Weekly Competition # 121 - Windows Competition

Thank you all for entering – an impressive selection this week and a huge entry. I think it is a record entry ? It certainly feels like it.

I now realise that I should have chosen “Examples of Modern Sculpture on Easter Island” as the topic !

First – the usual disclaimer that what follows are just my personal thoughts and I hope that nobody will be upset and perhaps a few might agree with some of what I have said !

As I had hoped – a variety of ideas in interpreting the ‘WINDOWS’ theme and they demonstrate the flexibility of photography. Some entries tell a story. Some are striking graphics. Some just capture a moment. And in some cases, photography plays tricks: what am I looking at?

An interesting choice at times between what is technically excellent and what makes a pleasing picture – which is terribly subjective, of course. Ideally, I’m looking for both. Personally, I feel that the best of this good bunch are those that (as per the brief) are primarily about the window(s) and not just a façade that has windows in it.


Bob and his Pentax - Berkley Castle
I’m assuming this is a typo for Berkeley Castle in Gloucestershire? If so, it’s a ‘March’ built to keep out the invading Welsh and site of the imprisonment and very grisly murder of the English King Edward II in the 14th century.



So the subject of this good photograph certainly has a tale to tell – or perhaps to try to keep to itself given your accompanying caption: ‘The wall of the castle seems to be closing in over this window almost as if the 'skin' of the castle is trying to heal over the wound caused by having a window punctured into it.’ It’s an interesting feature.

The excellent detail of the stonework and subdued but lovely colours provide an excellent setting for the ancient wooden frame and window itself. Lighting a little flat but a nice one.



Bforbes – Pegworth Building - Calgary
I’m not sure if or how you’ve treated this photograph but it has resulted in a fine abstract-like graphic. Very clean and simple. I couldn’t identify it on the internet under this name but this glass tower, reflecting the blue of the sky in the windows with an overall black, grey and cream colour palette makes a great photograph.

Very, very slight niggle. Should the left hand side have been very slightly straightened up to the perpendicular – the windows here aren’t quite vertical and maybe crop a few mm off the right hand edge? Hard to beat though!



KenH – How many windows do you want?
A positive wealth of windows in this cityscape of what looks like a mainly Victorian part of Edinburgh, including what seems to be the City Arts Centre, based in a former warehouse. The overall effect is completely higgledy-piggledy; you wonder how some of these buildings (especially the houses in the middle of the photograph) were ever built – and remain standing too, with their windows intact!

To me, there is perhaps too much emphasis on buildings rather than windows, no matter how many windows there are. It looks as if the photo was taken on a rather dull day so the picture is a little bit flat: Fickle stuff, weather! But a good B&W conversion and nice and sharp.



dougf8 – Windows at night
You’ve created an interesting photograph here: the (reflected) reality in the right-hand window and abstract light in the left-hand one are good.

There is often a problem with night-time photos, when you could do with just a little more light to bring the windows and their reflections up slightly. To my mind, they don’t quite stand out of the wall background enough; a touch more clarity and detail would have helped. I think I would lift the overall brightness level and clone out the lettering in the very top left-hand corner.

A good first entry and hopefully you will enter many more.



davidtrout – Vue Pompidou
Wacky EXIF information from David, as always – I must try one of these S2 Windows cameras!

I’m not overly keen on the Pompidou Centre either but its reflection in windows opposite creates a montage that’s very attractive in this photograph, especially the bright colours and the detail in the stonewalls and dainty balustrades. A fine juxtaposition to the modernist Pompidou, which I think works very well and you’ve captured it brilliantly.

