I’m happy to announce that we had 85 photos submitted for our Summer challenge!!  And without further ado, our winner was randomly chosen, using random.org:

List Randomizer

There were 85 items in your list. Here they are in random order:

1. Serena Gedlaman – Daylight/Sunlight
2. Stephanie Schan – Backlighting
3. Agatha Wiebe – Leading Lines
4. Donna Bowman-Woodall – Cropping
5. Serena Gedlaman – Light Graffiti
6. Bev Beaudette – Cropping
7. Agatha Wiebe – Front Lighting
8. Agatha Wiebe – Balancing Elements
9. Serena Gedlaman – Fast Shutter Speed
10. Donna Bowman-Woodall – Depth of Field
11. Kristi Kennedy – Backgrounds
12. Karen Young – Backlighting
13. Stephanie Schan – Perspective
14. Bev Beaudette – Side Lighting
15. Kristi Kennedy – Fast Shutter Speed
16. Donna Bowman-Woodall – Symmetry & Balance
17. Agatha Wiebe – Cropping
18. Serena Gedlaman – Leading Lines
19. Kari-Lynn Bezooyen – Rule of Thirds
20. Agatha Wiebe – Slow Shutter Speed
21. Agatha Wiebe –Symmetry & Pattern
22. Karen Young – Leading Lines
23. Stephanie Schan – Symmetry & Patterns
24. Serena Gedlaman – Depth Perception
25. Agatha Wiebe – Depth of Field
26. Serena Gedlaman – Rule of Thirds
27. Kristi Kennedy – Bokeh
28. Serena Gedlaman – Symmetry & Patterns
29. Bev Beaudette – Framing
30. Karen Young – Depth Perception
31. Agatha Wiebe – Backgrounds
32. Agatha Wiebe – Daylight/Sunlight
33. Agatha Wiebe –Side Lighting
34. Agatha Wiebe – Depth Perception
35. Kari-Lynn Bezooyen – Backlighting
36. Kari-Lynn Bezooyen – ISO
37. Stephanie Schan – Bokeh
38. Serena Gedlaman – Backlighting
39. Karen Young – Balancing Elements
40. Kristi Kennedy – Framing
41. Kari-Lynn Bezooyen – Cropping
42. Karen Young – Symmetry & Patterns
43. Serena Gedlaman – Framing
44. Stephanie Schan – Side Lighting
45. Agatha Wiebe – Rule of Thirds
46. Bev Beaudette – Leading Lines
47. Kari-Lynn Bezooyen – Framing
48. Serena Gedlaman – Natural Light
49. Serena Gedlaman – Perspective
50. Serena Gedlaman – Slow Shutter Speed
51. Kari-Lynn Bezooyen – Daylight/Sunlight
52. Kristi Kennedy – Depth Perception
53. Agatha Wiebe – Natural/Available Light
54. Serena Gedlaman – Side Lighting
55. Bev Beaudette – Depth of Field
56. Kristi Kennedy – Leading Lines
57. Bev Beaudette – Perspective
58. Donna Bowman-Woodall – Framing
59. Karen Young – Perspective
60. Karen Young – Framing
61. Kari-Lynn Bezooyen – Perspective
62. Serena Gedlaman – Front Lighting
63. Bev Beaudette – Natural Lighting
64. Bev Beaudette – Backgrounds
65. Donna Bowman-Woodall – Balancing Elements
66. Agatha Wiebe – Light Graffiti
67. Karen Young – Rule of Thirds
68. Bev Beaudette – Depth Perception
69. Stephanie Schan – Depth Perception
70. Stephanie Schan – Rule of Thirds
71. Agatha Wiebe – Framing
72. Serena Gedlaman – Bokeh
73. Donna Bowman-Woodall – Leading Lines
74. Kari-Lynn Bezooyen – Balancing Elements
75. Kristi Kennedy – Backlighting
76. Serena Gedlaman – Balancing Elements
77. Stephanie Schan – Framing
78. Kristi Kennedy – Backgrounds
79. Agatha Wiebe – Perspective
80. Agatha Wiebe – Backlighting
81. Kari-Lynn Bezooyen – Side Lighting
82. Kristi Kennedy – Symmetry & Patterns
83. Serena Gedlaman – ISO
84. Serena Gedlaman – Cropping
85. Agatha Wiebe – Bokeh

Timestamp: 2011-09-10 15:18:14 UTC

Congratulations, Serena! Your prize pack will be sent out to the address on your submission form!

Thanks to all who submitted their photos – I loved seeing them all!  I will be back in a few days to discuss our next topic – Photo Organization!

