Thank you to all who participated in our first week’s challenge over at our new and improved Digital Photography Blogs Flickr Group. The challenge: a summer photograph containing water. We had some great entries! A big congratulations goes out to this week’s winner, johanna brandvik, for her very cool photo shown here called “Trust.” We loved the impressionist feel to this artsy shot and can remember that feeling as kids of trying to muster up the courage to just jump right in! The lack of focus in this shot really sets the mood and works in its favor.

Next week’s contest is now up (theme: summer vacations!), so get over to our Flickr Group and join in. Right now anyone can win and have their photo posted on our blog and on the Group’s page, but soon winners will be picked from our subscriber list only, so make sure you’re on that list!

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