Oh, dear. I thought I had a potential winner … I’m dithering now …!!!..



johnriley – Broken
Not the loveliest subject but this thoughtful photograph shows how a story can be told, and mood and feeling can be captured with great definition. There’s a real feeling of desolation and abandonment, and the cross-braced grid is intriguing. It draws the eye in and also says that, at some time, someone tried to protect this building and its contents. There were plants around the windows too. It wasn’t always unloved.



gartmore – Old Street London
This one puzzled me as it doesn’t seemingly fill the brief very well. Is it a juxtaposition of eyes (as in ‘the eyes are the window of the soul’) and the relatively mundane rear window of a parked Merc? Whilst they are lovely, Mona Lisa-type eyes that follow you around, it can’t get my vote because the brief was ‘Windows - by which I mean a device inserted into the external or internal fabric of a building, vehicle, ship or train etc. etc. to allow vision in or out.

May be a single window or multiple windows but the photograph should primarily be about a window or windows rather than just a facade

Or is the woman’s face actually painted onto a window? Or did I completely misunderstand?



rapala – Canterbury Cathedral, stained glass window
The view is a nice central one (albeit not quite symmetrical) but it’s so dependent on the right lighting to make the most of this sort of subject. I think it doesn’t have quite enough definition and clarity to bring out the jewel-like colours of stained glass to the best effect and the stonework too, whilst magnificent, seems to need a little brightening to get the full, overpowering effect of a great cathedral.



Aiki – Sicily
This is an interestingly different interpretation of the ‘windows’ theme. As it seemingly shows a shuttered window (to keep out heat, I assume in a hot climate), it doesn’t quite meet the brief of windows ‘ … to allow vision in or out …’. But they must be open sometimes and the ornate, coloured brickwork is very distinctive and well captured. I might have opted for f11 and a slower shutter speed.



hebridean - Potala Palace
This is an absolutely immense structure covering, apparently, over 32 acres and how many thousands of windows?! Remarkably, it wasn’t ransacked when the Chinese invaded Tibet in the middle of the 20th century, so we can all be grateful that this magnificent palace still stands, centuries after the first building on this site in the 7th century. The sheer scale certainly comes across well and the clarity of light and colours works well but it really is about the building rather than windows..



Simonarthurs – Knightshayes Court
This captures two of the elements that Knightshayes is most famous for – its plants, framing its Victorian Gothic windows, which are, indeed, lovely. The steps certainly lead the eye nicely up to the windows although I wonder if this effect could have been intensified and enhanced if the left-hand side of the picture had been cropped somewhat? The bench and expanse of grass there slightly distract the eye. But the depth of focus and colours are very good.



Draken – Old Window and Doorway
I appreciate the use of B&W here; making you focus on detail, structure, materials and light. The use of colour popping just lifts the essential details – the door and shuttered window – against the texture of the rather flaking walls.

It’s a shame the RH side is a bit cluttered by what looks like sundry bits of old furniture on the small verandah but agree that cropping this out would have somewhat unbalanced the effect overall.



Randall85 – Coventry Cathedral
It is good to see that your university course has got you using your camera again! I imagine this is the Baptistry Window, depicting the emergence into light of the baptised. It’s a good mosaic of light and colours and the camera captures the curving sweep of the wall well. A good effort with the kit lens – just imagine what you could achieve with a DA12-24.



JudithAnn - My Snowy Window
I like this – it’s rather pleasing - and the effect of the snow has been well captured. This sort of snow-bound effect doesn’t happen very often (for most of us, thank goodness). Your picture has created a fascinating tunnel into the cold and misty garden beyond. Unfortunately I couldn’t click on it to get a close up – would have been good to see the detail better close up. I wonder if a slight crop all the way round to remove the outside frame of the window, which is generally not parallel to the edges of the photograph, would be beneficial? But a nice one.



Mr.mellow – Patisseries Windows
This is fun! At first I thought you had spent hours in PS creating the fun piece of this photograph but then decided it was Monsieur Vincent Dallet who had the original idea. A very nice image although the lighting is unfortunately rather flat. I like the composition although I think I would have preferred to have seen the whole of the upper cornice. Well observed since we tend to wander around with our eyes glued to the pavement or what is directly in front of us, rarely looking up, particularly in shopping streets. A definite candidate for the humour award.



