Here is the pace for any discussion on weekly competition #319 - Quintessential Holiday Snap.

I know that “Holiday” has appeared in these competitions before but it is that time of year in the UK and I would like to put a slightly different slant on it.

Years ago I would have taken just one or, occasionally two, rolls of film with me on holiday and therefore would have been very choosy about what I shot. Of the results perhaps just a small handful would be shown around to friends and family. Nowadays I can easily take hundreds of shots many of which never get shown around to avoid the risk of boring people to death.

So for this competition I want to see a typical holiday picture that in one image sums up a holiday and obviously one you would be proud to show around. I think holiday snaps are invariably opportunistic so it does not have to be perfectly executed but it should have an essence of “we were there and enjoying ourselves”.

The usual rules apply. Entries must be shot with a Pentax, or the re-badged Samsung equivalent. You can raid your archives but please lets not see anything that has appeared in the previous competitions.

As is traditional I will stop looking in here once the first entry has been posted.

Good luck,

Glyn

Finding myself in the fortunate position of having to set a subject for the weekly competition I have updated the list:

Weekly

1. The Number Six
2. Play
3. Heat
4. Flight
5. Self Portrait
6. Wood
7. Age
8. Reflection
9. Water
10. People Communication
11. Solitude
12. Hard and Soft
13. The Industrial Landscape
14. Motion
15. Favourite Places
16. Patterns
17. The Mark of Man
18. Shadows
19. The Monochrome Landscape
20. My Day
21. 'Something' on toast
22. Red
23. Light
24. Recycled
25. Christmas
26. Buildings
27. An abstract, subject matter: any plant in MONO
28. Watching the watchers
29. Paper Scissors Stone
30. One of My Best Photos
31. The Eyes Have It
32. Love is...
33. My Town
34. Street Furniture
35. Sky's the Limit
36. Spring
37. Movement
38. Long Exposure
39. Wildlife
40. Upside-down
41. Natural Light
42. Our House
43. Local Shop & Keeper
44. Rain
45. Blue
46. Public Transport
47. Sea and Shore
48. Tools of the Trade
49. Decay & Dereliction
50. On Ice
51. The Street
52. The Ugly
53. The Pleasure of Summer Holiday
54. Sleep
55. The World Today
56. My Home Town
57. Proverbs
58. Sweet Tooth
59. Contrast
60. Alone
61. Bridge(s)
62. A Touch of Red
63. Cute
64. Mysterious
65. Desktop Backdrop
66. Colour of Autumn
67. Evening
68. Children's Expressions
69. Architecture
70. Transport
71. Music
72. Contre Jour
73. Glass
74. Brewing up a Storm
75. Boots and Shoes
76. Still life in black & white
77. Feelings & Emotions
78. New Year's Eve
79. One Hundred Yards from Home
80. Nearness
81. Flower Power!
82. Bicycles
83. For Sale
84. A Face
85. Italy
86. An Instrument of Time
87. This Modern World
88. Reflections!
89. Abstract
90. Heavy
91. Made of Steel
92. Long Exposure
93. Vegetables
94. Woods and Forests
95. Orange
96. Used
97. Smooth
98. Protection
99. People at Work
100. Self Portrait
101. The Inconvenient Truth
102. Celebration!
103. Something Green...
104. Craftsmanship
105. Spots "n" Dots
106. Action
107. Dream
108. Smoke
109. Something bright or sparkling
110. Moment
111. Serenity
112. Hurry
113. Texture
114. Distance
115. Yun
116. Shadows
117. Street Photography
118. Its a funny old world
119. Quirky Small Buildings
120. Reading and Writing
121. Windows
122. Crystal
123. Freedom
124. Fog/Mist
125. Brickwork
126. Favourite Food
127. History
128. Weightlessness
129. Festivities!
130. Cubes, Squares, Oblongs
131. Companions
132. Steam
133. Street Portraits
