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This month is my birthday! it is on the 7th April

This is a monthy photo competition, with each month having a set category. During the final week of the month, a voting thread will be put up so you can vote for your favourite images.
Unfortunately the winner will not recieve any prizes, because it is just a bit of fun.

The winner will be mentioned and congratulated by Xeract on the homepage. On your thread, can you please give a name for your image, and if possible, include photogrpahy information, such as ISO, shutter speed etc. A new thread will be created for each month, so please be sure to enter in the right one!

If you have any further questions, then please contact me by personal message, and we will try our best to answer your question.

!!!!!THE COMPETITION DEADLINE FOR THIS MONTH IS 23/4/2008!!!!!!

The Categories for the year are:
January - Birds in Flight
February - Birds of Prey
March - Waterfowl (e.g ducks, swan geese etc)
April - (my birthday!) Insects
May - Landscape
June - Sunrise/sunsets
July - Snakes
August - Mammals
September - Aquatic Wildlife
October - Sea Birds
November - Close Ups
December - Wildlife in Frosty Conditions

Good luck to anyone who enters!!

Hi Jamie

By "insects" do you mean "insects" or are you prepared to include other minibeasts?

yes I suppose. Mini beats and other creepy crawlies

I have just changed the title

Thanks Jamie

No doubt I will now enter an insect picture!
You have a typo on mini beats
Best wishes
SCR

Oh yeah thanks. I will just change that

Here's my entry. It's a very clever fly who was map reading for me on a recent trip to Austria!

looks a bit like a flesh fly

Here is my entry for this month.

A Small Skipper.

Canon 30D, 60mm macro lens, f22 at 1/250sec, ISO 100.

Two brilliant entries so far, but come on people; I want more! I know it's a very difficult category, but what have you got to lose?

Hi Jamie
I'm having problems uploading my photo. I will e-mail Xeract

SCR

He is away at the moment on a University trip. He should be back sometime in the next week.

What seems to be the problem?

If I can't help, give Kingfisher an e-mail, as she is the SuperModerator.

Here is South Coast Ranger's entry of a Zebra Spider:



And here is my entry of a slug:

Not many opportunities for insects this month yet, but I did spot this peacock butterfly at the weekend.

Ok, he was back quicker than I thought! Nice pictures Xeract, SCR and Words.

OK, I feel very clever at the moment. I will run through my thoughts on the entered images so far:

Musclecat
A very fine image Musclecat, well done. I like how sharp the image is, and how the foreground and the background are thrown out of focus. Did the fly get you to where you wanted to go?

AndyK
AndyK, another very sharp image. The black background is the icing on the cake. how did you go about doing it? Was it a piece of black card or something?

South Coast Ranger
Nice photo there South Coast Ranger. You must have had an aperature of about f/22 or so? Once again, I like how the foreground and the background are thrown out of focus. Very good image there, well done!

Xeract
Your first entered photo I believe Xeract; and what a way to start! I like the angle the shot was taken at, right down by the slug. This time, the background is thrown out of focus. To improve on the image, you could have brought the background completely out of focus, as I think the gaps on the trees which are making the holes of light are very distracting on the image. But, once again, well done for such an almost humourus shot!(constructive critism)

Words
Another newbie here on the photo competition, and this time it is Words! I absolutely love the colouring in your picture. The red of the butterfly and the brown of the log contrast really well. Good shot!