Nathanever82 – Window & Mirror
This is both clever and very well done.

The double repeat of the window in the mirror is excellent and the fish eye makes it all slightly surreal. The detail is crisp – you can almost feel the flock wallpaper, and the greens and gold are very redolent of the 17th century subject. Even nicer if your photograph had just included the missing edge of the side table.



Darkmunk - Come Inside
An interesting parody of a demi-monde world: there are both ‘Come hither’ and ‘Danger!’ in that glance. Did you know the lady? Was it posed or spur of the moment? Well captured – must have been quite difficult to take. Certainly not a usual wedding photograph! Looks slightly like an oil painting rather than a photograph.



Dr. Mhuni – Through the Car Window
I remember the original from Addis. Very cleverly taken – the different layers of clarity are interesting. You have the very clear detail in the mirror and the three women just out of focus so the reflection really stands out against the rest of this street scene. Umbrellas in the sunshine are obviously the local thing!



conexus - Balls
Another K7 entry! Whilst looking at this I came across your other photo (Balls 1), which excludes the two main figurers but provides much more content in the reflections in the balls. This greater detail fills the ‘windows’ brief better, I think, than this entry.

As it is, the reflections within reflections are interesting and very crisply taken.



Mecrox – A Cottage Window
This is nice. You can feel the mellow warmth of the sun seeping into the room through the window that’s slightly ajar, which is a nice detail. Indeed, very good detail overall, including the lichen on the roof and warm colours.



Bill_And – Window with a View
The window where the photograph was taken from provides an excellent frame for the subject window: nice! The very sharp detail and muted colours are good.

Personally, I think I would have cropped the top of the picture by half an inch to do away with the slight gap afforded by the lowered sash, which I find slightly distracting. But a good one.



Beakynet - Up Against a Window
The slight squashing of the youngster’s face on the window pane and muted background produce a pleasing, slightly impressionistic whole – although the figure in the background behind the thumb is a bit distracting. Very nice colours. Despite the fact that it is obviously glass, as an image it doesn’t really say ‘window’ to me.



Darlene – Seeing into a Child’s World
A nice idea and, given the scale of the picture, the clarity of the net lace windows is well caught. It would have been nice to get some light inside the dolls’ house and unfortunate that the whole of the window frame isn’t shown. The white of the main window frame is slightly blown, losing some of the detail. Assuming you used a tripod, I think I might have tried a slower shutter speed and a higher f number for greater depth of field.



Redishbeard – Reflections in a shop window
A different approach and shows how a lot of detail can be captured in a reflection. Slightly difficult to see what the shop display is all about – but that’s not the point anyway! With the lack of people in the street and the historic street frontage, I think I would have been tempted to leave the shop names the wrong way round and to try a sepia tint to give a period feel. A slight crop on the left and right hand edges might also be beneficial.



Timcx500e – Café Racer
Well, I guess that only on the Isle of Man would you find a motor bike sitting in a café window!

The window itself is not very interesting (although I do like the menu around the frame). The real interest is the bike itself (which must be a great draw), so the reflections in your photograph are somewhat distracting. A polarising filter would have been handy in this respect.



Weldingblues – Waiting for the train
Whilst there are clearly windows in this shot, they play second fiddle to the multi-coloured leavers used to change the points – and they are rather fun! Very flat lighting due to the weather conditions and I think some ‘tweaking’ in PS would have helped to lift the overall image. If this were a competition about unusual building types, I might be tempted to try some colour popping, turning the whole picture B&W but leaving the leavers in colour. Quite hard work but perhaps interesting?



Steve Chasey – Laycock THE Window
For anyone who doesn’t know (and I confess I didn’t), this window (the Oriel Window) was the subject of the first photograph ever taken using a negative/positive process – by the ‘Father of Photography’, William Henry Fox Talbot.

