Camera phone competition March 2019: Local Attractions
 

What i personally liked most about this competition and the variety of photos is whenever someone elaborates a bit on the story behind it and thus getting to know you as the photographer a little bit more.

To encourage you to give a little caption with the Photo i thought about how to make that easy without crossing the line to this becoming a social media cheesy kind of experience.

So here is my question. Why do you enjoy living where you live, what makes staying in your place worthwhile? Give us a hint with your photo of your all local attractions.

Be it the super early strawberries in your region, the subway station only a few steps from your door giving you freedom, nicely relaxing landscapes, familiar landmarks or underrated spots in your city?
Even if you hate where you live, show us what might attract locals and tourists or on the contrary things that help you stay alive as your very very local attraction :D

Rules are as usual:

• Photos must be taken during this month (after theme is announced) and posted before voting starts
• Photos must be taken by the posting member
• Photos must be taken with a camera phone
• Users post only one photo per entry
• Users can change the entry only once
• Users must name the phone they used (and software if not stock)
• Post processing is allowed but you have to say what you did
• 3 days voting period starts on March 28th at 20:00 UTC

Re: Camera phone competition March 2019: Local Attractions
 

Not to many days left of March, so here's my contribution.
My very own and very local attraction. One of few remaining outhouse privy's on these latitudes. Built 1929 and of course not in use anymore. I just can't make my self take it down. :D

Sailfish X on Sony Xperia X and stock photo app.
Crop and rotation in Gimp.

https://svenskasprakfiler.se/show/outhouse_privy.jpg

Re: Camera phone competition March 2019: Local Attractions
 

Nice one eson.
I can see Kalle Blomkvist hiding somewhere :D

Exactly 6 days to go.
As much as i could cope with this being a failed theme selection and declare a quick winner on 28th already, i would love to see more Photos!

I am holding my picture back until the next contestants entry ;)

Re: Camera phone competition March 2019: Local Attractions
 

Well, I think you are confusing Kalle Blomkvist with The Children of Bullerbyn Village, but that is of course another story. ;)

Re: Camera phone competition March 2019: Local Attractions
 

Maybe he meant Nils Holgersson? ;)

Re: Camera phone competition March 2019: Local Attractions
 

Well, i might have a weird mash-up of Lindgren stories in my head. Pardon me.
After seconds of research i now know i actually ment "Emil i Lönneberga". He is translated to "Michel" in german for unkown reasons.

Re: Camera phone competition March 2019: Local Attractions
 

I have had an idea where to take a picture and what to say about it but don't yet know am I able to shoot that picture. Should get to stangers home to take it. Good subject for a contest. Made me think why and what I like where I live.

Re: Camera phone competition March 2019: Local Attractions
 

Did some offer some storage space for competition pictures if I send? This one should be seen more clear.Got an another idea when saw something.

Re: Camera phone competition March 2019: Local Attractions
 

Sure, just send to photocomp at mosushi dot de
It will be available after i manually upload at
https://mosushi.de/misc/photocomp/ma...ndcontrast.jpg

EDIT: Uploaded!

Re: Camera phone competition March 2019: Local Attractions
 

https://mosushi.de/misc/photocomp/ma...ndcontrast.jpgSo here is my picture. Took it outside of our big super market mall centre. The sub of Helsinki city where I live is named Kannelmäki, kannel= a 5 string ancient instrument, and mäki= a hill. But this area is so filled with dogs that it has been given a nickname, kennelmäki. If you like dogs (as I do) it is great 'cause every day you can see a lots of different dogs and get to play with them. On the other hand there is a fallback: many people do not gather their products from the street. So even though the look of this dog is probably because the dog is so ashamed of what it is wearing I interpret it that it is the counter shame of their masters who leave the products on the street: so sorry but I can't pick them by myself.

