Flash of Red - Finishers

March 1st, 2013
Did you participate in the Flash of Red challenge set by @olivetreeann ? Show off your thumbnail and tell us about it.



Loved experimenting with black and white, especially the high key and low key. Thanks so much!
March 1st, 2013
March 2nd, 2013


This was my first themed month and I love how it turned out. I found I rather like b&w more than I thought I would.
March 2nd, 2013
This was so much fun although I felt the color withdrawal pretty harshly by the 20th.

I'd love a poster of all these as a quilt

March 2nd, 2013
@emrob Fabulous! Really love your red too. Great variety.

@pandorasecho Lots of great shots! How would you make a quilt?
March 2nd, 2013
@archaeofrog Katie- this is a great idea! I have no clue as to how to post my thumbnails though!! I've checked in on quite a few over the month and they all look fantastic. I could picture in my head that it would look really cool, but I was surprised at HOW cool they all turned out! I'm so glad everyone enjoyed it. It was a great experience for me too. Congratulations on a challenge well done!!
March 2nd, 2013
here's mine. thank you, dixie @pandorasecho for the shout out.



ann @olivetreeann do a print screen of your screen with the february calendar on view, then paste it on any program you have, your computer should have a 'paint' program. save it as a .jpg file then trim it in ribbet or ipiccy or the program you normally use. let me know if you can't do it, i'll make a capture of your calendar.
March 2nd, 2013
@archaeofrog - katie, thanks for coming up with this idea. this is great!
March 2nd, 2013
@summerfield Thanks Vikki- I did take a picture of it with my camera just now and will post it tomorrow (since it fits with the Me March challenge of the day!). I'm going to try your way too. Your calendar looks great! Actually they all look great! I knew they would look pretty cool when I came up with this idea, but I had know idea just HOW cool they really would look. I'm so glad everyone enjoyed it as much as they did!
March 2nd, 2013
this was sooooo much fun! thank you so much @olivetreeann for organizing this challenge... i'm tempted to do flash-o-green now for March ;p

March 2nd, 2013
Thanks Ann @olivetreeann for an awesome challenge. I have thoroughly enjoyed the month of b&w and I learned SO much!
March 2nd, 2013
@northy Your calendar looks great Northy! lol I had thought about a flash of green calendar! Then Alia came up with her challenge and I really was ready to do some color again. But I do think I'll do at least something with selective coloring that day and perhaps sandwich it with sepia or b/w. Hmmmm.... Great job on Flash of Red!!
March 2nd, 2013
@archaeofrog I was thinking of a print all patched together of screen shots of each calendar view. Really I would take the screen shots and drag into iPhoto and crop then open them all on my desktop as previews and line them up and make another screen shot
March 2nd, 2013
I love seeing everyone's! So cool!
March 2nd, 2013
@tara11 You are welcome Tara! We all learned together!
March 2nd, 2013
@summerfield Awesome screen print! Love your architecture week.

@northy So many great shots - love how you do the black blacks and the white whites.

@tara11 Fabulous shots and love the red candle.
March 2nd, 2013
So, I went back and realized that I didn't follow the project "to the t" but ah well. It still was fun. LOL! Plus, I saw that many people made it their own.

March 2nd, 2013
@archaeofrog Thanks Katie! That's kind of you to comment and to start this thread. I love all of the monthly views.
March 2nd, 2013
Jo
@archaeofrog - great idea to do this Katie. Very cool to see everyone's b&w months - with just a touch of red.
Here's mine:
I enjoyed it but am happy to get some colour back.
March 2nd, 2013
Fantastic challenge thank you. It was very challenging at times and pushed me to really consider b&w. Loved it.
March 2nd, 2013


Thanks so much @olivetreeann Ann for putting this on!! It was perfect to keep me going :)
March 2nd, 2013
@archaeofrog @emrob @pandorasecho @summerfield @northy @tara11 @annaruth @joeymc @carolinedreams @kkolstad

These look brilliant!! Well done everyone - what stunning views. The flash of red really sets off the B&W. Just love it when the monthly view makes a pattern of its own - and these are cracking! =)
March 2nd, 2013
Thank you for organisining this challenge, really enjoyed shooting photographs with a mono conversion in mind. Here's mine....

March 2nd, 2013
Well done all of you - total commitment!
March 2nd, 2013
This was a fun challenge and I wouldn't mind doing a full month of selective color. ;-)

