Well, Daniel's death defying shot had to be the winner. Well done!

Don't know if he crosses his fingers. What static figures are you talking about? There certainly was nothing static in this picture...

Prieni

Certainly not rude at all in my books...
You are certainly right that panned shots require a higher level of technical ability. But as you rightly say "we are probably not judging technical ability here" (and I would strike out the probably).

Basically we have several options:
1. Movement of an object blurs photo taken with stationary camera
2. Movement of an object frozen with stationary camera
3. Movement of an object frozen by moving camera (a.k.a. panning)
4. Movement blurred by movement of object and camera
5. Still object blurred by moving camera
6. combinations of above and/or PP
7. the ones I forgot to mention

What option we choose depends on the movement we are trying to capture or the image we have in mind.
While the appreciation for the skill level required for a shot most likely will play some role in judging the entries I think the impression of the finished product on the viewer/judge is most important.

Prieni

Thanks Tony!

It will get harder as the useful archive-shots are a limited resource...

The way the retirement age is going in Germany at the moment I would say yes.

Cheers,
Prieni

You have to build up step by step. It took quite a while to build up and I didn't submit "agressively". I like to have two or three in the running at any time. When they are all declined or accepted I look for new ones to submit.

Martin, thanks for your kind words. I better should go back to work, then and stop answering posts...

Thanks Peter. The grid is part of an oceanographic instrument (the upper photo on my wife's page here shows the whole thing (called sediment trap) at deployment).

Scott, your signature says it all: just keep snapping (and submitting, of course).

Hefty, I think it's time to submit more. I had about 130 shots declined as well as 50 accepted.

Haydn, I will be on the lookout for you

Lance, I might go for the lottery ticket...

Thanks all for comments and kind words,
Prieni

Showing water pics to me is never a bad thing. As has been shown you can make many great pictures out of this one just by different crops.

My eye is drawn to the upper right and I like what I see there.
Lower right would make a good abstract shot.

I like both suggested crops and cannot make my mind up which one I prefer.

Prieni

Mike,

you got some real crackers in there!

Prieni

What a lovely shot. I would have tried to miss the street alltogether when framing the shot, but that would have been the wrong choice in this case (might have been a lovely pic anyway).

I agree, the car is the icing on the cake and you imagine driving down that road into the marvellous view yourself.

Well done!

Prieni

I got my 50th shot accepted for the PPG today. And I got an open ended contract at work. Not a bad day...

Here's entry No. 50 (shot for a competition with the theme "Something old"):
[IMG]http://i156.photobucket.com/albums/t5/Prieni/_PRI6159.jpg[/IMG]
Taken with K20D and DA* 16-50 @ 39, A11, 1.5 s, ISO200. Fading daylight from the window and a bit of tungsten.

Prieni

I could take all of mine:

DA 10-17 fisheye
DA* 16-50
Sigma 105/2.8 Macro
Sigma 70-300 APO DG Macro

Heck, I also could take the DA-J 17-35 (*istD kit lens).

Why? Because you gave me the choice of 5 and I only have 5.

Prieni

Nice shots, Lance, I can feel the LBA creeping up in me...
The bokeh seems nice enough and I bet the AF is sweet as well.

Only question: Is it good for bird shots only?

Thanks for posting,
Prieni