Monthly Focus Contest: Sunrise, Sunset — Winner’s

Last month  we decided to mix it up a little bit and introduce something new to the site, our first regular monthly contest. The winner would receive a Lens Baby Composer – Nikon F mount and Runner-up would receive a Wiley Lightroom 2 Streamlining Your Digital Photography Process

Sunrise. Sunset. A Case of the Diptych

We wanted to give you a focus that would allow you to spend time, create magic with light and get creative in the darkroom. The premise is simple, give us your best sunrise & sunset photos, one of each in the same photo frame, otherwise known as a diptych. Be as creative as you can, take your time and give us something special.

Here are the winners:

1st Place

2nd Place

Honorable Mentions

http://www.flickr.com/photos/_jmphotography/4831121300/

A big thank you to those who participated, we hope that more will join in on the fun when we kick off our second contest this Friday.

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