Win points from each @Photogames Star’s post by sharing a few of your favourite things.
The rules are below - but first, a reminder that you still have until Saturday at 6PM EST to play #TruthseekingThursday and Sunday at 6pm EST to submit your ACTION photo for Thematic Tuesday to win big points towards the 110 SBD prize pool!
Our favourite adventure item is our 2006 Ford Ka, we call it "the lady bug", which in spanish sounds less girly but still cute, El Coquito", that's the nickname we gave it because obvious reasons, it looks just like a lady bug. It means a lot for us because is the item that makes most of our adventures come true since the public transport here in Venezuela has never been the best, it's the vehicle we use too keep our daily work flow going on as well, even when it's not a big and rough land cruiser, it's small and big enough to fit all of the gear and stuff we need for our trips or to fit in very small parking spaces in the middle of he city, it's strong and fast enough to take us to the highest Venezuelan mountains or to be in that business meeting on time when we're -always- late. It's just perfect for our life style.
It's your turn! Show us your Favourite Adveture Item
RULES & HOW TO PLAY
We want you to show us in a creative way your favourite adventure item, why is it and/or what does it mean to you.
It could be a piece of photography gear, some clothes, maybe a pair of shoes, your dog, your beloved, a flashlight, a backpack, whatever it is, share it with us!
We want you to show us a piece of your own work that shows that adventure item that you'll never leave at home. We'll accept old pictures but if you decide to make a new post you'll be able to expose more than one image.
Go ahead! Grab to camera, get creative and start playing!
- Only one entry per person.
- For this game you have 2 days to play (till Sunday at 6PM EST / 11PM UTC).
- You can just participate uploading an image in the comments of this post with a description or create a blog post your own, but still post your link and your favourite adventure item image in the comments.
- If you're making a post use the tags #photogames and #fridayfavourites.
- Have fun!
SCORING
- Each Photo Star will choose to award the following points for 1st through 7th places:
- 7 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1
- (Max points allowed per person for this game is 28)
- Winners will be added to the Photo Games Leaderboard
- The total prize pool is 110 SBD and will be awarded to the point leaders at the end of the month, as described here
WEEK 4 PHOTO STARS
Visit these blogs to play #FridayFavourites and other games this week!
@derekkind
@r00sj3
@itchyfeetdonica
@scottshots
@themonkeyzuelans
QUICK SCHEDULE FOR WEEK 4
The Game Plan for the final week of Season 2:
GAME 1 - Music Match Monday - ENDED
GAME 2 - THEMATIC TUESDAY
GAME 3 - TRUTHSEEKING THURSDAY
GAME 4 - FRIDAY FAVOURITES
I love that story... and I love the name in both English and Spanish, it is pretty cute! : )
For me it's my "little camera". I don't have a mobile phone so I don't have a camera on me at every moment. What I do have though is this little pocket rocket... I love this camera. It's rough & tough and puts up with everything I put it though. Even when I have my "Big camera" (the DSLR) I still have this little camera wrapped around my wrist! It's abilities in low light are AMAZING and I often use both cameras together - sometimes this little camera trumps my big camera! Shocking I know... : )
It's a little Canon powershot underwater camera, we originally bought it as we use to go kayaking a lot and I didn't want to be without a camera on those trips. Now it has become my trusty little side companion. If it's not on my wrist it's in the side pocket of my car just waiting for when I may need it. ; )
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit
We love that everytime more and more photographers understands that "it's not the camera" you use, many people are just forgetting little cameras on garage boxes or just by giving them away without been aware that those little cameras are still totally useful. We do have "big cameras" but we're always carring a little Nikon L810 that has become our "pocket rocket".
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit
Hahaaa :D I wouldn't give this little one up for anything, it's so useful!
I've had a few scares over the years... if I'm hiking, climbing cliffs, walking on unstable rocks etc because it's always just around my wrist, if I fall it often gets a beating. It has some character... lol, a few scratches, a few chunks missing and dents even (but it's still waterproof!). Touch wood, I've never cracked the screen yet... I don't know if I could even have it fixed now... I'd have to try and hunt down another one (one that someone is "garage boxing" or "giving away")... I couldn't go without it! : )
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit
Go for it! haha It's smart to think on having your backup pocket rocket in your own "not giving away" garage box haha
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit
Hahaa, true!! : )
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit
I’m on the road without a laptop so it took me some time to find the pictures I’m looking for, but at the end I’ve found them ;)
In the last years our favorite adventure item has been the kid carrier backpack. It’s bulky, not really comfortable but invaluable to take long hikes with small children. It’s also useful to let them recharge (sleep) while covering some distance at our pace.
I hope to use it for the last time this summer, our kids are getting used to hike and from the next year also the smaller one should be able to cover some distance by himself.
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit
We loved this item! We don't have kids yet but what we do know is how importyant is having the family around. We actually just came back list night from a trip around the Venezuelan Andes Mountains and we were with another couple friends and their 11 years old son, they were always trying to teach him things about hiking and surviving stuffs, telling him stories about their trips, letting him explore around himself... The kid was never a limitant on even the hardest and longest hike, he actually looked like doubled our energy hahaha
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit
Thanks, it's awesome to have the opportunities to teach kids to love nature and adventures :)
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit
I was at a loss trying to think of what adventure item I take with me wherever I go and then I realized that it's my boots! This is the 2nd generation that may be getting replaced soon by a 3rd gen...but not just yet. Haven't got any holes in these yet. Haha. I wear these to work almost every day and especially on any adventure I go on. They're waterproof, comfy, keep my toes from stubbing things and never hurt my feet. Most shoes I attempt make my feet hurt and I come running back into my trusty boots.
