Photos of the Week - Week 52

Critique Group Challenge: 

Week 52, Favorite Photo

Photo by Bob McInteer

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Bob says: 

When I traveled to Shiprock in northwestern New Mexico in October, I arrived well before sunset, shot well into the evening, overnighted in nearby Farmington, and returned before sunrise the following day. This one is a composite of many images I took on a locked tripod after sunset.

The light on the terrain coming from the left and the faint glow on the horizon are the last vestiges of the sunset. The streaks from the stars were taken in full darkness, (39) one-minute exposures with a one second gap between each. These were laid over each other using “lighten” blending mode. I went in and took out some distracting trails from passing aircraft.

You might be interested to know that the very bright trails were mainly from the Big Dipper (Ursa Major) scooping down and behind Shiprock.

52-Week Photo Challenge Class
Week 52 - Favorite Photo

Week 52 Photo Challenge:

Week 52, Favorite Photo

Photo by Liz Carroll

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Liz  says:  

Smart Phone Photo Challenges
Week 52 - Favorite Photo

Smart Phone Challenge:

Week 52, Favorite Photo

Photo by Warren Lee

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Warren says: 

This year I had great success with landscapes, macro details on blossoms and butterflies. I opted for butterflies for this week’s (favorite photo) challenge.

Back in November, I had been hoping that I would be able to find a glass winged butterfly at the pavilion and was pleasantly surprised. I zoomed with my feet and the lens as I used the IPhone 15 Pro Max 5x lens to capture the moment as the glass winged butterfly was seeking warmth from the paving stones.

I am a little slower getting up from the ground from these kinds of shots these days, but it is such a delight to see and share moments with this challenging butterfly. I imported the image into PhotoShop for finer edits. Wishing you (and yours) an amazing weekend.

Smart Phone Challenge:

Week 52, Favorite Photo

Photo by Ricky Tims

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Ricky says:

Of course the trip to Portugal was a highlight of 2023, and while I had many images I liked, I opted to cull those to only images from that trip. This is the old historic library at the University of Coimbra. Just glorious.

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Critique Group Challenge:

Week 52, Favorite Photo

Photo by Ricky Tims
from the 2023 Critique Group

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Ricky says:

This was extra challenging - my "favorite"? - so many wonderful images and great memories. I decided that the Portugal trip was a landmark, so I narrowed it down to that - but then - was there really a "favorite". I settled on this image because it was on a foggy/rainy day in Sintra (magical), at the Palace of Pena, had traditional Portuguese tiles - architecture - designs - cobblestones - and Hugo's brother, Fabio. So there were a lot of my favorite things in one image.