Weekend task #16 - Weather

[greatgrandma]

This week's WET theme is: Weather

The theme can be interpreted freely as long as it expresses the theme in some form.

THIS WILL BE A VOTING WEEK!

This challenge begins when posted and ends at noon GMT on Monday 19 May 2025.
After that voting will commence.

The WET Rules:

The General Image rules:

1. Camera: Any CAMERA is allowed (images from scanned film are also allowed);
2. Post only ONE photo;
3. Time: Any on-topic photo taken at any time is eligible, although photos that have won other competitions should NOT be entered (meaning won competitions here, so no problem as of yet!);
4. Size: Maximum image size is 1600px on the long end. Minimum size is 800px;
5. Post Processing: Do whatever you like, and the host/voters will decide if it works;
6. Title your image;
7. Posting: ONE PHOTO per photographer per challenge.
8. Commenting: No commenting and/or Likes during challenge. After the challenge is closed discussion is encouraged;
9. Keep it clean, and both family and work safe;
10. Have lots of FUN;
11. This text is available in a sticky. Copy the text and paste it in the new thread.

The rules for choosing the winner in a voting week:

1. Once the challenge is closed on Monday noon GMT, anyone may cast their votes for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd places;
2. The voting window will be closed 24 hours later on Tuesday noon GMT;
3. People who didn't enter a photograph are also allowed to vote;
4. Contestants cannot vote on their own image;
5. Voters must cast 3 votes. Any less and the votes will be discarded;
6. The votes will be tallied as follows: 1st Place = 3 points, 2nd Place = 2 points, and 3rd Place = 1 point;
7. The host of the challenge may also enter a photo and is encouraged to do so;
8. Should the host win, the runner up will host the next challenge, so as to avoid the same person hosting in two consecutive weeks;
9. In case of a tie, the host will make the final decision;
10. After the challenge has ended, everyone is invited to comment on the images and/or provide feedback on their vote choices!

The rules for choosing the winner when the hosts chooses the winner:

1. When the hosts decide to choose the winner him/herself, the rule is simple: he or she picks the winner;
2. The host is encouraged to give us his/her thoughts on the competing images;
3. The host is not allowed to submit an image of his/her own.

Hosting:

1. The challenge host is the winner of the last challenge;
2. Once your win is announced, go to Games, Competitions and Challenges and choose "Post thread";
3. In the top (title) line, enter Weekend Task #X - Your Topic
4. Copy / paste the sticky in your new thread, fill in the right data (title, description, data etc.) and click "Post thread", at the bottom of the page. Or simply click the QUOTE button and then in your new thread choose INSERT QUOTE, toggle off the BBcode, remove the QUOTE buttons and toggle on the BBcode button again. Detailed instructions for that are here.
5. Soon after noon GMT on the next Tuesday, post the sum of the votes for first, second, and third place. No ties, please;
6. If the winner can't be contacted and doesn't respond by Wednesday noon GMT, the second-place winner will host the challenge. If both are unavailable, the third-place winner will host.

Link to Sticky with template.
Link to Rob's spreadsheet for tallying the votes.

>> THE WINNER ALWAYS SETS THE THEME FOR THE NEXT CHALLENGE AND HOSTS IT - PLEASE BE PREPARED AND ON TIME >>

 

[Levina de Ruijter]

Snow storm

 

[greatgrandma]

Fog

 

[Jan1977]

Thunder in the Alps

 

[Stiga]

A downpour

 

[Jeff WX1USN]

2015 we had 10 feet of snow, the front yard in that area is flat!

 

[greatgrandma]

OK - WET closed - time to vote
1-Jan
2- Levina
3 - Jeff

 

[Stiga]

1-Jan
2- Levina
3 - Jeff

 

[inphoto]

1. Jan
2. Ggm
3. Jeff

 

[Levina de Ruijter]

1. Jan
2. Martin
3. Jeff

 

[Jan1977]

#1 Stiga (Martin)
#2 Rosalie
#3 Levina

 

[RDWP]

1. Jan
2. Stiga
3. Levina

 

[Jeff WX1USN]

1) Jan
2) Greatgranma
3) Levina

 

[greatgrandma]

I think the results are clear
Jan 18 - far ahead of anyone else by any count
Martin and Levina tied at 7
Me 6
Jeff 4

I have never been able to catch any lightening in a picture so of course I had to put that photo first. I have been trying to get a photo of rain or snow falling for some time, and have had some success with a really hard rain, but my snow photo is nowhere near as good as Levina's.

 

[Jan1977]

Thanks to all that participated and voted, and thanks for the honor to 'win' this weeks challenge. I took my responsibility and just started the new WET .

To me, there wasn't much between this week's submissions. I'll try to explain it, but it is bit far fetched probably.

I put Martin (Stiga) first as it was a clearly rainy photo from a perspective that I usually do not see for photos of rain, but it clearly expresses it and hence did most justice to the theme. I picked Rosalie's (Greatgrandma) photo second. To me it was the most photogenic of the photos, but due to it being more esthetic the focus on the theme was conveyed less strongly. And I ranked Levina's photo as third, due to the fact it was actually snowing in the photo which for me better adhered to the theme than Jeff's photo.