I issued my latest challenge to Stefan today and this is my contribution. Our previous challenges have centred on taking photos of objects in an interesting or unusual way so I decided to suggest something less specific to offer different creative possibilities – circles. My first thought was to use these Smarties as they are round but it proved something of a challenging to buy some – every shop I visited didn’t stock them! Eventually I tracked some down to the shop in the next village and I bought four tubes to be sure of having a decent section of colours – the things I do for my art!

My initial idea was to lay them out in lines but I decided this was too dull and went for these concentric circles instead. I shot them from above first but that looked pretty uninspiring so I went for this jauntier angle instead and used my 50mm lens wide open (f1.8) to create some blur in the outer rings. Over to you Stefan – I’m looking forward to your take on this and the next challenge.

very nice..so cheerfull:)) Eiram · 2009-12-22: 16:29

Wonderful! ????? · 2009-12-23: 04:31

Great effect! Najeli · 2009-12-24: 07:02

Mmmmm... I feel like to eat them. Sorry ;-) ????? · 2009-12-24: 11:09

This is nice. ????? · 2009-12-25: 06:02

Well done! It's a beautiful picture. ????? · 2009-12-27: 12:21

Nice one!! Ryana · 2009-12-27: 13:51

Great idea and shot Lynda · 2009-12-27: 13:52

I always liked the orange ones the best. SADHYA · 2009-12-28: 09:04

beautiful! And, what you did with the sweets??? miclaud · 2009-12-28: 16:35

Sometimes it just takes a change of angles! Good idea. ????? · 2009-12-29: 00:56

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