After a shabby faring in the other categories, I was delighted to win first place in the Colour Print competition in the Camera Club for a print of a sunset over the Black Mounts taken from the river in Rannoch Moor.

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The winners of this months SWPP competition have been announced. I got Gold with the image above in the Monochrome section. Actually I regularly get gold in Monochrome, but that still doesn’t make me any less delighted to have received it.
I’ve talked before about the significance of Gold before. In and of itself it’s only recognition, but it does put you forward for the end of year awards, which is great.

Competition
I did well in the Emotion competition in the Galway Camera Club. First in Mono, with First and Third in Colour. It was hard not to get something in Mono though-there were only 2 entries, a rather disappointing amount. Colour fared better so I was glad to do well there.

Moustache
Mouvember is Moustache month, where people grow a moustache for charity. As it’s nearly over I took a few quick shots of Keith from Disconnect 4 (http://www.myspace.com/disconnect4) with his:

Shot in ETTL mode using an STE2. It was tending to overexpose, so I had to knock back the exposure compensation. I’d have done it in manual, but my Elinchrom Skyport transmitter is AWOL.

Fashionesque
I did a shoot with Caz from the band Oddity with some of her cool stage outfits. A bit of experimenting was done with diffusers and deflectors was done, some good, some bad. At the end I decided to shoot some high key style for a change, so here’s a quick shot of Caz fooling around. (Yes, I know it’s not true high key, because the average tonality in the image isn’t above middle grey!)

Book
Colours proofs with a few tiny bits to be added (page references really) are due this week and then my bit is done. It’s been hard work and with a bit of luck I’ll be able to post a cover in the next week or two.

London
I’m going to be in London for the Strobist London Seminars. Well just the Saturday! I’ll be meeting and staying with Martin Evening and hopefully will get to see Jeff Schewe before I leave on Monday. Drop a note in the comments if you’ll be there!

Timelapse
I did intend on getting more timelapse stuff done this week, but only got the Tamnyard one done. If the weather has good clouds and little rain, I’ll be out the backroads and byways trying to get some more (with loads of fresh, reasonably new, batteries!)