Lets hope the judge this week doesn't fall into the all-too-obvious trap of thinking that moody subjects are better expressed in drab mono.

Geek info
Camera: Pentax K10D
Lens: Pentax DA50-200mm
Shutter: 1/60.0 s
Aperture: F/5.6
ISO speed: 100
Focal length: 55.0 mm

I don't follow this fanatical devotion to horizontals. You can let it spoil your impression of a perfectly good picture.

Lovely shot. I'd be very happy with that.

I was referring to the first half of my own post.

Smilies are, of course, an invaluable and indispensable aid to the writer; which is why they have been used in all types of writing for these past thousands of years.

Sarcasm is another one.

Geek info
Camera: Pentax K10D
Lens: Pentax FA 50mm
Shutter: 1/60.0 s
Aperture: F/2.0
ISO speed: 100
Focal length: 50.0 mm
WB: Daylight

ImageMagick is brilliant for these types of tasks. It can replace a whole load of discrete packages and it is ideal for bulk processing. I use it extensively. It's free and open source.

To add a watermark to an image - you first need a small image which is your watermark. Something in simple black and white.

Then you type:

30% sets the density of the watermark. The gravity value controls where on the main image the water mark is placed.

It is also easy to put this in a loop to do all the images in a directory:

In this example, a subdirectory, 'watermarked' will contain the watermarked images from the original directory.

The above loop is suitable for Linux but the Windows version is very similar.

www.imagemagick.org

Nicely judged. And quick, too. That's the way to do it.

Any particular reason for not mentioning HowardJ's entry?

I did wonder how strongly you were expecting the theme to feature. Half the fun is guessing what the judge might be expecting. I've got your measure next time you're judging.

Congratulations to Dirk who, I suspect, will be very pleased with his result.

Geek info:
Camera: PENTAX K10D
Shutter: 1/250.0 s
Aperture: F/5.6
ISO speed: 100
Focal length: 200.0 mm