Sept ’16 Photo Comp - Travel

[Cuppa]

September 2016.

This month’s topic, chosen by our August Winner gubigfish is
Travel - your best travel/traveling shots, be they here in Australia or Overseas.

Note Lets see if we can get have some entries which demonstrate the aspects of travel which differentiate it from our daily routines.Why do any of us travel? Adventure, discovery, experiencing difference, meeting new people and/or culture, and much more. Lets try to see whatever it is that attracts you to travel reflected in your entries.

Thanks ‘Fish’
Good luck all.

Ps. Please read though the pink bit below if you haven’t done so yet. Ta.

Pps. It always helps to post a brief explanatory caption with your entry.

Regards
Cuppa

Past winning photos can be viewed here.

Monthly Photo Competition guidelines (Please read)
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* Each month a new competition thread will commence & all forum members are invited to submit their photos .

* Maximum of three entries per person.

* Multiple entries should be made in separate posts

* Each entry should consist of a single photograph & a short description only

* Comments pertinent to entries are encouraged, but please do not use this thread to engage in banter

* Photos MUST have been taken by the member posting the photos or members of their party.

* Any photo which has been a winner will not be eligible for re-entry in any future competition.

* Please do not post photos that are not entries in the competition.

* Please do not re-post other folks entries within the thread

* The winner of the month's competition gets to choose the following month's competition topic.

* All members are encouraged to vote for the photos they think should win. This will be done by pressing the 'Thanks' button located underneath each post. Toward the end of the month the date & time of competition closure will be announced. Following this time the thread will be locked & the 'Thanks' counted to determine the winner.

* 'Thanks' may be added or withdrawn at any time during the month up until the competition is closed.
You are welcome to thank as many different posts as you wish!

* In the event of a tied first place I will add a casting vote, except in circumstances where my entry is one of the tied ones, in which case I will withdraw my entry.

*Inappropriate photos eg, sexual, racist, violent etc are unacceptable & should not be posted.


Thanks for your cooperation

[FNQGU]

Here's a starter then... Dusk from 29,000ft.

[Bush Ranger]

1. Dickerbram Bridge, Miva, Qld. Designed in 1884 by Henry Charles Stanley and first used in 1886.

[FNQGU]

Traveling is best with others.... and must have been thirsty work that day!

[Plasnart]

Local welcome to Lifou, New Caledonia

[Cuppa]

Culture, difference, & sharing have often been integral aspects of our travels. We’ve never done hotel & resort style holidays. Here, in the jungles of Tanna Island (Vanuatu) the extended family who’s dwelling was a scattering of a few easily replaceable grass huts (cyclones) a few feet away, who’s cooking stove was as in the photo, who have virtually nothing by any standards we know & yet who insisted when we met them as we walked, that we stay with them & eat with them. The photo shows a combined effort to prepare ‘Laplap’ a traditional dish like a yam pizza baked in leaves on the fire. On rare occasions a little protein is added if fish have been caught . Even small children carried large sharp bush knives. We felt uncomfortable about the huge divide between our western wealth & their subsistence existence, (no money) but came to understand that this was not a source of any envy on their part, but rather that they felt truly honoured by our acceptance of their hospitality. In fact it was us who felt envy of a people who could live so in harmony with their natural surroundings & with a sense of place & belonging that is impossible in modern western society. It was us who were honoured.

[FNQGU]

Cuppa - just a clarity question on the theme... It's a very broad topic and can be interpreted several different ways making it quite difficult.

Does 'Travel' mean that photos of culture and places 'elsewhere' are considered, or should it be showing a more stringent definition, along the lines of movement, and the act of traveling somewhere? Various ways of looking at it I guess.

[DX grunt]

Damn. I'm on 3 weeks hols in October. Any chance of changing this topic to Oct? PML

[gubigfish]

Sailing the Adriatic Coast, Croatia

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[Cuppa]

Cuppa - just a clarity question on the theme... It's a very broad topic and can be interpreted several different ways making it quite difficult.

Does 'Travel' mean that photos of culture and places 'elsewhere' are considered, or should it be showing a more stringent definition, along the lines of movement, and the act of traveling somewhere? Various ways of looking at it I guess.

Hi Ben, I gave this some thought & felt that whilst 'Travel & travelling shots could be interpreted as those focussed upon 'methods of movement' meaning photos of vehicles etc, my thinking was that despite this being (& because of it being) a vehicle based forum, we would likely get lots of photos similar to what we might get in many other topics. Nothing wrong with photos which contain primarily vehicles in this topic (as your excellent entry clearly shows - a study of mutual travel & mateship).

Travel is both a personal thing, & is always far more than just going from A to B or destinations, & I felt that a broader interpretation of the topic would allow folk a better chance of pictorially sharing what, to them, is important about their travels. I am looking forward to a wide range of interpretations of the topic. As always, the judges will be the final determinants of what others think of those interpretations. My advice fwiw, is for folk to try to tell fellow members something about themselves through their choice of entries.

So in essence I agree with you that it is a very broad topic, but rather than seeing this as making things 'difficult', I see it as providing an opportunity to share 'difference' & just as valid (& entertaining) as a more narrowly interpreted topic. The latter has more emphasis on a photo's technical qualities, the former has a bit more emphasis upon the capture of memories. Our competition is really just a bit of fun for all & I reckon a mix of broad & narrow topics encourages participation, which I see as part of the ‘glue’ which keeps our online community together.

Personally I would like to see a description accompanying each entry which tells the viewers a bit more about the context & perhaps why it was chosen, but that's just me.