However, I do participate in a friendly, local, no prize photo competition. The rules of the competition are that the winner of a week chooses the following weeks theme. You have to send the photos to the winner of the previous week and he/she and JC, the Frenchman who created the competition, judge and decide which photos are passed for the public to vote on. Only ten photos are selected and the last three weeks my entries have not been accepted and therefore not published. I have come second or third on occasions but of late have not had any luck.

This week’s theme was: “High Key Photography” Apparently High Key is a term to describe images that are bright and contain little to no shadow.

I took several dozen shots of my subject and whittled them down to six before decding on one.

JC disagreed and said it should be the second one.

Then he said it would be better in black and white. The third image is manipulated by JC and the fourth is my BW version.

I didn't agree because I liked the contrast between the colour and the monochrome background of my original choice but, since JC is a professional photographer, I let myself be persuaded. I will know the resuts on Tuesday but I don't see my photo being among the first 10.

Please feel free to comment.

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Well worth a look:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/in-pictures-58327374

Thanks for your input joecichjr

Yes, I tend to agree with you but it's interesting to see what others think.

Those looking at the image will be those who are also participatiing in the fun competition and so will know what they are looking at. Only the background is dark and thus making the image stand out and more dramatic. If you think it looks like a rotten egg then there might be something wrong with your eyesight.

Thank you for your comment Architect

I'm entering a friendly, no prize photo competition.

Theme: 'illustrate this poem'.

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To my delicate F.

Having dazzled my hazel eyes for days,
Sitting atop your stalk of shamrock green shades,
Ready to retire.
Fragile fabric foregrounding fantasies,
I thank you for flowering for me.

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In other words: Take a photo of a flower that has passed her prime.



Which is the better of these two that illustrated the theme?

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Can't keep the dog, its not mine! The only way I can submit the photo to the competition is by editing it out. I've won on just one occason and come twice on two consecutive weeks. I´ll know the results of this week on Tuesday.

Each week I enter a photo in a just for fun photo competiton. There are no prizes and no one is judged on the quality of their photos. Each week a different theme is given and ths week's theme was "Yellow". I was a bit uninspired but out walkng, I saw something that suited the bill and whipped out my iPhone and took a quick snap. I'm attaching the original to give an idea of how far away was the subject, and then the second photo was an edit. Unfortunately, the organiser wouldn't accept it becase one of the rules this week was "no anmals" and, although the dog wasn't the subject of the photo, he still wouldn't accept it, so, I had to remove the dog. Third photo. A pity because I thought it made an amusing composition.

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Exactly

R eceived this in my mail today:

Hello I'm MR RACHID JOE the New Manager of Standard Chartered Bank, I
want to let you know that we receive an email from a young woman
called Mrs. Marston Dale she said that you died in coronavirus last
week and before you died in the hospital you gave her the power of
attorney to inherit your fund worth the sum of $2.5 million dollars in
our bank and she agreed to pay the Tax Clearance charge for us to hand
over the fund to her, and we need a confirmation from you as soon as
you receive my email before we give her the access to your fund but if
we didn't hear from you till next three working days, then we are
going to take the action by handing her over the fund. Remember to
reconfirm your Full information to us for Mutual understanding :

Your Name_______________
Address: ________________
Occupation: ____________
Phone Number: _____________
Age and Gender___________________

Best Regard
Mrs. Marston Dale

Mrs Marston Dale seems to be the one who is claiming my money and also the sender of this e-mail.

Why is it that scammers always ask for your occupation, age and gender?

It's very Western Union isn't it?

Of COURSE I'm taking him up on it, especially after he wrote:

My dear, bear in mind that he who looks into the future with the eyes
of fear,will see nothing but failure. What you hear determines how you
think, how youthink determines how you behave and how you behave
determines what you become.
Our future is too good to be ignored.