Scavenger Hunt!

Good morning one and all. I am trying to sort out thoughts and feelings here. In the month of May, myself and 500 photographers too part in a Scavenger hunt on Google Plus. Ten items were listed that we had to shoot. Afterwards they were all collected by a single person, stripped of personal information, and then handed to a panel of judges for selection. I managed to complete all ten items in the month. I thought some were good. Some I knew were rather weak. I waited patiently for the reveal. Well as of yesterday, the final album was revealed, and almost all judgements made. In a word? I sucked. That's right, my pictures sucked. Compared with all the talent that was shown, the outside the box thinking, the inside the box thinking, the post processing, the photoshopping.... I hang my head in shame.

Now this isn't a hang up and quit post if you are wondering. All my images were technically correct. The post processing in some of them could have used a little more though. Where I fell down was in the creativity arena. I am used to photowalking more than I am conceptual thinking. Needless to say I will be diving into the next hunt full bore, which is too occur in July. I will show my pictures here then I will link to the albums afterwards. Take some time and go through them. Trust me, the talent and ideas were just astonishing.

Now that is over with, for the bright side in all this. I did meet a lot of wonderful people online. I helped people with questions on the technical side. I laughed, I cried, and you know the drill. I did actually meet one of the judges in real life and a few contestants as well during the Great Canadian Photo Walk a month ago. Great people, and fun people. This hunt has shown me my weaknesses and that means it has given me something to strive for. So this ramble is done and time for my pictures and links to the others.

Enjoy them all...

Ballons


Shallow Depth of Field


Freckles


Pink


Spring


Bug


Smoke


Long Exposure


Horror-Fear


Sadness


Now here are the separate albums. Warning! Each album contains at least 200 pictures. DOUBLE WARNING The albums Horror-Fear and Sadness are very powerful ones indeed.

Ballons
Spring
Sadness
Horror-Fear
Smoke
Long Exposure
Bug
Pink
Depth of Field- Shallow
Freckles