Friday was the last Picture Perfect for the year, and a more fitting theme we couldnt have asked for, thanks so much Annie! Thank you too to all the other admins who have helped make this site functional and manageable, Cherie, JohnO and my technical-art-director and right hand girl ~ Tint! Thank you so much for understanding the vision I had for Picture Perfect, without you all I would have crumbled!

We will all be having a well deserved rest for 2 weeks over Christmas and New Year, and will meet up again on Wed the 7th January 2009, (not the 9th as previously advertised) with camera's and imagination at the ready, and filled with inspiration for our first competition of 2009.

We will post a blog next week explaining the rules and details of how we run things during that time, it is a little different from the usual, but still a whole heap of fun! The first thing as you may have gathered from the date, is that the theme will be posted on Wednesdays. You have three days to post your pictures, and then Saturday is poll day for the Top Ten (pictures chosen by us admins) but you do the voting which is for contacts only, on Sunday we announce our weekly winner! Sound good?

2008 has truly been a wonderful year that has seen this site grow and flourish, thank you all for your friendships, amazing support, kind words and encouragement to all.

We would like to take the opportunity to wish you, your families and loved ones, a deep inner peace this holiday season, a Merry Christmas and the Happiest of New Years. May you all feel the love which is at the heart of every celebrated holiday during this time.

Be safe wherever you are, however you travel, and come back refreshed and renewed for some more fun in 2009!

*clinks glasses*

Much love

Heather, Tint and Annie

Well here we are for another

Picture Perfect.

For the newbies amongst us here are the brief terms of engagement.

Each week the host will post up a theme on Wednesday, and you are invited to put up your best picture with that theme in mind, it should be just ONE and ORIGINAL, not off the internet, then post a comment on this page so that everyone can link to your page and see your pic.

By all means mention your camera and lens used!

Please give us an advance warning if your page is set to friends only and keep your blog short and easy to navigate as there are many to get through.

The entries will close at midnight on Friday.

While there are no prizes for the best picture, I will link a few eye-poppers to my blast during the course of the next few days.

Have fun out there!

Some things just don’t have the ability to make

the necessary impact, alone.

Sometimes many of the same is needed

for true perspective and vision.

Sometimes many of the same, changes

the original,

such as the pounding of the sea,

a heavenly display of stars

in an inky sky,

one flame

to a wildfire out of control

Many of one,

often changes more than just the visual impact

it changes the very nature of the substance.

Not even a table full of eyewear though,

can change perspective

of anyone who refuses to see things through anybody’s eyes but their own….