Cheers,

Here are the prizes that one of our lucky SummerFun participants will receive:

How’s that for some yummy eye candy??  Doesn’t it make you wish that you had submitted a photo now…?  And if you have, aren’t you glad you did?

I will be back in a few days to announce our lucky winner!

Cheers,

Agatha Wiebe, of ON, sent me a final photo, using her Canon EOS Rebel XSi, adding another ballot to her total for our draw:

Front Lighting. f/9, 1/400 sec., ISO 200

Thanks for playing along this month, Agatha!

And last but certainly not least, are these two gorgeous photos by Stephanie Schan, of ON, taken with her Canon 5DMKII:

Side Lighting. f/5, 1/80 sec., ISO 500

Depth Perception. f/5, 1/125 sec., ISO 125

That’s another two ballots for you, Stephanie!

Thanks to all of our participants this month – I hope you had fun, going through the older tutorials, refreshing your memories! I will randomly draw a winner in a few days – but tomorrow I will post photos of the prizes!

Cheers,

Thanks for submitting, Serena – here’s another 9 ballots to add to your total for our draw!

Cheers,

Lovely!  Thanks for your submissions, Kristi – you’ll receive 8 ballots for our draw!

This post, I’m going to share some photos from Karen Young, of NL,  taken with her Pentax K-x camera:

Great job, Karen – that’s five ballots for our drawing for some great prizes!

Cheers,

Thanks, Donna, for your beautiful submissions!  You now have 6 ballots for our big draw!

Cheers,

In this post, I want to share photos taken by Bev Beaudette, of ON, with her Canon EOS Rebel T1i.

Thanks for submitting your images, Bev – you’ve earned 9 ballots for our draw!

Cheers,

I have nearly 40 images to share with you – all from just five individuals, three of whom have already sent in some submissions!!  They’re doing a great job of increasing their chances of winning our awesome prizes!!

Because of the number of photos, I will be posting thumbnails of each photo, with camera settings and tutorial used.  Please click on the thumbnail to view image.

Here are submissions from Agatha Wiebe, of ON:

Framing:

Taken with a Canon EOS Rebel XSi at f/4, 1/60 sec., ISO 400

Backlighting:

Taken with Canon EOS Rebel XSi at f/5.6, 1/250 sec., ISO 400

Depth Perception:

Taken with Canon EOS Rebel XSi at f/13, 1/320 sec., ISO 200

Leading Lines:

Taken with Canon EOS Rebel XSi at f/4, 1/60 sec., ISO 400

Rule of Thirds:

Taken with Canon EOS Rebel XSi at f/7.1, 1/200 sec., ISO 400

Bokeh:

Taken with Canon EOS Rebel XSi at f/5.6, 1/100 sec., ISO 400

Depth of Field:

Taken with Canon EOS Rebel XSi at f/4, 1/400 sec., ISO 200

Symmetry & Pattern:

Taken with Canon EOS Rebel XSi at f/5.6, 1/200 sec., ISO 800

Side Lighting:

Taken with Canon EOS Rebel XSi at f/9, 1/160 sec., ISO 200

Cropping:

Taken with Canon EOS Rebel XSi at f/5, 1/640 sec., ISO 200

Slow Shutter Speed:

Taken with Canon EOS Rebel XSi at f/4, 1/15 sec., ISO 640

Natural/Available Light:

Taken with Canon EOS Rebel XSi at f/5.6, 1/125 sec., ISO 250

Daylight/Sunlight:

Taken with Canon EOS Rebel XSi at f/5.6, 1/160 sec., ISO 800

Perspective:

Taken with Canon EOS Rebel XSi at f/4, 1/4000 sec., ISO 640

Backgrounds:

Taken with Canon EOS Rebel XSi at f/5.6, 1/200 sec., ISO 400

Light Graffiti:

Taken with Canon EOS Rebel XSi at f/22, 1.3 sec., ISO 800

Balancing Elements:

Taken with Canon EOS Rebel XSi at f/7.1, 1/320 sec., ISO 200

Light Graffiti:

Taken with Canon EOS Rebel XSi at f/9, 6 sec., ISO 800

Thanks for sharing, Agatha – you just earned 17 entries into our random draw!

