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Thank you to everyone who took part in last month's 138th Barnack's Monthly theme, which was filled with over 1,500 pictures, excellent ideas and interpretations of the theme. Also, thank you to everyone who helped to make it another successful month by generously posting their pictures and in particular to those people who posted for the first time - I hope you found it an interesting and rewarding experience and I hope it encourages you to share more of your pictures with us! In recognition of the many 'lock-downs' that have been put in place around the globe to slow the rate of infection of Covid-19, the 138th Barnack's Monthly theme for April 2020 is: Indoors. This month's theme is any pictures that were clearly taken indoors. I want to support the global efforts to prevent the spread of Covid-19 by people staying home so I don't want people to feel they need to go outside to take pictures to post in this month's Barnack's Monthly so your pictures must clearly show that they were taken indoors. So, for example, if you post a picture of your garden through your kitchen window then please show the window that you shot through so that it is clear that the picture was taken from indoors. Please note that pictures you took indoors long ago can also be posted in the thread so long as it is clear that they were taken indoors - it doesn't need to be only pictures taken this month and is an opportunity to look back through your library of pictures. It could be a picture of the stage when you were last at the theatre, the inside of your favourite pub or bar, the interior of a train or a bus or a plane, your sitting room, your kitchen, your best friend's kitchen, a museum, a shopping mall, a place of worship, a relative's wedding, a hospital, a vet's, the gym, a school, a university, a casino, a monument, an underground railway, a solarium, a concert hall, a crypt, a workshop, a factory, an office, a cathedral, a basilica, a barracks, a hotel, a palace, a restaurant, a parking garage, a town house, a police station, a jail cell, a prison, an indoor swimming pool, an gaming arcade, a seat of government, your games room, a ballroom, a snooker hall - it's entirely your choice so let your imagination run free! It would be a help if you give your picture a title so to help us understand your point of view. Members have asked if we'd very kindly name the camera and lens used - if you can remember - because it's interesting to know but, again, it's just helpful. The rules are deliberately loose so go out and shoot with this month's theme in mind or start searching back through those pictures you took oh-so long ago that you'd forgotten about and start posting! It doesn't have to be your best ever shot and it's not a competition so you might surprise the rest of us and yourself - it's just about sharing some pictures, seeing others' take on the topic, and enjoying it! Everybody's welcome to contribute, any interpretation, any number of posts, pictures that have been posted on the forum before, any equipment as long as it and the photo complies with the forum's rules of either camera or lens or both made by Leica. Please post freely - especially newcomers and please remember there's no judging or criticism (good or bad) in this thread. So, if you'd like to show your acknowledgement or appreciation that someone has posted their picture then instead of posting a comment please use the "Thanks" button that you can find at the bottom right of every post. Please post away and I look forward to seeing your interesting interpretations of this month's theme. Note: Moderator Pop has very kindly assembled links to all of the past Barnack's Monthly threads as a single archive that can be found here: Barnack's Monthly Index. Thank you, Pop! Pete.

Thank you to everyone who took part in last month's 128th Barnack's Monthly theme, which was filled with nearly 700 pictures, excellent ideas and interpretations of the theme. Also, thank you to everyone who helped to make it another successful month by generously posting their pictures and in particular to those people who posted for the first time - I hope you found it an interesting and rewarding experience and I hope it encourages you to share more of your pictures with us! The Barnack's Monthly theme for June 2019 is: Water. This month's theme is any pictures containing water in any of its forms such as steam, snow, rain, hail, fog, mist, ice, or Perrier - OR containing the word "water". It could be a relaxing lakeside scene, a raging seascape, a waterspout, a swimming race, yachting, a torrential downpour, a ski slope, water droplets on a car windscreen, ice inside a freezer compartment, the local Water Authority headquarters, umbrellas in the rain, a cold miserable saturated child, a puddle, a steaming cup of coffee on a cold day, mist rising from a frozen lake, a foggy landscape, a child dumping a bucket of water on their sunbathing dad, ice in a glass of whisky, water-buffalo in paddy fields, a cat lapping water from a bowl, the (niffy) Liffey River in Dublin, a mountain brook, a polar ice cap, a glacier, an ice cube in the shape of an ice cube, a cloud inversion layer, figure skating, a toboggan run, condensation trickling down a window pane, a popsicle, a slick street on a rainy night, snow drifts, a fountain, canoeing, a water bomb, a snowball, icicles hanging from the eaves, a frozen lake, an ice sculpture, raindrops on roses, wet whiskers on kittens, but no cofeves please! 😇 - it's entirely your choice so let your imagination run free but please keep to the topic! It would be a help if you give your picture a title so to help us understand your point of view. Members have asked if we'd very kindly name the camera and lens used - if you can remember - because it's interesting to know but, again, it's just helpful. The rules are deliberately loose so go out and shoot with this month's theme in mind or start searching back through those pictures you took oh-so long ago that you'd forgotten about and start posting! It doesn't have to be your best ever shot and it's not a competition so you might surprise the rest of us and yourself - it's just about sharing some pictures, seeing others' take on the topic, and enjoying it! Everybody's welcome to contribute, any interpretation, any number of posts, pictures that have been posted on the forum before, any equipment as long as it and the photo complies with the forum's rules of either camera or lens or both made by Leica. Please post freely - especially newcomers and please remember there's no judging or criticism (good or bad) in this thread. So, if you'd like to show your acknowledgement or appreciation that someone has posted their picture then instead of posting a comment please use the "Thanks" button that you can find at the bottom right of every post. Please post away and I look forward to seeing your interesting interpretations of this month's theme. Note: Moderator Pop has very kindly assembled links to all of the past Barnack's Monthly threads as a single archive that can be found here: Barnack's Monthly Index. Thank you, Pop! Pete.

