Thanks Chris!
Close to the buildings there is the "old stream" (Alter Strom) which is a bit quieter water. The major part of the water is the main shipping channel, the mouth of the Warnow river ("Mündung" in German means mouth; Warnemünde means Warn(ow)mouth). In that part there was a bit more wave action and therefore it looks different. I think thatäs what you are seeing.

Cheers,
Prieni

Lilly, if I remember correctly I only needed a very slight correction for this one. As you mentioned, the horizon was going pretty much through the centre. The cliff does look reasonable even with the distortion (of course that wouldn't work on a building or similar).
Galoot does have a few landscape shots with the 10-17 as well and these are stunning. In this thread he gave a link to his WEB gallery:
https://www.pentaxuser.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=5845

Well worth looking!

Prieni

This was a difficult competition theme as there are so many great places...

Here are a few more that I could have submitted:

Island of Rügen, Germany:
10-17 mm



Warnemüde, Germany (where I live):
Sigma 105 mm



Haleakala Crater, Maui:
Sigma 105 mm



Dead Man's Beach, Ascension Island:
Kiron 70-210



New Forest, Hampshire, UK
18-35



Hope to add some from Hong Kong end of November...

Brilliant shot, John!

And one of my favourite subjects, the beach. Very nice colours, the blues in the shells and the greens on the sand, great! I also like the format of this shot. Well done.

Don't you have to love this Sigma 105?

And your shots with the 10-17 are also marvellous. On some of the reflections it would have been nice to have a grad filter, but with the 10-17 it's not possible
What I try is to expose for the sky, lighten up the pic in post processing and apply a gradient layer using soft light mode. This does increase noise a little but apart from that it's like having a grad filter on the lens.

Great bounty!

Prieni

I guess it will take at least a few weeks. I can give you a ring when I retired with my millions on a Caribbean island, which is exactly the time when you should feel your sensor growing...

Thought of that when looking for something to try out the new AF-540FGZ in wireless together with the AF-360FGZ. I noticed the FF on a recent batch of Fishermen's Friends:

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I do enjoy shooting for the competition more, usually. However, as was said, in this case it's not quite possible to jet off to your favourite place if it happens to be far away. At other times we might be too busy to get the right shot in (sometimes we try in vain; good job we're not professionals as then we would have blown it).

So maybe we need a sponsor for a sizeable prize money? But then there would be even more entries, this competition attracts quite a lot of entrants as it is (and Lilly had her work cut out nicely last week).

I like the competition rule-light as it is.

Thanks niblue for your swift judgement and thanks also for the commendation. karma mechanic congratulations for a well deserved win. I think using IR really made this shot special and transports the mood of this place (I used to live in Southampton). Well done!

Congratulations also to all other entrants making it a good competition (again)!

Looking forward to this weeks topic,
Prieni

This is a tough one as there are quite a few places that come to mind. For the competition I chose this one from Venice:



*istD, FA J 18-35 mm, 1/45 s, F8, ISO 200

George, while I concur with that for Madonna (great PR person, though) and Delia Smith (never really was interested in her, though you can't really avoid her in the UK) I think Jeremy Clarkson is brilliant. I really like his style of humour, though I can see why some people don't like him. What does it for me is that from time to time he can make fun of himself. Knowing that I'm much more tolerant when he makes fun of other people or groups or shows off his ego which is the size of a planet.

I would love to see a motoring magazine like Top Gear on German TV and I am surprised that no one has taken that on given that globalisation of nonsensical TV series seems to be the way to go. Maybe Top Gear makes too much sense :

Prieni