Ten Minutes From Home (16 July-30 July)

[Saralonde]

This week's assignment is Ten Minutes From Home". Walk, bike, drive or fly exactly 10 minutes from where you live and shoot what's there. No 9 minute or 11 minute trips.
Here's my contribution. Thought 10 minutes would take me right by a bucolic farm with cows and a landscape even a non-landscape photographer like me could handle. Unfortunately, unforseen roadwork ate up my time and I ended up parked by the side of the road with nothing but weeds and gravel, cars flying by, bright sun, no shade and a stiff breeze. Trying to make the best of it, I took out my trusty 50mm and shot a flowering weed. Blurriness caused by the wind made me do a little work in Photoshop. A good lesson in dealing with unexpected conditions!


A review of the contest rules might be helpful:

1. The image you submit should be taken between the July 16 (when it was announced) and July 30 (up until one of the moderators closes the the mini-contest).

2. EXIF data needs to be intact. It helps if you can include the main points (including camera, lens, date taken, ISO, shutter speed and aperture) in the text of your message.

3. Your post must include "Assignment: 10 Minutes From Home" to show your permission to count it for the contest.

4. Only one entry per member (if you can't restrain yourself until the end of the first week you can post two or three separate pictures but your entry should be in a separate post and the only marked with the text above).

For everyone, please do not repeat other people's photos by quoting them until the contest is over. If you want to comment on or discuss an entry you can use a link to it (or just delete the picture from the quoted text).

Next week's assignment: "X-tych" (diptych, triptych or anything up to 7 pictures formed into a single image with multiple panels). For help, try these sites suggested by Nicole:
How To Make A Diptych (The Awful Diptych Creator)
Big Huge Labs Mosaic Maker
DipStych Requires .NET

[mholsonproject]

Took a walk around the old farm ... and came across this car being eaten. Sorry not as delicious as all the fantastic posts from the last assignment. The mosquitoes were really bad ... did not have a tripod ... but managed to walk out with this. This is one of three cars we found where nature became part of the vehicle. This was my second favorite of the three; however, my favorite had a bad case of camera shake (a little deeper in the woods) AND I could not stick around because the mosquitoes were redonkulously to the point of almost declaring myself crazy ... and well ... had no tripod with me. Gotta love Northern Ontario!

Camera: Canon EOS 450D
Exposure: 0.04 sec (1/25)
Aperture: f/5.6
Focal Length: 18 mm
ISO Speed: 500
Exposure Bias: 0 EV
Flash: Flash did not fire

[zetson]

What a great idea for inspiration. You're like stuck in that 10 min place; shoot or go home and sleep. Right now I'm figuring out which direction to travel so that I don't end up on the bottom of a river.

[NicholasBrian]

Detroit! Taken on the 21st.


Camera: Nikon D50
Exposure: 0.017 sec (1/60)
Aperture: f/3.5
Focal Length: 18 mm
ISO Speed: 200
Exposure Bias: 0/6 EV
Exposure Program: Manual
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[B-love]

Originally Posted by Saralonde

Walk, bike, drive or fly exactly 10 minutes from where you live

fly, haha.

I went on my walk today to scope out how far I could get. Found a lovely spot, should hopefully go tomorrow morning to shoot

[Matt Redmayne]

Ten minutes from my house and you get a view over my whole town. I cropped it in a bit to get rid of all the houses underneath it.



Matt

Camera: Canon EOS 400D
Lens: Sigma 18-200 OS at 200mm
Date taken: 22/07/2008 18:10:04
ISO: 100
Shutter speed: 1/160 second
Aperature: f/6.3

[lputman]

Originally Posted by Matt Redmayne

Ten minutes from my house and you get a view over my whole town. I cropped it in a bit to get rid of all the houses underneath it.

Whoa...what a view!

[Mother Nature's Backyard]

Looking up from the pedestrian bridge crossing the Humber River.



Camera: Sony DSC-H1
Exposure: 0.001 sec (1/800)
Aperture: f/4
Focal Length: 8.6 mm
ISO Speed: 64
Exposure Bias: 0/10 EV
Flash: Flash did not fire
Date: July 22, 2008
Orientation: Horizontal (normal)
X-Resolution: 72 dpi
Y-Resolution: 72 dpi
Compressed Bits per Pixel: 8 bits
Maximum Lens Aperture: 48/16
Metering Mode: Pattern
Color Space: sRGB
Compression: JPEG
Image Width: 480 pixels
Image Height: 640 pixels

[i speak in math]

Well, I didn't take this 10 minutes from my house, but I figure since I was at someone elses house for the weekend, 10 minutes from their house should count. So, this was taken in Chillicothe, IL, 10 minutes from my friends house. There were so many great buildings and things to take pictures of there, but I think this is my favorite.

looks better full size -- but...


Jul 19, 2008
1600×1120 pixels – 437KB
Filename: IMGP0320edit2.jpg
Camera: PENTAX Corporation
Model: PENTAX K200D
ISO: 100
Exposure: 1/180 sec
Aperture: f/9.5
Focal Length: 20mm
Flash Used: No

[mroogle]

Light beyond the clouds.
I saw this scene this morning on my way to work.

Camera: Canon PowerShot A720 IS
Exposure: 0.001 sec (1/1600)
Aperture: f/8
Focal Length: 5.8 mm
ISO Speed: 80
Exposure Bias: -4/3 EV
Flash: Flash did not fire