Hexus Photo Challenge: "Where I Live"

[shiato storm]

Everyone got to live somewhere... so lets see it! it could be a feature or defining landscape where you live. It could be the dirty laundry piling up on your bed...just make it interesting and we'll love it!
the theme for this round will be

"Where I Live"

So, give it some thought and give it a crack, be creative, it doesn't have to be a picture of your house or bed but if you live in a castle by a loch... maybe that might be nice!!
Usual rules apply; its about your talent as a photographer so editing is limited to sharpening (as per-usual from a dSLR RAW file for example) and minor adjustments. Any massively photoshopped images (and I will know) will be discarded. again, for the purposes of this challenge BLACK AND WHITES ARE OK, you may submit either colour or black and white (includes IR black and white...Hoodi)

You take as many pictures as you want from now until Sunday 26th February - thats a whole week and a half!! Then you pick just ONE to submit, multiple submissions will not be accepted.
Re-size your image to NO LARGER THAN 800x600pixels and 200K in size.
Upload you image to a file-server and send the LINK only to the email address below, if you send your actual picture it may not be included, it is your responsibility to upload it yourself
[a list of free image editing software and free image webspace providers can be found in the sticky at the top of the Creative section].

Entries in by 27th March

to hexus.creativephotos "at" gmail "dot" com

Please state your Hexus User name when submitting your image, otherwise its hard to know who you are!

A thread will be started at about 7.30pm Monday 27th March and Voting will commence for 5 days, the time voting ends will be made known. Images submitted late may not get in!

so get out there, and explore your neighbourhood you maybe never knew existed!

[noah]

right then, i'd better make an appearance for this one as ive been absent from the last 2

better see if we can drum up some good support, i want to see a good 10+ entries please

[shiato storm]

we'll then have to figure out a way of increasing the poll number above 10...goody!!

[hoodmeister]

(includes IR black and white...Hoodi)

w00t!
I actually already have an idea for this, and it involves IR, so it's good to hear that

Now all I need is some sun. And maybe some leaves ¬_¬

[shiato storm]

oh, IR means 'Image Reduction'... why what did you think it meant?

[shiato storm]

teehee!

had you going there didn't I

[Alex]

Entries in by 27th February

27th February?

[Stoo]

methinks that should be March

[shiato storm]

27th February?

editted! cheers

[Nick F]

What a good idea, can't wait to get some pictures together.

[shiato storm]

how's everyone getting on with this?

[Funkstar]

managed to miss this thread until now. I'll see what i can do this weekend

[noah]

yeah, not bad.

i took one pic straight away and quite like it. but i tried to think of something else and got a bit stuck. gonna keep thinking and see what i can come up with.

[shiato storm]

my camera's gone in for repair
back focusing during ai servo/focus tracking mode, and lots of hot pixels. still, snapped a few nice ones off at the w/e last I quite liked...

[noah]

sorry to hear that mate, are they new faults that have just developed or ones not noticed before?

glad you got some pics already tho.

[hoodmeister]

Still waiting for the sun to come out here...

Looking at the weather forecast, I could well not have an entry for this one :/