And I don't mean that just the foliage was spectacular ... your camera work was as well. This was our latest Photo Challenge (not to be confused with our monthly contests ... there's no judging involved with the Challenges). I'll announce another Challenge next week. Look over the self-uploading gallery to see your handiwork and that of others; just click on the first thumbnail photo to launch the slideshow. > Foliage gallery

Please check the tags on your October entries ... some of you have neglected to make your month tag October2009 ... instead you wrote simply October, so your "Pink" photos are showing up in the "Get Close" contest we had a year ago. To reiterate, the 4 tags for this month are Boston.com, contest, October2009, pink. Thanks...

By Mark Feeney, Globe Staff

''Who Shot Rock & Roll: A Photographic History, 1955 to the Present'': Image has been as much a part of rock 'n' roll as sound right from the beginning. If Elvis hadn't looked like Elvis he wouldn't have been, well . . . Elvis, would he? Or imagine the Beatles with crewcuts, Bob Dylan with a double chin. Not easy to do. This Brooklyn Museum exhibition gathers images of rock performers from the '50s to the present. Included are such highly photogenic subjects as Tina Turner, Mick Jagger, and Little Richard, and such less photogenic ones as Radiohead, Sonic Youth, and Amy Winehouse. The exhibition emphasizes the photographers (among them are Henry Diltz, Baron Wolman, and Albert Watson) as much as the performers. There's also a section dealing with an overlooked element in the visual impact of rock: the fans out in the audience and their responses to music.

By Mark Feeney
Globe Staff

A very different sense of style and fashion is on display in "Valerie Belin: Made Up." Belin is a French photographer, and this is her first US solo show. There are 17 pictures in the show, and they're very large. Most are in the vicinity of 5 feet by 4 feet.

There was a nice variety among the "Jobs" contest entries this month -- a variety that made judge Glen Cooper's job challenging. Nonetheless, he reviewed his 25 choices and your votes and came up with the best 10 pictures.

If any of you are Facebook aficionados (I used to play Scrabulous regularly until the Scrabble people forced it to shut down), please join the Facebook group I've set up here. Feel free to write on the Wall, add Photos, and post Links.

OK, Dawgs, the voting is finished for the September "Jobs" contest; I'll compile the results and send them to Glen Cooper, this month's judge. He'll then choose his Top 10, taking your votes into consideration. Stay tuned.

September contest judge Glen Cooper, a photojournalist and photography teacher, finished his review of your entries last night and has culled the field to the Top 25 finalists. But first, he had some interesting comments about the field of photos:

By Emily Raymond
Head2Head Reviews Staff

Introduction: The Matchup

Sign of the times? The Kodak EasyShare Z1015 IS and Fujifilm FinePix S2000HD merge enthusiast and budget concerns, adding economy to the popular ultra-zoom class.

By all accounts, this is going to be an autumn of spectacular foliage in New England. As the Globe's Beth Daley reported late last month, the wet summer we had earlier and the crisp, clear weather we're having now are the perfect recipe for fantastic and widespread color.

Final gallery added: Five full-screen galleries containing all of your eligible entries for the September "Jobs" contest have been posted. Our judge, Glen Cooper, will narrow the field to 50, and we'll open the Voting Machine next week.

We have a judge for the September "Jobs" contest: Glen Cooper, an award-winning Boston photojournalist who also has a wedding photography business and teaches at the New England School of Photography.

Got an email from Jonathan Parker, a park ranger at Lowell National Historical Park and manager of the very first Lowell Photography Contest, a competition designed to celebrate the heritage and visual essence of the city and its national park.

The current exhibit at the Hingham Public Library showcases images of lesser-known places of beauty in the town and elsewhere by photographer Susan Hagstrom.

She wasn't really into pink herself, my good friend Sarah; she favored more muted earth tones -- they went better with her light brown hair and fair complexion that tanned to a warm glow by August.