134. Size Contrast
135. Culture
136. Suffering
137. Wood
138. Generations
139. The hand of man
140. A trick of the eye – perspective compression
141. The Four Seasons
142. Macro Mystery...Lets Get Close!!
143. Curved Surface
144. Ground level
145. Retro!
146. Evolution
147. Late
148. Catchlights.
149. Water of Life
150. Life in Motion
151. Optical Illusion
152. Duotone
153. Communications
154. Portray the crowd
155. Sunglasses!
156. Low-key
157. People in the Environment
158. Glamour
159. Summer
160. ND 1.8 – ND 3.0
161. Garden Safari
162. Rain
163. Dawn and Dusk
164. Painted shop front window
165. Depth of Field
166. It’s What’s on the Inside That Counts.
167. Adults at Work or Play
168. Public art
169. Stimulating the senses
170. Iconic Objects
171. A Crop can make the Difference
172. Halloween
173. Lines
174. Song Titles
175. A Treasure
176. Object Trouve
177. The Culinary (Competition)
178. The Beatles Songbook
179. ‘Adversity’
180. Low Key
181. Industrial
182. Love
183. Public Sculpture
184. Curves
185. Children at work or play.
186. Black and White Landscapes
187. Long Exposure
188. Isolation
189. Bridges
190. Surreal Competition
191. This is Me
192. Water Every Where!
193. Numbers
194. Nature breaks it’s path
195. JAPAN!!!
196. Breaking “The Rules”
197. Fungi
198. Flowers In A Natural Setting
199. No Sky
200. Age
201. Man-made
202. Sell, sell, sell!!!
203. Holiday
204. Animal Emotion
205. Three
206. Graphic Abstract
207. France
208. Freedom
209. Urban landscapes
210. Wheels
211. Film Noir Mood
212. Heat and Glare
213. Russia
214. Connections
215. A Door
216. An Album Cover
217. Perfect Timing
218. Best Macro Shots – Summer 2011
219. Street Markets
220. Best Panning Shot
221. Stripes
222. Tell Your Travel Story
223. Depicting Age
224. Breakfast
225. A Room
226. A Splash of Colour
227. All Things Two
228. Human Sporting Emotion
229. Horses
230. Twelve Days of Christmas
231. Low Light
232. Alone in the City
233. Joy
234. Bikes & Bikers
235. Literature
236. Boat and Lake
237. Night Nature
238. Rhyming Slang
239. Frost - - - -
240. and all this is FOOTBALL!
241. Close up/Macro
242. A man with a camera
243. The Passing of Time
244. It is Where I Am From
245. Childhood Memories
246. The Impact of Architecture
247. Heavy Metal
248. Pastel Shades
249. A Character
250. Reportage
251. Focus on Rejuvenation
252. Door To …
253. Nifty Fifty
254. Monochrome
255. “T”
256. Fire and Ice
257. Rain!
258. Rubbish in the environment
259. Round
260. Vertebrate Wildlife
261. Wide Angle
262. Going Loco
263. Olympic Fire
264. One for the wall
265. Break Time
266. Clouds
267. Holiday Time
268. Shooters
269. Blades
270. Still Life
271. Shadow Play
272. Electric
273. People in Uniform
274. Panic!
275. Autumnal Decay
276. Chillax
277. Into Dark Woods
278. Now That Is Big!
279. Street photography
280. 1 daily routine exposure
281. Pets
282. Decay
283. The Crop has it!
284. On Those Gloomy Winter Days
285. Food, glorious food
286. I see a face
287. Black & White Flower Portraiture
288. Are You All White?
289. Let us hear your image
290. A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum
291. What LOVE Looks Like
292. Black
293. Polyptych
294. Close Up On Nature
295. Bridge the Gap
296. This sporting life
297. Backlight
298. Look Up
299. Fog
300. Atmosphere
301. Feet
302. Kind of Blue
303. Atmosphere
304. Clock Tower
305. The Heat
306. The May Garden
307. Let’s Dance
308. My Home Town
309. Together
310. Human Powered
311. Cover Page of a Journal
312. Vertical
313. Wood
314. Like Ice in the Sunshine…..
315. Red
316. Motion
317. Wet
318. Quicker than the eye
319. Quintessential Holiday Snap


