Stills

slightly different image to the previous countryside impressions.
part of additional elements of a building constructed by the architect Zvi Hecker, in Duisburg/Germany.
choosed this POV to compress and concentrate those 'pillars' excluding all upper space and background between but including the shaded and sun lightend green.

This was the pretty pretty bit of our walk. We are close to the coast at home and just do not get snow, so it was enjoyable to do this walk partly through snow.

I love landscapes and the repeating curves attracted me, the bonus was the snow on the ground. The valley was free of snow and the contrast also appealed to me.

Colour - to break the b/w and monochrome pattern to date! This is a scene that might have been seen before the advent of corrugated iron: keeping cattle outside. Dairy herds are nearly always kept in sheds during the winter but these beef cattle have to endure the mud. I have kept the picture in colour to show the effect on the field (see the green beyond the far hedge). This was exposed for the sky and developed twice out of RAW and combined. To the left is the Teifi valley and the small town of Newcastle Emlyn; this farm is at 145 metres.

Power pylons are much under-photographed objects. In fact, to look at most landscape photographs one wouldn't realise that they existed.

I've been testing the site feed (available on the Stills homepage) and it seems to be working fine. Technically it is an Atom feed, but my basic RSS newsreader takes the data OK. Anyway, this seems to be a good way of checking out whether there are new postings without having to return to the site.

I've also been experimenting with the functionality to be notified by email if there are new comments. This is now working and if you want to receive these notices please let me know. Unfortunately they are all or nothing. I can't see a way of restricting the notices to your own entries. If you would like your name added to the list to get the notices then just reply here, or if you want me to use an email address different to the one I already have for you then please send me an email.

Blogger has been pretty unreliable over the last week or so. The way that I've set the server up we should still be able to see our site even if blogger is not working, but we do need blogger to be working to be able to post and comment. Planned outages are announced on:

http://status.blogger.com/

There are 8 million blogs hosted by blogger so I feel that they will fix things. I use blogger for a variety of things so I'm keeping an eye on the way things develop at the moment. They are getting a lot of bad press out there in blogland.

UPDATE - a few hours later......blogger seems to have overwritten the front page with a blank one. All the other pages are still there, but you can only find them if you know their individual addresses. Hmm. I'm hoping that a forced republish as I upload this will sort it out. Rex also seems to have lost a comment. I'm not sure if this was related. Blogger was reliable until last week!

Some of you will recognize this but there are two differences to any earlier sighting. The first is technical: I have redeveloped and sharpened out of RAW (C1) and made a new conversion to b/w; I have also cropped to a square format. The second fact is that I have entered this for the Guardian photo competition in the portrait category (subject: your passion), see:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/weekendphotoprize

It hasn't featured in their weeks 1/2/3 galleries so I don't suppose that it is going to do too well! I would be very grateful if you could put yourself in the position of the judges and give this an objective critique.

I find it very hard to separate out my feelings about my own photos from my feelings about the occasion which they represent. This is probably true in all types of photography (e.g. landscapes taken during an enjoyable walk automatically have happy memories attached) but is most strong with people photographs.

This was Christmas Day 2005.

Peter Brötzmann, a german free jazz saxophonist.
shot taken last sunday noon on the occasion of a 'jazz talk' in our one and only jazz pub. jazz talk means a musician is invited to talk and play his music. these jazz talks are kind of appetizer events of the coming mœrs festival, an international new jazz festival, which takes place in our little town every whitsun since 1972.
visited the festival in 1977 for the first time.
already photographed Peter Brötzmann in 1978.
some images from the moers festival 2004 click here

hope u like the image (even if u don't like free jazz music ;)

I have now consolidated the two images from previously into one. This is not billed as a great photo: I have put it up as a test both to see what different size files look like and to check the background.

Hello,

I'm Colin Jago (user name auspicious) and this is my first posting to this collaborative blog. The picture is not particularly representative of my work, although the element of humour is. I thought I would post a self-portrait to begin with and anyway we needed a test file of a certain size to check on page dimensions.

The original text with this posting said "A modern shopping centre. A little bit shiny and very faceless." which may make the comment by John E a bit more understandable.

I'm looking forward to talking to you all and getting you comments on my photos.

The format used in this version is optimised for a screen size of 1024 x 768 pixels. Larger screens will work fine, but smaller ones might be problematic. Could all members post a comment in response stating what screen size they would normally view the blog with so that we can amend the optimal size if needed.