Windows Central photo contest - Water

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The photo contest is back, and we've changed things up once again. We took a week off last week with it being the Easter holiday weekend for many of us on the Mobile Nations team. But now we're going to change it up again and we're giving more people more time to enter. The contests will now each run for two weeks, and we're going to try out some new prizes along with it.

You'll find all of the relevant information below. But onto this weeks topic, Water. Something commonplace in life, yet that still lends to taking many different styles of shot. The one up top is a quick sample I took this past weekend with the Lumia 640 XL on a gloomy afternoon. But you guys will certainly do better.

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

We've got a handy guide for that!

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

Social

We're going to continue our social sharing of entries. 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
- #WaterWC

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

We're changing up the prizes a little bit from now on. This weeks winner will get an LG Tone Pro Bluetooth headset courtesy of the Windows Central Store.

We'll pick a winner next Saturday night (April 25) at 11:59 PM ET. Winners will be announced in a blog post for the next contest

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Model: Nokia Lumia 1320;
Softwares: Lumia Creative Studio, Topaz Labs and Adobe Photoshop;
Location: Olovo (Bosnia and Herzegovina).
Photo was taken this winter on the river Krivaja in Olovo (Bosnia and Herzegovina). My dad and I were on fishing.Day was really cold. :)

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Model: Nokia Lumia 830
Software: Lumia Creative Studio
Location: Fort Lee, NJ (Hudson River w/ New York City skyline)
This photo was taken from the terrace of a high rise apartment overlooking New York City. We're now transitioning into spring so this was one of the first nice days!

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Lumia 920 Foggy Bay from the stern of the FV Champion south of Ketchikan Alaska + looking from the beach towards Nichols Passage

We are less than one week away from the anniversary date of the OKC Bombing so I thought this would be an appropriate photo to share. This photo was taken last month with my Lumia 1020, edited in Photoshop. It is an appropriately solemn photo to commemorate a solemn day in our history.
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Taken with an HTC One m8 for Windows. Edited with built in HTC photo editor using the HDR filter. Taken from the ground floor of my hacienda on a cold January day in 2015.

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Location: Niagara Falls

Model: Nokia Lumia 920

Used basic fix option using basic phone software

Taken in 2013 during a vacation. Wish I had my 1520 that day, photo may have come out even better.

Model: Nokia Lumia 1520
Software: Lumia Camera w/ Rich Capture on
Location: Edmond's Pier at Edmonds, Washington
This Photo was taken at a hilltop of the Pier/Beach facing Kingston. The Black Clouds were rolling in, so I got to capture what was left of the light.

Lumia 1520 Adobe Photoshop Express

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This photo was taken with a Lumia 822. No editing was done to this photo at all except for a little cropping. I was on the beach in Brigantine, NJ for a surf fishing tournament and took this pic of the pre dawn colors over the ocean.
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Lumia 930, Harbor of Lazise at Lake Garda in Italy, no post-processing
incredibly big waves for this lake, took me a while to get this shot... :-)

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Nokia Lumia 920
No editing.

Honestly, most of my water shots are, while they look nice, outgunned by those I see already.

Phone: Lumia 521
Camera App: Photosynth, edited using the Auto-Fix in the photos app
Location: Professor's Lake, Ontario, Canada

I took a trip to Ontario last summer, and had to take a panorama of this beautiful lake! Attachment 102028

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Captured by Lumia 1020, no effects.

Saint John, Canada.

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Seagulls Flying, photo taken with my Nokia Lumia 930 at the beach during sunset in Portugal. Just cropped and edited it a bit with the basic Photo app on my PC. As you can see there were several photographers trying to snap some cool photos! :)

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​"My Slice of Heaven"
​Taken with Lumia Icon
No editing, just pure nature and a good reason to work all week long...:cool:

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Lumina 920
Lavaca River, somewhere in Texas, late November

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Lumia 635, Picture cropped, Chincoteague January 2015

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Lumia 822 Ocean City MD 2013

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This is a photo taken with a Nokia Lumia 1020 while filming in northern Iceland. Everywhere I go I bring the 1020 to photograph and video the behind the scenes stuff. We film a low budget travel show that airs in Canada. The fellow to the right is a guy we met from Bali, great guy.

The beside the scenes footage we shot with the 1020 is being made into a 29 minute episode which will to air in Canada this summer, the whole episode on a 1020!

Photo : Taken with a Nokia 1020, 1/250 sec, f 2.2, ISO 100, tweaked in Adobe Lightroom.

