I am pleased to say that I won the digital Image of the year competition at Basingstoke Camera club last night (16th September 2010) with theimage shown below. DI of the year is always the first competition of the new club year and to enter you must have been a member of the club in the previous year and entered the images in at least one competition in the previous year. Up to 2 images can be enteredin the competition of the year and the judge chooses 1st,2nd and 3rd and a few highly commended images. There are usually 2 photographic competitions one for the digial images and one for prints. I only enetered the DI competition as I did not enter any print competitions last year. And my photograph called spray won 1st prize.

photograph of a horse cantering through water creating a lot of spray.

Nothing in the photograph is sharp (deliberatly) in order to give a sense of movement and show the amount of spray created. Not everyones taste but the judge last night obviously liked it! Yippee!!!

Wedding fair season has started again and the 1st of my dates was today at the Hilton Hotel Basingstoke. The weather was great so I think it pulled the people out to take a look at various wedding suppliers. The hotel had set up the civil ceremony room of which there are a couple of photographs below.

photograph of the Hilton Hotel Basingstoke civil ceremony room from the rear high angle

photograph of the Hilton Hotel Basingstoke civil ceremony room from the rear low angle

photograph of the Hilton Hotel Basingstoke civil ceremony room from the front