JUNE 2010 - RUINS

[odklizec]

Thank you all who participated in the May contest (you can vote here). Let's start with June contest!

Theme:
The contest theme for this month is "RUINS" (theme suggested by RawMike - April contest winner)! Just post an interesting photo of ruins (church, castle, living house or factory, rail station,...). All postprocessing allowed.

Rules:
You may post one photo right in reply to this post. Please, do not link them from other sites! Use the "Upload Attachment" instead.
Contest photo must be taken with Ricoh camera!
The max size of the photo is limited to 1024x768 and the file must contain EXIF!
Please guys, make sure your photo contains EXIF! Entries without EXIF will be disqualified!
Ricoh film camera entries (without EXIF) are allowed, but only from people with previous forum activity and history (some previously posted Ricoh photos).

The deadline for posting contest photos is 30.6.2010 at 12PM forum time

Here you can learn how to upload (please, do not link) the photos right in forum post...
http://ricohforum.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=32&t=56
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Contest Prizes:
Also this time, there will be some really interesting HW prizes (big thanks to our sponsors Ricoh and Alpha Digital!). Of course, there will be also the usual set of SW prizes from Shortcut, Mediachance and newly also Pixelmator!

The winner will have an option to pick either the HW or SW prize. Winner will also have an option to pick anything from the below listed prizes (just one of them of course;) ).
HW prizes for this month:
- Special Ricoh "GR Digital" pin - very rare item! (almost exact copy of the GRD camera logo). I found three more of them in my old camera bag


- Delkin LCD cover + Energizer battery (DB60/65 compatible - here) + microfiber cloth for lens/LCD cleaning

SW prizes for this month:
- SILKYPIX Developer Studio, kindly provided by Shortcut Software.
- Pixelmator - Image and Photo editor for Mac OS X, kindly provided by Pixelmator developers.
Or any of these, kindly provided by Mediachance...
- Dynamic Auto Painter
- Dynamic Photo HDR
- PhotoBrush
- DCE AutoEnhance
- Pure Image NR

In addition, the winner will be honored to suggest a contest theme for next month!

Good luck everyone!

PS: Please folks, give your photos a reasonable tittle! The best would be to enter the tittle in the "File Comment" box along with your uploaded photo. At the end of each month I'm hunting for the titles over the entire post and sometimes I have no other option than to use "unnamed", which is somewhat silly

[Marana]

Found a home in the country on my way to a plant nursery. It's seen better days...

[sumlom]

Reflection of innerself.

Innerself(small size).JPG (926.11 KiB) Viewed 2768 times

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EXIF-Data

Image taken on: Fri Jan 23, 2009 2:39 am

Focus length: 6 mm

Shutter speed: 1/79 Sec

F-number: F/1.9

ISO speed rating: 64

Whitebalance: Auto

Flash: Flash did not fire, compulsory flash mode

Camera-model: GR DIGITAL 3

Exposure program: Aperture priority

Exposure bias: -3/10 EV

Metering mode: Pattern

(ricoh grd3)

Taken at an abandoned hostel.

[tensleep2]

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EXIF-Data

Image taken on: Tue Jul 14, 2009 1:46 am

Focus length: 5.9 mm

Shutter speed: 1/270 Sec

F-number: F/6.3

ISO speed rating: 100

Whitebalance: Auto

Flash: Flash did not fire, compulsory flash mode

Camera-model: GR Digital

Exposure program: Aperture priority

Exposure bias: -3/10 EV

Metering mode: Pattern

[imp13]

Belchite, Spain

go2prey

R0011707-2.jpg (100.49 KiB) Viewed 2819 times

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EXIF-Data

Image taken on: Tue Jul 28, 2009 5:07 am

Focus length: 6 mm

Shutter speed: 1/200 Sec

F-number: F/6

ISO speed rating: 100

Whitebalance: Auto

Flash: Flash did not fire, compulsory flash mode

Camera-model: RICOH GX200

Exposure program: Manual

Exposure bias: 0 EV

Metering mode: Center-weighted average

(c) Kai Lamberton

[busch63]

Haustenbeck, Germany

[Wiener]

Scone Palace, Perthshire

[RawMike]

Old English Folly

An English Folly

An English Folly.jpg (317.94 KiB) Viewed 2468 times

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EXIF-Data

Image taken on: Thu Jun 10, 2010 12:53 am

Focus length: 5.1 mm

Shutter speed: 1/320 Sec

F-number: F/4.6

ISO speed rating: 64

Whitebalance: Auto

Flash: Flash did not fire, compulsory flash mode

Camera-model: RICOH GX200

Exposure program: Normal program

Exposure bias: 0 EV

Metering mode: Center-weighted average

[paos]

half-demolished building...

half-demolished building...

R0012403.jpg (431.5 KiB) Viewed 2409 times

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EXIF-Data

Image taken on: Wed Mar 31, 2010 1:16 am

Focus length: 6 mm

Shutter speed: 1/320 Sec

F-number: F/3.5

ISO speed rating: 64

Whitebalance: Auto

Flash: Flash did not fire, compulsory flash mode

Camera-model: GR DIGITAL 3

Exposure program: Normal program

Exposure bias: 0 EV

Metering mode: Pattern

[Muddy]

This came out of the riot on May 19.

Burned and Deformed-0014294.jpg (778.26 KiB) Viewed 2186 times

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EXIF-Data

Image taken on: Sun Jun 13, 2010 12:11 am

Focus length: 12.09 mm

Shutter speed: 1/60 Sec

F-number: F/4.4

ISO speed rating: 800

Whitebalance: Auto

Flash: Flash did not fire, compulsory flash mode

Camera-model: GXR S10

Exposure program: Aperture priority

Exposure bias: 3/10 EV

Metering mode: Pattern