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Cowperson
05-18-2009, 05:12 PM
Theme for CP Photo Contest 18 is "Life"

That could be "the joy of life" or "life in your city, (which could be quite sad actually)" or "plant/animal life," etc, etc, . . . . . show us life.

Round one voting is open until 10:00 pm on June 1, two weeks from today, then finalists will be presented for a final vote.

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Rules:
All photos must be no larger than 800x600 (or something close)

Please post only 1 photo per post (make a new post for new pics)

Post as many photos as you like, just keep it on topic

Vote by clicking the "Thanks" button at the bottom of the post

You may vote for 3 finalists.

Once the challenge leader (winner from previous challenge) chooses when to end the voting, he/she will change the thread title to explain when voting ends.

Once voting for the finalists is over, the challenge leader will tally up the votes and post (in 3 separate posts) the finalists.

Challenge leader again changes thread title to say when voting ends. Then, everyone comes back and votes on those 3 finalists.

You are only allowed 1 vote in the finals, so choose wisely

Winner of the challenge will start a new challenge thread and copy/paste these rules in the original post for consistency.

Don't be too specific with the theme nor too general. Try and get a theme that people can contribute to. Don't pick the red african ant of Kenya as a theme... nobody will post. Likewise, don't make the theme "stuff on earth"

Have fun.
Cowperson
05-18-2009, 05:51 PM
Probably a hard life . . . . a deformed begger on a skateboard in Rome, propelled by a tennis shoe in one hand.

http://www.goldentales.ca/P1280496-edit1.jpg

Cowperson
kipperiggy
05-18-2009, 09:09 PM
A slower, colder life in winter:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v309/03disney04/DSCF6417.jpg
kipperiggy
05-18-2009, 09:11 PM
The sun sets on another day in the life of:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v309/03disney04/DSCF5860.jpg
JohnnyB
05-19-2009, 12:00 AM
Probably a hard life . . . . a deformed begger on a skateboard in Rome, propelled by a tennis shoe in one hand.

http://www.goldentales.ca/P1280496-edit1.jpg

Cowperson

The amount of people with extreme deformities begging on the streets of Shanghai was pretty high last year before the Olympics. Then they cleared all of them out so that foreigners wouldn't see them...
JohnnyB
05-19-2009, 12:01 AM
First shoot of spring.
http://i189.photobucket.com/albums/z91/agmakosz/P1100358.jpg
JohnnyB
05-19-2009, 07:30 AM
http://i189.photobucket.com/albums/z91/agmakosz/P1100213small.jpg
JohnnyB
05-19-2009, 07:48 AM
Some traditional Chinese life.
http://i189.photobucket.com/albums/z91/agmakosz/P1090537Small.jpg
JohnnyB
05-19-2009, 07:56 AM
Traditional setting with a modern population.
http://i189.photobucket.com/albums/z91/agmakosz/P1070371.jpg
Cowperson
05-19-2009, 08:58 AM
A slice of a hard life . . . . . very crusty Maasai children outside their boma in Tanzania. Although literacy in Tanzania is now around 80%, the Maasai elder with us said these particular children were unlikely to see the inside of a school. There was a recent research report indicating western generosity in throwing cast-off clothing at Africans may be stunting economic development as no modern industrial society has ever been built without a textile foundation.

http://www.goldentales.ca/DSC03468-edit1.jpg
Cowperson
05-19-2009, 09:01 AM
A slice of the good life . . . . . taking a clown break, Atlanta, Georgia.

http://www.goldentales.ca/P1120782_edited-1.jpg

Cowperson
Cowperson
05-19-2009, 09:07 AM
Sunset over the Longview Rodeo, a slice of the life of small town Alberta

http://www.goldentales.ca/CSC_0381-edit1.jpg

I'd like to think someone has a picture of an amoeba for this competition.

Cowperson
chid
05-19-2009, 10:56 AM
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3386/3507100453_26ff4cf02d.jpg
Dion
05-19-2009, 10:58 AM
http://i42.tinypic.com/4h5frd.jpg
Dion
05-19-2009, 11:00 AM
http://i40.tinypic.com/35ak85t.jpg
redforever
05-19-2009, 11:17 AM
Life in progression.

http://i252.photobucket.com/albums/hh30/flameforever/1DSC00404.jpg

http://i252.photobucket.com/albums/hh30/flameforever/1DSC00435.jpg
redforever
05-19-2009, 11:23 AM
Life in progression-2

http://i252.photobucket.com/albums/hh30/flameforever/1DSC00283.jpg

http://i252.photobucket.com/albums/hh30/flameforever/1DSC00351.jpg

http://i252.photobucket.com/albums/hh30/flameforever/1DSC00444.jpg
rockstar
05-19-2009, 02:02 PM
A boy has his entire life ahead of him.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3468/3212433238_4b93c93685_b.jpg
BlackEleven
05-19-2009, 04:50 PM
Some Peruvian school children. They were horsing around when the teaching wasn't looking.

