Awards

So a photographer friend of mine pointed me in the direction of a website devoted to photographic competitions. I headed over there and followed some links and uploaded a few of my images, but didn't think much more about it. Since then my photo The Charge (below) was picked as a finalist in Popular Photography's 'Your Best Shot' competition, my photo Blue Angel Creek (below) was picked as runner up in the 'Your Shot' competition in Australian Traveller magazine and my photos (below) have been chosen for a local magazine's regional mast-heads. All of which is great and hopefully I can improve and win some main prizes in the future.

Going to be ordering a new lens tomorrow - a Canon 10-22mm super wide-angle - which I cannot wait to get my hands on. While the kit lens that came with my 550D has served me well, I find the images suffer quite badly from a soft look to them. I get very jealous of photos with amazing clarity and I know that the 10-22 will bring that. Going to be ordering from B&H Photo in New York. Amazingly they actually work out cheaper than the Hong Kong based grey importers and that includes a $40 delivery charge for UPS five-day to Australia. Of course the strength of the aussie dollar certainly helps - they're at near parity again at the moment, so I'm getting the lens, with hood and delivery for $789. Sweet.