Congrats on 3rd place

just wanted to get the contest rolling

sad

Nice colours!

wonderful

We had a huge storm out here the other day. Actually the same night that Adam took his spectacular picture of "Nowhere To Go". We had tornado warnings and spottings and the wind was crazy! A few touched down in nearby towns...luckily not by us. This is what the sky looked like shortly after the storms passed though because it was around sunset time anyway. Only 30 minutes earlier though, you wouldn't have been able to see through that window!

Cool story, I hope we'll get a new member! nice photo btw.

Looks so much better in High Res. check it out.

THANK YOU FRIISKIWI! Seems all of my photos look blurry in this view The high resolution in almost ALL of my photos are so much better than this smaller version for some reason! I wonder why that happens?

It seems to happen to all photos, just more obvious in some, and I guess you really notice it in your own as you know what they should look like. The ones here are only 600pixles on the largest side.
This is the reason I'm such a nag about uploading a higher res image.

Shy subjects are certainly a problem. I recently shot a festival that included some traveling carnival game outfits. They scrambled when they saw my camera. Probably wanted in several states

ha ha ha that's funny Remsphoto! Yes they probably were Now that the contest is over, I can say why people were getting mad. I was in Midland taking pictures at the bars and people were yelling at me from across the street because there actually is a controversy over the smoking here. She was spouting out something thinking I was from the Midland newspaper and was not happy.

thanks for fav lamantine

Great thinking, a bit of advice though. I would have either taken this at a lower angle or increased the dof, at this angle the dof isn't bad but it could make more of an impact.

Congrats