Thank you to everyone who took part in last month's 129th Barnack's Monthly theme, which was filled with nearly 2,100 pictures, excellent ideas and interpretations of the theme. Also, thank you to everyone who helped to make it another successful month by generously posting their pictures and in particular to those people who posted for the first time - I hope you found it an interesting and rewarding experience and I hope it encourages you to share more of your pictures with us! June 2019 saw the number of posts in the set of Barnack's Monthly threads pass 50,000 pictures posted! So a massive thank you to everone who has so kindly contributed their pictures! The Barnack's Monthly theme for July 2019 is: Something beginning with G. This month's theme is any pictures containing something beginning with G. It could be a goat, a garrotte, a gamer, a gambler, a gazelle, a gateau, gateaux, a gate, a genome, a gnome, a gnomon, a geriatric, a Geranium, gelatinous, grapes, green paint, Gorgonzola cheese, roof guttering, a guttering flame, grouse, Grouse Whisky, gammon, gaming, gyrating, Geronimo, the George Tavern, German engineering, guavas, Guam, gum, a gum-shield, gumption, gloomy, groomed, goitre, a gunslinger, a gurney, glasses, a glitch, glamping, a Scottish glen, glancing, goading, a ghost, Gillingham, Glasgow, Geelong, gripping, griping, groping, grouping, gormless, gormful, gathering, the gist, a gateway, a getaway, a gurgle, a gargoyle, a garage, garbage, glee, glistening, glister, a granny, a Granny Smith apple, gentle, a gentleman, a guard, a guardsman, a grandfather clock, a glutton, a gradient, giddy, a glimmer, glamour - it's entirely your choice so let your imagination run free but please keep to the topic! It would be a help if you give your picture a title so to help us understand your point of view. Members have asked if we'd very kindly name the camera and lens used - if you can remember - because it's interesting to know but, again, it's just helpful. The rules are deliberately loose so go out and shoot with this month's theme in mind or start searching back through those pictures you took oh-so long ago that you'd forgotten about and start posting! It doesn't have to be your best ever shot and it's not a competition so you might surprise the rest of us and yourself - it's just about sharing some pictures, seeing others' take on the topic, and enjoying it! Everybody's welcome to contribute, any interpretation, any number of posts, pictures that have been posted on the forum before, any equipment as long as it and the photo complies with the forum's rules of either camera or lens or both made by Leica. Please post freely - especially newcomers and please remember there's no judging or criticism (good or bad) in this thread. So, if you'd like to show your acknowledgement or appreciation that someone has posted their picture then instead of posting a comment please use the "Thanks" button that you can find at the bottom right of every post. Please post away and I look forward to seeing your interesting interpretations of this month's theme. Note: Moderator Pop has very kindly assembled links to all of the past Barnack's Monthly threads as a single archive that can be found here: Barnack's Monthly Index. Thank you, Pop! Pete.

Thank you to everyone who took part in last month's 141st Barnack's Monthly theme, which was filled with more than 1,900 pictures, excellent ideas and interpretations of the theme. Also, thank you to everyone who helped to make it another successful month by generously posting their pictures and in particular to those people who posted for the first time - I hope you found it an interesting and rewarding experience and I hope it encourages you to share more of your pictures with us! The 142nd Barnack's Monthly theme for July 2020 is: Wheel. This month's theme is any picture that includes a wheel or the word "wheel" on its own or as part of another word. It could be a spinning wheel, a stationary wheel, a wagon wheel, a blue wheel, a spoked wheel, a wheelhouse, a ship's wheel, a pulley, a castor, a tractor wheel, a steering wheel, a flywheel, a flying wheel, aircraft undercarriage, train wheels, trainer wheels, soapbox wheels, go-kart wheels, a Catherine wheel, a bicycle wheel, a tricycle wheel, a tandem wheel, a random wheel, tank track wheels, a block and tackle pulley, steel wheels, racing wheels, a mill wheel, a wooden wheel, a Tibetan prayer wheel, Wheeler's Furniture sign, a pinwheel, pram wheels, Wheel of Fortune, The Arkwright's Wheel pub - it's entirely your choice so let your imagination run free! It would be a help if you give your picture a title so to help us understand your point of view. Members have asked if we'd very kindly name the camera and lens used - if you can remember - because it's interesting to know but, again, it's just helpful. The rules are deliberately loose so go out and shoot with this month's theme in mind or start searching back through those pictures you took oh-so long ago that you'd forgotten about and start posting! It doesn't have to be your best ever shot and it's not a competition so you might surprise the rest of us and yourself - it's just about sharing some pictures, seeing others' take on the topic, and enjoying it! Everybody's welcome to contribute, any interpretation, any number of posts, pictures that have been posted on the forum before, any equipment as long as it and the photo complies with the forum's rules of either camera or lens or both made by Leica. Please post freely - especially newcomers and please remember there's no judging or criticism (good or bad) in this thread. So, if you'd like to show your acknowledgement or appreciation that someone has posted their picture then instead of posting a comment please use the "Thanks" button that you can find at the bottom right of every post. Please post away and I look forward to seeing your interesting interpretations of this month's theme. Note: Moderator Pop has very kindly assembled links to all of the past Barnack's Monthly threads as a single archive that can be found here: Barnack's Monthly Index. Thank you, Pop! Pete.

Thank you to everyone who took part in last month's 142nd Barnack's Monthly theme, which was filled with more than 1,350 pictures, excellent ideas and interpretations of the theme. Also, thank you to everyone who helped to make it another successful month by generously posting their pictures and in particular to those people who posted for the first time - I hope you found it an interesting and rewarding experience and I hope it encourages you to share more of your pictures with us! The 143rd Barnack's Monthly theme for August 2020 is: Worn on the face or head. This month's theme is any picture that includes something that is usually worn on the face or head including masks, hats, wigs, caps, helmets, niqabs, hijabs, but not lampshades I'm afraid. It could be a cowboy hat on a ranch, a flat cap in a pub, a covid mask on the street, a spray-painter's mask, a crown, a Spiderman mask, an army helmet, a silk scarf, a visor, a snorkle and goggles, a sharp pointy medieval princess's hat, a bearskin, a cavalier's hat, a bjudge's wig, a judge's execution 'black cap', a mortarboard, a Justin Beiber face mask, a Prince Charles face mask, a fez, a jester's hat, a red nose day red nose, a baseball cap, a rubber bondage dog mask, a tam o' shanter, a turban, Christmas reindeer antlers, a kitty-kat ears headband, a plastic pig's snout, a gentleman's hairpiece, a conquistador's helmet, an archer's helmet, a wool-lined leather bomber hat with earflaps, an ushanka - a muskrat fur-lined Russian hat, a trucker cap, a Homburg, a Trilby, a Fedora, a Panama, a beret, a tophat, a brown Derby (bowler hat), a Baker Boy hat, a pork-pie hat, a Tyrolean, a straw boater, a floppy hat, a cricket cap, a beanie, a balaclava - it's entirely your choice so let your imagination run free! It would be a help if you give your picture a title so to help us understand your point of view. Members have asked if we'd very kindly name the camera and lens used - if you can remember - because it's interesting to know but, again, it's just helpful. The rules are deliberately loose so go out and shoot with this month's theme in mind or start searching back through those pictures you took oh-so long ago that you'd forgotten about and start posting! It doesn't have to be your best ever shot and it's not a competition so you might surprise the rest of us and yourself - it's just about sharing some pictures, seeing others' take on the topic, and enjoying it! Everybody's welcome to contribute, any interpretation, any number of posts, pictures that have been posted on the forum before, any equipment as long as it and the photo complies with the forum's rules of either camera or lens or both made by Leica. Please post freely - especially newcomers and please remember there's no judging or criticism (good or bad) in this thread. So, if you'd like to show your acknowledgement or appreciation that someone has posted their picture then instead of posting a comment please use the "Thanks" button that you can find at the bottom right of every post. Please post away and I look forward to seeing your interesting interpretations of this month's theme. Note: Moderator Pop has very kindly assembled links to all of the past Barnack's Monthly threads as a single archive that can be found here: Barnack's Monthly Index. Thank you, Pop! Pete.

