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[Closed] Photo Theme Challenge, Week #50 - Smooth [Deadline: Saturday, May 25]

 
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 Jason Polak
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Topic starter May 18, 2024 5:16 am  

Thanks everyone for participating in last week's challenge. This week's challenge theme is "smooth". Submit an image that gives the idea of smoothness!


   
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May 18, 2024 6:57 am  
2024 05 0451 Faaker See RB

Last weekend I was in Carinthia/Austria for biking, realxing and birding. In the morning on the river Drau, I made this photo from a swan swimming peaceful in the middle of the river.

Canon EOS 7D mark II, 105 mm, f/6.3, 1/320 sec, ISO 100


   
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May 18, 2024 7:07 am  
2022 Wien RB 226298

Can you imagine something more smooth than the fur of a koala bear? You immediately want to stroke this animal.

Canon EOS 7D mark II, 148 mm, f/5, 1/125 sec, ISO 800


   
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May 18, 2024 6:42 pm  
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Nikon Z6, Nikkor Z 85mm f/1.8 S, 1/250 sec, f/1.8, ISO 100 (George Washington's Mount Vernon, Virginia, October 2022)


   
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May 19, 2024 9:05 am  
2018 09 11  DSC3738 1170 2 To JPEG HD Photo Lanczos 2024 05 19 17 02 26

Morbihan's Gulf, France, Brittany


   
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May 19, 2024 9:43 am  
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Had to hunt a bit for this one; smooth isn't common in the natural world.  But calm water (Fern Lake, Bemidji, MN) and fruit skins (highbush cranberry) work.


   
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May 22, 2024 12:04 am  
2008 Island 1262 RB

This photo was taken in Egilstadir during an Iceland trip in 2008. The fog just raised and the sea was completely smooth.

Canon EOS 40D, 50 mm, f/13, 1/400 sec, ISO 400


   
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May 22, 2024 8:12 am  
f:1.0 Bokeh

Nikon Z6, Cosina Voigtländer Nokton 50mm F1 Aspherical Z, 1/1000 sec, f/1.0, ISO 100 (George Washington's Mount Vernon, Virginia, October 2023)

 


   
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May 22, 2024 11:48 pm  
2018 Kalkleiten RB 7189

Creamy fog in November.

Canon EOS 7D mark II, 20 mm, f/8, 1/2 sec, ISO 100


   
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May 23, 2024 8:18 pm  
CMB 4772

The Basin, New Hampshire White Mountains, May 2021.

Nikon Z6, Nikkor Z 24-200, 24mm, 1/2 sec, f/18, ISO100


   
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May 24, 2024 8:56 am  
Smooth Pond

A windless morning makes for a smooth pond.


   
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May 25, 2024 2:42 am  
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Nikon's day of photography, December 2010

Nikon D300 + FX Nikkor 50mm f/1.8D @50mm, ISO 800, 1/320, f/2


   
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