All of life is a chance: 11/01/2014

I did quite a bit of traveling in October, thus the lack of blog posts but expect several good ones to appear over the next couple of weeks.

In the meantime, I wanted to share this fantastic little news. I'm still reasonably new to photography. I bought my Nikon digital SLR in August 2011 and have been playing around with it ever since. I recently joined the neighborhood photography club and took some Nikon seminars to improve but I am by no means a professional photographer. This is a very amateur hobby of mine. I get frustrated with all the buttons, dials, settings, edits etc and not touch my camera for months. One great thing about my current neighborhood is that there is great scenery and all sorts of activities to photograph. And the photography club encourages taking your camera out to these events through monthly homework assignments. So it's been good to have a reason to play with my camera.

The neighborhood held a Veteran's Day event just a couple of days ago. This is an annual event run by resident volunteers. I've been lucky enough to be asked to photograph this event (as well as the Memorial Day events) for a couple of years now. It is great practice. This year they decided to hold a Patriotic photography contest to encourage more participation. I submitted a photo I took at the 2013 Memorial Day event. And I ended up winning 1st place. Luckily the organizer thought of me and reminded me to submit something the day before the event - it wasn't even on my radar because I was so focused on actually preparing to photograph the actual event. It was a nice surprise and really encourages me to continue working on this hobby of mine. With a little more practice, I can become even better. Makes me feel like I'm on the right track.