MPC#87 - Hot / Heat (ends 7/16)

[Tap]

Summertime, grillin', campfires, girls in bikinis, major league fastballs...we're as far from winter as we can get in the northern hemisphere, so let's see something hot or something with some heat. (if you go an NSFW route, keep it tasteful please)

RULES:
1. Photos must be taken within the time period of the contest.
2. You may submit 3 photos during the competition.
3. The contest moderator will choose 5 photos to be voted on.
4. The winner will get a happy feeling in his/her pants. (That is a rule by the way, not an option.)
5. In the event of a tie, the contest moderator will have the deciding vote.
6. Winner will be the contest starter/moderator for the next comp.
7. The winner has 3 days to start a new contest or 2nd place becomes the new winner.


Past MPC's:
MPC #86 Stress Relief
MPC #85 Dirty
MPC #84 Transportation
MPC #83 Of Yourself, By Yourself, In Context
MPC# 82 Long Exposure: Urban Edition
MPC #81 Old School
MPC #80 Energy
MPC #79 Need
MPC #78 Weather
MPC #77 Action Sports
MPC #76 Stress
MPC #75 Anticipation
MPC #74 Foliage
MPC #73 Unreal
MPC #72 Speed
MPC #70 Old Technology
MPC #69 Plan B
MPC #68 Atmosphere POLL
MPC #67 Plants
MPC #66 Patterns
MPC #65 Weathered
MPC #64 WINNING
MPC #63 The End
MPC #62 Food
MPC #61 Seeing Double
MPC #60 Normal
MPC #59 Tranquility
MPC #58 Silhouette
MPC #57 Waiting
MPC #56 Night
MPC #55 Fire
MPC #54 Wheels
MPC #53 Small Sensors
MPC #52 Blur
MPC #51 Found Faces
MPC #50 Portraits
MPC #49 Panoramic
MPC #48 Light & Shadow
MPC #47 Timing
MPC #46 Coffee & Beer
MPC #45 Community
MPC #44 Potential
MPC #43 Solitude
MPC #42 Holidays
MPC #41 Ominous
MPC #40 Imbalance
MPC #39 Transition
MPC #38 Unsightly
MPC #37 Self Portrait
MPC #36 Music
MPC #35 Summer
MPC #34 Passion
MPC #33 Home
MPC #32 Electricity
MPC #31 Bridges
MPC #30 Old & New
MPC #29 BW
MPC #28 Winter
MPC #27 HDR
MPC #26 Shadows
MPC #25 Circles
MPC #24 Bars
MPC #23 People
MPC #22 Architecture
MPC #21 Wild Beasts
MPC #20 Water
MPC #19 Bulb
MPC #18 Celebration
MPC #17 Sunrise & Sunset
MPC #16 Out of Place
MPC #15 Altered
MPC #14 Angles
MPC #13 Pain & Suffering
MPC #12 Unusual Perspective
MPC #11 Depth
MPC #10 Contrast
MPC #9 Festive
MPC #8 Reflection
MPC #7 Leading Lines
MPC #6 Minimal
MPC #5 Abandoned
MPC #4 Perspective
MPC #3 Airborne
MPC #2 Straylight
MPC #1 Motion

[powdork]

taken a few days too early

[mtcham]

Yellow is so HOT in France!

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TDF DSC_3832 by jrmorris-mt, on Flickr

[Tuckerman]

Fireworks are hot and produce heat.
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[geomorph]

Hot dog

[Tap]

Guys, 1 week left and 3 entries? Are you out working on stuff or is the topic a bit soft? It was off the cuff, fwiw....

[JayPowHound]

I didn't get any fireworks shots this year but ha e seen plenty in the potd thread that should be in here..

I'm still trying to get a couple done...

[powdork]

Guys, 1 week left and 3 entries? Are you out working on stuff or is the topic a bit soft? It was off the cuff, fwiw....

i like it. dammit geomorph beat me to the first panting dog as subject. obviously i'm not the judge but i think fireworks are reaching a bit.

[kidwoo]

I just got sweet burn scar from some flaming metal that hit my arm today.

Gotta figure out how to do that one. Maybe after the blister pops.

[Ripzalot]

Guys, 1 week left and 3 entries? Are you out working on stuff or is the topic a bit soft? It was off the cuff, fwiw....

daytime highs have been about 24C/75F here. i was waiting for it to warm up but the trend just went cooler.

[Chainsaw_Willie]

Given the heatwave pretty much the entire country is experiencing (other than us) I thought there'd be quite a few more entries. I have some ideas but they would require some setup and planning and no time for that this week unfortunately. Tuckerman beat me to the punch on the fireworks.

[Supermoon]

I'm too sweaty to even think about picking up my camera.....

[Sol Skier]

The combination of a nearby fire and a SmithOptics filter

[Chainsaw_Willie]

I like that Sol Skier!

Here's one from the 4th - a little different take on "hot" fireworks:

[LegoSkier]

Chunk of copper + 100,000 BTU Propane jet burner

[iggyskier]

beach (1 of 1)-2 by Scott Andrus - ON3P Skis, on Flickr

[time2clmb]

Was trying to figure out if i'd try and compete with the fireworkds crowd or not but realized ours were a day before the MPC87.

Anyone that lives in the CDN Rockies knows that when it's hot as fuck for more than a few days in a row, the thunderheads start to get restless. So hot as fuck days form awesome clouds which result in hot as fuck storms. Storms here where you can get shots unimpeded by rain are rare and from town you usually don't get thunder heads this big.

Please excuse the watermarks as it's my posting online mark. Was going to make them smaller just for this but fuck it ...same thing either way.

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[systemoverblow'd]

You really like shooting at f/11 huh?

Sweet shots.

[time2clmb]

lol...I have my custom dial C2 slot at f11 for quick landscapes...use it to quickly slot in when I want to get a quick shot and get out of the mossy cloud asap. #3 was the exception on bulb and it seemed to work best for the time I wanted to stay open for. Tried a few different ones for #3 but hey F11 just worked better.

[Todds]

What could be hotter than a pink Jaguar?

OK. It's not a great picture, but it's a hot car.

[::: :::]

this is an iphone shot using the phone's inability to adjust to get the sparks to show against a fading sky

oregon coast so a fountain is shooting sideways in the wind. we built a castle earlier in the day and then fired off fireworks from the castle as the day ended. we even had a bald eagle fly overhead at dusk (no shot of it tho)

[powdork]

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[Supermoon]

1. Coming in hot.

[splitter]

Rhode Island visit by chadbro, on Flickr



izzy jump by chadbro, on Flickr

[dfinn]

taken on 7/3, that too early?