Fortnightly Competitions
(Now replaced by the monthly competition)
1. Vistas
2. Product Shot
3. Lunch Break
4. Something Wooden
5. Christmas
6. A Night Shot
7. Scales
8. Frozen water
9. Doors
10. Everyday Object, from a Weird, Unusual, Puzzling Perspective
11. Something Wide
12. Your Best Shot Ever
13. Reflections
14. Night
15. Fruit
16. Art in the Community
17. Hands
18. Movement
19. "The Sun"
20. Relaxation or Relaxed
21. Shadows
22. My Roots, My Place
23. The Ground
24. Menace & Foreboding
25. A bad day at the office !
26. Half and half
27. ‘The White Shirt’
28. Bonfire Night
29. Cars
30. Curves
31. Juxtaposition
32. Your Weather
33. Stairs
34. Long Exposure
35. “Design Icon”
36. People
37. Hobbies
38. Genus Loci
39. Order and Disorder
40. Industrial Landscape
41. Childhood Memories
42. Local Flora
43. Faces
44. Food!!
46. Health
47. B&W Portraits
48. Wire, string, rope
49. Science Fiction
50. One Colour
51. Industry
52. Classical Music
53. Sunset
54. Energy
55. Time Piece
56. Abstract impressionism
57. Mono/Chrome
58. Space
59. Snow & Cold
60. Spatial
61. Silhouette
62. Eggs
63. Subject Noir (Black)
64. Plastic
65. Through a Door
66. Spring is Sprung
67. The Sacred
68. An Image That Looks Good From a Distance
69. Blur
70. Leading Lines
71. Wildlife
72. Barriers
73. Square Pictures
74. Interior
75. Steps
76. Water
77. Chiaroscuro
78. A Smell
79. Five Minutes’ Walk
80. Book / Books
81. Crop & PoP
82. Preparations
83. Relaxation
84. Bits & Pieces
85. Skies
86. Golden Hour
87. Bokeh
88. Vignette in mono
89. Natures Gifts
90. Simplicity
91. Buildings
92. Weather
93. Two
94. Tree
95. Texture
96. Heritage


Monthly Competitions
Previous Forum Competitions:
1. Fine Art Mono Landscapes
2. Generations
3. Opposites
4. RGB
5. Communications
6. Three Courses

Current:
1. Night Shots
2. Humour
3. Men at Work
4. Another one for the album…
5. Sell Me Something
6. The Spirit of Christmas
7. Digital Filters
8. Broken
9. Reflection
10. Standing Out From the Crowd
11. A Modern Building
12. Contre-jour
13. Wish You Were Here
14. What am I? Macro Mystery…..


Updated until 19-08-13

I don't like coincidences so I suspect you are correct that the problem is related to the upgrade.

However I have just had a look at your rather splendid gallery portfolio using IE 10.0.6 on my 64bit Windows 8 machine and the step to larger images works fine. So I suspect its an installation or set-up problem rather than just a general IE 10 problem.

Having opened one of your pictures, but before enlarging it, if you put the mouse pointer over the picture you should see the link to the larger version appear at the bottom left of the window:




Does your IE 10 get that far?

Another test would be to type in the link in the above picture and see if you get to the large version of your most recent picture. If that works then it suggests that your IE is not seeing, or is ignoring, the link attached to the standard sized image which might be some sort of security setting issue. I'm not very good at IE problems perhaps someone else can help.

You could always try installing another browser, like Firefox or Chrome. I run two different browsers on my PC without problem and make Firefox my default only resorting to IE if Firefox has a problem with a particular page.

Glyn

It is still working fine for me.

In the past when I have had problems like this (and I'm using Firefox) I found scrubbing the browser cached web content or doing a clean-up (using ccleaner) usually fixes the problem.

I don't see any Chinese?/Japanese? writing down the right hand side of the home page but that is possibly because I am using the adblock plus plugin with my browser.

I hope this helps,

Glyn

My first Pentax was a *ist DS in 2005.

Before that my photography was really just holiday and Christmas snaps using an Olympus trip.

My youngest daughter did A level photography, for which we had to fund a 2nd hand Minolta x300 SLR, which I found inspiring. When she completed the course and got her first job she bought a Canon 350D which she let me play with. So not to tread too much on her areas of expertise I decided to go down a different route. The *ist DS at the time looked both good and reasonably priced and I have been with Pentax ever since.

Glyn

I am not sure you do. Try reading the brief again. I am sure it mentions the southern hemisphere .

Glyn

It is a while since I last updated the list so here it is:

