"You heard about the cow that jumped over the moon ???

Well this one is trying too, but I don't think he is going to make it !!!"

I agree with RR the Landy ones are all good.

My favourite being No.9. I don't mind the shadow, it 'sort of' balances the dark of the L'Rover, and introduces a bit of mystery, does it come from a camel hump, or just a plain old sand dune ???

Thanks for the comments Fiona,

I had left the flare in the picture as an example of worst thing I encountered with the 17-70mm. I would expect some flare with the bright sunshine in the frame.

I have other images without or with very little flare, taken against the sun.

These were really test shots using the new 17-70mm, to see how it coped in difficult exposure situations, it handled things very well, so more than pleased with my purchase.

John

One or two more images from the 17-7mm, taken this weekend at Loch Ashie near Inverness.

Took quite a few of the trees back-lit by the setting sun, wondered if I would get to see the 'purple fringe' appear, happily almost none. I would have purple everywhere with the fisheye in these conditions.

A bit of flare in the last shot, but expected in the conditions.

Exactly my thoughts.

In fact I was thinking of entering one of YOUR pictures, they are all so wonderfully 'crafted'

If you open up the front page to the weekly competition, you get the image of Martin, ( Mr Malo1961 ), seeming to cast an eye over all the previous entry's

Don't know if they make him happy or sad ?

I like the first one best, where is this ?

I wanna go there

Do you think we could dig Elvis out ?

I think you have lost a bit of the fantastic red sky with that crop, it looks like the atmosphere is on fire, so why loose it

I would be tempted to use a wide format and keep the lovely red clouds, you don't need all that black at the bottom, and is the horizon a bit off ?





Just my 2 cents,

p.s. I think No.1 is the best, looks like a scene from the "Aussie Bush", love the colours, trees are in the right place, not too much ground, clouds are terrific, maybe just crop a bit of the top, to get rid of the excess black, but that's just me.

I like number 3 as well, get rid of some of the black at the bottom, and my 'magic boat' sails off to the right, so the horizon isn't level, but lovely sun and sky.

It's birds Clarky !!!

Thought it was dust myself, but it is only on that one, they've flown off on this one

I like this one too, again with the 17-70mm,