Positioning a point

 This is a fairly boring picture made slightly (very slightly) more interesting by cropping to move the single point off centre and then to the side.

Flickr comment

Got  my first comment on flickr - I am sooooooooo excited!!!!!!

Relating to TAOP assessment 1 pictures on flickr  - curves

This image stands out from the others because it is not a too literal take on the element of curve, here the viewer questions what he is looking at, and then explores the rest of the frame. There are very few non-curving lines in this photo... 
Hope to see more in this less literal line of thought :-)
Good luck.
Dewald

Flickr

Changed my flickr name but for some reason the link at the bottom of this page does not work.  New name is www.flickr.co/photos/norrisphysio


Changed link at bottom of page so it now works.  Seemed to want to keep adding blogspot by default so I shouted at it.

Forum discussion

Had some good advise about lens on the OCA forum and Nikonites and Nikon user sit.  Links here

http://oca-student.com/node/88872

http://oca-student.com/node/88850

http://nikonites.com/telephoto/6260-55-300-70-300-a.html

http://nikonites.com/prime/6380-af-s-35mm-1-8g-40mm-2-8g-micro.html

Prior to this course I had not really used forums before but am finding them quite useful and getting fairly rapid responses back.  Cuts down on the need to search the web.

 This is a Magic Lantern guide by Simon Stafford who is a bit of a Nikon wizz and is involved at Greys of Westminster I think.  Excellent book as it really goes into detail about the camera rather than just about photography in general.  Keep it in my camera bag as it is a small field guide and it is brilliant for reference.

Stafford, S (2011)  Nikon D3100 Pixiq publishing.  New York

 Nikon D3100 from Snapshots to Great shots.  Revell, J (2011)  Peachpit press

They also do a good composition guide

Cropping

 Close crop of these images mimics the use of a macro lens when I don't have            
                                         one.  Depends on quality of image.

Some of the images naturally look better as either portrait or landscape and others not.  Portrait tends to lengthen the image towards the viewer and gives depth where as landscape lengthens across the page to give bredth.  Difficult at first to hold camera the other way up to normal, but get used to it eventually