Monthly #124 - Angles Competition

Thank you everyone for your entry's. As is usual a very varied selection of image which is great to see. All of which satisfied the entry conditions and my topic brief.

It has been a difficult month for us, at the start of the month we came down with Covid which we are still recovering from. At the beginning of last week I had such an irregular heartbeat, I suspect from the after effects of Covid as I have an underlying heart condition, that I spent a night in A&E in Exeter. And finally on Saturday our son was badly injured in a very distressing freak car accident when he was run over by my wife his mother. He was taken by Air Ambulance to the main Hospital in Plymouth and remains in the ICU. He is doing well, had a 6 hour operation yesterday and is having another operation on Friday. So make sure you all take care and tell your loved ones you love them.

Back to the competition, I will keep this brief as my mind is rather distracted so I won’t be making my usual individual comments for all the images.

1st place ‘Angle de vue’ by Francisbd – Whilst this may not have the most angles that main angle makes for a very striking powerful composition plus I’m a real sucker for a good B&W image and I just loved it, so very well done!

2nd Place Well I’m going to award this to two entries, ‘Puddingangles!’ by drofmit', great idea, lovely colours it looks good enough to eat. And to ‘Liverpool One shopping centre upper level at night’ by newbiek50user, great perspective angles punched through by the verticals, nice one.

3rd Place ‘Angled Umbrellas’ by Noelcmn, loved the bold colours and strong frame filling composition, well spotted!

And an HM for all the other entries which I have enjoyed immensely.

So again I’d like to thank you all for taking the time and letting me see your work. What a great exclusive forum we rare Pentax Users have!

So over to you Francisbd, I greatly look forward to whatever topic you can come up with.

Cheers
Mike

Mike
Thanks for the comp. Hope your son makes a speedy recovery

Regards

Michael

Hi Michael,

Thanks for your kind thoughts, so far so good for my son, still a long way to go. The NHS ED, ICU and Surgical teams were amazing, I will be eternally grateful for the care they gave.

Mike

what an awful week for you and yours, best wishes for a speedy recovery for your son. Regards John

Thank you Mike for choosing my photo. The very beautiful photographs of the other participants deserved to be at the top without a doubt!
I wish your son a very good recovery.
I hope you and your wife recover from all these emotions soon.
Take good care of yourself.
Best regards

Francis



Francis

Firstly, wishing your son a speedy recovery and you a return to good health and both you and your wife a speedy return to normal emotions!
Secondly... and almost of minor importance....
Thanks for the coveted 2nd= place... it was good enough to eat! The reason it is cropped the way it is.... is there is 1/3rd of it missing!!
Congratulations to Francisbd, newbiek50user and Noelcmn for their co-podia places.

Thanks guys, your kind thoughts and wishes are much appreciated.

We have just got back from Plymouth after visiting our son, he is doing well, he had a rough day yesterday but is feeling somewhat better today. He says he can't wait to have the second operation (on Friday) and get that out of the way and then on to the road to recovery. It's going take us all some time to recover from this trauma.

Mike