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Title: 2016 Photocontest # 2. Theme: History
Post by: Birdie on May 07, 2016, 09:25:48
Here we are again with a Photocontest to make you get creative with your collection :klickygrin:

The new Photocontest theme is:  :egypt: :roman: :viking: :knight: HISTORY  :gent: :captain: :indian:  :sherlock:


It was Macruran's idea  8-) It doesn't have to be a historic scene though, interpretation is free!


These are the rules for the contest:

1) You may submit up to 2 photos.

2) You may start submitting your photos in this topic today and up until Sunday 26th of June (= 7 weeks from now).
    Voting will take place from June 27th to July 3rd.

3) Photo shop and filters are allowed.
    Please take a moment to check all the rules: http://www.playmofriends.com/forum/index.php?topic=12037.0 (http://www.playmofriends.com/forum/index.php?topic=12037.0)

4) Don't forget: the photo must be originally used for the contest. Do not use an image that you have already used somewhere on the forum, and wait until the contest is finished before posting the image on the forum elsewhere.

5) There are prizes for the winner to choose from. Here's the list, postage is free: http://www.playmofriends.com/forum/index.php?topic=14268.0 (http://www.playmofriends.com/forum/index.php?topic=14268.0)
Title: Re: 2016 Photocontest # 2. Theme: History
Post by: Raven on May 08, 2016, 19:35:01
This is a wonderful challenge!  I've been thinking and thinking and thinking about how I could possibly create something for this one.  I don't really have any historical themes.  Well, not in their entirety.  I have a pyramid, for example, but all the Egyptians that went with it were taken apart, so I could have more mid-brown heads and arms to use for modern people. 

Oh, and I've got some stone-age cave people.  But I can't remember who is wearing their hair nowadays.

I tried thinking of 'historical events', but most of what I vaguely remember (I was never a history student, so that's limited) isn't really suitable for a Playmobil reenactment.

But now I've got an idea!  Next challenge: will it work, and look OK?

Thanks Macruran for the fun of this!



Title: Re: 2016 Photocontest # 2. Theme: History
Post by: leefert on May 08, 2016, 20:49:10
I agree that this one is challenging, and that's part of the fun of it.  I don't have nearly the amount of pieces that I would like to make it, so I may flip around my ideas. This one has a broad interpretation of the idea.
Title: Re: 2016 Photocontest # 2. Theme: History
Post by: Macruran on May 09, 2016, 00:39:04
I am thinking you could use modern klickies to portray modern "history" scenes, like the JFK assasination or a famous speech or something. Doesn't all have to be....Romans....I myself don't have a concept yet, but I swear I will!

A lot of the recent museum specials would be perfect: Duerer, Night Watch, Fred t G, etc.
Title: Re: 2016 Photocontest # 2. Theme: History
Post by: Birdie on May 09, 2016, 06:34:09
Remember it doesn't have to be a historical scene. Anything that can be linked to history will do.

There's western, pirates, knights, Victorian, Egyptian, Roman, cavepeople etc but you can also do Playmobil from the seventies, a history teacher in a classroom, a museum, dinosaurs... Or even something modern, if the link with history is in the picture's title 8-)

Title: Re: 2016 Photocontest # 2. Theme: History
Post by: JLMatterer on May 09, 2016, 14:14:23
The medieval historian in me is coming up with lots of ideas.

All I need is a klicky with a hunchback & a codling grinder.  :P

http://www.subzin.com/quotes/S278542b1d/The+Black+Adder/The+Black+Seal/of+the+codling+grinder%21 (http://www.subzin.com/quotes/S278542b1d/The+Black+Adder/The+Black+Seal/of+the+codling+grinder%21)
Title: Re: 2016 Photocontest # 2. Theme: History
Post by: Birdie on May 09, 2016, 16:39:03
Aaaah Blackadder  :love:
Title: Re: 2016 Photocontest # 2. Theme: History
Post by: bonniebeth on May 09, 2016, 16:52:49
Yeah, I LOVE challenging themes like this! I'm thinking outside the box on this one.
Title: Re: 2016 Photocontest # 2. Theme: History
Post by: Raven on May 10, 2016, 08:33:03
Antique Shop:

(http://i71.photobucket.com/albums/i157/Raven461/Antique%20Shop_zpsdpdyfwfc.jpg) (http://s71.photobucket.com/user/Raven461/media/Antique%20Shop_zpsdpdyfwfc.jpg.html)
Title: Re: 2016 Photocontest # 2. Theme: History
Post by: tahra on May 10, 2016, 09:04:11
Antique Shop:

Oh.. :love:

What's the animal on the shelf?
Title: Re: 2016 Photocontest # 2. Theme: History
Post by: Raven on May 10, 2016, 09:29:21
I have no idea!  It arrived with a secondhand set, and I presume that it is not Playmobil.
Title: Re: 2016 Photocontest # 2. Theme: History
Post by: tahra on May 10, 2016, 09:44:22
I have no idea!  It arrived with a secondhand set, and I presume that it is not Playmobil.

