pleytime

Placed 12^th in the challenge. Rock band Rival Sons performing at KB in Malmö, Sweden. Jay Buchanan, lead singer, Scott Holiday, lead guitar.

Placed 16^th in the challenge. Germany vs Switzerland in kayak water polo on the Binnenalster in Hamburg, Germany.

Placed 6^th in the challenge. Busy balconies on Schöneberger Strasse in Berlin.

Placed 2^nd in the challenge. Early morning commuters bicycling to work through Rosenthaler Platz in Berlin on a golden summer morning.

Placed 22^nd in the challenge. Ascending from the train platform at Berlin's central train station.

Placed 3^rd in the challenge. The German Technology Museum with a C 47 that flew during the Berlin airlift, hanging from the roof. Two iconic, yellow, Berlin subway trains entering and leaving the nearby Möckernbrücke U-Bahn station.

Placed 5^th in the challenge. The steel Fernsehturm reflected in the glass facade of the Park Inn by Radisson at Alexanderplatz, Berlin

I guess the host determines where the bokeh is or is not.

Really great images in this challenge.

Placed 17^th in the challenge. American gas station display at an antique automobile museum in Simrishamn, Sweden.

Placed 8^th in the challenge. Desolate Magerøya Island landscape on the way to the North Cape in Norway. Hard to tell how far, or close that ridge is.

Placed 21^st in the challenge. Textured industrial wall in Berlin.

Placed 5^th in the challenge. Beach umbrellas and their shadows in Lagos, Portugal.