Thank you to everyone who took part in last month's 136th Barnack's Monthly theme, which was filled with more than 1,350 pictures, excellent ideas and interpretations of the theme. Also, thank you to everyone who helped to make it another successful month by generously posting their pictures and in particular to those people who posted for the first time - I hope you found it an interesting and rewarding experience and I hope it encourages you to share more of your pictures with us! The Barnack's Monthly theme for February 2020 is: Something silver. This month's theme is any pictures containing something silver or that has the word "silver" in it. It could be silverfish, a silver fish, a silver salver, The Lone Ranger's horse, a silversmith, a Silver Surfer statuette, a silver-haired lady, 29 pieces of silver, the entrance to a silver mine, a silver balloon, silver-plated cutlery, Quicksilver (Mercury), a silver bangle, silver earrings, silver shoes, Silverstone race track, a silver sea, Phil Silvers, Silver Canyon, silver tinsel, a silver spoon, Silver Spoon sugar, a silver trophy, a Rolls Royce Silver Cloud, Sterling Silver, a silver medal, Silver Island, silver moonlight, a chromium-plated thing, a silver M3, an Airstream caravan, silver solder, a silver chalice, a silver clutch purse, silver cogwheels, a silver high-rise building, a silver dome on a cathedral, a silver smartphone, a silver statue, a silver studio umbrella - it's entirely your choice so let your imagination run free! It would be a help if you give your picture a title so to help us understand your point of view. Members have asked if we'd very kindly name the camera and lens used - if you can remember - because it's interesting to know but, again, it's just helpful. The rules are deliberately loose so go out and shoot with this month's theme in mind or start searching back through those pictures you took oh-so long ago that you'd forgotten about and start posting! It doesn't have to be your best ever shot and it's not a competition so you might surprise the rest of us and yourself - it's just about sharing some pictures, seeing others' take on the topic, and enjoying it! Everybody's welcome to contribute, any interpretation, any number of posts, pictures that have been posted on the forum before, any equipment as long as it and the photo complies with the forum's rules of either camera or lens or both made by Leica. Please post freely - especially newcomers and please remember there's no judging or criticism (good or bad) in this thread. So, if you'd like to show your acknowledgement or appreciation that someone has posted their picture then instead of posting a comment please use the "Thanks" button that you can find at the bottom right of every post. Please post away and I look forward to seeing your interesting interpretations of this month's theme. Note: Moderator Pop has very kindly assembled links to all of the past Barnack's Monthly threads as a single archive that can be found here: Barnack's Monthly Index. Thank you, Pop! Pete.

Thank you to everyone who took part in last month's 139th Barnack's Monthly theme, which was filled with nearly 1,500 pictures, excellent ideas and interpretations of the theme. Also, thank you to everyone who helped to make it another successful month by generously posting their pictures and in particular to those people who posted for the first time - I hope you found it an interesting and rewarding experience and I hope it encourages you to share more of your pictures with us! In recognition of the many 'lock-downs' that have been put in place around the globe to slow the rate of infection of Covid-19, the 140th Barnack's Monthly theme for May 2020 is: Glass or shot through glass. I want to continue support the global efforts to prevent the spread of Covid-19 by people staying home so I don't want people to feel they need to venture outside to take pictures to post in this month's Barnack's Monthly. If your Health Authority's advice is to stay home then please do and perhaps look back through the pictures you've taken over the years and there might be some you could post in Barnack's Monthly. This month's theme is any picture that's shot through glass (excluding the glass in the lens or filters etc of course). It could be fish in a fish tank, a passenger in a car, a palm tree through a porthole, a glass slipper, a bird in a greenhouse, a razor-cut in a barber's, sparkly glass earrings, someone obscured by condensation in the shower, a crystal chandelier, the hands on a watch, a decanter, a prism, a stained-glass window, fruit in a greengrocer's window, a reflection in a mirror, Balsamic vinegar in the bottle, milk in a milk bottle, a radiometer, beer in a tumbler, a tumbler - it's entirely your choice so let your imagination run free! It would be a help if you give your picture a title so to help us understand your point of view. Members have asked if we'd very kindly name the camera and lens used - if you can remember - because it's interesting to know but, again, it's just helpful. The rules are deliberately loose so go out and shoot with this month's theme in mind or start searching back through those pictures you took oh-so long ago that you'd forgotten about and start posting! It doesn't have to be your best ever shot and it's not a competition so you might surprise the rest of us and yourself - it's just about sharing some pictures, seeing others' take on the topic, and enjoying it! Everybody's welcome to contribute, any interpretation, any number of posts, pictures that have been posted on the forum before, any equipment as long as it and the photo complies with the forum's rules of either camera or lens or both made by Leica. Please post freely - especially newcomers and please remember there's no judging or criticism (good or bad) in this thread. So, if you'd like to show your acknowledgement or appreciation that someone has posted their picture then instead of posting a comment please use the "Thanks" button that you can find at the bottom right of every post. Please post away and I look forward to seeing your interesting interpretations of this month's theme. Note: Moderator Pop has very kindly assembled links to all of the past Barnack's Monthly threads as a single archive that can be found here: Barnack's Monthly Index. Thank you, Pop! Pete.

