Monthly Focus Contest Winners (August): Anything Railroad

Anything Railroad

This past months photo focus competition was  dedicated to rail roads. It could be the real deal, toys, models, signs, close ups, or even long distance perspective. Anything railroad of nature, that you could think of to frame in a photo, but it must be creative in some way. It could look old or modern, slow or fast, day or night, or maybe even still and quiet. Perhaps an abandoned rail road was quite picturesque. Whatever it was that you saw, you were to let your creative juices flow.

A big THANK YOU to all those who participated, and we look forward to you joining in on our September contest.

Here are the winners:

1st Place

2nd Place

3rd Place

Honorable Mentions

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

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