March 2025 Competition - Creative

[Tim Mayo]

Our March monthly competition is now open for entries.

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This Month's Theme
For this month our theme will be Creative. If you need some inspiration then these images from Sony's World Photography Awards might help, along with Flickr.

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

 

[Tim Mayo]

Please note the rules folks:

1. Canon R Series cameras only. Adapted lenses on R Series bodies are fine.
2. Camera metadata must be embedded with images to verify.
3. Only one photo entry per member.
4. Keep the photos clean and family friendly.
5. Please don't use sky replacements or AI image generation.
6. You are free to change your image during the entry period.
7. Not essential but it would be nice if you added a little background information on your entry.

Thank you!

 

[NGauger101010]

First try at lighting effects. Poles wrapped with Christmas lights.

Canon Canon EOS R5
Apertureƒ/4
Focal length105.0 mm
Exposure time1/3 second(s)

 

[Dean Wilson]

The Druid

Playing around with a little Paraffin Wax and Generative Fill for the Staff.

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[PKM-UK]

A creative edit of a shot taken in the woodlands at Portmeirion, Gwynedd, North Wales.

Software used: Adobe LrC/ PS with Tony Kuyper Panels and Topaz Labs Studio 2/ PAI.

Phil


A Life and Death Struggle...

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[TwoWheeler]

Just goofing around taking pictures through my kitchen window, and since the focus was kind of soft (duh) I decided to have fun with this one:

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[AOC]

This is a layered image of 4 Celestial related events I was able to photograph with R5 camera in 2024. A Solar Eclipse in Maine, a rarely seen Aurora captured from a mountain side location on Skyline Drive in Virginia, along with the Milky Way and the Atlas Comet seen from Big Meadows on Skyline Drive. The base image is the Atlas comet and Milky Way with evening stars taken at Big Meadows.

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[Nick L]

I do have a few creative images but not many with R5 as a base image for the Exif. So instead when I walk about I see animals and faces and things in clouds and rocks. I was told by a friends wife its because I use both sides of my brain and her husband said we are both mad as he does not see any of it

Well one morning in October we walked to the western end of the Ice Lagoon at Jokulsarlon as the car parks were full at the bridge end and to be honest what ice there was at the time was in that area. I saw loads of animals in the ice and some I photographed and still can see. But then a noticed an Ice Monster sneaking up on me so I took its picture and ran away

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[dgphoto8]

A photo of the Longfellow Bridge, which spans the Charles River and connects Boston and Cambridge, Massachusetts. The bridge was restored around the early 2010s, using historically accurate riveting techniques. LED lighting was added to the arches and the colors are changed for different events. For this photo, I took a tight crop of half of the center arch, then duplicated/mirrored the span. Then I used the polar coordinates filter in Photoshop to create the "twisted bridge", which kind of looks like a space alien to me. The red "eyes" are navigational lights for the bridge.

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