March 2nd, 2013
@kkolstad I'm glad you enjoyed it Kristen! Your calendar looks awesome!
March 2nd, 2013
@johnmnewman Said it before but I'll say it again- the calendar view is great John!
March 2nd, 2013
@dmortega Now that's an idea! Selective September? Will have to remember that. Your calendar looks great Dorrena!
March 2nd, 2013
@joeymc Nice work Jo! Your calendar looks so good!!
March 2nd, 2013
@annaruth Close enough Anna! We all tweak things to our liking here and that's ok!! Your project, your rules, right? But who can argue with that- your calendar looks great!!
March 2nd, 2013
I loved the idea of Flash of Red. I knew right from the start what my 'Flash' was going to be. Thank you for setting up the challenge. I thoroughly enjoyed it, although I'm now looking forward to a colourful March! ;)
March 2nd, 2013
@olivetreeann thanks! Yeah, I forgot there was a theme for each week and just thought "okay, black and white photos all month with one that is mostly red for the 14th." But somehow I still stuck to the theme pretty closely (not to the t but eh!) LOL!
March 2nd, 2013
@annaruth It looks fine the way it is! Sometimes the weekly themes just help people who've never shot in b/w before to know what to shoot. You are a well-seasoned b/w photographer though!
March 2nd, 2013
@olivetreeann thanks ;)
March 2nd, 2013
@archaeofrog great idea but how does one post the thumbnail page?
March 2nd, 2013
@pinelakechic I took a screen shot of my thumbnail and then cropped it and uploaded it as a jpg. You could also post a link to your thumbnail, if that's easier, I suppose.
March 2nd, 2013
March 2nd, 2013
@olivetreeann
It got a bit hard to stick with the b and w when I would get a pic that was not good in b and w that I I wanted in my main album. But I did stick to it and it was worth it. Thanks, Ann for the cool challenge!
March 2nd, 2013
You guys have done us all proud, there is no-way I could have done half the job you have done. Top work :)
March 3rd, 2013
@espyetta You are welcome MaryBeth! I have to admit there were a couple times I was glad to have the second album for a color shot or two!
March 3rd, 2013
@espyetta @slash @helenthedoodler @dmortega @johnmnewman @kkolstad @carolinedreams @joeymc @annaruth @tara11 @northy @summerfield @pandorasecho @emrob @archaeofrog Well done to everyone that participated. I didn't because I thought I'd miss colour but after looking at all of your work I wish I had. It looks so effective and you all did such a great job.
March 3rd, 2013
@filsie65 - thank you.
March 3rd, 2013
@bettyburnett - thank you.
March 3rd, 2013
@espyetta - i really love your feb 14 pic. tops!
March 3rd, 2013
@bettyburnett Thank you
March 6th, 2013
If you'd like to see a lengthy explanation as to why this is so small- check it out on my 2nd album on Feb. 2. Otherwise get out the microscope and find the flash of red!
March 6th, 2013
@olivetreeann Whoops! Must be a tiny file size or something. Still looks fab!
March 6th, 2013
@archaeofrog I'm not sure what or why I couldn't do this. I tried taking it from 365 and putting it into my computer. It just wouldn't let me copy/paste or "save image as". Vikki then sent it to me, but when I tried to down load it into the computer it would not let me put it into my photo program. Crazy!!
March 6th, 2013
it's the same size as mine, so why it would be so small is beyond me. here it is.


@archaeofrog @summerfield @espyetta @helenthedoodler @johnneumann et al
@olivetreeann
March 19th, 2013
great collections!
September 1st, 2013
All so very, very cool!
September 1st, 2013
@grizzlysghost Holy ghostly thread resurrection, Batman!

A agree though, totally cool. I'm really surprised at @northy as it goes. You managed to get some colour in an image, northy?!? *runs away*
September 1st, 2013
@archaeofrog @olivetreeann @northy Hmm, flash o' green, eh...? Anyone up for that for September?
September 1st, 2013
@kaesebiscuit isn't that more of a march kinda thing? But I cld happily play in September regardless :)

PS - actually the most difficult aspect to wrap my mind around was selective colour - at least it want candy floss pink!
September 1st, 2013
@northy Why is it a March thing? I'd have thought green was more difficult to come by in September :D

I'm going to do a flash of black in February, when everywhere is covered in snow...
September 1st, 2013
@kaesebiscuit st patrick's day is in march :)
September 1st, 2013
@kaesebiscuit I'm not sure what I'm doing in September except that I committed to one week of Alia's challenge and I'm not home right now to even check up on that!! Could you plan one for November- that might be better for me.
September 1st, 2013
@grizzlysghost @kaesebiscuit @northy @olivetreeann

Actually, Ann and @taffy and I were talking about doing this again in February but also combining it with another book club focusing on black and white photography.
September 1st, 2013
Further back in this thread was a mention of possible select coloring September. I thought that was why this was up again. No? I keep thinking of doing mostly black and white but one band of horizontal and one of vertical being in color panoramic shots that would show up in Calandar view.
September 1st, 2013
@kaesebiscuit @northy @archaeofrog @pandorasecho

