Barnack's Monthly for January 2024 is Shiny Silver.

farnz · January 1, 2024

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Happy New Year and congratulations everyone because last month the Barnack's Monthly series passed 2½ million views!

Thank you to everyone who took part in last month's 183rd Barnack's Monthly theme, which was filled with more than 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!

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 184th Barnack's Monthly theme, for January 2024, is:

Shiny Silver.

This month's theme is any picture that contains a shiny silver object or either of those written words. For clarity: dull, grey objects don't qualify as shiny silver objects.

For example, it could be a silver salver, an AIrstream caravan, the chromed stack pipes on a Kenworth truck, a 'white gold' wedding band, a Harley Davidson crank case, a Rimowa aluminium suitcase, a table knife, a hubcap, a stainless steel railing, a polished aluminium cigarette case, silver goblets, ball bearings, silver earrings, a silver nose ring, a silver toe ring, a silver belly button stud, a wire sunglasses frame, aluminium restaurant chairs and tables, the Chicago Bean (Cloud Gate) sculpture, a Rolls Royce radiator grill, a coffee pot, a whistle, the shaft of a golf club, a stainless steel slinky, silver Christmas baubles, a metal kettle, a sixpenny bit, a salt cellar - it's entirely your choice so let your imagination run free!

It would be a big help if you give your picture a title 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, and any equipment as long as it complies with the forum's rules (either camera or lens or both made by Leica or the Leica-Sigma-Panasonic "L-Mount" Partnership). 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.

January 1, 2024

Hi farnz,

Take a look here Barnack's Monthly for January 2024 is Shiny Silver.. I'm sure you'll find what you were looking for!

The Leica Q3 is available for pre-order at B&H Photo Video and Adorama

farnz · January 1, 2024

Silver M10 with Helios-40 lens (CZJ 75/1.5 Biotar copy).