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The Recipe #18 - Junk, Funk, and Rust The challenge this week is to share your best image portraying very old things and their associated conditions of decay. Junk, funk and rust! Entries will be open though Friday. Voting will start Saturday morning. To enter, create a new thread in this...

We now have our first repeat winner for the Recipe as @Jeffrey dominated the "long focal length" ingredient with 5 votes, beating Amy who finished with 3. We generally give the winner of each contest the opportunity to pick the next ingredient which you might think would give them an advantage...

Here's one from Conway Summit in the Eastern Sierra at 312mm - just long enough!

The Recipe #17 - Long Focal Length The challenge this week is to share a long-focal length (300mm or longer) landscape image. This doesn't have to be a recent shot - just looking for your best example of a long-focal length landscape. Entries will be open though Friday. Voting will start...

The entries are in, it is time to vote! This week's ingredient is "shapes" so cast your ballots for the shapeliest images. You get three votes and I'll be closing the polls Tuesday morning. 1) Alan 2) Amy 3) Carlo 4) Jameel 5) Jeffrey 6) Jim 7) Kyle 8) Matti 9) Nilo...

I'll go with some hexagons from Hálsanefshellir near Vik in Iceland.

Congratulations to @Jameel Hyder for winning The Recipe #15: Color. His colorful image garnered 7 votes, edging Jeffrey's worthy entry that received 5. Jameel is Focal World's master of color. Here's the winning image:

Now's your chance to vote for the image that best demonstrates the use of color. You get three (3) votes among our eight contestants, so make them count! Voting ends Tuesday afternoon when the winner will be announced (with appropriate fanfare). 1) Alan 2) Andrey 3) Ben 4) Jameel 5)...

Congratulations @BarryHamilton for winning ingredient #14 of the recipe: vanishing point. Barry tallied 6 votes, edging out Ryan who collected 5. I am awarding Barry the title "Victor of Vanishing". His winning photo is presented below.

Now's your chance to vote for the image that best demonstrates the use of a vanishing point. You get three (3) votes among our eight contestants, so make them count! Voting ends Tuesday morning when the winner will be announced (with appropriate fanfare). 1) Alan 2) Barry 3) Jameel 4)...

Contest #14 of The Recipe: Vanishing Point Entries this week are allowed Monday through Friday (I'll actually close entries when I get up Saturday morning) and voting will take place Saturday thru Monday. Contest will run every other week. You can use any photo you have ever taken for this...

It was close for a while, but Nilo's entry eventually pulled away to win with 8 votes. Ken's photo finished second with 6. By winning this week's contest, @Nilo Photography has proven himself the FocalWorld Master of Depth. Here is his winning image:

I've shared this image from Deadhorse Point before, but decided to make some adjustments to better emphasize depth for this contest. My basic ideas came from my recent reading of Leonardo Da Vinci by Walter Isaacson. These were concepts I'd seen before, but the book put them freshly in my mind...

Contest #12 of The Recipe: Isolated Light Entries this week are allowed Monday through Friday (I'll actually close entries when I get up Saturday morning) and voting will take place Saturday thru Monday. Contest will run every other week. You can use any photo you have ever taken for this...

Vote for the Recipe #11 - Pre-Dawn Light Lot's of beautiful entries this time around, so cast your votes (you get up to 3) for the image that best makes use of pre-dawn light. Voting ends Tuesday morning. 1) Alan 2) Barry 3) Ben 4) Carlo 5) Jeffrey 6) Jim 7) Jameel 8) Ken 9)...

It was a drizzly, dreary morning. When I saw a small patch of color, I got low and zoomed in to emphasize it - and hoped it would reflect within the ice.

Congratulations to @BarryHamilton for winning the Recipe's S-Curve challenge with 7 votes. We had 3 members: Allan, Andrey and Jeffrey tie for second with 4 votes each. I guess if you post the image with the most curves and combine it with some great light the you have a really good chance of...

I expected more sand dunes. I guess I'll have to take care of that myself...

Vote for The Recipe - Best of the Recipe 2018 I'm giving you all a week off before we start the next Recipe contest, but in the meantime here are all of the winning images from 2018. You get three votes, so select your favorite image from the Recipe Contest in 2018. Use whatever criteria you...

Vote for The Recipe #9 - Sun/Light Stars Some awesome entries this week. It was fun looking at these sun stars from all over the place. You can vote for 3 different entries. Entry #1 - Alan Entry #2 - Amy Entry #3 - Ben Entry #4 - Bill Entry #5 - Doug Entry #6 - Jameel Entry...