Bokeh Junior

I’ve just won the “Newbie” challenge on the Pentax SLR forum at DPReview on only my second attempt! Forget cash prizes, there’s nothing better to me than peer-recognition. The winning picture was taken of my son flying his kite.

Russ Houston made some perceptive comments about the picture: “I … suspect that Ed didn’t take this picture thinking of winning a contest, but knew how to crop it to make it into a winner”. Well, that is indeed the case.

Here is the rather lacklustre original…

… and here is confirmation of the result.