.....
Sorry have forgotten to write, that it was XperiaX :o

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@juiceme - Yes, like I wrote earlier... "picture is not sharp and Volvo's hood is dirty..." ;)

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Ah yes of course... now you should have had a tad wider crop or even better; wax the hood to mirror brightness before shooting it! :p

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As fooxl still hasn't made a new topic I would suggest that whoever comes first of the second places may start a thread for April. (Preferably robthebold as this one was started by mosen)

fooxl (Pentona, robthebold, Maemish)
robthebold (imaginaryenemy, Fellfrosch)
mosen (pichlo, Macros)

Maybe we should make this a general rule for the future:
The winner has till the 3rd to start the next competition, after that the next place is free to do so, also having three days and so on.

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Done.

And if I've stepped on any toes, sorry.

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I'm very sorry. Forgot to check (subscribe) the thread. Shame on me. :o

Thanks for the votes!! :)

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I grew up close to Dachstein. At least as close so I could go there for a daily trip. Now I live in the south of Vienna, so still in the same country. :)