There are a number of photographers who I can easily recognise for their style within a particular genre. There is one who I have been able to identify regardless of genre.

Well if you did manage to get an angel, that would be some photo.

This is the kind of thing where I'd normally plump for b&w, but the colour version shades it for me. I find the right hand activity confusing though.

Many thanks for all the comments. I will be going back to try and improve. I have a 12-24 waiting and that will be just right.

We live about an hour from Oradour. However, there is a very strong local connection with this event. On 9 June 1944 the French resistance (who were at their most active in this region) captured a German tank battalion commander just up the road from where we now live. He was reputedly moved and held at Oradour-sur-Vayres, near to Oradour-sur-Glane and this was reported by collaborators. German reprisals the following day were directed against the wrong town. Apparently the SS commander responsible had orders to take hostages from Oradour to try and secure the release of the battalion commander. Instead he ordered the massacre of the entire village. He was killed in battle a few weeks later, some say effectively a suicide following actions against him by his superiors for exceeding orders.

The capture of the tank commander delayed the advance of the tank battalion to Normandy and this event was acknowledged by Eisenhower as a significant factor in the success of D-Day.

It's interesting that you remember it as black and white. The film is a vibrant, sixties colour. Only the photos were black and white. So maybe you were attracted to the photos.

The Hitchcock is Rear Window.

There are films where photo journalism is prominent (Salvador), but they are not about photography. And there are films where photography has a role but tells more about the characters than the nature of photography (Amelie).

However, there is a rather excellent and brilliantly acted Poliakoff drama called Shooting The Past which is very much about photography.

I tried this look on different shrubs but it seemed to work particularly well (for me) on the acer:

What were you shooting with? I've been shooting the exact same type of acer recently. I found the composition pretty tricky with leaves all over the place. The look that did it most for me was with the 50mm f1.7 wide open, which I think gives a lovely dreamy look. I won't impose them on your thread unless you'd like to see them.

Milk caps - did you eat them. Lovely colours. I like the leaf caught in the cap of the second.

Wonderfully dramatic. 2 for me.

I like the simplicity of the first. Personally, I would be tempted to crop to remove the topmost and bottommost horizontals. I could see this in a lines themed competition, if one ever comes along.