Really love Nature's decaying foliage. You've really caught the colours and the cell structures, and I like the framing with the stem jsut showing at the bottom left.

Here is the place for discussion about fortnightly competition #76 - Water.

And as is traditional I will stop looking in here once the first entry has been submitted.

The competition will close at 6pm BST on Wednesday 21st September. I'll post results later that night.

Good luck all

Tim

I've spent most of my professional life thinking about water, so would be very glad to see some creative images on the subject. It's obviously a hoary old photographic theme, so I will be putting particular emphasis on originality when judging.



Shots are to be taken from now until 6 pm BST, Wednesday 21st September 2011. Usual rules. Pentax cameras or Samsung variants only please. EXIF data to be provided. Please try to keep images to 800px on the long side.


ps. My first time setting one of these. I had a look through Glyn's invaluable list of previous subjects and I think the topic is new to the fortnightly... but correct me if I'm wrong or have done anything else stupid

Recovered some composure now - but just stunned to get the top place given the images I was up against.

Many thanks Glyn for the really detailed, insightful comments on all the entries. I'm always impressed by the care folk put into judging and the level of detail in their feedback, but you've set the bar particularly high for a novice judge

I'll post the subject for the next comp in a mo

Bloomin eck

Just off for a stiff whisky, and then I'll respond properly.

+1

Was flirting with the idea of picking up a CP for this lens... so any feedback you have on the Hoya etc would be great David!

The Steps into the Sand

[IMG]http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/kk206/Northgrain/Assorted%20Snaps/TheStepsontotheBeach.jpg[/IMG]

Taken 3 September 2011
f9
1/160 sec
ISO 400
15 mm

Really great set. 1 and 3 for me

To be honest, I tried loads of similar picks of skulls and various assorted animal remains, but as you found reflections or dodgy light ruined them . This was the only half decent image I got... and even then I couldn't stop down enought to get the DOF I really wanted .

Well, not really, obviously

But "Photograph of a model of a brain in a museum cabinet inspired by Cardiff Gareth's fantastic PPG images of skulls and snakes in other museum cabinets link, but obviously nothing like as good as those" does not have the same ring to it.

[IMG]http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/kk206/Northgrain/Assorted%20Snaps/Brain-1.jpg[/IMG]

I hope I don't get into too much trouble for cheek. In mitigation, first 'proper' day at work for a while - everyone's back and it's all gone a bit bonkers. Affects my mind, you know