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It was taken on Sunday. Unfortunately hanami is mostly over, so no sakura photos, which I'd have preferred, so apple will have to do.

Re: Camera phone competition May 2019: Lighting
 

Oh what the fsck, here is my entry. Taken just a few minutes ago with my trusted Jolla 1, stock camera. No prizes for working out what it is.

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A special note to juiceme: I know, I know, "too small". Whatever. Get that damn TMO uploader fixed.

Re: Camera phone competition May 2019: Lighting
 

As an extra bonus, here are three candidates I had considered and rejected even before levone1's excellent submission.
Please note that they are all not part of the competition!

Rejected candidate 1,
"Field at dusk"

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I was passing this field close to my house when I noticed nice long shadows and a short arc of a rainbow at the background. Unfortunately, by the time I managed to safely cross the road and set up my equipment, the rainbow had almost completely gone. There is still a small hint just about visible above the white shed in the left.

Rejected candidate 2,
"Way home"

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This is exactly what I meant by not quite fitting the theme.

Rejected candidate 3,
"My street"

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Yes, it is really my street. The white thing on the right with small windows and a car parked in front of it is my house.
I swear it looked better in real life but the camera turned it into a piece of 5h!t. Burnt out sky and the street drowning in darkness. It looked nothing like that to the naked eye.

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Well I don't find it that bad:

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Yeah, but that would be post-processing and hence cheating ;)
(Plus you lose some sharpness.)

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I like the "way home" one.

And as far as I see, it is more related to the "Lighting" theme than my entry.

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If I remember right, post processing is allowed as long as you describe what you have done. :p

But I'm with you. I wouldn't throw such a heavily altered pic in a competition like ours, even so it's in principal allowed.

(You don't lose sharpness but contrast. But of course you could compensate that. That was just a VERY quick and dirty job :o)

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Actually, I quite love this picture!
The structure and consistency of it is such that this is one of the rare cases where the absolute size does matter. :p

Well Done!

Re: Camera phone competition May 2019: Lighting
 

So I'm not alone! For me one of the best pics of the whole competition (not only May 2019) so far!

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Fellfrosch IRL?