Competition win

I love competition. I was a competitive cyclist for many a year and when you change hobbies it sticks with you. Photography is different as it's soooooooo subjective. A couple of months ago I started actively seeking competitions and I won one...get that!!

The image above won first place in a monthly competition at www.trustedreviews.com where the theme was "Power of Nature". I was thrilled with the win and seeing what stiff competition there was I was equally bowled over. The prize was a Panasonic Lumix DMC LX3 (as seen below), a Sandisk Extreme III 2GB card and a card reader.

Here's to next Month.

Stoned

Bless me Father for I have sinned - it's almost a month since my last posting. Above is the aptly named "Stoned". I'm looking at film photography and I was blown away by an image taken on a Bronica SQ-Ai camera. I wasn't trying to replicate it but you get the idea of stones and DOF in your mind and you try.

As ever the original can bee seen by clicking on the image above. This one is just a crop, a conversion, a little curves adjustment (not too much - not too contrasty) a "Lens Blur" overlay with a horizontal mask to further emphasise the DOF then a little sharpening.