Macro Competition Results - October 2023 - Smoke and/or Steam

[@amyfiveaquatics]

Congrats to the winner! Beautiful picture!

[@russrichards]

Congratulations to the winner. Every entry was both very interesting and thoughtful this month. Great work everyone!

[@MacroEverything]

Congratulations to the winners & runner ups! This one was hard for me to get the smoke lit up correctly & bright. I tried multiple sessions, multiple settings/ flash settings, 2 small LED lights on left & right & still had a hard time getting it to look good. Some of my brighter ones were a bit out of focus. Do we really get points deducted for less creative titles?? I didn’t know this.

[@DanStanifer]

Thanks for all the kind words :) So many beautiful shots this month, I'm stunned, excited, and humbled to get the first place spot. I did see a dragon's face in "Dragon's gate", and couldn't figure out how to crop out the distractions at the bottom without destroying some of the effect of the shot.

[@AngiWallaceCreativePhotography]

Fabulous photos , loved seeing all the entries. Congratulations to the winner - really interesting pic and a great idea

[@dalefrolander3583]

I liked Angie's mushroom picture the most.

[@kennyk4134]

Dragons gate , has a dragons head in the smoke.

[@PierreSoreau]

hello Allan, sorry for scaring you with my beetle, it's a rhinoceros beetle that comes from Guyana, I've had it for 30 years, in a box, it's 6 cm long and 18 cm with outstretched wings and it's not It's just electronic cigarette smoke that I dripped onto the insect. no, I didn't cook it 🙂. Thank you for this third place and congratulations to all the competitors, now we will have to go take a look at the DIY stores Have a nice week end Pierre

[@haroldhall2133]

I thought the topic was ‘Smoke or Fire.’ My mistake I only included 🔥.