From The Galleries!

I've told you before about Andrew, i told you he is a photographer as much as a photoshopper!

Here is the proof!

Just makes you wish you had taken it! Congratulations Andrew for this great photo!

Featured Forum Member - Ronnie

Now what i am about to write is meant in the bestest way possible!

I have seen Ronnie's work for about a year now, and i can honestly say the forum works, because as you will see, his standard from when i saw it first and to what he produces now is nothing short of amazing! and he is a good guy to match. I honestly say with his work i now say 'i wish i could do that!'

Ronnie not only is a valued member but is helpful and fits in with the rest of the artists we have!

Thanks Ronnie for being part of the forum.

A bit of background from Ronnie:

First i got into taking picture's when i had my twin's, getting a camera the day they where born almost 15 year's ago..I have something like 5,000 picture's of my 4 kids.I first bought Photo Impact 10 then 12, but they didnt let me do the thing's i wanted, so i tried Photoshop around mid february " This year " but it's a big program so looked to find some learning dvd's and you know the rest....and me, im just a joiner....Other intrest's.. Snooker, won a couple of local trophy's and the scotish leauge with my local club..

Game 24 - Midnight Train to Georgia

Another hard week for voting, so much so the vote counter got slightly confused, it can happen to us all, well just me really but never mind it's all for fun and learning!

I think this week's original photos gave peoples minds a chance to expand and use their 'little grey cells' to the full and it was won by Rebecca, who not uses out of the box thinking, creates out of the box thinking, then takes it to a new level.

Well Done Rebecca, how you thought of it i don't know! but the planning, execution and deserved of the win (i bet i will have to find another keyboard shortcut!)

Original Image:

Winning Image:

Next Game Clues:

1. The Da Vinci Code

2. Max Bygraves - 'Tulips from Amsterdam'

Photographers i Look to: number 9

http://www.flickr.com/photos/bamawester/

Just Really love the photos, Enjoy!

From The Galleries!

Yvonne's great shot at this ship. I really like this shot and could imagine this picture on a hotel wall by the seaside (a posh hotel of course!)

Makes you want to travel the high sea's, with the sea air flowing through your hair, and be proud of wearing an eye patch.

Well maybe not an eye patch but a sea captain proud of his ship!

Well Done Yvonne! A good shot by a good person.

Featured Forum Member - Pat Dee

Pat is up for his deserved showcase this week!

He is more for the photo competition than the photoshop/image editing competition but if i was that good then i wouldn't have to worry about trying to improve my photos so much.

Pat not only is a valued member of the forum, he helps collate all the images for an easier viewing as well as helping members with photography questions.

Thank you Pat for being a member of the forum.

Bit of Background Information from Pat Himself:

My mother had a Brownie box camera which I was very occasionally allowed to use, it was after I joined the RAF in 1947 and when I was on leave awaiting posting to the Far East that I bought a Kershaw Penguin, 120 roll film camera, in Singapore there were many Japanese cameras available and I unfortunately bought a Petri 35 mm with the bottom of a milk bottle for a lens. I was not really interested in photography, until I left the RAF in 1955, was married and had a family, I joined the local Co-op camera club, got an enlarger and a pile of dishes, bought a Voigtlander Perkeo II 6x6, we were given a different subject every week and had to develope the film and print the picture ourselves, a great learning period.

The Voigtlander was modified by myself to take smaller size transparencies and a Yashicamat twin lens was bought, then a Mamiy C3 twin lens and a couple of lenses, that was a wonderful camera.

I had by then became aware of the Magnum group of photographers, photojournalism has always fascinated me, Jill Freedman, Rene Burri, Thomas Hopker, Elliott Erwitt, Cartier-Bresson, Brandt and many more of that period are still my idols, they completely changed the way I looked at photography, even although my darkroom skills improved a 100%, they also made me realise that I would never be anything except a very very average picture taker.

During the 60’s I covered motor cycle scrambles in Scotland for one of the motor cycle weeklies and used to travel all over the UK following the sport. I moved south to Leicester in 1970, traded the Mamiy in and bought a couple of Pentax bodies, one for B&W the other for transparencies, I used to go to marathons, antique shows, hedge laying competitions , street photography, loved trying different subjects, but by the mid 80’s I had practically stopped using the cameras.

In 2002 I bought Katie a Fuji Finepix digital camera, eventually bought myself a digital, I do not think that digital, is as good or as satisfying as a film camera, what it does is that it allows you to produce pictures with little effort in the developing/enlarging sense, I am still to be convinced that the quality is better.

Game 23 - Ship Ahoy!!!!

HelenC won again!!! (how many times, do i write this, thank god for keyboard shortcuts, ctrl + F5 saves so much time).

In all honesty it was another cracking image and we are all playing catch up, who knows i might win one day but there is more chance of me producing a picture worthy enough and it would cost me a fortune in bribes!

Original Image:

Winning Image:

Well Done Helen, it reallys gives the impression of being there, all we need now is a piano that plays by itself and the sound of cowboy spurs, and men passing the ladies, with an 'evenin ma'am' while tippin their hats- well it does it me, doesn't you.........I know, another injection for me!


Next Game Clues

1. American State

2. Covent Garden

Photographers i look to: number 8:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/7192501@N05/

The Images just draw (no pun intended) me in, again have a look, great thing about photography or art pictures everyone has a different perspective and a different way of executing the image.