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 by the foto fanatic on Tue Jan 21, 2014 7:25 am
Happy New Year to everybody! Photo of the Week is one of the forum's most popular items. The selection team has been broadened this year to instill some fresh ideas into PotW, so let's hope that the new selectors have plenty of images to sort through. For this week's selection, I have chosen the Brisbane cityscape posted by zafra52. Here is the link to that post: viewtopic.php?f=18&t=44123As a Brisbane native I am well aware of this Kangaroo Point vantage point, and I have quite a few images myself that have been taken here. It is usual to see them in colour, with early morning skies or evening shadows counterpointed by the CBD lights. In this image the photographer has done something different, and I have to say that I like the treatment. The square format and the B&W conversion give a quite stylised effect that seems to emphasise the architecture. As zafra has pointed out, there is also the contrast between a modern city and a paddlewheel steamer to attract the viewer's eye. Here is the image. Congratulations to zafra52. 
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by biggerry on Tue Jan 21, 2014 8:17 am
Very nicely Selected Trevor and sweet image Zafra.
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by gstark on Tue Jan 21, 2014 1:54 pm
Surely, for Brisbane, a paddlewheel steamer IS modern?  Great image, and great selection, Trevor. g.
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by Matt. K on Tue Jan 21, 2014 5:20 pm
Excellent choice and well deserved.
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by zafra52 on Tue Jan 21, 2014 7:57 pm
Wow, thank you very much. This is a tremendous honour.
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by Geoff M on Wed Jan 22, 2014 8:53 am
Great choice, well done Zaf on two in a row.
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by bigsarg7 on Wed Jan 22, 2014 11:20 am
Congrats Zaf. Well deserved thats for sure. The simplicity of the image at first is really good but as you stare into the image your captured by it with so many contrasts of old and new. The quality of the image was def deserving of POW in my opinion.
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by the foto fanatic on Sat Jan 25, 2014 11:50 am
Don't want to hijack the thread at all, but I thought it might be interesting to compare zafra's excellent B&W Photo of the Week with a colour version from a similar viewpoint. This image was taken 10 years ago with a Nikon D70 - remember them?  
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by zafra52 on Sat Jan 25, 2014 2:40 pm
Thank you, Trevor. It's a lovely photo. It's interesting to
see how the city skyline has gradually changed in 10 years.
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by Matt. K on Sat Jan 25, 2014 4:25 pm
Ahhh! The D70. That's where it all started.  Regards
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by sirhc55 on Wed Jan 29, 2014 11:14 am
It started with the D1 for moi
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