Thank you to everyone who took part in last month's 135th Barnack's Monthly theme, which was filled with more than 1,220 pictures, excellent ideas and interpretations of the theme. Also, thank you to everyone who helped to make it another successful month by generously posting their pictures and in particular to those people who posted for the first time - I hope you found it an interesting and rewarding experience and I hope it encourages you to share more of your pictures with us! The Barnack's Monthly theme for January 2020 is: Stripe or stripes. This month's theme is any pictures containing a stripe or stripes or that has the word "stripe" in it. It could be a zebra's stripes, stripes on a barber's pole, the White Stripes popular beat combo group, stripes on a warning sign, a bee, military stripes, a stripe on a tee-shirt, stripes formed by vapour trails in the sky, yellow or red stripes indicating no stopping or parking, striped leggings, a jockey's stripes, a diagonal stripe on a taxi, a diagonal stripe on a polo player, hatching on an aircraft carrier's deck, a tiger, a footballer wearing a stripey uniform, a burglar's striped tee-shirt, a stripe left by a skidding vehicle, a hi-viz stripe, a stripe for the oche in a dart's match, stripes on warning tape, stripes indicating car parking spaces, stripes on a tracksuit, the plimsole line on a ship, the markings on a tennis court, the yellow stripe at the edge of a railway platform, motorway hatching, stripes forming a pedestrian crossing, the American flag, stripes on a boater and blazer, a striped umbrella - it's entirely your choice so let your imagination run free! It would be a help if you give your picture a title so to help us understand your point of view. Members have asked if we'd very kindly name the camera and lens used - if you can remember - because it's interesting to know but, again, it's just helpful. The rules are deliberately loose so go out and shoot with this month's theme in mind or start searching back through those pictures you took oh-so long ago that you'd forgotten about and start posting! It doesn't have to be your best ever shot and it's not a competition so you might surprise the rest of us and yourself - it's just about sharing some pictures, seeing others' take on the topic, and enjoying it! Everybody's welcome to contribute, any interpretation, any number of posts, pictures that have been posted on the forum before, any equipment as long as it and the photo complies with the forum's rules of either camera or lens or both made by Leica. Please post freely - especially newcomers and please remember there's no judging or criticism (good or bad) in this thread. So, if you'd like to show your acknowledgement or appreciation that someone has posted their picture then instead of posting a comment please use the "Thanks" button that you can find at the bottom right of every post. Please post away and I look forward to seeing your interesting interpretations of this month's theme. Note: Moderator Pop has very kindly assembled links to all of the past Barnack's Monthly threads as a single archive that can be found here: Barnack's Monthly Index. Thank you, Pop! Pete.

Thank you to everyone who took part in last month's 126th Barnack's Monthly theme, which was filled with more than 1,400 pictures, excellent ideas and interpretations of the theme, and which is the second highest total in the entire 10 years of the Barnack's Monthly thread! Also, thank you to everyone who helped to make it another successful month by generously posting their pictures and in particular to those people who posted for the first time - I hope you found it an interesting and rewarding experience and I hope it encourages you to share more of your pictures with us! The Barnack's Monthly theme for April 2019 is: Triangle. This month's theme is any pictures containing at least one triangle or the word "triangle" whether on its own or as part of another word, and please let us know where the triangle is in your picture. It could be a triangle formed by the branches and trunk of a tree, triangles in the strings of a tennis racquet, soldiers in a triangular formation, a triangle played by a member of an orchestra, a triangle in the lines of a persons face, a crack across the corner of a paving stone, The Triangle Motorcycle Gang, the triangle formed by the bargeboards and soffit in the front of a house, the triangles in an icosahedron (20-sided figure), the triangles in a Star of David, the triangle in the frame of a bicycle, triangles in the lead in lead-light windows, triangles in a pentagon, triangles in The Pentagon, the triangle in a Lacrosse racquet, triangles on a football, the triangle formed by a Vulcan aircraft, the triangle in a cantilever streetlight beam, The Golden Triangle hotel in Phnom Penh in Cambodia, the triangle formed by the body of a lute, triangles in a spidey's web, triangles in a chickenwire fence, the triangle fascias in a 'Trilliant' cut diamond ring - it's entirely your choice so let your imagination run free but please try to keep to the topic! It would be a help if you give your picture a title so to help us understand your point of view. Members have asked if we'd very kindly name the camera and lens used - if you can remember - because it's interesting to know but, again, it's just helpful. The rules are deliberately loose so go out and shoot with this month's theme in mind or start searching back through those pictures you took oh-so long ago that you'd forgotten about and start posting! It doesn't have to be your best ever shot and it's not a competition so you might surprise the rest of us and yourself - it's just about sharing some pictures, seeing others' take on the topic, and enjoying it! Everybody's welcome to contribute, any interpretation, any number of posts, pictures that have been posted on the forum before, any equipment as long as it and the photo complies with the forum's rules of either camera or lens or both made by Leica. Please post freely - especially newcomers and please remember there's no judging or criticism (good or bad) in this thread. So, if you'd like to show your acknowledgement or appreciation that someone has posted their picture then instead of posting a comment please use the "Thanks" button that you can find at the bottom right of every post. Please post away and I look forward to seeing your interesting interpretations of this month's theme. Note: Moderator Pop has very kindly assembled links to all of the past Barnack's Monthly threads as a single archive that can be found here: Barnack's Monthly Index. Thank you, Pop! Pete.

Thank you to everyone who took part in last month's 125th Barnack's Monthly theme, which was filled with more than 1,140 pictures, excellent ideas and interpretations of the theme. Also, thank you to everyone who helped to make it another successful month by generously posting their pictures and in particular to those people who posted for the first time - I hope you found it an interesting and rewarding experience and I hope it encourages you to share more of your pictures with us! The Barnack's Monthly theme for March 2019 is: Church, temple, synagogue, mosque, place of worship. This month's theme is any pictures containing or inside a church, cathedral, temple, synagogue, mosque, chapel, basilica, shrine, monastery, minster, abbey, Wat, kirk, Society of Friends Meeting House, Kingdom Hall, or other place of worship. It could be a kirk on a hill, a synagogue by the sea, a metropolitan mosque, a Wat beside water, candles in a cathedral, a procession in a basilica, flowers left beside a shrine, a congregation at a church service, a timeless temple, a mosque's minaret, a hill-top monastery, York Minster, Canterbury Cathedral, the Temple of Mithras, Regent's Park Mosque, Westminster Abbey, Stamford Hill Synagogue, St Clement Danes RAF Church, The Guards' Chapel in London, Shri Swaminarayan Mandir Hindu Temple in Brighton, the Buddhahapadipa Buddhist Monastery Temple, sunlight glinting off a crucifix, pews in shadow, sunlit stained glass windows, a chalice, flowers at an alter, a sermon from a pulpit, traditional dress in a temple, a priest's robes, a table with copy of the Talmud, or the Quran or the Bible, or the Book of Mormon, or the Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, a wedding, a funeral, Hanukkah, The Five Pillars of Islam, a Bar Mitzvah, a steeple, a church graveyard, a messy vestry, a cathedral clock - it's entirely your choice so let your imagination run free! It would be a help if you give your picture a title so to help us understand your point of view. Members have asked if we'd very kindly name the camera and lens used - if you can remember - because it's interesting to know but, again, it's just helpful. The rules are deliberately loose so go out and shoot with this month's theme in mind or start searching back through those pictures you took oh-so long ago that you'd forgotten about and start posting! It doesn't have to be your best ever shot and it's not a competition so you might surprise the rest of us and yourself - it's just about sharing some pictures, seeing others' take on the topic, and enjoying it! Everybody's welcome to contribute, any interpretation, any number of posts, pictures that have been posted on the forum before, any equipment as long as it and the photo complies with the forum's rules of either camera or lens or both made by Leica. Please post freely - especially newcomers and please remember there's no judging or criticism (good or bad) in this thread. So, if you'd like to show your acknowledgement or appreciation that someone has posted their picture then instead of posting a comment please use the "Thanks" button that you can find at the bottom right of every post. Please post away and I look forward to seeing your interesting interpretations of this month's theme. Note: Moderator Pop has very kindly assembled links to all of the past Barnack's Monthly threads as a single archive that can be found here: Barnack's Monthly Index. Thank you, Pop! Pete.

