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Post by Scott on Oct 1, 2011 9:09:35 GMT -8
Now that it's fall, the days are getting shorter, storms are becoming frequent, and the rain and fog make navigation a little more difficult. November's flagship theme will pay respect to the lighthouses that dot our coastline, guiding ferries (and all marine traffic) safely through the waters. Submissions may encompass the three main areas of our membership, Alaska, British Columbia, and Washington. Banners must include a ferry and a lighthouse. Rule concerning lighthouses: Lighthouses must be lighthouses, and not just beacons. Many lighthouses have been destaffed, but still retain structure(s), and these are admissable. Rule concerning ferries. The photo must include at least part of a ferry's structure (not just a flag or lifeboat). The photo may be taken from either on-board or "off-board" the ferry. --------------------------------------------- - Limit of 3 submissions per member - Entries will be accepted until 21:00 Sunday, October 30 - As with recent months, we'll take the top 4-6 banners after voting. --------------------------------------------- IMPORTANT CHANGESAs you may have heard, our forum will be undergoing a makeover on October 31. The forum will be widened, which requires new dimensions for the flagship banner. The forum flagship rules have been updated, and here are the new numbers you need to know: - Our preferred size is now 1200 x 340 (pixel size) - To give you some flexibility, we will accept banners down to 1080 x 300. - Anything outside these dimensions will not be eligible. |
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Post by Low Light Mike on Oct 1, 2011 10:51:46 GMT -8
Scott has a fabulous photo of AMHS's Columbia passing in front of Ivory Island lighthouse.
- I remembering hearing Wett Coast say that he thought that was one of the best Columbia photos that he's ever seen.....
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As for my strategy, I've got lots of photos, but how many with lighthouses & ferries?
- I think that I'll just mentally go through the inside-passage and straits thinking of the lights that are on the various ferry routes.
- I have some photos of Columbia at Cape Mudge lighthouse, that come to mind.
Good theme choice.
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Post by lmtengs on Oct 1, 2011 11:28:01 GMT -8
The way I understood it, we're allowed to post our photos in the 1024px dimension in this thread only for this month. Correct me if I'm wrong. Anyway, here is my one submission:  Full size |
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Post by Low Light Mike on Oct 1, 2011 11:48:37 GMT -8
The way I understood it, we're allowed to post our photos in the 1024px dimension in this thread only for this month. Correct me if I'm wrong. Luke: You are correct and your photo looks great. ....I'm wondering if there will be a most-shown lighthouse in this month's nominations? Do you think it would be Georgina Point, because of it's location on 3 ferry routes? |
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Post by Kahloke on Oct 1, 2011 12:28:33 GMT -8
....I'm wondering if there will be a most-shown lighthouse in this month's nominations? Do you think it would be Georgina Point, because of it's location on 3 ferry routes? That one would be a pretty safe bet. I would love to see some photos of lighthouses along the Inside Passage Route. As for myself, I may try to make it up to Mukilteo to capture that lighthouse/ferry combo. |
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Post by Low Light Mike on Oct 1, 2011 12:34:58 GMT -8
....I'm wondering if there will be a most-shown lighthouse in this month's nominations? Do you think it would be Georgina Point, because of it's location on 3 ferry routes? That one would be a pretty safe bet. I would love to see some photos of lighthouses along the Inside Passage Route. As for myself, I may try to make it up to Mukilteo to capture that lighthouse/ferry combo. Inside Passage is a tough place to get a photo of a ferry and the lighthouse. - lots of us have Boat Bluff and a "bit" of ferry deck, but that's about it. |
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Post by lmtengs on Oct 1, 2011 14:39:22 GMT -8
Just as a note for those who use 'free' Flickr accounts, your FULL size photo won't actually come out in the FULL size when you upload it there. Pictures uploaded on free accounts there are resized to 1024px wide, automatically. So, what I'm doing now for my flagship pics: I upload my small size to my Luke's Ferries Flickr account, and my FULL size photo to my lmtengs account on Panoramio, where it doesn't get resized. If you have a PAID account on Flickr, this is all superfluous banter to you, so disregard this message. |
