PotW 27 March 2012

[the foto fanatic]

It seemed to be a fairly quiet start to this week's images, but they flowed in thick and fast over the weekend and yesterday. And there were many that I liked.

There was this absolutely breathtaking photograph of a leopard taken by marc. It is notoriously difficult to even see leopard in Africa, let alone produce an image of this outstanding quality.


There was also an excellent seahorse from ATJ:


And an beautiful bottlebrush (he thinks) from Remorhaz:


Any one of these could be PotW, and there were other worthy contenders too.

But I have chosen an image by bigsarg7 as this week's Photo of the Week. Not only because it is a fabulous image, but also because it represents a member taking steps forward in her craft. Kristen has invested in a lighting kit, and straight out of the box she has produced this wonderful child portrait. Here is the original thread - worth reading for the discussion on lighting.


Congratulations to Kristen and also to the photographers who made the other wonderful images this week.

[Mr Darcy]

Well done Kristen. As I have said before, magic.
You also had stiff competition. I'm glad I wasn't choosing this week.

[ATJ]

Congratulations Kristen (or Karen ;) ). Well deserved (even if I don't like baby photos). I would not have been surprised if Marc had one as that is a cracking image, too.

[zafra52]

Great set of photographs and I like
each and every one of them. The
first one is outstanding and the
baby is gorgeous; while the colours
in the other images are so good.

[Matt. K]

A Beautiful image! And superbly processed and converted! Well done!

[sirhc55]

I agree with everything said and extend my congratulations on a superb image

[aim54x]

Great stuff! nice work Kristen, excellent choice Trevor

[surenj]

Nice one Kristen!

[colin_12]

Way to go Kristen.
Nice images all round as always

[bigsarg7]

WOW, all I can say is wow! I just logged on in my spare time (processing wedding images and baby portraits too) so I don't get much of it, and also its school holidays so the days are flat out now too, but i am so shocked to see that I won POTW! I had no expectations of it at all. So thank you. I honestly thought the leopard image would win everyday of the week. To be chosen is awesome, I've been so busy trying to push myself lately and well this is the exact encouragement I need to keep on pushing!!

Thanks again guys!!

**Kristen** :-)