CELEBRATING TEN YEARS OF BARNACK'S MONTHLY! Barnack's Monthly has been going for 10 years! Please accept a massive thank you from me for all your support in keeping this thread going by generously sharing your pictures and interpretations!! Without you all there would be no thread, just a man sadly posting a new topic month after month and a few of his raggedy photos. Pete Taylor (elansprint) started the thread in 2008 and I took it over in 2010 when Pete T went off to do other things and with your support Barnack's Monthly has survived for a total of 10 years during which time it has gone from strength to strength and achieved the following so far: 43,267 pictures posted by us all 1,160,653 views by us and others Thank you! And on with the show ... Thank you to everyone who took part in last month's 123rd Barnack's Monthly theme, which was filled with more than 800 pictures, excellent ideas and interpretations of the theme. Also, thank you to everyone who helped to make it another successful month by generously posting their pictures and in particular to those people who posted for the first time - I hope you found it an interesting and rewarding experience and I hope it encourages you to share more of your pictures with us! The Barnack's Monthly theme for January 2019 is: Something Red. This month's theme is any pictures including something red, the word "red", or the word "red" in another word. It could be a red hat, credit, a red car, a red bed, a red dress, a redress, a red herring, someone reddening, Simply Red, red haired, Red Rum, Redditch, red light, a red lens, a red camera, red gloves, a ruddy-red complexion, red dirt, red sky at night shepherd's delight, red dreadlocks, altered, shattered, flattered, splattered, entered, interred, a red flag, a red magazine, red paper, red cardboard, a red bow, red spectacles, red fireworks, a tomato, a fire engine, a Royal Mail postbox, a red double-decker bus, blood, a red bird, a red fish, a red dish, red lipstick, a red kiss, a predator, predated, a predilection, pre-disposed, shredded paper, a dredge, the actor Red Buttons, red paint, red cellophane, a red red robin, re-distribution, Red Rock West, red socks, a Red Salmon, something being aired, red curtains, Red Red Wine, incredulous, a red squirrel, a Red Deer, a red beer, a red smear, a red pear - it's entirely your choice so let your imagination run free! It would be a help if you give your picture a title so to help us understand your point of view but it's not compulsory. Members have asked if we'd very kindly name the camera and lens used - if you can remember - because it's interesting to know but, again, it's not compulsory just helpful. The rules are deliberately loose so go out and shoot with this month's theme in mind or start searching back through those pictures you took oh-so long ago that you'd forgotten about and start posting! It doesn't have to be your best ever shot and it's not a competition so you might surprise the rest of us and yourself - it's just about sharing some pictures, seeing others' take on the topic, and enjoying it! Everybody's welcome to contribute, any interpretation, any number of posts, pictures that have been posted on the forum before, any equipment as long as it and the photo complies with the forum's rules of either camera or lens or both made by Leica. Please post freely - especially newcomers and please remember there's no judging or criticism (good or bad) in this thread. So, if you'd like to show your acknowledgement or appreciation that someone has posted their picture then instead of posting a comment please use the "Thanks" button that you can find at the bottom right of every post. Please post away and I look forward to seeing your interesting interpretations of this month's theme. Note: Moderator Pop has very kindly assembled links to all of the past Barnack's Monthly threads as a single archive that can be found here: Barnack's Monthly Index*. Thank you, Pop! *The index seems to have disappeared during the software update but I'll try to have it reinstated as soon as possible. Pete.

Thank you to everyone who took part in last month's 152nd Barnack's Monthly theme, which was filled with more than 1,850 pictures, excellent ideas and interpretations of the theme. Also, thank you to everyone who helped to make it another successful month by generously posting their pictures and in particular to those people who posted for the first time - I hope you found it an interesting and rewarding experience and I hope it encourages you to share more of your pictures with us! The 153rd Barnack's Monthly theme for June 2021 is: Night or low light. This month's theme is any picture that was taken at night or in low light conditions, the eerier the better. For example, it could be a moonlit evening, a white cat in a coal shed, taken in a dimly-lit bar, a partial eclipse of the sun, shot at dusk, shot at dawn, the lights of a city, a starry sky, car tail-light trails, a foggy evening, a fireworks display, a sports stadium after dark, a cloudy full-moon night, a performance at the theatre - it's entirely your choice so let your imagination run free! It would be a big help if you give your picture a title so to help us understand your point of view. Members have asked if we'd very kindly name the camera and lens used - if you can remember - because it's interesting to know but, again, it's just helpful. The rules are deliberately loose so go out and shoot with this month's theme in mind or start searching back through those pictures you took oh-so long ago that you'd forgotten about and start posting! It doesn't have to be your best ever shot and it's not a competition so you might surprise the rest of us and yourself - it's just about sharing some pictures, seeing others' take on the topic, and enjoying it! Everybody's welcome to contribute, any interpretation, any number of posts, pictures that have been posted on the forum before, any equipment as long as it and the photo complies with the forum's rules of either camera or lens or both made by Leica. Please post freely - especially newcomers and please remember there's no judging or criticism (good or bad) in this thread. So, if you'd like to show your acknowledgement or appreciation that someone has posted their picture then instead of posting a comment please use the "Thanks" button that you can find at the bottom right of every post. Please post away and I look forward to seeing your interesting interpretations of this month's theme. Note: Moderator Pop has very kindly assembled links to all of the past Barnack's Monthly threads as a single archive that can be found here: Barnack's Monthly Index. Thank you, Pop! Pete.

