2021 figures photography competition at Chinese Forum

Photos reprinted from Chinese Forum.

Really nice and original, well done photos.
I like especially the last one - a pure soul, candid angelical crayfish escaping from the hords of demoniacal crayfish that pursue it underwater,

Very nice

Some really beautiful photos there!

All of them are so nice, and some of them so real! I love that last one especially.

Is this the order they were placed in the competition? Because I played a 'which would I rank as the best shot?' game as I scrolled back up through them, and realised my favourite three were the first three posted, in exactly that order!

Stunning photos, it would be fun to have a competition like that here!

These are beautiful! My favorite has got to be the golden eagle with the mountain backdrop.

The one based on Shirokuma Cafe is so cute, the crab on the table and the giant cat are brilliant too and I can't get over how real the crab with eggs and the frog on the leaf look.

They are all wonderful! Could you tell us something more about the photo competition? Were there any prompts/themes? Are you showing us all entries or only the winners of certain classes?

Ana wrote:

They are all wonderful! Could you tell us something more about the photo competition? Were there any prompts/themes? Are you showing us all entries or only the winners of certain classes?

We have a forum to discuss Japanese figures in China. In order to facilitate communication, we set up a QQ group. Active members share all kinds of figures information every day, and then organize and publish it on the forum. Every summer, our group will organize a photography competition with unlimited figures, as long as it is about animals and humanities, yes, and the humanities. Since 2017, five photography competitions have been held. We will vote anonymously on the photos participating in the competition, select the ranking, and award prizes to the top authors. These prizes are usually Japanese figures. I reprinted the photos of animals in STS, but the humanistic photos were not reprinted.

Here is 2020 photo competition:https://sts-forum.forumieren.de/t22119-japanese-figures-photography-competition-at-chinese-forum-in-summer-2020

The photos are very high quality. Quite a few are very funny too. Would you be happy to give us the webaddress of the Chinese forum? With Google translate, we may be able to follow some of the discussions.

rogerpgvg wrote:

The photos are very high quality. Quite a few are very funny too. Would you be happy to give us the webaddress of the Chinese forum? With Google translate, we may be able to follow some of the discussions.

Oh, I am glad to share you, but I guess you may need to register an account to see the picture.

https://tieba.baidu.com/f?kw=%E4%BA%BA%E6%96%87%E5%8A%A8%E7%89%A9%E6%89%AD%E8%9B%8B&fr=index

Thanks! Looks like a great forum. I can see the pictures fine.

Maybe we could have a photography contest here on the forum?
It could be split up into sections so everyone who takes pictures can enter, whether or not they've got suitable locations to visit or fake scenery built at home.
There could be one section for outdoor photos in real locations only, one for realistic miniature scenery/props/diorama shots, one for photoshopped/edited scenes, and one for artistic shots without scenery at all, just working with plain backgrounds and lighting in a creative way. No prizes or anything, just fun for people who like taking photos which fit the various categories, and fun for the rest of us to see them and vote for favourites.

I think that would be great fun- though I can't take a decent photo to save my life. Be fun to watch though!