June ’15 Photo Competition - Trees

[Cuppa]

June ’15 Photo Competition - 'Trees’

This month’s competition topic has been chosen by our May winner Fracster

His choice is
Trees - I reckon that trees are great, I’ve even been known to hug them on occasions! To encourage everyone here to appreciate trees a little more & to see if we can break records with our number of entries there will be a one off special this month. As well as our June winner getting to choose the July topic, this month there will be a PRIZE.

I will donate a Redback Wheel bag worth $120 plus postage* (http://redback4x4.com )
http://www.nissanpatrol.com.au/forums/images/imported/2015/06/28.jpg

I already had two before this one was given to me by the good folk at Genie Exhausts. (If anyone else would like to contribute a prize for future competitions please send me a PM).

*Please note....... 1. I will need the winner to send me the postage costs to send the bag 2. If there is a tie for first place I will make a casting vote. If this is necessary my decision will not be open for debate/discussion. 3. If I enter the winning photo, the prize will be kept for use in the following month’s competition.

Good luck all, & thanks Fracster

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. :wink:



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
Cuppa

[MEGOMONSTER]

http://www.nissanpatrol.com.au/forums/images/imported/2015/06/30.jpg

[MEGOMONSTER]

http://www.nissanpatrol.com.au/forums/images/imported/2015/06/31.jpg

[MEGOMONSTER]

http://www.nissanpatrol.com.au/forums/images/imported/2015/06/32.jpg

[NissanGQ4.2]

1st Entry


Taken on the 9th ‎February ‎2014 @ Long Angle Fire Trail near Springwood where one of the major Blue Mountains bush fires burnt through back on the 17th October 2013, showing how well in such a short time the bush / trees were regenerating new growth after such devastation.

http://www.nissanpatrol.com.au/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=58481

[Patrol-Guy]

1st Entry

58483

[ozjeff]

Entry 1.

Little damn at sunset near Undullah Rd track near Beaudesert.

http://www.nissanpatrol.com.au/forums/images/imported/2015/06/33.jpg

[ozjeff]

Entry 2.

Lake Maroon

http://www.nissanpatrol.com.au/forums/images/imported/2015/06/34.jpg

[ozjeff]

Oh I'll blow all my entries in 1 night.

Entry 3.

Natural Bridge

http://www.nissanpatrol.com.au/forums/images/imported/2015/06/35.jpg

[Winnies-missus]

1st entry. Barkley river Jeep track. Sorry about the angle.

58485

[Winnie]

Entry 1: The Lone Gum Tree http://www.nissanpatrol.com.au/forums/images/imported/2015/06/36.jpg

[Winnie]

Entry 2: A tree with a carving next to The Dig Tree.
http://www.nissanpatrol.com.au/forums/images/imported/2015/06/37.jpg

[TPC]

Entry 1

Ghost Gum near Alice Springs

58486

[Winnie]

Entry 3: Burnt snow gums on the Blue Rag range Track.
http://www.nissanpatrol.com.au/forums/images/imported/2015/06/38.jpg

[TPC]

Entry 2

Trees on the bank of the Cooper at Cullyamurra Water Hole.

58487

[Cuppa]

Entry 1. Growing in a granite crevice.

http://www.nissanpatrol.com.au/forums/images/imported/2015/06/39.jpg

[Jimmyboyjr4]

58489

Entry 1: From my recent trip through Japan, amazing bamboo forest.

[Jimmyboyjr4]

58490

Entry 2: Japan again, Giant Bonsai.

[MudRunnerTD]

First camp site on the way to The Meetup in the Middle. Near Weeman .

Winnie, AB and MRTD cars were dwarfed by this extraordinary River Redgum

http://www.nissanpatrol.com.au/forums/images/imported/2015/06/41.jpg


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk cause AB turned it back on!!

[threedogs]

Entry 2: Japan again, Giant Bonsai.

Wouldn't a giant Bonsai be called a shrub or small tree, lol
That tree carving that Winnie took is over 150yo
And Cuppa that is a fig tree it probably gets it water from 100mtrs or more from there

[Maxhead]

Entry 1
Somewhere between Adelaide and Coober Pedy
http://www.nissanpatrol.com.au/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=58493&stc=1

[threedogs]

Entry 1
Somewhere between Adelaide and Coober Pedy

AH the secret Jedi warriors training ground,lol

[Cuppa]

Trees silhouetted in the sunset, my backyard......

Sorry Bob, this great shot of yours has been a previous winner (August 2014 - Sunsets - joint winner) & thus cannot be re-entered. Can you substitute another?


