Show best of the month - July 2013

[Briar]

A new month is upon so time to look back and choose your single most favourite image from July.

Please share by posting below.

 

[Briar]

Moscow

Moscow by Briar34, on Flickr

Within the Kremlin with the Ricoh GXR + 28.

 

[bilzmale]

Using IR converted Canon G5.

 

[Luke]

I won't know what my best of July is for a few months....I'm REALLY far behind in processing. I do like this one, though......
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she's my firework by Lukinosity, on Flickr

 

[ivoire]

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[donlaw]

Space Ship Guggenheim

Too many photos to pick a favorite for July. But this one from my visit to the transformation of the Guggenheim in NYC stands out. The building is exceptional and incredibly photogenic in its regular form but the James Turrell installation makes it seem like you just beamed down from the Enterprise!
Fisheye lens view from lying on the floor in the transformed atrium. Colors change over time...fantastic experience.

James Turrell

If you live anywhere near NYC, go check this out.

 

[Livnius]

smoko by Livnius, on Flickr

 

[Steve Noel]

Silver Strand

Walking in the woods. Caught this one with on board fill flash.,

 

[grebeman]

Somewhat preoccupied this month (like moving house!), so few to choose from

Barrie

 

[pdh]

It's such a mixed joy, this monthly task: Do I pick my favourite or do I pick my "best"? The two sometimes coincide, but not this month, This one's the "best" from July

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[greyelm]

I didn't take that many photos in July, I like this one, not because it is a great photo but because it captures the relationship between young and old.

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[ReD]

Best of the Month? This would be one of my lifetime shots. Would that I could.

 

[ReD]

Not a bad month

but I find I like looking at this one

F660 EXR as per norm

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[kyteflyer]

I think this one. Its been viewed to heck (by comparison with my usual couple of dozen views) but only one comment, and that was just to garner membership of a group... I think its one of my better shots, with the exception of the blown highlights on the right.

Out by the Lake 3 by kyte50, on Flickr

 

[ajramirez]

This is one of my favorites for the month:

JDP en Santurce by ramirezaponte, on Flickr

She was happy to be photographed and very insistent about getting her dog in the picture. The dog did not want to be photographed.

Cheers,

Antonio

 

[Ray Sachs]

For all of the photographs I took in Italy in July, many of which I'm very happy with, my favorite photograph of the month was a family shot that I showed on Facebook for those who know the people involved, but nowhere else. But its a photograph I love, of my wife, daughter, and mother-in-law, on a boat ride back from Capri. My daughter and mother-in-law only overlapped for a couple of days of the visit (which was good because the places we were staying were not big!) and one of them was a really nice day taking a trip to Capri. And this shot, of the three of the three generations of women in our family, taken with the RX1, is a shot I think we'll all treasure for a long long time...

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Capri RX1-93-Edit by ramboorider1, on Flickr

-Ray

 

[Luke]

Great shot Ray. Whenever I see the word Capri, I hear this song play in my head. Even for those who don't care for Sinatra have to at least appreciate the brilliant Billy May arrangements. The "Come Fly with Me" LP from '58 is a gem from front to back.....
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[Ray Sachs]

How could you not like Sinatra? I love the horns on that, alternating between sort of clean and innocent then kicked into gear by the drums to get bawdy and downright sleazy - thanks for that... And apologies for the horizon, but when it was straight, the women were really leaned over, so I had to make accommodation. But after your comment on that, I actually did pay a little bit of attention to trying to make the horizon level when possible, although I continue to pay NONE to whether it was in the middle of the shot!

-Ray

 

[Luke]

One of my customers says he thinks Sinatra sounds like a used car salesman....just shouting. I think perhaps this guy has only heard his stuff from the 60s which is to my ears...a little too much...trying too hard. His 50s LPs for Capitol are really the pinnacle of the genre for me.

I'm not too concerned about the rule of thirds stuff.....if the composition calls for it. And obviously crooked horizons don't matter with a shot like this.....I wasn't even aware there was a horizon in this shot. You're a lucky man, Ray, with these 3 beauties in your life.

 

[Ray Sachs]

I guess I can understand not liking pretty much anyone. But it would be pretty hard to deny the guy's greatness over time. Sort of like the Stones - lots of people don't particularly like them but to deny their greatness and influence over time would just be silly. And, yes, I'm a VERY fortunate man...

-Ray