Pxleyes’ Top 50 Photography Contest Entries Of December 2009
Below are the 50 highest scoring entries in the Pxleyes photography contests during the month December (2009)… Congratulations to all the winners!
50 – zebra
In this contest your goal is to show exactly ONE flower head in bloom, nothing more, nothing less… Just the head of the flower, with a few inches of the stem if necessary.
Your photo can show absolutely nothing else besides this. This will require you placing a backdrop in behind, or above, or below it, depending on the angle you choose to make your photo.
49 – little flower
In this contest your goal is to show exactly ONE flower head in bloom, nothing more, nothing less… Just the head of the flower, with a few inches of the stem if necessary.
Your photo can show absolutely nothing else besides this. This will require you placing a backdrop in behind, or above, or below it, depending on the angle you choose to make your photo.
48 – Benchsitters
Take a candid shot of a person or group of people. Candid photography is best described as un-posed and unplanned, immediate and unobtrusive, it catches moments of life from immersion in it.
Show us your best candid shots!
47 – sun coming through
No matter where they come from: the sun, lamps, lanterns, … you have to capture them in your photo. This might be a little difficult to realize, but it also gives a lot of satisfaction. So, no matter if it is natural or artificial light, show us the rays it makes. No humans in the photo!
Also, photos with only a light source, showing no rays, are not valid. The light source can be in the picture as well, but the rays should be the main focus.
For an example, check out the following photo: http://www.bbc.co.uk/birmingham/content/images/2006/01/24/a_470x353.jpg
46 – Montaza Alexandria Egypt
Show us a beautiful tower you have seen. It can be a self standing tower or as a part of another building, like a clock tower in a church or a mysterious tower in a medieval castle. Your picture can only contain the tower itself, no ground or people… if the tower has a base building below it, this base cannot be shown in your shot.
45 – & then…
Take a photo of a stuffed animal, tinker toy, or any other non living thing and give it personality! Place it in various situations, and snap away! Use props, take it to a zoo, or simply set the stage in your own home. Be creative, and give your little object a life of its own!
44 – Try … cycle
‘All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.’ – Ralph Waldo Emerson.
In this contest, your goal is to take a shot of something/someone in such circumstances that it leads our thoughts to those wise words quoted by Emeson. Show us your own original interpretation of the quote!
43 – The blues
What is more romantic than seeing a girl in a summer dress playing the piano while the birds are singing in the garden? Let’s try to recreate somehow that dreamy sight by taking some pictures of one or more musical instruments being played by someone. Your photo has to contain at least one instrument and one person playing it. Good luck!
42 – Saturday noon fever
Take a candid shot of a person or group of people. Candid photography is best described as un-posed and unplanned, immediate and unobtrusive, it catches moments of life from immersion in it.
Show us your best candid shots!
41 – passion flower
In this contest your goal is to show exactly ONE flower head in bloom, nothing more, nothing less… Just the head of the flower, with a few inches of the stem if necessary.
Your photo can show absolutely nothing else besides this. This will require you placing a backdrop in behind, or above, or below it, depending on the angle you choose to make your photo.
40 – Guitar player
What is more romantic than seeing a girl in a summer dress playing the piano while the birds are singing in the garden? Let’s try to recreate somehow that dreamy sight by taking some pictures of one or more musical instruments being played by someone. Your photo has to contain at least one instrument and one person playing it. Good luck!
39 – What IS Kermit thinking?
Take a shot of something funny that will put a smile on people’s faces. It can be an animal doing something unusual, a child making faces, a person slipping,… or anything that you consider as funny. Funny is subjective, but to increase your chances of winning, make your photo appealing to as many people as possible.
38 – Water Colors
We see rocks everyday, but never think twice about what the rock has been through. If you’re going for a walk, going shopping, driving to your grandmother’s house, or whatever the case may be, find a rock and snap a picture. No statues, only natural rocks or structural rocks. No rocks that were intentionally put in place to enhance it’s surroundings.
37 – Frecciarossa
The goal of this contest is simple: take an interesting photo of one or more trains… any size is allowed. Use lighting to bring out the wonder of your train.
36 – Relatives here
Yes peeking, just for the sake of this contest! Take a shot through a key hole and show us what�s behind the door! It can also be other type of hole, like for example one in your fence! Show us how you can spy on your neighbor. Don�t make a habit out of this, though!
35 – sunflower
In this contest your goal is to show exactly ONE flower head in bloom, nothing more, nothing less… Just the head of the flower, with a few inches of the stem if necessary.
Your photo can show absolutely nothing else besides this. This will require you placing a backdrop in behind, or above, or below it, depending on the angle you choose to make your photo.
34 – Passion flower
In this contest your goal is to show exactly ONE flower head in bloom, nothing more, nothing less… Just the head of the flower, with a few inches of the stem if necessary.