I am on the road right now and my head is in grandchild land! I'm more likely to think more clearly about this on Tuesday when I settled at home. I had forgotten about the thought of doing this again in September. But I haven't even started on my September shots, and I like Dixie's idea. So, go ahead and start it up @kaesebiscuit and I'll do my best to catch up!
September 2nd, 2013
@olivetreeann @pandorasecho @archaeofrog @northy I just threw it out there as a possibility since it was the beginning of a month and I'd already started out with a b&w. I'm quite happy to wait for February, if it's already planned.
September 2nd, 2013
I think now I'm following the sep13words but I will try to write up my panoramic cross idea for an upcoming month and give people a chance to think about it. It would mean deciding to shoot some pictures at the start but post them through the whole month or trying to get back and line up the scene each week.
September 4th, 2013
@kaesebiscuit @pandorasecho Finally home and realizing I'll be filling in quite a few photos! But I like the idea of putting something together for November- so let's work on that. I don't know if I'll be able to do a panorama but as long as we give people the choice of going either way that gives everyone more freedom. Actually, it might be fun to take the panorama from your front door and call it "The Street Where I Live" or something like that. Maybe we could do a month of weekly themes- one week of "Mysterious Black and Whites", a one week panorama and see what else we come up with. I still have some reading to finish in Freeman's book, maybe that will inspire me. What do you two think?
September 4th, 2013
@olivetreeann @kaesebiscuit what I was thinking is combining what I did last Sept http://365project.org/pandorasecho/365/2012-09
in the redwoods
and last october in my yard http://365project.org/pandorasecho/365/2012-10
of a vertical panorama,
with what I did at a beach in August of 2013 http://365project.org/pandorasecho/365/2012-08
with a horizontal, but it has to be somewhere pretty tall and wide to be able to pan the camera that much and get anything, not every yard would work well but maybe everyone has favorite location that would, maybe "Where my heart lives"?
then I was thinking of the 4 corners that wouldn't be involved having only B&W or a monochrome like sepia or blues
September 4th, 2013
@pandorasecho I remember the redwood and the beach really well. Unfortunately the trees in my back yard pale in comparison to a redwood! They'd last for about 3 days! There's no beautiful beach to make a panorama of here unless you count the edge of the Delaware River but I might not be able to get there everyday. It's probably best to just give the assignment and let people shoot the pictures as they see fit- I was just trying to think of something that might be universal and easy for any photographer to do. A street scene (or the view from my door) seemed to be a possibility.

I am also laughing at myself because I've been talking about November as if it's October when in reality next month is October. I guess my "Sometimers" is acting up again! October 1 is a Tuesday. I don't think we'll have four even corners- but it will just take a little figuring as to how to make the corners stand out. That would look pretty interesting.

Of course if we wanted to do the "splash of color" idea, we could look up some of those off-beat special holidays to feature that occur mid-month (like National Sandwich Day- which I'm sure exists but in might not officially be in October).

More things to think about!!
@kaesebiscuit
September 4th, 2013
@olivetreeann @archaeofrog @pandorasecho @kaesebiscuit how about flash of orange for October with the orange on the 31st, it being hallowe'en?
September 4th, 2013
@pandorasecho I do like your cross idea. I had thought of doing a Swiss flag, but it doesn't have any real emotional significance to me, it's just where I live. And a British one would be wayyyy too complicated! I really like your panorama idea as something to take (or just to post) over a period of days. That's really a nice twist, and I may have just the subject for one, so thanks for the idea :)

@olivetreeann The thing I am thinking of doing a panorama of isn't really "panoramic", so maybe you are thinking on too large a scale? Even though what I'm thinking of is reasonably large, it would be possible to even do a selfie in panoramic style, given the right focal length. Heck, if you have a macro lens, a long leaf with a caterpillar on it might be interesting.
September 7th, 2013
@kaesebiscuit @pandorasecho @summerfield @archaeofrog

I've been looking at the October calendar and thinking about panoramas and here's a thought/idea. Now, if I'm understanding and remembering Dixie's shots from a while back, the panorama is comprised of individual shots that when viewed in the calendar form make one giant photo either horizontally or vertically depending on your subject matter (i.e. horizontal for a landscape vs. vertical for a tree). The 365 calendar begins the week on Sunday and goes to Saturday, therefore the first row vertically are all shots taken on Sunday. October begins on a Tuesday, so if you wanted to do a panorama the first week, it would span from Tuesday, October 1 to Saturday, October 5. If you wanted to do a vertical panorama the pictures would be taken on Sundays, 6, 13,20, and 27 OR Saturdays 5, 12, 19 and 26. If you wanted to take a panorama on the final week of October, those days are Sunday, October 27 to Thursday, October 31. Now, if you really wanted to get fancy (and perhaps go insane as well), you could do a dual panorama by taking a shot that could go both vertically and horizontally and link them in the "corners" of the month. That is, you could take a shot that has both a vertical and horizontal element which pivots on either October 5th or October 27th depending on which way your subject goes. If you really wanted to go above and beyond that, you could do the "corner" panoramas in color, and every shot on the interior of the month in b/w (or vice versa). OR the panoramas could be in b/w and the interior orange. This would certainly be a challenge for the seriously insane, but the calendar view at the end of the month would be awesome I think! Something like this probably needs to be presented with enough time to seriously set up the panorama shots. I don't know- this may be too complicated. Let me know what you think.
September 7th, 2013
Maybe make it panorama and have it in color

Then any shots not included in the panoramic shots, either Black & White or Monochrome, but let people choose how they want to spread the columns or rows
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