Ah, mystery solved... Lovely though  :love:
Title: Re: 2016 Photocontest # 2. Theme: History
Post by: Birdie on May 10, 2016, 10:13:56
Raven, that is a lovely photo  :love:  I wish I could send my clickies there.
Title: Re: 2016 Photocontest # 2. Theme: History
Post by: leefert on May 29, 2016, 00:21:37
I'm still struggling with what I want to do... I'm not sure what I want to do, and then I'm not sure that I have the parts to accomplish it if I do...
Title: Re: 2016 Photocontest # 2. Theme: History
Post by: Birdie on May 29, 2016, 05:14:09
Best to just get started on something, it 'll come to you when you're putting it all together  8-)
Title: Re: 2016 Photocontest # 2. Theme: History
Post by: JLMatterer on May 30, 2016, 00:38:16
William Tell

(http://i.imgur.com/ahSz6pp.jpg?1)
Title: Re: 2016 Photocontest # 2. Theme: History
Post by: Macruran on May 30, 2016, 00:51:59
 ;D
Title: Re: 2016 Photocontest # 2. Theme: History
Post by: Raven on May 30, 2016, 04:57:21
That is wonderful!
Title: Re: 2016 Photocontest # 2. Theme: History
Post by: Birdie on May 30, 2016, 11:53:09
Brilliant! :wow:
Title: Re: 2016 Photocontest # 2. Theme: History
Post by: leefert on May 30, 2016, 18:37:16
Very cool
Title: Re: 2016 Photocontest # 2. Theme: History
Post by: tahra on May 30, 2016, 19:51:07
William Tell

Very nice :)
Title: Re: 2016 Photocontest # 2. Theme: History
Post by: Rhalius on May 30, 2016, 21:23:58
I sure hope for the boy's sake that the archer with the blue hat is William Tell and not the one with the red hat.  :lol:
Title: Re: 2016 Photocontest # 2. Theme: History
Post by: Hadoque on May 31, 2016, 21:13:20
I sure hope for the boy's sake that the archer with the blue hat is William Tell and not the one with the red hat.  :lol:

 :lol:

Unless the boy would have been a L**o figure  ;D
Title: Re: 2016 Photocontest # 2. Theme: History
Post by: leefert on June 16, 2016, 22:25:04
FROM THE PAGES OF HISTORY


(http://i.imgur.com/EjaLoBd.jpg?1)


Just a quick little idea that popped into my head last night as I was going to bed.
Title: Re: 2016 Photocontest # 2. Theme: History
Post by: Raven on June 17, 2016, 02:21:48
Brilliant!

(And I love that globe...)
Title: Re: 2016 Photocontest # 2. Theme: History
Post by: leefert on June 17, 2016, 03:43:46
Thanks Raven!
Title: Re: 2016 Photocontest # 2. Theme: History
Post by: Macruran on June 17, 2016, 04:11:03
leefert that is fantastic
Title: Re: 2016 Photocontest # 2. Theme: History
Post by: leefert on June 17, 2016, 05:02:29
Thank you Macruran. It was quickly put together, and without having to bust open some of my MIB pieces. I hoped it would be enough as the reshuffling of my collection has seen me selling and trading a lot of Klickies that could have been used in this (like a Roman) and I chose not to include some of the other Klickies that I had.

It was fun to do, especially since I was laying in bed when the idea struck.
Title: Re: 2016 Photocontest # 2. Theme: History
Post by: tahra on June 17, 2016, 07:30:13
What a great idea :)
Title: Re: 2016 Photocontest # 2. Theme: History
Post by: Birdie on June 17, 2016, 07:32:58
Very nice picture  8-)

I hope we get some more entrees by the end of next week.
Title: Re: 2016 Photocontest # 2. Theme: History
Post by: Macruran on June 17, 2016, 12:52:20
I'll make a couple, once I find "the time".
Title: Re: 2016 Photocontest # 2. Theme: History
Post by: leefert on June 26, 2016, 03:00:55
It's deadline day (by the time anyone reads this) and we are still two entries short. Surely someone can throw something together quickly
Title: Re: 2016 Photocontest # 2. Theme: History
Post by: Macruran on June 26, 2016, 03:02:28
I'm putting mine together right this very minute.
Title: Re: 2016 Photocontest # 2. Theme: History
Post by: leefert on June 26, 2016, 03:11:07
I'm putting mine together right this very minute.