Nice balanced composition and lighting and the window itself if nice and crisp. I know how difficult it is with scanned images but ideally I would want to lighten the shadows to show more the detail and straighten the curvature produced by the use of a 20mm lens. Definitely worth revisiting with your digital gear.



Daniel Bridge – Church Window, Stowe
Taken on a K7! Wow!

Difficult to assess the scale of this extraordinary etching, which shows wonderful detail, which your photo captures very well. I’m not sure why you chose such a high shutter speed? I think I would have preferred to have more of the surroundings to set the window in context but there may have been good reasons why not.



HenriTeine – Dance Around the Old Phonebooth
A nice quirky entry, cleverly capturing two windows with a person behind each. Good composition but I think a little more light on her face would have lifted the image and made more of the focal point. Not too keen on the paint colour (which doesn’t do much for the photograph) but I guess we are looking at a traditional Finnish finish.



Kissmekate – Grand Central Station
I’m not personally familiar with Grand Central Station (although we’ve all seen it in films) but this is presumably taken from the main flight of steps looking back?

A difficult shot to achieve with the camera primarily reading the very bright light through the central window. I think I would be tempted to crop the top of the image just above the Stars & Stripes and take a tiny amount off both sides.

I do like this image but in terms of a windows competition there is rather too little detail of the windows shown and the central one has blown highlights. Somehow, your photo has the curious effect of making the people look slightly unreal, rather like an architect’s perspective, which is interesting in itself. As a thumbnail, it is almost Lowry-like! I like this the more I look at it.



Gail – An Old Broken Window
I’m impressed with this one, particularly as it’s taken on a *istD with, presumably, a kit lens. Very nice composition (although it would be nice if the top of the window were slightly lighter) and with amazing amount of detail visible in the panes of glass. Did they really go to the trouble of using different glass patterns when the window was first made or have the panes been endlessly replaced with different patterns? As an image, bordering on the abstract.



Hollingbery – Autumn Leaf on a Car Window
My initial response is that had the picture been slightly straightened up or cropped to remove the window frame, this would have been very good. The white-ish leaf and the double image of the stalk are very striking. I can see why you were arrested by the possibilities and took this shot but in the context of this competition, it doesn’t particularly say to me ‘windows’.



El Dingo – Lydia’s Window
Raises the question ‘Who is Lydia?’, which is interesting in itself.

That aside, I feel a large crop is called for, cropping off one third of the bottom of the picture and part of the top, leaving essentially just the bookcase and the window itself. I like the way the bookcase leads your eye out through the window but the lighting levels need to be adjusted to tone down the sky outside and lift the whole of the interior that is in shade.



Bkwalker – I’ve Been Framed
Well spotted – good choice of subject. I would hazard a guess that this is a student house or may be ……? Good composition but unfortunately the lighting is very flat and I would be tempted to spend some time on PS tinkering about with various effects.



Telstar – Repetitive Decay
Ah! Crittall windows in an industrial building. Millions of these windows were made but there are not too many left now other than in buildings such as this. Interesting buttressing, which appears to be original, maybe also doubling up as a form of sun shading, and which will have hugely increased building costs.

As nothing much is happening on the far right hand side, I think I would have cropped this, focussing even more on the windows themselves. The sky might have been similarly treated. Perhaps treating the contrast would also have helped.



Ron-pickard – The Sage
A Norman Foster building! I have not been to Gateshead for many years and I guess that I wouldn’t now recognise it but from what I have seen in photographs the redevelopment alongside the Tyne is striking.

This is a complex image. I think I am looking at a curved façade, which explains the perspective effect. I agree with your choice of B&W. This image relies on precision, so to be really nit-picking, I think it needs straightening very slightly so that the line of lights (?) at the bottom of the image is exactly horizontal. I would then crop a few millimetres off the top and maybe tinker with the contrast. Slightly blown highlights in the centre but a good one.