Posted for Fun : We loved Iceland, here is a picture of us at the MS office in Iceland with a big Nokia 1020 sign!

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This was taken last year around September with a Lumia 1520. The place is Second Beach in Vancouver, Canada.
I was jogging along the shoreline and saw this beautiful sunset and the reflection in the water. The dying light and the calmness of the water is just a wonderful experience.
Edited : Adobe PS Express

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Nokia 1520
No editing involved.

Stopped off at a sandbar on a kayak trip in the Florida Keys, had a few beers and thought it would make a good picture.

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Taken with a 925. No editing. On a deck off of the Potomac River in Virginia. Great sunset with great friends and some great beers.

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HTC 8X. Taken inside the car. Using PS with nik software color efex 4.

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luray cavern in virginia...if you take note the bottom is an underground lake reflecting the roof. Shot on my trusty lumia 920 no editing.

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sunset over Lincoln Memorial last november. Taken with a Lumia 920 and edited with lumia creative studio!

Taken on a Nokia Lumia Icon, edited in Nokia Creative Studio (I think?). My office is located in a park, and I took this during my lunch break some time in June, 2014.

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Device: 1520
Location: Seaport in Chester, PA
This is around where I work.
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Model: Lumia 1520
Edition Software: Adobe Photoshop Express
Location: Piaui, Brazil

This photo was taken on February, during my vacation before classes. It's a beautiful beach at the state of Piauí, in the northeast of Brazil. Kite surfing is a common sport in this region, so I took this picture accidentaly and decided to call it: No, it's not bird!

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Taken with my Nokia Lumia 1020 while visiting the town I grew up in, near Santa Cruz, CA. Some very minor adjustments in the Photoshop Express app.

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Phone: Lumia 1520 32gb
Shot with Lumia Camera 5.0
Edited: Lumia Creative Studio

This photo was shot on March 30, 2015 on Loon Lake in Wixom, Michigan on the first warm and windy day with gusts in excess of 40 mph. The lake had been completely frozen over most of the winter, until this day, "Ice-Breakup Day". The powerful forces of the wind from the east were enough to put in motion an ice sheet 12 inches thick and about half the surface area of this 120 acre lake. Once an ice sheet goes in motion, nothing will stop it.... especially not our neighbors dock and boat lift. Total loss!

Brian Mitchell

Lumia 1020
Used Lumia Panorama

Cherry Blossom at dawn in DC looking over tidal basin.

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Captured using Lumia 920, using default Lumia camera app. Picture taken while on Babymoon at the Great Barrier Reef in Australia. :smile:
No editing done.

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Sea and the sunset taken with Lumia 920.

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"Droplet"
Lumia 1020
Xenon flash
Post-zoom

Phone: Lumia 635
Used Lumia Panorama
Location: Mazatlán, Sinaloa México
Cliff Diver's Point

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Lumina 1020
Lumia camera
Cropped

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Model: Nokia Lumia 720
Softwares: Taken using Lumia Camera. No Editing
Location: Palolem Beach, Goa, India. This was taken during a boat ride to capture the sun rising from behind the trees.

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Taken in Estes Park, Colorado. My girlfriend and I have made it a tradition to make a road trip out West every summer and spend a week or so in Estes Park! The town itself is stunning, but the real beauty is found when you explore the Rocky Mountain National Park literally adjacent to the town. I used a little bit of filtering in Adobe Photoshop Express to make things pop a little, but most of it is natural beauty. I'm still humbled by the sights everytime I visit.

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Phone : Lumia 730
Camera app used : Lumia Camera
Place : Sabarmati Riverfront, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India
Editing : No
Shutter speed : 1/1250s
ISO : ISO100

I took this shot around a month ago while jogging on the banks of Sabarmati river, Ahmedabad.
Also I want to give a try to different shutter speed options and this shot is a result of one of those experiments.

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captured on Lumia 630.
Edited using Photoshope Express

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Device: Nokia Lumia 730
Editing: Adobe Photoshop CS6 (Curves Adjusted)
Location: Dahanu, India

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Device: Lumia 925
App used: Lumia Camera (No Edits)
Place: Nainital Lake, Nainital, India

This picture of sunrise was taken @6:30 AM on Dec 25th, 2014.

