July 2025 Competition - At Home

[Tim Mayo]

Our July monthly competition is now open for entries.

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This Month's Theme
For this month our theme will be At Home. This covers everything from your home, your hometown and nearby areas.


Competition Dates
Entries start: The date that this post is published.
Entries end: July 21st at 3am Eastern Time (9am GMT)
Voting starts: July 21st at 3am Eastern Time (9am GMT)
Voting ends: July 28th at 3am Eastern Time (9am GMT)

What Do I Get if I Win?
I'm afraid it's just the joy of taking part but I will be adding badges to winners profiles.

How to Enter + Rules

1. Post your entries in this thread by scrolling down to the reply box then hitting the 'upload images' button. Insert image as full image not thumbnail.
2. Canon R Series cameras only. Adapted lenses on R Series bodies are fine.
3. Camera metadata must be included in the images to verify.
4. Only one photo entry per member.
5. Keep the photos clean and family friendly.
6. Please don't use sky replacements or AI image generation.
7. You are free to change your image during the entry period.

How to Vote (when voting opens)

1. Use the vote button (up arrow) to the right of the post (below post on mobile) to vote up images that you like
2. You can vote on as many images as you like apart from your own

Themes for 2025
Our themes for the year have already been decided to give you a heads-up on what's coming next.

• Jan: Black & White
• Feb: Natural World and Wildlife
• Mar: Creative
• Apr: Action
• May: Mechanized Machines
• Jun: Land and City Scapes
• Jul: At Home
• August: Close Up / Macro
• Sep: Long Exposure
• Oct: Street
• Nov: After Dark
• Dec: Your Favorite Shot of 2025

Feedback
I'd really appreciate feedback about how the competition is running but please don't post it in this thread. Instead please post any feedback in our Feedback Forum.

Thank you for taking part and good luck!

 

[ShipleyNW]

Ice storm on Maple
[no vehicles were harmed in the making of this image]

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[TwoWheeler]

Does my front lawn count as "At Home"?

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[AOC]

Local Firework Display as seen from the Manassas Railway Station in Manassas VA

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[Dean Wilson]

At Home ~ End of the Day

For some people, end of the day means hanging up the toolbelt or apron, closing the laptop and such, for the commute home, dinner and relaxation.

Then there are other that mean, irrigating the fields, feeding the animals, and knowing there is still a few more hours of daylight before it's time to call it a day.

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[esheato]

Summer was made for boys and their bicycles.

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[MSH411]

Kickin back in the yard

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[TBB Wildlife and Nature P]

White-tail doe deer and Red Fox kit in my back yard.

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[MrSparks999]

Robin on a Robin shot in the back garden.

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[TwoWheeler]

Found on my front lawn and shot on my kitchen table. Is that "at home" enough?

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[JustUs7]

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We get a lot of deer in our neighborhood. Doe and fawn with a little kiss.

 

[Danielle Rock]

One of the many things we found moving into our new home.

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[JohnFr]

Went to a car show in my home town a couple weeks ago to shoot some of the cars. This one is my favorite from the day. The original full sized image is 2.34 Gigapixels. 41,905 x 55,874 pixels. 139 in, x 186 in. Shot with a R5, Rf 100-400mm f5.6-8 IS USM lens @ 200mm, ISO 100, f/11, 1/80th sec.

The finished image is made up of two sets of images, one shot with hood open and second with hood closed. Some 6,920 individual focus bracketed images were shot to create this image. These were focus stacked using Helicon Focus Pro to yield two sets of 117 focus stacked images. in a 9 x 13 array. These were then stitched using PTGui Pro. The two finished stitched images were imported into Photoshop and aligned to create the composite. I masked out the hood section of the second image to reveal the engine from the first image.

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[Bear]

View, while relaxing "At home".

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[PKM-UK]

What have the Romans ever done for us?...

Phil

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[timm]

Earlier this year, I planted a small garden of Native Illinois Plants. Recently, the Butterfly Weed (Asclepias tuberosa) bloomed, rewarding me with vibrant orange colors. On one part of my property, there is an area roughly 1/4 of an acre that is difficult to mow. Based on the success of this small test plot, I plan to expand it into a larger pollinator garden. More color, less upkeep!

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[Nick L]

A dandelion from my garden in the macro studio.

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[Philnick]

How's this? Taken in November of 2023, of a plant gone to seed, with my R7 and my EF 24-70mm f/2.8L II USM (since replaced by my Sigma 18-50mm f/2.8 DC DN RF crop sensor lens). It's a deep crop, 1971x1839 pixels from the middle of the 6960 x 4640 pixel frame, edited in DxO PhotoLab.

Like the dandelion, this plant also spreads its seeds far and wide - but not on the wind but by hooking them into the fur of passing animals.

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[chipman]

My flowers have a built-in defense.

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[MikeZ]

The derelict pump house door on the local reservoir.

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[dgphoto8]

A 'Snowliage" photo taken in our back year. We had a Halloween snowstorm so we had snow and some colorful residual fall foliage. I took a bunch of photos and liked the vibrancy of the fall color with the snow

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[ACEkin]

The Mermaid
On the exterior wall of a lounge in Pawtuxet Village.

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[Tim Mayo]

A big thanks to all who have entered our competition this month. Voting is now enabled. Please remember that you can vote on as many images as you like, just not your own

 

[Tim Mayo]

Well done and thank you to everyone who entered and voted in our competition this month. As usual there have been some really great entries.

• 1st place with 11 votes was @AOC with a cracking capture of a local firework display with the Manassas Railway Station in the foreground.
• 2nd place with 9 votes was @Nick L with a stunning shot of a garden dandelion captured in his macro studio. You should have saved that for this month Nick
• 3rd place with 7 votes was @MrSparks999 with the always beautiful little robin shot in his back garden.

The theme for our competition this month will be "Close-up / Macro" which will be starting shortly.

 

[Dean Wilson]

Great job everyone!

 

[MikeZ]

Congratulations to all, particularly the winners!

 

[MrSparks999]

Thanks to all who voted.