Punts at Houghton Mill, by Cap'n Bill
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I chose this shot by Cap'n Bill for Picture of the Day because of its potential rather than its actual state. The foreground works well, with a kind of faded serenity that harks back to peaceful old times. Where this picture doesn't work so well is the tree line and the sky. An attempt at tone mapping has been made to bring life to the picture and it hasn't really worked well in those areas. Another reason why this image is featured here is because it has generated a fair amount of comment on the DPNow forum.
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We are always on the look out for great pictures posted to the user-galleries here on DPNow. POTDs are selected from the gallery and featured every week day. The gallery facility here is completely free; all you need to do is register as a user on our discussion forum and you will get an automatic 25MB of space, which is good for around 125 pictures uploaded at web resolution, about 200K per picture. At the time of writing we had almost 16,000 pictures on the galleries and it's well worth a browse.
Picture of the month
At the end of each month we will select our favourite image of the month and declare a Picture of the Month.
The DPNow Golden Gallery
Our ultimate accolade, the DPNow Golden Gallery, is reserved for what we feel are the very finest images. We invite anyone to submit their pictures for inclusion in the Golden Gallery. Why not have a look at the Golden Gallery submission form? The vast majority are usually rejected, which is why we feel that the ones we do feature are extra special.