Photo taken in place called Krupa na Vrbasu near my city.
Phone: Lumia 1520
No editing.
Link to original file: http://1drv.ms/1GFu6Qt

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I took this picture on my Lumia 920 at Lake Tahoe last October. I had driven up there with my wife and the day we were leaving Tahoe, we found a lovely spot where we could wade into the water. My wife as you can tell from the picture enjoyed every moment of it!

Editing:
Photoshop Express: for straightening, White balance and bumping up the shadows.
Sophie Lens HD: for the filter effect (Fashion->Dune)
Fantasia Painter : To remove some buoys that were floating in the distance.

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Clicked with a Lumia 830
Edited on Adobe Photoshop Express
Location: A remote village in Kerala, India.

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Lumia 925 - Edited with camera 360
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Phone: HTC 8X
Software: ProShot
No editing, no filters
Location: Südstrand - Göhren, Germany

This photo is taken few days ago on my way to work.

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Model : Lumia 1520
Software used : Fotor
This photo was taken two days back when i was going to pick my wife from her office in the late evening.

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A view of the temple tank near my home in Chennai, South India. Taken using Lumia 830; auto mode; no editing done...

Naval, Biliran Island, Visayan Sea, Eastern Visayas, Philippines
1/1332 sec, ISO 100, Exposure -0.7, Lumia Camera 5, Lumia 830.

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Device: Lumia 830
Software: Lumia Camera 5 with HDR

This picture was taken in Berlin, Tegel (Germany) while being on a jaunt with my family.

Except adjusting the HDR there was no pre-processing made.

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Model: Nokia Lumia 820;
Softwares: Lumia Panorama;
Location: Salacgrīva (Latvia).
Photo was taken during Positivus Festival 2013. River is called Salaca.

very nice photos.

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Phone:- Nokia Lumia 625
Editing:- Lumia Creative Studio
Location:- Kuwait

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Phone: L925
Captured with: Lumia Camera
Location: Germany, Hamburg at the Alster
No editing
I was at work and we need to stay near the doctor, so we can react fast if something come in. I was lucky because the home of the doctor was just 50m of the Alster, it was a easy decision to get out of the car and eating my breakfast on a parkbench while joggers behind and watersportler in front of me using the nice day.

Took this pic from a bridge with Lumia520 edited with camera 360 sight

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This was a picture I token with my Lumina 535 with no filters of Ellen valley in wales

This is a photo I took whilst walking on my lunchbreak late last year. The water is Darley Abbey wier in Derbyshire (UK) and the brick building is the historic mill, which played a part in starting the industrial revolution. The water in the foreground flows under the bridge on the left hand side and used to power the waterwheels which fed power to the mills. Although the wheels are long gone, the plan is to reintroduce them again as a way to provide power for the new companies that occupy the mill. The mills are now home to the IT company I work for as well as a bunch of small and artisan companies.

It was taken with a Nokia 820 and has had no manipulation at all.

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Model: Nokia Lumia 930
Software: Fotor
Location:Amsterdam (ijburg)

Captured with my 1020, last week. Went out for a drive on a rainy day
Editing app: Camera360 Sight
Filter used: Supercell
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Taken in Iceland on a Lumia 1020

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Model: Lumia 730
Software: No special effects used
Location: Bhopal , MP INDIA
Captured at Upper Lake, Bhopal on beautiful evening on sunday.
- RK

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Chaos. Taken with my Lumia 720 and edited with Photoshop CS5. People always try to get the water texture to be smooth but I like all the chaos

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Phone: Nokia Lumia 830
Software: Lumia Camera (no filters, and no editing)
Place: Serbia, Čačak. River Morava

Photo is taken in early morning, around 7:00AM.
I was there to meet up with my friends. That morning we went to climb to the one of those two mountains.
It was a fine day :smile:

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Model: Nokia Lumia 830;
Softwares: Lumia Creative Studio
Location: Ivano-Frankivsk (Ukraine).
Photo was taken this Spring evening on the Lake near the central park .Nice Climate to roam around!!!!!!!!!!!

After a rainy day in Finland near the lake Päijänne.
Camera: Lumia 710
Built in camera app
No any post-processing used

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I took this picture on our first warm spring day in Hannover (N. Germany) on a walk through one of our extensive city parks.
Nothing was cropped, but I changed the saturation a bit with Windows Photo Editor.
Camera: Lumia 830 (Lumia Camera app)

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Colored water :P
Shot using the default camera app
Filter : Tsar (applied using Fhotoroom)
Location : Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre, Malaysia. #KLCC (Behind the Iconic Twin Towers)
Device : Nokia Lumia 920

On a side note : it can only be seen in the evening or better yet when its dark.
I'll add the hashtags later.
I can be found on Instagram : vsmh96 or Fhotoroom : vsmh

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Location: Ballyheigue Beach, Kerry, Ireland.
Phone: Lumia 535.
Edited with Adobe Photoshop Express.

