PFM's Picture a Week 2024

[flatpopely]

Malmo two weeks ago.

 

[eternumviti]

The Shepherdess emasculating, or castration concentration.

Huawei P20.

 

[mentalp]

Yesterday, amongst the Jewish Bloc

PSC National March by Pete, on Flickr

 

[Gromit]

Orangery by Boxertrixter, on Flickr

Pentax K-5iis/Tamron 90 Macro

 

[gintonic]

Belfast

1000010536 by uh_simon, on Flickr

1000010537 by uh_simon, on Flickr

1000010362 by uh_simon, on Flickr

 

[Rockmeister]

The Shepherdess emasculating, or castration concentration.

Huawei P20.

That's an amazingly realife pic. So many reasons why I like that.

 

[mentalp]

12th National March for Palestine by Pete, on Flickr

 

[Tony Lockhart]

I’m pretty happy with this bearded tit photo from this morning at RSPB Minsmere. They’re so beautiful.

 

[Rockmeister]

Irongray Kirk repainted by John Dutfield, on Flickr

 

[idomybest]

I’m pretty happy with this bearded tit photo from this morning at RSPB Minsmere. They’re so beautiful.

I work with some bearded tits, unfortunately they do not look like that .....

 

[Sonority]

 

[Sonority]

Was going to add - that could be an interesting hybrid, but found I could not edit with words..

 

[vince rocker]

Rydal evening by Tim, on Flickr


Reflecting pool by Tim, on Flickr

 

[idomybest]

Street by idomy best, on Flickr

 

[geetee1972]

Not really one to share images outside of my Instagram feed but I thought I would share this one here as I'm just so excited about it. It's part of my submission to this year's Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize and really hoping that if they select any (of the six) I entered, it will be this one.

Purgatorial Shadows by Greg Turner, on Flickr

Story/caption:
Sun baked concrete, grey and tough as an elephant's hide, hummed and whirred with the cicada like chirrup of small wheels. Standing and observing these freewheeling souls crisscrossing the skate park in undulating lines one figure stands out; his lean torso and wiry arms garlanded with the lines of self-harm, his face a rough hue of effort and toil and yet, set steadily and with steel like determination, a pair of resolute blue eyes, blade sharp and piercing. I speak to him and he is at once conciliatory and engaged. His story is obvious; a huge sea of mental health trauma in which he barely floats, mostly sinks and drowns. Skating keeps him afloat. His nature is easy to see as sincere and authentic but I sense he spends a good deal of time, rocking back and forth like a purgatorial shadow.

 

[eternumviti]

A terrific portrait, albeit not a beautiful one!

Very best of luck with Taylor Wessing, that's quite something. Have you had any successful submissions previously?

 

[geetee1972]

A terrific portrait, albeit not a beautiful one!

Thank you! I don't ever set out to make my portraits traditionally beautiful, although I do look for an aesthetic beauty of sorts, in the same sort of way that Bruce Gilden does.

Very best of luck with Taylor Wessing, that's quite something. Have you had any successful submissions previously?

I have yes; I've been selected for exhibition the last two years running. Hoping to make this a hat trick!

 

[Gromit]

Spent much of this morning going through some old prints (some up to 40 years old) and amongst the many ones of motorcycling, found this. Out on the 'Maggot' one sunny afternoon - if anyone feels their modern bike isn't handling quite right, take a CX500 out and get the pegs down on a bumpy corner...

CX500 by Boxertrixter, on Flickr

Dreadful quality (sorry!) owing to scanning a print. Still, great memories.

 

[John Barry]

Soho, final stop on my City walkabout:

Fuji X-T30/XF33f1.4

 

[Gromit]

Dandelion clock by Boxertrixter, on Flickr

Pentax K-5iis/Tamron SP 90 Macro