Thank you to everyone who took part in last month's 150th Barnack's Monthly theme, which was filled with more than 650 pictures, excellent ideas and interpretations of the theme. Also, thank you to everyone who helped to make it another successful month by generously posting their pictures and in particular to those people who posted for the first time - I hope you found it an interesting and rewarding experience and I hope it encourages you to share more of your pictures with us! The 151st Barnack's Monthly theme for March 2021 is: Something Beginning with R. This month's theme is any picture that includes something beginning with "R". For example, it could be a Robin, a Rodin, a roman, a Romanian, a Rastafarian, a Rotarian, a rostrum, a roster, a rooster, a rod, a row, a rood, rouge, reddening, ridges, riders, riding, Red Riding Hood, robbers, rubbers (erasers), rubbery, runners, rudders, rugs, rags, rigs, regulations, Romulans, ROM, RAM, a rhombus, a rhesus monkey, rhetoric, a Rectory, a rescue dog, reticence, reticulation, rocks, rockets, rope, Rome, roaming, rotating, ruminating, remonstrating, resting, re-siting, retrospective, retroactive, rendering, reindeer, rain, rails, rage, a rave, raw, rough, ruined, runes, rules, routes, roots, riots, Rio de Janeiro, Rin Tin Tin, rattan, rats, rot, rights, reverse, revoking, revelations, Revelations, revelling, revering, rovers, roving, roaring, romping, roasting, rousting, rusting - it's entirely your choice so let your imagination run free! It would be a big help if you give your picture a title so to help us understand your point of view. Members have asked if we'd very kindly name the camera and lens used - if you can remember - because it's interesting to know but, again, it's just helpful. The rules are deliberately loose so go out and shoot with this month's theme in mind or start searching back through those pictures you took oh-so long ago that you'd forgotten about and start posting! It doesn't have to be your best ever shot and it's not a competition so you might surprise the rest of us and yourself - it's just about sharing some pictures, seeing others' take on the topic, and enjoying it! Everybody's welcome to contribute, any interpretation, any number of posts, pictures that have been posted on the forum before, any equipment as long as it and the photo complies with the forum's rules of either camera or lens or both made by Leica. Please post freely - especially newcomers and please remember there's no judging or criticism (good or bad) in this thread. So, if you'd like to show your acknowledgement or appreciation that someone has posted their picture then instead of posting a comment please use the "Thanks" button that you can find at the bottom right of every post. Please post away and I look forward to seeing your interesting interpretations of this month's theme. Note: Moderator Pop has very kindly assembled links to all of the past Barnack's Monthly threads as a single archive that can be found here: Barnack's Monthly Index. Thank you, Pop! Pete.

Thank you to everyone who took part in last month's 144th Barnack's Monthly theme, which with 2300+ pictures was a new Barnack's Monthly record!. Also, thank you to everyone who helped to make it another successful month by generously posting their pictures and in particular to those people who posted for the first time - I hope you found it an interesting and rewarding experience and I hope it encourages you to share more of your pictures with us! The 145th Barnack's Monthly theme for October 2020 is: Something beginning with F. This month's theme is any picture that includes something beginning with "F" but, PLEASE, no qualifiers - so for example "a filthy window" or "a fat lady" or "a funny man" do not qualify. Your subject could be a fish, a fissure, a fisherman, a fist, a flint, a fling, a following, a foal, a fowl, a flow, fluorescent, flour, a flower, fruit, a flute, a felucca, a Champagne flute, fluting, flaunting, fainting, feinting, ferns, farms, a farthing, a father, a farmer, a farrier, a furrier, a fur, a fir, a fire, a fireman, a foreman, four men, a fright, Friday night, a fairy, foam, film, filming, filing, a file, failing, fallen, falling, foaling, fooling, a feeling, finding, a foundling, fondling, a farrow, Fanta, a font, a fountain, four, forty, five, fifty, fit, to flit, fried, flayed, frayed, freight, a friend, a fiend - it's entirely your choice so let your imagination run free! It would be a big help if you give your picture a title so to help us understand your point of view. Members have asked if we'd very kindly name the camera and lens used - if you can remember - because it's interesting to know but, again, it's just helpful. The rules are deliberately loose so go out and shoot with this month's theme in mind or start searching back through those pictures you took oh-so long ago that you'd forgotten about and start posting! It doesn't have to be your best ever shot and it's not a competition so you might surprise the rest of us and yourself - it's just about sharing some pictures, seeing others' take on the topic, and enjoying it! Everybody's welcome to contribute, any interpretation, any number of posts, pictures that have been posted on the forum before, any equipment as long as it and the photo complies with the forum's rules of either camera or lens or both made by Leica. Please post freely - especially newcomers and please remember there's no judging or criticism (good or bad) in this thread. So, if you'd like to show your acknowledgement or appreciation that someone has posted their picture then instead of posting a comment please use the "Thanks" button that you can find at the bottom right of every post. Please post away and I look forward to seeing your interesting interpretations of this month's theme. Note: Moderator Pop has very kindly assembled links to all of the past Barnack's Monthly threads as a single archive that can be found here: Barnack's Monthly Index. Thank you, Pop! Pete.

