Congratulations Geordie, that was my favourite shot, though there were a lot of excellent entries. Great judging, and thanks for the comments KM!

Dire..here...

Absolutely smegging brilliant!

Smeggy is right; I thought a crop removing the top of the handle would improve it, but I think I was very wrong. The picture loses some of it's compelling oddity without the strap being attched to nothing. It was perfect as it was.

+1 from me. Perhaps just a little cropped off the right hand side?

4, 5 and 6 for me too, great shots, though #4 could perhaps do with the buildings being straightened a bit? Nice set, though like Smeggy I think I have seen enough blurry water shots to last me a while While I do like long exposure water shots (Marklj's are particularly stunning), it seems to have become a bit clichéd in the last few years as everyone rushes off to by 10 stop filters. I haven't used mine for more than a year. Saying that, I won an inter-club competition in the UK with one.

You seem to have been getting around the world a lot recently! And getting some amzing pictures!

Any discussion of the weekly comp can be done here....

Venice in Plastic




Villago Mall in Doha, with electic gondolas and the sky painted on the roof.

Taken 11/06/11
Pentax K5
Sigma 10-20mm f4-5.6
ISO1600
f6.7
1/45 sec

Very much the sort of stuff I always liketry to do in cities (or malls, in Doha), and I really like all of these, especially the second one . I like the different layers you get with reflections. I got a few reflection shots myself here today; none as good as these though . We had a pretty random but interesting walk around the CBD today, and have been out this evening along the Yarra trying handheld shots with the K5 (and a few using a beanbag), but I haven't had a chance to look at them yet.

When I review pictures on the LCD screen on my K5, sometimes there is a strange whirring sound coming from inside the camera, which stops as soon as I switch back to picture-taking mode. It only seems to happen with auto-focus lenses mounted on the camera, so I am guessing it is something to do with the AF. Any ideas anyone? Also, I had grey lines on the LCD when I switched it on yesterday, which disappeared after switching it off and on again. That has only happened the once.