TT Photography Competitions

Will be in the real States on that day. Ah well. I'll participate again someday.

I'm in.

I feel like kids in the zoo puts men in the competition at a disadvantage, because I would assume generally parents don't respond well to single men taking pictures of their children.

But I like the idea of just regular zoo pictures.

It runs the risk of people confusing exotic subject matter with genuine good composition. I mean anyone can throw a zoom lens on the end of a camera and take a picture of a rhinoceros

I think that might be a competition for kids rather than a competition consisting of pictures of kids.

I see Gideon's comment now. Yeah, photos of kids is not a good idea.


I suspect that most people who have been involved in previous competitions get that idea.

How did I miss the last two?! I'll be there!

I know there is still a few weeks to go but is this still going ahead (I saw Pootle's post (#19) where he is now unable to make it)? Would anyone else be able to bring a laptop/card reader or two along so we can download our shots?

Following on from my previous post (#7) I should be able to make the date (I am getting married the following day but it's the Stadesamt part and the big day is not until later that week!).

I'm unable to make any event on the 26th

Check out post #5

I can bring one along too.

Just a quick mention, if the weather is "ok ish" I'm heading to the touch rugby on Saturday to take some pictures. Dont really want to make a big competition about it, but its a great way to start getting some sport experience.

Poots

Just wondering: do we have a final GO with meet-up time and place?

Ok, I said I would bring my laptop, but last night I witnessed it having a meltdown...so, sorry but I no longer have a laptop to bring. :'(

I'll definitely bring mine so.

So are people still on for meeting outside the zoo at 11:30am?

Adult admission EUR 9,00
Children (4-14 years) EUR 4,50
Pupils (15 years and older) and Students EUR 6,00

There's a group rate of €6 per person for groups of over 20, so I think we can forget that.

If you're interested, feeding times are as follows:

11:00 penguins
11:30 sea lions
13:00 tigers
14:30 sea lions
15:00 penguins, african hunting dogs, aquarium
15:30 lions, jaguars, ocelot, great apes

I would suggest that we set a post-shooting meetup location outside the zoo itself as the place shuts at 6pm and depending on how the day goes it's better not to have to be rushed.

Of course, if there's a general anti-zoo vibe then we can do something else instead. Let's hear what people think.

For me, the idea of having the photo comp at the zoo still sounds good, I'll see you all at Sunday, 11:30 am in front of the zoo

I`ll be there. It´s my first time with this group so I will just be looking for a bunch of cameras right?

We shouldn't be hard to spot, but you can PM me for a contact phone number if you like.

Keydeck: I plan on coming along on Sunday too but can you just clarify where the meeting point is? According to the website there are actually two entrances to the zoo (link), one they call the "Isar Entrance" (closest to the UBahn) and the "Flamingo Entrance" (Bus 52 stop). I have only ever used the "Isar Entrance" closest to the UBahn station.

Did you mean that one?

Yes, this one.

I will be there. Like ixus, I am a first timer in this group. I had a look at Keydeck's profile photo and will search for that face But it will be good if any of you can PM me your mobile #.

I was looking through this thread to get an idea how many people will be there on Sunday and noticed some people showed interest back in July but I don't know if they will still attend. From what I can see in the above posts, the following people have confirmed:

Keydeck
pjoyce
Sari
RakishRam
ixus78
CaBe
elusiven
dancarina

but what about:

g24 ?
sparty ?
gideon ?
Renia ?
dancing_in_the_dark ?

Is this list correct?

sounds great fun... I won't make this one due to me having forgotten my camera in san francisco (it's being brought back by a friend)...

hope another gets arranged

I will be there and I'm bringing a co-worker too! Sounds great - I finally can make one of these events! hurray!

There's always one
I'll send it along to you shortly.

Thanks keydeck, got your mob# PM.
See you all on Sunday.

Finishing time and location for post-shooting meetup will be given tomorrow morning before we start out. Looking forward to it and hope we have a good turn out. Everyone is welcome to come along.

If you guys (eight if I counted correctly) get this transferable ticket you will get in for €6.25 each. Just a thought. Have a great time, I will be doing taxes.

I am still in. But i just wanted to note for whatever it is worth having to do with tickets, I know of three other people who will going to the zoo tomorrow morning (only 1 is going to be shooting, though).

One other question--typically how long do these things run?

No worries, we'll sort it all out when we meet at 11:30. Should be fun!

We can set a finish time when we meet, but generally we meet up again to submit the entries at about 4pm or thereabouts.

Basically we meet, head in and then meet up later at a predefined pub place where you can go through your photos on a laptop and choose the one that you want to enter. Typically you'll be given about 5 minutes or so to decide which one to enter.

Good luck everyone! I'm really looking forward to seeing the photos. Bit bummed I can't participate myself but oh well.

Hey folks! Thx for the great day! It was fun to meet everyone and enjoy the (long, hot) day in the park. I had a great time and I can't wait to see the results.

If anybody is interested, i posted a few pictures (not for the competition) here.

See ya!

PS: Cabe, sorry, I had to delete the hundreds pictures of you ;-)

Crackin' day out. The competition entries are winging their way to Pootle as I write. Nice to meet everyone and especially thanks to Christian for negotiating the group rate.

I had a great time yesterday with all of you, can't wait for the next meet-up, be it photography-learning-lessons with ixus78 or the next photo comp
@ixus78: if you wanna 'shoot' me again with your *brrrrr*-camera-gun, anytime

It was fun. My face is still screwed up, after concentrating to the technical photography class from ixus.
keydeck, snakes bite, not their photos

Photos will be online later tonight when I get home, theres some corkers there

Yeah, I had a good time as well! Thanks ixus for the bit of help and for letting me borrow the lens! And thanks Keydeck for organizing this - cool idea! See you all soon.

Happy rhino getting, well, serviced...

Eeewwwwwwww

Could be worse, you could be tucking into a nice big steaming pile of poo!



Actually I think the jury is out on which is worse.

gross...what was the theme!?!?!

I guess we should be grateful that you didn't post this one in the Photos of some good meals thread.

Animal Sex

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Looks horny.

Some of my photos are up here now. The competition entry is not amongst them.

Can I have the peek-a-boo leopard? You have my e-mail.
Thank you!

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When will the photos from the competition be ready? I'm anxious to see them all.

Poots should be able to upload them tonight depending on his workload.

I can't wait to see the fabulous pictures you all have taken :-)

I think I missed all that action in the park!

Small problem at the moment. I have a converter for RAW Canon images, but not RAW Nikon images. I'll get back to you shortly.

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