Weekly photo contest: Holidays

[Sam Sabri]

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Happy holidays! This is the time of year when holidays like Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, New Years and others are occur within really close to one another. So that's probably why we're going to make 'holidays' be our theme for the weekly photo contest. Head out and capture something festive!

Holidays

Feel free to capture a picture that best represents the holidays to you. Candy canes, dreidels, kentes and more are all in play for the contest this week!
The photo above was captured by yours truly on my Lumia 1520. It's of a Christmas tree and some ornaments near my local town square. Just some slight tweaks inside Photoshop Express for Windows Phone.

Rules

Rules are going to be just like last week. Here they are:

• Picture must be taken with a Windows Phone
• Picture must be uploaded to the contest thread (linked below)
• You have to tell us what device you used to take the picture, and any special software or apps you might have used. Editing your pictures is fine, this is art
• Feel free to add a little back story, we want to know how the picture came to be
• You must have used a valid email address to register here at Windows Central, so I know how to contact the winner
• Only ONE entry per week per person

How to use Tapatalk to post images in the Windows Central forums

• Pretty please read if you don't know how [How to upload photos]

Social

We're going to continue our social experiment from last week. Share any pictures you take for the contest on Instagram, Twitter and Fhotoroom using the following hashtags. It's a fun way to at a glance check out your competition and get inspiration. Plus we're building a community of Windows Phone mobile photographers!
Here's how it looks this week.

• #WCpc
• #HolidaysWC

This doesn't count as your entry; it's just a fun way to track the photos on social media. Your entry still needs to be in the forums!

Prize

One winner will get a $25 gift card to the Windows Phone Store. You can use it to buy apps and games in the Windows Phone Store, Windows Store or Xbox Store.
We'll pick a winner Tuesday night (December 23) at 11:59 PM ET. Winners will be announced in a blog post for the contest next week.
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Good luck and have fun!

 

[Wilsen Hernandez]

Nokia Camera, Lumia 920, ISO 800, 1/15s, no editing

Taken las christmas with my Lumia 920 (which was stolen from me)

If I win I'll buy the Wolfram Alpha app which would help me a lot with my studies (I use it a LOT in the browser), as I plan to come back to Windows Phone next year

Love seeing what photos you come up with, guys

 

[oshea]

Here is pic of my father's house with Christmas lights.
Nokia Camera Classic (lumia 830) 5 photo bracketing, and them mixed in photomatrix.

 

[Arjun Malu]

My holidays are nothing but playing pool! (No Christmas (India))
Lumia 520
Photo Editor By Aviary

-ArJuN

 

[jiann80]

Lumia 920
Taken with FastCamera
No editing

 

[Ryan Seth]

Taken with Lumia 720 using Lumia Camera,
Edited with Adobe Photoshop Express.

I took this photo just for fun. I was experimenting with the Lumia Camera and came up with this.

 

[akasrj]

Marine Drive in Mumbai is a famous holiday destination.
Taken with Lumia 920 and edited with Photoshop Exp.

 

[jlangner]

 

[Eric Walles]

Photo taken with lumia 1020 as dng + jpg so this was edited with fotoroom in the device to keep it light. Is juste the lights used on the Street of artists on My city

 

[Patrick95]

My humble house decoration.
Nokia Lumia 1520

 

[andrygun]

Holidayyy... Basically Christmas :evil:

Taken with Lumia 1020, A Christmas Tree in Sydney
Edited with Adobe Photoshop

Location: Martin Place

 

[allhill]

Christmas Tree of Lights, a small tree in local book store.
Captured using my Lumia 925, Edited with Snapseed and VSCO Cam

 

[blueskyaction]

Very wintery decorations. I chose this photo because simply looking at it brings back warm memories of the holidays. It was actually one of the first photos I ever took with the phone.

Plus, it was a lot of fun to edit with all the shadows and dramatic lighting.

Lumia 1020, Fhotoroom (contrast, filter, colour balance, focus)

 

[Robby Herbert]

Lumia 710

Edited in Tapatalk photo editor

Last Christmas, it snowed a ton on one day only and it covered our lights. I simply thought they looked cool.

 

[N_LaRUE]

Christmas Market at Lille, France
Lumia 920

 

[musek]

Hi everyone,

Here is my entry in Christmas Photo Contest:


This photo was taken 2 days ago with my Lumia 920 (Sight + some default filter), none additional software used.

Those are freshly baked ginger-cookies. It was our (me & my Wife) first attempt to make them using my old family recipe that my Mom always used.
The looks of them and the incredible aroma always remind me of my childhood.
It was a lot of work but also a great fun!

P.S. The photo is great for a Christmas-tuned lock screen.

 

[Sinan Hakeem]

My preparation for Christmas with some decoration at home. Taken by my Lumia 1020 and edited by using Fantasia painter.

 

[gil candido]

Mini advent candle, i found near my office conference room, the 3 candles already lit up following the 3 sundays of advent calendar before Christmas.

Lumia 920, Edited from Lumia Creative Studio

 

[A Dumitru]

Taken with a Nokia Lumia 920, filters from Instragram!

 

[fanatikf1]

Warm winter night, drinking coffee by the Christmas tree
Lumia 1520, Edited from Lumia Creative Studio