Well done to all who entered the first Photo Challenge of the new series. In total, there were six seven eight entries.
There has been much debate about various photo viewers on Stu’s blog in the past, so please feel free to give your opinions of how I’ve presented the photos here. You can click them for a larger version, and then click the buttons or use arrow keys to scroll through them. Or just look at them how they are 
The deadline was at noon today but I can still accept entries until this evening if you haven’t sent yours in yet.
Andy Young
Jonathan Gazeley
Fabien Chatterjee
Edmund Gazeley
Nigel Hurll
Jay Linn
Stuart Carter
Sarah Pannell
Well done, everybody! Good job I changed my mind – I was going to do exactly the same as Fabien (and there would have been a lot more wrinkles – maybe that’s why I did change my mind)!! I like to see all the pictures together with the click for bigness feature, although it did take quite a long time for the large image to load, but maybe that’s my setup. Anyway, thanks, Jonathan, for keeping us on our toes.
Ooh… that was a lot easier this week
Thanks again for taking the challenge over, Jonathan. And HURRAH! for everyone who entered. Good work!
What’s your photo of, Stu? Looks like the plastic grille bit you get on a car between the windscreen and bonnet!
Nigel – thanks for your feedback on the picture viewing layout. The images were unusually slow to load today because of a problem at the Derbyshire data centre where my site is hosted. Should be OK again soon.
Looking at the images, I think they’re slightly too big. They looked fine on my desktop PC, but on my laptop they don’t quite fit on. Next week I’ll make them a little smaller.
Good work everyone!
Nice one, and a good layout
Andy
I like the pix this week, especially the book – it made me want to go and photograph a very old book I have on my shelves.
Re the image sizes, I find them too small on my laptop, and completely swamped on my desktop, but then I run both at high resolutions. I wonder if it’s worth finding a Java scripted gallery that will resize according to the viewport? Or maybe just nominate ideal and/or maximum dimensions for submissions?
I don’t mind what size the submissions come in – I manually resized all of the entries to 1024×768, except for Stu’s which was already smaller than this. 1024×768 looks fine on my high-resolution desktop but is slightly too tall for my laptop unless I make the browser full-screen. The only ones that fit are Stu’s slightly smaller image, and Nigel’s “widescreen” book.
Don’t even mention the netbook…
I could look into some automagic resizer thingy, but it sounds like a pain. I like the simplicity of batch-resizing the photos on my PC, uploading them and then letting Lightbox sort out the “click for bigger” business.
If people are happy with this week’s 1024×768 sizing, then I’ll leave it be. If other people reckon it’s a tad too big, I’ll try a smaller size next week.
It’s a hot-water bottle, Jonathan.