N900 stock camera app + mild cropping and adjusts of brightness and contrast.

https://mosushi.de/misc/photocomp/ma...ndcontrast.jpg

Re: Camera phone competition March 2019: Local Attractions
 

Ok, here is my entry for the competition local attractions.I first thought about posting a pic of my girlfriend. But than I decided to post a pic of a local attraction I'm also willing to share ....
:D:D:D

https://i.ibb.co/THmC1nq/580-1024.jpg

Re: Camera phone competition March 2019: Local Attractions
 

Hep,

Thanks very much Mosen for this theme and I must say that every picture I have taken the previous competitions are taken from the yard where I live... So it was difficult to come up with new items of local attraction.

Anyway, this month have been dark and rainy but today blue sky was also here with little clouds... First i looked up and then down... and I found something... Picture is not perfect but it doesn't hurt the story behind it...

http://huispaus.ucs.fi/tmp/19030016.jpg

...which is a beautiful song by a Finnish artist telling about sustainable love.

https://lyricstranslate.com/en/kaksi...two-trees.html <- Lyrics and tube-link...

N9 with stock software... As usually...

Re: Camera phone competition March 2019: Local Attractions
 

Picture coming soon TM . . . sharing has been broken on my Xperia X for a while, so gotta upload the old-fashioned way.

Re: Camera phone competition March 2019: Local Attractions
 

Can you elaborate, please? I have never used any "sharing" when posting pictures to TMO. Only clicked on the "Advanced" button, then "Manage Attachments".

Re: Camera phone competition March 2019: Local Attractions
 

Maybe i'm only one but can't see Your picture? Once saw that bottle of beer, i think, but normally nothing... If i click this link above, picture is ok... Maybe something wrong with my software or network... Anyone else have same? Or, am i alone?

Re: Camera phone competition March 2019: Local Attractions
 

You are not alone.

--edit
Oh, and this pic is not an entry for the competition (just to make it clear:D)

Re: Camera phone competition March 2019: Local Attractions
 

The "sharing" I write of specifically in this case is using the jockr app's flickr sharing plugin to post images from gallery to Flickr. But it's not just that . . .

Unfortunately, sharing in general got broken on my device at some point. Can't share pictures to MMS, email, etc. Or contact info, for that matter. When I try to share a picture, card, etc., I see no accounts available for sharing even though they are there.

I can receive pictures just fine, whether by mms or email. Contact cards too. If I were a frequent picture texter, I'd have probably already reflashed sailfish, but I'm not, so I haven't.

Re: Camera phone competition March 2019: Local Attractions
 

I forgot that outdated browsers didn't work with my nextcloud. Sorry for that. Uploaded the pic to imgbb.com. Should now work for anybody.

Re: Camera phone competition March 2019: Local Attractions
 

Can you share the taste online? Really should get the taste and not just a glimpse of this picture? Very hard to form an opinion. It seems kind thick liquid.

Re: Camera phone competition March 2019: Local Attractions
 

Weizenbier is a very old style, originating from germanic tribal times.
It predates Pilsner by centuries. It is a bit thicker because of less filtering than others. And has a much shorter shelf-life than highly filtered styles.
The name Weisse / Weissbier / Whitebeer is in comparison to historically very dark beers.

This is general info about Weissbier.

Here you can buy Alpirsbacher.

EDIT But mind the special way to pour it in your glass :D

No idea of the detailed taste of this brand, Fellfrosch might elaborate. I prefer "Helles" because i can drink much more of it. With Weissbier i feel full after two bottles, also the noticeable yeast taste is not mine.

Re: Camera phone competition March 2019: Local Attractions
 

@mosen if you don't like yeast in beer, stay away from Alpirsbacher Kloster Weisse. It has a very rich and soft taste with some sweetness and the yeast note is stronger than in most other brands.

Drinking more than two bottles is easy, if you are trained to it and Weissbier ist veeeery common in southern Germany. ;)

Funny enough I normally prefer dark Weissbier which is a contradiction to it's name. But the dark one have a malty taste which I like very much.

