Picture from the Student Demo

This one has been doing the rounds so you may have seen it. Whatever you think of the politics of the protest, I think this is a great shot for a number of reasons: it tells a story - and one contrary to what is being reported. There's a great contrast between the youth and vulnerability of the girls and the violence that has been done to the van. There's a camaraderie in the eye contact between the main two subjects.

Wildlife photography winners

Overall winner shows it's definitely not about technical brilliance, although, personally I don't see this as a particularly strong shot - certainly not as strong as a lot of the entries.

Some amazing technical stuff however, especially the underwater shots.

365 Project

Stumbled across the 356Project website recently. A friend on Facebook is doing it. I have to say I am quite tempted to give it a go. Some of the photos on there are very good and others are interesting from a reportage point of view. Too often my camera sits unused from week to week.

What holds me back is that I'd need a camera with me all the time and I won't be lugging the D90 to work and back every day. I don't really have a compact - although Sarah's old 4MP Ixus has taken a few good shots - and my phone camera is pretty ropey.

Have either of you tried a self-imposed challenge to take a photo a day?

The slow path to very imaginable wealth

FT article

Latest stock sale - ironically it's an article by Roger Protz, who writes regularly for me in my day job.

Image zoomed end of August, article dated 17 Sept, sale of image only turned up on my Alamy records today - again proves that zoomed images months before may turn into sales.

Brings total earned from the stock experiment to just over $500 from around 450 images.

Challenge 10 - Much Less Scary

Here's another one. This time I am a bit more presentable. Taken with off-camera flash behind the sewing machine so that I was illuminated. Manual focus attempt to get my face sharp - not the machine - has only been partially successful. F7.1, 52mm.

Challenge 10 - NSFW

This was an attempt to get away from any vanity associated with this challenge! Me looking at my very worst after 30 minutes on an exercise bike. Do not pixel-peep - you may well be scarred for life.

Off-camera flash pointing straight into the face from below, camera directly ahead. F3.5, 18mm.

Challenge 10 - for me, obvious really...

f8, 1/60s, ISO400, 16-85@56mm, off-camera flash. Chiltern Brewery Bitter, 4.8 per cent ABV.