June 2015 Photo Competition

[Gilhooligan]

The topic for this month is:

"Blue hour"

"The blue hour is the period of twilight each morning and evening when the sun is a significant distance below the horizon and the residual, indirect sunlight takes on a predominantly blue hue."

Fairly generic topic so should be able to get a wide array of entries, hopefully.

Cheers

Ryan

This thread is for entries AND discussion


Rules:

The photos taken must be your own work
The competition will run from the first to the last day of the month.
The winner from the previous month decides on the topic for following month and judges it at the end of the month.

All entrants acknowledge that they may indeed win and that their adherence to convention ensures everyone else's continued fun.
Photos entered should be no bigger than 750 pixels wide for a landscape photo and 600 pixels high for a portrait photo due to the PH squash factor. Links to larger versions are permissible.

[Gilhooligan]

Good effort. Quite impressive what you can do with phones nowadays.

[Gilhooligan]

Sorry for the belated update. A very high standard of entries this month, really struggled to pick a winner. But anyway, here goes:

Third Place

I think this deserves some credit for being a captured on a phone camera. I first got into photography when I bought my first smart phone with a decent(ish) camera on it.

justin220 said:

Second Place

Can't not have this in the top three. Great reflections.

markmullen said:

Dawn At Ullswater by Mark Mullen, on Flickr

Winner of the June Photo Comp

Great photo. The yellows of the fire contrast nicely against the blues in the sky. The vignetting helps draw you right into the photo too.

craigbunyan said:

Mull, Malbec and Mrs.



bigger here

Well done Craig, over to you.