Your photo can show absolutely nothing else besides this. This will require you placing a backdrop in behind, or above, or below it, depending on the angle you choose to make your photo.
33 – You Tell Me
Symbolism is around us every day. We see it and never even notice. Try and capture the essence of a concept and portray it for the world to see. For example a white dove could represent peace. A crucifix could be faith or even a flag representing patriotism.
Symbolism Definition: Representation of a concept through symbols or underlying meanings of objects or qualities.
32 – feeling blue
In this contest your goal is to take a shot of something standing out in the crowd. It can be a person who looks really different from all the others in a busy place or it can be a green apple among 10 other red ones. The subject can stand out because of its color, size or any other obvious distinctive element. Dare to be different!
31 – Pink Floyd : Comfortably Numb
Let’s forget music videos for a while… let the picture sing the song!
Take any song title and make a photo to express it! You can either name the song and singer in your description, or let others guess it. Don’t forget to reveal it before the contest ends.
30 – Mx rider
Take a shot of any sport, but put the focus on the action itself. For example: a foot kicking a ball in soccer, casting a line in fishing, catching a ball…
It is important that there is only 1 person in your photo, exactly at the moment of the action that is typical to the sport you select.
29 – Dry rose
In this contest, you will need a piece of paper (the older, the better), a pencil and your camera! We want you to take a picture of a love letter. It can also be a short love declaration. It can express joy or sadness… You can add other objects on or next to your letter to make it look more dramatic. But no people or animals in the shot. Good luck!
28 – Happy time
What is more romantic than seeing a girl in a summer dress playing the piano while the birds are singing in the garden? Let’s try to recreate somehow that dreamy sight by taking some pictures of one or more musical instruments being played by someone. Your photo has to contain at least one instrument and one person playing it. Good luck!
27 – Hot Day
Take a shot of any sport, but put the focus on the action itself. For example: a foot kicking a ball in soccer, casting a line in fishing, catching a ball…
It is important that there is only 1 person in your photo, exactly at the moment of the action that is typical to the sport you select.
26 – Backdropped Flower
In this contest your goal is to show exactly ONE flower head in bloom, nothing more, nothing less… Just the head of the flower, with a few inches of the stem if necessary.
Your photo can show absolutely nothing else besides this. This will require you placing a backdrop in behind, or above, or below it, depending on the angle you choose to make your photo.
25 – Lotus Blossom
In this contest your goal is to show exactly ONE flower head in bloom, nothing more, nothing less… Just the head of the flower, with a few inches of the stem if necessary.
Your photo can show absolutely nothing else besides this. This will require you placing a backdrop in behind, or above, or below it, depending on the angle you choose to make your photo.
24 – Say ‘money cheese’!
… Money! Something that concerns a lot of us in the daily life. But is there anything artistic in it? Money?!? Can we make it look, perhaps, elegant and take a shot of coins that catch the viewer’s eye? Let’s try and make this as interesting as possible! Show us a picture of your national currency. It can be metal or paper/plastic (coins and/or banknotes), as long as it looks appealing, not only from a financial point of view! Other objects and people in the photo are allowed.
23 – Last of the greens
In this contest your goal is to take a shot of something standing out in the crowd. It can be a person who looks really different from all the others in a busy place or it can be a green apple among 10 other red ones. The subject can stand out because of its color, size or any other obvious distinctive element. Dare to be different!
22 – Shanghai
Show us a beautiful tower you have seen. It can be a self standing tower or as a part of another building, like a clock tower in a church or a mysterious tower in a medieval castle. Your picture can only contain the tower itself, no ground or people… if the tower has a base building below it, this base cannot be shown in your shot.
21 – 3,2,1…
In this contest your goal is to take a shot of something standing out in the crowd. It can be a person who looks really different from all the others in a busy place or it can be a green apple among 10 other red ones. The subject can stand out because of its color, size or any other obvious distinctive element. Dare to be different!
20 – my first bruised thumbs
‘All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.’ – Ralph Waldo Emerson.
In this contest, your goal is to take a shot of something/someone in such circumstances that it leads our thoughts to those wise words quoted by Emeson. Show us your own original interpretation of the quote!
19 – Flower to cotton
In this contest your goal is to show exactly ONE flower head in bloom, nothing more, nothing less… Just the head of the flower, with a few inches of the stem if necessary.
Your photo can show absolutely nothing else besides this. This will require you placing a backdrop in behind, or above, or below it, depending on the angle you choose to make your photo.
18 – Chinook Cloud
Damn nature, you’re scary! Nature can be beautiful, but is sometimes a feared force. If you ever captured a spectacular phenomenon of nature, such as: a tsunami, a tornado in action, a volcano erupting, a building falling at an earthquake, a massive lightning, etc., then this is the contest for you!
