Photos you have taken in the last month of which you are proud?

Thanks Ti29er.

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DT78's picture above is well cropped 🙂

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As a casual observer I fail to find any problems at all with the cropping of the reservoir photo above. But then I'm just an amateur who's been taking photos for the best part of twenty five years, so what do I know?

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I rather like what I've managed to do with this pic of my niece dancing at a wedding. I think the photo was taken by my wife, and was a bit of a 'nothing shot' as it stood - I used Aperture to play around with exposure settings, cropped it, converted to black and white, then used a brush tool to 'remove' the black and white from her dress.

Being colour blind, I generally find it difficult to play about with photos in this way, so using black and white is a good way of overcoming that particular snag.

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One for Roper:
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Not that proud of these, I just find them interesting. The middle one's missing a small terrier scampering along in front of the handlebars.

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This still going? Excellent!

Grum - consistently brilliant mate.

Here are a few from the last week or so:

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Agree, grum's images are first class.

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(the rider is in focus when the picture hasn't been mullered by facebook's low res)

Thanks folks 😀

stuartie_c - really like the pic of the cams. And the one after makes me feel queasy!

Here's another from me - most of the way up the horrendous slog of a push to Bram Rigg Top in the Howgills - looking back towards the Lakes. Worth it for the downhill though I'm not sure my GF agreed. 😛

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That's ace GaVgAs - just trying to work out where it is?

More fantastic shots guys well done.

Here are a few I'm proud of all shot on a point & shoot Casio not top quality but I'm happy with them

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That's ace GaVgAs - just trying to work out where it is?

If you get a ruler and align it with the summit of Dodd wood and Skiddaw summit you will have found the trail/ridge (clue) 😉

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A friend's niece at his wedding learning how to blow bubbles.

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View from my tent on Tuesday night.

Taken earlier today - at Aberdare motorcycle road races - practising my panning technique.

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Courtesy of Flickr.

Fist computer for a long time so hopefully it will last me for a while.

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Very fast by comparison to my old laptop.

😛

Some from my new home a very long way away...

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Henley Beach, Adelaide

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From Penneshaw, Kangaroo Island:

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This thread is fantastic, great to see its still going. The quality of the pics is immense. I don´t think that many people would vote against giving top prize to Grum, (your photos are so consistantly fantastic and the climbing one is my fav so far)but there´s so many cool photos.

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And I took the same location as the last one in monochrome which I liked but my GF didn´t.
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Tweet tweet!

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Doug - thanks very much, you're very kind - that's made my day! 😀

One from today at work...

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Mrs beanZ in Morzine
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Hope series 2010 Lee Quarry 25-07-2010

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Sneaky wee self portrait tonight . . . after weeks off with a knee problem . . . progress at last . . . feels good 😉

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The Royal Navy Black Cats display helicopters from the Pageant of Power

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And Nayan, Chester Zoo's newest elephant

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That baby elephant is great, something really human about the scene somehow! I took some new ones the other day that I liked...

Don´t know what´s going on here, maybe a jilted lover? Either way it must have been a shock when they opened the front door!
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Not so proud of my photo skills but my sneaking up skills are top notch. It was eating a bumble bee. Stunning things, there were hundreds flying about.
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I like this one too. Looking over into Navarra.
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Love the baby elephant shot and ginjaninja's second one with the stairs.

Been up in Scotland - still lots of pics to sort out but here's a few...

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Pretty pleased with these:

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Some great pictures on here - I'm envious of your photographic skills!

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Nice guys...kudos to those with no retouching.

PS (edit) theginjaninja - the gallery pic is ace !

a recent holiday snap:
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Had some downhillers out recently and they did some sessioning on some corners... gave me a chance to take the same shot with different settings and play around with things. Pretty pleased with these two, although the second one could benefit from a bit of a crop:

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If you want to do mountainbiking pics then go on the Seb Rogers photo course. April & October.

You'll learn a lot!