Phoenix

Vintage Lace (taken 07.08.15)

This weeks challenge invites you to "look down" Any interpretation, and post production allowed. So look down on your feet, look down on a close up of something, look down from a building, got a tilt-shift or lens baby - then look down and have some fun. Photo to be taken and uploaded by midnight Monday 17th August. Voting from Tuesday until midnight Friday 21st August - Winner announced Saturday 22nd August. Don't forget to add a title and the date/ time that the image was taken. So get up there and start looking down.

Thank you everyone, but really at first tie Chris should have had a go. Off to set up the next weeks challenge.

OMG what a dufus... I am away visiting friends and have my days of the week all mixed up. This is what retirement does to you! Thanks for fixing this up Phil. I have very limited mobile cover here. I'll be on my best behavior next time I promise.

Thank you all for joining in my challenge this week. There are some fabulous entries, it's going to be a hard one to choose. Voting is now open until midnight on Friday, winner announced on Saturday.

, made me laugh

C'mon Chrissy, this is YOUR thing

Deconstructed pancakes (image taken 31.07.15)

so what's special about a Mac that means you don't need to calibrate the monitor? or are you suggesting that the Mac monitors are better quality (which they probably are). I guess many of us started our with a computer/ monitor set up without really understanding what calibration or image manipulation really meant.

Welcome aboard, love to have you join in our weekly challenge. I've learnt that you can ask anything here and the people will be really nice to you

I've just been on a huge learning curve about all this stuff - I've learnt that most computer monitors are for games/ office work, but a proper monitor that is designed for image manipulation makes a huge difference. Its really difficult to calibrate a cheap monitor. I have also learnt about downloading a paper profile, allowing lightroom/ PS to choose the color management (not the printer) to coincide with the downloaded paper profile. 4 weeks ago this stuff was all gobbledygook to me but its worth persevering as the results are just amazing. Now what I see on the screen is actually what comes out of the printer (that feels AMAZING). Also it's important to NOT have any direct lighting on the screen while you calibrate. I use a desk-light pointed away from the screen as my 'ambient light'. So if your printed images are disappointing and don't match your screen, then you have a problem and if your computer is not calibrated properly, then your EDI images will look poor on someone else's computer (ie here). Just a thought. and BTW, Phil, your second image looks fabulous

Fence at Sunrise (image taken 23.07.2015)

This week we are headed off to the Kitchen - think food, implements, cooking, kitchen activity, cookbooks, anything you can find, do or make in the kitchen. The theme is open to interpretation, and post production welcome. Please take and upload your image by midnight, Monday 3rd August, voting will be open from Tuesday to Friday, winner announced Saturday 9th August (and the we start again.....) *don't forget to add the date your image was taken*

thank you everyone who voted, but I have to say I am really surprised. We've had terrible weather (it is winter here) and it was all put together quite quickly. My vote went to Nanny Ferret, I love the patterns in nature that you can get with a macro and the red/ green goes so nicely together. Off to put the next challenge up.

I'm going to have to put my thinking cap on for this one, it's been grey here, rain and more rain.

these are just brilliant Dave,you have a real talent there. Is that any problems if I download one of them? regards Jen

Knitting...

no ideas at all, I live in the country and don't do pink or girly too well. Does that help? Mia Mia is actually the name of a (now) heritage listed home that I lived in when I was a young child. I have a sign of this at my front gate. I'll post a photo of the sign tomorrow Here is the sign at my front gate (the original house was on the other side of Victoria)

these are brilliant, even though I don't have a website I do have some plans (I do have a very poor blog that has been unused for a while) can you try one for Mia Mia Images

I'm a little confused, is there somewhere to vote?

Sorry to hear that Paul, I've just had a look at your website, you have some beautiful work there

I'm not going to ask you where they are! nice theme, we are all stuck inside with a cold antarctic vortex heading our way so the weather will be shite. Will have to put the thinking cap on (or the woolly hat)

thanks for this, it's so effective, and congratulations on the win

I do believe that Ryewolf was a clear winner this week. Fantastic image, would love to know how you got it?

All zebra'd out! (image taken 9th July)