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Title: 2015 Photocontest # 4. Theme: Hobbies
Post by: Birdie on July 06, 2015, 10:29:02
 :klickygrin:   Here's the new photocontest!   :klickygrin:

The theme for this contest is: Hobbies

The basic rules for this photocontest are:

1) You may submit up to 2 photos.

2) You may start submitting your photos in this topic today and up until Monday 24th of August (= 7 weeks from now).
    Voting will take place from August 24th until August 31st.

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

4) And remember: the photo must be originally used for the contest. That means you'll have to wait for the photocontest to
    finish before using the picture in another thread on the forum.

5) As always, there's a prize for the winner. You can pick from the list: http://www.playmofriends.com/forum/index.php?topic=14268.0 (http://www.playmofriends.com/forum/index.php?topic=14268.0)

 Get out your Playmobil and your camera! Can't wait to see what you have in store  :munch:
Title: Re: 2015 Photocontest # 4. Theme: Hobbies
Post by: Birdie on July 09, 2015, 13:09:42
                                           - Wildlife watching -

(http://i.imgur.com/UCXLDnv.jpg)
Title: Re: 2015 Photocontest # 4. Theme: Hobbies
Post by: Rhalius on July 09, 2015, 13:16:12
A great new theme, and it seems you are setting the bar quite high straight away with a very beautifull picture.  :)

I like how you used all those stones.

Though I wonder if its the clicky watching the wildlife, or the wildlife watching her with that eagle eyeing her like that.  :lol:

Title: Re: 2015 Photocontest # 4. Theme: Hobbies
Post by: Birdie on July 09, 2015, 13:25:28
Indeed  8-)

It's the very first dio I made in my new Playmo basement. Can't tell you how much fun it is with access to every single box of stuff in my collection  :cloud9: 

But should I be playing with Playmobil instead of writing that paper that is due soon? Well... :shhhh:
Title: Re: 2015 Photocontest # 4. Theme: Hobbies
Post by: leefert on July 10, 2015, 06:53:48
Nice one Birdie!
Title: Re: 2015 Photocontest # 4. Theme: Hobbies
Post by: Pynedor on July 10, 2015, 20:40:53
Great picture, Birdie!

But should I be playing with Playmobil instead of writing that paper that is due soon? Well... :shhhh:

Of course! :)
Title: Re: 2015 Photocontest # 4. Theme: Hobbies
Post by: Macruran on July 11, 2015, 18:59:31
My Hobby

(http://i.imgur.com/exIeCUR.jpg) (http://imgur.com/exIeCUR)
Title: Re: 2015 Photocontest # 4. Theme: Hobbies
Post by: Pynedor on July 11, 2015, 19:47:52
That's a great one too. :lol:
Title: Re: 2015 Photocontest # 4. Theme: Hobbies
Post by: PlaymoMan on July 12, 2015, 14:40:32
Both great pictures! I can relate particularly well to the second one. :lol:
Title: Re: 2015 Photocontest # 4. Theme: Hobbies
Post by: Macruran on July 18, 2015, 23:13:43
My second of two:

"It gets pretty boring here on the island so I've started collecting Playmobil animals to fill the time. Right now I'm ordering a cheetah family from the official site."

(http://i.imgur.com/pdB7mSH.jpg) (http://imgur.com/pdB7mSH)
Title: Re: 2015 Photocontest # 4. Theme: Hobbies
Post by: Birdie on July 19, 2015, 07:50:50
 :lol:

I'll just use the abbreviated title "It gets pretty boring here on the Island" so your pic will fit the poll  ;D
Title: Re: 2015 Photocontest # 4. Theme: Hobbies
Post by: Raven on July 22, 2015, 11:57:35
Upcycling

(http://i71.photobucket.com/albums/i157/Raven461/Recycling_zpsqurzdxfd.jpg) (http://s71.photobucket.com/user/Raven461/media/Recycling_zpsqurzdxfd.jpg.html)
Title: Re: 2015 Photocontest # 4. Theme: Hobbies
Post by: tahra on July 22, 2015, 12:39:38
Upcycling

