2nd Attempt

Congratulations to Prieni.

A great shot and I nearly did not enter once I had seen it

Thank you Martin for setting the competition and your comprehensive judging notes as always.

Great shame about the number of entries given that the 'Your Photos' section and the 'Gallery' are awash in new images being submitted

Well I don't think that I was "having a grey moment" and the log-in timeout seems a likely explanation

I submitted two posts early this morning, one under Your Photos (Protest Girl) and the other under the Fortnightly Competition to thank Martin and congratulate Prieni.

Both have vanished

Has anyone else had a problem of vanishing posts :

Welcome back George.

You have not posted for a while.

I had the opportunity of photographing a Moonraker (classic 1970's motor cruiser) ablaze in Chichester Harbour today, but it seemed slightly 'ghoulish' so I decided against it, partly because the boat was owned by a fellow berth holder and had motored past me only a few minutes earlier and partly because I did not know at the time if the crew were still on board, suffering in the fire.

Fortunately all four crew were recovered unharmed but the boat was destroyed.

Although the images would have been quite striking and probably newsworthy, I think that I made the right decision.

Back to the competition and I have selected the following from my two options of subject matter that I did capture during the relevant period :-

Trick of the Light

[IMG]http://i148.photobucket.com/albums/s30/Hyram_Hare/IMGP1229-x.jpg[/IMG]

K20D + DA* 50-135 @ 135mm.
f8 + 1/125sec + ISO 400.

I tried various crops with this image but finally decided to leave it in context, clearly a car bonnet with the wall alongside.

Just as well I had washed the car, the day before

The criteria is the best shot that you have taken during the qualifying period, which might be the only shot that you have taken.

In this situation, unless it is absolutely awful, in which case it would have been almost instantly deleted, it probably still merits being entered

Unfortunately, unless there is a last minute rush, there is also a very low entry in the Weekly Competition, depsite the very 'open' subject matter.

Great shot and welcome to the forum Sue

There are two more in the pipeline (including mine)

So far in the fortnight, I have only taken two different images and I cannot decide between them (assuming that I do not photograph anything else)

They are completely different to each other but I quite like them both

It is far easier having a theme to comply with

Pete moved over to the dark side some time ago