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On my visit to the seaside a few weeks ago, I saw this Punch and Judy booth set up, ready for a show. It was a tricky thing to photograph, into the sun: can you improve the contrast? And what sort of show might be performed on this tiny stage?
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A bit more of a technical challenge this week. Here's a view of a hallway in an office building, with a stairway on the left and a lift (elevator) on the right. Your task is to seal up the stairway to make a blank wall, and to remove the lift/elevator. What you put in its place is up to you - another hallway, perhaps a new staircase. As long as you get the perspective right!
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Off to the Norfolk seaside town of Cromer last weekend, where I snapped this view of an idyllic English town: the bunting, the medieval church, the 18th Century building.
All that's missing is a pub sign hanging from that wrought iron bracket. Can you oblige?
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Another image from my recent French trip. This one was taken in a museum of 19th Century shops (actually, it was much more fascinating than it sounds). The shops were arranged around a central atrium, so in many cases it was possible to get views from almost directly overhead.
What I'd like you to do here is to populate this scene. It doesn't have to be people: bottles, photographed toy figures, Poser elements - even drawn boxes will do fine. The purpose of the exercise is to try to make your placement of people and things match the perspective of the room as closely as possible.
Another tricky one, perhaps!
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A bit of a technical Challenge this week. I took my kids water skiing when we were in France, and I was intrigued by the reflections produced on this river. Conditions: overcasts day, no wind, minimal current. Can you reproduce the water surface? At the end of the week I'll post the original photograph so you can see what it really looked like.
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Here's a bed I photographed a few years ago. I put a couple of pillows under the covers to make it look as if there was a body in there, as I had to place a couple of politicians' heads on the top - but I ran out of pillows, and it didn't quite work. Your task for the week: build up the duvet so it looks like there's someone (or some people) under there, and then stick a head on top. And a bit of a bedroom wouldn’t go amiss...
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When they said "You're going to the sea bed", I didn't know this was what they had in mind!
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Josephine Harvatt went to watch the Tour de France recently, but seems to have missed all the action. Still, we have a great road surface, and plenty of onlookers... what could be just around the corner? A host of bicycles, or something more spectacular?
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"I think we took a wrong turn at Ye Olde Stirrup Cuppe!"