Paulgee20 - Ghost Photographer
Quite interesting use of desaturated colour? A very modern window framing a fairly simple office interior overlaid with external reflections including what looks like a stairway. I guess that you are the ghost photographer whose upper body only lurks in the background. Overall, I like the idea but the image does appear very soft to m; maybe intentionally?



Ben76 – Leeds Castle
You are getting a lot of mileage out of your visit to Leeds Castle! Having said that, there is much to photograph there. Most of my comments on other entries have suggested cropping but in this case I would want to move out a bit to see more top, bottom and on the right hand edge which would, I think, have provided a better composition. As with other entries, it is unfortunate that the lighting is so flat. If you had been lucky, there would have been sunlight streaming in, creating interesting patterns on the painted stone wall. Notwithstanding this< I think tweaking shadows and highlights in PS would help to lift the image.



Ronecc – Double Glazing
Lovely, subtle, muted colours and an interesting effect with a new window put inside a decaying old one.

Unfortunately this has been taken on a Panasonic DMC-TZ4 and, therefore, doesn’t strictly comply with the rules of the competition. Shame (in one sense) as I like this.



Jaromir – Glass Blocks
An interesting graphic displaying three types of window - ‘hole in wall’ windows (middle and bottom), ‘ribbon’ windows (top right) and curtain walling (top left). I like the various intersecting diagonals. Only niggles are the rather poor lighting (such is life!) and it would have been good if the top of the parapet on the ribbon-windowed building were in shot. Playing around with contrast may also be beneficial.



Gazza – Out of the window
This is another shot where I feel a big crop is in order. I would crop it right up to the yellow pier on the right hand side and take out most of the kitchen units on the left. This would remove most of the shady areas of the photograph and lead the eye towards the window rather better. I think I would also be tempted to boost the yellow to create an overall punchier image. The window on its own, framed by the bright yellow wall might make a better image.



Prieni – Canal View
I was just thinking that Prieni had decided not to enter this week or was away on yet another business trip, when up pops a latish entry. A typically classy Prieni entry; lovely composition although I might have cropped a small amount from the left hand side to remove what looks (distractingly) rather like electrical wiring going into the water! Lovely detail and warm colours in the brickwork. Very nice. I wish my company sent me to Venice.



Bluejohn - Reflections
Interesting EXIF information!

A nice graphic image with good colour (although I wonder what it would look like in B&W). Very busy and might it have been better to zoom a long way in to pick out some of the windows and part of the reflections, which might have created a very crisp and sparkling image. It grows on me the more I look at it.



Malo1961 - Peeking
15 minutes after Prieni’s entry, we have one from Malo1961. A quirky entry with what looks more like a mannequin or wax model rather than a person; intriguing. Lovely warm colour (which really makes the image) and detail – including cracks at each corner of the window, which are causing damp patches! Definitely a Malo-type entry. I like it.



Canada_Rockies – St Michael’s Church, Sparwood, BC, Canada
Welcome to the competition. A good interpretation of a striking, modern stained glass window. Being nit-picking it is leaning to very slightly to the right in your photograph and although I understand the temptation to place it centrally, I wonder if it would sit more happily asymmetrically?



Galoot – Café – Window
I guessed this was a Galoot entry the moment I saw it! Whilst the window itself is very mundane, the view into the café; its patrons and the pictures on the rear wall combine to produce a very good entry. Surprising that no one looked up and spotted you taking your photograph given how close up you must have been using a fish eye.



Sandy – Exhibition Window
Unfortunately for me, this entry says ‘Man looking at picture’ rather than ‘windows’! Although the window is dominant because it is the source of light and radical cropping would help shift the emphasis, the window is not really what this photograph is about. Sorry to be negative and I hope you are not put off making entries in future.



Bowie – Sanctuary
Unfortunately this has been taken on a Sony DSC-P72 and, therefore, doesn’t strictly comply with the rules of the competition. Shame as the image definitely has potential with some cropping and tweaking.



