"Creative Cacti" -Contest #15 (Submissions Only)

Post by **daiv** » Tue Jan 23, 2007 1:31 am

Calling on GeneS! Calling on Hob! Time to release your creative energy in Contest #15 -Creative Cacti. Anything goes, just remember voters will be asked to judge creativity above all. Use Photoshop to make a wild image. Or set your cactus up in an unusual setting -Like underwater!?! (Or make it look that way.)

The submissions will run from the 1-22-2007 to the 1-28-2007 while the voting will run from the 1-29-2007 to the 2-4-2007.

Post all your pictures for "Creative Cacti" -Contest Number 15 in this thread.

Contest will run from January 22 through February 4

You have Until January 28, 2007 to enter a picture in the contest.

Please review this post for the contest rules: http://www.cactiguide.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=888

Let the contest begin!

Post by **daiv** » Tue Jan 23, 2007 1:33 am

Ok as usual I'll kick things off. I decided to go with a simple Photoshop style trick that turns this Parodia buiningii into ....

Tony · Post by **Tony** » Tue Jan 23, 2007 2:44 am

Heres a new hybrid I've been working on.
Fertilization was tricky and I sat on them for a week but had to stop after they hatched!

Gullustechinopsis Anthonii

peter · Post by **peter** » Tue Jan 23, 2007 4:39 pm

"Cacti Universe"

hob · Post by **hob** » Tue Jan 23, 2007 6:18 pm

and then it just disappeared

the only editing done was to downsize it for posting, the rest was done "in camera"

GeneS · Post by **GeneS** » Wed Jan 24, 2007 5:54 pm

In a different view of the contest, I have chosen to capture creativity rather then attempt to produce it myself.

I have always been intrigued by portals. Beginning when, as a youth in a very small middle america farm town, the only portal out was the library and my own imagination.

To me, each opening; figuratively, virtual or imaginative is a place to explore and revel. This site being an excellent example.

Here is a creative portal that I would love to explore!!

http://dgimages.smugmug.com/photos/123794569-O.jpg

GeneS

legolas29 · Post by **legolas29** » Thu Jan 25, 2007 2:33 pm

Pachycereus marginatus

cactusveda · Post by **cactusveda** » Thu Jan 25, 2007 4:46 pm

this is a new cacti species growing on .....

Buck Hemenway · Post by **Buck Hemenway** » Thu Jan 25, 2007 5:28 pm

What happened? Where'd the ground go? Oh, it's moving day.

Helena · Post by **Helena** » Thu Jan 25, 2007 7:29 pm

The Cactus Reef. Or am I only dreaming?

YumAz · Post by **YumAz** » Fri Jan 26, 2007 1:43 pm

edbartlett · Post by **edbartlett** » Fri Jan 26, 2007 6:01 pm

My first graft

[img][url=http:225:200]http://www.galleries.thegardenforums.or ... mbine1.jpg[/img]

MrCrimson · Post by **MrCrimson** » Sat Jan 27, 2007 12:22 am

The reason why its called "Astrophytum":
(What ? Never heard of "Buzz Aldrin field numbers" ?)

Mark · Post by **Mark** » Sat Jan 27, 2007 2:47 am

Here is my enrty a fero. in the snow.
https://www.t-mobilepictures.com/158037 ... 9866306026

Mark

toddo · Post by **toddo** » Sun Jan 28, 2007 4:10 am

I've always wanted a blue flowering cactus -

(thumbnail - click)