Weekend Task #7 Navigation/ navigating > voting week

[Jan1977]

This week's WET theme is: Navigation/ navigating

I do not want to be too leading with the description of the theme to leave the interpretation to the participants. The photos should depict something that to certain extent is/ was/ could be used for navigation purposes of express navigating actions.

This will be a VOTING week

This challenge begins when posted and ends at noon GMT on Monday 17 March 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 will decide if it works;
6. Title your image;
7. Posting: ONE PHOTO per photographer per challenge. List camera model & lens used. Post brief EXIF data: ISO, shutter speed and aperture (when images are attached the EXIF will be added below the images automatically);
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 / provide feedback about your 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. 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.

>> THE WINNER ALWAYS SETS THE THEME FOR THE NEXT CHALLENGE AND HOSTS IT - BE PREPARED <<

 

[Levina]

Compass

 

[Jeff WX1USN]

Christopher Columbus statue in Barcelona Spain.

"Pointing the way"

 

[Jack Dawe]

Navigation error. A roadside plaque in New Zealand commemorating a sad event in 1963 when an airliner en route from Aukland to Tauranga crashed into a mountain during stormy conditions with the loss of all 23 people on board. It was concluded that the pilot had mistaken his approach position for Tauranga airport.

 

[pcs]

Pilot boat on the North Sea
Getting pilots to and from large ships so they can navigate them to/from a harbor.

 

[Jan1977]

Obvious directions

 

[greatgrandma]

To Navigate our boat - radar, GPS, Compass, and autopilot

 

[Stiga]

Captain James Cook, navigator and explorer

 

[RDWP]

Navigating the gulls

 

[Jan1977]

Thanks everybody for participating in this week's WET. It has just been noon GMT, so the deadline for submissions is due and the voting is officially opened.

So everybody is invited to vote for this week's winner. Tomorrow at noon, the voting window closes and I will try to announce the winner shortly after.

 

[Stiga]

1. Levina
2. Jack
3. Jeff

 

[greatgrandma]

1 Levina
2 pcs
3 Jack

 

[Levina]

#1 Patrick (pcs)
#2 Rosalie
#3 Jeff

 

[pcs]

1. Jack Dawe
2. Levina
3. Jeff WX1USN

 

[Jack Dawe]

1. Levina
2. Rosalie (greatgrandma)
3. Patrick (pcs)

 

[Jeff WX1USN]

1. Levina
2. Rosalie (greatgrandma)
3. Patrick (pcs)

 

[Jan1977]

It has been noon GMT Tuesday, so voting is closed with my votes:
#1 Levina
#2 Rosalie
#3 Patrick

 

[Jan1977]

This week's winner is Levina So it's her honor to start WET#8, and I'm sure she knows the drill

#1 Levina with 17 points
#2 Rosalie/ Patrick with 8 points
#3 Jason with 6 points

Thanks to everybody for participating and the creative entries for WET#7. I would have expected more lighthouses than there were submitted, with lighthouses being common landscape photography subject.

 

[Levina]

This week's winner is Levina So it's her honor to start WET#8, and I'm sure she knows the drill

#1 Levina with 17 points
#2 Rosalie/ Patrick with 8 points
#3 Jason with 6 points

Thanks to everybody for participating and the creative entries for WET#7. I would have expected more lighthouses than there were submitted, with lighthouses being common landscape photography subject.

Thanks very much, Jan. I'm honoured!

Congratulations to Rosalie and Patrick for (tied) second and third place.

I will start a new challenge in a minute and add the link here.

EDIT: New challenge is up: The Passing of Time.

 

[greatgrandma]

Levina's photo was so perfect for the challenge that it completely scrambled my brain and I didn't even think of lighthouses or even maps which would also work IMHO. I wanted to find a good photo of the compass on our boat or a photo of the radar or the electronic charts, but the best I could do was the documentary photo that I posted.

When the photo of the pilot boat was posted I realized that I could post one like that as I have quite a few of them but that would be copycat. I thought the statues of the old time navigators were a good idea. But when I saw the statue of Columbus in Barcelona I was hung up on the fact that he is pointing in the wrong direction - back toward Italy instead of toward the Atlantic.So I took the more Noir photo of the failed navigation.