Photography Battle III [SUBMISSIONS]

[Yeldarb]

This is the official submission thread for the Photography Battle.
There should not be any chat or discussion in this thread, it is solely for posting of entrants' pictures.

Chat Here: http://www.kirupa.com/forum/showthread.php?p=854736#post854736

Here are the rules again:

Rules
Theme: "Once Was Beautiful"
Picture Type: Digital, Scanned, or Photo CD (or pretty much anything else you can think of) -- Black and White or Color
Editing: Only minor adjustments may be made using photo editing software. Levels, Brightness/Contrast, and cropping are allowed. All other edits are not
Participants: Anyone who submits before the deadline (One photo per member)
Entry Deadline: 11:59 PM CST, Monday, June 20, 2005.

Once the deadline passes, this thread will be closed and there will be a poll.

Again, please put all conversation in this thread:
http://www.kirupa.com/forum/showthread.php?p=854736#post854736

[grinch]

Here's my entry, I took in by my house, on my road. I went for the deep feel in my image...

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v403/grinchvader/redidBW2.jpg

[B3NKobe]

Heres my entery, taken from our beach house at Phillip Island/Australia. Camera used is a 3.2mp Sony CyberShot.



http://img99.echo.cx/img99/632/bluelagoon9sk.jpg

[DariusMonsef]

downtown portland. a building that was once beautiful now is broken and old.
no cropping or editing. only slight contrast change.

http://dariusmonsef.com/owb_kf.jpg


Ok, so I realized I framed it as well. Is that allowed? its not really an edit. if not i will just post the image sans frame.

[UNFLUX]

Once a beautiful tree, here she is no more...

http://www.driftingalong.com/foto/onceBeautiful01.jpg

[brossiekoppie]

http://www.brossiekoppie.be/images/kirupa1.jpg
It may look weird at first sight but if you look closer you can see Kyoto:d:

[brossiekoppie]

http://www.brossiekoppie.be/images/kirupa1.jpg
It may look weird at first sight but if you look closer you can see Kyoto:d:

[farsite]

A beautiful goat????

taken in gambia. no edits at all

http://www.far-site.co.uk/prayer_tree.jpg

[Yeldarb]

Here's my submission; a tribute to the technology of ol' :P
http://www.scriptscribbler.com/photography/radio.jpg
I added the border and zoomed out to 25% and that's it. The sepia was done with the on-camera controls.

[renegade7]

here's my submission. taken in cyberjaya, Malaysia after a long session of shooting for a coursework.

[mdipi]

Battle closed. Poll coming soon.