Monthly Focus Contest (August): Anything Railroad

After winning last months competition we asked our frequent photo focus contributor Rich Maus to help us out with this months competition.

How To Enter:

Submit: into our Fuel Flickr Pool, link in the bottom of this post, or tweet us. Just use the tag #FYPcontest (see submission guidelines below for further details)

Deadline for Submissions: August 29, 2010 12 MIDNIGHT EST – follow submission guidelines at bottom of post.

Winners & Submitted Photos Follow up: August 31, 2010

So you have you carrot, here is what we want from you, this months contest focus:

Anything Railroad

This months photo focus competition is dedicated to rail roads. It can be the real deal, toys, models, signs, close ups, or even long distance perspective. Anything railroad of nature, that you can think of to frame in a photo, but it must be creative in some way. It can look old or modern, slow or fast, day or night, or maybe even still and quiet. Perhaps an abandoned rail road would be quite picturesque. Whatever it is that you see, let your creative juices flow. Be serious, be careful, but have some fun too. Trolley cars, train museums, or subways can even be interesting ways to find that perfect shot. Digging through an old toy box or rummaging through a garage sale may also be a source of inspiration. So take your time finding those magic shot, and post as many photos as you want as you are taking them.

Other Links

http://www.flickr.com/photos/31371836@N08/4829586982/in/pool-nycsubway

http://www.flickr.com/photos/rgm-studios/4862127548/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/rolohauck/2135710769/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/33202652@N04/3719893784/sizes/z/in/set-72157623279495166/

About Rich Maus

Rich Maus is artistically-mechanically-musical and likes to tinker with musical equipment, high voltage, tesla coils, photography, digital print, screen printing, free hand design, and mechanical devices. He is currently working as a copier technician refurbishing Xerox equipment and is inspired by everything around him. He hopes one day to take all of his knowledge and talents, and put them all together in one project to benefit mankind. Quote: “There is always a better way to do something and finding that way can be very rewarding.” You can catch his alter ego Dr. Franken Zap on www.youtube.com/drfrankenzap , catch his photostream on www.flickr.com/photos/rgm-studios , or send him an email at rgmpixs@yahoo.com

Submission Guidelines:

Each Month we will post a Monthly Photo Focus (also hash tagged on Twitter as #FYPcontest) on a certain subject, something to spark your creativity. An empty weekend for a photographer, is like an empty canvas, we could always use something to do when we have nothing planned right? So with this in mind we created this series, one that will get you out doing what you love. The premise is simple: snap some photos over the weekend dealing with the weekends focus, and if you send them to us, or Tweet them to us, we will post them for others to see. Having a focus will help us as artists & photographers see things that we might not always see, make us take a shot at something we might otherwise have not. In seeing other photogs chase after the same focus, it can only breed even more creativity in our own work.

At the weekends close, we will follow up our weekend focus, with what we found on the Web (including some of the photos sent from you) that falls in line with our focus. We hope you join in the fun and help us spread the creativity.

example of a tweet to us:

@fuelphotography One more submission for this week’s #FYPcontest New Life & Spring: http://bit.ly/aY1oC7

If you post your photo’s to Flickr, please make them shareable so that we can highlight you, or send us the photo & link to your work directly at:

ron @ fuelyourphotography.com