Dpnow salon competition no 127 - yellow

[Tog]

Great topic!

[Geoff]

The yellow in this image is a Nikon carrier bag reflected in the water!



Geoff.

[John Perriment]

[Graham_of_Rainham]

Not everyones colour, but this young lady really can look good in anything.

[throt]

Almost like a sun

[Ian]

Desert yellow



Ian

[Ian]

Originally Posted by Gina

I agree Audrey. this place is pretty dead now. When I first started posting my work here 4 or 5 years ago I loved the busy forum, everyone participated and it was my Mecca. It's just kind of dissolving into a few active members. Can we do something to revive it? Loving the Yellow x

This place is far from 'pretty dead', thank you Gina . Audrey has a dozen really good entries not including mine.

It is fair to say that activity on the forum has dropped in recent years. One of the problems is that social media networks like Twitter and Facebook are massive competition for us. I see more of you on FB than on here. There is nothing wrong with that (I'm on Facebook a lot too) but for some it means that smaller specialist sites like us are no longer as obviously relevant any more. Naturally, I think this is an oversight. Social Media sites are easier to use and you can be connected to more people, but a forum can be still be a marvelous community in its own right, as our Olympus specialist site (Olympus UK E-System User Group - e-group.uk.net) shows; around 200 people log in daily and we get a couple of hundred new posts on good days there.

DPNow is a more general photography site and we are less camera brand focused than others. Maybe we should focus more on the hardware and have brand-specific discussions?

Pol, Pops, John Perriment and myself as moderators are here to welcome and help new members all the time. We work hard to keep the spammers away and there is a wealth of knowledge and experience here. We have marvelous talent in the form of Horacio, Patrick, Peter, Devilgas, OlyPaul, just to name a few. Picture of the Day is going strong.

We have had several new members sign up recently and forum activity is up according to the stats, so we're hanging in there.

How can you help - pop in a bit more often if you can, invite your friends, spread the word.

Ian

[Autumn]

So sorry Folks, I hadn't realised the cut off time had gone. I was just checking when the salon should end and it had ended. How time flies.

Well I'm glad I chose 'Yellow', because it has brought a few of you out of the woodwork and made for a very jolly salon.

I shortlisted 5 and all were good, but when viewed altogether, the three I have chosen had the most yellow. (Not a very scientific way to select a winner I hear you say).

In third place we have John Perriment with his rusty lock,

In second place we have Horatio, I just love the lines of this image, but in

First place we have Geoff's clever image of the droplets. I know this type of image takes a fair bit of technical ability and trial and error and it was Yellow, too.

Mentions to Pat for kicking off the Salon - I really loved this image and Graham for the portrait of the young lady.
Pol's smiley did exactly that - made me smile.
Thanks Ian for making the effort. Nice cars. Glad I didn't nag you to enter now. I thought about it and also about giving Julia a nudge.

Anyway, thanks to all of you for making the effort and giving each other and me a run for our money.

Congratulations Geoff and over to you.

[Ian]

Thanks, Audrey - a very good Salon and now over to Geoff and what a week for him, Salon winner and Picture of the Day with his droplet shot

He'll be in the Olympics next!

Ian

[patmoore]

Great choices and a great theme! I'd like to see another color featured again in a future salon. This really brought out some nice entries.

[Ian]

Originally Posted by patmoore

Great choices and a great theme! I'd like to see another color featured again in a future salon. This really brought out some nice entries.

I think you got a point there, Pat

Ian

[Autumn]

Well I never! I hadn't seen that Geoff's droplet had been selected for POTD.

Well done Geoff!

[Geoff]

Thanks Audrey for picking my image, quite a suprise as there were some good photos that were more yellow than mine

I will be back later with a new subject for the next salon, I will try to think of a subject that will allow anyone to enter to encourage lots of entries.

Regards,

Geoff.

[Pol]

Originally Posted by patmoore

Great choices and a great theme! I'd like to see another color featured again in a future salon. This really brought out some nice entries.

Salon no 8 theme was BLUE but that was a few years ago now.

Here's the link.
http://dpnow.com/forum2/showthread.php?t=1182

I don't think there have been any other colour themes - none I recall anyway.

Pol

[Geoff]

No 83 was Red back in 2010.

http://dpnow.com/forum2/showthread.php?t=9886

Geoff.