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With the festive season clearly upon us, I could think of nothing better than doing a festive-themed Shooting Challenge for you to do over the next week and a bit. Actually, that’s a lie; I could think of a better theme, but I needed to bang this challenge out pretty quickly.
Let’s get straight to it shall we?
This week’s challenge is a piece of mince pie: simply snap your Christmas! Really, it is that simple. It could be fun, sad, full of happy people, crying children, miserable fuckers or even you with your latest gadget (you might be a miserable fucker with your latest gadget). Artistic shots are welcome, but this challenge is all about the funnies! Make us smile. Put the spirit of Christmas in your images.
As I don’t have any Christmassy images of my own to use, a quick Flickr search brought up some ‘interesting results’ (remember, Safe Search is there for a reason). However, it is these couple of beauts from Flickr user Kenyee that really shows us what Christmas is all about.
My personal favourite of his is this image right here:
Who doesn’t remember their first computer? Mine was a secondhand ZX81 that I had a couple of weeks early and so had nothing to open on Xmas day aside from a couple of of bars of chocolate and some socks. Was my worst Christmas ever as my 3 sisters had a bin bag each full of presents.
- Submissions MUST be your own work.
- Submit up to five images
- Photos must be taken after the challenge was published; so no existing shots please.
- Minimal image post-processing is allowed (global changes to levels, brightness, contrast and cropping are permitted)
- Explain, briefly in your submission email, the equipment, settings, technique used and more importantly for this challenge, where the image was taken. Please ensure EXIF info is intact (if image was taken digitally).
- Email submissions to gizshootingchallenge@gmail.com, not me.
- Please ensure your image is at least 600px wide and less than 3MB in size.
- Save your image as a JPG, and use the following naming convention FirstnameLastnameXmas.jpg
- Don’t forget to include a shooting summary (see above).
- Send your best photos by Monday, 31st December 2012 at 6pm UK time with “Xmas” in the subject line.
- Anyone can enter, regardless of location.
- The most important rule — HAVE FUN AND A GREAT CHRISTMAS
Shooting Challenge #11 - Christmas Winners
At first i was wondering if the guy was trolling his kids with ancient presents, but on closer inspection i have deduced that the photos are vintage.
Please, feel free to correct me if you think i’m wrong, i feel as though i’m lacking in attention today and will take whatever i can get.
I think you may be right on both accounts…
Another day to mark on the Calendar then, i swear thats at least 4 times this year i’ve been right now!
The images are proper vintage.
rich parents.
The year I got castle greyskull other presents were few and far between. A computer in addition was certainly out of the question.
I never got a Castle Greyskull
we did get a second hand Acorn Electron though and that used the same tapes as the Spectrums.
different languages. acorn and BBC used the same.
Strange i was sure i could remember putting SPectrum tapes in and it working, maybe the tapes were Spectrum one side, Acorn the other?
It was 20yrs ago so pls forgive my fuzzy memory!
thats a possibility. i remember playing BBC games via tape. stick in a tape and go play and come back in 15 mins when loaded.
And to think people complain about the PS3s install times. There was nothing worse than coming back after 15-30min to see the loading had failed, and the tape deck had chewed your game.
DON’T TOUCH THE JOYSTICK.
Dammit, it failed again,
I think I’ve still got mine in my parents loft. If I ever go to a giz meet up I’ll bring it for you.
Well my plan for christmas will involve staying in bed until midday, then probably watching a movie before ordering something to eat from my local chinese takeaway. So a picture that’d show my christmas would be me, sat in my pajamas, covered in shredded chilli chicken.
I think i’d like to see that! Do it! lay in that sexy french lady way and do your best duck face! there’s £2 and octobers issue of Viz in it for ya!
I had that little yellow bullhorn toy leaning against the Construx box.
You could attach it to your BMX and blare out various sirens; Ambulance, fire engine, police. All US versions, which meant no-one took notice of it back in Oz. With the attached mic you could amplify your voice, just like a real bull horn… only amplify wasn’t a word you should use to describe it. I could have shouted louder!
I wish I still had mine! It would be good for waking myself up if I get dosey at my desk