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1014/1141975585_0d85b3b480_o.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/nelsonro/1141975585/)
BlackEleven
05-19-2009, 04:53 PM
Tulips in front of Notre Dame (in Montreal). A sure sign of spring.

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/223/522205253_3092cc2e97_o.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/nelsonro/522205253/)
kobafett
05-19-2009, 08:19 PM
This guy was just happy to alive.

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2266/3543087126_949a8c1f80.jpg
(http://www.flickr.com/photos/kevinloganphoto/3543087126/)
kobafett
05-19-2009, 08:22 PM
Leaves starting to return to my tree.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3606/3517250866_563ee5af21.jpg
(http://www.flickr.com/photos/kevinloganphoto/3517250866/)
kobafett
05-19-2009, 08:26 PM
Brothers

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3324/3542931953_440fb6f053.jpg
(http://www.flickr.com/photos/kevinloganphoto/3542931953/)
Dion
05-19-2009, 08:27 PM
http://i43.tinypic.com/z4l0p.jpg
kobafett
05-19-2009, 08:29 PM
The good life

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3026/2873404144_38307eff82.jpg
(http://www.flickr.com/photos/kevinloganphoto/2873404144/)
kobafett
05-19-2009, 08:32 PM
Some kids just won't leave home to start their own lives.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3194/2833995858_296964f331.jpg
(http://www.flickr.com/photos/kevinloganphoto/2833995858/)
Stumptown
05-19-2009, 08:59 PM
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2033/2273725882_4d766ca06c.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/cramsay23/2273725882/)
Stumptown
05-19-2009, 09:05 PM
I always love to see how life works its way into the smallest of cracks.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3040/2620477382_ec6db2ee68.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/cramsay23/2620477382/)
Stumptown
05-19-2009, 09:05 PM
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1054/536595919_cc4c2ff6c1.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/cramsay23/536595919/)
4X4
05-20-2009, 12:24 AM
Probably a hard life . . . . a deformed begger on a skateboard in Rome, propelled by a tennis shoe in one hand.

http://www.goldentales.ca/P1280496-edit1.jpg

Cowperson

I totally recognize that guy. Cow, I have vague recollections of talking to you via pm when you took your trip to Rome and suggesting that you keep an eye out for him. I would have assumed that you snapped this pic in the vicinity of Campo di Fiori, but I can't quite pinpoint that street. It doesn't look like the Campo area. Kinda more like Pantheon. But I guess that's close. F'n eh! Way to bring back lots of memories...
4X4
05-20-2009, 12:30 AM
Nova Scotian alarm clock:

http://i189.photobucket.com/albums/z178/mydogmoxie/IMG_0920.jpg
Dion
05-20-2009, 12:35 AM
http://i42.tinypic.com/b84arn.jpg
SebC
05-20-2009, 12:59 AM
http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i215/coxseb/DSC00230.jpg

Wish the focus wasn't just that little bit off...
SebC
05-20-2009, 01:07 AM
http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i215/coxseb/DSC00231.jpg
JohnnyB
05-20-2009, 01:10 AM
In the jungle up in the mountains of Taiwan. I later came across a six foot long Chinese cobra right by this same pool hunting these frogs. Scared the bejeezus out of me, just as I accidentally did to it.
http://i189.photobucket.com/albums/z91/agmakosz/P1040011copy.jpg
SebC
05-20-2009, 01:57 AM
http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i215/coxseb/DSC02281.jpg
JohnnyB
05-20-2009, 02:40 AM
http://i189.photobucket.com/albums/z91/agmakosz/P1050165.jpg
TimSJ
05-20-2009, 06:22 AM
Me and the Boy out for a walk yesterday.

http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f3/e55fan/meandtheboy.jpg
kevman
05-20-2009, 01:35 PM
Christiania, Kobenhavn
A little ways back from pusher street...

http://photos-e.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-ak-sf2p/v647/47/57/679345503/n679345503_5495556_1633.jpg
chid
05-20-2009, 01:57 PM
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3021/2864137859_e51365e75d.jpg
chid
05-20-2009, 01:57 PM
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3201/2962716324_1457db47b6.jpg
Cowperson
05-21-2009, 11:51 AM
I totally recognize that guy. Cow, I have vague recollections of talking to you via pm when you took your trip to Rome and suggesting that you keep an eye out for him. I would have assumed that you snapped this pic in the vicinity of Campo di Fiori, but I can't quite pinpoint that street. It doesn't look like the Campo area. Kinda more like Pantheon. But I guess that's close. F'n eh! Way to bring back lots of memories...

Yes, somewhere between Campo and the Pantheon I seem to remember.

