After asking many crazy and I am sure outright dumb questions starting back in April of this year I had an opportunity to enter a photo contest sponsored by JVC. I entered pics for Macro, Critter (undefined) and abstract. Over 200 submissions were made and I was graced with a 2nd in Macro, 1st in Critter and then was selected as Grand Prize winner! JVC really stepped up with the prizes too, I won a brand new JVC Everio GZ-MG555 HDD camcorder with 5.4 megapixel still capability and their new model of Underwater housing to go along with it! I also won Program Director Choice from a Scuba shop with a weekend stay at a Suite in a very nice beachfront hotel and dinner, woohoo, now my wife is happy too!
Wetpixel is definately the best source for info for beginning and up photographers to listen and learn. The picture I took which won the camera was taken while I was out practicing the black background technique after spending time reading all the posts here on Wetpixel on how to do it.
I am sure that these are probably simple pics by most standards but this is the first photo contest I have entered.