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

[Bloodyaussie]

Entry 1: Mt Disappointment after 2009 fires.

http://i184.photobucket.com/albums/x260/jpgpz/12062009179.jpg (http://s184.photobucket.com/user/jpgpz/media/12062009179.jpg.html)

[Woof]

Entry 1
Goblin Swamp
http://i296.photobucket.com/albums/mm190/Uriah57/148_zps60f905cc.jpg (http://s296.photobucket.com/user/Uriah57/media/148_zps60f905cc.jpg.html)

[Woof]

Entry 2
Big Brook
http://i296.photobucket.com/albums/mm190/Uriah57/072_zpsf417b720.jpg (http://s296.photobucket.com/user/Uriah57/media/072_zpsf417b720.jpg.html)

[Bloodyaussie]

Picture No 2 :

http://i184.photobucket.com/albums/x260/jpgpz/100_5428_zpslpv5fimx.jpg (http://s184.photobucket.com/user/jpgpz/media/100_5428_zpslpv5fimx.jpg.html)

[Bloodyaussie]

Picture number 3:

http://i184.photobucket.com/albums/x260/jpgpz/100_5425_zpszsvhx92v.jpg (http://s184.photobucket.com/user/jpgpz/media/100_5425_zpszsvhx92v.jpg.html)

[Cuppa]

Entry 2

‘Scratchy Wattle’ (aka Red Wattle, Mallee Wattle or Acacia Monticola). This one is in the WA goldfields, but also grow in many other parts of the country. I think they are all the same species, prized for their usefulness in indigenous culture for making clap sticks (wood has a good ‘ring’) as well as digging sticks, boomerangs & even spear heads.

http://www.nissanpatrol.com.au/forums/images/imported/2015/06/47.jpg

Just for added interest - a pic of the clapsticks I made from Scratchy Wattle can be seen on my blog here (http://www.cuppa500.com/_Big_Trip/Entries/2009/7/27_Entry_36_-_Living_in_Country.html) (apparently not very phone friendly)

[clubbyr8]

Sorry Bob, this great shot of yours has been a previous winner (August 2014 - Sunsets - joint winner) & thus cannot be re-entered. Can you substitute another?


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

Yep, no problem. Been a while since I entered and forgot this had been a joint winner. Ah the ravages of age.... :)

[Cuppa]

Hi everyone,
I’d just like to draw your attention to one of the existing rules (the pink bits in the first post) & a new rule added today.

Both of these rules are an attempt to keep the thread free from ‘noise’ which distracts from the photographic purpose of the competition.

I have received a number of PM’s from members who have found navigating through past & current threads sometimes harder than it need be, & to be honest having less ‘noise’ makes my job at the end of each month a bit easier too.

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

And the new one

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

I consider ‘Comments pertinent to entries’ to be questions relating to photographic content, location or just brief encouraging type remarks. Any open ended comments or remarks which encourage ongoing conversation should preferably be made to the entrant via PM. I am not in a position to ‘police’ the rules (nor do I wish to be) but I am requesting that we try to use all the other thread possibilities this forum offers for chat, debate & banter.

Not aiming at any individuals, just a general request. So far this month I see no issue with anything written in any posts, & with the just one ‘re-posted photo (which hopefully the poster will edit out ;) ) I wanted to get in early to act on the requests I’ve received. Thanks for your cooperation.

Thanks
Cuppa

[Bush Ranger]

First entry. Near El Caballo Blanco, Wooroloo, WA.

[NissanGQ4.2]

Entry # 2

Taken Mothers day 2015 somewhere between Perrys Lookdown / Anvil Rock in the Blue Mountains National Park


http://www.nissanpatrol.com.au/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=58511

Shame I can't resize it to do the picture justice :(

[Bush Ranger]

Entry 2. Yandin look out WA.

[4bye4]

Entry 1 Coalseam Park in WA
http://i304.photobucket.com/albums/nn163/Tony_Allender/Coalseam%20068_zpsxucagno8.jpg (http://s304.photobucket.com/user/Tony_Allender/media/Coalseam%20068_zpsxucagno8.jpg.html)

[4bye4]

Entry 2 Jingemia WA
http://i304.photobucket.com/albums/nn163/Tony_Allender/031%20Jingemia_zpsaeiqsmwz.jpg (http://s304.photobucket.com/user/Tony_Allender/media/031%20Jingemia_zpsaeiqsmwz.jpg.html)

[4bye4]

Entry 3. Jingemia WA.
http://i304.photobucket.com/albums/nn163/Tony_Allender/028%20Jingemia_zpsals8ensf.jpg (http://s304.photobucket.com/user/Tony_Allender/media/028%20Jingemia_zpsals8ensf.jpg.html)

[gaddy]

No 1 Satnay tree , Fraser Island
58535

[lucus30]

Entry No1

58537

Edit: Yes this is a joke. No its not my photo

[gaddy]

No 2 same tree different view , Fraser Satnay58539

[Punderhead]

Entry no 1.

