Come on Techno! You can do it, have faith in yourself. As you see, everyone's more than happy to offer ideas but I don't like to hear this talk of 'comfort zones' - or see that dunces hat avatar!

Lovely shot. I love nocturnal shadows.

Wonderful shots! Love the monkey. I am so jealous

Love the trees in no. 1. Bet they'd look awesome looming out of dense mist! I also like Kris's take on the barb wire.

Thanks very much for the comments, I appreciate it.

Quite like the shiny blue and brown ones! I'm sure this has more to do with generating a bit of free publicity than anything else. Arty types or fashionistas might like a yellow or pink one.

Ta very much. Yep I liked no. 2 too, although I wish he was walking into shot. I've never seen St Martin's cast a shadow onto Selfridges like that before.

Just a few pics from Sunday afternoon, trying to make the best of my local area for a few shots. I actually got 'quizzed' by a silly police officer - apparently I was standing outside a cop-shop for the pictures of Smithfield House. I told him I didn't have any interest in shooting the police station, and he left me carry on. (I actually got loads of images of it reflected in the office windows...)














Used my 16-45mm and SMC-A 80-200mm - and did a fair bit of 'skewing' in photoshop.

While it's customary and courteous to provide detailed comments, far as I can see there is no 'rule' that you must do so. As Andrew says, the pressure of having to do that might put some people off, although it's nice when people do it and I didn't mind having a go a few weeks back!

That said, Matt chose a very difficult and controversial topic, so it would be interesting to hear a bit more from him.

You can't go wrong with a John Hedgecoe book IMO link

Most of them are pre-digital but that's no bad thing: Concentrates the mind on the fundamentals of aperture, shutter speed, exposure and composition. In other words, getting the shot right without recourse to saving shots in photoshop!