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Post by Low Light Mike on Oct 1, 2011 19:04:17 GMT -8
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Post by Scott (Former Account) on Oct 1, 2011 23:14:52 GMT -8
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Post by Retrovision on Oct 2, 2011 22:54:06 GMT -8
As Mr. Horn was getting at, this'll be a tough nomination having to choose which lighthouse shot to include, but then again that's always part of the challenge that we wouldn't be without. Here's my first nomination, our Tachek filling-in for our Bowen Queen on Route 9a in late June, 2007, captured from Sturdies Bay, Galiano Island. I can't for the life of me remember at the moment what route our Bowen Queen was filling-in for and what vessel was incapacitated at the time; can anyone help me remember?  img27.imageshack.us/img27/3325/p1230118wcfftachek.jpg |
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Post by Low Light Mike on Oct 3, 2011 6:29:27 GMT -8
our Tachek filling-in for our Bowen Queen on Route 9a in late June, 2007, captured from Sturdies Bay, Galiano Island. I can't for the life of me remember at the moment what route our Bowen Queen was filling-in for and what vessel was incapacitated at the time; can anyone help me remember? Our Retrovision: The People's Ship Bowen Queen was busy filling in on the People's Route from Vesuvius to Crofton, while the People's Ship Howe Sound Queen was in a refit which had a delay. BCFS was quick to bring the People's Ship Tachek down to the route and used some of our lumber to make our bow compatible with our docks. |
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Post by Retrovision on Oct 3, 2011 8:43:36 GMT -8
our Tachek filling-in for our Bowen Queen on Route 9a in late June, 2007, captured from Sturdies Bay, Galiano Island. I can't for the life of me remember at the moment what route our Bowen Queen was filling-in for and what vessel was incapacitated at the time; can anyone help me remember? Our Retrovision: The People's Ship Bowen Queen was busy filling in on the People's Route from Vesuvius to Crofton, while the People's Ship Howe Sound Queen was in a refit which had a delay. BCFS was quick to bring the People's Ship Tachek down to the route and used some of our lumber to make our bow compatible with our docks. lol, Thanks for the clarification, Mr. Horn. If you're a British Columbian, however, you might be requested to use the term 'our,' unless of course you're referring to the sold and currently on bare boat charter Kuper. Then again, if you go by official word, the Kuper is legally considered a "newbuild" after already serving many years as the ' Burr. I'm happy that humour enters into this kind of discussion. |
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Post by Retrovision on Oct 4, 2011 9:27:42 GMT -8
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Post by WettCoast on Oct 5, 2011 22:25:46 GMT -8
This will be my first submission... Spirit of Georgina Point - 6 June 2011 [photo © JST] 60x17 Clicking on this photo will take you to the 1200 pixel wide version. |
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Post by Low Light Mike on Oct 6, 2011 6:32:39 GMT -8
This will be my first submission... Spirit of Georgina Point - 6 June 2011 [photo © JST] 60x17 Clicking on this photo will take you to the 1200 pixel wide version. Haha, I wonder what aspect-ratio you'd need to be actually able to see the light part of the lighthouse itself. A rather tall banner, I'd imagine. I'm assuming that "Lighthouse" in John's criteria refers to the overall site of the grounds and a few red-roofed buildings. I'm ok with that. - I just find it interesting how the recognizable structure of a "lighthouse" is usually an outbuilding or the keeper's house, and not the light itself. Although some lighthouses are icons in themselves, such as Fisgard's tower. For something like Ivory Island, the light is on a skeleton metal tower, not an enclosed structure. But it's those red-roofed outbuildings at Ivory Island that make it look like a lighthouse station. I just wonder that if you built a few red-roofed & white-sided buildings on a rocky point of land, and included a flashlight on a yard-stick, would this constitute a "lighthouse"? Or alternatively, could a light-tower be considered a "lighthouse", without the red-roofed and white-sided buildings beside it? Just musing. - I'll move this discussion to our lighthouse thread later, after the month is over. **discuss please**  |
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Post by Kahloke on Oct 6, 2011 18:30:40 GMT -8