:lmao: :lmao:
Title: Re: 2015 Photocontest # 4. Theme: Hobbies
Post by: Macruran on July 22, 2015, 13:37:28
Ha!
Title: Re: 2015 Photocontest # 4. Theme: Hobbies
Post by: Birdie on July 22, 2015, 14:36:49
That is a brilliant idea!! Way better than the tiny flakes that come with the ball pool.  :)
Title: Re: 2015 Photocontest # 4. Theme: Hobbies
Post by: Salamander on July 22, 2015, 14:44:31
I really did literally laugh out loud when I saw Raven's entry!  :lol:
Title: Re: 2015 Photocontest # 4. Theme: Hobbies
Post by: Macruran on July 23, 2015, 01:16:55
Contest's over, Raven won.
Title: Re: 2015 Photocontest # 4. Theme: Hobbies
Post by: Raven on July 23, 2015, 17:09:35
Nah... There are great photos already, and more great photos to come, of that I'm sure!
Title: Re: 2015 Photocontest # 4. Theme: Hobbies
Post by: Mr Raven on July 25, 2015, 12:14:22
Weekend hobby

(http://i71.photobucket.com/albums/i157/Raven461/hobby_zps6dp9kc0u.jpg) (http://s71.photobucket.com/user/Raven461/media/hobby_zps6dp9kc0u.jpg.html)
Title: Re: 2015 Photocontest # 4. Theme: Hobbies
Post by: leefert on July 25, 2015, 19:10:12
Weekend hobby

(http://i71.photobucket.com/albums/i157/Raven461/hobby_zps6dp9kc0u.jpg) (http://s71.photobucket.com/user/Raven461/media/hobby_zps6dp9kc0u.jpg.html)

 :)9

 I like it! I especially like the touch of the photo on the shelf.  Great job!
Title: Re: 2015 Photocontest # 4. Theme: Hobbies
Post by: Birdie on August 08, 2015, 09:09:50
Two more weeks to enter  :wave:

 :klickygrin:
Title: Re: 2015 Photocontest # 4. Theme: Hobbies
Post by: Rhalius on August 08, 2015, 10:10:25
I'll see if I can come up with something, shooting blanks for now but it might come to me eventually.
Title: Re: 2015 Photocontest # 4. Theme: Hobbies
Post by: Birdie on August 08, 2015, 16:46:02
I look forward to it!  ;D
Title: Re: 2015 Photocontest # 4. Theme: Hobbies
Post by: leefert on August 08, 2015, 17:17:27
I have an idea, just having trouble pulling it together... might be because I keep working on other non-Playmo projects at the house. And when I think I'm going to work on my idea, something else arises
Title: Re: 2015 Photocontest # 4. Theme: Hobbies
Post by: DrDalek6 on August 09, 2015, 13:31:41
So this is my first entry

Watching The Foxes (Basils):

(http://i1103.photobucket.com/albums/g462/DoctorDalek6/Darren%20with%20Fox%20Cubs%2013.7.2015._zpssn9efjhj.jpg) (http://s1103.photobucket.com/user/DoctorDalek6/media/Darren%20with%20Fox%20Cubs%2013.7.2015._zpssn9efjhj.jpg.html)

 I didn't take the photo originally with the idea of entering it into the competition. The figure is a custom figure based on my tutor who has been delivering the conservation course I've just finished for the past 18 years and has now been made redundant  :'( so in what has become almost tradition now I made this little fella Mini Darren in his likeness and have been trying to take loads of photos of him. This photo was inspired by a conversation when he was saying that he had Fox Cubs visiting his garden which apparently he watches and talks to, one of the guys asked if they had names so I said one of the gardeners at the Botanical Gardens calls them Basils (after Basil Brush) this amused me so I decided I had to make a settup with my Playmobil Foxes.

