Light (and dark) Rail – Chiaroscuro! – St. Louis Metrolink Train from Jefferson

This one needs to be looked at larger, and, as the title implies, is an example of a possible entry for the chiaroscuro photo contest!

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chiaroscuro : a photo / photography contrast for summer 2011

Italian, ‘light-dark.’ A term used to describe the effects of light and dark in a work of art, particularly when they are strongly contrasting. -The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms Well, it is high time The Dassler Effect hosted a photo contest. Check out the details here. Top prize this year? $125 and you [...]

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Summer Photo Contest! – The results are in!

The results are in for the Lightning in a Bottle: Capturing Summer Photo Contest, but before the big reveal why not take a moment to meet the judges (you may want to visit their sites and give them a shout out), then have another look at the entries and see who took each shot. But [...]

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Photo Contest Organization Fail – Check Out the New Entries!

Dear reader, if you were to see my home or my office at various times in the year (far more than I would care to admit), you would be amazed that I am able to organize and put up a photo contest with multiple entries at all. My saving grace has been Gmail, yes, Gmail, [...]

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The Summer 2010 Photo Contest is Up!

The entries are in, and we have an unprecedented fifty-one! And competition is as fierce as the summer sun. The results will be out on Labor Day or whenever all the judges report in, whichever comes first. Good luck to all the contestants. Check it out!

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Summer Photo Contest Deadline in Less Than a Week

Midnight on August 8th, 2010. That’s the deadline for the chance to win up to $150 in the Dassler Effect’s summer photo contest, Lightning in a Bottle: Capturing Summer, with no entry fee. Get them in!

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A Summer 2010 Photo Contest

Well, the page for the Lightning in a Bottle: Capturing Summer is up. Have a look. Shoot some shots. Submit some entries. There is not really too much hurry, though,as the entry deadline is August 8th. So, you have some time to take some naps in the hammock, head out on that float trip, catch [...]

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“Lightning in a Bottle: Capturing Summer”-Coming Soon to a Blog Near You

sheet lightning illuminating the sky like a backdrop lighting bugs twinkling one by one in the gloaming, in tiny galaxies in a child’s bottle fireworks fountaining into a humid night sky above a sweaty crowd, above a glimmering skyline water from a sprinkler fountaining around children, droplets flying, slip and slides and snow cones a [...]

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New Year’s Musings and A Christmas Carol Results!

I sit typing in San Antonio, Texas, still in the Central Time Zone of the United States, and wait for the New Year and all I can do is think of past. An hour earlier an aunt from Pakistan calls, recounting to me how they still kept the Hogmanay feast, in a little Scottish mission [...]

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A Christmas Carol Photo Contest: Updated and Alphabetized

Well, between forgetting to add several images and opening the contest for another day, there are 11 new entries on the contest page as follows. Check them out!!! Hopefully I have gotten my alphabetizing right this time. And Glory Shone Around Frightful Happy Xmas I Heard the Bells I, Said the Donkey I’ll Be Home [...]

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