Banyan tree in Tanna Island, Vanuatu. This is not the whole tree, As the tree covers approximately an acre. Provided hours of fun growing up as a kid!

[clubbyr8]

I'll grow anywhere.....

Taken a few years back with my old Canon 350D......

http://www.nissanpatrol.com.au/forums/images/imported/2015/06/55.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/t78oD4)IMG_1427-Edit-2 (https://flic.kr/p/t78oD4) by

Bob Howard (https://www.flickr.com/photos/clubbyr8v8/), on Flickr

[Bush Ranger]

Entry 3. We called this painted stump Fred Flintstone when we were kids and it`s on the York Rd heading away from The Lakes WA, heading towards York.

[skiman]

Entry 1

Tenacity

Taken at the Stockton Sand Dunes in 2006

http://www.nissanpatrol.com.au/forums/images/imported/2015/06/63.jpg

[skiman]

Entry 2

Autumn in the Mountains

Taken in 2008 somewhere in the Barrington Tops region.

http://www.nissanpatrol.com.au/forums/images/imported/2015/06/64.jpg

[Bob]

Fire Damage below Lake Cobbler

http://www.nissanpatrol.com.au/forums/images/imported/2015/06/65.jpg

[Bob]

What Trees are made for :-

http://www.nissanpatrol.com.au/forums/images/imported/2015/06/66.jpg

[Nightjar]

River Gums lining WA Outback billabong.

http://i151.photobucket.com/albums/s122/nightjar3/April2010%20055.jpg (http://s151.photobucket.com/user/nightjar3/media/April2010%20055.jpg.html)

[ova50]

Entry 1 (Flinders Ranges)

[ova50]

Entry 2 (Watagans State Forest nsw)

[ova50]

Entry 3 (The Bridle Track nsw)

[krbrooking]

Point culver.


58607

[krbrooking]

2nd entry



58608

[krbrooking]

3rd entry.


58609

Sorry about the sideways thing, it was normal when I uploaded it.

[MEGOMONSTER]

3rd entry.


58609

Sorry about the sideways thing, it was normal when I uploaded it.
It's not sideways on Tapatalk. Huge tree.

[Cuppa]

It’s not sideways if you click to enlarge it.

[krbrooking]

Ok thanks fellas. It was in the computer when I checked it after I loaded it.


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[Avo]

put that in a where is it pic and I reckon I'd guess it...

sorry cuppa...rules and all......

[squid]

Entry 1) Kings Park, Perth, WA

[squid]

Entry 2) I can’t remember… I think it’s also from Kings Park, Perth, WA

[squid]

Entry 3) Japanese Maple, Wollongong, NSW…

[clubbyr8]

Second entry......

Near Jenolan Caves......

http://www.nissanpatrol.com.au/forums/images/imported/2015/06/88.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/tXF7jE)IMG_0129-Edit-2 (https://flic.kr/p/tXF7jE) by

Bob Howard (https://www.flickr.com/photos/clubbyr8v8/), on Flickr

[clubbyr8]

Third entry......

One of the Three Sisters......

http://www.nissanpatrol.com.au/forums/images/imported/2015/06/89.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/tigpMf)IMG_1008-Edit-2 (https://flic.kr/p/tigpMf) by

Bob Howard (https://www.flickr.com/photos/clubbyr8v8/), on Flickr

[firm351]

Trees on the way to cape otway light house that have been striped of their leaves by koalas.

58630

[Onkey]

number 1 entry.


http://i1303.photobucket.com/albums/ag152/onkeymad/Mobile%20Uploads/100_1637_zps457539e2.png~original

[Onkey]

number 2 entry.

sweet chestnut.
http://i1303.photobucket.com/albums/ag152/onkeymad/sweat%20chesnut_zpsbvnisi8h.jpg~original

[Onkey]

number 3 entry.

http://i1303.photobucket.com/albums/ag152/onkeymad/P1314632_zpshlbzyieu.jpg~original

[GUtsy ute]

Camped on the Connie Sue Hwy. Just before sunset looking east.


http://i994.photobucket.com/albums/af61/GUtsyute/IMG_6519.jpg (http://s994.photobucket.com/user/GUtsyute/media/IMG_6519.jpg.html)

[BSRT.Beast]

Sunday morning Caledonia River Track fantastic place to wake up.

58686

[jay see]

Entry 1
58763

[Rossco]

Entry 1.

59152

Rainbow Gum - Samoa

[Rossco]

Entry 2.

59154

Shining Gum at Errinundra National Park.

[Rossco]

Entry 3.

