Camera phone competition January 2015:"Animals"
 

Here's finally this month's camera phone competition!
chenliangchen won again and he chose animals as this month's theme.
Here's what he said about it:

"Although there are still some hibernated, animals will be the first theme for 2015. It could be cute, silly, adorable, surprising, and could be things related. Hope more people could join the competition, and bring us more joys in 2015."

The rules:
Photos must be taken during this month
Photos must be taken by the posting member
Photos must be taken with a camera phone
Users can change the entry only once
Users must name the phone they used
Last three days of this month are for voting

Let's start this year with a fun theme. :)

Last month's competiton

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Taken with my N900, standard camera application.
http://i.minus.com/ima9pruNLI3BY.jpg

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That's a nice photo, thanks for starting this thread! It's winter here in Croatia so there aren't so many animals out there.

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Oh hai
http://i.imgur.com/3G83l0W.jpg

Shot with Samsung Galaxy Camera
(This is my lovebird Kivi)

--Part that is below is not related to the contest--
For more pics of Kivi:
http://imgur.com/a/DZPZ6

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Since posting a cat would be an instant overkill, here goes nice vagabond birdie. :D

http://i5.minus.com/iuCKM0pEZNxTj.jpg

Motorola Droid 4

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Quick reply...

The same butterfly I have seen before... and met again, today.

The full resolution photograph (+ uncropped version) are here:
http://imgur.com/a/25PNl

I'm afraid EXIF was lost. It was shot with Nokia N900, CSSU-Testing-latest, Auto (not Macro, if I remember correctly - I made several photographs, before choosing best one; Macro was just trying to make it worse, and not focusing properly).

Thank you. Best wishes.
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Per aspera ad astra...

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Great photos! Now I'm gonna have to go to the zoo, there aren't a lot animals out there. And it hasn't even started snowing properly. :)

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I thought the same. And I still do not expect to see anything greater than the butterfly... Not that the butterfly isn't beautiful, but I do not see a composition here.
It's not snowing here, period. Not even in winter. There was hail, several weeks ago, though...

Thank you. Best wishes.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Per aspera ad astra...

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I don't really like the winter, now it's raining and it will be snowing again in a few days probably.
When there's snow, I can't go anywhere because it's so tall.. When it rains it's muddy. winter? No thanks, spring and summer are fine for me. :)

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Nieve "Snow", home cat.

Well, this is my first post after introduce myself. I just sharing not competition intended. This is the home cat, nieve. The photo(s) was taken with my n900.

http://imgim.com/nieve.jpg
this others you can see too
http://imgim.com/nieve5.jpg
http://imgim.com/nieve4.jpg
http://imgim.com/nieve3.jpg

:)

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Why not ? Just pick one to play with us... :)
And that is my entry for this month... Errmm Actually that's my wife's entry... I don't know exactly what kind of android she owns but i'll find out and post later.
EDIT: According to metadata it was taken by a Motorola XT1069.
EDIT2: Desqualified. :)
https://www.dropbox.com/s/qlsnsn2smw...57251.jpg?dl=1

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;) I snuck a look at the metadata in the photo; it says it was taken by a Motorola XT1069.

Very nice picture!

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So... that's it !!! Thanks. :)

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Hate to be a nitpicker... however; http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p...72&postcount=1

( ...
Photos must be taken by the posting member
... )

So you'd need to ask your wife to create an account here to post it.

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Ahem, rules are rules. :)
@maegon9y00 why not enter this competition? Those are great shots..

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Maybe I missunderstood the rules

The rules:
Photos must be taken during this month done
Photos must be taken by the posting member done
Photos must be taken with a camera phone done
Users can change the entry only once done
Users must name the phone they used done
Last three days of this month are for voting done


I thought it was only a photo, but reviewing it says "photos" so....
I am in. :)

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Ohh *****... Sorry, i've missed that part of the rules. I'll invite her to join us and most important, i'll try to get my own entry :p

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[IMG]http://i57.tinypic.com/am7335.jpg[/IMG]

*.* My beloved cat waking up*.*

Motorola XT1069

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Sorry @maegon9y00 for not having it clear. It's only one photo per user. :)

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DANA SUPERSTAR
N900 camera
http://www.wadesign.it/utilePAOLOSAPIO/20150121_003.jpg

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Lot of nice entries, this month!