Have another one . . . . . this is not a great picture and maybe not even threadworthy BUT it is a slice of life in Rome that has a story.

We were having luncheon at a sidewalk cafe in Trastevere district when the fellow on the right pulls up in his car. He gets out and he starts making calls on his cellphone, a gravelly voice identical to Marlon Brando's Godfather with a more gregarious disposition. He disappears down the street for a while and comes back . . . . then the action starts. Someone comes by and hands him a bundle of bills for a plastic bag full of things. A few more transactions happen in similar fashion before the white-haired chap and the guy on the left show up, the latter giving every appearance of being some sort of bodyguard and our man on the right suddenly turning very deferential. The back of the automobile is flipped up and out come some new suits, the older guy inspecting the merchandise and seemingly not very impressed . . . . . .all of this being very interesting so early in the day from our vantage point of course. A slice of life in Rome.

http://www.goldentales.ca/P1280610-edit1.jpg

Cowperson
Cowperson
05-21-2009, 11:54 AM
Fall colours on the ornamental plum . . .

http://www.goldentales.ca/25040019-edit1.jpg

Cowperson
JohnnyB
05-22-2009, 09:42 AM
http://i189.photobucket.com/albums/z91/agmakosz/P1090560-1.jpg
More traditional Chinese life.
JohnnyB
05-22-2009, 09:43 AM
http://i189.photobucket.com/albums/z91/agmakosz/P1090563acopy.jpg
kobafett
05-22-2009, 05:55 PM
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2478/3550782126_0eb6aba1b4.jpg
(http://www.flickr.com/photos/kevinloganphoto/3550782126/)
Cowperson
05-22-2009, 06:29 PM
Nice one Kobafett

Cowperson
4X4
05-22-2009, 07:07 PM
http://i189.photobucket.com/albums/z178/mydogmoxie/Image003-1.jpg
4X4
05-22-2009, 07:09 PM
http://i189.photobucket.com/albums/z178/mydogmoxie/Image002.jpg
4X4
05-22-2009, 07:12 PM
http://i189.photobucket.com/albums/z178/mydogmoxie/Picture035.jpg
tete
05-22-2009, 07:21 PM
Baptism of our friend's child:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v188/charlotteangus/P6102091-1.jpg
Cowperson
05-24-2009, 04:22 PM
A reminder that there is one week to go for entries before the final round.

Below, The Cycle Of Life . . . . .

http://www.goldentales.ca/CSC_3012-edit1.jpg

Cowperson
Cheese
05-24-2009, 04:32 PM
http://i270.photobucket.com/albums/jj95/Cheese1956/cm.jpg


Me Boy...
JohnnyB
05-27-2009, 01:50 AM
Pic of Skaha Lake in Penticton. Penticton means 'a place to live forever'. It's where I call home now in Canada as I haven't been back to Calgary in a long time, and it's where I'd like to live when back in Canada long term.
http://i189.photobucket.com/albums/z91/agmakosz/Untitled_Panorama1copy-1.jpg
rockstar
05-27-2009, 02:13 PM
Never been to Skaha Lake, or even Penticton. But JohnnyB, you make it seem like I'd be real happy there. Well done.
JohnnyB
06-01-2009, 06:40 AM
http://i189.photobucket.com/albums/z91/agmakosz/P1050230untouchedcopy.jpg
Cowperson
06-01-2009, 11:03 PM
Please vote for the following finalists for CP Photo Contest 18. Voting will be open until 10 p.m. Sunday night.

Finalist #1 from RockstarA boy has his entire life ahead of him.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3468/3212433238_4b93c93685_b.jpg
Cowperson
06-01-2009, 11:06 PM
Finalist #2 from BlackEleven Tulips in front of Notre Dame (in Montreal). A sure sign of spring.

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/223/522205253_3092cc2e97_o.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/nelsonro/522205253/)
Cowperson
06-01-2009, 11:27 PM
Finalist #3 is Cowperson


Below, The Cycle Of Life . . . . .

http://www.goldentales.ca/CSC_3012-edit1.jpg

Cowperson
Cowperson
06-07-2009, 10:10 PM
Rockstar is the winner of CP PHoto Contest 18!!!

Congratulations.

Please pick and theme and organize a new thread for the next contest.

Cowperson
JohnnyB
06-07-2009, 10:15 PM
hmmm, I hope China lightens up a bit soon. I can't see any pictures linked from Flickr anymore. Nonetheless, I have faith it must have been a great pic to beat Cowperson's shot.
rockstar
06-08-2009, 12:26 AM
I think there needs to be a recount?????

Crap I didn't expect to win. Thanks guys. Should I read my speech?
Headed back to Vancouver tomorrow but I've got no internet at home ATM. I'll sort it out as fast as I can and get going with the next contest as soon as I'm back online.