Watering Can picturesApprentice Photoshop Pictures Contest - 27 image entries
Contest Directions: Photoshop this watering can (click to download) any way you wish. Examples may include re-designing the watering can, merging this watering can with some objects or animals, place it into some environment, movies, paintings. These are just some ideas.
You have 3 days to submit your entry. Submitting it early will give you plenty of time to read the critique comments and edit your image accordingly.
Many thanks to Keb for sponsoring this contest and to Stock Exchange for providing the source image.
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Jackpot: 1st place: $1.5, 2nd place: $0.9 , 3rd place: $0.6
Started: 2/10/2008 6:00:00 AM, Ended: 2/14/2008 6:00:00 AM
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| | Watering can is a vessel, used for watering the plants.
Watering can is an elementary facility for drip-feeding. Modern drip-feed and micro drip irrigation systems are more complex but are more effective.
Device and use:
Components of watering can are body, handle, spout and scatterer. Special shape of watering can facilitates delivery of water in required dosage at right place. With the help scatterer (usually detachable), watering device can work in mode "rain".
Watering cans are made of zinc-plated steel and also from polyethylene, ceramics and other materials.
Small watering cans (more often with capacity of upto 2 liters) are used for houseplants, with stringent requirements to design and appearance than for the big watering cans (capacity up to 15 liters) for gardening. Apart from this, the spout of small watering cans is longer with respect to the body when compared to big watering cans.
Watering can in art:
Though the watering can is a consumer good, it has found a place in art, proves Pierre-Auguste Renoir's picture “Girl with watering can” (1876).
Alternative literary newspaper of Germany of 1970s was called "Watering can".
Uniform distribution of water by watering can with scatterer led to the concept “Principle of watering can”. |
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