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This week’s Photo Friday challenge [www.photofriday.com] is Vanity [www.photofriday.com].

For this one, I decided to use an older shot. This is one from Lake Windermere taken whilst we were on Honeymoon. The swan decided to pose for the camera for a second.

Olympus C3020z, F3.6, 1/650s, 19mm, ISO 100, no flash

Medium sized image (736×521)

More than just humans can be vain

Hi folk.. This week’s Photo Friday challenge [www.photofriday.com] is Pink [www.photofriday.com].

For this one, I had a few ideas, i wanted to experiement with setting off the white balance towards pink, I fancied a quick photo of something with a bit of pink in, and a something else. Then I noticed that we don’t have that much pink stuff around the house. Hmm.

So here we go, as usual, you can click the image to see a larger version (I’ve only uploaded mid-sized ones this time, not the originals).

Here we have a picture of a flower, taken using a custom white balance set from a pink bag. I thought it looked pretty good. ( EOS 20D, 1/8 sec, F5.6, iso 400 )

This one was the fluffy thing. The cat was essentially an accident, as she decided to lie there once I had the picture set up, so I thought, she’s not pink, but what the hell? ( 1/15 sec, F4.5, iso 800 )

This last one was a complete experiment, bit of zoom blur, fairly good effect. Eeyore qualifies as pink by virtue of the scarf. ( 1/3 sec, F5, iso 200 )

So there we go. Hope you enjoy the pictures

It’s been a while, but time to get back to doing the weekly Photo Friday challenge [www.photofriday.com]. This week’s challenge is Depth Of Field, so I’ve chosen to use this photo of a Christmas bauble, which is (mostly) in pretty good focus with the tree blurred out behind. As usual, click on the image for the larger version.

EOS 20D, 1/4 sec, F/5.6, ISO 800

For this week’s [www.photofriday.com], which is tiny [www.photofriday.com], I have a slight easter theme, by including a huge egg next to my tiny cow

There’s just the one size of picture this week, so apologies to those who like to look at the huggggeee ones

Time to do this week’s photo friday [www.photofriday.com], which is Glow [www.photofriday.com].

I decided to give this week’s photo challenge a slightly Eastery theme (though Easter is not until next week really). So for this picture there’s lots of little yellow chicks, with a bit of a glow.

As usual, you can click the picture for the medium-sized version, or click here for the large glow picture.

And, in the news today, the royal wedding blessing is to be aired live on tv [news.bbc.co.uk] "coo" and such. I’m sure that they said it wasn’t to be. Oh well. Elsewhere British soldier Private Johnson Beharry has been awarded the VC [news.bbc.co.uk] for bravery in the Iraq war. He is the first living person to get the medal since 1969.