Jocksa

For what it's worth, my experience was the opposite. I think it depends how you find your photos. If you have a specific aim (birds, weddings, architecture, motorsport, whatever), it's easy to ...

Don't worry, our cats are too fat to catch anything.  In this case she was hunting a piece of string I was pulling through the grass just for the shot!

Credit to my son, Jamie, who did this without the need to mirror it in post. I told him he could just write it normally and we'd mirror it, but he was determined. The red trails between letters ...

Well done, Michael, and thanks for the mention.

After I'd taken this, I found the patch of "beach" in the bottom left distracted me so I cropped it out. I find the eye "settles" more easily on the cropped version.

Lots of my photographs are taken balancing precariously, or in high wind, or standing in water. I know the framing isn't going to be perfect so I include a bit more and tidy up in post. It's ...

Photographing bees in flight handheld is hard enough without getting your subject exactly where you want them, so a bit of cropping is in order.

I didn't provide any examples last time, it didn't seem to matter. nor me nor me, self taught I can't think of a better way. :-)

I doubt it’s important. Personally I’d rather you hosted a challenge with the wrong number than chose not to host one. You take great pictures, you’ll make a great host.

Hi Bathgate. not sure how important it is, but this should be challenge 328.

My view is that you're missing an essential part of the photo creation process if you don't have editing software. It allows you to take photographs with a full "capture to publish" plan in place. ...

Firstly, thanks to all who entered and in doing so made it so much fun to run the challenge. I was a bit torn when judging this one because normally I'm just looking for what I consider to be the ...

Thank you for your entries, I will post the results shortly.

Another to bump the thread. Just over 24 hours to go so don't delay.....

Also bumps the thread back up the list. I think overcast skies are one of the areas that B&W beats colour so I chose this to convert. Perhaps, too contrasty for some people's taste but I've always ...

Not sure - at first I didn’t think there was a reasonable colour version in the RAW file so I processed it as B&W and did all my dodging and burning in B&W. But afterwards, switching back to ...

Colour version

HAPPY NEW YEAR People have been busy for the last few weeks and, in the northern hemisphere, it's probably been colder than ususal so I thought I'd set a challenge that we can all do indoors if we ...