Once again...thanks for the win Laurie                            ---------------------------Your challenge for Saturday is.....HATS...colour or B&W                           ----------------------------RULES

I think I'm still being too harsh on people sometimes .It may be useful for people to put which software they use and where they think they are on the manipulation scale of one to ten and how comfortable they are .I'll start .Experience comfort level 6.Can follow tutorials eventually most of the time and can wing it a bit where I can't .Use Photo-shop for manipulation and Capture NX for RAW editing .Time willing and able to give a task here within a week, around 8 hours at present . 

Thanks for the win Sheila!I want to see a photo of something related to one of your favorite recreational activities.Color or Black and White.RESULTS:This was not easy as usual. I am feeling under the weather today so I'm having an even tougher time deciding. But here it is:

Thanks again Sheila for choosing my photo as the winner.The challenge is to take a photo of anything that catches your eye. 

Thank you to everyone who took part.  Results are as follows :-1st - Laurie You said that the stairs weren't interesting, but you have made them so, with the crisp shot and the great angle...  well done.. loved it.2nd - Mags Again I loved the angle.... almost looked as though you could topple over.  I almost had vertigo looking at this.  A trompe l'oeil effect...looked a bit surreal.3rd - Mary-Ann Beautiful natural stone steps, going from dark to light.

Thanks again for first Mike.This coming weeks challenge theme is moss - colour only pleaseYour image can be anything from a macro to a carpet of moss for example Happy shooting. ================= Rules 

Here's where you put "Mine's in." linked to the entry in your gallery. This task will run for 2 WEEKS.This task closes 6:00pm on SUNDAY 19th May For anyone new:The IHC Man is for the purpose of exploring software. The task is set each week according to a Rota

 "Creative Photographs"Very few entries today and I am not at homeso here is a shortened version of the results  on my wife's iPad  1st DSeat Dean Great idea great colours well deserved first position2nd  Ady Fabulous shot very close to first position lovely shot co loved the smoke 3rd MARY -Ann  again good idea and composition Special mention to Pam very good shot good work well that's it over to Dean for tomorrow's challenge regards Brian RULES

 Some would say "only 4 blogs"? but I say yea, but 4 "great blogs".I will only pick one winner (and that is bad enough in itself) But the others can rest assured not being a winner is not losing either. I have learned something from all of them.So......the winner is.......for a colourful and interesting wade through a days worth of machines........and I hate emptying the dish washer too..oO( :) )Oo. JANGA .oO( :) )Oo.Rules:

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Thanks for all the entries. Would have been nice to have more but I'd rather have quality over quantity. So, that hasn't made it easy but here we go -First - d c - a hulking piece of machinerySecond - Catweazle - the other extremeThird -  everyone else, too close to call.It was good to see such a range of imaginative shots.Over to you Danny. ====================