Sorry I haven't been active. It's been too rainy to take the camera outdoors (will it ever end?) and I'm a bit time poor too.

Keep watching this space though.

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Hi everyone!

Canon is having a photography contest [link] where the winner gets a camera pack for themselves and $60,000 Australian (or $25,000 NZ) to go to their favourite charity or cause. There's no limit on entries so I've submitted a few...

Most I have dedicated to Fauna Rehabilitation Foundation, which I found out changed its name to Native Animal Rescue not longer afterwards [link]. I used to volunteer here and got quite involved. I loved it but I had to stop because of time commitments and never actually being in town. I miss volunteering there dearly. FRF (or NAR now) looks after sick, injured or orphaned native wildlife (and some pets) in the Perth metro area. Along with Kanyana Wildlife Shelter it services pretty much all of Perth. FRF alone takes in about 3000 (I think) animals a year. It's great to see a fair few of them recover.

Anyway, I'd like to ask everyone to please, please vote for my photos if you like them! It's worth having a look through the gallery for others too. I've personally voted for about 20-30 of them!

Here are the links to my photos (all in my gallery here, too). If you don't have much time, please vote for the first two They have the best chance of winning.

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Voting ends Friday 10th July!!!! So be quick!

Cheers

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[link]
Save the buffer zone of Buka Tika Pulu National Park in Sumatra where Perth Zoo born Orang Utan “Temara“ has been released into the forest with around 100 other orangs. Asian Paper and Pulp is set to destroy 34,000 ha of forest in the buffer zone just outside this National Park. This habitat is particularly critical to elephants and tigers. PLEASE sign this petition (all info is on the link) and send on to as many people as you know. There are meetings this week in Bali about this issue and the more bad publicity that APP gets, the more inclinded they might be to pull out. We want 10,000 signatures by the end of this week and we are to 3,000. Please help save this precious area of land!!

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My 'Sea of Lanters' [link] photo won a "High Commendation" in the Visions of Vincent 2009 competition.

Out of 138 photos submitted to two categories (I only submtted for the Open category), seventeen won rewards (including me ). There were prizes 3 for each of categories and an additional Bendigo Bank prize. Then there were ten commendations spread among the two categories.

To have a look at the winners and the 7 photos that won prizes, follow this [link]

I must admit the 1st and 2nd prize photos in the open category were stunning!

Thank you so much to everyone who has helped me by giving feedback on my contest entries!!! It really means a lot to me!



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I need your help!

A local council (the Town of Vincent)is holding an annual photography contest called Visions of Vincent [link]
Everyone is allowed two entries from each of the two categories (ie 4 total):
1. Neighbours
2. Open

I have nadda for the Neighbours entry since I'm not good at photographing people and I just don't like people much as subjects to be honest! (I was considering taking photos of animals as the 'other neighbours'

So I'm entering two photos for the 'Open' category which is anyone, anything, anyhow from anywhere (so long as it's within the Town of Vincent)

I need a bit of help choosing which photos to enter and also making them as good as they can get. I can still go and reshoot things too. Entries close on Friday 13th March though!

I've put all my options into a collection in my gallery: [link]

I'm considering submitting NIght at Sea and Lanterns I (or II)

If you could please give me any feedback you can that'd be awesome