After over a decade of owning a digital SLR camera and taking nearly a hundred thousand photos, I finally entered a photography competition for the first time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
The competition was run by the Arts department at the school I teach at. The theme was “cold” and so I submitted a photo I snapped back in Jan 2010 when it snowed heavily in Birmingham and I ventured out on a walk in the Lickey Hills, Birmingham. Okay, so it’s just a school photo competition but with such lovely feedback from colleagues and students does make me consider the possibility that my photography may have some appeal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I’m very hard on myself about my photography – chiefly because I view my photos with a technical and cynical eye and I look at the incredible photos that professionals take with medium format cameras and see such a world of difference between them and where I am at. Perhaps, it’s not just the size of your camera that counts: I’ll start adding the snaps I’ve taken over the years to this website.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Anyway, here’s my entry.<\/p>\n\n\n\nngg_shortcode_0_placeholder\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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