Thank you to everyone who took part in last month's 145th Barnack's Monthly theme,which was filled with more than 1,600 pictures, excellent ideas and interpretations of the theme. Also, thank you to everyone who helped to make it another successful month by generously posting their pictures and in particular to those people who posted for the first time - I hope you found it an interesting and rewarding experience and I hope it encourages you to share more of your pictures with us! The 146th Barnack's Monthly theme for November 2020 is: Wood. This month's theme is any picture that includes wood or the word "wood". For example, it could be a wooden house, a wooden bench, a wood carving, clogs, a wooden dashboard, a cartwheel, a forest, a wooden handle on a mangle, a soapbox cart, a wooden fence, a plywood shed, a balsa-wood aeroplane, a Mahogany dresser, an oak chest, the actor Edward Woodward, the Beatles' Norwegian Wood, sandalwood incense, Pinewood Studios, a wooden paling, wooden window frames, a wooden bird feeder, the actor Elijah Wood, woodland, a glade, a giant Sequoia tree, a ship's wooden slipway, St John's Wood, Brookwood cemetery, a telephone pole, an old telephone box, a picture frame, a wooden ornament - it's entirely your choice so let your imagination run free! It would be a big help if you give your picture a title so to help us understand your point of view. Members have asked if we'd very kindly name the camera and lens used - if you can remember - because it's interesting to know but, again, it's just helpful. The rules are deliberately loose so go out and shoot with this month's theme in mind or start searching back through those pictures you took oh-so long ago that you'd forgotten about and start posting! It doesn't have to be your best ever shot and it's not a competition so you might surprise the rest of us and yourself - it's just about sharing some pictures, seeing others' take on the topic, and enjoying it! Everybody's welcome to contribute, any interpretation, any number of posts, pictures that have been posted on the forum before, any equipment as long as it and the photo complies with the forum's rules of either camera or lens or both made by Leica. Please post freely - especially newcomers and please remember there's no judging or criticism (good or bad) in this thread. So, if you'd like to show your acknowledgement or appreciation that someone has posted their picture then instead of posting a comment please use the "Thanks" button that you can find at the bottom right of every post. Please post away and I look forward to seeing your interesting interpretations of this month's theme. Note: Moderator Pop has very kindly assembled links to all of the past Barnack's Monthly threads as a single archive that can be found here: Barnack's Monthly Index. Thank you, Pop! Pete.

Thank you to everyone who took part in last month's 165th Barnack's Monthly theme, which was filled with more than 750 pictures, excellent ideas and interpretations of the theme. Also, thank you to everyone who helped to make it another successful month by generously posting their pictures and in particular to those people who posted for the first time - I hope you found it an interesting and rewarding experience and I hope it encourages you to share more of your pictures with us! Thank you all so much for contributing by very kindly sharing your photos because it's you who keep Barnack's Monthly going. Without your pictures there could be no Barnack's Monthly. The 166th Barnack's Monthly theme for July 2022 is: Vehicle. This month's theme is any picture that contains a vehicle or clearly identifiable part of a vehicle. The Wiki definition that we'll use for this thread is: "A vehicle is a machine that transports people or cargo. Vehicles include wagons, bicycles, motor vehicles, railed vehicles, watercraft, amphibious vehicles, aircraft and spacecraft." For example, it could be a tank, a clown car, a tricycle, a loco, a charabanc, a hearse, a McLaren F1 car, a glider, a toboggan, a soap-box racer, Apollo 13, a Porsche 911, a Rolls Royce Silver Cloud, a Fiat Bambina, a Ford Mondeo, a Kenworth truck, a Mac truck, a jet boat, a yacht, a ferry, the Hoverspeed Cross-Channel ferry, an oil tanker, a container ship, an America's Cup yacht, a motorcycle and sidecar, a trailer, a Zephyr 6, a Morris Minor, a Ford 'Angular' and 100 bonus points, for the first person spotting, the deliberate spelling mistake, a Ute, a Humber Super Snipe, a Tesla 3, a BMW 5 Series, a Mercedes C Class, a Trophy trail, a Triumph Bonneville, a vintage bus, an Airstream caravan, a milk float, a Renault Dauphin, I was going to mention a Purr-Joe but it wouldn't spell itself properly, a dray, a RML double-decker bus, a traction engine, a Trabbant, an Edsel, a Ford Consul, a VW beetle, a Fairy Swordfish bi-plane, a Sopwith Camel bi-plane, a Lockheed Lightning, a Supermarine Spitfire, a de Haviland Gypsy Moth, a Messerschmidt ME-109, a Junkers 89B, a Handley Plane Hallifax bomber, the Avro Lancaster, an F-111, a Eurofighter, PT-109, the HMS Belfast light cruiser, the Graf Spee, the Sharnhorst, the Yamamoto, the Queen Mary, The Cutty Sark, The Golden Hind - it's entirely your choice so let your imagination run free! It would be a big help if you give your picture a title so to help us understand your point of view. Members have asked if we'd very kindly name the camera and lens used because it's interesting to know. The rules are deliberately loose so go out and shoot with this month's theme in mind or start searching back through those pictures you took oh-so long ago that you'd forgotten about and start posting! It doesn't have to be your best ever shot and it's not a competition so you might surprise the rest of us and yourself - it's just about sharing some pictures, seeing others' take on the topic, and enjoying it! Everybody's welcome to contribute, any interpretation, any number of posts (but to avoid swamping the thread would you very kindly please post no more than ten pictures at a time), pictures that have been posted on the forum before, are fine any equipment as long as it complies with the forum's rules of either camera or lens or both made by Leica. Please post freely - especially newcomers and please remember there's no judging or criticism (good or bad) in this thread. So, if you'd like to show your acknowledgement or appreciation that someone has posted their picture then instead of posting a comment please use the "Thanks" button that you can find at the bottom right of every post. Please post away and I look forward to seeing your interesting interpretations of this month's theme. Note: Moderator Pop has very kindly assembled links to all of the past Barnack's Monthly threads as a single archive that can be found here: Barnack's Monthly Index. Thank you, Pop! Pete.

Thank you to everyone who took part in last month's 161st Barnack's Monthly theme, which was filled with more 1,000 pictures, excellent ideas and interpretations of the theme. Also, thank you to everyone who helped to make it another successful month by generously posting their pictures and in particular to those people who posted for the first time - I hope you found it an interesting and rewarding experience and I hope it encourages you to share more of your pictures with us! The 162nd Barnack's Monthly theme for April 2022 is: Musical instrument This month's theme is any picture that contains a bona fide musical instrument or a part of one. For example, it could be a piano in Prague, a viola in Venice, a trumpet in Tijuana, a guitar in Patagonia, a flamenco guitar in Florence, maracas in Marakesh, drums in Dresden, a Theremin, a glockenspiel, a drumstick, a tambourine, a brass band, bagpipes, a bagpipe chanter, a saxophone a Sousaphone, a vibraphone, a xylophone, a metallophone, a telephone bell, horse hair from a violin bow, a mellow cello, a pair of baboons playing a pair of bassoons, a Cor Anglais, a French horn, Alpenhorns, a cornet, a trombone, a cow bell, an ostrich playing an oboe, a dodgy dulcimer, a Floridian flute, a Fijian fiddle, a Market Harborough harp, a Baden-Baden double bass, a glockenspiel that's all over the place, an organ, a mouth organ, a barrel organ, a mouth harp, an Aeolian harp, an air guitar, an electric guitar, a classical guitar, guitar strings, machine heads, grand piano keys, a pianola, snare drums, cymbals, high hats - it's entirely your choice so let your imagination run free! It would be a big help if you give your picture a title so to help us understand your point of view. Members have asked if we'd very kindly name the camera and lens used because it's interesting to know. The rules are deliberately loose so go out and shoot with this month's theme in mind or start searching back through those pictures you took oh-so long ago that you'd forgotten about and start posting! It doesn't have to be your best ever shot and it's not a competition so you might surprise the rest of us and yourself - it's just about sharing some pictures, seeing others' take on the topic, and enjoying it! Everybody's welcome to contribute, any interpretation, any number of posts, pictures that have been posted on the forum before, any equipment as long as it and the photo complies with the forum's rules of either camera or lens or both made by Leica. Please post freely - especially newcomers and please remember there's no judging or criticism (good or bad) in this thread. So, if you'd like to show your acknowledgement or appreciation that someone has posted their picture then instead of posting a comment please use the "Thanks" button that you can find at the bottom right of every post. Please post away and I look forward to seeing your interesting interpretations of this month's theme. Note: Moderator Pop has very kindly assembled links to all of the past Barnack's Monthly threads as a single archive that can be found here: Barnack's Monthly Index. Thank you, Pop! Pete.