Here's my way of expressing the adventure these have been on with a long exposure shot.
*My boyfriend thinks they're ugly and always gives me shit when I wear them on a day out with him, but I tell him they're badass and walk out with a smirk. Hehe.
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit
Ok so only you could pull out such an awesome photo of just "boots". This is awesome.
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit
Lol... so true!! :D
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit
I got you... I have some things like that and Vic always gives me shit about them, like some -almost- destroyed jean shorts that I use for Slackline, or a -falling in pieces- backpack that I've fixed so many times but its so comfy haha no worries, some people will never understand us haha
-W
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit
Picture taken this morning in my wildflower garden.
My adventure item is my REI Hitch Hiker backpack. I bought it 22 years ago and it has gone on every trip, adventure, and move with me. It is one of the best purchases I ever made. I was in college at the time and the cost seemed like so much. Whatever the cost was it has paid for it's self many, many times over. I also have a camera bag, I prefer this backpack to take all my things for trips, including my camera and lens.
Sometimes I pack a little too much and nice friends like Chris offer to carry it around Georgetown in the July heat.
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit
22 years is almost my whole life haha I think your backpack is ready to be hanged on a wall with a clear glass in front of it and a cool plaque with what you just wrote here
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit
Ha ha! It is still going strong, I think it even has 22 more years!
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit
The only thing that I have for more than 22 years is myself, and that's pretty much my parents work, not mine 😂😂😂
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit
I never leave home for any adventure without my sunglasses! They are so important for eye protection, especially in sunny Australia! Sunglasses are also great fashion accessories and they help you look cool in photos! I have polarizing sunglasses so they make the sky seem even bluer and the colors more vibrant. This makes the adventure even more beautiful and exciting. On a serious note...exposure to the sun's UV rays can increase chances of getting cataracts and macular degeneration so it is very important to wear sunglasses when you go out.
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit
Do you know I have never worn them... : )
However the first light of the day is the best light to let into our eyes, it's very good for our health and melatonin levels...
I probably should wear some in the harsh periods of the day, although I'm not usually out at that time of the day, other than on weekends of course. : )
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit
My eyes are sensitive to light so I don't leave home without them. I guess I don't get up early enough for the first rays of light. ;)
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit
Hahahaa... that's the best time of the day ; )
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit
This reminds me that I should be wearing sunglasses more often too 😂
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit
That is our favorite and most important travel item.
Most of our travels would be impossible without our Citroen C4 Grand Picasso. Especially, the last three years, when we travel by car only. We absolutely love it! It is our transport, our hotel (yep, it is roomy enough for our family of 5 to sleep after some DIY interior additions), our office, our restaurant and entertainment center. This car makes us as free as we want to be during our travels.
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit
We love watching everytime more and more smalls utilitaries like yours into outdoor adventures. The fact that you can fit 5 people sleeping in your Citroen is pretty impressive as well!
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit
I could have thought of many things and gadgets and travel gear I gathered while I prepared for a huge trip a few years ago. But there is one piece of 'adventure gear' that really has changed my life the past 2 years:
2,5 years ago I had an accident, which means traveling and walking in general has become more difficult for me and never will get better too. I'm a real traveler, I live for it, so it has left me depressed for quite some time. The accident even happend while I was about to travel for 9 months, instead having to return back home after only 2 months.
I had to figure out a lot the past two years, among which: how can I travel again? I might never really climb a mountain again, but 'some' walking and doing adventures is my goal!
From the post where I explain more about why I need the stick and how I started to 'embrace' it I will cut a paragraph:
I really 'break records' thanks to this stick and start to use it more and more, also in daily life. I've had to break the cycle of thinking I didn't need the help and what people would think of a 30 year old woman walking with a cane. But now I've left that behind I see how stupid that thinking is... I want to move forward, quite literally, and using a cane helps me achieve that.
Let's keep on traveling! <3
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit
Good on you... bugger what anyone else thinks, although it was probably only ever you thinking about it. Life is short, use what you can, when you can to get you where you want to go! xx
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit
Thank you @jayclar30! <3 And yes, it's true, a lot of what we think others think is actually only in your own mind, haha! Lots of lessons learned these past few years ;-) Thanks for you support!
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit
Oh you're very welcome!!
I think as we get a little older and a littler wiser we really do start caring less of what others think... I have certainly found this. You look at old folk and they're care free in that sense... I always use to think they were cute but now that I am getting older (I'm in my 40's) I'm really starting to get it. : ) It sounds like you're getting a little wiser a little earlier than I, so good for you! I have nothing but admiration for you, you set an amazing example to others! xx
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit
It's crazy how the life perception can change just because one little thing went wrong. We congratulate you and we're very glad that you're bringing back all that adventure energy and enthusiasm to your life again.
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit
<3 Thanks a lot @themonkeyzuelans! It's all about keeping that energy going, no matter what! :-)
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit
You got me excited about this one so i finally did a post I've been meaning to do for a long while
https://steemit.com/offroading/@jarvie/let-s-go-places-my-photography-improved-because-of-this-one-thing
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit
You're images are just amazing!!! I'm not a truck guy either but I'll probably change my mind one day 😁
Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
Submit