Re: Camera phone competition March 2019: Local Attractions
 

Here we go:

https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7912/...69a94864_o.jpg]

My daughter and I slogged across the just-melted lawn to try to get some good photos before sunset. I picked my personal favorite for my entry.

This installation is of course called "Shuttlecocks" (1994) and is a bona fide local attraction. At least one other photographer was shooting here at the same time, and there are a number of people wandering around the sculptures just out of view.

The birdies are ginormous, 586 cm long x 487 cm diameter, and give the impression that a group of giants has been playing badminton using the art gallery in the background as the net. IMHO, the fanciful installation makes the gallery much more approachable -- before they were there, it seemed more fortress-like rather than inviting.

I wish the mall, or esplanade, or whatever was a little greener, but turf grass is still dormant here in March, so ya work with what ya got.

Re: Camera phone competition March 2019: Local Attractions
 

Hey, I have the same problem on my Jolla Phone, just a blank page when I select the Share option. I don't run into it very often because I usually grab the files I want via SSH, but from the little bit of thinking I've done, I think it's probably caused by a patch or another third party package. If I figure it out, I'll let you know for sure.

Re: Camera phone competition March 2019: Local Attractions
 

Well, what do you know, I found the solution on TJC. Apparently, it's caused by outdated (third party) share plugins, which for some reason make the share options crash. It seems to me that this is a bug as the outdated plugins should simply be skipped, but either way the solution is to check which third party share plugins you have installed, and get rid of them. Go to /usr/lib/nemo-transferengine/plugins, and take a look at the timestamps. If one or more don't match up, they're probably the offenders. In my case, it was libshare-plugin-telepathy, installed by a third party package that made it possible to share pictures from the Gallery with XMPP accounts. As it turns out, there's a newer version of the plugin, which is again compatible. It works, so happy is me.
If you can't figure out where one of the offending plugins comes from, you can enter
in your terminal.

Re: Camera phone competition March 2019: Local Attractions
 

All these images crashed my microb and had to disable images to be able to view this thread.

Re: Camera phone competition March 2019: Local Attractions
 

And given that this is a photo contest thread, that really bites!

Re: Camera phone competition March 2019: Local Attractions
 

Thanks! And you know what, it was the jockr plugin -- the one I wanted to use for purposes of this contest -- that was the culprit.

I would agree with that. Especially since a good plugin can go bad . . .

Re: Camera phone competition March 2019: Local Attractions
 

Rock jetty going out about a half mile into the harbor. Passing through on vaca... Sony Xperia X Compact; Sailfish 3.0.2

Re: Camera phone competition March 2019: Local Attractions
 

Nice use of the "rule of thirds" on the crop, and the attractive gradient in the sky on the top 2/3.

Re: Camera phone competition March 2019: Local Attractions
 

Interesting. It must be one of those things that only photo nerds will appreciate. As a mere mortal, my first reaction was, "what a total waste of space of a half of the picture on nothing but the sky". I even covered the top half with my hand and the picture looked much better.

But what do I know, to the experts it is a 'nice use of the "rule of thirds"' :p

That is true. The gradient is nice.

PS
I have a similar example from some years back. The company I was working for at the time was rebranding and the head of marketing did a presentation on the new features. One of them was widening the spaces between the letters in the company logo. His justification was that it conveyed the idea that we are more "open".

My reaction? A complete BS. First of all, I would not have even noticed unless I saw the two logos side by side and second - wider spaces = more open? Really? It may possibly mean something to other marketing directors or typographical buffs who eat and breathe this stuff but outside their small bubble, no one really cares.

I asked a few colleagues who also attended that presentation and all their reactions were exactly the same as mine :)

Re: Camera phone competition March 2019: Local Attractions
 

Just out of interest, what does that mean? A typo for "just mown"? An Americanism meaning "just mown"? Or (as I suspect) "with snow just melted off"?

(Sorry, not trying to be funny or anything. Just slow.)

Re: Camera phone competition March 2019: Local Attractions
 

I agree, but cutting off the top half technically still gives you a good example of the "rule of thirds": now 2/3 is the harbour and 1/3 sky.

