Walking a location does more than slow your pace. It forces you to explore a place with every sense engaged. Photography is a visual art, but that doesn't render the other senses unimportant in the process. Your other senses contribute to your experience of a place, and that contributes to your vision. The more you engage a place, the more deeply you explore it — aware of the smells, sounds, flavors, textures — the more able you are to answer these questions: What is this place to me? What is its character? And how can I best capture that within the impossibly restrictive limits of the frame? It's a question of raw materials — the more you have to work with, the better.
By all means, wander aimlessly, but do not do so with such energy given to your gaze that you forget to listen, to take the smells and the feel of the humid air. The eye is a remarkable organ, but it is not the only means of perception, and while your eventual image will have only visual clues to lean on, the making of that image is richer for the participation of your other senses.
David duChemin

(Photos for the Week #40 competition are to be taken between Oct 21, 2013 and Oct 27, 2013.)

Rules
1. Anyone and everyone interested in challenge is eligible. The goal continues to be
have fun and share comments, concepts, insights, and techniques with fellow
Pentaxians.
2. Each week will feature a Theme and Sub-concept for you to explore.
3. Post your single picture in Project 52-5 thread for the week. Explain what
motivated you to take the picture and/or how you feel it represents the weekly
theme.
4. Some post-processing is OK (adjusting white balance, exposure, color
saturation), but let's try to stay away from heavily PP'ed images here. Try to
keep the creativity to photographic techniques and the captures themselves.
5. Since this project is about technique, and not camera, shots taken by non Pentax cameras are allowed.
Cameras may be SLRs, DSLRs, Point & Shoot, Medium Format, et cetera.
6. There is one “Theme Concept” labeled “black and white,” but feel free to post
black and white, sepia, monotone, etc., for any of the other themes.
7. The picture you post should be taken during the week in which the theme is
active to be eligible for judging.
8. Any picture taken from thread start date to listed closing date is acceptable.

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Shooting for this contest is now closed, but because I'll be unable to post winners till later this afternoon or in the evening, anyone who has photos to post can have until 1300h (1:00 pm) EDT to post them.

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Contest closed and winners are announced in this thread. Thanks to everyone who entered!