wwp@yahoogroups.com:
The theme for our first quarter of 2015!
Yahoo Account 2015-Jan-28 20:19:00
Hi,
yes, we?re running a bit late, but we finally decided on a new theme for the first quarter:
First Quarter 2015: ?Weather / Climate?
- Open Photography: 1 January ? 22 March 2015
- Open Editing: March 2015
- Live: 1 April 2015
(and yes, this means every panorama shot between January 1st and March 22nd that shows clouds and/or sky instantly qualifies as long as you provide some caption that explains its relation to the theme! Now here?s for an easy one ;-)
I have updated the WWP homepage with the date, and also added a theme essay:
About the Theme: Weather / Climate
- it's something we all have literally at our doorstep! Just grab your camera and your tripod (optional), step outside, press button - Boom! Weather is hard to miss: Rain, Sun, Snow, Wind, whatever it is, it?s Weather!
- it's also something that can be taken metaphorically, as in ?feeling under the weather? or the ?climate? of a workplace (for those who like the challenge of depicting something immaterial)
- it can be anything from your everyday weather (which may not be as ordinary to someone viewing your panorama somewhere else on the globe ? if you live in a rainforest, an arid place might seem pretty unusual; blue skies vs. cloud-rich places, cold latitudes vs. the tropics, you get the idea ... ) to the panorama of something extraordinary like unusual cloud formations or that thunderstorm at dusk at the horizon, shot with long exposure (put safety first if you really want to go for things like severe weather, mind you!)
- it can be a landscape typical for your climate zone
- Cities shape their own climate - both literally and figuratively ...
Yes, we did have ?Atmosphere? once as theme, but that was A Long Time Ago back in 2007 - so let?s do this!?
-Markus
P.S.: new website is progressing nicely. I write about it on https://twitter.com/worldwidepano and https://plus.google.com/...