Can't wait to see what you come up with!
Title: Re: 2016 Photocontest # 2. Theme: History
Post by: Macruran on June 26, 2016, 05:49:19
Here's my first one:

"I am a nightmare from which history is trying to awake."

(http://i.imgur.com/t6SHbBA.jpg)

The title is a humorous inversion of a famous line from James Joyce's novel Ulysses:

"History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake."

 ;D
Title: Re: 2016 Photocontest # 2. Theme: History
Post by: Basie10 on June 26, 2016, 05:51:18
hmm - cryptic.  I like it ;D
Title: Re: 2016 Photocontest # 2. Theme: History
Post by: Macruran on June 26, 2016, 06:37:21
My second entry:

"Let's put our history behind us"

(http://i.imgur.com/Dqo4uZA.jpg)

Famous conflicts from history, resolved by little plastic figures hugging one another!

From left to right: Muslim and Crusader, Yankee and Confederate, Prussian and Russian, Celt and Roman, Indian and Conquistador, British and French, Pope and Martin Luther, Chinese and Mongolian, Napoleon and Frederick the Great (okay that one's ahistorical but I thought they looked like a cute couple).
Title: Re: 2016 Photocontest # 2. Theme: History
Post by: Raven on June 26, 2016, 08:02:04
I'm making another entry today - I hope I'm not too late!
Title: Re: 2016 Photocontest # 2. Theme: History
Post by: Raven on June 26, 2016, 11:23:39
Got it done.....

Back in the '60s

(http://i71.photobucket.com/albums/i157/Raven461/HV_zpsos7ma38w.jpg) (http://s71.photobucket.com/user/Raven461/media/HV_zpsos7ma38w.jpg.html)
Title: Re: 2016 Photocontest # 2. Theme: History
Post by: JLMatterer on June 26, 2016, 12:02:08
Here's my second. :lol: I love this theme & could've done several more.

Pre-History

(http://i.imgur.com/8zH8yLD.jpg)
Title: Re: 2016 Photocontest # 2. Theme: History
Post by: Raven on June 26, 2016, 12:08:59
That's so cleverly done.
Title: Re: 2016 Photocontest # 2. Theme: History
Post by: leefert on June 26, 2016, 14:13:13
I love the new additions! We still need one more contributer though.
Title: Re: 2016 Photocontest # 2. Theme: History
Post by: Macruran on June 26, 2016, 15:52:50
Nice pics Raven! The Prehistoric theme never gets enough love.

Come on someone else, just take a pic of your Martin Luther standing on your kitchen table!
Title: Re: 2016 Photocontest # 2. Theme: History
Post by: Duckman on June 26, 2016, 17:42:58
                                                                                  A veiw to the past.
(http://bulk-share.slickpic.com/album/share/5zlONMYAjUjMNA/12674695.0/900/p/Boatee_mc_boat_face.jpg) (http://bulk-share.slickpic.com/album/share/5zlONMYAjUjMNA/12674695.0/1500/p/Boatee_mc_boat_face.jpg)

Title: Re: 2016 Photocontest # 2. Theme: History
Post by: leefert on June 26, 2016, 17:44:59
Fabulous Duckman!!! A lot of fantastic entries for this one! It was a wonderful idea Macruran!
Title: Re: 2016 Photocontest # 2. Theme: History
Post by: Macruran on June 26, 2016, 17:54:06
Duckman that is excellent. Is...is there a tiny ship in the bottle on the windowsill, or am I playmollucinating?
Title: Re: 2016 Photocontest # 2. Theme: History
Post by: Duckman on June 26, 2016, 18:06:59
Well spotted, there is a little schooner in a bottle.
Title: Re: 2016 Photocontest # 2. Theme: History
Post by: Birdie on June 27, 2016, 08:18:52
Wow so many entries right at the end. Thanks a lot everyone  :wave:
I'm closing the contest now (little bit too late, my apologies), and I'll set up the vote as soon as I can. Something to do with babies and afternoon naps  ;D