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Postby MHD on Fri Apr 13, 2007 8:35 am

-Challenge 14 ENTRIES CLOSED! Now get there and VOTE!!!
Voting is open on Challenge 14! Please refrain from making comments on individual images.
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Timesnap #1 - April 25, 2007 12noon AEST
A slice of the world. please review this thread for the original discussion, and this thread to register your interest.

There is now a gallery open to submit your images, Go to http://timesnap.potofgrass.com/ and register. Use your username (just your username, no prefix or postfix) as your username on the gallery site.


The Pacifc Peso

Sadly for our farmers, it continues to get stronger against Dubya's Dallar, and in fact over just the last five days it has risen by about 3.5 cents, much of that since Thursday!

The farmers are pissed about this, because it makes their exports more expensive on the world markets.

It also means that our imports get cheaper though ... and in the last week or so I have fielded a few queries about when or if I was going to adjust prices. Please bear in mind that one of my goals when setting prices is to ensure some form of stability in the prices here. It would not be good for you to place an order today, only to find that the price from Poon had gone up between when you ordered and when you paid.

When the first of those queries came in, I was of the opinion that (a) the currency hadn't moved enough since my last adjustment, just a month or so back, and (b) there was still quite some scpope for rate slippage back to something less attractive.

But with movements as great as we've seen at the end of last week, I feel that both of those circumstances are no longer true, and thus I have just gone through the prices and made adjustments to everything there.

I just hope that the rates stay where they are (or continue rising).

Enjoy!
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Postby Manta on Mon Apr 16, 2007 3:01 pm

And what a great slice of agricultural images there are to choose from. Well done all and thanks Scott for keeping it all running smoothly.
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Postby Glen on Mon Apr 16, 2007 3:08 pm

It will be tough voting again, a number of great images
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Postby sirhc55 on Mon Apr 16, 2007 4:09 pm

Yes, I agree a very good selection of pics and not one tower block in sight :wink:
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Postby bwhinnen on Mon Apr 16, 2007 4:55 pm

It's hard not to comment on them either! Great work all!
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Postby radar on Mon Apr 16, 2007 9:14 pm

Well done everyone,

some great shots in there and thanks again Scott for setting up the gallery.

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Postby Willy wombat on Wed Apr 25, 2007 12:06 am

Hey Scott - Has voting closed now? Looking forward to getting the results on the comp. There are some really good images.
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Postby firsty on Wed Apr 25, 2007 9:59 am

the results are in

congratulations to.... Alex on the standout image of the competition

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Postby Willy wombat on Wed Apr 25, 2007 10:19 am

Congrats Alex. Well done.
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Postby Oscar on Wed Apr 25, 2007 10:24 am

Well done Alex. A great result for a great image.

Cheers, Mick :) :) :)
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Postby bwhinnen on Wed Apr 25, 2007 10:25 am

Well done Alex! Run away winner! Great job to all those who entered, there were some absolute stand out images!

I was very chuffed with coming in fourth, thanks to those who voted!

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Postby sirhc55 on Wed Apr 25, 2007 12:08 pm

bwhinnen wrote:Well done Alex! Run away winner! Great job to all those who entered, there were some absolute stand out images!

I was very chuffed with coming in fourth, thanks to those who voted!

Brett


Yes a hearty congratulations to Alex. Brett - your pic was amazing as it brought back memories of my youth - well done
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Postby radar on Wed Apr 25, 2007 12:28 pm

Great result Alex, it is a standout photo. There were a number in there that I really liked, well done everyone.

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Postby Alex on Wed Apr 25, 2007 3:31 pm

Wow! It was certainly a surprise when I checked the forum this afternoon. I certainly did not expect to win. I think it was a case of being at the right place, at the right time, but I thought since I was travelling in Thailand I might as well use this opportunity, Thailand being an agricultural country.

I took series of similar shots and even had a short conversation with these farmers - very pleasant and welcoming people.

The entry pic was pretty much out of the camera as I did not havfe any facilities for pp. I shot RAW+JPG and what was entered was the jpg component with just crop and resize steps in an old application I found on a PC in one of the internet cafes in Thailand.

Congratulations to all those who entered, there are excellent images there and thanks again for the vote.

Thank you also to Scott for organising the gallery and the challenge.

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Postby Glen on Wed Apr 25, 2007 3:53 pm

Well done Alex, avery well deserved result :D :D :D
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Postby Alex on Wed Apr 25, 2007 4:32 pm

And thank you very much to Glen for donating this prize http://www.dslrusers.com/viewtopic.php?t=24754&highlight= which will certainly come very useful. Thank you also to Gary and team for running this place.

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Postby johnd on Wed Apr 25, 2007 5:07 pm

Congratulations Alex, a worthy winner.
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Postby Alex on Mon Apr 30, 2007 12:26 pm

A big "Thank-you" again to Glen as I just received my prize. This is really handy. Thanks Glen and all the organisers.

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