Well well well, this week seems to have improved since last week’s efforts, both in quantity and — in some cases — quality.

A few joined, left, and we’re now at 11 members with fourteen photos submitted this week. Six (a group high) managed to snap all three topics and I think we can easily match that again this week.

My picks are:

• White: White golf ball by innercreation

  I really like this shot, it works well. The sky is, I think, a little too blue; I don’t know if you changed it or if it’s your camera, but it’s overdone — check the blue sky my camera captured barely two hours later on the same day. Is the golf ball a real golf ball or is it that big one at that place on Springvale Rd?Horsehead by theblueboy was also good but I think it needed some light/contrast tweaking and slightly different cropping to win, especially with the competition.

• Square: Square by mrdehoot

  I like the idea, it’s a different take compared to others’. I think the framing and angle could be improved but the idea won here.Actually, I thought Square scrapbooking by stardust96 was best but I helped with the cropping (though the angle, choice of subject and everything else had nothing to do with me) and I don’t pick my own photos.

• Street: My Street by neofitou

  A tough one between the winner and Street by mrdehoot (again for the interesting slant on the topic, just needed to be a bit more exciting, I think).I think the photo could be improved by having the rest of the picture a bit brighter. The street light makes it though. Perhaps mutiple bracketed exposures blended might have worked?

I would like to see other’s thoughts on the best shots (and why!); perhaps post in that week’s topic post or go wild and reply to a post on this site!

The plan was for people to vote for the topics they want and though it didn’t turn out as well as I’d hoped, at least we have a bit more member input into the topics.

I would like to mention that the point of the group for me is to not only get out everyone out there and take photos, but hopefully improve my own technique and take photos I wouldn’t normally consider taking. Adding objects or emotions as topics I think makes the topics a little too task-based (look at the “street” photos as an example, they are all a little too similar; now compare with the “square” topic and see how many different interpretations there are).

Not to mention that I think successfully capturing things like emotions in a week will be terribly difficult and I wanted the topics to be open to as much interpretation as possible to allow for as much freedom as possible. That’s how I want the group to work, and there are already other groups if you just want to hunt down “things on a list”.

The topics for the following week are:

• Purple
• Mystery
• Cook

I didn’t use any of neofitou’s votes because he broke the voting rules (used two from the one group), not that it changed the outcome. Phew, a big post this week. Let’s get to it!

P.S. Sorry to theblueboy, but even though I quite liked your street photo, it was too late to qualify! I also updated the post to reflect that you got all three topics.