Welcome to North American Motoring, the North American MINI Community of owners and enthusiasts!
You are currently viewing our boards as a guest which gives you limited access to view most discussions, articles and photo galleries. By joining our free community you will have access to post topics, communicate privately with other MINI enthusiasts (PM), respond to polls, upload your own photo gallery and access many other special features. Registration is fast, simple and absolutely free so please, join our community today!
If you have any problems with the registration process or your account login, please contact our support team.
You are currently viewing our forum as a guest, which gives you limited access to view most discussions and access our other features. By joining our community, at no cost, you will have access to post topics, communicate privately with other members (PM), respond to polls, upload content and access many other special features. Registration is free, fast and simple, so please join our community today!
__________________ PW Peerage #92 - SHADOWFAX - '05 MC PW/B -- Visit my Garage to see Pics and Mods List
"Shadowfax tossed his head and cried aloud, as if a trumpet had summoned him to battle... Fire flew from his feet; night rushed over him." -- J.R.R.Tolkien
I LOVE #3! but in my haste I voted for the wrong one. Who shot #3? Although the winning pic was very well done, the "sunset" shots are pretty common around here.
Shooting the Moon had to be a bit of a challange I'm sure. That was what I wanted to shoot but we had rain when the full moon came around.
Several other shots had nothing to do with "natural light" what so ever....
All and all, it was great to see so many entries!
...wonder what the next topic will be?
Can I request maybe "Rain" (got plenty these days)
__________________
'02 Electric Blue/ White top Cooper S So far: One ball exhaust, Dinan CAI, M7 STB, Alta oil catch can, added OEM driving lights, dropped on Bilstein PSS9's
I LOVE #3! ... Who shot #3? ...
Shooting the Moon had to be a bit of a challange I'm sure. That was what I wanted to shoot but we had rain when the full moon came around.
Quote:
Originally Posted by LadyGodiva
...
I also wanted to give props to #3. I have a "thing" for the moon, and I thought your photo was lovely.
#3 was mine. Thanks for your comments and interest - appreciated. I wanted to try to make the "natural light" the subject of the photo, so I chose to include the moon (just to be different to sunset shots ). The problem was going to be that the moon had to be behind to MINI to get it in the photo, which meant the car would have been in silhouette. So I chose the full moon not just because it is bright, but because it always rises at sunset - I had a second source of natural light on the other side of the sky. What's illuminating the MINI is actually the last light of twilight, except for the lunar reflections off the hood.
FYI the photo was 1.6 seconds (the camera worked out f2.8 and ISO 800 for that). Afterwards I boosted the saturation to bring out the colour in the MINI and foreground a bit better - made the sky bluer too, which I liked.
I agree with you, Kurt has really completely spoiled us. I honestly wasn't going to enter this month because I didn't think the sunset was all that great in my photo. It had mostly fizzled out by the time I took the photo.
Quote:
Originally Posted by ParrishBlue
Shooting the Moon had to be a bit of a challenge I'm sure.
+1 Kudos to pw4 for a job well done.
I also liked #6, but something seemed wrong about it. Looking at the colors on the trees, then checking the EXIF data confirmed it. Still a nice photo though.
Quote:
Originally Posted by ParrishBlue
Can I request maybe "Rain" (got plenty these days)
Be careful what you wish for!
__________________
For every ounce of gas saved by a Toyota Pious, a gallon is wasted by the 20 cars behind it desperately attempting to pass because the typical Pious is driven by what appears to be a stoned, nearsighted geriatric who's also lost and confused and allergic to g-forces higher than .01 just to gain an extra 2 MPG. (paraphrased)
It will be posted up later today. Sorry, NAM was down at 5am PST and that's when it should've been done.
I'll crack the whip when Dave gets home.
Just so he knows, I really appreciate him doing this.
__________________
Serial MINI owners (keep 2), Shawn: 08 Cooper-S (DS/B with red cloth/leather interior). Tristan: 07 Cooper (LB/W with blue cloth/leather interior). Quentin: 05 Cooper-S (PH/W). Our first: 04 Cooper (Indi Blue/White)
SHADOWFAX
PW Peerage #92 - SHADOWFAX - '05 MC PW/B -- Visit my 
Stella
Visit Arizona... speed for the cameras and reduce our budget deficit!
So far: One ball exhaust, Dinan CAI, M7 STB, Alta oil catch can, added OEM driving lights, dropped on Bilstein PSS9's
![[SIGPIC][/SIGPIC](http://www.northamericanmotoring.com/forums/signaturepics/sigpic46182_4.gif)
Linear Mode
