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If you haven’t shot anything green yet I’m thinking today (St. Paddy’s Day) would be the perfect opportunity….I mean you DO have until Friday to show us “Green” and I am betting you will almost definitely see something green today.

Here are a few more entries in our “Green ” challenge.

~ Meegan M. Reid

“Green Harem Girl” by Larry Bennett (Kitsap Photography Guild)

“Blast Protection Trumps Elegance”  by Steve Johnson
***note from the photographer: Green sandbags obstruct hand carved wooden doors of an iraqi office side-entrance.***

“Not Easy Being Green” by billrafferty#251192

***note from the photographer: Early Spring Comes To Port Orchard…with Ribbbitttt.***

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That Meegan is a clever one. Springing the “green” Kitsap Frames Photo Challenge on us, and she just happens to be assigned to shoot the St. Patrick’s Day Parade in Bremerton. Surely a coincidence…

Enough with the snark…if you click the picture above (or here) you’ll be whisked away to an 18-photo gallery from Meegan that’ll give you a good flavor for the parade.

And let’s thank our lucky clovers that this shot is only cheeky in the figurative sense. Kilts and low angles = potential disaster.

- Derek Sheppard

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You guys are fast. Must be something about our “green” photo challenge. Here are the first round of entries. Some of you have submitted multiple photos, which is cool, but I’m going to limit my HTML-ing and grab just one for this blog entry. As always, you’re encouraged to take a new photo during the challenge, but older stuff is always accepted. Happy shooting.

- Derek Sheppard

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That’s right I’m going with a St. Paddy’s Day themed challenge because well why the heck not (plus that means I can shoot mine tomorrow at the parade).

Kitsap Frames Photo Challenge #8: Green

Whatever the subject or whatever the scene show me photos that have a Green (the color, the word, the feeling of being “green with envy” etc.) theme.

You’ll have till March 19, 2010 to show us your images of  Green so get shooting.

Here’s a couple of shots to get you thinking about it:

Ebony Scott of Bremerton isn’t walking in the desert she is passing a mural on a building at fifth and Warren in Bremerton on a wet day. She is walking with her sons William Balter,5, left, and Jeremiah Balter,2, behind her.

LARRY STEAGALL  |  KITSAP SUN

A pair of parrots perch on the back deck of a sailboat in Brownsville Marina.

MEEGAN M. REID |  KITSAP SUN

“Sleepy Statue” by Derek Sheppard

***To recap: Every week we will post a new photography “challenge” to help build on all of our current photography skills and to encourage everyone to get out and get shooting (cameras not guns). While we encourage you to shoot the challenge in the week that it is assigned, we will however accept entries taken prior to the challenge assignment date.

When you’ve got your favorite shot, login to the Kitsap Sun Your Media Site (if you don’t already have a login, you can quickly set it one up) and upload your image to the Kitsap Frames Photo Challenge Channel (the channels run along the left hand side of the page, again if you can’t seem to get it into the channel just upload it normally and send me an email and we’ll move it).

We’ll post the entries as we get them and pick a few “winners” (again you only win bragging rights as of now) at the close of the challenge week.***

~Meegan M. Reid

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We had very few entries for our Kitsap Frames Spring Challenge (she typed very disappointingly while shaking her head).

The entries we did receive were all fantastic and this challenge winner is Larry Bennett, of the Kitsap Photography Guild, with his Seabeck Spring Triptych! Not only were his images strong but he also used a previous technique discussed which did earn him extra suck-up points.

Here are a couple spring shots from our Kitsap Sun staff:

Daffodils  highlight a fast walker on the Poulsbo Waterfront Park Thursday afternoon . (Larry Steagall  |  Kitsap Sun)

Mt. Rainier and the Seattle skyline are seen through the haze as people walk along Point No Point in Hansville during low tide.

(MEEGAN M. REID |  KITSAP SUN)

“Cherry Blossoms in Bremerton” by Angela Dice (staff)

***note from the photographer: A look from the cherry blossom tree at the corner of Kiwanis Field in Bremerton. I with I was taller or had brought a stairstep, though.***

And a last minute entry!

Spring? (Taken after Friday's hail) - morriganfae

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For a variety of reasons – maybe a couple of baseball-related projects in the hopper – I’ve got our national pastime on my mind.

The photo above comes from “The Commons”, a collection of public-domain photos on Flickr.

I’ve written about the collection before. Baseball, even.

In other news, I knew about the dead-ball era and the recent steroids era. I don’t recall seeing “The Force” era, but here’s the proof. Photos don’t lie.

- Derek Sheppard

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There are few places where journalists witness emotion as raw and unfiltered as sports. Be it victory or defeat.

In the moments after the Bremerton Knights were knocked out of the state basketball tournament today, this photo certainly shows that. But if you read Nathan Joyce’s story, coach Casey Lindberg has a good message:

Meegan’s been busy shooting the games down in Tacoma, and I think it’s safe to say she’s come back with some memorable shots. Here’s another from today’s game.

- Derek Sheppard

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Sports photos don’t always get the attention they deserve, so do yourself a favor and click the photo above to see a Meegan Reid gallery of photos she took at yesterday’s state basketball tourney in Tacoma, where the Bremeton Knights, making their first state appearance since 1999, nearly upset No. 1-seed Rainier Beach. There’s some good stuff in there.

The following blank lines are reserved for Meegan to enlighten us on this assignment, and shooting basketball in general:

By the way, the Knights are playing now in the consolation round. Follow sports reporter Nathan Joyce’s live blog HERE.

- Derek Sheppard

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It’s fair to say I’ve been a little, uh, lazy about entering the photo challenges lately.

Prepare yourself for the old two birds, one stone trick.

Bird 1: Spring.

Bird 2: Me to my editors: “Do you have a photo for the Pacific Avenue construction story yet?” Them. “Nope.” Me: “Ok, I have an idea.”

Stone:

Nothing says spring like cherry blossoms. And road construction. Admit it, I’m right.

(And the story it goes with.)

- Derek Sheppard

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In about 20 minutes (12:45 p.m.) the Bremerton Knights kick off the state basketball tourney against a tough opponent, Rainier Beach. Click the photo above, or HERE, to watch the game live.

Nathan Joyce had a preview today on the team, which is making its first state tournament appearance since 1999.

- Derek Sheppard

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