September 2010 "in your Home State" Contest (sunset, copyright, pictures)

[Poncho_NM]

September 2010 "in your Home State" Contest - Place your photos in this thread

Rules To The "In Your Home State" Monthly Contest


Post your pictures in the appropriate thread.

Please read the appropriate DISCUSSION THREAD to be up to date before posting. You may post as many photographs in the discussion thread but the actual contest thread
is limited.

The theme in the "In Your Home State" is photographs which you took of your state for U.S.A. entries or your country for those outside the U.S.A.

All photographs must have been taken within 30 days of the date you submitted them. The contest will end at the end of the month.

To be able to stay on a monthly schedule, the last day for submitting entry photographs will be three days before the end of the month, ie, if the month ends on the 30th then photos must be submitted no later than the 27th.

The poll will be opened the day after last day for submitting entry photographs.

Two photographs per contest and one vote per member. You may not vote for yourself.

If desired you may add your ©copyright signature to your photograph when sharing over the internet.

Please add your title and any information that you want to share. We do enjoy knowing

You have 90 minutes to alter your post. If you need help with the title or information, just DM me Poncho_NM and I will fix it for you.

Do not use the entry thread for discussions. There is a separate thread to be used for discussions.

If you have an suggestions, you may DM me Poncho_NM .

[theh]

Here are a couple of pictures I took from a recent trip to Yosemite:

Creek in Yosemite


Glacier Point - Yosemite National Park

[Nephler]

Along The Glenn Hwy.



Tangle Lake

[MAK802]

Balboa Park in San Diego. Taken 9/20/10.

[MtnSurfer]

Sunset Reflections - Monterey, CA





Milky Way collides into Big Sur - Big Sur, CA
This one was taken on a clear, pitch black night in one of my favorite locations along the coast. The Milky Way really caught my eye as I approached the area. This was my first successful attempt at using DeepSkyStacker. The tool helps bring out the stars through the stacking and aligning a number of frames. It also helps remove noise.



Derek

[7G9C4J2]

Wisconsin lacks the spectacular mountains and the stunning coastlines that many states can boast, but there are still lovely scenes to be found. I caught these two this past week while on vacation up in Door County, and I like them because they illustrate two very different personalities of the same body of water.

Lake Michigan can be a gorgeous deep-blue paradise, ruffled with gentle waves and rippling in the sunlight - truly a mecca for boaters and fishermen alike.

Pathway to the beach on Cana Island:


And it can also be a perilous, ship-swallowing monster with great grey waves pounding the shorelines, foaming over causeways and tumbling mere man-made artifacts end over end.

Whitefish Dunes on a stormy day:

[Poncho_NM]

Photos must be submitted no later than the 27th! Which is tomorrow!

[captain_hug99]

Aspens in Colorado

[Poncho_NM]

Time to vote!