What a 'surPRIZE'!

Well, the Old Film Bloke has done it again ! Had a message saying I was 'shortlisted' in the Travel Section of the 2007 Professional Photographer Magazine competition and could I send a 'high resolution file' so I had to contact a friend at the club as they wanted 300 dpi at A3 size- the original print was a 10x8" , smaller than A3, so I was told to put in 16" for the long size as I scanned it; it must have worked as I got another message saying I had WON the Travel Section so I went last night Thursday to the Association of Photographers Gallery for the awards and got £2000 of vouchers to spend on Loweprowe, Manfrotto and B+W products in four £500 vouchers ! My lovely little Filipina wifey took this snap of me.


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Original taken at the Sinulog Festival, Cebu, Philippines: I went out with the Cebu Images Camera Club members to the stadium where the floats were being judged. I used my LX with 135mm Pentax-M lens, outdated Fuji 100 print film- really struggled as the light was going, will use 400 next time as the light goes very quickly after about 1630 and it's dark by 1800 in the Philippines.

You keep surprising us - you keep posting excellent pictures. Conratulations on you first price.

If possible I beleive many of us would like to see the picture that won uploaded here

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Well Done Peter,

Regards
PaulM

Well, here is a smaller version than the huge file I had to send for printing.


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well done...

ya jammy bugger!

any vouchers going spare?

Well done Peter - that is a very good shot.

Congratulations Peter, a good ambassador for Pentax equipment, I hope you forwarded your success to Pentax, Uk / Japan ????

Well done, it would do National Geographic proud.

Ken

Well I hope next week I'll see a picture of you in the Yellow Advertiser, rather than your pictures (front page and page three this week wasn't it? ).

Although if we can keep the pic of you off page three that would be good.

Dan

I didn't think I would mention it to the local press this time as I had front page exposure in the Brentwood Recorder and page 3 Yellow Advertiser when I won the Olympus digital camera; they don't like too many pictures of the Mayor- tell me to leave him out when I can, so they will not want too many pics of Pentax Pete either! Will try the Pentax Magazine though as it's relevant.
Dan : I haven't seen this week's YA - do not get it delivered on my estate and the man who delivers around Shenfield and has joined Brentwood PC was not there last night.

The Fish-eye Remembrance Day one was on the front, and one of the head-shave ones inside, that was one where he was getting it done, don't think you showed us that one.

Dan

briliant shot, well done Pete! keep on showing that film can still deliver in the right hands.