It was great to attend the Flickr Focus Awards (http://www.flickr.com/groups/northernbeachesnsw/discuss/72157635103344041/) on Saturday night and it was a much fun as last year! Always good to put faces to the names and catch with people.
It's the only 'competition' that I bother to enter, even though it does require payment – it's a good cause and a great community worth being part of and worth supporting. What i really enjoy is seeing all the other images up there and also the choices and grades the judges give, there is no doubt there is a emphasis on creativity and impact and I for one have learnt alot from see the images. There is more info here http://focusaward.betterphotography.com/judges.php about the judges and their experience. I gotta say to, tht was an impressive feat judging all those images, excellent work.
+Peter Eastway gave a great talk about his recent trip and also imparted some great experience and knowledge with some good humour added in – nice one dude.
Congrads to the tog of the year (Olga) and also some of the crew that are on gplus, +Grant Galbraith with a couple of tidy wins the BW category and of course +Ricardo Da Cunha with his awesome lighthouse image.
+Mike Hankey nailed a nice dragonfly image which took out the macro category, great stuff and well deserved.
It was also great to see images there from +Jason Beaven +Chris Jones and +Rene Kisselbach
I am happy with my results given the high standard of images and also the large number of images (in excess of 500)
I will be there next year for sure.
congrats and well done
Congratulations, +Gerard Blacklock! Well deserved!!
Congrats +Gerard Blacklock I like your B&W Seascape entered in the B&W category. It was a great night and i'm sorry if i didn't chat to you (i didn't know what you looked like) because i don't know too many faces of the group as i'm new. A great excuse to get down to Sydney for some photos and to meet you and others from Focus.
Congrats!
Very well said +Gerard Blacklock! You entered some beautiful strong images mate 🙂
Well done. Congratulations!
Well done Gerald, some lovely images there. Maybe one day some I'll be able to go on one of these sunrise shoots with the group.
Great images +Gerard Blacklock. (and thanks for the mention!)
cheers +Jason Ruth and +Jim Warthman
Thanks +Jason Beaven its always the way, hard to put faces to all the names 🙂 fyi, i am the 6'6" dude so unfortunately i stick out 🙂
Definitely come to one of the sessions, i do not get to that many but they are always good fun and some good people to meet
Thanks +Liz C
Thanks +Ricardo Da Cunha and +Pieter Pretorius
+Chris Jones the great thing about the group is that they are always very welcoming, be sure to come along.
Thanks +Mike Hankey
looks like you cleaned up Gerry!
+Cameron Fong nope, i got within the top five for cityscape but nothing else – the only prize i got was a cool old prakita LB2 camera as a lucky door prize 🙂
Lovely album thank you Gerard and Good shot