Follow this link for the: Rules and Submission Instructions The deadline for entry is the 25th of October.

The photo contest is held to encourage people to take new photos with the topic in mind. As a result, please do not submit any photos taken before the contest topic was announced (see contest rules regarding EXIF data).



Interpret that how you will, keeping in mind that the photos must be MINI related and that only one photo per member per month may be submitted.

 

Sounds like a good topic
Too bad I can't enter this one:

 

tough one.....I got some ideas though....

 

Plenty of that topic on my car right now!

 

very interesting...

 

first person to submit "dust art" as a photo gets banned....

 

What an inspired topic!

 

Well, it is "technically" dirt...

 

So is gossip.

 

FIgure out how to take a picture of that!

 

Will brake dust count??? It is dirt... Technically speaking...

 

And here I thought brake dust was an asbestos-like material.

 

I'm just trying my idea out. Since I know so many are afraid of getting their MINI dirty, here's what it looks like.

 

Nice sunset..

 

Thanks... pure chance I got that.

 

As long as you acknowledge there are 23 more hours in the day

 

Dirt, sunset, and a SHINY CLEAN MINI. What'd you have it towed out there? lol.
I'm not afraid of dirt roads, I took a very very long drive through some very rough gravel roads a few weekends back.

Yes, that is my MINI. (No, this is not my submission)

 

That might explain how he got the great motion blur worked into that photo too.

Here's my bet on the photo staging....

1) tow a MINI out onto the dirt road in an enclosed trailer.
2) mount a camera to the side of the car
3) call a tow truck to slowly tow the car (like walking pace)
4) wait for sunset
5) open the camera shutter for about 5 seconds (yeah, motion blur and a clean MINI on a dirt road)
6) snap a second photo with the car at speed
7) photochomp
8) photochomp some more
9) go show of composite image in the detailing forum and mess with everyone's minds.

 

Seriously though, I wish I was that good with a camera!

 

Cool MaxN Style self portrait

Now I'm more than familar with that volume of dirt on the boot, but how close where you following the MINIs trough the desert?

I know exactly what I want to do, the trouble is finding the proper place to execute it while traveling.

 

I'm in on this one.

I'm not going to clean my MINI for 3 weeks.

 

Iwarn you I've had a months head start

 

I haven't cleaned my MINI since several hours before that picture was taken... haha!

 

That's exactly the photo I was thinking of when I proposed this topic to Leslie.

All right, who showed Kurt how to pull off motion photos!?! I'm in deep doo-doo this month if this is just his learning exercise.

Yeah, but we all know that Kurt would rather willingly contract the avian bird flu virus than to have to use photochomp.
Plus, after looking at several of Kurt's photos at full resolution, I've realized that his technologically advanced camera must have some ultra secret car detection dust and dirt removal algorithms in it. I can't find this setting on any of my smancy cameras which always fully reveal just how filthy my car is.

 

Leslie, do you realize that the next two month's contest topics can continue with this elements theme... Water, Earth (dirt), Fire (flame thrower exhaust? Fireball Tim stuff?), and Air (clouds?)