Weekly

1. The Number Six
2. Play
3. Heat
4. Flight
5. Self Portrait
6. Wood
7. Age
8. Reflection
9. Water
10. People Communication
11. Solitude
12. Hard and Soft
13. The Industrial Landscape
14. Motion
15. Favourite Places
16. Patterns
17. The Mark of Man
18. Shadows
19. The Monochrome Landscape
20. My Day
21. 'Something' on toast
22. Red
23. Light
24. Recycled
25. Christmas
26. Buildings
27. An abstract, subject matter: any plant in MONO
28. Watching the watchers
29. Paper Scissors Stone
30. One of My Best Photos
31. The Eyes Have It
32. Love is...
33. My Town
34. Street Furniture
35. Sky's the Limit
36. Spring
37. Movement
38. Long Exposure
39. Wildlife
40. Upside-down
41. Natural Light
42. Our House
43. Local Shop & Keeper
44. Rain
45. Blue
46. Public Transport
47. Sea and Shore
48. Tools of the Trade
49. Decay & Dereliction
50. On Ice
51. The Street
52. The Ugly
53. The Pleasure of Summer Holiday
54. Sleep
55. The World Today
56. My Home Town
57. Proverbs
58. Sweet Tooth
59. Contrast
60. Alone
61. Bridge(s)
62. A Touch of Red
63. Cute
64. Mysterious
65. Desktop Backdrop
66. Colour of Autumn
67. Evening
68. Children's Expressions
69. Architecture
70. Transport
71. Music
72. Contre Jour
73. Glass
74. Brewing up a Storm
75. Boots and Shoes
76. Still life in black & white
77. Feelings & Emotions
78. New Year's Eve
79. One Hundred Yards from Home
80. Nearness
81. Flower Power!
82. Bicycles
83. For Sale
84. A Face
85. Italy
86. An Instrument of Time
87. This Modern World
88. Reflections!
89. Abstract
90. Heavy
91. Made of Steel
92. Long Exposure
93. Vegetables
94. Woods and Forests
95. Orange
96. Used
97. Smooth
98. Protection
99. People at Work
100. Self Portrait
101. The Inconvenient Truth
102. Celebration!
103. Something Green...
104. Craftsmanship
105. Spots "n" Dots
106. Action
107. Dream
108. Smoke
109. Something bright or sparkling
110. Moment
111. Serenity
112. Hurry
113. Texture
114. Distance
115. Yun
116. Shadows
117. Street Photography
118. Its a funny old world
119. Quirky Small Buildings
120. Reading and Writing
121. Windows
122. Crystal
123. Freedom
124. Fog/Mist
125. Brickwork
126. Favourite Food
127. History
128. Weightlessness
129. Festivities!
130. Cubes, Squares, Oblongs
131. Companions
132. Steam
133. Street Portraits
134. Size Contrast
135. Culture
136. Suffering
137. Wood
138. Generations
139. The hand of man
140. A trick of the eye – perspective compression
141. The Four Seasons
142. Macro Mystery...Lets Get Close!!
143. Curved Surface
144. Ground level
145. Retro!
146. Evolution
147. Late
148. Catchlights.
149. Water of Life
150. Life in Motion
151. Optical Illusion
152. Duotone
153. Communications
154. Portray the crowd
155. Sunglasses!
156. Low-key
157. People in the Environment
158. Glamour
159. Summer
160. ND 1.8 – ND 3.0
161. Garden Safari
162. Rain
163. Dawn and Dusk
164. Painted shop front window
165. Depth of Field
166. It’s What’s on the Inside That Counts.
167. Adults at Work or Play
168. Public art
169. Stimulating the senses
170. Iconic Objects
171. A Crop can make the Difference
172. Halloween
173. Lines
174. Song Titles
175. A Treasure
176. Object Trouve
177. The Culinary (Competition)
178. The Beatles Songbook
179. ‘Adversity’
180. Low Key
181. Industrial
182. Love
183. Public Sculpture
184. Curves
185. Children at work or play.
186. Black and White Landscapes
187. Long Exposure
188. Isolation
189. Bridges
190. Surreal Competition
191. This is Me
192. Water Every Where!
193. Numbers
194. Nature breaks it’s path
195. JAPAN!!!
196. Breaking “The Rules”
197. Fungi
198. Flowers In A Natural Setting
199. No Sky
200. Age
201. Man-made
202. Sell, sell, sell!!!
203. Holiday
204. Animal Emotion
205. Three
206. Graphic Abstract
207. France
208. Freedom
209. Urban landscapes
210. Wheels
211. Film Noir Mood
212. Heat and Glare
213. Russia
214. Connections
215. A Door
216. An Album Cover
217. Perfect Timing
218. Best Macro Shots – Summer 2011
219. Street Markets
220. Best Panning Shot
221. Stripes
222. Tell Your Travel Story
223. Depicting Age
224. Breakfast
225. A Room
226. A Splash of Colour
227. All Things Two
228. Human Sporting Emotion
229. Horses
230. Twelve Days of Christmas
231. Low Light
232. Alone in the City
233. Joy
234. Bikes & Bikers
235. Literature
236. Boat and Lake
237. Night Nature
238. Rhyming Slang
239. Frost - - - -
240. and all this is FOOTBALL!
241. Close up/Macro
242. A man with a camera
243. The Passing of Time
244. It is Where I Am From
245. Childhood Memories
246. The Impact of Architecture
247. Heavy Metal
248. Pastel Shades
249. A Character
250. Reportage
251. Focus on Rejuvenation
252. Door To …
253. Nifty Fifty
254. Monochrome
255. “T”
256. Fire and Ice
257. Rain!
258. Rubbish in the environment
259. Round
260. Vertebrate Wildlife
261. Wide Angle
262. Going Loco
263. Olympic Fire
264. One for the wall
265. Break Time
266. Clouds
267. Holiday Time
268. Shooters
269. Blades
270. Still Life
271. Shadow Play
272. Electric
273. People in Uniform
274. Panic!
275. Autumnal Decay
276. Chillax
277. Into Dark Woods
278. Now That Is Big!
279. Street photography
280. 1 daily routine exposure
281. Pets
282. Decay
283. The Crop has it!
284. On Those Gloomy Winter Days
285. Food, glorious food
286. I see a face
287. Black & White Flower Portraiture
288. Are You All White?
289. Let us hear your image
290. A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum
291. What LOVE Looks Like
292. Black
293. Polyptych
294. Close Up On Nature
295. Bridge the Gap
296. This sporting life



