I joined my local camera club when their new year started in September and it's great. They have a talk most weeks by professionals from various fields and they've been exceptional and pretty inspiring, although the level of dedication of some of them is probably not something I have.
Every other week there's competitions with a projected images league (digital, projected on to a screen) and a printed images league. There's an external judge comes in a judges all the photos and gives them either credit (Little artistic and creative content OR major technical faults), bronze (Technically good and an average image within its genre), Silver (Technically very good and above average image within its genre
) or Gold (– Technically excellent and a very high quality photographic image in its genre). Being new to the club and never having entered a photo comp before, I'm in the Novices league (there's Intermediate and Advance). There's been two projected comps and one printed and (here's the thin part) for the projected, I've got three golds so far
and my printed was awarded a silver.
Despite joining the club, I hadn't picked up my camera since being a member so today I tried to capture reflections in water drops on small flowers. Didn't go too well but I think I know why so will work on it for next time. Here's probably the best of the bunch.
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