Jim Carter Loc: Momence, Il.

Wall hangers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

MtnMan Loc: ID

Thanks. That's where they are going if I get them back intact.

I sized them to print 11x14...the largest the Fair accepts. I might try a larger metal print on Denali.

Please see my signature note. Anyone that wishes is free to download and print. Sorry but UHH wasn't able to take my full resolution images so the ones I posted won't be great in too large a size. If someone wants I can make a larger image that UHH will accept (I know it takes 5MB but choked on three 7 MB ones...not sure if that is a per image limit or a total limit).

James56 Loc: Nashville, Tennessee

These are all worthy candidates, I wish you luck at the Fair. Lets hope you come home with ribbons for each one. My wife and I are also getting ready to enter The Tennessee State Fair photography contest in September, so like you...I've also been ordering 11 x 14 prints and 16 x 20 mats. It's a lot of fun and work getting ready...then the long wait for the results.

Good luck and have fun
James

MtnMan Loc: ID

It seems you may have done this before and not need advice. But I got a lot of good advice from the experienced pros at my camera club.

The Western Idaho State Fair is apparently very sticky about their rules. If you don't follow them they won't accept your image. You get your image back but I don't know if they will even show it. They definitely won't judge it if it has issues relative to the rules.

In our case the mats can't stick out beyond the photo.

RE Loc: California

Beautiful photos, truly love the second one! :thumbup: :thumbup:

MtnMan Loc: ID

I had no idea bears love dandelions. We must have seen a hundred or more on our drive up the Alaska Highway...both black bear and Grizzly. All were lunching down on the flowers and had little interest in us.

It was the first week of June. I understand you can go other times and see none or very few on the same drive.

Photosmoke

Very nice shots MM, I have been to Alaska several times & have not seen McKinley yet, you were lucky

MtnMan Loc: ID

Yes. The locals told us we didn't understand how lucky. It was perfectly clear and in the 80s for the three days we were there. They said it is usually foggy, cloudy, drizzle, cool, wind etc. and you can't see the mountain.

The mountain's correct name is Denali. I have cultivated a thing on this. Some politicians in Ohio persist in trying to keep the Federal Government calling it Mt. McKinley.

It has been called Denali for thousands of years by the native people. It is disrespectful to try and rename it after a politician who never even went to Alaska. Only our Federal Government can be so corrupt. In Alaska it is officially Denali.

You can see I kind of got into this!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denali_naming_dispute

(PS: It is Ok with me if they want to name a mountain in Ohio after McKinley. He apparently wasn't a terrible politician...he ranks in the middle of presidents on most lists and at least wasn't a criminal. In general I don't think mountains should be named after politicians. I'm OK with Washington as a notable exception. Maybe they should have tried to name it after him...although the name is taken by a cool mountain in New England).

moriti Loc: California

Excellent photos!! :D :D :thumbup: :thumbup:

riverlass Loc: northern California

Right. It's not so bad that they named it for a president, if it had never had another name... but that they changed it from its original Alaskan Indian name. That's just a travesty. That's just lack of respect. Do we ever learn?

MtnMan Loc: ID

At the time they named it the Alaskan natives were considered dirt...treated worse than southern blacks. This is actually an extension of that racism.

The Ohio politicians should be ashamed of themselves.

In any case it isn't the business of the federal government to name things in states. It is not one of the powers given to the feds in the constitution and the constitution says that if it isn't in there the power goes to the State. The State of Alaska has officially named the mountain Denali. So I'm good with that.

I guess you could argue Alaska wasn't a State when the Feds renamed Denali. But now that Alaska is a State the State trumps the Feds on this one.

riverlass Loc: northern California

Very interesting. This is some history I didn't know about. Thanks.

DaisyB Loc: South Central PA

All three are wonderful shots

WaltG Loc: Las Vegas NV

Prize winners ... every one!! :thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup:

tk Loc: Iowa

Most beautiful place to shoot! I have a few of Denali from a small plane and would love to go back up and do it again.

Good luck with the fair. I submitted this year with disappointing results. There is always next year!