Fortnightly Competitions
(Now replaced by the monthly competition)
1. Vistas
2. Product Shot
3. Lunch Break
4. Something Wooden
5. Christmas
6. A Night Shot
7. Scales
8. Frozen water
9. Doors
10. Everyday Object, from a Weird, Unusual, Puzzling Perspective
11. Something Wide
12. Your Best Shot Ever
13. Reflections
14. Night
15. Fruit
16. Art in the Community
17. Hands
18. Movement
19. "The Sun"
20. Relaxation or Relaxed
21. Shadows
22. My Roots, My Place
23. The Ground
24. Menace & Foreboding
25. A bad day at the office !
26. Half and half
27. ‘The White Shirt’
28. Bonfire Night
29. Cars
30. Curves
31. Juxtaposition
32. Your Weather
33. Stairs
34. Long Exposure
35. “Design Icon”
36. People
37. Hobbies
38. Genus Loci
39. Order and Disorder
40. Industrial Landscape
41. Childhood Memories
42. Local Flora
43. Faces
44. Food!!
46. Health
47. B&W Portraits
48. Wire, string, rope
49. Science Fiction
50. One Colour
51. Industry
52. Classical Music
53. Sunset
54. Energy
55. Time Piece
56. Abstract impressionism
57. Mono/Chrome
58. Space
59. Snow & Cold
60. Spatial
61. Silhouette
62. Eggs
63. Subject Noir (Black)
64. Plastic
65. Through a Door
66. Spring is Sprung
67. The Sacred
68. An Image That Looks Good From a Distance
69. Blur
70. Leading Lines
71. Wildlife
72. Barriers
73. Square Pictures
74. Interior
75. Steps
76. Water
77. Chiaroscuro
78. A Smell
79. Five Minutes’ Walk
80. Book / Books
81. Crop & PoP
82. Preparations
83. Relaxation
84. Bits & Pieces
85. Skies
86. Golden Hour
87. Bokeh
88. Vignette in mono
89. Natures Gifts
90. Simplicity
91. Buildings
92. Weather
93. Two
94. Tree
95. Texture
96. Heritage


Monthly Competitions
Previous Forum Competitions:
1. Fine Art Mono Landscapes
2. Generations
3. Opposites
4. RGB
5. Communications
6. Three Courses

Current:
1. Night Shots
2. Humour
3. Men at Work
4. Another one for the album…
5. Sell Me Something
6. The Spirit of Christmas
7. Digital Filters
8. Broken
9. Reflection


Updated until 11-03-13

Are we sure you can't attach filters to the Sigma 8-16mm?

I only have the 10-20mm but SRS are indicating that the 8-16mm can take 72mm filters and offer a bundle with a Kenko UV filter here.

Glyn

As a quick starting point, for getting a working exposure setting, I found setting auto exposure to point works quite well. Metering the moon then sets the moon to around mid grey. You could then try some +ev to get a brighter result or go to manual exposure using the auto exposure value as a starting point for some experimentation.

I also found that reviewing the results on the back of the camera in the dark always makes the results look brighter than when you see them inside on the PC. So I think it is worth trying a first attempt in the garden so that you can whip the camera off of the tripod and go inside for a quick review on the PC.

Glyn

How about the odd coin?






Glyn