Hi everyone,
After my narrow victory over Herodotos (just one point ahead—I had a close call, even in December in the northern hemisphere!), I’m now honored to organize the next contest, the one for the closing year, whose results will be announced on the first day of the coming year. Out of affection for the poet with wind in his soles, who dreamed of ivory and setting sail, again and again, even in his final hours, I borrow the theme from the first line of a poem dear to me: I embraced the summer dawn.
So, as the year draws to a close, the theme will be: embracing dawn.
The verb here is just as important as the noun. More than just a subject about sunrises or that magical half-hour of pink light before the sun appears (a photographer’s nightmare: either I crank up the ISO and deal with noise, or I lug around a tripod, and say goodbye to spontaneity like a beggar on marble quays), this is about those happy little mornings—the thrill of joy in the soft light of the first hours, whether it’s a landscape, a person, an animal, a plant, architecture, or whatever else. What’s certain is that it makes you want to smile at the day breaking. Even if you go back to bed afterward.
Technical details (shamelessly borrowed from Ragamuffin, thanks!):
Participation
Each VF member can submit up to 3 photos, until Wednesday, 12/25 at 11:59 PM, Milan time.
Each photo must be posted in a separate message, with its number (1, 2, or 3).
Don’t forget to add a little explanation (comment, location, etc.).
Voting:
Each VF member can vote for the 3 photos they consider the best, based on their own criteria and the theme.
Voting will take place from Thursday, 12/26 to Tuesday, 12/31 at 11:59 PM, Milan time.
Selected photos will be ranked in order of preference:
- 1st photo: 3 points
- 2nd photo: 2 points
- 3rd photo: 1 point
The winner is the author of the photo with the most points.
Results will be published on 01/01 (if I’m in any state to do so).
In case of a tie, the number of first-place votes will decide.
The winner will have the honor of organizing December’s contest.
For discussion, it’s here.
That’s all! Let’s welcome Dawn with rosy fingers, dressed in saffron...
Catherine
Original post
By this, and this only, we have existed. Which is not to be found in our obituaries. (T.S. Eliot)
And the dawn will be magnificent
La Grand’-Côte is that entire part of the island facing the open sea, the endless expanse of the Ocean. Its beaches stretch without any curve, and the sea’s breakers, unobstructed, roll out their sad white spirals for leagues, with a deep roar.
Pierre Loti, The Story of a Child
Like Atilla, but from above ;)
Vasco da Gama Bridge in Lisbon
Millau Viaduct
Bridge in the Algarve
Pont du Gard from below
Brooklyn Bridge
Lakes (Annecy)
Ponds (near Moustiers Saint Marie)
Lagoons (Bacalar)
Have fun and surprise us! Photos of computer towers are excluded 😏
Forest cat
