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Taken at an re-enactment day at Corfe Castle,  this image was one of the few with out modern people or fencing in the background.  So I was delighted to be awarded Photograph of the Day, for a fairly simply processed shot.  Taken at the 300mm end of my Canon 70-300mm hand held I was pleased to get a good sharp image and the length isolated the Musketeer from the background.

Big Al the reviewer said:

Reenactments are often difficult to take without the inclusion of modern items, so Jane went for the sensible option of isolating one performer. With the vignette surround (my guess to remove something modern) it has all the feel of a time gone by.

  Taken at Knighthayes House in Devon,  I was pleased to get Photograph of the Day at Photography Cafe with this simple Lilly image. The reviewer at the Cafe had this to say.

Lillies are beautiful flowers but difficult to get right because they are so white and always set against dark green. There is no way of shooting them against sky. So it is nice to see that Jane didn’t blow the detail in the petals yet kept the dark area detail as well. By keeping the focus on the foreground flower, the other flowers fall into a nice progressive blur that gives depth to the picture.

One of a series of photographs of some Sweet Peas, has made it to Photograph of the Day at Photography Cafe.

Big Al, the site reviewer, does not like floral images much,  but managed

Jane’s POTD is almost hi-key (only the stalk falls below 128 brightness) and that semi-bleaching of the petals gives a delicate look to the flower.

After a long while and several “Crackers”, I finally got a photograph of the day with an image from our Black Sea holiday.

This was taken looking up inside the Blue Mosque in Istanbul, with the camera pointing directly up while sitting on the top of a pillar.  The Mosque was very busy with tourists and a tripod would have been imposible even if I had taken one.  Cruise ships and the latest baggage allowances make it difficult to take every thing I would like on holiday.