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Post by WettCoast on Oct 6, 2011 20:13:19 GMT -8
Haha, I wonder what aspect-ratio you'd need to be actually able to see the light part of the lighthouse itself. A rather tall banner, I'd imagine. I'm assuming that "Lighthouse" in John's criteria refers to the overall site of the grounds and a few red-roofed buildings. I'm ok with that. - I just find it interesting how the recognizable structure of a "lighthouse" is usually an outbuilding or the keeper's house, and not the light itself. Although some lighthouses are icons in themselves, such as Fisgard's tower. For something like Ivory Island, the light is on a skeleton metal tower, not an enclosed structure. But it's those red-roofed outbuildings at Ivory Island that make it look like a lighthouse station. I just wonder that if you built a few red-roofed & white-sided buildings on a rocky point of land, and included a flashlight on a yard-stick, would this constitute a "lighthouse"? Or alternatively, could a light-tower be considered a "lighthouse", without the red-roofed and white-sided buildings beside it? Just musing. - I'll move this discussion to our lighthouse thread later, after the month is over. **discuss please** I think maybe we need two flagship threads for each month - one for submission of entries & a second for discussion such as this. To answer your questions, Fluge... Here is the original of my photo (well only slightly modified from what the camera recorded).  From the JST Flickr photo site ©It would not have been easy to fit all of the light tower into the permitted aspect ratio range. So I cropped the top of the tower out, and also fixed the perspective issue. On sunny days I often shoot photos with a polarizing filter on the camera; that accounts for the deep vibrant colours, especially in the sky. Does there have to be a visible light or light 'tower' in the photo? There isn't in my submission above. In a few of the other submissions a light is not present, or at least discernible. As far as I am concerned that is not a problem. Clearly, we are looking a a light house, even if the light itself is not apparent. Even white walls and red roofs might not be present. I believe that such colouring is a Canadian thing - many (most) US light houses are not coloured in that way. John H has stated above that mere 'beacons' don't cut it as far as this month's 'contest' goes. What do people think about the following photo? Is the light at the right a light house or a beacon? Apparently Portlock Point light, Prevost Island, was once staffed, and is now part of Gulf Islands National Park Reserve.  If people deem this to be acceptable I migh just make this photo an 'official' submission... |
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Post by WettCoast on Oct 10, 2011 20:14:57 GMT -8
I have not had any feedback re Portlock Point. Therefore, I am assuming that it does meet the criteria as a "light house". As such, here is my second submission.... |
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Post by Scott on Oct 11, 2011 6:38:19 GMT -8
John H has stated above that mere 'beacons' don't cut it as far as this month's 'contest' goes. What do people think about the following photo? Is the light at the right a light house or a beacon? Apparently Portlock Point light, Prevost Island, was once staffed, and is now part of Gulf Islands National Park Reserve. If people deem this to be acceptable I migh just make this photo an 'official' submission... I had this lighthouse in mind as one I would accept, so it's fine. |
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Post by glasseye on Oct 11, 2011 21:43:53 GMT -8
This is not a serious submission for many reasons--including image noise if nothing else--I'm presenting it for concept as a failed experiment only. Unfortunately, a P&S camera with a 135mm lens just isn't good enough to do justice shooting route 2 ferries off Bowen Island from 12km away in Stanley Park.  |
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Post by WettCoast on Oct 12, 2011 20:28:22 GMT -8
Here is another submission, my third, featuring Portlock Point Lighthouse & the SoVI.  |
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Post by Retrovision on Oct 18, 2011 15:30:57 GMT -8
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Post by Scott on Oct 18, 2011 17:15:04 GMT -8
I can only find one to submit so far:  |
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Post by WettCoast on Oct 28, 2011 21:10:33 GMT -8
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Post by lmtengs on Oct 28, 2011 22:01:05 GMT -8
Aww, I liked the Carrier Princess one, WCK!  |
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