TimE
Ah ! – a geodesic dome and probably one of the best examples in Europe.

The daughter of Buckminster Fuller (inventor of the geodesic dome) visited The Eden Project in September. Maybe she could provide the answer to the question - does a geodesic dome actually have windows or is it a translucent shell structure ?

An interesting submission but unfortunately let down by the drab weather on the day you were there. Imagine this on beautiful sunny day in December.

Good juxtaposition of the smaller and larger domes but if only the weather had been kind!



Jyrkira – Some turquoise windows
Congratulations on being entry no. 50 to this week’s competition. I am sure this must be a Pentax User record (unfortunately for me !).

Regrettably I find this style of architecture rather drab so it is difficult to enthuse. However, I think the image has potential but probably needs some tweaking in PS to turn it into an abstract, removed from what it is now.



Tickhiller – View from the Tower
An interesting idea but sadly taken on a very wet day.

The dominant image is Tower Bridge, rather than the window itself, which just provides the framing.

As the colour is very flat, it might be worth trying a B&W conversion + some tweaking of the contrast.



wowo - Untitled
This almost looks like a window in a freestanding, garden wall. Not a window into a room. I spent some time working out that, in fact, it’s an open window (left hand side) and a fixed pane on the right. Interesting how photographs can mislead understanding. The building façade appears to be plain concrete, badly stained, which is a shame since a bright, white render would have produced a much more striking image.



Shutter-bug - Reflections on Dartmouth
I am struggling to think where this might be in Dartmouth, although I only know the bits that are readily accessible from the waterside.

In itself this building has an uninspiring facade but it produces a very nice reflection and as submitted it is almost an abstract and has nice colours.

There is a very strangely attired person walking by in the bottom right hand corner.



Father Ted – Autumn’s Colours
I like the composition (although the missing bottom corner of the window cill would be nice to have), the colours and the texture of the wall.

The window appears to provide light to some sort of storeroom. I think I would have tried tinkering with the glass itself because I feel that I want to know more about what goes on behind !



Marjuti – Panorama over Riga
Presumably taken from an observation tower of some description ?

A nice view through a simple letterbox window but I find that I want to see more of the view and less of the window surround, whereas I should be more interested in the window itself. Lightening the surround to the window might help in this respect.



Womble – Reflected Windows
A nice shot. I would have guessed that this is somewhere abroad but I would have been wrong !

I would like to see the ridge of the gable ended roof on the right hand side and equally I don’t think the tree on the left hand side does much for the image but there might be reasons why the crop is the way it is.

Attractive colouring from the rendered wall, which appears to have strengthening ties inserted at regular intervals.



So now for the results and the special awards :

1st Place – bforbes – Pegworth Building - Calgary
Equal 2nd Place - davidtrout – Vue Pompidou, and
Equal 2nd Place – Prieni – Canal View

Highly Commended – nathanever82 – Window and Mirror
Highly Commended – gail - Window
Highly Commended – Malo1961 - Peeking
Highly Commended – Galoot – Café Window

Commended – Bob and his Pentax – Berkley Castle - Window
Commended – JudithAnn – My Snowy Window
Commended – Bill_And – Window With a View
Commended – kissmekate – Grand Central Station
Commended – ron-pickard – The Sage

Lateral Thinking Award – Dr Mhuni – Through the car window
Most Improved Photographer Award – randall85 – Coventry Cathedral
Humour Award – mr. mellow – Patisserie Windows
Best Entry from a New Member – Canada_Rockies

I may have gone over the top with so many awards but I have struggled in many cases to separate one good entry from another !


So, over to bforbes for Round 122 !

Congrades to the frist place Winner bforbes!! and all the others that are mention...like JudithAnn Commeneded A Real WOW for the judge Hyram!!!Above and beyond the call of duty What does one say...THANKS thanks thanks Iam sure you are the Winner for the most entries ...if not then the most since I joined. Well done

Many, many thanks Hyram for taking the time to write a considered judgment of this vast number of submissions. And for the remarkable swiftness in your posting this. Congrats to bforbes and all the others you've singled out. Oh - and thanks for the Lateral Thinking Award - my first ever.

