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STILL LIFE - CHAT - WEEKLY COMP 4-11/3/2018

THIS IS THE CHAT THREAD

The ENTRIES thread is HERE (https://cameracraniums.com/forum/index.php?topic=5060.new#new)

This week's challenge is the old chestnut STILL LIFE. We haven't had this one for a while and as the weather is not nice for most of us (it's raining again here, like it has been for the past three months almost without pause - I am beginning to understand how Noah must have felt). So dig out your dusty props, bowls of fruit and brace of pheasants and get snapping.

No restrictions whatsoever on PP work.

Pictures to be taken between now and Sunday 11th March 2018, 23:59, but if you find yourself at a loss in this time period, please enter something from your personal archives.
Pictures to be posted in the entries thread no later than 23:59pm Monday 12th March 2018.
Poll will be up Tuesday 13th March 2018.
Winner to be announced Saturday 17th March 2018

The Rules for the weekly competition are...

By entering you agree to take responsibility to

Post a topic on the Sunday (or sooner) following your declared win
Create an entries thread
Create a chat thread
Create a poll for that weeks comp and declare the winner on the Saturday
(if for any reason there is a problem and no subject is posted by the winner by Monday night admin will advise second place winner to post the topic asap, do the poll etc)

In case of a tie, the first entry posted wins.

I was struggling a bit with concept and then I remembered the lava lamp. Dug out some books and LPs, printed off a couple of Mucha posters and removed my Zenit from its case. These are the kind of things I would have had on my desk at uni; my first SLR was a Zenit, and Dune was probably the most popular book at the time.

(https://cameracraniums.com/gallery/albums/userpics/10146/normal_1970s_P3110013_DxOcp4CC_1.jpg) (https://cameracraniums.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pid=21943&fullsize=1)

I wasn`t going to enter for the next couple of weeks as i`ll be away on a river cruise down the Danube but as I did this shot at my daughter`s yesterday I might as well help keep up the numbers.
First Shoes
(https://cameracraniums.com/gallery/albums/userpics/10154/normal_DSCF7084cp.jpg) (https://cameracraniums.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pid=21940&fullsize=1)

Another shot from our recent cruise - taken in Casablanca.

(https://cameracraniums.com/gallery/albums/userpics/10157/normal_OGG_8529.jpg) (https://cameracraniums.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pid=21944&fullsize=1)

Nothing from me this week I'm afraid. Had a look but didn't really have anything suitable.