Finally, I've managed to get a photo that is at least slightly on-topic for the competition ;)

http://s1.postimg.org/b1anz5ttp/filip_lucek.jpg

The photo was took with N900, cropped on-device with GIMP. Sorry for the noise grain and blue hue, N900 used for taking this shot was using vanilla backcover, and the infamous blue mirror bug got it "revenge" :(

Here, my son strangle hugs grandparent's cat, Lucek. I swear that I haven't done any edits to it - it is how Lucek's eyes looks after reflecting N900's flash, without any alterations/edits to accentuate it.

I call it, in the honor of old e-grade S-F movies: "Colonel Filip and the Sneaky Cats from Mars". Judging by the expression of his face, this particular specimen must be having quite an internal struggle to maintain his disguise as innocent and patient earthling cat ;)

/Estel

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Fixed that for you. ;)
http://s1.postimg.org/nsou5o3lp/filip_lucek.jpg
http://s1.postimg.org/nsou5o3lp/filip_lucek.jpg

Oh, and I hate cropping. You should already "crop" your photos by composing them well in camera. It doesn't mean that you shouldn't do some minor corrections though. :)

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You do realize that the stock N900 photo viewer can crop too, right?

BTW, I cannot see any picture or a link in Estel's post; is it just me? The thanks in Estel's post and Half's follow-up suggest that at least some people could see it. I've tried MicroB, Sailfish browser and Firefox and... nothing. Just text.

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I didn't say that cropping was illegal. :)
It's just what I as a photographer have to say.
And I went and checked what was in Estel's post, I went to that link where the photo should have been and it opened a site with a picture so I simply went ahead and copied the source img url of that. If that made any sense. :D

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That bit about cropping was meant for Estel ;) Sorry, I do realize it was a bit ambiguous.

And "that link" is exactly what I am talking about. I do not see any link, only some text with blank space that does not react to clicking. Only after your post did I try a Quote & Reply and only that showed there was a URL.

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Yeah, some of those photo sites aren't too keen to let us see the photos without going directly at their site. Use flickr, people! :)
I'm going to send a PM to Estel because I figure he's busy and hasn't seen his mistake yet.

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Thanks a lot, fixed. I can't believe I've managed to screw pasting link to photo, after using that service for years :oops:

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I'll submit this photo for consideration; I call it "The warmest spot in the house". :) Taken with an N900, standard camera app, automatic settings.

Link to photo:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7n...JpUkQ4TzA/view

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Err, no, you did not ;). Not for me anyway. See below and note the red rounded square where the picture is presumably supposed to be:

Attachment 36450

In your defence, I tried pasting the URL in a way that would show the picture (having copied it first by opening your post in Quote&Reply) but it still did not work. Must be the site restricting a 3rd party access as Half-Life said.

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How come it does show the picture for me?
It also showed the picture for me before he edited it?

I don't understand what is wrong with Estel's post...? (yes, even before the edit, it was just showing fine)

pichlo, you better change your browser or see if firewall or any scripts that you have blocks something :)

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Hmm. I tried three different browsers: MicroB, Sailfish browser and Firefox. All three from home and from work (i.e different ISPs), all with the same result.

Now I have added a fourth browser to the list, IE. The result is here:

Attachment 36452

There is a slight difference but the picture is still not shown.

One thing all my experiments have in common that is different from yours is that they were all conducted from the UK. Perhaps the content blocking is location based?

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I don't think so... I can (cannot) see Estel's post exactly that way on Firefox with or without adblock plus that is the only possible "blocker" i'm using now. Rather, i believe that site is blocking any tries on viewing the picture without visiting it.

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This is what I've been seeing, even using my phone on Opera.

Do I see it right because I'm a moderator?

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I doubt it. The other site does not know that you are a moderator on this site. I think it's more likely to do with your location.

FWIW, I have installed Webcat on my Jolla just to try this out (a very nice browser, BTW, but that's even more OT :)). The result is the same as with IE.

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Screenshot using Webcat (while not logged in on tmo)

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@Half-Life_4_Life. So can I put one single photo here to participate? My first post was "not competition intended". I hope your answer.

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Yes, only one photo and you can change it only once with a new entry. Sorry for making this confusing, I'll write it in rules for next month's competition.
To all the others, I've been using adblocker for my mozilla on Win7 for quite a long time now.
I don't know if that is or isn't the problem but before Estel's edit I couldn't see any image.

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Here's my entry! Taken with N900, no post processing.

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Finally something that is not a cat! :D I meant to take a pic of my fish but that means I need to clean the tank first - a job I could not get around to for the past three months, so unlikely to do it in the next three days :(