Hope this is in time. These were taken on Doubtful Sound in New Zealand a couple of years ago.

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I was very fortunate to be able to attend the Moscow Ballet's production of the Nutcracker a couple of days ago. 

Of course, I took my camera.

We were seated about five rows back, and obstructed by many wide and/or tall audience members, but I found myself a small window of clear view - that is unless someone shifted in their seat right as I snapped the shot - so many of my shots are in a portrait orientation.

I used my Nikon Coolpix S10 point-and-shoot.  These were all handheld, no flash, and using 800 ISO, so please excuse the many obvious flaws.  I just thought these were nice examples of the Challenge theme, motion.

 Ballet Motion 

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The local cycle club had a training day today. These cyclists are paraplegic and use hand cranked tricycles. I thought them to be a bit of a unique subject for this month's study of motion. I opted for the "reverse motion" technique of focussing the background and blurring the subject.

 Motion1 

 Motion2 

 Motion3 

Several months ago I went to see the Army Band perform at the Adrianne Arsht Center.  I wanted to see what kind of pictures I could get from a distance, in low light, with no flash.  I was not too thrilled with most of the pictures, but I have always liked this one.

 Xylophone Player 

Here's my entries for the motion Challenge

 Tripping the lights fantastic in Hollywood..,

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Swing batta batta, watch out Elmo!

 Motion_Boy 

 Happy Holidays!

Last week we were out at a local wildlife reserve and saw an osprey skimming the water with it's feet trailing behind it in the water. As luck would have it, it decided to make a return run and I managed to get a few shots. Apparently this is quite a common practice but no one really knows why they do it. Suggestions vary from vascular cooling through its feet to washing off remnants of a kill. Anyway, I thought it would make a reasonable entry in this months challenge.

 Osprey skimming  Osprey 2  Osprey 3 

 Vintage racers at speed 

If you've checked out my web site you will know that photographing auto racing is my main interest. Capturing the sense of speed while keeping the vehicle in focus is always a challenge. I've pulled out three of my attempts for this months challenge.

I took Kaley to the Ramble at Fairchild Tropical Gardens today.  Aside from selling plants, there were many other vendors selling their goods.  I thought that this one might be good for this challenge.  These things cost around $200!

 Water Spinner