59158

Blue Rag Track.

[BigRAWesty]

Geeze this month has flown.
Pic one.
They go on and on and on and on and on and on..........
59184

[BigRAWesty]

Pic 2
Sometimes death is beautiful
59185

[BigRAWesty]

Pic 3
Sunset over rocklands reservoir
59186

[TPC]

Entry 3

Sun rising behind a tree beside Eyre Creek in the Simpson near Madigan Camp 20.

59188

[Cuppa]

Entry 3.

Palm trees in Purnululu (Bungle bungle), WA.

http://www.nissanpatrol.com.au/forums/images/imported/2015/06/360.jpg

[liftlid]

59212

Everybody should know this one.

[growler2058]

http://www.nissanpatrol.com.au/forums/images/imported/2015/06/362.jpg


Sent from my iPhone using My thumbs

[growler2058]

http://www.nissanpatrol.com.au/forums/images/imported/2015/06/363.jpg


Sent from my iPhone using My thumbs

[growler2058]

http://www.nissanpatrol.com.au/forums/images/imported/2015/06/364.jpg


Sent from my iPhone using My thumbs

[NissanGQ4.2]

3rd and final Entry

Subject: Human Destruction ( Bushfire ) Vs Human Destruction ( Axe )
Date Taken: Saturday 20/06/2015
Location: At the end of Greens Road Warrimoo, possibly on private property

While I'm far from being a greenie there was certainly know need 2 put an axe through the tree considering there is plenty of branches already laying on the ground. Give the thing a chance 2 regrow!


http://www.nissanpatrol.com.au/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=59216

[Woof]

3rd entry
Salmon Gum on Norseman to Hyden road
http://i296.photobucket.com/albums/mm190/Uriah57/Mobile%20Uploads/2015-06/20150625_084519_zpsoq2yozfc.jpg (http://s296.photobucket.com/user/Uriah57/media/Mobile%20Uploads/2015-06/20150625_084519_zpsoq2yozfc.jpg.html)

[jack]

Entry No 1

Menindee Lakes

59254

[jack]

Entry No 2

Tree Ferns - Otways

59258

[jack]

Entry No 3

Hollow Log - some should know this location

http://www.nissanpatrol.com.au/forums/images/imported/2015/06/426.jpg

[Cuppa]

Entries for this months competition are now closed

Please now take the time to vote for the photos which you consider most worthy

Voting will continue until 7pm (Vic time) on Wednesday 1st July.

I encourage you to enlarge the photos which can be to view them.


Cuppa

[MudRunnerTD]

Bump for voting

[MudRunnerTD]

Entry 1
Goblin Swamp
http://i296.photobucket.com/albums/mm190/Uriah57/148_zps60f905cc.jpg (http://s296.photobucket.com/user/Uriah57/media/148_zps60f905cc.jpg.html)

I just.......I Just....... I Just want to Climb it!!!!

[Cuppa]

The voting is done & the outcome was a close run thing, but we have an outright winner by one vote.

In first place with 15 votes is TPC with his photo of the trees surrounding Cullyamurra Water Hole. It’s a photo which screams ‘Australia’ to me.

http://www.nissanpatrol.com.au/forums/images/imported/2014/09/28.jpg

In joint second place with 14 votes are Megomonster & Skiman. I’ve lost count of the number of times Mego has come second with his sunset over the dead trees (at Hume weir?), it seems to fit any number of topics & I’m sure we’ll see it again, perhaps in first place some day. Skiman’s shot of the lone tree on Stockton sand dunes with not a track to be seen is eerily atmospheric.

http://www.nissanpatrol.com.au/forums/images/imported/2015/07/6.jpg

http://www.nissanpatrol.com.au/forums/images/imported/2015/07/7.jpg

In joint third place with 13 votes are Winnie & Ozjeff. Winnie with his shot of the iconic Burke & Wills Dig Tree carving & Ozjeff with his photo of a once proud & now dead tree still standing pround at sunset.

http://www.nissanpatrol.com.au/forums/images/imported/2015/07/8.jpg

http://www.nissanpatrol.com.au/forums/images/imported/2015/07/9.jpg

Well done TPC, you will now become the proud owner of a Redback Wheel bag. Please shoot me a PM so we can make the necessary arrangements to get it from our spare bedroom to ‘chez Tony’. Please also let me know your choice of topic for our July competition.

Thanks to all,
Cuppa

[Avo]

shit I just realised it's july already

[katwoman]

shit I just realised it's july already

5 months til xmas !!

[BigRAWesty]

Congratulations tpc. Cuppa I have shot you a pm

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[skiman]

Congrats tpc, thank you for the kind words cuppa, and cheers to all who voted.

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