Reportage Challenge: Toby's #1

Well this has been a bugger. Here's a couple of attempts.

A man chalks a picture for coins from passers-by outside the now-closed Woolworths in Worcester city centre. 

50mm, f8, 1/640sec, ISO400.  High contrast BW conversion. 

Salford Quays, or.... Predictably, Kev takes some photos of buildings

Well, well, there's a surprise. I took some photos of buildings.

I put these in my "Bilbao - Birmingham - Manchester" collection. In retrospectives in years to come, others will point to this phase of my photographic development and see the spark of genius and hold up these photos as icons of a golden age, and they shall wonder whether the world will see such a unique talent again.

Or perhaps not.

The other photos are HERE

Photoshop disasters

You may have already been forwarded this by numerous people...

http://www.allgraphicdesign.com/graphicsblog/2009/02/24/worst-photoshop-mistakes-and-disasters/

The A3 printer Kev has been waiting for?

http://www.dpreview.com/news/0903/09032502canonpixmapro9500.asp

A bargain at just over £700! Think I'll add it to the fantasy shopping list.

Undersea Volcanic Eruptions

No my photos, unfortunately, but these are impressive.

Challenge #5 - reportage

How about a spot of reportage gents? (and if you wish Kev, you can get out and take those candids you like!)

Up to five shots to illustrate/represent the story of the season - the recession. However, because I don't want this to be overly bleak, you can either show the downside of the downturn, or submit "shoots of recovery/optimism" photos, or a mix of both. Reportage rather than overly abstract please.

Usual rules apply. Deadline 15 April (ish).

Can I also suggest that we establish "standing" challenges to avoid people giving up their turn to set challenges with obvious stuff like "winter". Shall we consider that each quarter automatically has a seasonal challenge attached? Summer will run June/July/Aug; Autumn will be Sept/Oct/Nov; Winter pics in Dec/Jan/Feb and Spring shots for March/Apri/May. What do you think?

The Toon

Small selection from my trip to Newcastle last week, starting with some ironwork for Kevin!

Last two with the tripod - worked really nicely and definitely wouldn't have bothered lugging anything bigger or bulkier round with me, so couldn't have got them without the new one.

Uploaded entire set (minus all the beer tasting pics, which will only be of interest to CAMRA readers) to Facebook.