My first time entering the photo contest. This is a picture I took on Easter Sunday, one week ago, during a beautiful sunny day. In Ireland we don't get many days like this so this picture is one of a kind. Hope you like it :)

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Must say that your 710 is still snapping strongly :)

Lovely fishing boat in Kalk Bay harbor near Cape Town. Lumia 720 and edited with Fotor.

Taken looking down Loch Ness from Aonach Mor at the Highland Club, Fort Augustus, UK‎
Date - September 2013
Taken on a HTC 8x - no modifications to it

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This photo is taken with Nokia Lumia 520. Captured with classic camera app on phone and edited in Lumia Creative Studio and Photoshop. Photo was taken last autumn in Bosnia and Herzegovina. It was rain all day, but at the end of day there was beautiful sunset.

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photo taken after rain at night by lumia 620 by the lumia camera app. just a touch of editing by creative studio.

Some things just look better in the dark.
Took this photo during the early days with my Lumia 920. Just some water droplets on a CD and some creativity. :)
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Captured using ProShot on my Lumia 920 (Lumia Camera with full manual controls wasn't available back then). Mostly unedited, just some cropping maybe.

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Location: Roseisle Beach, Scotland - Sunset
Phone: Lumia 1020

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Cherry Blossom Festival in DC April 11, 2015

Lumia 1520 with minor cropping and color adjustment in Photoshop

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The Bay at Toms River N.J.
shot with a Lumina 810 using Fotolens

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Phone: Lumia 820
Captured: Lumia Camera
Software: Adobe Photoshop Express Windows
Location: St-Petersburg, Russia. Neva river.
Date: Nov 20, 2014

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Water drops on our car's glass roof (picture taken from within the car).
Lumia 1020

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Taken with Lumia 830 in Moscow. Everything on auto - no post effect.

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Model: Nokia Lumia Icon
Location: New Castle, NH
Software: Lumia Camera
Was just getting back home from taking the boat out with my dad last summer.

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North Georgia creek, taken with Lumia 1520, edited in Fotoroom.

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Model: Nokia Lumia 1020
Softwares: Lumia Camera
Location: Amman/Jordan
Photo taken with a Tiffen macro lens taped to the phone.

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St. Joe's Michigan. My old Lumia 920. No filters

Taken with Lumia 930 using Lumia Camera 4 and edited with Photoshop for Windows Phone.

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Lumia 1020, Location : Kollam, Kerala, India. No editing.

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Phone: Lumia 920
Location: Namsen, Norway
Software: Lumia Camera

Photo taken in 2013 when I was going Salmon Fishing in Namsen, Norway

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Finally the photo contest link is back up working.
Shot with the lumia 1020 at the Grand mosque in dubai
Edited and cropped with Adobe photoshop express
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Taken with Lumia 930 and edited with Fotor
Furesø (lake) in Denmark

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Phone : Lumia 925
Location : Negombo Lagoon, Sri Lanka
Edited Software : Lumia Creative Studio

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Rocky seashore of Ilocos Sur in the Philippines. Taken using a Lumia 1020, edited with Photoshop Express and filtered by Fhotoroom.

Other photos posted on my instagram: @kennethologist86 :)

Misogi

Last year, I made one of dream trips. Japan in Spring. While in Osaka, I visited the world-famous Osaka Aquarium. This is a waterfall cascading into the otter enclosure there. While everyone else was busy snapping the otters, I made a day-time long exposure (2 seconds) on my Lumia 1020 and a variable ND filter attached using a rubber band. No tripods were allowed so this took me a good 10 minutes handheld.

Edited slightly with Creative Studio.

All the best to everyone! Have a great week ahead :)

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No Nuthin' - Exactly as the camera captured.

Sunset following a storm front on Cobbham River Lake in Ontario. Was on a fly in fishing trip. Totally off the grid - there was a satellite phone available for emergencies. Had solar and wind generators available for power. In addition to a decent camera for the trip, having off-line Here maps with GPS available was adequate enough to forgo a dedicated GPS on the lake.

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I've shot this photo on the coast of Danube (Sződliet, Hungary) on a cloudy afternoon with my Nokia Lumia 625 using SophieLensHD.