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We have another nice selection of entries so put on your glasses, take a good look, and select your favorites. The theme this week is backlight, so look for the images that best show its use. You get 3 votes. 1) Alan 2) Amy 3) Ben 4) Darcy 5) Doug 6) Jeffrey 7) Jim 8) Ken...

This week's ingredient is "Backlight". Post your favorite image that makes use of backlight (doesn't have to be recent). Entries will be open until Friday morning. Voting will run from Friday morning and close Sunday night. To enter the Contest: Create a new thread in this forum with your...

@Carlo Didier ran away with this contest, gathering 6 votes to easily outpace the other entries. The theme was monochrome and his graphic image really took advantage. Well done and congratulations.

The theme for this week is Monochrome - so vote for your favorite image that isn't relying on color. You get 2 votes. 1) Alan 2) Andrey 3) Carlo 4) Ken 5) Kyle 6) Monika

Ice on the Rocks - Diamond Beach, Iceland

This week's ingredient is "Monochrome". Post your favorite monochromatic image (doesn't have to be recent). Entries will be open until Friday morning. Voting will run from Friday morning and close Sunday night. To enter the Contest: Create a new thread in this forum with your image and title...

The theme this week is Scale. Cast your vote for the image(s) that best include something to provide scale. You get 3 votes! 1) Alan 2) Andrey 3) Avi 4) Barry 5) Ben 6) Doug 7) Jeffrey 8) Ken 9) Kyle 10) Levy

This week's ingredient is "Scale". Post your favorite image (doesn't have to be recent) that includes something to show scale. Entries will be open until Friday morning. Voting will run from Friday morning and close Sunday night. To enter the Contest: Create a new thread in this forum with...

Congratulations to @lionking and @Jim Dockery for this week's recipe. The theme was "Roads" and there were a lot of great entries, but Andrey and Jim dominated the voting with 6 votes each. It is interesting to me how different they are, one is an exercise in simplicity and the other quite...

The theme this week is Roads - and we've got a great selection. Good luck voting on this one - but it is time and you have to! You get 3 votes so make them count. 1) Alan 2) Amy 3) Andrey 4) Barry 5) Ben 6) Carlo 7) Jameel 8) Jeffrey 9) Jim D. 10) Jim F. 11) Joe...

Good excuse to process this image on Hwy 11 near Abraham Lake in Alberta, Canada...

This week's ingredient is "Roads" as selected by two-time defending champion Barry. Post your favorite image (doesn't have to be recent) that features a road. Entries will be open until Friday morning. Voting will run from Friday morning and close Sunday night. To enter the Contest: Create a...

@BarryHamilton has become our second member to win consecutive "The Recipe" contests. Last time he won our shallow depth of field contest and this time we won our contest for Verticals. We had a large number of really varied images and not surprisingly the votes were scattered across the...

This week's theme was "Verticals": images making use of vertical features. This is another really varied set of images and the voting should be interesting again! You can cast up to 3 votes. The winner will be announced on Tuesday. 1) Alan 2) Amy 3) Andrey 4) Barry 5) Ben 6)...

Not many cities more vertical than Shanghai...

This week's ingredient is "Verticals" as selected by Barry who won the last contest. Post your favorite image (doesn't have to be recent) that makes use of verticals (lines, subjects, or something else you interpret). Entries will be open until Friday morning. Voting will run from Friday...

The topic this week was shallow depth of field and we had some very different images submitted. Not surprisingly, the vote was very close, but @BarryHamilton edged out the competition with his image and took the prize. Barry had 4 votes followed closely by Alan, Ben and Doug who each garnered 3...

This week's theme was "Shallow": images making use of shallow depth of field. This is possibly our most varied set of images to date and the voting should be interesting! You can cast up to 3 votes. The winner will be announced on Tuesday. 1) Alan 2) Amy 3) Barry 4) Ben 5) Doug...

I'm going with flowers...

This week's ingredient is "Shallow" and we are looking for images that take advantage of a shallow depth of field. Post your favorite image (doesn't have to be recent) that makes use of a shallow depth of field. Or grab your favorite prime, open it up wide, and create something new! This...