Challenge 244

[Grant]

The challenge this week is presented buy Kenneth Liffmann. Please enjoy and have a great time!

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Present and Past Challenges will remain Until tomorrow at 7:00 pm the
then the Present will be Past and new images will be posted as Present.

* Important notice to all the new people in this forum. This is not a
close shop you are all invited to submit an image. If you don't think you
are good enough this is your first mistake, I think most have found that
working on the Challenge has improved their personal level. So young and
old, hot shots and cool dudes now is you time to post.

Special note send entries to: thechallenge@eastlink.ca

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[BobWarren]

Dining at McDonald's? Isn't that like business ethics or military
intelligence? Some great images, none-the-less.

ALEX B: Nice background recreation and train sequences. Love that cow-
catcher.
BARBARA W: Great variants for the Golden Arches and the train windows.
As usual, shading makes it cool. Love the depth effects in #3.
BEN M: The old photo look is well done -- is that fryer oil in the tank
car?
BILL Z: Nicely done combination of Challenge images
CHUCK F: Cool dining car relocation -- neat sparkles.
ELLEN H: Waiting for a train ferry? Could that be Anacortes?
KIM B: Have to love the guy walking into the Ladies Room -- a US
Senator, perhaps?
LISA B: Dr. Who meets Ronald McDonald?
MARIA EB: Ooooh, have to lay off the margaritas so early in the
morning. Nice shadow work on the snakes, though.
MARILYN L: I like the way you took the blacktop and built an entirely
new landscape from it. Jupiter fits right in.
MARK R: But where's the Starbucks? 'Cool' idea.
RITA G: Distort>Glass? A neat effect.
RED S: Loved those observations cars going through the Rockies. Who
knows what's going on behind those windows?

Bob Warren
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[echoblue]

Bob, thank you very much for commenting! LOL, I just HAD to sneak that snake (and its clones) into this photo... :D

Your recreation of the train and passengers, the telegraph poles and the post office logo is brilliant! I like the way you isolate details that aren't easily noticed and create an entirely new image from them. :)

[billz]

Thanks for taking the time to comment Bob. I had to work in last week's challenge somehow because I didn't get around to doing anything with it when it was current. Thanks again.

Bill

[Ritage]

Thank you, Bob.
It's a canned Displacement Map from Adobe, called ROCK. Very similar to GLASS, but less uniform. And some fiddling to change the colors.
I had very little time last week.
Rita

[Red Sky]

Thanks for the comments Bob. It's funny, for when I ride a train my favorite pastime is to look at buildings and houses and wonder what is going on behind those walls. Now I know someone is doing the same to me.
I really liked your Santa Fe image.

[kim2900]

Bob - A U.S. Senator??? (uh... that would be the other door, I think!):p

As always, I really enjoyed your images too! You and Steven must have something in common regarding your mutual love of trains!

I really thought everyone's images were wonderful this week! So much imagination and creativity!

Kim