 
Title: Re: 2015 Photocontest # 4. Theme: Hobbies
Post by: Macruran on August 09, 2015, 20:40:07
(http://i.imgur.com/HZUD2DB.png) (http://imgur.com/HZUD2DB)
Title: Re: 2015 Photocontest # 4. Theme: Hobbies
Post by: JLMatterer on August 16, 2015, 02:27:36
My Hobby - Being King of Playmobil!

Following the rules of this contest, this is the only time I've posted this picture on the forum! :) I did post a set of pictures called The Rock King's Hall, taken at the same time/place but this picture was not one of them, even excluding the tweaking.  :D I know I'm not the real Playmobil King, but it's a fun hobby pretending.  :P

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

Title: Re: 2015 Photocontest # 4. Theme: Hobbies
Post by: Birdie on August 16, 2015, 07:47:20
I love it  ;D
Great that you're participating!

I'll have to ask you to remove the smaller image with the text, though (Photocontest rule nb. 2)

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2.) No words, text, or speech bubbles may be added to the photo, unless it is explicitly allowed by the theme. Any explanation needed to understand the concept should be a part of the title.

Oh and isn't your avatar picture the same as this pic for the competition? If so, could you change it to something else for a few weeks until the contest's finished? I'm not trying to be difficult, but there can't be exceptions, you know.  ;)


Title: Re: 2015 Photocontest # 4. Theme: Hobbies
Post by: JLMatterer on August 16, 2015, 16:32:57
I love it  ;D
Great that you're participating!

I'll have to ask you to remove the smaller image with the text, though (Photocontest rule nb. 2)

Oh and isn't your avatar picture the same as this pic for the competition? If so, could you change it to something else for a few weeks until the contest's finished? I'm not trying to be difficult, but there can't be exceptions, you know.  ;)

Done - TX for letting me know. :)
Title: Re: 2015 Photocontest # 4. Theme: Hobbies
Post by: Macruran on August 16, 2015, 16:56:29
We here at Playmofriends take this competition very, very, very seriously.
Title: Re: 2015 Photocontest # 4. Theme: Hobbies
Post by: JLMatterer on August 16, 2015, 16:57:26
We here at Playmofriends take this competition very, very, very seriously.

 :love:
Title: Re: 2015 Photocontest # 4. Theme: Hobbies
Post by: JLMatterer on August 16, 2015, 18:39:02
I'm not trying to be difficult, but there can't be exceptions, you know.  ;)

Oh Birdie, you're being SOOOO difficult! ;) Next thing I know you'll be asking me to buy L*go!  ;D
Title: Re: 2015 Photocontest # 4. Theme: Hobbies
Post by: Birdie on August 16, 2015, 19:03:59
We here at Playmofriends take this competition very, very, very seriously.

 ;D

Oh Birdie, you're being SOOOO difficult! ;) Next thing I know you'll be asking me to buy L*go!  ;D

No, but now you mention it, I might include a rule about L*go being forbidden in any of the pictures  :P
Title: Re: 2015 Photocontest # 4. Theme: Hobbies
Post by: JLMatterer on August 16, 2015, 22:57:08
No, but now you mention it, I might include a rule about L*go being forbidden in any of the pictures  :P

That would only be right & just.  8-)
Title: Re: 2015 Photocontest # 4. Theme: Hobbies
Post by: leefert on August 17, 2015, 00:36:06
We here at Playmofriends take this competition very, very, very seriously.

 :lmao: :lmao: :lmao:
Title: Re: 2015 Photocontest # 4. Theme: Hobbies
Post by: Iclaudius on August 22, 2015, 10:29:03
The Reading Group Found It Difficult To Choose The Book Of The Month!
Title: Re: 2015 Photocontest # 4. Theme: Hobbies
Post by: Birdie on August 23, 2015, 07:38:11
Brilliant   :lol:
Title: Re: 2015 Photocontest # 4. Theme: Hobbies
Post by: Iclaudius on August 23, 2015, 12:48:09
Thank you Birdie, my first entry into this competition!
Title: Re: 2015 Photocontest # 4. Theme: Hobbies
Post by: Birdie on August 23, 2015, 20:19:40
I know, I'm very excited about the many entries  ;D  Yours made me laugh out loud this morning.
Title: Re: 2015 Photocontest # 4. Theme: Hobbies
Post by: JLMatterer on August 23, 2015, 20:47:12
Actually, I wish I were in a reading group with members that looked like that.
Title: Re: 2015 Photocontest # 4. Theme: Hobbies
Post by: leefert on August 24, 2015, 01:15:06
Here is my entry
RELAXING IN THE GARDEN

