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