JustJim's best of 2009

[JustJim]

It wasn't hard for me to pick, since I've only recently had my shutterbugitis come back after a decade of 'remision'. It's got me good this time though...

Special mention for PP
Tortoise


#3 - Cicada Molt


#2 - Magpies


And the winner is....
#1 - Seat and Shadow


I'd like to wish all my new-found friends here at DPS a safe, happy and prosperous 2010. Good health and good light to you all.
Jim

[Obijuan]

Best wishes to all also. JustJim, the bench makes me dizzy but I like it. The couple glasses of wine help also. I love your pictures.

[chalkie7]

Hey Jim...so pleased you've been bitten by the bug again! The bench shot is extremely good by the way. HNY to you and yours...Regards, Mark

[mpascal]

Hello Jim, I can see why the bench is your fav, good clean lines. I like the tortoise though, I really like the treatment you did with it and I love the action of the magpies, well captured. HNY to you and yours.

Michael

[jakethepig]

A wonderful collection Jim, all of them excellent I epeceially like the tortoise. Great work Jim and congratulations on your 500th post. I should find some of my best and post them.
Thanks for your friendship buddy.

Dave.

[tycooder]

Jim The Bench is amazing.. Anytime you can capture lines shadows and light that plays tricks on the viewers eyes you have accomplished somthing...glad you dusted off the equipment

[leonaashlee]

Nice shots Jim and Happy New Year, looking forward to many more. Love the tortoise

[Mad Ged]

Great shots Jim, I especially like the magpies - you have caught them perfectly.

Cheers and Happy New Year, the fireworks are about to start here in Sydney.

Gerard

[Preacherman]

Happy New Year Jim. Great favourites of yours here, and before I started experimenting and slipping outside my comfort zone I would have chosen the magpies as my favourite, but now - THE BENCH. I am constantly looking for that type of shot. Glad the bug has got you now, cos 2010 is going to be great and i look forward to spending it with you. PAUL

[JustJim]

Woo Hoo, Happy New Year!!!! (in this time zone anyway).

Originally Posted by Obijuan

Best wishes to all also. JustJim, the bench makes me dizzy but I like it. The couple glasses of wine help also. I love your pictures.

Thank you, sorry about the dizziness, I'll take half the blame if you'll put the other half on the wine.

Originally Posted by chalkie7

Hey Jim...so pleased you've been bitten by the bug again! The bench shot is extremely good by the way. HNY to you and yours...Regards, Mark

Thanks Mark. The shutterbugitis was only ever dormant, it was probably always going to break out again. It do eat up the money though! At least I'm saving money on chemicals, paper and developer bulbs.

Originally Posted by mpascal

Hello Jim, I can see why the bench is your fav, good clean lines. I like the tortoise though, I really like the treatment you did with it and I love the action of the magpies, well captured. HNY to you and yours.

Michael

Thank you Michael, I like the maggies as well. But not Collingwood Magpies (if you don't understand that, don't worry, it is a local football reference).

Originally Posted by jakethepig

A wonderful collection Jim, all of them excellent I epeceially like the tortoise. Great work Jim and congratulations on your 500th post. I should find some of my best and post them.
Thanks for your friendship buddy.

Dave.

Hey, thanks Dave. I forgot that it was my half millennium post, even though I set it up that way.

Originally Posted by tycooder

Jim The Bench is amazing.. Anytime you can capture lines shadows and light that plays tricks on the viewers eyes you have accomplished somthing...glad you dusted off the equipment

Thanks Brendan. The Seat and the Shadow is my favourite shot for the (admittedly abbreviated) year. I think I might have to print this and hang it on my wall. Now digital printing is another mystery to me, so much research has to go into this first.

Originally Posted by leonaashlee

Nice shots Jim and Happy New Year, looking forward to many more. Love the tortoise

Thanks, Leona. Appreciate the comments. I like the tortoise OOB shot too. Apparently this animal has some connection with Charles Darwin, but I can't remember the full details.

Originally Posted by Mad Ged

Great shots Jim, I especially like the magpies - you have caught them perfectly.

Cheers and Happy New Year, the fireworks are about to start here in Sydney.

Gerard

Thanks, Gerard. I was pretty happy with that shot as well. Thank goodness for motor drive, or whatever the digital term is! The shots either side of this were either boring or just wrong.

Originally Posted by Preacherman

Happy New Year Jim. Great favourites of yours here, and before I started experimenting and slipping outside my comfort zone I would have chosen the magpies as my favourite, but now - THE BENCH. I am constantly looking for that type of shot. Glad the bug has got you now, cos 2010 is going to be great and i look forward to spending it with you. PAUL

Thank you Paul. That one is my favourite as mentioned above. I agree that you've got to 'push the envelope' all the time or you get trapped.

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It's now well into 2010 here so, again, Happy New Year to you all. Good luck, good health and above all, good light to you all.

Jim