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Contest Results: "What is it?"

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Ended 02/09/12 2:15 AM GMT
Winner: nanadoo (See the full results)

1st place
Fire and Ice by nanadoo

zunazet: Magical indeed!

0930_23: Congrats on your win in the What Is It contest, Rita. A good image obviously.

TicK


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slushie: Great shot

trixxie17: I say WOW also - this is great and beautiful.

solita17: Congratz on placing first with this fascinating image... it is magical!
mary

nanadoo received a 2 month membership in the Caedes Cadre.

2nd place
Hmmm - What is it? by luckyshot

LynEve: Congratulations on second place Thad :)

solita17: Blown glass would be my guess... Congratz for placing second in the contest! ;-)
mary

Nikoneer: Yeah, it has to be a glass vase or bowl. The giveaway is the bubbles I'm seeing here and those swirls of color are sometimes created by rolling the hot molten glob of glass in small shards of broken colored glass or dribbling other molten colored glass onto the original glob, sometimes pinching the glass with long tweezers to get the color to flow in other directions. Each time some color is added, the glob is spun at a speed fast enough to spread the color through centrifugal force. The glass glob is put back into the furnace each time another layer of color is added. I think this one took some time to create.

-Nik

luckyshot received a 1 month membership in the Caedes Cadre.

3rd place
Oh, What IS It? by cynlee

Logun7: Congratulations!!!

Tomeast: I like the expressions on the faces here , quite an excellent capture.

Starry173: This is a great people shot, Cindy. They seem fascinated and focused, but not frightened at all. I don't suppose they are in line for an elephant ride or a camel ride?
Tom

4th place
In&Out by zunazet

cynlee: I guess I should examine things more closely as I haven't a clue as to what this might be, but I can see that it appears to fold and maybe those are reflections, maybe not. I do hope you will eventually reveal what is in the image. Good job of disguising its true identity.

5th place
What is it? by krt

Nikoneer: Those non-symmetrical oblong shapes with the lighter colored edges must be the open ends of the more flat, light- to medium-blue shapes, so that means those shapes are hollow. Some are open, some are not. There appears to be a gelatinous surface inside the open ones, and they have what look like spores on the outside. I think they may be organic and possibly aquatic. I used to be a scuba diver and remember seeing underwater plants, sponges, even some corals that look a lot like this. As for the bright yellow, orange, and green irregularly rounded shapes... molds or egg sacs? I've been doing pretty well with figuring out many of the submissions for this contest but I'm really not sure about this one. I give a 9 for color and a 7 for suggested creepiness. It would make an interesting screen but I can't dance to it. What? You never watched American Bandstand back in the 50s and 60s?

Then again, it's possible it's a sculpture. While most of it is organic in shape (but not really color, unless this is a lost episode of "Star Trek"), just below the main cluster of yellow and orange globules there is a flat dark gray area running about half-way across the photo, plus another 5 or so small spots of the same flat gray material scattered about, almost like a base that all these shapes were attached to. There's also two square-edged light shapes below that same cluster that are definitely not globular in character. In fact they look a little bit like pieces of double-sided tape. Hmmmmm.

But... again, then again... it could be the inside of the head of one of brothers-in law. I've always had my suspicions about the way he thinks.

Ah well, you've promised to tell us so we'll just have to wait. Good luck in the contest.

-Nik