(http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y79/leefert/Mobile%20Uploads/2015-08/D786EFCA-FCCA-493B-B176-011E04C787E5.jpg) (http://s3.photobucket.com/user/leefert/media/Mobile%20Uploads/2015-08/D786EFCA-FCCA-493B-B176-011E04C787E5.jpg.html)
Title: Re: 2015 Photocontest # 4. Theme: Hobbies
Post by: Birdie on August 24, 2015, 16:13:30
Here is my entry
RELAXING IN THE GARDEN

(http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y79/leefert/Mobile%20Uploads/2015-08/D786EFCA-FCCA-493B-B176-011E04C787E5.jpg) (http://s3.photobucket.com/user/leefert/media/Mobile%20Uploads/2015-08/D786EFCA-FCCA-493B-B176-011E04C787E5.jpg.html)

Koy fish!! Custom made? I love how the sun reflects on the water  :love:
Title: Re: 2015 Photocontest # 4. Theme: Hobbies
Post by: leefert on August 24, 2015, 18:03:02
Koy fish!! Custom made? I love how the sun reflects on the water  :love:

Yes I did custom make those beautiful koi. The water is then reusing a plastic lid from a take out container, colored plastic bag, and then plastic wrap over the top (so I could set the lily pads on it). It was fun to do for my first entry into one of these.
Title: Re: 2015 Photocontest # 4. Theme: Hobbies
Post by: Birdie on August 25, 2015, 14:09:21
Oh yes there's a layer of plastic wrap too! Genious  8-)
Title: Re: 2015 Photocontest # 4. Theme: Hobbies
Post by: leefert on August 25, 2015, 17:56:31
Oh yes there's a layer of plastic wrap too! Genious  8-)

I considered it a trial run for when I finally make my zoo diorama in which there may be a larger scale Koi Pond.  Oh and the fish are "swimming" thanks to push pins (thumbtacks whatever you want to call them) under the bottom (which also helped make it look like ripples in the water.) 
Title: Re: 2015 Photocontest # 4. Theme: Hobbies
Post by: tonguello on August 26, 2015, 03:05:22
 :shhhh: Birdie, I think this contest closed on Monday  :shhhh:

 :giggle:

Title: Re: 2015 Photocontest # 4. Theme: Hobbies
Post by: Birdie on August 26, 2015, 06:41:17
Oh wow yes, when I checked I saw the '31st of August', but that's when voting was supposed to close  :lol:

I'll get onto it!
Title: Re: 2015 Photocontest # 4. Theme: Hobbies
Post by: Georgeag1972 on August 29, 2015, 08:45:46
To Build Dioramas!!

(http://i1196.photobucket.com/albums/aa413/georgeag1972/Medieval%202015/7_zpsjjlat0zr.jpg) (http://s1196.photobucket.com/user/georgeag1972/media/Medieval%202015/7_zpsjjlat0zr.jpg.html)
Title: Re: 2015 Photocontest # 4. Theme: Hobbies
Post by: Rhalius on August 29, 2015, 12:56:43
A very beautifull picture that definatly shows the beauty and grandure of the medieval theme, and a little fantasy too with that witch.  :)

Alas, voting has already begone so its a bit late but otherwise it certainly would have been one of my votes.

I really like the shape of that building.
Title: Re: 2015 Photocontest # 4. Theme: Hobbies
Post by: Birdie on August 29, 2015, 20:19:45
Oops, forgot to close this thread!  :-\