It is NOT allowed to enter a picture which shows the after effects of a natural disaster, like floods or burnt down houses, for example… Your photo has to show a spectacular natural phenomenon in actions.
17 – blood roses by tori amos
Let’s forget music videos for a while… let the picture sing the song!
Take any song title and make a photo to express it! You can either name the song and singer in your description, or let others guess it. Don’t forget to reveal it before the contest ends.
16 – Unity
Symbolism is around us every day. We see it and never even notice. Try and capture the essence of a concept and portray it for the world to see. For example a white dove could represent peace. A crucifix could be faith or even a flag representing patriotism.
Symbolism Definition: Representation of a concept through symbols or underlying meanings of objects or qualities.
15 – Birthday
In this contest, you will need a piece of paper (the older, the better), a pencil and your camera! We want you to take a picture of a love letter. It can also be a short love declaration. It can express joy or sadness… You can add other objects on or next to your letter to make it look more dramatic. But no people or animals in the shot. Good luck!
14 – Filters
The goal of this contest is to see beautiful and interesting collections: coins, stamps, maybe hats or ties. These are just a few examples, but who knows what people collect nowadays! Now you have the chance to brag about it and show it to us in a photo! Good luck!
13 – kung fu fighting
Let’s forget music videos for a while… let the picture sing the song!
Take any song title and make a photo to express it! You can either name the song and singer in your description, or let others guess it. Don’t forget to reveal it before the contest ends.
12 – Woops
Take a shot of something funny that will put a smile on people’s faces. It can be an animal doing something unusual, a child making faces, a person slipping,… or anything that you consider as funny. Funny is subjective, but to increase your chances of winning, make your photo appealing to as many people as possible.
11 – Easy Rider
Just as the title suggests, take a picture that represents a movie somehow, so others can guess the movie you’re trying to show. Eg. A picture of a metal cup for the movie “Tin Cup” or a person looking at a train for the movie “Trainspottting”…
10 – Bird face
If you use just a touch of imagination, you can see “faces” in all sorts of places – the knobs and faucet in a bathtub, a cloud, holes in the leaves of a tree, or anywhere else. For this contest, your job is to find a “face” in some sort of inanimate object that wasn’t designed to look like a face (no statues, for example).
9 – The Epic of Thrud vs Grendel
Take a photo of a stuffed animal, tinker toy, or any other non living thing and give it personality! Place it in various situations, and snap away! Use props, take it to a zoo, or simply set the stage in your own home. Be creative, and give your little object a life of its own!
8 – Mama?
Take a photo of a stuffed animal, tinker toy, or any other non living thing and give it personality! Place it in various situations, and snap away! Use props, take it to a zoo, or simply set the stage in your own home. Be creative, and give your little object a life of its own!
7 – Don’t bug me
Take a shot of an animal parenting its offspring.
For example, a bird feeding the little birds, a wolf licking his cubs,… domestic animals and animal park photos are allowed as well.
6 – mom that’s a big fish!
Take a shot of an animal parenting its offspring.
For example, a bird feeding the little birds, a wolf licking his cubs,… domestic animals and animal park photos are allowed as well.
5 – Guard Duty
Take a shot of an animal parenting its offspring.
For example, a bird feeding the little birds, a wolf licking his cubs,… domestic animals and animal park photos are allowed as well.
4 – love of life
Take a shot in which you show us, in any way that you desire, the great contrast between ‘soft’ and ‘rough’. This theme can be interpreted however you like. It can be, for example, the contrast between two textures, but also the contrast between humans’ characters. Show both in single photo. Good luck!
3 – Spinnaker
Show us a beautiful tower you have seen. It can be a self standing tower or as a part of another building, like a clock tower in a church or a mysterious tower in a medieval castle. Your picture can only contain the tower itself, no ground or people… if the tower has a base building below it, this base cannot be shown in your shot.
2 – Top of the World
Mushrooms are funny looking and cute, most of the time. They are a great photography subject so this is what you will have to do: show us some mushrooms! They can be in the field or forest or you can just buy them in a supermarket and get creative! Everyone and everything is allowed in your photos, as long as they are with mushrooms!
1 – Majestic
Mushrooms are funny looking and cute, most of the time. They are a great photography subject so this is what you will have to do: show us some mushrooms! They can be in the field or forest or you can just buy them in a supermarket and get creative! Everyone and everything is allowed in your photos, as long as they are with mushrooms!





















































they are all amazing, but number 21 blows my mind…!
( 2 years and 28 days ago )Great job every one…
( 2 years and 28 days ago )Keep on klicking!!!
Thank you for giving me high scores which made me no1 and no2, there are better ones in this top 50, but thanx!
( 2 years and 28 days ago )