DPNOW Salon Competiton #125 - Looking Down

Caz · #1 20-06-12

A huge thank you to Gina for choosing my Jubilee street party as the winner of Salon #124 "A Very British Celebration". Our French visitor was very impressed by all the events held by our small village over the weekend.

The theme for this salon is Looking Down. I've had a quick look through the previous Salons, and think that this one hasn't been used before.

This Salon will end at Midnight on 4th July, 2012.

The rules, as usual:

1. All photographs are to be uploaded to the photo gallery at http://dpnow.com/galleries/
They can be put in members own gallery if they wish. The resulting link generated for the photo will then be pasted into the next available space in the salon tread. Please keep photos to a maximum of 800 pixel wide so people can see the whole image without scrolling.

2. One entry per user ID only please, which must be the personal work of the entrant.

3. Entries should be "in line" within the thread (not as a links to an image held somewhere else).

4. Comments only on entries are welcome within the salon thread itself.

5. After the close the curator will indicate a winner and a couple of runners up.

6. The curators decision is final.

7. Winners should be offered first refusal to choose the next theme and curate the next salon.

8. If the winner is unable to curate the next salon the current curator may offer that "honour" to any willing volunteer, possibly the entrant in second or third place.

9. These rules are to be copied and pasted with the new theme by the curator at the top of the new salon thread with a finish date and time.

10. As with all photos posted on DPNow, copyright remains with the photographer and DPNow will not use them without permission.

Horacio · #2 20-06-12

I will start with some old image taken in a rainy day, looking down at the floor,

Kurt · #3 21-06-12

Pol · #4 21-06-12

Looking Down ...

Well he is anyway, having got himself down to look down.

Pol

Caz · #5 21-06-12

Cool - a good start, and thanks for posting some pictures.

Pol - did you tell him to pose for that shot?

Pol · #6 22-06-12

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Originally Posted by Caz

Pol - did you tell him to pose for that shot?

I'd told him to pay homage and grovel at my feet or he wouldn't get any dinner

Naah - it's a candid I'd taken when I was testing my abilities handling the heavy SLR again.

He's busy taking off a slope from the edge of the lawn and replacing it with a shallow concrete step from the patio down onto the lawn. Makes it easier to get the lawn mower right to the edge as well as making it safer to step onto the path.

We decided a shallow concrete step would be better than a muddy grass slope. He was crawling about removing wood baton and smoothing the surface and picking up bits of fine gravel and grit etc. The job's still not quite finished as the weather is so unstable.

Pol

throt · #7 22-06-12

Looking down from a very close distance

patmoore · #8 23-06-12

When I saw the subject of the contest I immediately thought of this shot. I took it at the Race of Champions at the NASTAR National Ski and Snowboard Championships at Winter Park, Colorado in 2010. The young lady in the photo is about to negotiate one of the toughest Giant Slalom courses I've ever raced. I entered this shot in a Warren Miller heliskiing contest and it made the top ten of over 1500 entrants. Look closely at the gates and you'll notice that they are not truly vertical. In addition to a steep course, it slopes from side to side.

Gez · #9 23-06-12

My effort,

Geoff · #10 24-06-12

Looking down from Nottingham Castle....

Geoff.

ekkl · #11 25-06-12

Looking down on a beautiful morning from my train going over a viaduct.

Tog · #12 25-06-12

Here's mine... looking down from the edge of the Rideau Canal in Ottawa.

Ian · #13 30-06-12

This is my first attempt for a while - but I think this fits the bill

This was taken looking over the top of the Hoover Dam, near Las Vegas using an ultra wide angle lens. I hate heights so I had to hold the camera out over the edge, pointing it downwards. An articulating screen certainly helped matters!

Ian

patmoore · #14 30-06-12

Wow! Ian, that definitely qualifies.

Pol · #15 30-06-12

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Originally Posted by Ian

This was taken looking over the top of the Hoover Dam, near Las Vegas using an ultra wide angle lens. I hate heights so I had to hold the camera out over the edge, pointing it downwards. An articulating screen certainly helped matters!

Ian

OMG!

Heights don't usually bother me but I took one look at that and felt like I was about to keel over and drop to the bottom!

Pol