Please vote for me! [Archive]

Mel

07-12-2009, 22:34

pingg.com is having a competition for iconic photos of San Francisco and one of my images was chosen as a finalist!!! Please vote for mine (#2, Melissa Crain) with the Alamo Square skyline in front and the city in the back at night. If I win I get a point and shoot camera... but most of all bragging rights for being an award-winning photographer ;D;D;D;D

Thanks BD!!! :lubu:

http://www.pingg.com/content/san-frans-finest-vote-now/

http://www.arkenstudios.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/sf_icon_melissa_crain.jpg

leowyatt

07-12-2009, 22:37

I have voted for you but have to say John Flemming's picture is very beautiful :)

semi-pro waster

07-12-2009, 22:38

You've got some stiff competition there, some of them are pretty good. Yours is also very good and a bit different from most which appeals so I've voted. :)

Mel

07-12-2009, 22:42

Yeah John Flemming has a good one - but they're all of the Golden Gate Bridge, and I knew most of them would be, which was why I entered something different. Most people have seen the view from that spot during the day but I got one at night which is different but still iconic SF. Until a few days ago I lived a block away from that spot too!

Desmo

07-12-2009, 22:47

I don't normally vote for these but I really like your picture. It almost looks like a row of model houses, there's just something about it I really like :)

Mel

07-12-2009, 22:53

I don't normally vote for these but I really like your picture. It almost looks like a row of model houses, there's just something about it I really like :)

Those are known as the painted ladies - a famous group of victorian houses built in the 1880s (old for around here!) all painted different colors across from a park on a hill.

BBx

07-12-2009, 22:59

House no 2 could've put their attic room light on for you - ya know even it out a bit ;)

Hee hee... have voted ya! GL :)

BB x

Muban

07-12-2009, 23:01

I don't do the vote for me threads either... but I'm happy to do yours. For me the golden gate is just too overdone. I liked your picture and Arin Fishkin's best, but yours edged it for me with the old and new SF. Good luck :)

Mel

07-12-2009, 23:26

Thanks guys :-) I know you probably cringed when you saw the word "vote" in the thread title haha

Will

07-12-2009, 23:28

Nope. I refuse. Cheater :p

Wossi

07-12-2009, 23:40

Whenever someone says San Fransisco, all I can think of is either The Golden Gate Bridge, or those houses and since every picture I see of SF is of the bridge I would have voted yours anyway :)

Mel

07-12-2009, 23:45

Nope. I refuse. Cheater :p

Always have to be the biggest ass in the bunch, huh Will? :p

Del Lardo

07-12-2009, 23:59

I clicked on the link with the intent on voting for my favourite piccy as I normally do. You got my click :) though I wish they'd put higher res versions up as they barely take up a 1/4 of my screen making it a bit tricky to judge :(

Mark

08-12-2009, 00:31

Some very odd choices there (on the part of the editors, not you), and hey, everyone does the Golden Gate Bridge - so much so that it gets boring after a while. So I voted for yours. ;D

Looks like you've got stiff competition from John Flemming though.

Rich_L

08-12-2009, 00:35

Love the photo :)

We drove up from LA to SF and we came in this way I'm sure (is that right?). Those houses are great, would love to have had some time to hit the bars round there and meet some locals :)

Out of interest, Mel do you know 'the most unpretentious bar in San Francisco'? I know the very fact they advertised this automatically disqualifies them from the next years award (lol), but it was a good bar, they had a blackboard where you could buy drinks and put them up there for when they came in...epically vague but if you know it \o/

Mel

08-12-2009, 00:58

Rich_L

08-12-2009, 01:15

:) Yeah we got lost as hell coming in to SF, is why it might have looked familiar, haha!

I think it's called 'Daves Bar', not far from Union Square but walkable - one of the girls we were meeting there said it was decent - they served a not-bad Guiness on tap - can't complain :D

Mel

08-12-2009, 01:25

There's this great bar called Toranado's in lower Haight that has about 100 beers on tap. Freakin' fantastic.

Zirax

08-12-2009, 15:06

I have not heard of it... I hit mostly the dive bars only the locals know about ;-) There's a few great places.

The houses aren't really in a place that you drive by going to or from anyway, you need to be going directly to them in order to see them. tbh I didn't even know where they were until I moved next to them!

Voted, I managed to find them randomly while walking about on my way back from Japan town IIRC? I think the mad dojo is around there as well. Did you take that from the hill in the park opposite?

Admiral Huddy

08-12-2009, 15:33

voted. There are some good pictures there. John Flemming's looks to false for my liking.

Mel

08-12-2009, 17:54

Voted, I managed to find them randomly while walking about on my way back from Japan town IIRC? I think the mad dojo is around there as well. Did you take that from the hill in the park opposite?

Yeah right up on the hill there. I was walking home one night and the skyline was crystal clear so I decided to grab the tripod and head up to the park. Usually it's foggy but that night it was so beautiful.

Treefrog

08-12-2009, 18:01

'Net being very slooooooooow atm so I'll look and vote when all the kiddies have cleared off to bed.
Damn nice shot btw :) Any chance of a 1600x1200 version for wallpaper?

camerajuan

09-12-2009, 05:17

Thats the row of houses from "So I Married An Axe Murderer"!

Man I'm tired!

Psymonkee

09-12-2009, 08:26

Voted :)

Why are 90% of SF shots of the Golden Gate Bridge?! Lacks originality tbh! :(

Stan_Lite

09-12-2009, 08:38

I clicked on the link with the intent on voting for my favourite piccy as I normally do.(

I did the same. I also picked yours as I genuinely thought it was the best image. I quite liked the pillow fight picture by Gene Kosoy but would have preferred a wider shot.

Good luck :)

Admiral Huddy

09-12-2009, 09:23

Thats the row of houses from "So I Married An Axe Murderer"!

Man I'm tired!

Pacific heights too

Mel

09-12-2009, 18:59

'Net being very slooooooooow atm so I'll look and vote when all the kiddies have cleared off to bed.
Damn nice shot btw :) Any chance of a 1600x1200 version for wallpaper?

I made a wallpaper for you :)

http://www.arkenstudios.com/melissa/Alamo_Square_Wallpaper1600x1200.jpg

Joe 90

09-12-2009, 19:13

Voted :)

and your photo actually is my favourite. I love the line of contrast between old and new, its like two different places - really nice. fantastic photo ;D

Most of the others are of 'the bridge' which is boring.

Justsomebloke

09-12-2009, 19:36

I made a wallpaper for you :)

http://www.arkenstudios.com/melissa/Alamo_Square_Wallpaper1600x1200.jpg

You got my vote after I tried it as background. Nice pic. :cool:

Nutcase

09-12-2009, 20:53

Another vote for the better pic :)

Treefrog

12-12-2009, 01:39

Got through and voted - finally. And yes I genuinely think yours is the best of the lot.
I also like Chris Gulker's - reminds me a little of a Gillée or a Canaletto - and Greg Lato's.

And I can't see why Arin Fishkin has got such a share of the vote - the framing and composition of that shot just don't do anything for me.

And tyvm for the wallpaper hun, it's in place now and looks superb on a 22" monitor :)

Mel

17-12-2009, 20:45

Hey guys - I didn't win (I think I ended up in 4th or 5th), but my photo is still going to be included in the San Francisco Designer Series, from what I understand there will be e-cards and crap. They asked for a short bio for some reason so I don't know what they're going to do with that. Free marketing as I see it. :)