Next up, we have more submissions from Kari-Lynn Bezooyen, of AB:

Daylight/Sunlight:

Taken with Nikon D70 at f/2.8, 1/1250 sec., ISO 200

Lyrics from “The Picture” by Loudon Wainwright III

Backlighting:

Taken with Nikon D70 at f/10, 1/60 sec., ISO 200

Backlighting:

Taken with Nikon D70 at f/22, 1/250 sec., ISO 200

Sidelighting:

Taken with Nikon D70 at f/2, 1/8000 sec., ISO 200

Framing:

Taken with Nikon D70 at f/2.2, 1/320 sec., ISO 200

Thanks for your submissions, Kari-Lynn – you’ve earned an additional 4 entries into our draw!

Stephanie Schan, of ON, sent in these submissions:

Framing:

Taken with Canon 5DmkII at f/4, 1/10 sec., ISO 200

Backlighting:

Taken with Canon 5DmkII at f/2.8, 1/2500 sec., ISO 640

Rule of Thirds:

Taken with Canon 5DmkII at f/2.8, 1/800 sec., ISO 640

Perspective:

Taken with Canon 5DmkII at f/6.3, 1/500 sec., ISO 100

Bokeh:

Taken with Canon 5DmkII at f/5.6, 1/1000 sec., ISO 100

Symmetry & Patterns:

Taken with Canon 5DmkII at f/2.8, 1/800 sec., ISO 100

Thanks, Stephanie – you’ve just got yourself six entries into this month’s draw!

Karen Young, of NL, sent us a few more submissions, as well:

Symmetry & Patterns:

Taken with Pentax KX at f/8, 1/320 sec., ISO 200

Perspective

Taken with Pentax KX at f/3.5, 1/60 sec., ISO 200

And last but not least, Serena Gedlaman, of AB, sent in severalmore submissions:

Framing:

Taken with Canon EOS Rebel T2i, f/10, 1/200 sec., ISO 400

Symmetry & Patterns:

Taken with Canon EOS Rebel T2i at f/7.1, 1/160 sec., ISO 100

Leading Lines:

Taken with Canon EOS Rebel T2i at f/4.5, 1/4000 sec., ISO 800

Fast Shutter Speed:

Taken with Canon EOS Rebel T2i at f/4.5, 1/800 sec., ISO 100

Depth Perception:

Taken with Canon EOS Rebel T2i at f/4.5, 1/100 sec., ISO 100

Backlighting:

Taken with Canon EOS Rebel T2i at f/5, 1/200 sec., ISO 100

Rule of Thirds:

Taken with Canon EOS Rebel T2i at f/7.1, 1/200 sec., ISO 100

Side Lighting:

Taken with Canon EOS Rebel T2i at f/4, 1/50 sec., ISO 100

Thanks for your submissions, Serena – you earned 8 more entries towards our draw!

There’s still time to get your summer photos into me – deadline is 11:59pm EST on Wednesday, Aug. 31st! Send your submission in now to be entered into the big draw!

Cheers!

Taken with Nikon D300s at f/6.3, 1/1250 sec., ISO 250

Are you enjoying your summer yet?

We have had a great summer so far, visiting some of the tourist attractions with friends who arrived at the beginning of the summer.  And from the photos I’ve been receiving, some of you have been using your summer time to snap some photos!

Kari-Lynn Bezooyen, of AB, sent me a few photos – this one, using the Balancing Elements tutorial, epitomizes summer for me:

Taken with Nikon D70 at f/3.2, 1/5000 sec., ISO 200

This one from Kari-Lynn uses the Rule of Thirds tutorial :

Taken with Nikon D70 at f/2.2, 1/1250 sec., ISO 250

A few more from Kari-Lynn, this one using the Perspective tutorial:

Taken with Nikon D70 at f/2, 1/180 sec., ISO 1000

And this one, using the ISO tutorial:

Taken with Nikon D70 at f/1.8, 1/80 sec., ISO 1000

This last one from Kari-Lynn used the tutorial on Cropping:

Taken with Nikon D70 at f/2, 1/250 sec., ISO 200

Fantastic photos, Kari-Lynn!  Thanks for sharing!

I also received a photo from Karen Young, of NL.  She used the Framing tutorial to frame her subject, which was an iceberg!

Taken with Pentax Kx at f/14, 1/6000 sec., ISO 6400

Great shot – thanks, Karen!!

And our final submission to share today comes from Serena Gedlaman, of AB:

Taken with Canon EOS Rebel T2i at f/7.1, 1/400 sec., ISO 100

Serena used the Balancing Elements tutorial for her submission.  Lovely photo – thanks for your submission, Serena!

Awesome!  You will all receive ballots for each of the photos submitted for our big prize!

Now, to the rest of you… where are your summer photos to share?!

Cheers,