FracturedRabbit

The photo they take when you collect your passport is for evidence you have collected it. There have been instances of people going back in and claiming they did not pick it up. You still need a photo to stick on the form.

The first commercially successful photographs were called Daguerrotypes; and even though they are now more than 150 years old, they have aged remarkably well.

OL139898 by Spike Tennyson, on Flickr

I have written a little story on how they came to be, for anyone who is interested:

http://www.pattayadays.com/2016/03/the-beginnings/

It's a process I would like to try, but obtaining the necessary chemicals in Thailand might be a struggle!

Photographing windsurfers in Pattaya means shooting straight into the afternoon sun (wind is best in the afternoon). This means I have to add typically 3 stops of positive exposure compensation, otherwise the subjects are just silhouettes (spot metering is too unreliable). The good news is that you can end up with a very sparkly sea, like in this shot:

OL129707 by Spike Tennyson, on Flickr

It was very affectionate; but quite disgusting to touch!

@FracturedRabbit ; it's a crop because I had the date inside the photo .

Thank u for your compliments,

From a bridge this morning during my MTBike balade

Perhaps another lesson; take the date off the photo? The date and time you took it are stored in the image file anyway. Although what I meant was, if you had moved to the left and composed such that the big butt was not in the photo, it could have been a really nice image.

Some water and many bufaloes

What we can discover when cycling off the beaten track and meeting a bufalo keeper who have a good english !

Very nice colours and light; perhaps if you had moved left a little so that the object in the foreground, taking away from the tranquil scene, would not have been a cow's arse?

Hard core

OL068951 by Spike Tennyson, on Flickr

Multiple transport options

OL069183 by Spike Tennyson, on Flickr

OL069117 by Spike Tennyson, on Flickr

There is no topic for light machinery, so will put this here.

P1040088-Edit by Spike Tennyson, on Flickr

You don't need to be a photographer to appreciate a good photograph.

Actually you do need to be one. It's a learned skill to appreciate the work behind the photo. It does not come as granted.

You have been doing photography for so long that you don't remember the time before learning to take your own photos, or you were just tuned to the arts from the start.

I come from the engineering background where logic matter, so does many of our Photo forum members.

At the start, you photographers, were just a bunch of nutters, who had a huge ego. That was the time I did not understand what photographers were really doing. Start of the journey for me.

Understanding great photographs, as well as any other forms of art, requires understanding physics, light and the environment. It's not like understanding how the world works, so don't get too snobby. But it's very close to it.

I agree you need to have had some photography experience to appreciate the technical skill behind a photo; but you don't need any experience to appreciate one; to enjoy it as an image. To suggest that you need an understanding of physics, light and the environment to enjoy a good photo sounds, to use your word, a little snobby. Millions of people who have no interest in photography, and have a limited understanding of physics, light and the environment, enjoy looking at good photos every day. And I am sure our sponsor is quite capable of selecting an image that please him/her most.

Oh, and I used to be an accountant in a former life, you can't get less arty than that; and I don't recognise myself in the description "you photographers, were just a bunch of nutters, who had a huge ego"; but thanks anyway.

Maybe have 3 votes and only allow voting to start on the first day of the following month, that way all the photos for the competition have been submitted

and can be viewed. Maybe allow 5 days for voting and then announce the winner

I like this idea! I disagree about having the sponsor to decide who will be the winner. Sponsors usually, have no idea about photography. Why let someone who has not a photographic knowledge to choose the winner?

You don't need to be a photographer to appreciate a good photograph.

Many thanks to each and every one of you.

Really like Fractured Rabbits idea also,although am not too keen on transferring all the images to a separate galley!

I think it is a really good idea to let the people who are sponsoring the competition decide the winners,

Will send a PM to the powers that be and ask them what they think of the idea.

Thanks again..

Maybe transferring to a separate gallery is an unnecessary step to far. Just let the sponsor pick the winners from the existing gallery.

Suggest you ask someone who can read Thai which post office you need to go to.

Very often it is the main office in Naklua.

Put all the photos in a gallery, with no names of contributors, and ask the managing director of the sponsoring company to chose the winners.

I didn't know either. Just put "Canon" into Classifieds search and found out where it was being posted. But this was after coffee.