Buzz Lightyear

It has already won 1st place twice before. Do you doubt it is any good?

Placed 4^th in the challenge.

Placed 7^th in the challenge.

Jay - you should know better than to say something like that . . . you with with a number of exceptional, superb photos yourself - taken with your non-DSLR Panasonic FZ150, no less!

Placed 8^th in the challenge.

Placed 10^th in the challenge.

Wonder how many people caught the reference to the British "shag" colloquialism?

Well . . . perhaps 47 years old is a "young man" to showmeyourpics.

Can't get star trails in only 8/5 of a second; must be a layered composite - but really cool just the same.

Placed 10^th in the challenge.

Nailed it!

Placed 6^th in the challenge. Still roaming freely on the open range of southern Colorado.

NPW UK - a true gentleman's reply if I ever saw one. At first, I perceived your saying "I shall not participate" as more of a sour-grapes protest, which didn't sit right with me. I reacted because...

Appreciate the educational information.

Clever!

Placed 10^th in the challenge. Opened in 1974, and designed by architect John Portman, the Hyatt Hotel was one of the most innovative and unusual architectural buildings in America at the time. It boasts the largest hotel atrium in the world (42K sq. ft.) The property was used several times as a filming location, including Irwin Allen's 1974 disaster film The Towering Inferno, the 1977 Mel Brooks comedy High Anxiety, Don Siegel's spy thriller Telefon of the same year, and the 1979 science fiction thriller Time After Time.

Placed 14^th in the challenge.

Placed 7^th in the challenge.

Photo manipulation I don't mind - if it's done tastefully and looks realistic. If the OP was trying to provide an example of the possibilities - this is a terrible example of how to do photo ...

Ah - you're posting from hell now, right?