Awards

I’ve been wavering about posting this – in some ways it seems deeply bigheaded, self-centred and many other things. (Oi, you at the back, I heard that “So what’s different to normal?”)

Anyway – I’m going to blither about this now, but it’s one of the few posts that may get deleted if I decide it’s too far up itself for its own good. You’ve been warned.

This week I saw that Panasonic Batteries are sponsoring an Amateur Photographer award. I’ve been playing with camera for a few years now, and (as we all know) got very into digital photography during the run of d4d™. And there’s been quite a lot of good feedback, from a range of sources – people who’ve seen shots I have as my desktop at work and asked where I downloaded them from, people assuming that the framed prints I’ve got have been bought from somewhere, that kind of thing, as well as the people who’ve said here that the ones I publicise can be pretty good. So, bollocks to it, I thought – I’m going to enter.

A maximum of six photos can be uploaded for judging, there’s a monthly prize for – logically – best ones each month, and a big grandy prize type thing in October. Just in time for a certain birthday…

I’ve no idea how they’ll do – having looked at some of the current competitors, I think they may do well, but obviously it’s not down to me. The site itself has some problems, and doesn’t like loading second pages of anything in the gallery, which is a pain.

Only time will tell. But I’m going to keep my fingers crossed anyway.