Thank you to everyone who took part in last month's 160th Barnack's Monthly theme, which was filled with about 1,500 pictures, excellent ideas and interpretations of the theme. Also, thank you to everyone who helped to make it another successful month by generously posting their pictures and in particular to those people who posted for the first time - I hope you found it an interesting and rewarding experience and I hope it encourages you to share more of your pictures with us! The 161st Barnack's Monthly theme for February 2022 is: Metal This month's theme is any picture that contains something made of metal. For example, it could be Sodium, Mercury, Tin, Lead, Lithium, Copper, Zinc, Beryllium, Magnesium, Potassium, Titanium, Iron, Chromium, Vanadium, Aluminium, Gallium, Gold, Silver, Calcium, a hammer head, studs in a camera strap, steel toe caps, a car bonnet, a crane, wire, sheet metal, a railway line, a telephone line, a plimsol line, a power line, an oil pipeline, a weld, a magnet, a chainlink fence, a chickenwire fence, a barbed wire fence, a razor wire fence, a razor, a Taser wire, BB King's guitar strings, a saxophone, a sousaphone, a cornet, a trumpet, a trombone, a piccolo, a flute, a chute, a chisel, a tin whistle, a banjo, a bandsaw, a fretsaw, a tenon saw, a cross saw, a chainsaw, chainmail, a mailbox, a mail truck, a toecap, a tow truck, a steel tow rope, a hawser, a coat hook, a saucepan, a frying pan, fencing wire, a fencing épée, a sabre, a sword, a scimitar, a bronze sword, a broadsword, a Claymore, sword, a Claymore landmine, a grenade, a tractor, a back-actor, a thresher, a manhole cover, a West Indian metal band, a metal band on an oil drum, an ocean liner's hull, iron filings, white-hot steel, red-hot steel, 'the old cold steel' - it's entirely your choice so let your imagination run free! It would be a big help if you give your picture a title so to help us understand your point of view. Members have asked if we'd very kindly name the camera and lens used because it's interesting to know. The rules are deliberately loose so go out and shoot with this month's theme in mind or start searching back through those pictures you took oh-so long ago that you'd forgotten about and start posting! It doesn't have to be your best ever shot and it's not a competition so you might surprise the rest of us and yourself - it's just about sharing some pictures, seeing others' take on the topic, and enjoying it! Everybody's welcome to contribute, any interpretation, any number of posts, pictures that have been posted on the forum before, any equipment as long as it and the photo complies with the forum's rules of either camera or lens or both made by Leica. Please post freely - especially newcomers and please remember there's no judging or criticism (good or bad) in this thread. So, if you'd like to show your acknowledgement or appreciation that someone has posted their picture then instead of posting a comment please use the "Thanks" button that you can find at the bottom right of every post. Please post away and I look forward to seeing your interesting interpretations of this month's theme. Note: Moderator Pop has very kindly assembled links to all of the past Barnack's Monthly threads as a single archive that can be found here: Barnack's Monthly Index. Thank you, Pop! Pete.

Thank you to everyone who took part in last month's 132nd Barnack's Monthly theme, which was filled with nearly 500 pictures, excellent ideas and interpretations of the theme. Also, thank you to everyone who helped to make it another successful month by generously posting their pictures and in particular to those people who posted for the first time - I hope you found it an interesting and rewarding experience and I hope it encourages you to share more of your pictures with us! The Barnack's Monthly theme for October 2019 is: Stone or rock. This month's theme is any pictures containing stone or rock in some form (for example marble, gravel, pebbles, sand boulders etc), or the words "stone" or "rock" by themselves or as part of another word. Stone or rock must be its natural form so brick and concrete etc don't qualify I'm afraid although rock music would. It could be a stone wall, stepping stones, bedrock, a stone's throw, rocking a baby to sleep, a rocking chair, Rock Around the Clock, the Flintstones, the Stone Roses, headstones in a graveyard, the stones used in Teppanyaki, hail stones, a whet stone, a stone church, a poster of AC/DC's lead singer Brian Johnstone, a stone circle, gemstones, a poster of Joe Walsh's 'Rocky Mountain Way', rock-a-billy music, rock lobster, The Rocky Mountains, a rockery - it's entirely your choice so let your imagination run free! It would be a help if you give your picture a title so to help us understand your point of view. Members have asked if we'd very kindly name the camera and lens used - if you can remember - because it's interesting to know but, again, it's just helpful. The rules are deliberately loose so go out and shoot with this month's theme in mind or start searching back through those pictures you took oh-so long ago that you'd forgotten about and start posting! It doesn't have to be your best ever shot and it's not a competition so you might surprise the rest of us and yourself - it's just about sharing some pictures, seeing others' take on the topic, and enjoying it! Everybody's welcome to contribute, any interpretation, any number of posts, pictures that have been posted on the forum before, any equipment as long as it and the photo complies with the forum's rules of either camera or lens or both made by Leica. Please post freely - especially newcomers and please remember there's no judging or criticism (good or bad) in this thread. So, if you'd like to show your acknowledgement or appreciation that someone has posted their picture then instead of posting a comment please use the "Thanks" button that you can find at the bottom right of every post. Please post away and I look forward to seeing your interesting interpretations of this month's theme. Note: Moderator Pop has very kindly assembled links to all of the past Barnack's Monthly threads as a single archive that can be found here: Barnack's Monthly Index. Thank you, Pop! Pete.