Re: Camera phone competition March 2019: Local Attractions
 

Absolutely. Nothing against the rule of thirds per se. It's when the rule of thirds is seen as the ultimate goal trumping anything else that I start asking questions ;)

Re: Camera phone competition March 2019: Local Attractions
 

In finland we have this word "puusilmä" which describes these people.
Usually attributed to football (and other team sports) referees who cannot see plain obvious things.

Re: Camera phone competition March 2019: Local Attractions
 

This one. (As I say on a multiple choice test when I've got no idea of the right answer: "C is for correct!") The blanket of snow had just melted + the ground itself had started to thaw out resulting in a very squishy surface. You can actually pretty clearly see the tracks left by a "gator" that I suppose a groundskeeper had driven across the grass.

Re: Camera phone competition March 2019: Local Attractions
 

The Dachstein last weekend in Austria. Still not melted down. "Still" not because of spring but rising temperatures due to climate change.
Phone: Xperia X, Sailfish OS, stock camera app.

https://nc.fuxl.info/index.php/s/Tof...g285cN/preview

EDIT: ... I don't get how to post an image uploaded on my nextcloud.
https://nc.fuxl.info/index.php/apps/...pg&scalingup=0

EDIT 2: ah, just got to wait...

Re: Camera phone competition March 2019: Local Attractions
 

Thanks for all your cool local attractions!
I chime in to the architectural side of the topic which is not that hard to find here.

Only a good foot-walk away we have renaissance style Schloss Hülchrath from ~1100 which we visit often to picnic and chill.

It underwent 7 stages of construction you can spot with a schooled eye and has quite a moved history including drunk monks, lots of burning witches, raiding knights and last nazi resort.

Shot with XA2 and Piggz Advanced Camera.
Sadly HDR did not work so i did some leveling in Gimp.

https://mosushi.de/misc/photocomp/20190328_160726.jpg

Reminder, voting phase starts at 20 utc!

Re: Camera phone competition March 2019: Local Attractions
 

Ding Ding Ding Ding.
All hear the voting bells for the local attractions topic.

This are marchs contestants compiled for your convenience.

1. eson
Sailfish X on Sony Xperia X and stock photo app.
Crop and rotation in Gimp.

https://svenskasprakfiler.se/show/outhouse_privy.jpg

2. maemish
N900 stock camera app + mild cropping and adjusts of brightness and contrast.

https://mosushi.de/misc/photocomp/ma...ndcontrast.jpg

3. Fellfrosch

https://i.ibb.co/THmC1nq/580-1024.jpg

4. catbus
N9 with stock software

http://huispaus.ucs.fi/tmp/19030016.jpg

5. robthebold
Xperia X (from EXIF)

https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7912/...69a94864_o.jpg

6. levone1
Sony Xperia X Compact; Sailfish 3.0.2

https://talk.maemo.org/attachment.ph...1&d=1553634589

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

https://mosushi.de/misc/photocomp/1024-581.jpg

8. mosen
Xperia XA2 with Piggz Advanced Camera

https://mosushi.de/misc/photocomp/20190328_160726.jpg

Re: Camera phone competition March 2019: Local Attractions
 

Oh no I missed that the deadline was 20:00 UTC.
Was far to busy with Pirate Party stuff this month.

Well no reason to keep my image from you.

Taken with my Nokia 808 , cropped and scaled down.
https://i.imgur.com/SdUIBJr.jpg

It was taken at the "Faschingskonzert der Studentenvertretung" in Munich. This an awesome concert near the end of carneval time, where young talents present their musical skills ins surprising ways while mocking current politics. Its always a great joy to watch.

My vote goes to mosen, the castle with its vines and the weeping willow looks like right out of a fairy tale :)

Re: Camera phone competition March 2019: Local Attractions
 

I wote pic number 2. (Maemish).

Just love that dog, priceless expression “I’m not satisfied with this situation”