If, as is not unknown, the winner is unaware of their success or unable to select and judge the next topic then the second placed person steps into the hot seat...except this weeek there isn't a second placed person.
David

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Welcome back Glyn. Like Gwyn says you can compare notes with Barrie, he's looking better than ever since his similar op.
David
PS: Regards to Hipperty.

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I too recently renewed my Plus membership for the reasons already given by other members - it helps support this site and there are better discount deals with SRS. Another benefit is that only Plus members are entitled to enter the quarterly competitions. BTW the subscription, which is a very modest sum, is less than we used to pay when we had the magazine.
David

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Very dramatic Ted. I also like Alan's treatment.
David

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I'd love to come Shaun but I've got so much on throughout June and July I think my wife would not be pleased if I added yet another date.
I'm going to Edinburgh for the Fringe street activity on Saturday August 11. If any PUF members are around there I'll look out for them.
David

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Inspired by this thread I've just spent an otherwise dull Sunday afternoon clicking through the various categories in PPG.
My verdict: Its absolutely incorrect to say it's not as good as the PUF Gallery. There's a lot of amazing work in there, some of it by people who are members here, or past members. In my opinion the overall quality is better than the PUF Gallery, although like here not all the images are of the highest standard.
David

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I agree about the lack of quality, but only in the endless parade of pictures waiting to be voted on. Recently I've had one or two marathon voting sessions and in the vast majority of cases I gave the thumbs down.
But if you look at some of the galleries of our better photographers on PUF you will see stunning images that have been accepted. You have to know their names to call up their galleries.
In the old PPG you could view recently accepted images, that section seems to have vanished since the revamp.
David

PS: Stan you have nothing to worry about with your pictures. There's some fine work there. And don't regard the London Salon as the high water mark in photography. Its good for pushing the boundaries with contemporary thought provoking images but it isn't to many people's taste.

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You're right about the website. Since this thread began a few days ago I've had a message from the RPS saying they are revamping it and asking me to fill in a questionaire about how good it is. I told them it was wasn't very good at all. The new one is due to be up and running by early 2013.
David

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Very little on exposure Alan, just a bit of local area selective dodging in levels. It was tricky cloning out some intrusive out of focus people in the background though.
David

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And yet another Whitby character, without any sunglasses.

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