I won't even begin to mention the ones I liked, because there are too many!

Looking forward to next week's comp which will surely now be something along the lines of the 'Examples of Modern Sculpture on Easter Island' that you suggest!

Wow wee Mr Hyram...You win first place for doing fantastic work!. And you also win first place for speed!!

Thank you for your comment on my snowy window...as you know I too was concerned about the fact that I could not enlarge it, thus the PM...in the orginal photo the 'garden beyond the window' was clear and fun to see in detail!....It was a very early morning picture and by 10am the snow had fallen free from the window....my camera was brand new... and I had only the one opportunity, then came spring...but atlas our Canadian blizzards are only a matter of time right now....and soon I will have all the snowy winter photos any Northren Gal could want!!

Congrats to our GRAND WINNER bforbes and all those who received placements!

Thanks Hyram. That was a huge task and you picked a wonderful winner. As said before, I will not begin to mention my favourites. There are simply to many.
This was a record entrie competition. I'll think....you may go to sleep now. Congrats to the winners and judge. Well done, everybody.

Blimey! well done Hyram.
Congratulations bforbes- beautiful shot
My entry was from a burlesque shoot indoors but I just had to run outside and capture through the window. The granite walls and leaded glass made getting the flashes to talk was really difficult. The wedding was someone else, who probably didn't want to be upstaged

Great to see so many entries but I'm glad I didn't have to judge that lot! Well done Hyram, well done everyone and congrats to the winners.

K.

Well done the winner! And a big thank you to Hyram. Exemplary judging and it must have taken up a large part of your weekend. So many lovely shots in this week's comp ...

Hyram, when you recover and climb out of bed to read these comments you can be chuffed to bits that everyone recognises what a great job you did judging the biggest ever entry in a weekly competition. Superb comments.
My congrats to Barrie (who I met for the first time on Saturday although he only lives five miles from me) for his super picture of modern architecture in Calgary. Just the sort of picture I like taking.
And thanks for my joint second with Ralf who I also want to congratulate for a finely observed cameo of Venice.
Like the rest of those who've already commented there were so many other pictures I really admired.
david

"Or did I completely misunderstand?", yes you did It is a photograph of a woman behind a window. look carefully and you can see reflections in the glass

Well done all, and what an impressive winner and judge!

Thank you Hyram for the very professional and incredibly extensive judging.

Well done to the winner!
Congratulations to all others, amazing entries this week!

Nathan

Well done Hyram for all the hard work, and a critique for each entry - just great!

Ken

Well done Hyram. I didn't expect to see a winner until lunch time.

Thanks for the detailed comments for all of the entries. I see what you mean about the sill. I hadn't noticed it got cut off when I straightened the image.
Did you notice the halloween face in the window? I didn't until I was PPing it last night. It definiteley wasn't there when I took the shot. Just a trick of the light......or so I keep telling myself!

Congratulations bforbes, great shot!
Hyram, sterling job on judging and commenting on all these entries. Well done!

Thanks for my tied 2nd, looking at the number of entries this round, I think this is the place to get

Prieni

A big thank you to Hyram for awarding me my first, first place, it came as quite a shock. You certainly had your work cut out by the quality and quantity of the entry and you have managed the task in a very professional way. My congratulations also go to the other winners; I think Hyram may be onto something with his various categories. Now I have to think of a topic for next week, I’ll try to post it by the end of today. Thanks again.

Good comp, good range of entries and well judged. Good luck for this weeks comp everyone!

Congratulations, Barrie ! And all the other great authors!

And you are a hero, Hyram ! What a work you have done!
How far is the whisky?

Thanks Hyram for a great Competition and congratulations, Barrie.

Thanks Hyram for a great competition and your comments

Sandy